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Caley Family Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5024
Abstract
A collection consisting primarily of 29 Civil War manuscript letters written by Union private Charles C. Caley, during his service in Co. F, 105th Ohio Infantry.
Dates:
1862-1892; Majority of material found in 1862-1865
California-Oregon Trail Diary
Item
Identifier: MSN/EA 8014
Abstract
An 1850 overland diary recording an emigrant's passage from Dubuque, Iowa to the Salt Lake Cutoff.
Dates:
1850
Captain Francis O'Neill Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 0502
Abstract
A collection of papers relating to the donation of the personal library of Captain Francis O'Neill to the University of Notre Dame, including correspondence with the university and an inventory of O'Neill's library.
Dates:
1918-1933
Captain James Martyn Eaves Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSE/MD 6417
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the World War I papers of Captain James Martyn (J.M.) Eaves, spanning just before his service, through the war, and into post-war Occupied Europe. The collection contains five diaries in Eaves’ hand specifically detailing his day-to-day experiences in the war. In the back of the diaries, Eaves wrote notes and letter drafts, and enclosed photographs and newspaper clippings. The bulk of the collection consists of letters sent to and from Captain Eaves. The majority of the...
Dates:
undated; Majority of material found within 1915 - 1916
Cardinal Magalotti Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSE/EM 1000
Scope and Contents
Of the 214 letters in the collection, 213 are addressed to Cardinal Lorenzo Magalotti, while the final letter is addressed to Cardinal Francesco Barberini, a nephew of both Magalotti and Pope Urban VIII (Maffeo Barberini) from Carlo de’ Medici. The collection dates from 1623, from the years preceding Magalotti’s ordination as cardinal to the months preceding his death in September 1637. One hundred and seventeen letters date to the period prior to Magalotti’s appointment as Bishop of Ferrara,...
Dates:
1623-1637
Caribbean Photograph Album
Item
Identifier: MSH/LAT 0101
Scope and Contents
An early tourist's photo album of a voyage around the Caribbean, including images of Cuba, Jamaica, and Saint Thomas. Includes twenty-three original albumen photographs, with twelve flower and plant samples found on the voyage mounted on the album leaves.
Dates:
1873-01-29 - 1873-02-28
Casey-Needham Family Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 5032
Abstract
192 manuscript letters written by and to members of the Casey and Needham families of Whiting, Vermont, mostly in the 1840s and 50s. Many were written from locations in the South, where several members of the Casey family taught school.
Dates:
1839-1861
Charabanc Theatre Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSE/IR 1060
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the activities of the Charabanc Theatre Company, active from 1983-1995.The Charabanc Theatre was founded in Belfast, Northern Ireland by five actresses: Eleanor Methven, Marie Jones, Carol Scanlan (Moore), Brenda Winter, and Maureen McAuley. The company was a significant presence in Irsh theatre, and used improvisational script development in innovative ways to bring its plays to the community, as well as carrying out extensive reseaerch, interviewing community members...
Dates:
1983-2000, undated
Christopher C. McKinney Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5003
Abstract
5 personal letters written between August 1861 and February 1862 by Confederate army lieutenant Christopher C. McKinney, as regimental adjutant, 8th Tennessee infantry.
Dates:
1861-1862
Cicero R. Barker Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5040
Scope and Contents
A manuscript personal letter written from the defenses of Richmond on 1 December 1864 by Confederate soldier Cicero R. Barker, 8th North Carolina Infantry.
Dates:
1 December 1864
Cleveland Murphy papers
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 10025
Scope and Contents
This collection chiefly consists of correspondence Cleveland Murphy received while serving in the military during the 1950s and 1960s. These include letters received from family, including his mother in Indianapolis, with news of home. He also received letters from his first wife between 1952 and 1953, discussing various personal and family matters, including her father's murder trial. The bulk of correspondence is from women Murphy dated in the late 1950s and early 1960s. In addition to their...
Dates:
1952 - 1966
Comte de Langeron reports
Collection
Identifier: MSN/COL 7901
Abstract
Retained copies of official reports written in 1762-63 from the Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue by the Comte de Langeron, a French army colonel.
Dates:
1762-1763
Corkins Family Manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 8013
Abstract
Three manuscript journals and albums kept by female members of the Corkins family of Vermont and Massachusetts. Included is a personal journal of Sarah Corkins Towslee (1833-1898), describing her years as an operative in the mills of the Connecticut River Valley.
Dates:
1824-1886
Corvo/Enterprise Logbook
Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 4703-01-B
Abstract
A manuscript logbook documenting voyages of the American whalers Corvo and Enterprise, from 6 October 1840 to 17 May 1841.
Dates:
1840-1841
Cristero Rebellion Martyrs Photo Album
Item
Identifier: MSH/LAT 0086
Abstract
A collection of photographs of Cristero Rebellion (1926-1929) activists and martyrs with accompanying semi-hagiographic text describing the lives, devotion, and deaths of each individual
Dates:
circa 1926-1929
Cristero Rebellion Martyrs Postcard Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSH/LAT 0085
Abstract
A collection of postcards and photographs of Cristero Rebellion (1926-1929) martyrs. Portrait-style images of high-profile martyrs, many of whom have been canonized or beatified by the Catholic Church, predominate, though the collection also includes images of executions and funeral processions.
Dates:
circa 1926-1929
Cristina Peri Rossi Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSH/LAT 0080
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of materials forming a record of Cristina Peri Rossi's personal and professional career. Included are drafts of Peri Rossi's fiction and poetry, primarily unpublished; manuscripts and notebooks of Peri Rossi's writings; and clippings of her nonfiction wors from newspapers and magazines. There is also professional and personal correspondence, personal photographs, and academic works on Peri Rossi's writings, such as theses and dissertations. The collection also includes...
Dates:
1940-2014
Cuala Press Ephemera Collection
Collection
Identifier: EPH 5002
Abstract
A collection of cards and prints published by Cuala Press along with catalogs and related ephemera.
Dates:
1902 - 1940
Curt Flood Legal Documents Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSSP 10008
Scope and Contents
This small collection consists of legal documents and correspondence related to Curt Flood’s lawsuit, Flood v. Kuhn against Major League baseball’s reserve clause in the early 1970s. The legal documents include official court papers from the Appellate Court case in the Second Circuit of Appeals (1971) and the Supreme Court decision (1972) against Flood. The correspondence largely consists of letters to and from the law firms Arnold & Porter and Wilkie, Farr, &...
Dates:
1970 - 1971
Daniel Ruggles Report
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 2002
Scope and Contents
This report of the Confederate Brigadier General Daniel Ruggles, dated 22 October 1862, was written one day after the latter had assumed command of District One of the army's Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana. Roughly speaking, the district encompassed the eastern half of Mississippi, minus the counties on the Gulf Coast. Before the reorganization of 21 October, Ruggles had been in temporary command of the district encompassing western Mississippi, called the District of the...
Dates:
1862-10-22
David B. Arthur Diary
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 8001
Abstract
A Civil War manuscript diary kept by David B. Arthur of Grant County, Wisconsin, as 1st sergeant and 2nd lieutenant in Co. I, 20th Wisconsin Infantry. Entries range from October 1862 to June 1863, when the regiment was serving in Missouri and Arkansas.
Dates:
1862-1863
Debbie Green Civil Rights papers
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 3013
Scope and Contents
Collection consists of a typescript memoir written by folk singer Debbie Green (1940-2017) about a 1965 trip from New York City to Amite County, Mississippi to assist with Civil Rights voter registration efforts. Green describes her travel to Amite with then boyfriend Eric Andersen (1943-), also a folk singer, and Village Voice columnist Jack Newfield (1938-2004). Once they arrive, Green details work with Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) representative...
Dates:
1965 - 1971
Doe Family Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 5035
Abstract
A group of 13 manuscript letters, mostly written by Charles C. Doe to his parents. The letters, for the most part, describe a trip from New Hampshire to Janesville, Wisconsin.
Dates:
1842-1850; Majority of material found within ( 1849-1850)
Dr. George Marshall Oakden Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSE/MD 3820
Abstract
The manuscript diaries of Surgeon Lieutenant George Marshall Oakden, who served in the British Navy from 1914 to 1919, and the letters of his brother, Arthur, who died in the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915.
Dates:
1915-1917
Drumbo Soup Kitchen Daybook
Item
Identifier: MSE/IR 0100
Abstract
Daybook: a small notebook listing all the receipts and expenditures for Drumbo Soup Kitchen from December 1846 to March 1848, accompanied by a sheet of tickets for Drumbo Soup Kitchen.
Dates:
1846-1848
Durand Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSH/LAT 0002
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the personal and professional papers of members of the Durand family, including Augusto Durand and José Durand. Also included are papers of Augusto’s friend and colleague, Dr. Ricardo Flores. The collection spans from the mid-nineteenth century to José Durand’s death in 1990. Materials include correspondence, postcards, diaries, manuscripts, photographs, literary drafts, notebooks, and certificates.
Dates:
1858 - 1990
Ebenezer Garnsey Sermons
Collection
Identifier: MSN/COL 9404
Abstract
A collection of more than 40 manuscript sermons and sermon fragments of the Congregational preacher Ebenezer Garnsey (or Guernsey), written and preached in Massachusetts and Connecticut ca. 1757-1763.
Dates:
1757-1763
Ed Dorn Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 3009
Abstract
The papers consist of the correspondence and manuscripts of the poet Edward Dorn, particularly from the 1990s. The collection also includes a variety of items related to the publiction Rolling Stock, as well as manuscripts of other writers and audiocassette tapes.
Dates:
1952-2000; Majority of material found in 1987-1999
Edgeworth Family drawing album
Item
Identifier: MSE/IR 1037B
Scope and Contents
One bound volume of drawings in various media (pencil, crayon, or ink, some with watercolor washes in color or grayscale). Drawings vary from about 3 cm x 3 cm to an entire page in size. Each has been trimmed from its source and tipped in or laid down on album plates; most plates contain multiple drawings. Images range from simple studies or sketches to finished, toned drawings. Two paper cut-work silhouette images also laid in; one mounted watercolor portrait of an Asian woman in traditional...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1800 - 1806
Edward Bloodgood Battle Report
Item
Identifier: MSN/CW 2000
Scope and Contents
One of the inescapable duties of the regimental commander was the submission of reports detailing his unit's actions. This example, in clerical hand, was signed by Lt. Col. Edward Bloodgood (c1831-1914) as commanding officer of the 22nd Wisconsin Infantry. The report is dated 10 July 1864, and recounts the regiment's operations from 16 May to 10 July, during the drive on Atlanta. Throughout this period the 22nd was attached to 2nd (Coburn's) Brigade, 3rd Division, 20th Army Corps, in George...
Dates:
1864-07-10
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