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Cheever, Tracy Patch, 1824-1881. Journal, 1851-1855.

Title: Journal, 1851-1855.

Diary of Tracy Patch Cheever, a Chelsea, Mass., lawyer who later became a soldier and state legislator. Cheever comments on his law practice, reunions with his Brown University classmates, books he read, and Boston theater productions. Of particular interest are his observations on the visit of President Millard Fillmore and Canadian Governor-General Lord Elgin to Boston in 1851, the inauguration of President Franklin Pierce, the death of Daniel Webster, the visits of Hungarian patriot Lajos (Louis) Kossuth, the performances of actresses Anna C. Mowatt and Catharine Hayes, and the public uproar caused by the forcible return of a fugitive slave captured in Boston in 1854.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

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Ritchie, Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt, 1819-1870. Papers of Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie, 1842-1865.

Title: Papers of Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie, 1842-1865.

The collection contains two manuscripts: "To Harry Munroe," and an untitled essay on Greek and Italian brigandage. Letters discuss her health, the weather, her writing including "Fairy Fingers" and "Mimic Life," Elizabeth H. Appleton, Thomas Crawford, Catherine Hayes, Mary Morris Hamilton Schuyler and the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, Ion Perdicaris, William Foushee Ritchie, Randolph Rogers, Frank Slayton, Julia G.O. Smyth, and Henry Alexander Wise. Specific topics include writing a "moral tale for the young"; supporting herself as a writer; winter isolation in Virginia in 1856; a Southern predjudice against female lecturerers; a proposed trip to Boston, ill health preventing a return to the stage in 1865; the possibility of William Foushee Ritchie's emigrating to Brazil; fund raising for Mount Vernon; and especially the equestrian monument to George Washington started in Richmond, Va., by Thomas Crawford and completed by Randolph Rogers. There are also two copies of an engraving of Ritchie.

ArchivalResource: 16 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51846074 View

Automobile Club of Southern California,. Automobile Club of Southern California Collection of Photographs and Negatives, 1898-1982 (bulk 1920s-1930s)

Title: Automobile Club of Southern California Collection of Photographs and Negatives, 1898-1982 (bulk 1920s-1930s)

The collection consists of 6202 black-and-white and color photographs, pen and ink drawings, and postcards, 1412 black-and-white and color negatives, 2606 black-and-white and color slides, and ephemeral materials, 1898-1982 (bulk 1920s-1930s) collected by the Automobile Club of Southern California. They form a general photographic reference collection as well as a broad visual survey of topics of interest to California motorists. Included are images of sites in North and Central America (with an emphasis on California), Europe, the Pacific Islands, and portraits, as well as images related to other subjects of interest to the Club's membership. Many of the images were published as illustrations for articles in the Club's first member magazine, Touring Topics. A large portion of the photographs were taken by authors of articles that appeared in Touring Topics; others were commissioned by the Club; and others appear to have been sent to the Club. Photographers (and authors) include, but are not limited to, Ansel Adams, Fred Archer, Viroque Baker, George Hugh Banning, Adelbert Bartlett, Virginia S. Bartlett, Andrew R. Boone, Julius Cindrich, Norman Clyde, Will Connell, Loyd Cooper, Imogen Cunningham, Asahel Curtis, Edward Sheriff Curtis, Fred Dapprich, E.H. Davis, E.E. East, John Anson Ford, Frasher, Ewing Galloway, Forman G. Hanna, Phil Townsend Hanna, Hoag and Ford, John Edwin Hoag, Bert W. Huntoon, Philip Johnston, Dr. Frederick Monsen, Dave Packwood, C.C. Pierce, Ernest M. Pratt, Putnam Studios, E. Willard Spurr, and John L. Von Blon.

ArchivalResource: 58 boxes (45.36 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84656991 View