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Ridgway Family. Papers, 1850-1942.

Title: Papers, 1850-1942.

Correspondence, illustrations, photographs and family materials from Robert and John Ridgway.

ArchivalResource: 3 lin. ft. (6 bx.) and 1 portfolio (20 items).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122497596 View

Allen, Newton Franklin, 1810-1877. Newton Franklin Allen papers, 1805-1903.

Title: Newton Franklin Allen papers, 1805-1903.

Collection consists of business documents including bonds, bills, deeds, promissory notes, receipts and an account book concerning the Newton Franklin Allen family of Charlestown, NH. The collection also contains probate records including power of attorney, estate settlement documents, estate inventories, and handwritten copies of the wills for Miriam E. Bond and Lampson Willis. There is a diary kept by L.J. Perry -- this is probably Lewis J. Perry, the son of James E. and Emma L. (Hunt) Perry of N. Charlestown, NH. The diary contains very short entries that describe the weather, coming and going of family and friends, and his activities such as "chopped wood", going to singing school, "commenced to sow my wheat", etc.

ArchivalResource: 0.42 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53042947 View

Russell & Co., Guangzhou, China, Records, 1812-1894, (bulk 1819-1840)

Title: Russell & Co., Guangzhou, China, Records 1812-1894 (bulk 1819-1840)

Trading house founded in 1819 by Samuel Russell in Guangzhou (Canton), China. Correspondence, financial and legal records, and miscellany relating to the company and its founder, Samuel Russell (1789-circa 1862), and members of his family.

ArchivalResource: 3,900 items; 12 containers plus 4 oversize; 5 linear feet; 10 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010075 View

Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part I: The Revolution and the Administration, 1669-1958.

Title: Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part I: The Revolution and the Administration, 1669-1958.

Autograph letters and documents of American political and military leaders collected by Frederick Myers Dearborn.

ArchivalResource: 28 boxes (14 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01499/catalog View

Tyng, Dudley Atkins, 1760-1829. Correspondence with Judge George Thatcher, 1789-1815.

Title: Correspondence with Judge George Thatcher, 1789-1815.

Correspondence from Tyng, who resided in Newburyport and Boston, to Congressman George Thacher of Maine, touching on a variety of political topics such as the judiciary act of 1789, the make-up of the United States Supreme Court, and the judges of the Massachusetts court system.

ArchivalResource: 13 items ([26] leaves) ; 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/235135376 View

Hubbard, Samuel. Their fighting ancestors, 1927.

Title: Their fighting ancestors, 1927.

The manuscript, which Hubbard wrote several years after the Doheny Scientific Expedition, further explains Hubbard's theories regarding prehistoric man in northern Arizona. The typescript includes photographs of areas in the Grand Canyon and Havasu Canyon, petroglyphs in the region, as well as the participants of the expedition and various Havasupai Indians. Also included are newspaper clippings about Hubbard's findings during the expedition as well as the findings of archaeologist John Peabody Harrington.

ArchivalResource: 79 pages, typescript, 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122446516 View

Brewster, Gilbert. Gilbert Brewster letters, 1824.

Title: Gilbert Brewster letters, 1824.

Letters to John R. Watkinson and Samuel Hubbard of Middletown, Connecticut, from Brewster of New Hartford, New York, in which they discussed the design, installation and operation of spinning machinery to make thread.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/696006992 View

Barnard, Henry, 1811-1900. Papers, 1765-1935 (bulk 1830-1899)

Title: Henry Barnard Papers 1765-1935 (Bulk: 1830-1899)

The Henry Barnard Papers of Fales Library holds a substantial portion of the manuscript materials collected and authored by Henry Barnard (1811-1900), a nineteenth century educationalist and prominent member of the Common School Reform movement. He joined with many of his era's most respected educators in advocating the improvement of public education in the United States, a pursuit which dominated his career as a scholar, orator, and politician. Barnard was particularly involved in expanding the literature describing the history, practice, and theories of education and teaching; over the course of his life he wrote extensively on these subjects and established multiple periodicals dedicated to them, including the . The collection at Fales Library is composed primarily of correspondence, much of which is of a routine business nature, but also includes some of Barnard's diaries, draft versions of articles published in his journals, and images of Barnard's correspondents. It also contains typed transcripts of Barnard's letters prepared by the donor of the collection, Will Monroe, notes regarding the genealogy of the Barnard family, clippings that discuss Barnard's life or the subject of education, and some of Monroe's own correspondence. American Journal of Education

ArchivalResource: 18 Linear Feet (12 boxes)

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/fales/barnard/barnard.html View

Miscellaneous papers, 1768-1910.

Title: Miscellaneous papers, 1768-1910.

Documents collected by Sugden concerning Gravesend residents Albert and John Terhune, Isaac Emmans, and Samuel Hubbard. Also included are the wax impression of the seal of the Kings County Surrogate; and a scrapbook of news clippings, leaflets, and drawings of Long Island, particularly Flushing, and of Brooklyn, especially Williamsburg. Some of the original drawings are by Sugden.

ArchivalResource: 7 items, 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155451604 View