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Cleveland Abbe papers, 1851-1952.

Title: Cleveland Abbe papers, 1851-1952.

Collection consists of papers (1851-1952) of meteorologist and astronomer, Cleveland Abbe.

ArchivalResource: 4.4 linear ft. (9 document boxes, 3 flat boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48394883 View

Charles S. McClain papers, 1884-1944

Title: Charles S. McClain papers, 1884-1944

Typescript of extracts from McClain's diary, entitled The tale of an icy cruise. The entries, dated May 22 to July 24, 1884, cover the period that McClain was serving on the Alert, one of the ships sent in search of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition. The entries were edited by Josephine B. McClain Jordan. Collection includes some correspondence concerning the diary.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (0.2 ft.)

http://libcat.dartmouth.edu/record=b1491172~S1 View

List of men who died at Cape Sabine, undated.

Title: List of men who died at Cape Sabine, undated.

List of men who died at Cape Sabine during the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition which was also known as Greely Arctic Expedition (1881-1884).

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://minerva.maine.edu/record=b2072568~S24 View

Henry T. Mayo Papers, 1866-1972, (bulk 1900-1918)

Title: Henry T. Mayo Papers 1866-1972 (bulk 1900-1918)

Naval officer. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, memoirs, genealogical material, reports, orders, certificates, scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers pertaining mainly to Mayo's naval career.

ArchivalResource: 5,250 items; 15 containers; 6 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008058 View

Adolphus W. Greely Papers, 1844-1871, 1908-1909.

Title: Adolphus W. Greely Papers, 1844-1871, 1908-1909.

Newburyport, MA man who served in the United States Army during the Civil War. He worked establishing telegraph lines on the frontier and led the International Polar Expedition promoted by the United States Army Signal Corps to establish one of a chain of meteorological-observation stations. Records of the U. S. Army 36th Infantry Division includes ordnance accounts, receipts, vouchers, invoices, and addressed envelopes, related to Greely's time as Second Lieutenant in the 36th Infantry. These records reflect the basic equipment and financial concerns facing a regiment of soldiers on the frontier. Personal Papers includes correspondence, clippings, and maps from Greely's life after his retirement from service. Correspondence in this series discusses diplomatic events, geological publications, and military matters. Also included is a letter from Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924) regarding the death of his son, George Cabot.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (2 linear feet)

http://phillipslibrarycollections.pem.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15928coll1/id/956 View

Julius R. Frederick Papers, ca. 1874-1978 (bulk 1881-1904).

Title: Julius R. Frederick Papers, ca. 1874-1978 (bulk 1881-1904).

The collection contains documentation and artifacts relating to Julius R. Frederick's participation in the Greely Expedition to Greenland from 1881 to 1884. The materials also document his life afterward in Indianapolis, Indiana. The collection includes correspondence to Frederick from some of his fellow survivors on the expedition. The collection also contains items relating to the purchase of the collection in 1978 from the Frederick's granddaughter.

ArchivalResource: 1 manuscript box, 1 oversize manuscript folder, 1 box of photographs, 1 box of oversized photographs, 3 books, 6 artifacts.

https://indianahistory.org/wp-content/uploads/julius-r-frederick-papers-ca-1874-1978.pdf View

William Ernest Hocking papers

Title: William Ernest Hocking papers

Correspondence of Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking, his wife, Agnes Hocking, the Hocking family, and others.

ArchivalResource: 144 linear feet (110 boxes)

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou01777 View

The Adolphus W. Greely papers, 1864-1935.

Title: The Adolphus W. Greely papers, 1864-1935.

Contains the following types of materials: personal letters; funeral sermon. Contains information pertaining to the following wars and time periods: Civil War -- Eastern Theater; Civil War -- Gulf; reconstruction; Indian Wars, 1865-1891; 1865-1898. Contains information pertaining to the following military units and organizations: 19th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment; 81st United States (US) Colored Infantry Regiment; 36th US Infantry Regiment; 5th US Cavalry Regiment; Signal Corps, including duty in the Department of Platte, Texas, the Pacific and Dakota and Infantry Corps Headquarters; chief signal officer. General description of the collection: The Adolphus W. Greely papers include officer's letters to his niece, Clarissa Greely, in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Mostly 1867-1880, letters cover family matters, social life of an Army officer (Greely a bachelor until 1878). Some reference to tours in west, especially in Nebraska, Utah and Texas, mostly on signal detail laying telegraph lines. Little concerns Arctic except obituary.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47522761 View

Vol. XXXIII, 1870-1898.includes:ff. 1-28, 66 George Robert Charles Herbert, 13th Earl of Pembroke: Letters to Mary Gladstone: 1870-1881.ff. 32-304 b passim Sir George Grove, musicologist: Letters to Mary Gladstone: 1873-1894.f. 42 Joseph Joachi..., 1870-1898

Title: Vol. XXXIII, 1870-1898.includes:ff. 1-28, 66 George Robert Charles Herbert, 13th Earl of Pembroke: Letters to Mary Gladstone: 1870-1881.ff. 32-304 b passim Sir George Grove, musicologist: Letters to Mary Gladstone: 1873-1894.f. 42 Joseph Joachi... 1870-1898

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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Greely, A. W. (Adolphus Washington), 1844-1935,. General A.W. Greely photograph collection [graphic], 1900-1905.

Title: General A.W. Greely photograph collection [graphic], 1900-1905.

The images are computer-generated scans created from the original collection at the Anchorage Museum of History and Art. Includes ten Point Barrow Expedition photographs and the remainder are from A.W. Greely's five inspection trips to Alaska, 1900-1905, during the construction of the Washington Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System (WAMCATS) by the Army Signal Corps. Most of the photographs were taken by Miles Bros.

ArchivalResource: 33 photographs : b&w.

https://library.alaska.gov/hist/hist_docs/finding_aids/PCA385.doc View

William Woodville Rockhill papers

Title: William Woodville Rockhill papers

Papers of American scholar-diplomat William Woodville Rockhill.

ArchivalResource: 18 linear feet (35 boxes, 6 card file boxes, and 8 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00411/catalog View

Report of cable operations, U.S. cable-ship Burnside : Alaskan and Alaskan-Washington cables, Jan. 1903 to Nov. 1904, 1903-1904.

Title: Report of cable operations, U.S. cable-ship Burnside : Alaskan and Alaskan-Washington cables, Jan. 1903 to Nov. 1904, 1903-1904.

Scrapbook contains reports, observations, specifications, blueprints, logs, and other data in reference to the laying of submarine cable for telegraph operations on the U.S. cableship Burnside.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (0.2 ft.)

http://libcat.dartmouth.edu/record=b1491111~S1 View

Greely, A. W. (Aldolphus Washington), 1844-1935. Letter, 1929 Dec. 27, to Harold G. Rugg / A.W. Greely.

Title: Letter, 1929 Dec. 27, to Harold G. Rugg / A.W. Greely.

States that his supply of bookplates is exhausted.

ArchivalResource: [1] p. ; 22 cm.

http://libcat.dartmouth.edu/record=b1709072~S1 View

Records of the Army Staff. 1903 - 2009. Photographs of U.S. and Foreign Military Personnel, Defense Department and Other Government Officials, Royalty, and Heads of State. 1964-1974.

Title: Records of the Army Staff. 1903 - 2009. Photographs of U.S. and Foreign Military Personnel, Defense Department and Other Government Officials, Royalty, and Heads of State.

This series consists of black-and-white and color photographs, the majority of which were taken by U.S. Army Signal Corps photographers. The photographs record U.S. and foreign military personnel, Defense Department officials and other U.S. government employees, U.S. presidents and vice presidents, foreign heads of state, royalty, sports figures and entertainers, historical figures, and other notable individuals. The series is a mix of portraits of individuals, including photographs of paintings, and images documenting ceremonial events and visits by U.S. and foreign government officials and military leaders. Among the U.S military officers pictured in this series are Generals Creighton Abrams, Omar Bradley, Claire Chennault, Mark Clark, Lucius Clay, George Armstrong Custer, Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., Charles Dodge, James Doolittle, William J. Donovan, Robert L. Eichelberger, Benjamin D. Foulois, Frederick Funston, George W. Goethals, Adolphus W. Greely, Leslie Groves, Alexander Haig, Hugh P. Harris, Lucius R. Holbrook, Lewis B. Hershey, Oliver O. Howard, Lyman L. Lemnitzer, John A. Lejeune, Douglas MacArthur, George C. Marshall, George S. Patton, and Maxwell D. Taylor; and Admirals Samuel Gravely, Jr., William F. Halsey, and Ernest J. King. In addition, there are photographs of the much decorated Colonel David H. Hackworth and of Confederate Generals Jubal A. Early, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson. Many of the photographs in the series show foreign military officers on official visits, in training, or participating in joint exercises, as well as images of some of the key figures in World War I, World War II, and the Korean War. Of note are images of Marshal Ferdinand Foch, Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler, Air Marshal George Jones, and Generals Joseph Joffre, Alfred Jodl, and Jean de Lattre de Tassigny. The U.S. presidents pictured in this series are Dwight D. Eisenhower, Warren G. Harding, Benjamin Harrison, William Henry Harrison, Herbert Hoover, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Harry S Truman. Photographs of two vice presidents, Charles Dawes and Hubert H. Humphrey, are included as well. There are also photographs of presidential and vice presidential spouses and other family members, such as Muriel Humphrey and Margaret Truman. Other persons of note represented in the series are Governor Thomas A. Dewey, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, several members of the U.S. Congress, and top government officials. Included are photographs of Senators Prescott Bush, Everett Dirksen, Barry Goldwater, Roman Hruska, Daniel Inouye, Jacob Javits, Estes Kefauver, and Edward M. Kennedy; Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson; Secretaries of Defense James V. Forrestal and Melvin Laird; Secretary of State John Foster Dulles; Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy; Allen W. Dulles, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency; Joseph A. Califano; and Ambassadors Arthur J. Goldberg, W. Averell Harriman, and Joseph P. Kennedy. In addition, there are pictures of cabinet officers Alexander Hamilton, Orville Freeman, Oveta Culp Hobby, Harry Hopkins, and Harold Ickes. The visits of several heads of state, political leaders, and members of royal families are recorded in this series. Some of the individuals pictured are King Bhumibol of Thailand, Chancellors Konrad Adenauer, Willy Brandt and Ludwig Erhard of West Germany; Prime Minister Fidel Castro of Cuba, French Premier Georges Clememceau, Chinese Nationalist leader General Chiang Kai-shek and Mrs. Chiang, Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam, Italian Premier Alcide de Gasperi, King Edward VIII of England, King Faisal II of Iraq, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Norwegian King Haakon VII and Prince Harald, British Prime Ministers Harold Wilson and Edward Heath, West German President Theodor Heuss, President Felix Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast, Prime Minister Amir Abbas Hoveyda of Iran, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Ali Khalatbary, King Hussein I of Jordan, Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Lord Ismay, Prime Minister Joseph Leabua Jonathan of Lesotho, Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, West German Chancellor Kurt G. Kiesinger, Pakistani Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan, First Secretary Nikita S. Khrushchev, Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky of South Vietnam, and Thai Prime Minister Thanon Kittikachorn. Included also are photographs of astronauts Frank Borman and John Glenn, physicist Enrico Fermi, lecturer Helen Keller, aviator Charles Lindbergh, and nurse Elizabeth Kenny. Also represented are entertainment figures Sammy Davis, Jr., Samuel Goldwyn, Bob Hope, Jose Iturbi, Al Jolson, and Boris Karloff. Historical personages pictured include American Revolutionary War patriots Tadeuz Kosciuszko and the Marquis de Lafayette, soldier and architect Pierre Charles L'Enfant, explorer and political leader John Fremont, social reformer Dorothea Dix, Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess, Philippine leader Emilio Aguinaldo, labor leader Samuel Gompers, and French scientist and army general Gustav-Auguste Ferrie. There are also photographs of French nurse Genevieve de Galard Terraube, who was awarded the Medal of Freedom for meritorious service during the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. In addition, there are a few photographs of Native Americans in the series. Of interest are photographs of Army scout Hunting Horse at his 100th and 106th birthday parties.

ArchivalResource: 4 Letter Archives Box, Narrow 2.5 inch 285 Letter Archives Box, Standard

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/564694 View

Harry Payne Whitney Collection of Letters of William C. Whitney, 1757-1942, (bulk 1883-1904)

Title: Harry Payne Whitney Collection of Letters of William C. Whitney 1757-1942 (bulk 1883-1904)

Secretary of the navy, financier, and sportsman. Correspondence, legal and financial records, scrapbooks, photographs, genealogies, and printed matter relating chiefly to William C. Whitney's business and political career in New York, and as secretary of the navy in the first Grover Cleveland presidential administration.

ArchivalResource: 20,000 items; 148 containers plus 10 oversize; 41.8 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012064 View

San Francisco earthquake photograph collection.

Title: San Francisco earthquake photograph collection. 1906.

Contains the following type of materials: photographs. Covers the following time period: 1906. Contains photographs of the following military organization: United States (U.S.) Army Signal Corps. General description of the collection: The San Francisco earthquake photograph collection contains photographs of the San Francisco earthquake of April 1906. All of the photographs in this record group are Signal Corps photos. Much of the collection shows the devastation caused by the earthquake and ensuing fire. There are views throughout the city showing prominent buildings of commerce and business, as well as, the residential areas. There are several photos showing the fire still in progress in some parts of the city. There are photos of the Army staff that was sent to assist the citizens and Red Cross relief efforts; among those prominent are Major General Adolphus W. Greely, commanding the Pacific Division and a then fairly unknown captain named William Mitchell. There are numerous photos of Signal Corps personnel at various activities and in the improvised telegraph office. There are also numerous photos of the buildings and facilities at the Presidio of San Francisco and the many refugee camps about the city. There are photos of supply warehouses and distribution points and facilities erected to facilitate the feeding of the many victims.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (202 photographs)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49334992 View

Sam Schaefler historical and literary letters and documents, 1674-1970s

Title: Sam Schaefler historical and literary letters and documents, 1674-1970s

Correspondence, documents and manuscripts from late seventeenth and eighteenth century France, especially from the French Revolution, collected by Sam Schaefler. Authors include J.B. Colbert Torcy and the Duchesse Du Lude. Many of the items from the French Revolution represent the work of the Committee of Public Safety and the Committee of General Security. French Revolutionary leaders represented in the collection include François-Antoine Boissy D'Anglas, Jean-Baptiste-Noel Bouchotte, Pierre Joseph Cambon, Lazare Carnot, Jean-Marie Collot D'Herbois, l'Abbʹe de Fauchet, Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai, Jean Victor Moreau. C.A. Prieur-Duvernois, and Antoine Joseph Santerre. In addition, the collection includes a letter from the Danish physicist Hans Christian Oersted to Sir John Herschel, a letter by the French poet Romain Rolland, a document of the Philadelphia Artists' Fund Society of 1846 with signatures of its officers, and an autograph letter and a photograph of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 1986 ADDITION: One letter from James Monroe and two from Theodore Roosevelt. 1987 ADDITION: Correspondence, documents, manuscripts, and photographs dealing with American and English literature, and American and French history during the era of the Revolutions. Included are letters from Erskine Caldwell, Will Durant, Howard Fast, Rachel Field, Emil Ludwig. Edwin Markham, Christopher Morley, and John Howard Payne; manuscripts of John Drinkwater, Felicia Hemans, Romain Rolland, Louis Untermeyer, and Tennessee Williams; and documents of James Duane, Joseph Hopkinson, and Sir Walter Scott. 1988 ADDITION: Correspondence and documents dealing with American and English history during the 18th and 19th centuries. There are letters from Dubo and Demante de Millot (about the French fleet in Haiti in 1780), U.S. Grant, Victor Hugo, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Robespierre, W.H. Seward, and Daniel Waldo; and documents of the Sultan of Borneo and James Madison. There are also photographs taken by Lee David Hamilton of Central Park and of Polaris submarines. 1989 ADDITION: Correspondence, manuscripts, and documents on American history and literature, from the 17th through the 20th centuries. There are letters and some manuscripts to the editor of ANTHOLOGY OF MYSTICAL VERSE and LYRA MYSTICA dating from the 1920s and the 1930s; letters and autographs of early 20th century Americans and New York and Connecticut colonial documents signed by Isaac Huntington, Jacob Remer, and Thomas Dongon. Also included are photographs of foreign travels in a Packard motorcar, 1903-1904, and a photographic travelogue (photographs taken by Henry C. Rem) of the first European motorcar tour by Americans in a Packard, 1907-1910. 1990 ADDITION: Documents dealing with finance and land sales in New York from 1789 to 1879. There are land deeds resulting from the dispersal of the assets of John Lamb at the end of the 1790s, mortgage bonds, insurance policies, and papers about the insurance claims of Ebenezer Stevens for shipping seized by France in 1808. There is also a letter in rebus form, written in 1734. 1992 ADDITION: Three letters from Richard Le Gallienne to Margot Holmes, his photograph signed and inscribed to her, and a Berenice Abbott photograph have been added. 1997 ADDITION: Naval commission of Richard Morice as Commander of H.M.S. Tarrier.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear feet (5 boxes, several oversized items)

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_4078402/ View

George W. Goethals Papers, 1890-1954, (bulk 1907-1927)

Title: George W. Goethals Papers 1890-1954 (bulk 1907-1927)

Governor of the Canal Zone, army officer, and engineer. Diaries, correspondence, reports, memoranda, photographs, clippings, and scrapbooks relating chiefly to the construction of the Panama Canal, Goethals' term as governor of the Canal Zone, and his other public service positions.

ArchivalResource: 15,000 items; 50 containers plus 1 oversize; 18 linear feet; 1 microfilm reel

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013029 View

United States. Army. Signal Corps. Signal Corps Historians' Collection, 1870-1971 (bulk 1940-1969).

Title: Signal Corps Historians' Collection, 1870-1971 (bulk 1940-1969).

General description of the collection: The collecton includes the Signal Corps historians' notes and reference files covering the origin of the Corps during the Civil War until the end of the 20th century. Topics include Signal Corps history, training, organization, missions, evolution, and research in fields such as meteorology, polar exploration, electronics, data processing, telecommunications, photography, and radar. Also present are biographical sketches of Signal Corps personnel, unit histories, and photographs of World War II battle operations.

ArchivalResource: 68 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57077777 View

Gratz, Simon. Alphabetical collection, 1677-1910.

Title: Alphabetical collection, 1677-1910.

The alphabetical collection is particularly rich in papers of Protestant American clergymen. Letters, 1795-1820, of American Presbyterian clergy addressed to William Wallace Woodward, a Philadelphia bookseller. Manuscript sermons of such clergymen as Abiel Abbot, Lyman Beecher, Nathaniel Chauncey, Timothy Edwards, Ashbel Green, Levi Hart, Alexander Murray, James Muir, William B. Sprague, Solomon Stoddard, Samuel Willard, and others. The collection includes letters and portraits of many other prominent Americans and Europeans: Theodosia Burr Alston; Governor Edmund Andros, 1677; General John Armstrong, 1769; Susanna Anthony, 1770; John Jacob Astor, 1842; John Bradford, 1720; Governor Jonathan Belcher; George Bryan; George Clinton; George Clymer; DeWitt Clinton, 1822; John Dickinson; William Dearborn, 1808; William Duer, 1786; Edward Everett, 1827; Benjamin Eastburn, 1734; William Eaton, 1805; Albert Gallatin, 1801-1811; Joseph Galloway, 1769; Adolphus W. Greely; Jonathan Greenleaf, 1843; Alexander Hamilton; Samuel Hopkins, 1770; William Harrison, 1786; Patrick Henry; Jared Ingersoll; John Jay, 1822; Washington Irving; Dyre Kearney, 1787; James Kent; Francis Scott Key; John Laurens, 1778; Gouverneur Morris, 1806; John P. Montgomery, 1776; Thomas Mifflin, 1791; John Nicholson, 1795; Isaac Morris; Samuel Otis, 1789; Richard and Thomas Penn, 1755; Edmund Pendleton; James Parker, 1793; Colonel James Rodney, 1764; Joseph Reed, 1812; Peyton Randolph; J. Bayard Smith, 1778; Jonathan D. Sergeant, 1784; Henry De Saussure, 1787; Theodore Sedgwick, 1799; William Tweed, 1871; John Tyler, Jr., 1842; James Wadsworth, 1780; John F. Zubley, 1767; and others. Other miscellaneous items are: manuscripts of James Monroe, 1794-1828, on the French Revolution; instructions to James Monroe by Edmund Randolph, 1794-1796; Aaron Burr letters, 1775-1811; Erick Bollmann, 1810; William Eaton, 1802; Joseph Bonaparte correspondence, 1815-1827; parchment deeds, 1691-1786, of Pennsylvania and New Jersey; Judge John Cleves Symmes to Captain Dayton on settlements west of Ohio and on the Miami, 1789; papers relating to Indian affairs, 1789-1806; Irish Revolution papers, 1806-1813; Mexico and South America, 1785-1843; United States Bank, 1805; Bank of North America, 1813-1814; Canadian Rebellion, 1837-1838; political relations between France and America, 1783-1793; letters of writers, artists, scholars, scientists, physicians, apothecaries, penologists, reformers, etc., ca. 1711-1910, including Joseph Lancaster's voluminous correspondence on education, James Rumsey's manuscripts and printed material, 1788, concerning his invention of the first steam vessel, and other papers bearing on intellectual trends.

ArchivalResource: 100 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122474586 View

Stuart, George E. George E. Stuart collection of archaeological and other materials, 1733-2006.

Title: George E. Stuart collection of archaeological and other materials, 1733-2006.

Materials collected by George Stuart include papers related to several early Maya scholars and archaeologists, such as M. Latour Allard, Guillermo Dupaix, Edward King (Lord Kingsborough), Augustus Le Plongeon, William H. Prescott, Ephraim George Squier, John Lloyd Stephens, and Jean Frederic Waldeck; papers related to archaeologists of the southeastern United States, such as John P. Rogan and Cyrus Thomas; papers concerning the history of South Carolina, specifically Camden, S.C.; Civil War and Confederate papers, including engravings, newspapers, and miscellaneous documents; and other items, such as an 1869 diary of polar explorer Adolphus Greely written while traveling in the United States, letterhead of Adolf Hitler, a 1939 issue of "Family Circle" featuring the first published notice of "Gone With the Wind," and the first issue of "People Magazine." Also included are selected eighteenth and nineteenth-century newspapers from Hartford, Conn., Philadelphia, Pa., and Oneida, N.Y., and 1864-1866 newspapers from Campeche, Carmen, Merida, and Yucatan, Mexico. There is also a collection of copies of Augustus Le Plongeon and Alice Dixon Le Plongeon photographs compiled by archaeologist Lawrence G. Desmond. The photographs depict Chichen Itza, Uxmal, and other pre-Columbian archeological sites in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico and Belize, 1873-1885. Also included are the papers of Jerome O. Kilmartin, a surveyor who mapped Chichen Itza and other Maya sites in the 1920s. The Kilmartin materials, 1922-2002, contain correspondence, diaries, photographs, and other items related to mapping projects at Chichen Itza, Mexico, and Lake Peten and Tikal, Guatemala, sponsored by the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Included is material relating to a 1929 flight over the Yucatan area by Charles Lindbergh and Mayanist Alfred Vincent Kidder. There are also papers of brothers William Law, printer and commission merchant, and Andrew Law, musician and composer, both of Cheshire, Conn. These materials, 1782-1820, consist mostly of letters written to the brothers. Letters to Andrew Law deal largely with the success of his singing schools and the sale of his tune-books. Other letters, especially from Drayton M. Curtis, offer criticism of Law's innovative staff-less notation style and his modification of popular hymns. Letters to William Law, representing Minturn and Champlin of New York in Copenhagen, Denmark, and at other ports in Europe during the War of 1812, generally discuss the impact of the war on international trade and the prospects for peace between Great Britain and the United States.

ArchivalResource: ca. 3500 items (5.0 linear feet)

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/05268/ View

Allen, James. James Allen photograph collection.

Title: James Allen photograph collection. 1898-1924.

Contains the following type of materials: photographs. Contains photographs of the following military unit and organization: Signal Corps. General description of the collection: The James Allen photograph collection consists of excellent portrait photos of many of the Army's important officers as well as his career from the early 1890s, when he was a lieutenant colonel, to his retirement as Chief Signal Officer in 1913. He served in that position beginning in 1906 and this collection shows excellent photos of him during that period. There are excellent portraits of several of his contemporaries: A.W. Greeley, Arthur MacArthur, C.W. Saltzman, George O. Squire, and George P. Scriven.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (37 photographs)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50822407 View

Hay, John, 1838-1905. Correspondence, 1854-1914, "Gillman" to "Halpine".

Title: Correspondence, 1854-1914, "Gillman" to "Halpine".

Includes letters to Hay and to members of his family.

ArchivalResource: Approximately 6,000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145430484 View

Mayo, Henry T. (Henry Thomas), 1856-1937. Papers, 1866-1972 (bulk 1900-1918).

Title: Papers, 1866-1972 (bulk 1900-1918).

Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, memoirs, genealogical material, reports, orders, certificates, scrapbooks, photos, and other papers, relating primarily to Mayo's naval career; together with correspondence (1953-1972) relating to biographical writings between Mayo's son, Chester Garst Mayo, and Walter and Jane Whitehill. Includes accounts of Mayo's daily routine during tours of duty at sea and narratives of significant events in his career including the exploration and hydrographic survey of Puget Sound in the late 1800s, participation in the relief expedition aboard the gunboat Yantic searching for the missing Arctic exploration party of Lt. Adolphus W. Greely (1883), and his role in the crisis leading to the U.S. occupation of Tampico and Veracruz Llave, Mexico (1914), in an Allied naval conference (1917), and as commander of the U.S. Navy Atlantic Fleet during World War I. Correspondents include William Shepherd Benson, Luis Caballero, George Creel, Josephus Daniels, Edward W. Eberle, José Guerra, Clarence A. Miller, and Ignacio Morelos Zaragoza.

ArchivalResource: 6 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28495274 View

Century Company records

Title: Century Company records

The Century Company published the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, which was widely regarded as the best general periodical of its time, performing a role as cultural arbiter during the 1880s and 1890s. It was founded in New York City in 1881 and also published the children's magazine St. Nicholas, dictionaries, and books. The Century Company records date from 1870 to the 1930s and chiefly contain correspondence with contributors, readers, public figures, and literary agents. A number of manuscripts and proofs in the collection are extensively edited and taken with annotations on letters provide a detailed record of the outlook, standards, and functions of the company.

ArchivalResource: 60.4 linear feet; 151 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/504 View

Bassett Jones (collector) records, 1818-1938.

Title: Bassett Jones records, 1818-1938.

Letters, manuscripts, documents, and printed materials by and relating to explorers of both poles. Many of the letters are addressed to Vilhjalmur Stefansson or Bassett Jones. The letters for the most part discuss subjects of professional interest. Thre are printed materials, photographs and memorabilia of many expeditions and explorers.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear ft. ( 3 boxes)

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_4079031/ View

Scientists Collection, 1563-1973

Title: Scientists Collection 1563-1973

The Scientists Collection is comprised of individual letters and small groups of correspondence from American, British, French, and German scientists during the past three centuries. Although the content is highly varied, there is significant strength in astronomy, natural history, conchology, and geology. Among the scientists better represented in the collection are the astronomers William Radcliffe Birt, J.F.W. Herschel, and Franz Xaver von Zach; the conchologists A.D. Brown, Fred L. Button, Otto Mörch, Alfred Newton, Christian M. Poulsen, Temple Prime, Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy, and A. G. Wetherby; the physical scientists George Biddell Airy, Arnold Sommerfeld, Ferdinand R. Hassler, and Max Planck; the archaeologist Jean François Nadaillac; the philosopher William Whewell; and the naturalists Walter Henry Bates, Robert Chambers, Edme Dupuget, Robert Kaye Greville, Joseph Henry, John Stevens Henslow, John Lubbock, and Herbert Spencer.

ArchivalResource: 5.75 Linear feet; 13 upright boxes, 8 oversize folders.

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.509.L56-ead.xml View

A. W. Greely Papers, 1753-1997, (bulk 1880-1935)

Title: A. W. Greely Papers 1753-1997 (bulk 1880-1935)

Explorer, United States Army officer, and author. Correspondence, letterbooks, memoranda, diaries, speeches, lectures, writings, military papers, biographical material, Greely (Greeley) family correspondence, scrapbooks, financial records, clippings, maps, prints, memorabilia, and other papers relating primarily to Greely's military career and exploration of the polar regions.

ArchivalResource: 46,000 items; 148 containers plus 3 oversize; 73.6 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010151 View

Immigration Restriction League (U.S.) records, 1893-1921

Title: Immigration Restriction League (U.S.) records

Records of the Immigration Restriction League (U.S.), especially those of Prescott F. (Farnsworth) Hall, one of the founders and executive secretary from 1896-1921.

ArchivalResource: 12.4 linear feet (24 boxes and 17 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00163/catalog View

Adolphus Greely collection, 1912-1927

Title: Adolphus Greely collection 1912-1927

ArchivalResource: Correspondence (4 leaves)

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Greely, A. W. (Adolphus Washington), 1844-1935. Letter to Messrs. Roberts Bros. Washington, DC. 1896 Oct. 15.

Title: Letter to Messrs. Roberts Bros. Washington, DC. 1896 Oct. 15.

Enclosing the original check #744 found after the receipt of the duplicate.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122503990 View

Ralph Morris collection of autographs and portraits

Title: Ralph Morris collection of autographs and portraits

Autographs and portraits assembled by American collector Ralph Morris.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (1.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01092/catalog View

Stickney, William, 1878-1924. Papers, 1897-1930.

Title: Papers, 1897-1930.

Correspondence, essays, photographs, and newspaper clippings of William Stickney; much of the material is related to Peary's 1897 expedition to Greenland, of which Stickney was a member. Collection contains articles on Arctic subjects, including Among the Greenland Eskimos (The New Voice, Jan. 1899) by Charles Schubert and The phantoms of the Poles : William Reed's arguments to prove that the earth is hollow (1906). Collection also contains an album with newspaper clippings about Arctic explorers Andrée, Greely, Nansen, and Peary and an album with newpaper clippings about Peary and his 1897 Greenland expedition. Collection also includes some photographs and a sermon written in Eskimo.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (0.2 ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42927755 View

Henry G. Bryant. Correspondence books, 1897-1913.

Title: Henry G. Bryant. Correspondence books, 1897-1913.

Four correspondence books, 1897-1913, containing copies of his correspondence relating to his activities as an arctic explorer, businessman, and mountaineer. One volume contains his correspondence as the secretary of the American Alpine Club, 1904-1910.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

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Greely, A. W. (Adolphus Washington), 1844-1935. Adolphus Washington Greely letters to S. S. McClure 1890-1892.

Title: Adolphus Washington Greely letters to S. S. McClure 1890-1892.

Greely initially declines McClure's request for literary contributions, then agrees to write a survey of the North Magnetic Pole, and discusses the progress of the article and a proper title for it.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/680285078 View

Hoadley, Frederick H. Journal, 1882.

Title: Journal, 1882.

Hoadley's private log of the voyage of the S. S. Neptune for the relief of A. W. Greely's Lady Franklin Bay Expedition; the journal covers the period from June 14 to Oct. 11, 1882 and contains observations of birds, ice, and ships. Collection includes a typed transcript of the log.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (0.2 ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/237352315 View

William Babcock Hazen Papers

Title: William Babcock Hazen Papers

Papers document General William Babcock Hazen's military career, primarily through correspondence, photographs, and publications.

ArchivalResource: 4 Cubic feet (11 boxes)

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Forbes, W. Cameron (William Cameron), 1870-1959. Collection of family and historical documents, ca. 1680-1900

Title: W. Cameron Forbes collection of family and historical documents, circa 1680-1900

Forbes family materials and historical documents collected by the American businessman and ambassador W. Cameron Forbes.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01652/catalog View

Vol. CCCCXX (ff. 248). Oct.-Dec. 1888.includes:f. 1 Sir Robert Arundell Hudson, GBE; political organizer: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1888.ff. 3, 94 Sir Balthazar Walter Foster, 1st Baron Ilkeston 1910; MP; physician: Correspondence with W. E. G...

Title: Vol. CCCCXX (ff. 248). Oct.- Dec. 1888.includes:f. 1 Sir Robert Arundell Hudson, GBE; political organizer: Letters to W. E. Gladstone: 1888.ff. 3, 94 Sir Balthazar Walter Foster, 1st Baron Ilkeston 1910; MP; physician: Correspondence with W. E. G... Oct 1888-Dec 1888

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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Adolphus W. Greely papers

Title: Adolphus W. Greely papers

The papers of Adolphus Washington Greely contain bills, receipts and credit slips, diary notes, invitations, programs, newspaper clippings, photographs and notes related to his career as an Arctic explorer. Material related to the Lady Franklin Expedition, including articles, correspondence, newspaper clippings, orders, photographs and reports are also included.

ArchivalResource: 1.25 linear ft. (3 boxes)

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Frederick F. Kislingbury collection 1881-1919 1881-1891 Kislingbury, Frederick F. collection

Title: Frederick F. Kislingbury collection 1881-1919 1881-1891 Kislingbury, Frederick F. collection

This collection contains correspondence, legal documents, financial records, and other material related to the family of Frederick Kislingbury, who died during Adolphus Greely's expedition to the Arctic in the early 1880s. The majority of the material pertains to disputes over Kislingbury's estate, the custody of his children, and his sons' later lives.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear foot

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-4025kis?rgn=main;view=text View

Brainerd, Betty, 1888-1984. Papers, 1895-1963.

Title: Papers, 1895-1963.

Papers of Betty Brainerd (Elizabeth Ann Brainerd McClure), society columnist and reporter, best known for her column "We women". Includes correspondence, photographs, manuscripts and copies of her columns. Also includes correspondence with Vilhjalmur Stefansson concerning their relationship, and correspondence with her husbands Henry Herbert McClure and George T. Stagg. Correspondence and manuscripts of her parents, Erastus and Mary Bella Brainerd, both journalists and writers, is included in the collection. Brainerd corresponded with others writers and editors including Talcott Williams and S.S. McClure.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes (7.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/237203144 View

Greely, A. W. (Adolphus Washington), 1844-1935. Letters, 1912, to Charles W. Furlong.

Title: Letters, 1912, to Charles W. Furlong.

Acknowledges gift of The gateway to the Sahara, and sends a copy of his book, Three years of Arctic service.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/237647891 View

Greely, A. W. (Adolphus Washington), 1844-1935. Letter, 1886, May 5 : Washington, D.C., to Mr. Bowen.

Title: Letter, 1886, May 5 : Washington, D.C., to Mr. Bowen.

ALS. Hopes that provisions can be made for the survivors of his 1881-1883 Artic expedition.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35089794 View

Grosvenor Family Papers, 1827-1981, (bulk 1872-1964)

Title: Grosvenor Family Papers 1827-1981 (bulk 1872-1964)

Correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, subject material, financial papers, printed matter, and personal miscellany, chiefly 1872-1964, of various members of the Grosvenor family, principally of Amherst and Millbury, Mass., and Washington, D.C.

ArchivalResource: 67,300 items; 192 containers; 76.6 linear feet

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George Sabin Gibbs Papers, 1896-1947

Title: George Sabin Gibbs Papers 1896-1947

Businessman and army officer. Correspondence, a field notebook, telegrams, reports, memoranda, military records, clippings, and printed matter. Most of the material concerns Gibbs's career leading up to his appointment as chief signal officer in 1928. Includes personal correspondence as well as correspondence relating to his vice presidency of the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation and his presidency of the Postal Telegraph Cable Company in 1931.

ArchivalResource: 1,500 items; 4 containers; 1.6 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009231 View

Breckinridge Family Papers, 1752-1965

Title: Breckinridge Family Papers 1752-1965

Family prominent in Kentucky and national politics and government. Correspondence, diaries, speeches and articles, subject files, financial and legal papers, scrapbooks, and other papers of various members of the Breckinridge family. The bulk of the collection is composed of the papers of John Breckinridge, Robert Jefferson Breckinridge, John Cabell Breckinridge, William C. P. Breckinridge, Joseph Cabell Breckinridge, Mary Desha, Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge, Madeline (McDowell) Breckinridge, and Henry Breckinridge.

ArchivalResource: 205,000 items; 871 containers plus 2 oversize; 263 linear feet; 37 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms997003 View

Todd, A. L. (Alden L.), 1918-. Papers, 1959-1961.

Title: Papers, 1959-1961.

Papers relating to the research and publication of Todd's book, Abandoned (New York : McGraw, Hill, 1961). Includes correspondence with Elinor McVickar and three photographs of George Rice.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/237265640 View

Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973. Papers, ca. 1907-1973.

Title: Papers, ca. 1907-1973.

This collection contains primarily correspondence, but includes articles and addresses by Murphy as well as scrapbooks, photographs, and other miscellaneous volumes documenting his career. From his earliest travels to South American and the Antarctic regions in 1912, until his Australia voyage in 1971, Murphy continually explored animal and bird life as a scientist, and also as a concerned citizen who became one of the earliest advocates of conservation and ecology.

ArchivalResource: ca. 13,000 items (19 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154298084 View

Thomas Bailey Aldrich papers, 1837-1926.

Title: Thomas Bailey Aldrich papers, 1837-1926.

Correspondence and other papers of the American writer Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

ArchivalResource: 19 boxes (7 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00327/catalog View

Augustus Mendon Lord collection, Lord (Augustus Mendon) collection, (bulk 1876-1908), 1778-1908

Title: Augustus Mendon Lord collection Lord (Augustus Mendon) collection (bulk 1876-1908) 1778-1908

The Augustus Mendon Lord collection includes correspondence, documents, and autographs of prominent figures from the period 1778 through 1908. The bulk of the correspondence pertains to American politicians, particularly members of Congress, and dates from 1876 through 1908. However, the collection also contains autographs and documents from American and European military, scientific, literary, and artistic figures.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 linear feet (1 clamshell box)

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Sherman, Edwin Allen, 1829-1914. Edwin Allen Sherman papers, 1872-1971, (bulk 1896-1913).

Title: Edwin Allen Sherman papers, 1872-1971, (bulk 1896-1913).

Letters, manuscripts of writings, and clippings relating primarily to Edwin Allen Sherman, especially to his service in the Mexican War, his successful efforts to erect a monument in Monterey, California to honor John Drake Sloat, and other activities designed to commemorate historic events in California. His writings include Personal reminiscences of a California pioneer of '49 and The true account of the great Jesuit conspiracy in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln "the martyr president" of the United States, Friday April 14th 1865. Includes also some correspondence and papers of his wife, Adeline A. Dodd Sherman; his son, Edwin Allen Sherman; and his grandson, Allen Banks Sherman. Four series: 1. Correspondence, 1871-1971; 2. Manuscripts ? 3. Miscellaney, 1882- 1936; 4. Clippings, 1892-1932.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes (2.1 linear ft.).Sloat monument correspondence and MS of Sherman's autobiography (formerly BANC MSS C-B 719) : partial microfilm reel (36 exposures) : negative (Rich. 533:12) and postive (FILM C-B 719).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122545142 View

Robert Cushman Murphy journals, 1907-1971, 1907-1971

Title: Robert Cushman Murphy journals, 1907-1971 1907-1971

This collection contains the diaries, journals, and observations of a naturalist, generously illustrated with newspaper clippings, photographs, letters, sketches, maps, and charts. This collection contains primarily correspondence, but includes articles and addresses by Murphy as well as scrapbooks, photographs, and other miscellaneous volumes documenting his career. From his earliest travels to South American and the Antarctic regions in 1912, until his Australia voyage in 1971, Murphy continually explored animal and bird life as a scientist, and also as a concerned citizen who became one of the earliest advocates of conservation and ecology.

ArchivalResource: 42.0 Volume(s)

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.M957-ead.xml View

The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Digital Collection

Title: The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Digital Collection

The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Digital Collection is a compilation of selected holdings from collections housed in the archives and special collections of The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley; the California Historical Society, San Francisco; The California State Library, Sacramento; Stanford University, Stanford; The Huntington Library, San Marino; and The Society of California Pioneers, San Francisco. Presenting approximately 14,000 images and 7,000 pages of text, the digital collection makes accessible material related to the history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco, as well as presenting material on other areas affected throughout the state. The project website for includes a full introduction to the collection, online exhibit, panoramic image, interactive map search and other ways to explore this rich collection. The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Digital Collection

ArchivalResource: 8920 digital objects (approximately 14,000 images and 7,000 pages of text)

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Plummer, E. H. Letters to E.H. Plummer, 1906, May 11-28.

Title: Letters to E.H. Plummer, 1906, May 11-28.

All 13 of these letters were written to E.H. Plummer by friends and associates who had experienced the San Francisco earthquake and fires of 1906. (These letters were written in response to Plummer's letters of concern he had sent to his various friends in the San Francisco area.) In the letters the authors' discuss their personal experiences in the earthquake and the aftermath. They talk about personal property being destroyed and lost, the fear they felt during the earthquake, their anxiety in not knowing about loved ones in other parts of the area, the deaths of friends and the difficulty of communicating by the telegraph or mail. They also talk about their hope for the future and the belief that San Francisco would be rebuilt even better than before. Specific topics discussed are: Frederick Funston, A.W. Greely, Arthur McArthur, the Spring Valley Water Company, the 3rd Infantry Regiment, the Presidio, the fires after the quake, and martial law. Some of the letters were written from Monterey, Oakland, Sausalito and San Jose and discuss the effects of the earthquake in those cities. Bruce Cornwall, prominent San Francisco lawyer and real estate broker, is the author of one of the letters.

ArchivalResource: 13 letters.

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Hotze, Henry, 1833-1887. Papers of Henry Hotze [manuscript], 1861-1866, 1959-1972.

Title: Papers of Henry Hotze [manuscript], 1861-1866, 1959-1972.

Papers of Henry Hotze, include a draft of a letter to P. Hamber of London, ca. 1861, "Some arguments in favor of Confederate independence"; a draft of a letter to unidentified editors, ca. 1862 "Anniversary of Washington's birthday" on the Civil War; a draft of a letter to Lord Campbell, 1863 January 24, on the Civil War and British involvement; a draft of a letter to the editor of the New York Herald, 1865 January 24, on the Civil War and French involvement; and the draft of a pamphlet, 1863-66 "Les principes de la colonization par rapport a la question Mexicaine" with an additional section in another hand. There is also a copy of a thesis "Henry Hotze, Confederate propagandist" by Charles P. Cullop; and a photocopy of "Rebel propagandist: Henry Hotze" Chapter 8 of Charles L. Dufour's "Nine men in gray." There is also research material, 1963-1972, regarding Hotze and William Parker Snow.

ArchivalResource: 15 items.

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Harvard University. Autograph File, G. 1641-2009.

Title: Autograph File, G

The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear feet (10 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01430/catalog View

Adolphus Greely collection, 1912-1927

Title: Adolphus Greely collection 1912-1927

ArchivalResource: Correspondence (4 leaves)

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb15-adolphusgreely View

Gunsaulus, Frank Wakeley, 1856-1921. Letter to H. P. Harrison. Chicago, IL. 1917 February 1.

Title: Letter to H. P. Harrison. Chicago, IL. 1917 February 1.

Reminiscing about Chautauqua performers including General Greely, Edward Everett Hale, Lyman Abbott, Wendell Phillips, Mary Livermore, J. G. Holland, George William Curtis, and "Sunset" Cox from whom he has collected autographs.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/233104440 View

Records of the Weather Bureau. 1735 - 1989. Letters Received

Title: Records of the Weather Bureau. 1735 - 1989. Letters Received

ArchivalResource:

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/597227 View

Henry Clay Family Papers, 1732-1927, (bulk 1814-1852)

Title: Henry Clay Family Papers 1732-1927 (bulk 1814-1852)

Personal, official, and family correspondence, speeches, writings, business records, legal files, biographical material, printed matter, and other papers chiefly documenting the public career and private life of statesman Henry Clay (1777-1852), United States secretary of state and representative and senator from Kentucky; his son, James B. Clay (1817-1864), diplomat, United States representative from Kentucky, and Confederate sympathizer; and other members of Henry Clay's family.

ArchivalResource: 18,850 items; 75 containers; 30 linear feet; 24 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms000010 View

Greely, A. W. (Adolphus Washington), 1844-1935. Handbook of Alaska; proofsheets.

Title: Handbook of Alaska; proofsheets. 1908.

ArchivalResource: 230 p. of mounted proofsheets, tables. 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16935773 View

Greely, A. W. (Adolphus Washington), 1844-1935. Scrapbooks of articles, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, etc., principally on polar and sub-polar countries, regions, peoples and subjects published mainly between 1885 and 1929, as well as the literature on polar exploration and explorers for the same period.

Title: Scrapbooks of articles, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, etc., principally on polar and sub-polar countries, regions, peoples and subjects published mainly between 1885 and 1929, as well as the literature on polar exploration and explorers for the same period. 1885-1929.

ArchivalResource: v. and portfolio. 22-33 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16935945 View

Johnson, P. W. Diary, 1884 May 1--August 27.

Title: Diary, 1884 May 1--August 27.

Holograph diary of a seaman on the USS Thetis who took part in the rescue of A.W. Greely and the other members of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition. Laid in is a sheet with a fragment of a flag attached. The sheet is signed by David Brainard, a member of the lady Franklin Bay Expedition, attesting that this was part of the flag was flown when he made his attempt for the North Pole.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ; 33 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/237176357 View

Washington Irving Chambers Papers, 1871-1943, (bulk 1911-1919)

Title: Washington Irving Chambers Papers 1871-1943 (bulk 1911-1919)

Naval officer. Correspondence, subject files, logbooks, memoranda, blueprints, photographs, printed matter, and other papers relating primarily to Chambers's service in the navy and with the Greely Relief Expedition to the Arctic and the Nicaragua Canal survey expedition of 1884-1885.

ArchivalResource: 12,000 items; 48 containers; 12 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011189 View

Elihu Root Papers, 1863-1937, (bulk 1899-1937)

Title: Elihu Root Papers

United States secretary of state, secretary of war, United States senator from New York, and statesman. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, notes, reports, subject files, financial papers, calendar and appointment books, invitations, and printed materials relating to Root's career as a lawyer and statesman.

ArchivalResource: 66,050 items; 257 containers plus 9 oversize; 87.2 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011162 View