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1. Marian S. Carson collection of manuscripts, 1656-1995

   14,250 items. 57 containers plus 27 oversize. 26.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Collector. A collection of Americana including historical letters and documents, family and personal papers, broadsides, financial and legal papers, illustrated and printed ephemera, government and legislative documents, military records, journals, and printed matter relating primarily to the expansion and development of the United States from the colonial period through the 1876 centennial.

2. Custis-Lee family papers, 1700-circa 1928

   740 items. 4 containers plus 1 oversize. 1.8 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Correspondence, letterbooks, genealogical papers, notebooks, financial records, indentures, clippings, photographs, and other papers documenting the activities of several generations of the Custis and Lee families of Virginia, who served as diplomats, statesmen, politicians, planters, and military officers during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

3. Ralph Izard family papers, 1778-1826

   660 items. 5 containers plus 1 oversize. 2.0 linear feet. 2 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Continental congressman, United States senator from South Carolina, diplomat. Correspondence and miscellaneous material concerning the Izard family regarding domestic life and social affairs in Charleston, South Carolina, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and including the involvement of family members in managing their estate in South Carolina and the Tripolitan War.

4. Shippen family papers, 1671-1936

   6,500 items. 26 containers plus 2 oversize. 11.5 linear feet. 15 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Correspondence, diaries, account books, memorandum books, legal and business records, indentures, and miscellaneous papers of Thomas Lee Shippen, William Shippen Jr., Anne Home Shippen Livingston, Edward Shippen, and other family members. Also included are papers of the Nicholson family.

5. Edmund Physick family papers, 1759-1899

   100 items. 7 containers. 2.6 linear feet. 2 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Public official of Pennsylvania. Correspondence, receipt and account books, log of the Erie (sloop of war), medical recipe book, order book of the Dolphin (ship), and other papers relating chiefly to matters of business and the estates of various members of the Physick family, including Edmund Physick (1726?-1804), Philip Syng Physick (1768-1837), Henry White Physick, Abigail (Syng) Physick, and Theodore Physick (1805-1834), and others.

6. Hmong Community Folklife and Documentation Project collection, 1981-1986

   approximately 2,474 items. 11 containers. 0.5 linear feet. 698 photographs : color transparencies ; 35 mm. 5 photographs : color transparencies ; half frame 35 mm. 789 photographs : film negatives, black and white ; 35 mm. 102 photographs : film negatives, black and white ; 120 format. 296 photographs : film negatives, color ; 35 mm. 69 photographs : prints, black and white ; various sizes. 9 photographs : prints, color ; various sizes. 73 photographs : contact sheets, black and white ; various sizes. 59 sound cassettes : analog. 44 videocassettes (U-matic video) : analog. 2 videocassettes (VHS) : analog. 2 videocassettes (Betamax) : analog. 2 film reels (1 in.) : analog. -- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Collection of audio and video field recordings and photographs documenting the Hmong community in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.