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Salute! Junior Edition
Item
Identifier: EPH 5052
Scope and Contents
One game manufactured by Selchow & Righter Company. Players roll dice and move pieces across a board marked to represent promotions and demotions in rank for the four United States Armed Forces: Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Corps. The player who reaches the center of the board first becomes Commander in Chief and leads the other players in the Pledge of Allegiance.
Dates:
1940
Samuel Harris Journal
Collection
Identifier: MSN/COL 9100
Abstract
A manuscript journal kept by Pennsylvania native Samuel Harris from 14 October to 1 December 1774, recording the progress of a surveying party up the Susquehanna River.
Dates:
1774
Samuel Preston Journal
Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 8012
Abstract
A manuscript journal of the Pennsylvania Quaker Samuel Preston, describing a 19-day trip on horseback through Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, February-March 1788.
Dates:
1788
Samuel T. Reeves Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5012
Abstract
A family correspondence of 31 items whose principal author is Sgt. Samuel T. Reeves, writing as a member of Co. C, 80th Indiana Infantry. Many of the letters date from the spring of 1865, when Reeves was convalescing at Camp Dennison, Ohio.
Dates:
1864-1870; Majority of material found in 1865
Sarah Stilson Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5061
Abstract
Letters written by and to Sarah Stilson, a teacher in New York State, during the Civil War. At the heart of the group is a lively correspondence of 25 letters between Stilson and Oliver Waldo West, a Union cavalry officer.
Dates:
1861-1865
Seymour Howard Stone Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 5016
Abstract
A group of nearly 200 personal letters from the 1880s and 90s written home to Delaware by a young man named Seymour Howard Stone. Many are from the San Luis Valley of south-central Colorado, where Stone was trying to establish a farm.
Dates:
1884-1895
Shipman Family Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5043
Abstract
A Civil War family correspondence of 19 letters occasioned by the Confederate States military service of Jesse Albert Shipman, Co. G, 1st North Carolina Cavalry. The Shipmans were from Henderson County, in the North Carolina highlands.
Dates:
1861-1864
Shriver Family Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5030
Abstract
A group of seven Civil War era letters and notes written by two members of the Shriver family of Owings Mills, Maryland. Much of the content relates to Thomas Herbert Shriver, who served at Gettysburg with the 1st Virginia Cavalry (CS) and subsequently attended the Virginia Military Institute.
Dates:
1860-1865
Sillers-Holmes Family Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5025
Abstract
A group of 18 family letters, 14 of which were written in 1862-63 by Confederate Lt. Col. William W. Sillers of the 30th North Carolina Infantry. The letters are directed to Sillers' sister, Frances Sillers Holmes, in Sampson County, North Carolina.
Dates:
1859-1864; Majority of material found in 1862-1863
S.L. Kelsall Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSE/MD 3827
Scope and Contents
A letter written by British soldier S.L. Kelsall to his sister detailing his participation in WWI in September 1918. He describes the hygenic conditions of the Western Front and a battle against German forces.
Dates:
1918
Southy L. Savage Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5039
Abstract
A letter written on 3 May 1864 by Southy L. Savage, as a member of the Confederate States Signal Corps. Savage describes his activities over the previous months, when he was stationed along the Potomac in King George County, Virginia.
Dates:
1864
Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia Ephemera Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSE/REE 0040
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of political ephemera documenting the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968. Materials include broadsides and posters.
Dates:
1968
Sporting Goods Catalog Collection
Collection
Identifier: EPH 5063
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of catalogs advertising sporting goods and athletic products. Many items are general purpose catalogs that offer products for a wide range of athletic activities. Other specialized catalogs cover topics like outdoors recreation, fishing, playground equipment, outdoor lighting, boxing,football practice equipment, and other subjects. Most catalogs include product descriptions, pricing information, and illustrations (sometimes in color) of the products for sale. Catalogs...
Dates:
1895-1979
Stanley Weston Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSSP 10062
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the personal and professional papers of Stanley Weston, sportswriter and owner of The Ring Magazine. The bulk of the collection is a series of subject files assembled by Weston on over two thousand boxers and boxing-related subjects. Also included is an incomplete run of clippings on boxers from the 1950s. Weston’s papers also include research files on various sports, articles he authored, and magazine covers he designed. Finally, also included...
Dates:
1883 - 2003
Stephen and Peter T. Curran Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 10010
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of six letters sent to Stephen Curran and his son, Peter T. Curran, in the seven decades following Stephen’s emigration from County Galway, Ireland to the United States. The correspondence consist of two letters to Stephen from his father, Peter Curran, and two from Stephen’s nieces, all sent from Kilkerrin, County Galway, Ireland. The final two letters are written to Stephen’s son, Peter T. Curran, in Kinsley, Kansas, from nieces in Chicago. Also included are a United...
Dates:
1855 - 1916
Strunsky-Walling Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 0509
Abstract
A collection of personal papers of the "millionaire socialists" Anna Strunsky Walling and William English Walling and their family, mostly dating from the 1920s and 30s. Included are more than 500 letters to, from, and between Strunsky-Walling family members, and two diaries of Anna Strunsky Walling.
Dates:
1906-1967; Majority of material found in ( 1925-1937)
Suspenders Manuscript
Item
Identifier: MSN/MN 9205
Abstract
A homemade pamphlet with eight pages of elaborate pencil illustrations and accompanying verse, telling a moralizing tale of a young man's search for a new pair of suspenders.
Dates:
1872
Swansea Town Records
Collection
Identifier: MSN/COL 2718
Abstract
An accumulation of 49 single-sheet documents issuing from, or directed to, the various instruments of town government in Swansea, Bristol County, Massachusetts, mostly during the 18th century.
Dates:
1671-1807
Sydney Hobart Ball and Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 0513
Scope and Contents
The collection documents both the personal life and the professional activities of Sydney Hobart Ball. It includes more than 1,600 of Ball's letters, mainly written to family members while on mining trips around the world, as well as over 1,000 photos taken by Ball during these trips. There are also reports, articles and notes written by Ball on mining, as well as maps of places he visited. Also present in the collection is correspondence belonging to Ball's wife Mary, and to his daughters Mary...
Dates:
1885 – 1991; Majority of material found in 1905 – 1949
Taylor Family Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5033
Abstract
Five letters written during the summer and fall of 1864 by the brothers (and Confederate cavalrymen) Jonathan Gibson Taylor and Robert Walker Taylor, of Daviess County, Kentucky. All were written from Federal prisoner of war camps, at Louisville, Rock Island, and Camp Douglas.
Dates:
1864
Temperance Sketch Book
Item
Identifier: MSN/MN 10029
Scope and Contents
Untitled sketch book by an unknown author containing thirty pages of sketches of temperance allegories and cartoons. The images express the themes of temperance, including the perils of drink, the saving power of Christ and his teachings in the Bible, and the pernicious influence wielded by wealthy producers and purveyors of alcohol. The sketches also bear references to the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).
Dates:
1886 - 1889
The Dante Alighieri and Divine Comedy Print Collection
Collection
Identifier: BPP 6000
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of loose prints and clippings relating to the life of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321). The collection contains many printed examples of variant portrait types of Dante, including engravings based on the portraits of Giotto and Raphael. Also included are posters and other ephemeral materials from the 600th anniversary of Dante's birth in 1865.
Dates:
Undated
The Errand Boy: or, Failure and Success
Item
Identifier: EPH 5046
Scope and Contents
One game for two to four players, manufactured by McLoughlin Brothers, New York. Players spin and move pieces across a board designed to represent the advancement of an errand boy from ‘applicant’ to ‘banker.’ Players are able to advance through the game when landing on numbered spaces corresponding with virtues (such as ‘Honesty’ and ‘Confidence,’) or job promotions, and are penalized when landing on numbered spaces corresponding with vices (such as ‘Gambling’ and ‘Drunkenness’). The first...
Dates:
Copyright: 1900
The Hand of Fate: Fortune Telling Game
Item
Identifier: EPH 5053
Scope and Contents
One game manufactured by McLoughlin Bros. Players select a question from either of the two spinners they wish to divine the answer to, then place the spinner on the center of the game. The hand within the box spins, pointing to the answer of the question.
Dates:
1901
"The Kodak Book" Cuban Photo Album
Item
Identifier: MSH/LAT 0082
Abstract
A souvenir photo album containing assorted photographs of major Cuban tourist sites, Havana street scenes, and images of officers, soldiers, and locations associated with the Spanish-American War.
Dates:
circa 1895-1900
The Ronald Wells Collection on Peace and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland
Collection
Identifier: MSE/IR 1032
Abstract
A collection of materials on peace and reconciliation in Northern Ireland, including documents relating to the work of religious organizations. The collection includes papers of a number of religious organizations. The collection includes papers of a number of religious groups that formed between 1990 and 2005 to work towards reconciliation, and also on the work of the Consultative Group on the Past. The collection includes also pamphlets and books. Most of the collection dates from 1984 to...
Dates:
circa 1979-2008
The Rough Riders: a Game
Item
Identifier: EPH 5050
Scope and Contents
One simple racing board game for two or four players manufactured by Parker Brothers, Salem, Massachusetts as a part of its ‘Adventure Series.’ The game’s box lid depicts Teddy Roosevelt leading the Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War in Cuba. The game board within is designed to represent the battlefield at San Juan Hill and is marked with ten possible routes from ‘camp’ to ‘victory.’ Players spin to advance wooden pawns along chosen routes. The first player to reach ‘victory’ wins...
Dates:
1900
The Vandeleur, Gweedore, Coolgreany, Coolroe, and Clongorey evictions photograph album
Item
Identifier: MSE/IR 7904-1
Scope and Contents
One partially-filled photograph album consisting of 31 18 x 25 cm black and white reproduction photo prints taken by an unnamed photographer. Photos depict scenes of late 19th century Irish tenant evictions. Each has been captioned by hand in ink. The first 20 photos document scenes from the Vandeleur evictions which took place in Kilrush, County Clare. The remainder document scenes of evictions in other Irish counties. Plates depict: Soldiers and R.I.C. officers in camp; Group...
Dates:
1888 - 1900
Theophilus Parsons Journal
Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 8011
Abstract
The two-volume manuscript journal of the Boston littérateur and lawyer Theophilus Parsons (1797-1882), kept during his early professional years, 1819-1823.
Dates:
1819-1823
Theresa Milburn Diary
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 8021
Abstract
A manuscript diary kept during the Civil War by Theresa Milburn, a young woman living on a plantation in Avoyelles Parish in central Louisiana.
Dates:
1863-1878; Majority of material found in 1863-1865
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