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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
Orange Bowl College Football Programs
Collection
Identifier: FBC622
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of college football Orange Bowl programs. The programs typically contain pictures, articles, and statistics about the players on the teams playing in the Orange Bowl. Most programs also include pictures and information about coaches, other team personnel, and Orange Bowl administrators, data about the participating schools, and advertisements. Some programs include information about other events associated with the Orange Bowl including beauty pageants and basketball...
Dates:
1940 - 2013
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
Player’s Irish Place Names Cigarette Cards
Collection
Identifier: MSE/IR 1048
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a full set of the first series of Player’s Irish Place Names Cigarette Cards. Comprising twenty-five cards, each card was illustrated by Jack B. Yeats with place names in both English and Irish. The verso of each card briefly explores the etymology and history of each place name.
Dates:
1934
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 - 2010; Majority of material found in 1945-1982
Regino Pedroso Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSH/LAT 0106
Scope and Contents
This collection includes drafts of speeches and poetry and letters written by Cuban vanguard poet, Regino Pedroso. Also included are photographs, materials about Pedroso, and a postcard to Pedroso from Langston Hughes.
Dates:
1931 - 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
Rev. Levi Ballou Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 0502
Abstract
The manuscript sermons and other personal papers of the Universalist minister Rev. Levi Ballou, who from 1843 to 1865 was settled at the First Congregational Parish and Society of Orange, Massachusetts.
Dates:
1836-1865
Reverend Bernard Schlegel Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 5026
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of letters written 1952-1956 from Bernard Schlegel to his parents while studying to be a priest at the Pontifical North American College in Vatican City. Also included are two essay drafts, a journal, pamphlets, and prayer cards marking the ordination of fellow priests.
Dates:
1949-1956
Richard C. Morgan Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5050
Abstract
A personal letter written from Columbus, Ohio on 25 August 1863 by Confederate Col. Richard C. Morgan, 14th Kentucky Cavalry, following his capture on John Hunt Morgan's Indiana-Ohio Raid. The letter is directed to sister-in-law Martha Ready Morgan, John Morgan's wife.
Dates:
25 August 1863
Richard Henry Tawney World War I Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSE/MD 6413
Scope and Contents
This collection chiefly consists of the correspondence and personal papers of Richard Henry Tawney relating to his service in World War I. Personal, government, and Army correspondence are included, as well as military and government records. Correspondence are present in the form of letters, telegrams, and postcards. Notes and hand-drawn battlefield maps are also included.
Dates:
1915 - 1945; Majority of material found within 1916 - 1918
Richard K. Fox Baseball Team (Fair Haven, New Jersey) Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSSP 10065
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 16 broadsides and advertising fliers promoting baseball games of the amateur Richard K. Fox Baseball Team during the 1909 season. The Richard K. Fox Baseball Team represented Fair Haven in Monmouth County, New Jersey. In addition to information about games and schedules, most broadsides include a picture of a player or another image related to the team, as well as humorous text about the Richard K. Fox Baseball Team, their opponents, their fans, or other topics. The...
Dates:
1909 - 1910
Richards and Lincoln Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 0510
Abstract
A collection of over 150 personal and professional letters written to, from, or between members of the Richards and Lincoln families of Massachusetts and Illinois, 1754 to 1880. Also present are 60 related documents, including manuscripts, financial records, land records, probate records, and other materials.
Dates:
1754-1880 (bulk 1792-1880)
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