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American Historical Association records, 1884-1986
364,000 items. 1,155 containers plus 1 oversize. 464.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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National professional association for historians. Correspondence, minutes of meetings, manuscripts of published and unpublished articles, reports, notes, resolutions, legal briefs, membership cards and lists, administrative files, subject files, financial records, printed matter, and other records reflecting the association's history and its development of programs stimulating scholarly historical research and activities. Includes files of the secretary and executive secretary, treasurer, executive director, Executive Council, Historical Service Board, and various divisions and committees, as well as editorial files of the American Historical Review.
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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.
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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.
Noel Francis Parrish papers, 1894-1987
29,500 items. 58 containers plus 1 oversize and 2 classified. 29.5 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Air force general and university professor. Correspondence, speeches and writings, academic and military files, family papers, photographs and slides, and other papers documenting Parrish's military and academic careers, including as commander of Tuskegee Army Air Field (Ala.) where he was responsible for training the Army Air Force's first African American pilots during World War II.
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National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. Colonial and Pioneer Women Project records, 1852-1982
200 items. 8 containers plus 1 oversize. 3 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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National organization, founded in 1891, composed of women who are descended from an ancestor who came to reside in an American colony before 1750, and whose services were rendered during the Colonial Period. Chiefly essays on the lives of colonial and pioneer women written for the Colonial and Pioneer Women Project by members of state organizations and submitted to the society's National Historical Activities Committee. Subjects of the essays are women of local prominence or ancestors of the authors.
Maud Wood Park papers, 1844-1979
3,700 items. 19 containers. 7.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Suffragist, social worker, reformer, and author. Family papers, correspondence, subject files, speeches and writings, an autograph collection, and miscellaneous papers relating primarily to Park's activities on behalf of women's suffrage and her associations with the National American Woman Suffrage Association and the National League of Women Voters.
Carroll family papers, 1686-1897
1,600 items. 5 containers plus 1 oversize. 2.1 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Maryland family of landowners, planters, and politicians. Correspondence, financial records, indentures, land documents, and other papers concerning the personal and business activities of the Carroll family. Primarily letters received by Charles Carroll (1801-1862) with some correspondence of his grandfather, Charles Carroll (1737-1832), his father, Charles Carroll (1775-1825), his wife, Mary Digges Lee Carroll (circa 1799-1859), and other family members.
Edward Shaw papers, 1847-1867
980 items. 9 containers. 3.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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United States Patent Office clerk. Chiefly letters from Shaw's family, friends, and acquaintances documenting daily life of women in antebellum New England, Shaw's financial investments, and letters relating to Shaw's work as a patent clerk.
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E.F. Ellet correspondence with index, 1835-1865
185 items. 1 container. 0.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Author, poet, and historian. Correspondence with index relating chiefly to her research for The Women of the American Revolution.
Willard family papers, 1800-1968
126,000 items. 539 containers plus 6 oversize. 187.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Correspondence, letterbooks, notebooks, diaries, subject files, business and financial records, and other papers documenting the family's involvement in the business, social, and political life of Virginia and Washington, D.C.
John Carvel Arnold papers, 1856-1937
190 items. 1 container. .4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Laborer and Union soldier. Principally correspondence of Arnold with his wife, Mary Ann Arnold, while he served in the 49th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment during the Civil War, and Mary Ann Arnold's postwar correspondence with their children.