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Durant, John, 1902-. John and Alice Durant papers, 1829-1960.

Title: John and Alice Durant papers, 1829-1960.

Photographs, correspondence, clippings, and layouts for John and Alice Durant's published pictorial histories of the presidents of the U.S., American ships, predictions from the past, and the American circus, ca. 1950-1960. Includes an unpublished book on American humor. Also contains Durant family papers (1.5 cu. ft.), 1829-1939, including correspondence, genealogical materials, photographs, scrapbooks/clippings, autograph albums, bibles, and memoirs. Much of the family material relates to Charles F. Durant (1805-1873) -- aeronaut, scientist, and author, including research notes on him by Agnes Flexner.

ArchivalResource: 17 cu. ft. (39 boxes of varying sizes) + 1 oversize folder.

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Robert Hare papers, 1764-1858, 1764-1858

Title: Robert Hare papers, 1764-1858 1764-1858

Personal and professional correspondence of the chemist Robert Hare, including drafts of letters to editors of journals on such varied topics as fish guano, slaughterhouses, paper money, and the meaning of the term "Yankee annexations." The collection originally contained over 300 scrolls, since disbound, which contained drafts of letters, essays, and lectures, composed by Hare on ordinary sheets of paper, then pasted end to end, and rolled up. The essay and lecture topics include: chemistry, storms, slavery, currency, fire-fighting, capital punishment, railroads, the Smithsonian Institution, Michael Faraday, religion and Spiritualism, riots in Philadelphia, epidemics, underwater blasting, and Ralph W. Emerson; there is some verse. The collection also contains an account book of Hare and his wife, 1806-1829 (180 pp.; B/H22#3); a volume by Hare on Cyclones (tornadoes), n.d. (ca. 60 pp.; B/H22#4); and Samuel Powel, Jr.'s "Short notes on a course of antiquities at Rome... under M. Byre Antiquarian," 1764. (60 pp.).

ArchivalResource: 3.0 Linear feet

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