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The Ronald Wells Collection on Peace and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland
Collection
Identifier: MSE/IR 1032
Abstract
A collection of materials on peace and reconciliation in Northern Ireland, including documents relating to the work of religious organizations. The collection includes papers of a number of religious organizations. The collection includes papers of a number of religious groups that formed between 1990 and 2005 to work towards reconciliation, and also on the work of the Consultative Group on the Past. The collection includes also pamphlets and books. Most of the collection dates from 1984 to...
Dates:
circa 1979-2008
The Rough Riders: a Game
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: EPH 5050
Scope and Contents
One simple racing board game for two or four players manufactured by Parker Brothers, Salem, Massachusetts as a part of its ‘Adventure Series.’ The game’s box lid depicts Teddy Roosevelt leading the Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War in Cuba. The game board within is designed to represent the battlefield at San Juan Hill and is marked with ten possible routes from ‘camp’ to ‘victory.’ Players spin to advance wooden pawns along chosen routes. The first player to reach ‘victory’ wins...
Dates:
1900
The Silver Bullet; Or the Road to Berlin Board Game
Collection — Box: MSSP Game CC-0001
Identifier: MSSP_10091
Scope and Contents
British-made patriotic manual dexterity marble maze board game depicting the beginning of World War One and charting an imagined British and Allied military campaign to capture Berlin, the German capital . The object of the game is to maneuver a small metal ball around a recessed playing board and avoid holes distributed around the course. Players win the game by navigating the ball around the course to “Berlin” at the top of the board. The start of the course is labeled “To Berlin” with an...
Dates:
c. 1914
The Vandeleur, Gweedore, Coolgreany, Coolroe, and Clongorey evictions photograph album
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: MSE/IR 7904-1
Scope and Contents
One partially-filled photograph album consisting of 31 18 x 25 cm black and white reproduction photo prints taken by an unnamed photographer. Photos depict scenes of late 19th century Irish tenant evictions. Each has been captioned by hand in ink. The first 20 photos document scenes from the Vandeleur evictions which took place in Kilrush, County Clare. The remainder document scenes of evictions in other Irish counties. Plates depict: Soldiers and R.I.C. officers in camp; Group...
Dates:
1888 - 1900
The White Rock Copper Works Shares
Collection
Identifier: MSE/EM 3700
Scope and Contents
This collection is composed of assignments of shares (documents recording the transfer of shares or capital in a financial cooperative) in an 18th century copper smelting cooperative in Bristol and Swansea, UK. Under various names - including the Thomas Coster and Co. (1736/7-1739), the Joseph Percivall and Copper Co. (1739-1764), and the John Freeman and Copper Co. (1764-) - the merchant cooperative operated the White Rock Copper Works, a copper smelting firm in Pentrechwyth (near Swansea)....
Dates:
1737 - 1781
The Yale-Harvard Game Board Game
Collection — Box: MSSP10108 Box
Identifier: MSSP_10108
Scope and Contents
One board game for two players designed to simulate the annual Yale vs. Harvard football game. The box cover depicts about 12 players in a scrum on a football field. Players wear either blue for Yale or red for Harvard, and the cover features Harvard and Yale pennants on the top left and the top right of the box. The box also features a referee watching the action, a grandstand filled with fans, and a single goalpost.The cardboard game board depicts a football field with cheering...
Dates:
1894
Theophilus Parsons Journal
Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 8011
Abstract
The two-volume manuscript journal of the Boston littérateur and lawyer Theophilus Parsons (1797-1882), kept during his early professional years, 1819-1823.
Dates:
1819-1823
Theresa Milburn Diary
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 8021
Abstract
A manuscript diary kept during the Civil War by Theresa Milburn, a young woman living on a plantation in Avoyelles Parish in central Louisiana.
Dates:
1863-1878; Majority of material found in 1863-1865
Thomas Benton Alexander Diary
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 8003
Abstract
A short-entry Civil War manuscript diary of Confederate States soldier Thomas Benton Alexander, written as a member of the 1st Tennessee Heavy Artillery Regiment, Company B (3rd). Much of the content dates from the final year of the war, when Alexander was captured at Mobile Bay and imprisoned at Elmira, New York.
Dates:
1861-1865
Thomas Davis Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSE/IR 1001
Abstract
Manuscript drafts of verse and songs.
Dates:
circa 1838-1845
Thomas F. Mason Letters on the Cotton Trade
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5111
Abstract
Four manuscript letters addressed to New York investor Thomas F. Mason, discussing the cotton trade conducted by northern merchants with Confederate held areas along the Mississippi River during the American Civil War.
Dates:
1863-1864
Thomas Family Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5014
Abstract
A family correspondence of 51 items whose principal authors are George Thomas and his wife, Minerva Everton Thomas, of Spencer County, Indiana. Most of the letters date from 1862-1863, during George Thomas's Civil War service as quartermaster of the 53rd Indiana Infantry.
Dates:
1862-1865; Majority of material found in 1862-1863
Thomas Fitzpatrick Pacific Coast League Baseball Scorebooks
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10039
Content Description
This collection consists of 18 baseball fan scorebooks recording information about mostly Pacific Coast League (PCL) games in the 1950s and 1960s. Each of the scorebooks was commercially printed for the purpose of recording baseball statistics and were completed by hand. Some games and scorebooks are accompanied by newspaper clippings and fan newsletters. The vast majority of games involved PCL teams, with the Vancouver Mounties (an affiliate of several different Major League franchises...
Dates:
1958-1969
Thomas J. Baird Orderly Book
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSN/EA 1004-01-B
Abstract
A manuscript orderly book of 1st Lt. Thomas J. Baird of the United States Army, kept during 1818-1822 while commanding detachments of artillery at stations in New York, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, and Virginia.
Dates:
1818-1822
Thomas J. Barb Diary
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 8002
Abstract
A Civil War manuscript diary of Confederate States trooper Thomas J. Barb, written as a member of the 1st (Dobbin's) Arkansas Cavalry Regiment. Entries extend from 18 June to 11 September 1863 and include accounts of several key engagements in Arkansas, including the attack on Helena and the defense of Little Rock.
Dates:
1863
Thomas Kemp Cartmell Diary
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: MSN/CW 8018
Abstract
A personal diary maintained by Confederate veteran Thomas Kemp Cartmell, mostly during the late war years and Reconstruction, 1864-1866. The entries were written at the Cartmell family estate, "Retirement," in Frederick County, Virginia.
Dates:
1864-1872; Majority of material found in 1864-1866
Thomas Norton, Jr., New York City Recreational Sports Personal Illustrated Journal
Item — Box: MSSP7002
Identifier: MSSP_7002
Content Description
An ledger book with tipped-in illustrative material and ephemera documenting twenty different recreational outings in the area of New York City during the late 1880s and early 1890s by a group of young men. Variously identified as the Sagamore Club or the Wayandance Club, the group typically took to the waters of Long Island Sound aboard hired yachts during warmer weather; in the fall and winter they took pedestrian and hiking outings and carriage rides. The book is illustrated with...
Dates:
1887-1892
Thomas W. Cridler Louisiana Purchase Exposition Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 0510
Abstract
A collection including more than 2,500 pieces of correspondence to and from Thomas W. Cridler, mostly relating to his role as European Commissioner for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (the St. Louis World's Fair) held in St. Louis, Missouri in 1904. Some of Cridler's correspondence is with fair administrators and U.S. diplomatic figures; some is with representatives of European nations targeted for inclusion. Also in the collection are smaller accumulations of other types of fair-related...
Dates:
1898-1911; Majority of material found in 1901-1904
Tip-Top Boxing: The Manly Art of Self Defense Board Game
Collection — Box: MSSP10090 Box
Identifier: MSSP 10090
Scope and Contents
One board game for two players designed to simulate a boxing match. The metal board depicts a three-dimensional 8-inch by 8-inch boxing ring with ropes also made of metal. The game includes one metal and wood red spinning top and one metal and wood blue spinning top. Players spin the tops simultaneously, and the last top to fall wins the round. Players use wooden sticks inserted into peg holes to record the winner of each round. The game includes 12 red sticks and 8 blue...
Dates:
1922
Tom O'Flaherty Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSE/IR 1082
Abstract
A collection of papers of Tom O'Flaherty including manuscript and typescript fiction and autobiography, and letters, all apparently written from 1933 to 1935.
Dates:
1932 - 1935
Tomás de Bhaldraithe Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSE/IR 1401
Abstract
Correspondence, notes and theses from the collection of Tomás de Bhaldraithe, Irish scholar and lexicographer.
Dates:
1916 - 1990
Tommy Armour and Herb Graffis Golf Manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10031
Content Description
This collection consists of manuscript drafts of articles, columns, and a book about about golf by longtime collaborators golfer Tommy Armour (1896-1968) and sportswriter Herb Graffis (1893-1989). The bulk of the items relate to a regular golfing column titled, "Play Better Golf" that ran for many years under Armour's byline in the Chicago Tribune. In addition to typescript drafts, the materials include publication schedules and some correspondence between...
Dates:
1933; 1957-1968; Majority of material found within 1957 - 1968
Tone’s Tone’s Tone’s football board game
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: EPH 5057
Scope and Contents
One board game for any even number of players designed to simulate football game play. The board is printed in green yellow, red, and black, and marked to resemble a football field. Players spin a dial marked with numbers from 1-12. Tables on the game board indicate gains or losses correlating with each spin result. A two-sided football game piece (lost from this set) is used to track movement up and down the field. The game was played in four quarters and with points (for touchdowns, place...
Dates:
1925
Trench Football Board Game
Collection — Box: MSSP Game CC-0001
Identifier: MSSP_10092
Scope and Contents
British-made patriotic manual dexterity marble maze board game simulating trench warfare on the western front in World War One. The object of the game is to maneuver a small metal ball around a recessed playing board and avoid holes distributed around the course. Players win the game by navigating the ball around the course and into the goal which is guarded by a larger hole. Most of the holes on the course are accompanied by caricatures of German military commanders: “Little Willie”...
Dates:
c. 1915
Trinity Closet Press Collection
Collection
Identifier: EPH 5039
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of publications and printings created by The Closet Press at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. The Trinity Closet Press was a hand press run by members of the Library's Department of Early Printed Books. It was founded in 1973 by Mary M. Pollard as a teaching tool to give students and staff first-hand experience of book production methods in the hand-press period. The Press was housed in the basement of the Printing House at Trinity College and ceased operations in...
Dates:
1973-1987, 1991-1995
Tris Speaker Correspondence Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_0006
Content Description
A group of six letters written to recently resigned Cleveland Indians player-manager Tris Speaker in 1926. The correspondence expresses support in the wake of newspaper revelations that former pitcher Emil John "Dutch" Leonard had accused Speaker and Ty Cobb of fixing and betting on a game in 1919. Five of the letters are from fans, and the sixth letter is from former player George Stovall.
Dates:
1926
Truman Wheeler Day Books
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSN/COL 9300
Abstract
Three volumes of business records, mostly in day book form, of the Great Barrington, Massachusetts general merchant Truman Wheeler. The records range in date from 1764 to 1813, with an emphasis on the years prior to the Revolution.
Dates:
1764-1813
T.W. Ingersoll Sportsman’s Series Stereoview Cards Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSSP 7013
Scope and Contents
100 chromolithographed stereoscopic cards, in original box. Subjects include 82 hunting, fishing, hiking and camping scenes from locations across North America, as well as 18 scenes of Native American camp life, including images of Ojibwa, Siksika, and Lakota people. Many of the images document scenes in Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Dakotas, Montana, and the Pacific Northwest. Cards bear extended descriptions on the reverse.The cards are numbered 401 to 500, with copyright dates...
Dates:
1898-1905
Twentieth Century Fun Box and sleight of hand props
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: EPH 5058
Scope and Contents
One incomplete set of games originally issued as the ‘Twentieth Century Fun Box,’ along with unrelated game pieces and magic trick props. Games present and issued with the original ‘Fun Box’ set are: ‘Putting on the Lid’ (1 game board, 17 discs), ‘Amrest’ (1 game board), and ‘Naval Battle’ (1 game board). The ‘Fun Box’ was originally manufactured by Geo. B. Doan & Co., Chicago, and copyrighted in 1905. The ‘Twentieth Century Fun Box’ is incomplete per description on box lid....
Dates:
1905
Union Cards Playing Card Deck Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10167
Scope and Contents
The Union Cards Playing Card Deck Collection consists of one set of 52 “Union” playing cards and the original box produced by the American Card Co. of New York City in 1862. The deck of cards appealed to the patriotism of consumers in the North during the early years of the American Civil War. The publishers replaced the traditional European playing card suits and symbols with imagery associated with the United States of America. The cards substitute eagles, shields, stars, and flags in...
Dates:
1862