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Chester Alan Arthur Papers, 1843-1960, (bulk 1870-1888)

Title: Chester Alan Arthur Papers 1843-1960 (bulk 1870-1888)

U.S. president. Correspondence, financial papers, scrapbooks, clippings, and other papers chiefly relating to Arthur's presidency, his service as collector or customs for the Port of New York, and the New York Republican State Committee.

ArchivalResource: 4,400 items; 31 containers plus 1 oversize; 10.4 linear feet; 10 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009139 View

Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary. Correspondence, 1865-1891

Title: Correspondence, 1865-1891

This record unit consists of outgoing correspondence from the Office of the Secretary during the tenures of Joseph, Henry, 1846-1878; Spencer Fullerton Baird, 1878-1887; and Samuel Pierpoint Langley, 1887-1906.

ArchivalResource: 46.06 cu. ft. (62 document boxes) (68 3x5 boxes) (243 microfilm reels)

https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_216647 View

Hilliard, Henry W. (Henry Washington), 1808-1892. Correspondence, 1843-1886.

Title: Correspondence, 1843-1886.

Miscellaneous correspondence of Hilliard, including a letter, 1860, to Harper and Brothers expressing optimism about Alabama's chances of remaining in the Union; a letter, 1868, to Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase referring to hearings on the proposed trial of Jefferson Davis and mentioning the visit of Kate Chase Sprague and William Sprague, former governor of Rhode Island to Augusta, Ga.; and responses to autograph collectors.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19794072 View

Brigham Young photographs, circa 1860-1870

Title: Brigham Young photographs, circa 1860-1870

Collection of carte-de-visite photographs and engravings from an album received by Miriam Young Hardy at settlement of the Brigham Young estate. Contains portraits of Young family members, Church leaders, Civil War military officers of both the Union and Confederacy forces, U.S. government officials, and other prominent people of the 1840s-1870s. Photographs of Young family members include: John W. Young, Mary Ann Angell Young, Mary Ann Ayers Young, and Naamah K. J. Carter Young. One studio view of a possible female Young standing by chair is unidentified. Photographs of Church leaders include: Ezra T. Benson, Heber C. Kimball, Orson Pratt, George A. Smith, and Brigham Young. Brigham Young and other Latter-day Saints were probably familiar with many of the military officers and government leaders as acquaintances or adversaries during the Mexican War, Utah Expedition, and federal administration during the Utah territorial era. Several photographs are not labeled. Collection includes political cartoon "The Great Surrender" showing miniature photographs of Earl Russell, Mason, Slidell, and Secretary Seward and artistic images labeled "On to Richmond" and "All Quiet on the Potomac." Also includes photo of unidentified man labeled "Specimen Brick" and caricature labeled "Disgusted Secesh Leaving Dixie". Photographers in the collection include E. Anthony and E. and H. T. Anthony (borrowed images from Brady's negatives), New York; Charles D. Fredricks & Co., New York; Perry (Bookbinder), Philadelphia; J. E. McClees, Philadelphia; Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries, New York; Savage and Ottinger, Salt Lake City; and Hermann Ohm, Copenhagen, Denmark.

ArchivalResource: DRPS: 1 electronic record; Photograph: 9 fd. (102 items), 10 x 7 cm.; Microfilm: 1 reel, 35 mm.; Photograph neg.: 13 items; Microfilm neg.: 1 reel; Compact disc (RAW IMAGES): 1 disk, 4-3/4 in.; Compact disc (MASTER): 1 disk, 4-3/4 in.; Compact disc (USER COPY): 1 disk, 4-3/4 in.

https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/record/0dfc3ce6-65a7-4358-b6ce-f18177a48cd9/0?view=summary&lang=eng View

Sprague, Kate (Chase), 1840-1899. Autograph letter signed : Cononchet, Narragansett, to Clinton Rice in Washington, 1870 Oct. 14.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Cononchet, Narragansett, to Clinton Rice in Washington, 1870 Oct. 14.

Mentioning the illness of her father, Salmon P. Chase, and declining a gift of cygnets.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.) ; (16mo) + with envelope.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270574621 View

Sprague, Kate Chase, 1840-1899. Papers.

Title: Papers. 1864 OCT 15.

Letter from Cincinnati, to Gov. John Brough, expressing hope that Ohio will acquire for the state Capitol a painting recently completed by [William Henry] Powell.

ArchivalResource: 1 item : 4 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/9383605 View

Schuckers, J. W. (Jacob William), 1831-1901. Papers of Jacob William Schuckers, 1862-1899.

Title: Papers of Jacob William Schuckers, 1862-1899.

Correspondence, notes, extracts, memoranda; mss. of articles and addresses; fragments, clippings, and other printed matter, relating to national fiscal policy, impeachment proceedings against President Andrew Johnson, and to Chase's life and career. Includes a few papers of Hiram Barney, who figured prominently in events leading to Chase's resignation as Secretary of the Treasury in Lincoln's cabinet. Correspondents include Kate Chase Sprague, Charles Anderson Dana, Fitz-John Porter, and Edmund Gibson Ross.

ArchivalResource: 200 items.1 container.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84852453 View

Sprague, Kate Chase, 1840-1899,. Autograph letter signed from Kate Chase Sprague to [Lilian Adelaide Neilson] [manuscript], [1872?].

Title: Autograph letter signed from Kate Chase Sprague to [Lilian Adelaide Neilson] [manuscript], [1872?].

Disappointed not to see her again before she leaves for New York.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/244482574 View

Brainard, Charles Henry, 1817-1885. Papers, 1795-1884 and undated

Title: Charles Henry Brainard papers, 1795-1884 and undated

Autograph album (1858-1884), a letter book (1855-1883), and a scrapbook of letters and autographs (1795-1857 and undated) of American print dealer, publisher, and historian, Charles Henry Brainard.

ArchivalResource: 4 volumes (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01547/catalog View

Durr family. Papers, 1868-1968.

Title: Papers, 1868-1968.

The Durr family papers contain genealogical materials, legal documents, maps, correspondence, letters, clippings, photographs, writings, and printed materials. Almost three-quarters of the collection is composed of the John W. (1863-1941) and Lucy J. Durr (1865-1959) papers, 1904-1959. Among the subjects discussed in those papers are: Brazil-emigration and immigration; Ala.-economic conditions; Ala.-politics and government; the University of Ala.; the University of Va.; Montgomery, Montgomery Co., Ala.; Typhoid fever; Oscar W. Underwood; Race relations; and European War, 1914-1918, especially John W. Durr's (1893-1978) experiences in France and Germany on the front line. Other subjects discussed: Clifford J. Durr's experience as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University, including his travels all over Europe and in Morocco; Durr Drug Co.; Practice of law-Milwaukee; Clifford J. Durr's experiences in the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, the Defense Plant Corporation, and the Federal Communications Commission; Hugo L. Black; World War, 1939-1945; Loyalty-security programs, 1947-; Henry A. Wallace; Lister Hill; John H. Bankhead; Harry S. Truman; USSR-description and travel; National Lawyers Guild; and National Farmers Union. The primary correspondents are the Durr children, particularly Clifford J. and his wife, Virginia F., and all correspondence between the elder Durrs and their children is contained herein. The bulk of the rest of the collection contains the correspondence and letters received by the children of John W. (1863-1941) and Lucy J. (1865-1959) Durr, especially each of their correspondence with Clifford J. Durr. The letters are primarily to one sibling from another sibling, and in them are discussed the same subjects as listed above. All of their correspondence with Clifford J. Durr is contained herein.

ArchivalResource: 2.3 cubic ft. (7 archives boxes and one oversized box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122330754 View

Vangermeersch, Richard G. J. Another look at William Sprague (1830-1915) : typescript, [2009?] / by Richard Vangermeersch.

Title: Another look at William Sprague (1830-1915) : typescript, [2009?] / by Richard Vangermeersch.

ArchivalResource: 6, 26 p.,10 leaves, [11] leaves : ill., photos, ports. ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/632209508 View

Salmon P. Chase Papers, 1775-1898, (bulk 1824-1872)

Title: Salmon P. Chase Papers 1775-1898 (bulk 1824-1872)

Abolitionist, lawyer, United States senator, governor of Ohio, United States secretary of the treasury, and chief justice of the United States Supreme Court. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, speeches, writings, financial and legal papers, biographical material, and other papers pertaining to Chase's career and personal life. Topics include Chase's activities as an abolitionist, his law practice in Cincinnati, membership in the Liberty Party, involvement in national and state politics as United States senator and governor of Ohio, the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), events and military operations of the Civil War, formulation of wartime policy as a member of Abraham Lincoln's cabinet, work as United States secretary of the treasury on problems of national finance and the development of a national banking system, his service as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, trial and impeachment of Andrew Johnson, Reconstruction, and creation of a national currency.

ArchivalResource: 12,500 items; 39 containers plus 1 oversize; 15 linear feet; 38 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006011 View