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Grace Atkinson Oliver Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 0514
Scope and Contents

This collection of papers consists of materials created by Grace Atkinson Oliver, a 19th century American author and advocate of women's rights. Notable topics discussed in the papers include the portrayal of women in literature, morality and the press, taxation and the conditions at Danvers Asylum in Massachusetts.

Dates: 1861-1897

Graves Family Shipping Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 0506
Scope and Contents The collection consists primarily of business letters and records retained by William Graves, Jr., in the course of managing his shipping interests after his retirement from the sea (1847). There are some 330 letters, 1850 to 1875, mostly directed to Graves (accompanied by a few retained copies of letters written by him). Much of this correspondence relates to the affairs of the ships George West, Castilian, and Josiah L. Hale. Many were written by the masters of these ships, who functioned...
Dates: 1812-1877; Majority of material found in 1850-1875

Green Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 0508
Abstract

Family correspondence and other manuscript materials of the influential Green family of Worcester, Massachusetts, and New York. Of the 200-odd letters in the collection, the greater number were written by and to the ten children of Dr. John Green and Mary Ruggles in the 1790s, 1800s, and 1810s.

Dates: 1773-1937

H. H. Wiseman Diary

 Item
Identifier: MSN/CW 8022
Abstract

A manuscript diary maintained by Confederate States Pvt. H. H. Wiseman, Co. B, 1st Tennessee Heavy Artillery, recounting Wiseman's experiences in Union prison camps at Governors Island and Elmira, New York in 1864-1865.

Dates: 1864 August-1865 February

Harlem Globetrotters Collection

 Collection
Identifier: BKP 670
Scope and Contents This collection consists chiefly of printed and graphic materials related to the Harlem Globetrotters professional basketball team, including programs, yearbooks, promotional material, and publicity photos. The programs document games between the Globetrotters and various professional basketball teams. The earliest program is from 1941 and the latest program is from 1969. The collection also includes programs from the World Series of Basketball, an annual series of games during the 1950s and...
Dates: 1941-1976

Harley L. McDevitt Inquisition Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSH/LAT 0090
Scope and Contents This collection contains documents relating to the Inquisitions of Spain, Italy, Portugal, Peru, and Mexico. Included are manuals and guidelines on proper conduct within the inquisition; accounts of trial procedures, prisoner sentences, and autos de fe; and certificates and books of privileges of the staff of the inquisitions. Also included are public edicts, papal bulls, and royal decrees published by various inquisitions relating to banned works, jurisdiction of the different inquisitions,...
Dates: circa 1500-1859

Harrison E. Randall Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5013
Abstract

77 Civil War letters of Harrison E. Randall of Fulton County, Ohio, written from the field as a member of Co. H, 100th Ohio Infantry. Most were written from Kentucky (September 1862 to August 1863), Georgia, during the Atlanta campaign (June to August 1864), Alabama and Tennessee, including letters from the Nashville campaign (October 1864 to January 1865) and North Carolina (March and April 1865).

Dates: 1862-1865

Hattie Aiken Robinson Family Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 5017
Abstract

A group of 33 letters recording the personal affairs of a Depression-era African-American family. The letters are directed to Mrs. Hattie Aiken Robinson of Texarkana, Arkansas, by family members in Arkansas, St. Louis, and Chicago.

Dates: 1934-1936

Havas French Press Telegram Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/MD 1903
Abstract

Collection of printed telegrams and manuscript revisions of the French Havas news agency. Telegrams focus on Spanish citizens and refugees during the Spanish Civil War in Spain, Mexico, and South America.

Dates: 1936-1946; Majority of material found in 1936-1938

Henry H. Maley Letters

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Identifier: MSN/CW 5023
Abstract

A group of 50 personal letters written during the Civil War by Union private Henry H. Maley, Co. K, 84th Illinois Infantry. Most of the letters date from 1864-65, when the regiment was attached to IV Corps, in the Army of the Cumberland.

Dates: 1862-1865; Majority of material found in 1864-1865

Henry S. Figures Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5001
Scope and Contents Letter from Henry S. Figures, a young Alabama salesman, to his father. Much of the letter's content treats the military plans and aspirations of Figures' acquaintances, as the Confederacy hastened to mold existing state militias and fresh volunteers into a national army. Many of those mentioned would serve with Figures in the 4th Alabama: Clifton Walker, Samuel Moore, and Fielding Bradford all were privates in Company I, and William Fariss, like Figures, served in Company F. The regiment had...
Dates: 1861 May 9

Herbert Benezet Tyson Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5010
Abstract

A group of 5 letters written by naval lieutenant Herbert Benezet Tyson of the U.S.S. Connecticut, during that ship's cruise to and around the Caribbean in winter/spring 1865.

Dates: 1865

Hildegard Sekler Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/MD 6408
Scope and Contents This collection contains the correspondence of Hildegard Sekler as well as Sekler family legal, professional and emigration documents and miscellanea. The core of the collection is personal correspondence to Hildegard Sekler in London, from her parents and Liatowisch, and letters concerning Hildegard's studies from Goller.Several themes of special note occur throughout the collection. These include discussions of conditions for Jewish people in Vienna in the late 1930s and early...
Dates: 1903 - 1972; Majority of material found within 1939 - 1945

Houghton Family Correspondence

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Identifier: MSN/EA 5036
Abstract

A group of 76 letters written by or to members of the William and Marilla Clay Houghton family of Vermont, Massachusetts, Alabama, and elsewhere, 1832-1850. Included are 43 letters directed to printer/publisher Henry Oscar Houghton, when the latter was in his teens and 20s.

Dates: 1832-1850

Hugo Achugar Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSH/LAT 0091
Scope and Contents This collection documents the activities of Hugo Achugar. It contains records of Achugar's professional and academic career, including articles and article drafts; notes; lecture materials; poetry; conference materials; research files; notebooks; calendars; and Achugar's personal library. Also included with the collection are correspondence, photographs, and Achugar's own collegiate coursework. Significant topics represented in these files are poetry; Blanca Luz Brum (1905-1985); and Latin...
Dates: 1933, 1957, 1961-1964, 1969, 1973-2016

Humphrey M. Barbour World War I Scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 0506
Abstract

A four-volume illustrated memoir, in scrapbook form, of the World War I military service of Humphrey M. Barbour, an artillery officer in the American Army's 42nd (Rainbow) Division. In addition to a 220-page typescript memoir the volumes contain close to 1000 photographic prints, postcards, published halftones, maps, manuscript military records, and drawings relating to Barbour's service, 1917 to 1919.

Dates: 1917-1919

Huntly Carter Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/MN 5000
Abstract

The personal papers and research materials of the English theater and art critic Huntly Carter (1862-1942). The greater part of the collection consists of correspondence, printed ephemera, and photographs, many collected by Carter in interwar Germany and Russia as part of his research on the fine arts.

Dates: 1918-circa 1938; Majority of material found in 1925-1938

Indiana University School of Fine Arts Artists' Books Collection

 Collection
Identifier: EPH 5006
Scope and Contents

A collection of 67 artists' books created under the direction of Thomas (Tom) Coleman, Professor Emeritus at Indiana University School of Fine Arts. Several of the books were created in homage to Bradbury Thompson, who for many years was a visiting critic and visiting professor at the Yale University School of Art and Architecture and was a teacher of Tom Coleman.

Dates: 1972-1996

International Women's Professional Softball Association Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP 10076
Scope and Contents The collection consists of material related to the International Women’s Professional Softball Association (IWPSA) during the league’s existence from 1976-1979. The collection contains printed material by and about the IWPSA and its member teams, including media guides, programs, yearbooks, and brochures. The team yearbooks and programs typically contain pictures, biographies, articles, and statistics about the players and the teams in the league. The yearbooks and programs also include...
Dates: 1976 - 1979

Irena S. Verblovskaia and Revolt I. Pimenov Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/REE 0018
Abstract

Personal correspondence between Irena S. Verblovskaia and her first husband Revolt I. Pimenov, who was one of the founders of the dissident movement in the Soviet Union, written during their imprisonment for "anti-Soviet" activities (1958-1963).

Dates: 1957-2014

Irish Broadside Ballads

 Collection
Identifier: BPP_1001
Scope and Contents

Collection consists of over 600 broadsides, most measuring 28 x 11 1/2 cm. Broadsides were printed and sold in streets and at fairs and markets from the early days of printing, often by ballad singers.

Dates: 1790-1890

Irish Fiscal Reform League Ephemera Collection

 Collection
Identifier: EPH 5028
Abstract

A small collection of materials relating to tariff reform in Ireland in 1910.

Dates: 1910

Irish Theatre Program Collection

 Collection
Identifier: EPH 5032
Scope and Contents

This artificial collection consists of theatre programs, totaling approximately 600 items, created by theatres and theatre companies throughout Ireland. Materials include programs, black-and-white photographs, and pamphlets.

Dates: 1899, 1904-2000, 2015, undated

Isaac Ira White Letter

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Identifier: MSN/CW 5031
Abstract

A personal letter written on 9 April 1864 by Confederate corporal Isaac Ira White, Co. H, 11th Virginia Cavalry, from camp in Rockbridge County, Virginia.

Dates: 1864

Jack Benny Program scripts

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 3008
Abstract

A collection of about 600 Jack Benny Program radio and television scripts, 1943 to 1965. The typescripts are original working copies of George M. Balzer, one of Benny's writers.

Dates: 1943-1965

Jack Gamble Collection of Liam Miller and Dolmen Press

 Collection
Identifier: EPH 5010
Content Description The collection contains chapbooks, pamphlets, catalogues, and specimen pages, letters and other material related to the Dolmen Press. The collection was assembled by Jack Gamble of Belfast, and is largely composed of personal copies belonging to Liam Miller, founder and owner of the Dolmen Press. The collection includes finely-printed chapbooks and pamphlets published by the Dolmen Press as well as many catalogs and informational printed papers on the books of Dolmen Press and Cuala Press....
Dates: 1950-1986

Jack Level Presidents Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP 5005
Abstract

Manuscript drafts and research materials for the unpublished book Sports and Pastimes of the Presidents, by Jack Level of Elmhurst, New York.

Dates: 1860-1968

Jack Pfefer Wrestling Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS/PFEFER
Scope and Contents The Jack Pfefer Wrestling Collection comprises more than 120 cubic feet of materials accumulated by Pfefer over a 45-year promotional and managerial career in professional wrestling, 1924-1969. Types of materials especially well represented include business and financial records; letters and telegrams; photographs; posters, handbills, and other publicity graphics; newspaper and magazine clippings; and wrestling programs and periodicals. Pfefer himself referred to these items, with...
Dates: Majority of material found in 1924-1969; 1913-1974, 1999-2000, 2018

Jackson Family Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5067
Abstract

A group of around 60 manuscript personal letters, almost all written by and/or to members of the Jackson family of Moore County, North Carolina before and during the Civil War. The collection includes letters of eleven Confederate States soldiers, serving in the 26th or 30th North Carolina Infantry or the 2nd North Carolina Cavalry.

Dates: 1852-ca.1866

Jacob P. Russel Diary

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Identifier: MSN/EA 8003-01-B
Abstract

A manuscript diary kept by a young Philadelphia drug store worker named Jacob Russel, from October 1857 to February 1859.

Dates: 1857 - 1859

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