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Mississippi Estate and Business Records
Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 3201
Abstract
About two-thirds of this collection consists of Hinds County, Mississippi probate records from the antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction eras, pertaining to the settlement of 12 local estates. The remainder includes miscellaneous 19th-century court and business records from elsewhere in Mississippi, and from Louisiana, Alabama, and Tennessee.
Dates:
1821-1902; Majority of material found in 1836-1872
Morris C. Foote Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 0512
Abstract
Personal and military documents of Lt. Morris Cooper Foote, 9th Infantry, United States Army, along with related Congressional documents. Included in the collection is a manuscript diary recording Foote's experiences from 1866 to 1869 in Alaska (its first 19 months as a U.S. territory) and from 1869 to 1871 in the Department of the Platte.
Dates:
1863-1881, undated
Nat Fleischer Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSSP 2003
Scope and Contents
The Fleischer collection includes professional and some personal papers of boxing writer and publisher Nat Fleischer. Most prevalent are carbon-copy typescripts of Fleischer's articles, serialized features, and books. There are manuscripts or manuscript drafts, whole or partial, relating to many of his published books, including biographies of boxers John L. Sullivan, James J. Corbett, Terry McGovern, Jack McAuliffe, Gene Tunney, and Jack Dempsey (among others). There are also manuscripts...
Dates:
circa 1910-1967
Natalia A. and Irina V. Roskina Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSE/REE 0014
Abstract
The papers consist of manuscripts, letters, and miscellaneous items of Natalia A. Roskina and of her daughter, Irina V. Roskina, as well as 50 photographs of the two women and people they knew such as: Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, and Evgenii Rein.
Dates:
1927-2013
Nathaniel Rogers Sermon Notebook
Item
Identifier: MSN/COL 9405
Abstract
A journal of sermon notes compiled by the Puritan divine Nathaniel Rogers (1598-1655), before and after his emigration from England to Massachusetts in 1636. The volume contains notes for at least 19 sermons audited by Rogers, and more than 100 composed by him.
Dates:
Circa 1635-1645
National Ideal Benefit Society (NIBS) Records
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 10024
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the activities of the National Ideal Benefit Society (NIBS), an African American insurance cooperative headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. It also contains related papers of NIBS founder A.W. Holmes. The correspondence in the collection is mostly written by African Americans, from NIBS policy holders to leaders of the African American community. There is also correspondence between A.W. Holmes and various local churches and benefit societies, national charitable and...
Dates:
1912 - 1964
National League Baseball Team Newsletters
Collection
Identifier: BAS 591
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of Major League Baseball team newsletters for National League clubs, published by their respective teams, or jointly by team and league.
Dates:
1936-1972
National League Yearbooks
Collection
Identifier: BAS 571
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of Major League Baseball team yearbooks for National League clubs.
Dates:
1946-2001
Norah Borges Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSH/LAT 0004
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the personal letters of Norah Borges. All but one letter are sent to Esther Haldo de Amorim, with one letter sent to Aurora Haldo de Haldo. Also included are four drawings by Borges, and two programs of Borges’ exhibitions. Materials include letters, postcards, drawings, and pamphlets.
Dates:
1932 - 1971
Ora W. Harvey Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5026
Abstract
A four-page letter written on 15 April 1863 by Civil War private Ora W. Harvey of the 46th Massachusetts Infantry, mostly discussing camp recreations, especially baseball.
Dates:
15 April 1863
Ostrom Stephen Lont Diary
Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 8004
Abstract
A manuscript diary for 1860 kept by a doctor named Ostrom Stephen Lont, from Mazeppa, Wabasha County, Minnesota. Accompanying the diary are around 40 unidentified carte-de-visite portrait photographs and two Lont family bibles.
Dates:
1860
Packet Ship Liverpool Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 5022
Abstract
A collection of fourteen manuscripts, mostly letters, providing first-hand accounts of the sinking of the packet ship Liverpool in the North Atlantic in July 1822. The principal author is Hewlett Townsend Coles, the ship's second officer.
Dates:
1822
Paris-Heard Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 0507
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of personal papers of members of the Paris and Heard families of Augusta and Rockingham counties, Virginia. Materials date from 1852 to 1937, with the Antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction years all represented. Included are land deeds, contracts, and militia records of James R. Paris, as well as family correspondence and photographs. The Antebellum letters are chiefly between Lucy Paris, James’s wife, and her family, while later correspondence is mainly between...
Dates:
1852-1937
Parsons-Williams Family Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSN/COL 8501
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of eleven letters and two records dating from 1757 to 1777. Six of the letters are directed to Sarah Williams (four from the years before her marriage to Parsons, one from the time of the marriage, and one from after Parsons' death). Most are from female friends or relatives. There are three letters from Joseph Parsons, Jr. to his father, mostly relating to land and debts. Two additional letters (April 1764) were provoked by the ill health of Joseph Parsons, Jr. There...
Dates:
1755-1757
Patrick McCabe Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSE/IR 2717
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the professional career of Irish writer Patrick McCabe. The majority of the collection consists of rough drafts of his drama, prose, and poetry, including some of his most popular works in film and literature, Breakfast on Pluto and The Butcher Boy. The collection also contains various ephemera and promotional materials for his published works. Also included are newspaper and magazine interviews, works of other writers, and...
Dates:
1946-2013; Majority of material found in 1980-2010
Pádraig Ó Concheanainn Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSE/IR 1083
Abstract
A collection of the papers of Pádraig Ó Concheanainn, including letters on Irish language publications and family papers.
Dates:
Majority of material found within circa 1928-1972
Peed Family Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5037
Abstract
Sixteen personal letters written by the brothers John Nathaniel Peed and James Oscar Peed, during their Civil War service in Co. I, 9th Virginia Cavalry (CS). Many of John Peed's 14 letters were written in 1864-65, from the environs of Petersburg.
Dates:
1862-1865
Peter Michelson Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 10027
Scope and Contents
This collection details the writings and activities of Peter Michelson, an American poet and professor teaching at several universities around the United States. It contains records of his professional and academic career, including articles, article drafts, and related research; poetry and related drafts; monograph manuscripts, manuscript drafts, and related materials; and teaching materials and student papers. Also included in the collection are professional and personal correspondence,...
Dates:
1967-2016
Philadelphia Chinese Social Relief Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 10028
Scope and Contents
The materials in this collection document the efforts of a very early social welfare organization in Philadelphia to aid the city’s Chinese citizens. Materials include correspondence of Edward Syle, an Episcopal missionary who worked closely with the Chinese; reports and minutes of meetings of the welfare committee; and a draft of the committee’s constitution.
Dates:
1883 - 1885
Pittsburgh Outsider Journals
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 8013
Abstract
Three idiosyncratic manuscript journals of deeply cynical leftist political commentary, written by an unidentified Irish-American resident of Pittsburgh, ca. 1922-1932. The journals treat local, national, and international affairs, contemporaneous and historical: there is much on World War I, Ireland, and American politics generally. The volumes are illustrated with some 750 drawings, many of them portraits.
Dates:
1922-1932
Police Gazette Sports Clippings Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSSP 2005
Abstract
A large disbound scrapbook of sports-related clippings, mostly pictorial, from The National Police Gazette, The Illustrated Police News, and The New York Illustrated News. Much of the material consists of engraved portraits of boxers of the 1880s and 1890s.
Dates:
circa 1883 - circa 1920; Majority of material found within ( ca. 1883-ca. 1896)
Polievktov-Nikoladze Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSE/REE 0001
Abstract
This collection derives from three generations of a prominent and historically important Russian-Georgian family. It includes personal and professional correspondence, diaries, documents, photographs, and other manuscript and print formats.
Dates:
1890s-1980s
Polish Resistance During World War II Periodicals Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSE/REE 0043
Scope and Contents
The collection contains ephemera publications produced in clandestinely operating printing shops throughout Poland during the German occupation. The collection covers a wide range of groups active in the underground from nationalist to Soviet sympathizing communists. Of particular interest are titles which were printed during the Warsaw Uprising (August 1-October 2, 1944).
Dates:
1941-1945; Majority of material found in 1943-1945
Polish Solidarnosc Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSE/REE 0041
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of political ephemera produced by Solidarity (Solidarnosc), a Polish labor union founded in 1980 at the Lenin Shipyard. It was the first trade union in a Warsaw Pact country that was not controlled by a communist party. Materials include broadsides, handbills, and pamphlets.
Dates:
1981 - 1988
Price Family Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5110
Abstract
Thirty-one personal letters written between members of the Price family of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois during the American Civil War. The letters are notable for their Copperhead and anti-abolitionist sentiments.
Dates:
1863-1865
Pugh Family Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5009
Abstract
A group of 12 letters written by the Western Pennsylvania Quakers John and Joseph Pugh during the Civil War. Included are 6 letters written by John during his service aboard the U.S.S. Quaker City, of the navy's East Gulf Blockading Squadron.
Dates:
1862-1864
Raymond E. F. Larsson Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 3000
Abstract
A collection consisting of the correspondence, writings, and drawings of the American poet Raymond E. F. Larsson (1901-1991). Also present are manuscripts by other authors, miscellaneous printed matter, and items relating to a 1983 exhibit about Larsson held in Notre Dame's Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.
Dates:
1927-1983; Majority of material found within , 1940-1960
Read Family Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5015
Abstract
A small group of papers originating with the Read family of the central Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. Included are 28 letters written by three different family members during the Civil War: Confederate States soldier Thomas Griffin Read, Co. I, 33rd Virginia Infantry (10 letters); his wife Martha White Read, of Augusta County (15 letters); and the CS artilleryman John Henry Read (3 letters).
Dates:
1850-after 1900; Majority of material found in 1861-1865
Red Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSSP 10061
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the professional and personal papers of Pulitzer Prize-winning sports columnist Walter Wellesley “Red” Smith. It includes: Smith's clipped copies of his printed columns, mostly 1954-1982; newspapers and magazines with pieces by or about Smith; clipped columns of Stanley Woodward and Joe H. Palmer; manuscripts and/or proofs of several of Smith's books; an accumulation of around 125 manuscript letters preserved by Smith, including examples signed by Melvin Belli, Bing...
Dates:
1888 - 1982; Majority of material found in 1945-1982
Research Files of María A. Díaz de Guerra
Collection
Identifier: MSH/LAT 0088
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the activities of María A. Díaz de Guerra--a Uruguayan historian--in her research on the city of Maldonado, Uruguay, the surrounding region, its inhabitants and public services such as libraries and schools. It contains administrative records of the city of Maldonado, including reports, committee proceedings, invoices, and publications; Diaz’s notes and compiled research files; correspondence of both Diaz and citizens of Maldonado; and articles by Diaz or about...
Dates:
1777-1809, 1824-2010
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