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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

Sterns, E. E. (Emerson Ellick), 1846-1926. Emerson Ellick Sterns papers 1889.

Title: Emerson Ellick Sterns papers 1889.

Collection documents Sterns' participation in the founding of the New York Botanical Garden.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (2.5 lin. in.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44262097 View

Howe family papers, 1819-1910.

Title: Howe family papers, 1819-1910.

Correspondence and records of the Howe family of Massachusetts.

ArchivalResource: 32 boxes and 3 volumes (8 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00398/catalog View

Brown, Addison, 1830-1913. Addison Brown letter : to Benjamin Harris Brewster, 1882 June 6.

Title: Addison Brown letter : to Benjamin Harris Brewster, 1882 June 6.

Letter of recommendation for Jacob W. Feeter, who would like an appointment as assistant counsel in a pending case. At the end of the letter is added the endorsement of Edwards Pierrepont. Brewster was U.S. attorney general when these letters were written.

ArchivalResource: 2 p. on 1 leaf.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63936799 View

Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934. Nathaniel Lord Britton records 1875-1934.

Title: Nathaniel Lord Britton records 1875-1934.

Collection documents Britton's career as a geologist, botanist and founder of the New York Botanical Garden.

ArchivalResource: 15 boxes (14.75 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42369426 View

Records, 1888-1939.

Title: Records, 1888-1939.

Records consist of correspondence and memoranda including some printed ephemera. Maps, plans, and blueprints of the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) are predominantly derived from the tenure of Nathaniel Lord Britton (1859-1934) as Director-in-Chief, 1896-1929, and Secretary of the Board of Managers, 1895-1929, and include some Britton correspondence after his retirement, 1929-1934. Scattered throughout the records is a small quantity of correspondence from Britton's successors as Chief Executive and Secretary: Elmer Drew Merrill, Marshall Avery Howe, and Henry de la Montagne, Business Manager, Assistant Director, and Secretary.

ArchivalResource: 9.4 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155483251 View

Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934. Nathaniel Lord Britton records, 1875-1934.

Title: Nathaniel Lord Britton records, 1875-1934.

Collection documents Britton's career as a geologist, botanist and founder of the New York Botanical Garden.

ArchivalResource: 15 boxes (14.75 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155483368 View

Correspondence, 1889-1936.

Title: Correspondence, 1889-1936.

Correspondence, 1889, was written to Sterns in support of, or inquiring about, the establishment of the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG). Correspondents include Josephine Louise Richards; City of New York, Dept. of Public Parks; Samuel G. Love; E.L. Townsend; J.F. Toussaint; Charles Arthur Hollick; John Mullaby; Nathaniel Lord Britton; and Addison Brown. Correspondence with a dealer, 1936, concerns the sale of the letters to the NYBG.

ArchivalResource: ca. .3 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155463284 View

University of Michigan student portraits, ca. 1860-ca. 1950, 1870-1920

Title: University of Michigan student portraits ca. 1860-ca. 1950 1870-1920

Portraits of University of Michgan students, ca. 1860-ca.1950, gathered from a number of sources.

ArchivalResource: ca. 2000 photographs in 10 boxes.

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-90107?rgn=main;view=text View

Fergus, Charles L. Charles Fergus cabinet photograph collection of nineteenth century botanists, circa 1867-circa 1920.

Title: Charles Fergus cabinet photograph collection of nineteenth century botanists, circa 1867-circa 1920.

This collection consists of 29 cabinet photographs of prominent 19th-century botanists, including Addison Brown, M.A. Curtis, Andrew Jackson Downing, William Russel Dudley, William Jackson Hooker, and Augustus B. Langlois. Cabinet photographs, measuring around 4 1/4 by 6 1/2 inches, were introduced by F.R. Window in 1867. The original photographs are undated, but the date of the original photograph may predate the date it was incorporated into a cabinet card.

ArchivalResource: 29 cabinet photographs.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/464228501 View

Pickard-Whittier papers, 1815-1915.

Title: Pickard-Whittier papers, 1815-1915.

Correspondence and manuscripts of American writer and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier and his American biographer Samuel Thomas Pickard.

ArchivalResource: 17 boxes (5.7 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00386/catalog View

Addison Brown letters, 1889-1912

Title: Addison Brown letters 1889-1912

Addison Brown was a judge and author. Present are two letters and an invitation to the opening of an exhibition of historical portraits and relics in 1889 at the Metropolitan Opera House.

ArchivalResource: 0.1; 1 folder

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/7841 View

Harvard Law School Prize Essays, 1850-1868

Title: Harvard Law School Prize Essays, 1850-1868

This collection consists of prize essays written by students of the Harvard Law School.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/law00124/catalog View

Sargent, Charles Sprague, 1841-1927. Records of the Director Charles Sprague Sargent, 1893-1927 (inclusive).

Title: Records of the Director Charles Sprague Sargent, 1893-1927 (inclusive).

Consists of administrative files of Charles Sprague Sargent as director of the Arboretum, including both letterpress copybooks and incoming correspondence. Material pertains to fund raising for collecting expeditions to China, Korea, Japan, and Tibet in the 1910s and 1920s and to horticulture at Arnold. Considerable correspondence exists with John Muir, 1897-1912; Ernest H. Wilson and Joseph Rock concerning their botanical collecting in Asia; and botanists in Europe and the United States. Also includes a folder with copies of outgoing correspondence from Harlan P. Kelsey, nurseryman, to Sargent and E.H. Wilson.

ArchivalResource: 8 linear ft. and 9 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269373158 View