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Evgeniia Ginzburg and Antonina Axenova Collection
Excursion on the Yacht Dream Photograph Album
Twenty-one mounted and captioned vernacular photographs recording the recreational cruise of the yacht Dream on Long Island Sound, 21-23 July 23-23, 1899. The participants are identified only informally and by nicknames. The images show activities on the yacht and the shoreline.
Fasola Tunebook
A manuscript songbook containing 44 songs in fa-so-la notation. Possibly of Pennsylvania origin, it appears to date from the mid to late 1790s. Most of the lyrics are from the poetry of Isaac Watts.
Fatima Aleksandrovna Salkazanova Papers
Audio recordings and papers by the radio journalist Fatima Aleksandrovna Salkazanova, who hosted news programs on Radio Liberty and Radio France International in Paris.
Flying the Beam: A Game of Aerial Transport
One game designed by Captain William J. Chapman and manufactured by Parker Brothers, Inc. Players spin and move pieces across a board marked to represent the challenges of flying a plane into an airport using only radio signals.
Frank Slocum Papers
Franklin Knowles Young Chess Papers and Boston Chess Club Records
Fred L. Steers Papers
The athletic papers and attendant printed matter of Chicagoan Fred L. Steers, deriving from his years of administrative service to the Central Association of the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States, the national AAU, and the American Olympic Committee. The collection includes substantial materials on the Olympic Games of 1928 (Amsterdam), 1932 (Los Angeles), and 1936 (Berlin), all of which Steers attended as manager of the U.S. women's track and field team.
French Funerary Materials Collection
Collection of documents relating to interment and mortuary law in early modern and modern France with a concentration on bureaucratic records from the Entreprise Générale des Inhumations of the Napoleonic era.
Friederike Deussing Papers
G. Julian Pratt Letters
Gabriela Mistral Collection
Game of a Visit to the Old Homestead
Game of Fun at the Circus
One simple race board game for two to four players, manufactured by McLoughlin Brothers, New York. Designed for younger children, players spin and advance wooden pieces along a grid of numbered squares to play. Colorful illustrations including monkeys, a clown, leaping dogs, and a tightrope walker denote squares that offer advancement or setback along the players’ route.
Game of Hunting the Tiger
One strategy-based board game for two players produced by McLoughlin Brothers. The game board consists of concentric rings of colored cells, surrounded by illustrated jungle scenes. The object of the game is to determine whether the first player’s game pieces representing a tiger and its 6 cubs, or the second player’s game pieces representing an elephant and its 6 ‘beaters’ will be first to move from the outermost ring to occupy the ‘jungle’ at the center of the board.
Gay Games Collection
Gay Rodeo Ephemera Collection
The Gay Rodeo Ephemera Collection contains printed material, ephemera, and posters related to Gay Rodeos from the 1970s through the early 21st century. The collection documents gay rodeos on the west coast, in the interior west, in the upper midwest, in the southeast, in Texas, and in New York. Formats include programs, ephemera, fliers, and posters.
Gene Tunney Family Letters Collection
Gene Tunney Papers
Gennady Barabtarlo: Correspondence with the Nabokov Family and with Alexander Asarkan
The Barabtarlo Collection consists of letters, postcards, emails, manuscripts, photographs, audiocassettes, and videocassettes. These items were collected by Gennady Barabtarlo over the course of his association with the Nabokov Family and with Alexander Asarkan.
George Colin McKee Papers
Personal, professional, and political correspondence and other papers of the Mississippi lawyer, planter, and politician George Colin McKee (1837-1890). McKee was a "carpetbagger" and moderate Republican who represented the Vicksburg district in Congress during Reconstruction. Most of the material dates from the 20 years following the Civil War, though there are McKee family papers extending into the 20th century.
George F. Kennan-John Lukacs Correspondence
The manuscript correspondence of U.S. diplomat, State Department official, and historian George F. Kennan and Hungarian-born American historian John Lukacs, ranging from 1952 to 2004. The collection includes some 360 letters.
George H. Murphy Diary
A manuscript Civil War diary of Confederate States Army lieutenant George H. Murphy, written as a member of Co. D, 23rd Virginia Cavalry. Entries extend from 1 March to 13 April 1865, and recount the author's movements up and down the Shenandoah Valley.
George Koyt Short Track Motor Racing Photographs
The George Koyt Short Track Motor Racing Photographs comprises 459 photographs of short track racetracks in the United States and Canada. The collection contains images of speedways primarily located in the Midwest, East Coast, and one in Manitoba, Canada. Photographs capture mid-race shots, signage, fans, cars, and general layout of the raceways. Some images include racers such as Jody Ridley, Patrick Gann, and Tony Weyant, among others.
George Petrie Collection
George W. Crawford Papers
The collection consists primarily of manuscript letters directed to the Georgia Whig politician George W. Crawford during the 1840s and early 1850s.
G.K. Chesterton Collection
The collection consists of manuscripts, letters, articles by Chesterton, as well as articles about him, photographs, and drawings. In addition to the material described in this finding aid, the collection also includes over 2,000 books and periodicals that have been cataloged separately.
Golden Gloves Boxing Programs Collection
Gomberg-Verzhbinskaia and Rabinowich Papers
Grace Atkinson Oliver Papers
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.