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American Colonization Society Records, 1792-1964, (bulk 1823-1912)

Title: American Colonization Society Records 1792-1964 (bulk 1823-1912)

Organizational records of the society, including correspondence, financial and business papers, reports, and miscellaneous material relating to administrative and financial matters, membership, slavery and the status of slaves in the pre-Civil War period, and emigration, colonization, and education in Liberia. Includes the personal papers of William McLain and letterbooks of the Massachusetts Colonization Society.

ArchivalResource: 190,000 items; 717 containers; 168 linear feet; 331 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009329 View

Peace Dale Manufacturing Company. Records, 1742-1919 (inclusive) [microform].

Title: Records, 1742-1919 (inclusive) [microform].

Records, 1829-1919, of the textile firm, with earlier records of enterprises of the Peace, Hazard, and other families. General accounting and production records, orders, sales, and correspondence, much of it with the Peace Dale firm's selling agents: S.B. and Buffum (1854), Jenkins and Huntington (1860), Fairbanks and Martin (1871), and Martin and Buffum (1885). Preceding this period, there are records of many other activities. The earliest is a daybook for 1742-1744 of the Trenton Mills, one of the flour mills owned by Joseph Pease. Other early records are a cash book, 1785-1788, of Isaac Pease; a daybook, 1761-1781, of S. Neyle; accounts, 1785-1791, of Abraham Newton, postmaster, Charleston, S.C. Accounts of the Hazard family in Charleston include those of Rowland Hazard, 1789-1790; Hazard, Robinson and Company; and Hazard and Ayrault. The family owned plantations on the Santee River, where sheep were raised, flour was prepared, and the usual farming operations carried on. From 1817 to 1850 there are accounts of Rowland Hazard's sons, Isaac P., Thomas R., Rowland G., and Joseph P. Isaac and Rowland acted together as partners, 1820-1829, carrying on a cotton mill in South Kingston and a general store in Providence, R.I. Many investment interests of the Hazard family are represented, including the Providence and Stonington and the Narragansett Pier Railroads, and the Wisconsin Central Railroad. Other letters, 1869-1886, are from Herbert Spencer concerning railroad investments, and papers on the Credit Mobilier, 1876 and later.

ArchivalResource: 54 linear ft. (219 v., 29 cases)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269577238 View

Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887. Papers, 1798-1893 (bulk 1827-1887)

Title: Dorothea Lynde Dix papers, 1798-1893 (inclusive), 1827-1887 (bulk).

Correspondence and manuscripts of American educator, social reformer, and humanitarian, Dorothea Dix.

ArchivalResource: 29 boxes (9.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00078/catalog View

Samuel Gray Ward and Anna Hazard Barker Ward papers, 1823-1934 (inclusive) 1837-1900 (bulk).

Title: Samuel Gray Ward and Anna Hazard Barker Ward papers, 1823-1934 (inclusive) 1837-1900 (bulk).

Papers of Samual Baker Ward and his wife Anna Hazard Barker Ward, friends of Ralph Waldo Emerson and associates of the Transcendentalists.

ArchivalResource: 7 boxes (2.3 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00309/catalog View

University of Pennsylvania. Seybert Commission for Investigating Modern Spiritualism. Records, 1884-1922.

Title: Records, 1884-1922.

Collection consists of 9 series. External Correspondence (3 boxes) includes letters from mediums and spiritualists such as John Bellerjeau, Joseph Caffray, Andrew Jackson Davis, Fred Evans, Margaret Fox, W.M. Keeler, Henry Kiddle, Maud E. Lord, J.V. Mansfield, Mayer May, A.E. Newton, R.C. Simpson, Henry Slade, Hudson Tuttle, and Alfred Russel Wallace.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes + 1 oversize chart.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155862267 View

Ham recipe, n.d.

Title: Ham recipe, n.d.

Early nineteenth century recipe for ham pickle or cure.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155450311 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