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Robert S. Edwards Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 1004
Abstract

Around 60 items, mostly manuscripts, with a bearing on the Civil War service of Lt. Robert S. Edwards of the 48th New York Infantry. Among the 45 personal letters are 14 written by Edwards and 22 directed to him by his brother and sister-in-law, Ogden and Nellie Edwards, then living in the Philippines. There are also a number of items relating to Robert Edwards's death (at Fort Wagner in Charleston Harbor) and post-mortem arrangements.

Dates: 1861-1865

Roger Ellis Professional Football Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10103
Scope and Contents Papers related to the professional football career of Roger Ellis. Materials include original contracts from the American Football League, the National Football League, and the Canadian Football League; correspondence and ephemera from his playing days from several teams including the New York Giants, New York Titans, New York Jets, the Oakland Area Football Club, the Saskatchewan Roughriders, and the Montreal Alouette. The correspondence documents the daily life of a professional football...
Dates: 1957-2008; Majority of material found within 1957-1964

Rosario Gasworks Photo Album

 Item — Box: 1
Identifier: MSH/LAT 0084
Abstract

An album of amateur photos highlighting the gasworks and city of Rosario de Santa Fé in the province of Córdoba, Argentina.

Dates: circa 1902-1908

Rose Bowl College Football Programs

 Collection
Identifier: FBC 621
Scope and Contents This collection consists of college football Rose Bowl programs. The programs typically contain pictures, articles, and statistics about the players on the teams playing in the Rose Bowl. Most programs also include pictures and information about coaches, other team personnel, and Rose Bowl administrators, data about the participating schools, and advertisements. Some programs include information about other events associated with the Rose Bowl including parades and beauty pageants. The...
Dates: 1913 - 2007

Rose given to George Bernard Shaw by Millicent “Cynthia” Stephens

 Item — Box: MSE/IR Doc CC-1
Identifier: MSE/IR 1011
Scope and Contents

An envelope containing the dried petals of a red rose. The envelope bears a notation from George Bernard Shaw "A red rose given to me by Mrs. Jas. Stephens... Mch. 7/25."

Dates: 1925-03-07

Round the World with Nellie Bly

 Item — Box: 1
Identifier: EPH 5044
Scope and Contents One board game for two to four players manufactured by McLoughlin Brothers, New York and copyrighted by J. A. Crozier. Players spin to advance pawns along a spiral-shaped course replicating the globe-circling trip accomplished by Nellie Bly. Seventy-two illustrated squares describe Bly’s location on each day of her journey. Some squares are marked with instructions that send players forward or back along the course. The first player arrive at the 73rd space, representing a return to ‘New...
Dates: Copyright: 1890

Rubén Darío Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSH/LAT 0092
Scope and Contents The Rubén Darío Collection is a collection of writings and personal materials of Rubén Darío. The majority of the collection consists of clippings written by Darío, as well as clippings written about Darío, covering a hundred-year span. Included in his personal papers are photographs, correspondence, and manuscripts. Also included in the collection is a series of research materials about Darío compiled by an unknown researcher. Significant topics include Nicaraguan poets, history, and...
Dates: 1881-1982

Rudi Holzapfel Research Collection on James Clarence Mangan

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/IR 2720
Scope and Contents The collection of Rudi Holzapfel on James Clarence Mangan includes Holzapfel’s notes, drafts, collected correspondence, publications and clippings of Mangan’s published work. Rudi Holzapfel’s bibliography, James Clarence Mangan: A Check List of Printed and Other Sources (1969), was the most complete bibliography of Mangan until Jacque Chuto’s James Clarence Mangan: A Bibliography ( 1999). Holzapfel’s work on Mangan continued over many...
Dates: 1903-1934, 1953-1979, 1990-1996, undated

Ruhleben Camp Magazine Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/MD 3829
Abstract

Two-volume scrapbook containing original drawings and text for In Ruhleben Camp (1915) and The Ruhleben Camp Magazine (1916-1917) compiled possibly for postwar publication. The satirical drawings and writings deal with life of British civilians interned in a German prisoner camp in Ruhleben, Germany. Two bound volumes of the published camp magazine accompany the scrapbook.

Dates: 1915-1917

Ruth Fay McLean Stockholm Olympic Games Photograph Album

 Item — Container: MSSP-5006
Identifier: MSSP_5006
Content Description Photograph Album with 81 photographic prints tipped in. The album inside front cover bears the name Ruth Fay McLean, but little information is known about her. The album includes 37 images taken at the Olympic Summer Games of 1912 held in Stockholm, Sweden. Among the images are portraits and action shots relating to events in tennis, gymnastics, shooting, diving, swimming, and, most notably, athletics. Some are souvenir photos (including real-photo postcards) and some are vernacular photos...
Dates: 1912

Salute! Junior Edition

 Item — Box: 1
Identifier: EPH 5052
Scope and Contents

One game manufactured by Selchow & Righter Company. Players roll dice and move pieces across a board marked to represent promotions and demotions in rank for the four United States Armed Forces: Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Corps. The player who reaches the center of the board first becomes Commander in Chief and leads the other players in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Dates: 1940

Samuel Harris Journal

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSN/COL 9100
Abstract

A manuscript journal kept by Pennsylvania native Samuel Harris from 14 October to 1 December 1774, recording the progress of a surveying party up the Susquehanna River.

Dates: 1774

Samuel Preston Journal

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 8012
Abstract

A manuscript journal of the Pennsylvania Quaker Samuel Preston, describing a 19-day trip on horseback through Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, February-March 1788.

Dates: 1788

Samuel T. Reeves Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5012
Abstract

A family correspondence of 31 items whose principal author is Sgt. Samuel T. Reeves, writing as a member of Co. C, 80th Indiana Infantry. Many of the letters date from the spring of 1865, when Reeves was convalescing at Camp Dennison, Ohio.

Dates: 1864-1870; Majority of material found in 1865

San Francisco Bay Area Football Scrapbooks Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP_1010
Scope and Contents This collection consists of 51 scrapbooks, most measuring 10.5 x 15 inches, covering primarily college and professional football in the San Francisco Bay area. The scrapbooks were compiled by an unknown person and contain clippings dating from the late 1940s and early 1950s. Sources include San Francisco and Oakland newspapers, as well as other newspapers and magazines. Clippings include game reports, new stories, images, cartoons, advertisements, and other content. Scrapbooks 1 to 10 are...
Dates: 1945-1953

Santos Family Professional Wrestling Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP10029
Scope and Contents The Santos Family Professional Wrestling Papers comprises nine boxes and one oversize box of materials collected by Tony Santos and his family relating to professional wrestling primarily from the 1950-1960s. The collection contains materials relating but not limited to subject files, correspondence, posters and promotional materials, magazines, financial information, and printing plates. Subject files primarily contain photographs and embossed mat boards used for printing and creating...
Dates: 1944-1977

Sarah Stilson Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5061
Abstract

Letters written by and to Sarah Stilson, a teacher in New York State, during the Civil War. At the heart of the group is a lively correspondence of 25 letters between Stilson and Oliver Waldo West, a Union cavalry officer.

Dates: 1861-1865

Scrapbook about the Death of Stanley Ketchel

 Item — Box: MSSP-2006
Identifier: MSSP_2006
Content Description A scrapbook of newspaper clippings about the murder of middleweight boxing champion Stanley Ketchel in Conway, Missouri, on October 15, 1910. Most clippings are annotated to indicate the source and date. The newspaper clippings derive from a large number of different American newspapers. The clippings range in date from October 15, 1910 to October 20, 1910, which was the date of Ketchel's funeral. Gilt lettering on the spine reads "Death / Stanley Ketchel / Clippings / Vol. 1 / 1910 /...
Dates: 1910

Sección Femenina del Falange Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSH/LAT 0122
Scope and Contents

The Sección Femenina del Falange Photograph Collection comprises thirty-three folders of photographs related to the Sección Femenina (SF) in the 1940s. Photographs were taken by German propaganda photographers, Bruno Wisniewski and Ege, to distribute to German audiences. Images depict SF members in classes, playing field hockey, cooking, sewing, reading materials related to Hitler, and more. Names of photographers as well as the “SS-PK” stamp are noted in verso on photographs.

Dates: Circa 1940-1941

Seymour Howard Stone Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 5016
Abstract

A group of nearly 200 personal letters from the 1880s and 90s written home to Delaware by a young man named Seymour Howard Stone. Many are from the San Luis Valley of south-central Colorado, where Stone was trying to establish a farm.

Dates: 1884-1895

Shipman Family Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5043
Abstract

A Civil War family correspondence of 19 letters occasioned by the Confederate States military service of Jesse Albert Shipman, Co. G, 1st North Carolina Cavalry. The Shipmans were from Henderson County, in the North Carolina highlands.

Dates: 1861-1864

Shriver Family Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5030
Abstract

A group of seven Civil War era letters and notes written by two members of the Shriver family of Owings Mills, Maryland. Much of the content relates to Thomas Herbert Shriver, who served at Gettysburg with the 1st Virginia Cavalry (CS) and subsequently attended the Virginia Military Institute.

Dates: 1860-1865

Sillers-Holmes Family Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5025
Abstract

A group of 18 family letters, 14 of which were written in 1862-63 by Confederate Lt. Col. William W. Sillers of the 30th North Carolina Infantry. The letters are directed to Sillers' sister, Frances Sillers Holmes, in Sampson County, North Carolina.

Dates: 1859-1864; Majority of material found in 1862-1863

Sinclair House Hotel Financial Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10015
Content Description

This collections consists of financial records for the Sinclair House hotel in Bethlehem, New Hampshire in the White Mountains. Records include four account books with details of the financial operation of the hotel with both income and expenses, and one hotel register listing financial details for individual visits by guests.

Dates: 1881-1884

S.L. Kelsall Letter

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSE/MD 3827
Scope and Contents

A letter written by British soldier S.L. Kelsall to his sister detailing his participation in WWI in September 1918. He describes the hygenic conditions of the Western Front and a battle against German forces.

Dates: 1918

Socialist Playing Cards Deck Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10168
Content Description The Socialist Playing Cards Deck Collection consists of one set of 54 socialist-themed playing cards including the standard 52 cards plus one joker and one information card. Published by the Chicago-based Charles H. Kerr Company, the cards contain images and verses critiquing capitalism and advocating socialism. Mary Marcy wrote the verses, and Ralph Chaplin drew the images that adorn the cards. Mary Marcy’s husband, Leslie H. Marcy, was also involved in designing the cards. A...
Dates: 1908-1912, 1981-1986; Majority of material found in 1908

Southy L. Savage Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5039
Abstract

A letter written on 3 May 1864 by Southy L. Savage, as a member of the Confederate States Signal Corps. Savage describes his activities over the previous months, when he was stationed along the Potomac in King George County, Virginia.

Dates: 1864

Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia Ephemera Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/REE 0040
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of political ephemera documenting the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968. Materials include broadsides and posters.

Dates: 1968

Spanish Civil War Women's Ephemera Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSH/LAT 0121
Scope and Contents The Spanish Civil War Women’s Ephemera Collection comprises 8 folders of flyers and pamphlets from Republican women’s political organizations surrounding the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Materials encourage women to vote and get involved with political women’s groups, asking women to remember their roles as mothers, domestic laborers, and proletariat workers as reasons to be active. Topics mentioned are voluntary military service, political leaders and failures, voting rights, and song...
Dates: Majority of material found within Circa 1931-1938

Sporting Goods Catalog Collection

 Collection
Identifier: EPH 5063
Scope and Contents This collection consists of catalogs advertising sporting goods and athletic products. Many items are general purpose catalogs that offer products for a wide range of athletic activities. Other specialized catalogs cover topics like outdoors recreation, fishing, playground equipment, outdoor lighting, boxing,football practice equipment, and other subjects. Most catalogs include product descriptions, pricing information, and illustrations (sometimes in color) of the products for sale....
Dates: 1881-1979

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Confederate States of America. Army of Northern Virginia 4
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New York Knickerbockers (Basketball team) 4
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New York Yankees (Football team) 4
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San Antonio Spurs (Basketball team) 4
San Diego Padres (Baseball team : National League of Professional Baseball Clubs) 4
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 4
Toronto Blue Jays (Baseball team) 4
Tunney, Gene (James Joseph), 1897-1978 4
United States. Army 4
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Dempsey, Jack, 1895-1983 3
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Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons (Basketball team) 3
Golden State Warriors (Basketball team) 3
Harvard University 3
Houston Colt 45's (Baseball team) 3
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