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Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874. Correspondence, 1829-1874

Title: Charles Sumner correspondence, 1829-1874

Letters to Charles Sumner, lawyer, Republican senator from Massachusetts, and anti-slavery campaigner; with a smaller number of letters from Sumner to others.

ArchivalResource: 33 cartons (43.1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00232/catalog View

Floyd B. McKissick Papers, 1940s-1980s

Title: Floyd B. McKissick Papers, 1940s-1980s

<p>Floyd B. McKissick (1922-1991) was born in Asheville, N.C. He was an attorney, businessman, and civil rights leader. McKissick married Evelyn Williams, with whom he had four children: Joycelyn; Andree; Floyd, Jr.; and Charmaine. The collection contains materials documenting Floyd B. McKissick's work as an lawyer, businessman, and civil rights leader. Included are items pertaining to his law practice in Durham, N.C.; his service, beginning in 1966, as national director of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE); his work as advisor to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); and his interests in politics and education. Many items relate to Soul City, N.C., a town owned and operated by African Americans near Warrenton, N.C. Included are items describing the impact of Soul City on rural Warren County, N.C., and Vance County, N.C. Among the companies documented are McKissick Enterprises of New York and North Carolina; City Development, Inc.; HealthCo, Inc.; Madison and McKissick Development, Inc.; McKissick S.C. Associates; the Soul City Foundation and other Soul City companies; and the Warren Regional Planning Corporation. There are also a few items relating to the McKissick family and to his affiliation with the Republican Party at the local, state, and national levels.</p> <p>Collection is jointly held by Southern Historical Collection of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the African American Resources Collection of North Carolina Central University.</p>

ArchivalResource: 126.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 157,000 items)

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/04930/ View

Cartland family papers, 1823-1913.

Title: Cartland family papers, 1823-1913.

Correspondence and other papers of the Cartland family of New Hampshire, cousins of the poet John Greenleaf Whittier.

ArchivalResource: 21 boxes (8 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00353/catalog View

Alumni Association (University of Michigan), Individual Photographs, ca. 1880-ca. 1960s

Title: Alumni Association (University of Michigan),Individual Photographs ca. 1880-ca. 1960s

Photos of University of Michigan alumni, faculty and staff collected by the University Alumni Association.

ArchivalResource: 8 linear ft.

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-8730p?rgn=main;view=text View

Houghton Library printed book provenance file, A-D

Title: Houghton Library printed book provenance file, A-D

Index to ownership/provenance information, primarily from printed books, held by Houghton Library.

ArchivalResource: 1 collection

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01529/catalog View

United States Sanitary Commission records. Army and Navy Claim Agency archives, 1861-1870

Title: United States Sanitary Commission records. Army and Navy Claim Agency archives 1861-1870

The United States Sanitary Commission established the Army and Navy Claim Agency (ANCA) in Washington, D.C. on April 1, 1864 to serve as the USSC’s central office to assist Union soldiers, sailors, and their families in prosecuting claims on the federal government for pensions, back pay, bounty, commutation of rations, prize money, and other benefits, without cost. The Army and Navy Claim Agency Archives comprise the records of the Army and Navy Claim Agency; the records of the Pension Agency, its predecessor organization; the registers and cash books of its subsidiary local agencies; and the records of two quasi-independent USSC claim agencies whose origins predate the establishment of the Army and Navy Claim Agency: the Protective War Claim Association of the State of New York, located in New York City, and the Protective War Claim and Pension Agency, located in Philadelphia.

ArchivalResource: 506.37 linear feet; 1190 boxes, 46 volumes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/18809 View