General Historical Manuscripts, Documents, and Photographs 1500-1980.

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

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Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953, succeeding upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt after serving as the 34th vice president in early 1945. He implemented the Marshall Plan to rebuild the economy of Western Europe and established the Truman Doctrine and NATO to contain communist expansion. He proposed numerous liberal domestic reforms, but few were enacted by the Conservative Coalition that dominated Congres...

Owen, Robert L. (Robert Latham), 1856-1947

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Robert Latham Owen Jr. (February 2, 1856 – July 19, 1947) was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as one of the first two U.S. Senators from Oklahoma, in office from 1907 to 1925. Born in Lynchburg, Virginia, he attended private schools there and in Baltimore, Maryland before graduating from Washington and Lee University. Following graduation, Owen moved in 1879 to Salina in Indian Territory (now Salina, Oklahoma) where he was accepted as a member of the Cherok...

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

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Sherman was born in 1820 in Lancaster, Ohio, near the banks of the Hocking River. His father, Charles Robert Sherman, a successful lawyer who sat on the Ohio Supreme Court, died unexpectedly in 1829. He left his widow, Mary Hoyt Sherman, with eleven children and no inheritance. After his father's death, the nine-year-old Sherman was raised by a Lancaster neighbor and family friend, attorney Thomas Ewing, Sr., a prominent member of the Whig Party who served as senator from Ohio and as the first S...

Clark, Nathaniel, 1789-1870

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Blanchard, George S.

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Baker, George C.

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Brooklyn Republican. From the description of Letter, 1888. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155459468 ...

Lowell, John W.

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Mathews, John, -1757

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Hoyt, Thomas A. (Thomas Alexander), 1828-1903

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Captain of the barque, "Arthur;" from Beverly (Essex Co.), Mass. From the description of Papers, 1844-1905. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19851214 ...

Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964

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J. Frank Dobie was a noted Texas author and English professor at The University of Texas at Austin. He was also editor of the Texas Folklore Society's publications during the 1930's and 1940's. From the description of Letter : to W.A. Philpott, 1938 April 12. (University of Texas at Arlington). WorldCat record id: 22699684 Historian, author, folklorist. Born in 1888 on a ranch in Live Oak County, Texas, Dobie was awarded his B.A. by Southwestern University (1910), M.A. by Co...

Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547

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Conquistador and explorer. From the description of Hernán Cortés correspondence, circa 1542. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980322 Hernán Cortés led the Spanish invasion of Mexico in 1519 and the conquest of the Aztec Empire in 1521. He was governor of New Spain between 1522 and 1527 before returning to Spain and being named the Marqués del Valle de Oaxaca. Cortés returned to Mexico between 1530 and 1541 where he explored the northwestern part of Mexico and its Pacif...

Fisk, James Liberty, 1835-1902

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Fisk was born in New York of Irish extraction, the eldest of six sons of John B. and Jerusha T. Fisk. He worked as a "raftsman, farmer, carriage maker, and newspaperman" for the Daily Courier of Lafayette, Indiana. Four of his five brothers also became newspapermen. Becoming engrossed with the western frontier, he moved to White Bear Lake, Minnesota, sometime in the 1850s, married Lydia Burson, and started farming. In 1857, he was in the expedition of William H. Nobles which tried unsuccessfu...

Barrow, Clyde, 1909-1934

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Clyde Barrow was the male half of the notorious criminal duo "Bonnie and Clyde." He was born outside of Telico, Texas in 1909. In 1932 he, Bonnie Parker, and bank robber Raymond Hamilton began the series of crimes that made them national celebrities. Hamilton, who had escaped prison with the help of Barrow and Parker, left the gang in 1934 and was captured by police and convicted of murder. He was executed in 1935. Barrow and Parker were killed by law officials in 1934. From the desc...

Barry, J. Neilson (John Neilson), 1870-1961

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Born in Wilmington, N.C., 11/26/1870, son of Major Robert Peabody Barry and Julia Kean Neilson; served as an Episcopal minister in Spokane, Wash., New York City, Washington, D.C., and Baker, Or., from 1895-1913; probation officer with the police court in Spokane, Wash., 1913-1922; moved to Portland, Or., in 1922 and did historical research and writing; died 2/26/1961. From the description of Captain Clark's 1806 map of the Willamette River : made from Indian charcoal and sand maps an...

Branstetter, Winnie E.

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Kinnell, S. W.

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Warren, Earl, 1891-1974

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Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. From the description of Earl Warren papers, 1864-1974 (bulk 1953-1974). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70982564 Biographical Note 1891, May 19 Born, Los Angeles, Calif. 1912 B.A., University of California, Berkeley, Calif. ...

Putnam, Rufus W.

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Bell, James Mackintosh, 1877-1934

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Gilbert, Charles Champion, 1822-1903

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Moore, William F. (William Frederick), 1935-

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Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820

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José Francisco Correia da Serra was a Portuguese scholar, naturalist and diplomat. From the guide to the José Francisco Correia da Serra letters, 1810-1823, 1810-1823, (American Philosophical Society) English naturalist From the guide to the Sir Joseph Banks letters, 1802, 1803, 1804, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Scientist and explorer. President of the Royal Society. From the description of Letters and pa...

Potts, Thomas Delette, 1942-

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Claypool, Levi.

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Adams, John Henry.

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Abbott, Aaron, 1867-

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Caldwell, Joseph M. (Joseph Morton), 1911-

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Shaffer, Perry.

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Agou, William.

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Stewart, P. P.

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McNabb, John

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Burnham, Anna F.

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Floyd, Pretty Boy, 1904-1934

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Williams, R. L. (Randolph Lambert)

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Buehtel, Samuel S.

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Stapp, Edward M.

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Brooks, Belle

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Voth, H.R.

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For most of his life, H.R. Voth was a missionary among Native Americans for the Mennonite Church. He worked as a missionary among the Cheyenne Indians in Oklahoma from 1881 to 1893. In 1893, Voth was sent to Northern Arizona to work with the Hopi Indians by the Mission Board of the G.C. Mennonite Church. After arriving in Hopiland, according to Mennonite history, Voth was invited to the Hopi village of Oraibi by the village chief. Voth journeyed to Oraibi and decided to settle there...

Hoyt, Ellen M.

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Sprague, Edward A.

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Veasey, James Alexander.

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Maunsell, John

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Parker, Bonnie, 1910-1934

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Mills, W. S. (William Samuel), 1868-1950

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Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

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Mary Ann Lamar Cobb (1818-1889), wife of Gen. Howell Cobb (1815-1868). From the description of Letter to Mary Ann Lamar Cobb, 1888 Oct. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476494 Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) was born in Kentucky. He attended Transylvania University for a short time before enrolling at West Point in 1824, at the age of 16. He graduated in 1828 and immediately joined the First Infantry. His regiment was engaged in the Blackhawk War of 1831. In 1833, he became a...

Battenfield, John Leonard.

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Henry, Guy W.

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Thompson, Cliff

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Beeler, Joseph, 1797-1851

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Culver, J. C.

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Baker, Daniel

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Virginia carpenter (Frederick County). From the description of Letters, 1839-1858. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 31421736 Epithet: of Christ's Hospital British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000677.0x00017a ...

Vaux, Calvert, 1824-1895

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Calvert Vaux (1824-1895) was a British-born landscape architect who practiced in the U.S. He worked on the designs for the grounds of the U.S. Capitol and the Smithsonian Institution. In 1857 he began collaborating with Frederick Law Olmsted on the construction of Prospect Park in Brooklyn, N.Y., and Central, Morningside and Riverside Parks in Manhattan. They also worked on the South Park in Chicago and the state reservation at Niagara Falls, N.Y. Vaux was the landscape architect for the departm...

Davis, Garrett, 1801-1872

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Kentucky lawyer, U.S. congressman, U.S. senator. From the description of Garrett Davis : miscellaneous papers, 1844-1868. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49217330 ...

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

Moore, John William, 1928-

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