Showing Collections: 121 - 150 of 309
James Stephens Letter and Poem
Collection
Identifier: MSE/IR 1012
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a single letter sent from James Stephens to a woman named Nan, as well as a poem, “Optimist,” by Stephens.
Dates:
1925
James Witter Nicholson Family Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 5002
Scope and Contents
The collection contains two discrete series of letters. The larger and more significant consists of 51 letters sent to James Witter Nicholson in New Geneva, distributed rather evenly over the years 1804 to 1842. Thirty-nine of these were written by James's sister Maria Nicholson Montgomery, and nine more by his sisters Catharine Nicholson Few (7) and Jehoiadden Nicholson Chrystie (2). These are personal letters, written first and foremost to maintain contact with a distant brother who made only...
Dates:
1804-1848
Jesús González Ortega Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 0508
Abstract
A collection of letters and other papers belonging to Jesús González Ortega, an important political and military figure in mid-19th century Mexico. The papers mainly relate to González Ortega's stay in the United States in 1865-1867, the efforts of Benito Juárez's government in Mexico to remove him from political office while he was away, and his detainment by the U.S. government in November 1866.
Dates:
1857-1866; Majority of material found in 1865-1866
Jim Newton Collection on Pete Rose
Collection
Identifier: MSSP 0017
Abstract
A collection of materials on the Pete Rose gambling investigation of 1989, assembled by journalist Jim Newton of the Fort Hamilton (OH) Press. The collection consists primarily of photocopied documents and news clips. Included is a copy of the Dowd Report (Major League Baseball's investigation into Rose's activities) with its many attendant volumes of exhibits.
Dates:
1978-1990; Majority of material found in 1989
John and Sarah McMahon Journals
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 8006
Abstract
A group of seven manuscript volumes, mostly personal journals, kept by Methodist Episcopal clergyman John T. McMahon and his wife Sarah Douglas McMahon. Much of the content dates from the couple's years working at the Church's North India Mission, 1871-1897.
Dates:
1865-1897
John Bennett Shaw Collection of Printed Ephemera for Modern Authors
Collection
Identifier: EPH 5015
Abstract
Collection consists of programs, playbills, proof copy, publication announcements, press releases, and other ephemera. The authors in the collection are primarily 20th-century British and American writers. The collection also includes many single-issue journals, quite frequently the place where a story or poem was first published.
Dates:
1897-1986; Majority of material found in 1900-1970s
John Curtice Diary
Collection
Identifier: MSN/COL 9101-01-B
Abstract
An eighteenth-century manuscript copy of a diary kept by Capt. John Curtice of the Massachusetts militia in 1745-1745/6, during the siege and occupation of the French fortress of Louisbourg.
Dates:
1745-1746
John Dinsmore, Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 0503
Abstract
The personal papers and court records of the New Hampshire farmer, innkeeper, and justice of the peace John Dinsmore, Jr. (1759-1814). The greater part of the collection consists of Rockingham County court records.
Dates:
1782-circa 1920; Majority of material found within 1782-1822
John E. and Elizabeth Savage Brownlee Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 0504
Abstract
Around 80 manuscripts retained by John E. and Elizabeth Savage Brownlee in the decades following their emigration from Ireland to the United States in 1851. The greater number are personal letters written by family members.
Dates:
1852-1898
John F. Delaney Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 5004
Abstract
A group of 38 manuscript personal letters of John F. Delaney, chronicling his experiences as a gold prospector in the Yukon and Alaska, 1898-1899.
Dates:
1898-1899
John Kelly Temperance Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 5042
Abstract
A single manuscript letter from John Kelly, a Catholic priest, to an unnamed Protestant clergyman and the Chairman of the local Clerical Meeting, 1837 or 1838. Kelly explains why Catholic clergy generally remain aloof from temperance societies.
Dates:
1837 or 1838
John M. Jackson Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5017
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 44 letters from John M. Jackson to his family during the Civil War. With one exception, the letters in this group were addressed to members of Jackson's immediate family — most commonly, to his mother or sisters. The four earliest (September and October 1862) were written from Camp Abraham Lincoln in Portland, Maine, where the 23rd Maine was organized. There follow 12 letters (11 dated from October 1862 to April 1863, and one without date) written from the Potomac...
Dates:
1862-1864
John Matthias Collection
Collection
Identifier: EPH 5026
Abstract
The materials include small press poetry, criticism, and miscellaneous literary and art publications from the UK, the USA, and Scandinavia assembled by John Matthias (1941-), a prominent American poet, critic, translator, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame.
Dates:
1959-2013
John Thelwall Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSE/MD 3811
Abstract
The bulk of this collection is a group of eight manuscript letters from John Thelwall, British poet and reformer (1764-1834), to Thomas Hardy, one of the main proponents for parliamentary reform (1752-1832).
Dates:
1796-1799, 1803, 1805, 1821
Johnny Evers Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSSP 0015
Abstract
A small collection of manuscripts, photographs, printed matter, and realia belonging to Hall of Fame second baseman Johnny Evers (1881-1947). Much of the material relates to the exhibition games played in Europe in 1924 by the New York Giants and Chicago White Sox, a series in which Evers participated as White Sox manager.
Dates:
1906-1976
Jorge Luis Borges Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSH/LAT 0003
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the activities of Jorge Luis Borges an Argentine writer and poet. It contains ephemera and records related to Borges’ professional career, including newspaper articles, a cigarette holder, interviews, poetry, unpublished manuscripts, and scholarly articles written about Borges and published in various magazines, including the Avant Garde magazine Martín Fierro (1924-1927). Significant topics represented in these files are poetry and Latin American literature and...
Dates:
1924-2003
Joseph C. Audenried Journal
Item
Identifier: MSN/MN 8004-01-B
Abstract
A manuscript journal of some 60,000 words kept by Col. Joseph C. Audenried of the U. S. Army during Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's 10-month tour of Europe and the Middle East in 1871-1872.
Dates:
1871-1872
Julia P. Brown Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSE/MD 3825
Abstract
A collection of letters addressed to Julia Pomeroy Brown from three women: Constance L., Emily Drummond, and Elizabeth Spooner. Letters detail life during WWI, the sinking of the Lusitania, and the death of a British soldier.
Dates:
1914-1918
Jutta Schütt Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSE/MD 3826
Abstract
A series of documents and letters from Jutta Schütt, Rose Elvira Grandinetti, Nicholas Emerson Dante Russo, and others, beginning in July 1916 and ending in July 1939.
Dates:
1916 - 1939
Kaletta Statuary Company Drawings
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 9201
Abstract
A collection of architectural drawings and blueprints of church furnishings, created by the Kaletta Statuary Company of St. Louis, Missouri.
Dates:
ca. 1915-1944
Larry Fink Photographs from the Boxing Series Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSSP 10066
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 22 photographs by Larry Fink from his boxing series, The gelatin silver print photographs document several levels of the sport of boxing from 1990 through 1993. Many images capture aspiring boxers and their handlers at local and regional boxing gyms in the Philadelphia area like Champs Gym and the Blue Horizon Gym. Two photographs document the heavyweight championship boxing match between Mike Tyson and Donovan “Razor” Ruddock in Las Vegas in March 1991. One image...
Dates:
1990 - 1993
Latinx Ephemera Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSH/LAT 0099
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of twentieth-century ephemera relating to Latinx culture. Significant topics represented in the ephemera include migrant laborers, César Chávez, and grape boycotts; Mexican-American socio-economic conditions, education, civil rights, and employment; illegal immigration; feminism; and Latin-American and Mexican culture, including art, history, politics, and literature. Materials include pamphlets, reports, dissertations, journal articles, magazines, and newspapers.
Dates:
undated; Majority of material found within 1966 - 1999
Lawrence Shields Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 5021
Abstract
More than 300 personal letters written by Dr. Lawrence Shields (1872-1946), mostly as a member of the American expatriate community in Mexico City, 1898 to 1902. The letters are directed to Shields's future wife, Clara Kinney, of Xenia, Ohio.
Dates:
1898-1903
Le Rossignol Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSE/MD 3821
Abstract
A collection of personal letters written by Arthur Le Rossignol to his sister, Ethel, while he served in the British Motor Machine Gun Corps on the Western Front during World War I. Also included are letters written by Ethel, her colleague Pierre Pulinekse, and others.
Dates:
1914-1919
League Parlor Baseball Game
Item
Identifier: EPH 5054
Scope and Contents
Baseball board game with abacus-style scorekeeping system. Pieces missing.
Dates:
circa 1884
Leibee Family Photo Album
Item
Identifier: MSH/LAT 0081
Abstract
A photo album documenting a trip to Cuba and Puerto Rico taken by members of the Leibee family, including H.P. Leibee, of Middletown, Ohio, shortly after the Spanish-American War.
Dates:
circa 1899
Lenore Mooney Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 0500
Abstract
The correspondence and other papers of the American Lenore Mooney (1859-1941), dating especially from her time as a relief worker in Paris during World War I. There are many letters to Mooney from French soldiers and others victimized by the war, as well as a substantial correspondence with nephew Charles E. Bayly, Jr., an ambulance driver with the American Field Service who subsequently served as sous-lieutenant in the French army.
Dates:
1887-1938; Majority of material found in ( 1917-1919)
Leonard Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 1000
Abstract
Manuscripts and other materials relating to the Confederate army service of the brothers Henry, Martin, Robert, and Joseph Leonard, of Iredell County, North Carolina, including records of Co. C, 48th North Carolina Infantry.
Dates:
1862-after 1865; Majority of material found in 1862-1865
Leonard Williams Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5068
Scope and Contents
Of the 127 letters in the collection, 115 were written by Leonard Williams to his wife Anna Laval Williams during the Civil War. These letters range in date from 18-19 July 1861 to 11 February 1865, and provide a literate, lengthy, and relatively continuous epistolary narrative of Williams's wartime experiences. The letters also stand as one side of an ongoing dialogue with Anna on managing the Greenville household and farm, including the slaves. (During the war the mercantile store was...
Dates:
1861-1865
Liam Creagh Collection on Brendan Behan
Collection
Identifier: MSE/IR 1070
Abstract
Correspondence and ephemera relating to Brendan Behan.
Dates:
1958-1971
Filtered By
- Language: English X
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Letters (correspondence) 121
- Manuscripts (documents) 60
- Clippings (information artifacts) 44
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Correspondence 37
- Correspondence 36
- Photographs 34
- Diaries 27
- Pamphlets 23
- Ephemera (general object genre) 22
- Postcards 22
- Programs (documents) 19
- Black-and-white photographs 17
- Electronic records (digital records) 17
- Board games (game sets) 15
- Journals (accounts) 14
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 14
- Articles 13
- Drawings (visual works) 13
- Game pieces (game elements) 13
- Gameboards (board game elements) 13 ∧ less
- Language
- French 12
- Spanish; Castilian 10
- Italian 6
- German 5
- Russian 5
- Irish 3
- Portuguese 2
- Catalan; Valencian 1
- Chinese 1
- Danish 1
- Dutch; Flemish 1
- Latin 1
- Polish 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Major League Baseball (Organization) 6
- McLoughlin Bros. 6
- United States. Navy 5
- American League of Professional Baseball Clubs 4
- Boston Braves (Baseball team) 4
- Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) 4
- Chicago Cubs (Baseball team) 4
- Chicago White Sox (Baseball team) 4
- Cincinnati Reds (Baseball team) 4
- Confederate States of America. Army of Northern Virginia 4
- National League of Professional Baseball Clubs 4
- New York Yankees (Baseball team) 4
- San Francisco Giants (Baseball team) 4
- Baltimore Orioles (Baseball team) 3
- Boston Red Sox (Baseball team) 3
- Cleveland Indians (Baseball team) 3
- Detroit Tigers (Baseball team) 3
- Los Angeles Dodgers (Baseball team) 3
- Milwaukee Brewers (Baseball team) 3
- Minnesota Twins (Baseball team) 3 ∧ less
∨ more
∨ more
∨ more