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Richards Family Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 5023
Abstract
A group of 67 personal letters written by or to members of the Richards family of Massachusetts and Montgomery County, Illinois, chiefly during the late 1830s, 1840s, and 1850s.
Dates:
1835-1902; Majority of material found in ( 1835-1858)
Robert B. Drinan Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 5009
Abstract
The correspondence and naval mementos of Robert B. Drinan, dating from his period of service as apprentice in the United States Navy (1896/7-1901).
Dates:
1897-1973; Majority of material found within 1897-1901
Robert C. Morgan Collection on Conceptual Art
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 9206
Abstract
A collection of research files comprised of printed ephemera, correspondence, manuscripts, audio recordings, and other materials documenting the activities and work of more than 100 conceptual artists, assembled by Robert C. Morgan during his professional career as an artist, art historian, curator, and author from 1968-2015.
Dates:
1968-2015
Robert Creeley Ephemera
Collection
Identifier: EPH 5009
Abstract
A collection of non-book material, much of it printed ephemera, acquired with the University's purchase of the 6000-volume personal library of the American poet Robert Creeley. The collection includes printed mailings and other announcements, periodical issues, broadsides, and posters, as well as photographs, photocopied texts of various kinds, and a small manuscript component.
Dates:
1951-2005
Robert Creeley Letters to Sarah Creeley
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 3007
Abstract
A small collection of around 30 manuscript items preserved by Sarah Creeley, daughter of the American poet Robert Creeley. Most are short personal letters or cards directed to Sarah by her father in the 1990s.
Dates:
1973-2005; Majority of material found in 1993-2005
Robert Lynd Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSE/IR 1050
Abstract
Letters to Robert Lynd from various correspondents, mainly Irish.
Dates:
1906 - 1948
Robert M. Johnson Family Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 10030
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the correspondence between journalist Robert M. Johnson; his wife, Mary Urquhart Johnson; and their daughters Margaret and Esther. Also included are greeting cards, a broadside, telegrams, postcards, and clippings. Johnson wrote to his daughters about stories he was working on, including the 1910 street car strike in Philadelphia, and about his work as a political journalist in San Antonio, Texas. Materials include letters, cards, postcards, clippings, and a...
Dates:
1904 - 1959; Majority of material found within 1910 - 1930
Robert S. Edwards Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 1004
Abstract
Around 60 items, mostly manuscripts, with a bearing on the Civil War service of Lt. Robert S. Edwards of the 48th New York Infantry. Among the 45 personal letters are 14 written by Edwards and 22 directed to him by his brother and sister-in-law, Ogden and Nellie Edwards, then living in the Philippines. There are also a number of items relating to Robert Edwards's death (at Fort Wagner in Charleston Harbor) and post-mortem arrangements.
Dates:
1861-1865
Rosario Gasworks Photo Album
Item
Identifier: MSH/LAT 0084
Abstract
An album of amateur photos highlighting the gasworks and city of Rosario de Santa Fé in the province of Córdoba, Argentina.
Dates:
circa 1902-1908
Rose Bowl College Football Programs
Collection
Identifier: FBC621
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of college football Rose Bowl programs. The programs typically contain pictures, articles, and statistics about the players on the teams playing in the Rose Bowl. Most programs also include pictures and information about coaches, other team personnel, and Rose Bowl administrators, data about the participating schools, and advertisements. Some programs include information about other events associated with the Rose Bowl including parades and beauty pageants. The...
Dates:
1913 - 2007
Round the World with Nellie Bly
Item
Identifier: EPH 5044
Scope and Contents
One board game for two to four players manufactured by McLoughlin Brothers, New York and copyrighted by J. A. Crozier. Players spin to advance pawns along a spiral-shaped course replicating the globe-circling trip accomplished by Nellie Bly. Seventy-two illustrated squares describe Bly’s location on each day of her journey. Some squares are marked with instructions that send players forward or back along the course. The first player arrive at the 73rd space, representing a return to ‘New...
Dates:
Copyright: 1890
Rubén Darío Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSH/LAT 0092
Scope and Contents
The Rubén Darío Collection is a collection of writings and personal materials of Rubén Darío. The majority of the collection consists of clippings written by Darío, as well as clippings written about Darío, covering a hundred-year span. Included in his personal papers are photographs, correspondence, and manuscripts. Also included in the collection is a series of research materials about Darío compiled by an unknown researcher. Significant topics include Nicaraguan poets, history, and poetry;...
Dates:
1881-1982
Rudi Holzapfel Research Collection on James Clarence Mangan
Collection
Identifier: MSE/IR 2720
Scope and Contents
The collection of Rudi Holzapfel on James Clarence Mangan includes Holzapfel’s notes, drafts, collected correspondence, publications and clippings of Mangan’s published work. Rudi Holzapfel’s bibliography, James Clarence Mangan: A Check List of Printed and Other Sources (1969), was the most complete bibliography of Mangan until Jacque Chuto’s James Clarence Mangan: A Bibliography ( 1999). Holzapfel’s work on Mangan continued over many...
Dates:
1903-1934, 1953-1979, 1990-1996, undated
Ruhleben Camp Magazine Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSE/MD 3829
Abstract
Two-volume scrapbook containing original drawings and text for In Ruhleben Camp (1915) and The Ruhleben Camp Magazine (1916-1917) compiled possibly for postwar publication. The satirical drawings and writings deal with life of British civilians interned in a German prisoner camp in Ruhleben, Germany. Two bound volumes of the published camp magazine accompany the scrapbook.
Dates:
1915-1917
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)
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