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Benjamin B. French family papers, 1778-1940
6,500 items. 38 containers plus 6 oversize. 17.2 linear feet. 16 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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New Hampshire politician, clerk of the United States House of Representatives, and Commissioner of Public Buildings in Washington, D.C. Journals, personal correspondence, writings, and miscellaneous papers chiefly relating to family matters and including commentary on political events and social life in Washington in the nineteenth century. Other prominent family members represented in the papers include Francis O. French, banker, and Amos Tuck, congressman.
Duncan Emrich autograph album collection, 1843-1956
20 volumes and 2 folders in 2 boxes. -- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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This collection was initiated through an on-air request for autograph albums on the "NBC Weekend" radio program by Duncan Emrich, then head of the Archive of Folk Song, Library of Congress, between 1955 and 1956. It consists of twenty autograph albums and related ephemera from Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, and New York, with dates from 1843 to 1923.
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Felipe Hinojosa collection of interviews with Latino Mennonites
44 items.. 2 linear feet.. 44 sound cassettes : analog.. -- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Collection of field recordings of approximately 85 hours of oral history interviews with about 20 Latino Mennonites in South Texas, Puerto Rico, Kansas, and Indiana. Topics of the interviews include religious and ethnic community formation; the politics of cultural, religious, and ethnic identity; civil rights and social justice; and interactions between evangelical and mainstream religious groups.
William Walden Rubey papers, 1920-1974
32,250 items. 95 containers plus 1 oversize. 38 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Geologist and educator. Correspondence, memoranda, manuscripts of articles, book reviews, speeches, reports, research notes, press releases, printed materials, maps, illustrations, and other papers pertaining primarily to Rubey's career with the United States Geological Survey, as consultant on geological projects, and as member of professional, scientific, and educational organizations.
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John Toland papers, 1944-1965
8,150 items. 110 containers plus 1 oversize. 56 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Author and historian. Correspondence, notes, interviews, military reports, reminiscences, maps, photographs, and wide ranging production material, including drafts, galleys, and proofs, of Toland's books on World War II and gangsterism in the 1930s.
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Nathan W. Daniels diary and scrapbook, 1861-1867
5 items. 2 containers. 0.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Union army officer and lecturer and advocate for civil rights and the Freedmen's Bureau. Married Cora Hatch, Spiritualist medium and lecturer. Handwritten diary with photographs, illustrations, and newspaper clippings in three volumes kept by Daniels during his Civil War service and Reconstruction. The third volume was written primarily by his wife, Cora Hatch. Also included are a typescript of summaries and transcripts of the diaries by C. P. Weaver and a scrapbook of newspaper clippings assembled by Daniels or his wife.
Henry William Parsons papers, 1871-1986
195 items. 3 containers. 0.8 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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English Congregational minister and temperance advocate. Diaries and correspondence documenting his temperance work for the International Order of Good Templars with African Americans in North Carolina, his ministerial work in England and the United States, and his travels with the Fisk Jubilee Singers during their 1878 European tour. Includes family correspondence with annotated transcriptions and genealogical material.
Sidney Robertson Cowell collection, 1901-1992
5067 items. 28 containers. 13 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Sidney Robertson Cowell (1903-1995) was a folksong and ethnic music collector and recordist, ethnographer, ethnomusicologist, teacher, writer, and wife of composer Henry Cowell. The collection consists of her personal papers which document all aspects of her life and work. The collection includes correspondence relating to personal and professional matters; fieldwork reports, fieldnotes, song lists and other materials from her field recording projects and trips; articles, essays, reviews, and papers written by Sidney Robertson Cowell; articles and narratives by and about Henry Cowell; autobiographical narratives and essays, clippings, family histories and other materials relating to her professional career and personal life; photographs; teaching materials; and song sheets and song books. In addition, the collection contains photocopies of a selection of Henry Cowell holographs, several annotated by Sidney Robertson Cowell, and a selection of folk songs with piano settings by Henry Cowell in his own hand.
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William J. Wilgus papers, 1856-1944
30,000 items. 114 containers. 44.8 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Civil engineer. Correspondence, reports, financial documents, printed matter, blueprints, drawings, and maps documenting Wilgus's career as a railroad engineer and consultant in the United States Northeast and Midwest.
Stiles, Horr, and Bonney families papers, 1803-1907
900 items. 3 containers. 1 linear foot. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Families residing in New York, and later, the Upper Midwest. Correspondence received from relatives of Betsey Bonney. Correspondence, deeds, surveys, and ephemera relating to Elizabeth Stiles Horr and family.