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The Robert Cushman Butler Collection of Theatrical Illustrations

Title: The Robert Cushman Butler Collection of Theatrical Illustrations

Engravings, lithographs, manuscripts, music covers, books and other printed materials primarily relating to 18th and 19th century English and American theatre..

ArchivalResource: 3 containers; 60 oversize folders; 15 linear feet; Approximate 3,000 items

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Bliss, Anna Catherine, ca. 1849-1941. Anna Catherine Bliss collection, 1842-1940.

Title: Anna Catherine Bliss collection, 1842-1940.

Genealogical chart of the Bliss and Wright families; inventory of estate of Ferdinand Hunt Wright (d. 1842), maternal grandfather of Anna Catherine Bliss; correspondence (17 items, 1867-1870) of Olive M. (Ames) Wright, maternal grandmother of Bliss, with family members; correspondence (36 items, 1854-1881), of Mary (Wright) Bliss, wife of Theodore Bliss, and mother of Anna Catherine Bliss; letters of condolence (1896) sent to George T. Bliss on the death of his father, George M. Bliss, of New York, N.Y., with reference to the sermon by Rev. Roland C. Smith delivered in 1896 at St. John's Episcopal Church in Northampton, memorializing George Bliss; some correspondence of Anna Catherine Bliss with friends; letters (1868-1895) from Caroline A. (Bliss) Southworth, sister of Anna Catherine Bliss, to family members, written before Southworth's death in 1895; letters (1881-1888) of Laura Neuhaus to her financée, Arthur A. Bliss; and extensive correspondence between Dr. Arthur A. Bliss and family members and friends as well as diaries and travelogue written while he was studying medicine in Europe and traveling. Subjects include commentary by Olive Ames Wright, chiefly written from New Ipswich, N.H., on rural life, livestock, and gardens and descriptions of maple syrup manufacture and unusual weather; banking and interest rates; the robbery at Northampton National Bank; schooling of the Bliss children: Anna Catherine Bliss, Caroline A. Bliss, Arthur Ames Bliss, and Edgar S. Bliss, with emphasis on their musical studies and the studies of Arthur A. Bliss at Princeton (College of New Jersey); entertainment; dedication of Forbes Library in Northampton; family social life; cooking and preserving; medical practice in Philadelphia of Arthur A. Bliss; arthritis of Theodore Bliss and other family health problems; home furnishings; reunion of Massachusetts 52nd Regiment; Fourth of July celebrations; local and national politics; Civil War; execution of John Brown; travel and summer vacations; and employment of various family members.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes.

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Green, John Patterson, b. 1845. Papers of John Patterson Green, 1869-1910.

Title: Papers of John Patterson Green, 1869-1910.

Personal and business correspondence, speeches, legal papers, financial accounts and receipts, invitations, programs, clippings, and other papers, relating to financial aid to Wilberforce University, travels in Europe, Green's speaking tours in support of William McKinley's presidential campaign, his appointment as U.S. postage stamp agent, and conditions imposed upon Southern African Americans. Correspondents include Theodore Bliss, Jere A. Brown, Blanche K. Bruce, Charles Chesnutt, T. Thomas Fortune, Marcus A. Hanna, F. J. Loudin, S. T. Mitchell, George Myers, Harry C. Smith, and Ralph W. Tyler.

ArchivalResource: 6 microfilm reels.

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