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Fairbanks mss., 1819-1939

Title: Fairbanks mss., 1819-1939

Consists of letters and papers of Charles Warren Fairbanks, 1852-1918, U.S. senator from Indiana and vice president (1905-1909), and his son, Warren Charles Fairbanks, 1878-1938, newspaper publisher. The Charles Warren Fairbanks material, which comprises the bulk of the collection, consists of correspondence with prominent political figures, businessmen, bankers, friends, relatives and constituents; manuscript and printed speeches of Fairbanks; law office papers; bills and receipts; miscellaneous papers; newspaper clippings; invitations; calling cards; pictures; slides of Fairbanks's trip around the world, 1909-1910; and miscellaneous printed matter. The Warren Charles Fairbanks papers, 1918-1938, relate to the settlement of the estate of his father, Charles Warren Fairbanks; the Indianapolis News; the Fairbanks Blue ridge farms in Piatt County, Illinois; and the Fairbanks Valley farms in Greene County, Illinois.

ArchivalResource: 150,006 items

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=InU-Li-VAA1250 View

Century Company records

Title: Century Company records

The Century Company published the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, which was widely regarded as the best general periodical of its time, performing a role as cultural arbiter during the 1880s and 1890s. It was founded in New York City in 1881 and also published the children's magazine St. Nicholas, dictionaries, and books. The Century Company records date from 1870 to the 1930s and chiefly contain correspondence with contributors, readers, public figures, and literary agents. A number of manuscripts and proofs in the collection are extensively edited and taken with annotations on letters provide a detailed record of the outlook, standards, and functions of the company.

ArchivalResource: 60.4 linear feet; 151 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/504 View

Lahm, Frank Samuel, 1846-1931. Papers of Frank Samuel Lahm, circa 1850-1931.

Title: Papers of Frank Samuel Lahm, circa 1850-1931.

Correspondence, logs and barograph records of Lahm's balloon ascensions, regulations, resolutions, receipts, lectures, memoranda, photographs, clippings, part of an unfinished history of aeronautics, a biographical sketch by Lahm's children, and memorabilia. Includes several writings and two diaries of Henry Weaver, who, in 1905, investigated for Lahm the achievements claimed by Wilbur and Orville Wright. Among the correspondents are the Wright brothers and their sister Katharine, Griffith Brewer, Patrick Y. Alexander, Walter Wellman, Melvin and Ida Vanniman, and R. P. Skinner.

ArchivalResource: 1,000 items.4 containers.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71131186 View

Wellman, Walter, 1858-1934. Letter to S.S. McClure, 1911 January 5.

Title: Letter to S.S. McClure, 1911 January 5.

A letter of introduction for Wellman's son-in-law Leroy Chamberlin.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62383399 View

Institute of Aerospace Sciences Archives, 1783-1962

Title: Institute of Aerospace Sciences Archives 1783-1962

Historical records of the Institute of Aerospace Sciences. Biographical and corporate files including correspondence, memoranda, writings, reports, biographical data and sketches, genealogical records, financial reports, broadsides, charts, press releases, newspaper clippings, blueprints, cartoons, maps, aeromedical and aeronautical reproductions, airplane specifications, prints, engravings, illustrations, sketches, photographs, memorabilia, printed matter, scrapbooks, and miscellaneous material relating to aviation and aeronautics collected and maintained by the institute prior to its merger with the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

ArchivalResource: 30,000 items; 182 containers plus 83 oversize; 80 linear feet; 4 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011135 View

Hay, John, 1838-1905. Correspondence, 1854-1914, "Watts" to "Willamov".

Title: Correspondence, 1854-1914, "Watts" to "Willamov".

Includes letters to Hay and to members of his family.

ArchivalResource: Approximately 6,000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86167697 View

Wellman, Walter, 1858-1934. Papers, 1904-1973.

Title: Papers, 1904-1973.

Chiefly newspaper clippings of his articles from the Chicago Record-Herald, concerning strikes in Cripple Creek, Colo. mines 1903-1904. Biographical material on Wellman.

ArchivalResource: 15 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13871050 View

Wellman, Walter, 1858-1934. Correspondence with H. L. Mencken, 1916.

Title: Correspondence with H. L. Mencken, 1916.

Favorable response to letter from Mencken soliciting support for Dreiser regarding The "Genius" controversy.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155895321 View

Evelyn Baldwin collection, 1898

Title: Evelyn Baldwin collection 1898

ArchivalResource: Expedition material (microfilm)

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb15-evelynbaldwin View

Evelyn Briggs Baldwin Papers, 1649-1933, (bulk 1898-1902)

Title: Evelyn Briggs Baldwin Papers 1649-1933 (bulk 1898-1902)

Meteorologist and explorer. Correspondence, reports, journals, scrapbooks, financial records, printed material, newspaper clippings, and genealogical material relating primarily to Baldwin’s polar explorations, especially the Wellman Polar Expedition (1898-1899) and the Baldwin-Ziegler Polar Expedition (1901-1902).

ArchivalResource: 4,200 items; 18 containers plus 2 oversize; 7.2 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009317 View

Abbott Lawrence Rotch papers, 1876?-1912.

Title: Abbott Lawrence Rotch papers, 1876?-1912.

Notes and correspondence of American meteorologist Abbott Lawrence Rotch.

ArchivalResource: 6 boxes, 4 volumes (4 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00619/catalog View

Loud, Albert Louis, 1886-1940. Papers, 1890-1963 (bulk 1908-1912)

Title: Papers, 1890-1963 (bulk 1908-1912)

Newsclippings, patents, scrapbooks, articles and miscellaneous material relating to early aviation history, dirigibles and the Walter Wellman and Melvin Vaniman-led trans-Atlantic flight attempts.

ArchivalResource: 1.36 linear ft. (1 1/2 boxes + 2 oversize bound volumes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25733324 View