Phillips and Myers family papers, 1804-1928 (bulk 1862-1900).

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Phillips and Myers family papers, 1804-1928 (bulk 1862-1900).

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The collection includes business papers of Philip Phillips; correspondence and a journal dealing with Mrs. Phillips's imprisonment for abetting the southern cause, by order of General Benjamin F. Butler, at Ship Island in the Gulf of Mexico in 1862; correspondence of William H. Phillips regarding the Yellowstone National Park; journals, including one of Fanny Cohen Taylor about Sherman's occupation of Savannah; and a scrapbook. Correspondents include George Kennan (1845-1924), Siberian traveler and writer; Tati Salmon, planter, government official, and chief of a Tahitian clan, describing the customs and politics of Tahiti; and prominent jurists who wrote concerning the legal writings of P. Lee Phillips and William H. Phillips. Also included is correspondence of P. Lee Phillips concerning maps, mapping, and geographical questions related to the map collection at the Library of Congress.

ca. 1,400 items (2.5 linear feet)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7120659

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Phillips, P. (Philip), 1807-1884

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Philip Phillips (December 13, 1807 – January 14, 1884) was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Alabama's 1st congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1853 to 1855. He was the first Jewish American elected to the House from Alabama. Born in Charleston, South Carolina and educated at the Middletown Military Academy in Middletown, Connecticut, he returned to Charleston in 1825, where he studied law. After being admitted to t...

Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division

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Maps and atlases were among the first items acquired when the Library of Congress was established in 1800. It was not until 1897, however, when the Library of Congress moved into its own building, that a separate Hall of Maps and Charts was created to house the growing collection of 47,000 maps and 1,200 atlases. The division now occupies an area of 90,000 square feet in the Library's James Madison Memorial Building. The area is specifically designed and constructed to accommodate a variety of c...

Myers family.

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Phillips, Eugenia Levy, 1819-1901.

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Taylor, Fanny Cohen.

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Levy family.

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Phillips family.

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Salmon, Tati, 1852-1918

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Phillips, W. Hallett (William Hallett), 1853-1897

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Kennan, George, 1845-1924

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Noted traveler, lecturer, and investigative reporter. Born in Norwalk, Ohio on 16 Feb. 1845; died at Medina, N.Y. on 10 May 1924. From the description of John Henderson, artist : a psychological study, [between 1900 and 1920]. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 74336703 American journalist. From the description of George Kennan letters, 1888-1892 [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647812360 From the description of Auto...

Phillips, Philip Lee, 1857-1924

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Cartographer, and Chief Director of Maps, Library of Congress. From the description of Papers of Philip Lee Phillips, 1885-1921. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 76784784 ...