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Vasquez, Franciscus Xaverius (Fr.). Enciclica Del Rever. Padre Prior Generale Degli Agostiniani E Motivi Pressanti Per Mandarla A Tutti I Conventi Esposti In Alcune Lettere Fedelmente Tradotte Dalla Francese Nell'Italiana Favella, 17-- Box 1233, Item D.432.VIII

DATE OF ENCYCLICAL 1778; ON DOMINICANS, AGOSTINIANS, AND GESUITS AND THEIR EMNITIES

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  2. Guido Mazzoni pamphlet collection, 1572-1946, bulk 1750-1940
  3. Italy -- Church history, 1703-1943

Frederick Fraser papers, 1700-1911 and undated 2 Linear Feet

The Frederick Fraser Papers comprises documents of a cotton planter in South Carolina. Papers include correspondence concerning the sale of cotton, some personal correspondence, assorted financial transactions concerning cotton, some miscellaneous personal papers, and a scrapbook that contains a variety of materials related to social life in South Carolina and the Civil War, including: correspondence, newspaper clippings, poems, copies of tombstone engravings, invitations, photographs, and postcards.
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William Baskerville Hamilton papers, 1700-1975 80 Linear Feet (53,700 items)

Correspondence, memoranda, and reports, relating to Hamilton's teaching career; reasearch notes for his work in antebellum Mississippi history, particularly the Territorial period, and for biographies of William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, and William Murray, Earl of Mansfield; and personal and family papers. Includes ca. 9,000 British historical manuscripts donated by Hamilton, cataloged separately by the repository. Correspondents include Nash Kerr Burger, Hubert Creekmore, Eudora Welty, and other Mississippi literary figures.

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Lisa Unger Baskin collection of women's work and domestic arts ephemera, 1700s-1940s 2 Linear Feet (3 boxes, 2 oversize folders)

Collection assembled by Lisa Unger Baskin containing printed ephemera, receipts, manuscripts, handbills, catalogs, decorative trade cards, prospectuses, circulars, political campaign materials, and other advertisements from the United Kingdom, Western Europe, and the United States. The bulk of the collection's materials advertise businesses or services offered by women, including millinery, fancy goods, hair work, tea, painting, teaching, music, bricklaying, gardening, dressmaking, apothecaries, and a clairvoyant. Also includes calling cards and bookplates with women's names, and assorted ephemera relating to women's pay, income, or work, including a pensioner's card for a firefighter's widow and a pamphlet about life insurance for women.
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People Series, 1700s-1970s

The People Series contains images of individuals and groups from many historical periods. The majority of the images depict prominent American and European (mostly British) white men, such as political and military leaders, clergymen, and nobility. A large portion of the American individuals portrayed in this series are Civil War officers, both Union and Confederate.

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  2. Picture File, 1700s-1980s, bulk 1814-1950

Geographic Series, 1700s-1980s

Visual materials from a wide range of geographic locations separated into subseries by American state/territory or foreign country. More than half of the subseries and materials are of various U.S. states, mostly on the Eastern seaboard. The majority of the U.S. material comes from the assorted subseries of the southern states, the largest of which are Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. Much of the North Carolina subseries features historical images of Durham.

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  2. Picture File, 1700s-1980s, bulk 1814-1950

Picture File, 1700s-1980s, bulk 1814-1950 50 Linear Feet

The Picture File was created and maintained beginning in the 1950s by the Duke University Manuscript Department staff and its institutional successors as a vertical file of pictorial works separated from manuscript collections as well as acquired individually. The collection is large and diverse, with images dating from the 18th through the 20th centuries. Engravings feature prominently, with photographs a close second. The predominant genre is portraits of political and military leaders, authors, artists, physicians, scientists, and others. Members of the Duke family and others from Durham, N.C. are also present. In the Socialist Party Series there are numerous images of leader Eugene Debs. Topics range widely, with a focus on American history, including the Revolutionary and Civil Wars; history and culture of the southern U.S.; and U.S. and European politics. A significant number of individuals in the People Series are African Americans, ranging from individual studio portraits to groups of individuals and racist caricatures and cartoons; a smaller number are of Native Americans.
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Hypes family papers, 1700s-2010 4 Linear Feet (6 boxes; 1 oversize folder) Approximately 2250 Items

Materials from the branch of the Hypes family that descended from Henry Hypes of Xenia, Ohio: Samuel Henry Hypes (1826-1917); his son, William Findlay Hypes; his grandson, Samuel Loomis Hypes; and his great-grandson, William P. Hypes. Collection includes a wide range of material from the Hypes family, particularly William Findlay Hypes, Samuel Loomis Hypes, and William P. Hypes. William Findlay Hypes' materials highlight his career at Marshall Fields and Co. of Chicago and his service as President of the Y.M.C.A. of Chicago, with emphasis on his family's world tour on behalf of the Y.M.C.A. in 1924-1925. Hundreds of postcards and photographs collected by the family are contained in the papers, including images from India, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), China, Europe, Egypt, and many more places, most unlabeled. Some material from Samuel Loomis Hypes' army service during World War I is also included, the most noteworthy being 24 black and white photographs featuring crowds awaiting the signing of the Treaty of Versailles and the shipping of troops back to the United States, including photographs of African American soldiers. Materials from William P. Hypes relate to his work with the Y.M.C.A. in the mid-twentieth century. The family's research into their genealogy and family history, unidentified family photographs, and smaller amounts of correspondence and material from other family members are also included.
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Thomas Stampe papers, 1701-1714 0.4 Linear Feet 1 Bound Volume

Rector of Langley Burrell, Wiltshire, England; Nonjuror. Volume of writings and correspondence of Thomas Stampe, who, in 1701, recanted an oath of allegiance to William and Mary, and thus became a Nonjuror while a beneficed clergy of the Church of England. Writings and letters all relate to the issues of religion, government, and allegiances, and mention George Hickes and Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells. Also includes correspondence with Gilbert Burnet, the Bishop of Salisbury.
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Papeles tocantes a estado y guerra y Pragmaticas, 1702-1728 47 items

Materials concern the Catalan campaigns of 1710-20, the diplomatic campaigns of Ripperda etc. Includes a long report by Montemar himself on the state of Catalonia, a memorial by Gabriel de Roxas y Loyola denying the King's obligation to compensate those whose houses were demolished for the construction of the citadel of Barcelona (Montjuich), a report by the Marques de Castelar on the state of Catalan fortresses, a detailed project for Reviving Catalan trade and navigation, etc.

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  2. José Carrillo de Albornoz (Duke of Montemar) papers, circa 1710-1746

Cosimo III notice of rents, 1705 February 1 1.0 Linear Feet (1 item)

Cosimo III de' Medici was the penultimate Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany. He reigned from 1670 to 1723, and was the elder son of Grand Duke Ferdinando II. Collection contains a letter on vellum that is a notice from Cosimo III de Medici (Duke of Etruria etc.), to John Philip de Incontris of Florence regarding rents of 222 and 220L in reference to John Philip’s equestrian military preparation. Dated at Florence, 1 February 1705, in the 35th year of the Dukedom of Etruria.
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Alexander Robinson Boteler papers, 1707-1924, bulk 1836-1889 3 Linear Feet (5 boxes, 1,686 items (incl. 4 vols.))

Correspondence of Alexander's father, Dr. Henry Boteler, for 1776-1837; and family letters of Alexander with information on his career at Princeton College and his courtship of his future wife, Helen Macomb Stockton. Political correspondence, relating to the election of 1860, the Constitutional Union party, and Alexander's travels around the country in 1882-1884 while a member of the U.S. tariff commission. Volumes include Boteler's diary for 1845, regarding his plantation; various scrapbooks and some genealogical materials on the Pendleton, Digges, and Pope families. Among the correspondents are Lewis Cass, Samuel Cooper, John B. Floyd, S. B. French, Wade Hampton, T. J. Jackson, Andrew Johnson, R. E. Lee, John Letcher, W. P. Miles, John Page, Thomas N. Page, Rembrandt Peale, W. N. Pendleton, W. C. Rives, Alexander Robinson, W. H. Seward, J.E.B. Stuart, Jacob Thompson, J. F. Thompson, and Dabney C. Wirt.
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Stennett family hymns, poetry, and verse, 1708-1795 0.5 Linear Feet

Collection comprises a manuscript volume (170 pages) written in several hands that was probably passed among the generations in the Stennett family; probably from Joseph Stennett to Samuel; there is a notation on p. 11 that the volume was passed from Samuel Stennett to E[lizabeth] Stennett, his daughter, in 1795. The volume contains religious materials, primarily hymns and poetry, including hymns by Samuel Stennett (beginning p. 53), along with some verse. A few pieces are in Latin, and many pieces are tied to Biblical verses. Corrections and additions to the text are common.
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Suzesos militares, 1710-1716 13 items (12 manuscripts and 1 printed pamphlet) Box 3, Volume 2

Includes a 35-page poem on the Battle of Brihuega 1710, 'Diario de la carnpana del ano de 40', account by Baltasar de Guevara of the activities of five galleys off Corfu, reports on the fortification of Porto Longone on Elba (of which Montemar was appointed Governor in 1715), etc.

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  2. José Carrillo de Albornoz (Duke of Montemar) papers, circa 1710-1746

Cornelius Baldwin Hite papers, 1711-1918, bulk bulk 4.6 Linear Feet (9 boxes, 2,344 items (includes 2 vols.))

Collection contains personal, business, and legal papers of Cornelius Baldwin Hite, Jr. and of his family. The material pertains largely to life in Virginia during Reconstruction, with information about social life and customs, and on prominent Virginia families, especially the Marshall family, who were related to Hite by marriage. Includes copies (1709-1711) of passages from the diary of Mrs. Alexander Spotswood, and early legal documents relating to Hardy Co., Va.
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Catalonia, 1712-1714 97 items Box 2, Volume 1

Letterbook of the Conde de Montemar for the years 1712-14, written while Governor of Saragossa and containing copies of 97 letters to the Marques de Bedmar (Minister of War), Marques de Grimaldi, Princesse des Ursins, the King, the Marques de Castelar, the Prince of T'serclaes de Tilly and others. They include 31 letters to the Duke of Berwick and others written during the Siege of Barcelona 1713-14 and various plans for advances on the Aragon front (made irrelevant by the Spanish defeat at Almenara).

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  2. José Carrillo de Albornoz (Duke of Montemar) papers, circa 1710-1746

Slavery papers, 1712, 1802-1861 and undated Box 1

Materials related to the enumeration, buying, and selling of enslaved people owned by the Corbin, Hamilton, and Couper families. The earliest documents date from 1712 and are lists of enslaved people owned by Edmund Jenings in Virginia. These lists also have information about where each enslaved person is quartered for the year. Later documents from the nineteenth century include accounts, bills of sale, lists, and correspondence that discuss and provide evidence of the buying, selling, mortgaging, and enumeration of enslaved people. Other materials in the Financial and Legal Papers and Correspondence of this collection may provide additional documentation of slavery.

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  2. Francis P. Corbin papers, 1662-1885

Hinsdale Family papers, 1712-1973 16 Linear Feet 2557 Items

This collection centers around John Wetmore Hinsdale (1843-1921), a successful lawyer and businessman who served in the Confederate army. His son, John Wetmore Hinsdale, Jr., was also a lawyer and politician in North Carolina. Correspondence, Civil War diaries, newspapers clippings, C.S.A. War Dept. records book, and other papers, of a family of lawyers, of Raleigh and Fayetteville, N.C. Includes material on Confederate generals Theophilus Hunter Holmes, William Dorsey Pender, and James Johnston Pettigrew; schools, education, railroad taxation, and legislation, government and politics in North Carolina, particularly during the 1930s; and medical practice in Virginia ca. 1900. Persons represented include Ellen Devereux Hinsdale, John Wetmore Hinsdale, and John Wetmore Hinsdale, Jr.
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Goelicke, Andr. Ottomari. ...Oratio Inauguralis Qua Hippocrates Ab Atheismi Crimine Nuper Ipsi Imputato Absolvitur, Dicta In Auditorio Majore Quum Jussu Et Mandato Augusti, Serenissimi Ac Potentissimi Principis Dn. Friderici Wilhelmi..., 1713 Box 1227, Item D.423.I

BINDINGS SPLIT; FRAGILE; HANDLE WITH CARE

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  2. Guido Mazzoni pamphlet collection, 1572-1946, bulk 1750-1940
  3. History, 1633-1942

Lyman Whiting papers, 1713-1955 1.5 Linear Feet (2 boxes) 310 Items

Lyman Whiting (1817-1906) was a white Massachusetts clergyman and political nominee for Congress. The collection consists of materials documenting Whiting's professional life as a Congregational minister in New England, as well as family papers and correspondence between him and family members including his wife Sophia Chamberlain.
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Charles L. Abernethy Sr. papers, 1713-1972, bulk 1907-1959 85 Linear Feet (160 boxes; 2 oversize folders)

Charles L. Abernethy, Sr. (1872-1955) was a Democratic Congressman representing eastern North Carolina from 1922-1935. His professional papers consist chiefly of correspondence and records from his law practice and legal cases, with smaller amounts of writings and speeches, financial papers, printed materials, diaries, and some personal papers, including early deeds. There is also a large group of photographs, photo albums, and clippings scrapbooks chiefly documenting Abernethy's political career. One album from 1907 contains postcards of Beaufort, N.C.; another contains photographs of a three-month Congressional trip to Alaska, 1923, and includes images of President and Mrs. Harding and a diary transcript of the trip. Other items include some papers of his son, Charles Laban Abernethy, Jr., also a lawyer, and a volume of his poetry.
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Howland-Mcintosh Family papers, 1713-1997 (bulk 1830-1989) 6.3 Linear Feet 2,147 Items

Families originally from Carteret and Moore Counties, N.C. Correspondence; legal files, including deeds and wills; photographs; many genealogical materials; financial papers; postcards; paper currency; two scrapbooks; and school papers, all relating to the Howland and the McIntosh families from Carteret, Durham, and Moore Counties, N.C. Photographs include tintypes, albumen prints, and one daguerrotype. Many legal files pertain to a lengthy court case involving the transfer of family property on Shackleford Banks, N.C. to the federal government. Oversize materials include aerial photographs and land surveys of Shackleford Banks and other family properties, and photostats of early deeds. Though several photographs and all the currency date from the Civil War, the only other original documentation on the families' Civil War activities is a signed oath of allegiance to the Union dated 1865, and a few letters referring at length to the circumstances surrounding the confiscation of one Howland's property in Beaufort, N.C. during the war, and his attempts at legal restitution. William F. Howland (1876-1951) married Mary Elizabeth McIntosh (1878-1964) in 1903. The collection contains much of their correspondence. Other correspondence includes World War I letters from a McIntosh son, Leland Carson. The addition (04-129)(25 items, 1.5 lin. ft.; dated [1870s]-[1960s]) consists primarily of materials, including a scrapbook, photo album, letters, and travel journals, kept by Mary Howland Dawson from the 1950 "Youth Caravan to Germany" sponsored by the Methodist Conference of North Carolina. Also includes two family photograph albums, with images dating back to the 1870s; clippings about various family members; and an historical sketch of Salem United Methodist Church in Garland, N.C. This addition is unprocessed and is not represented in the finding aid.
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Susanna Ramer affidavit, 1713 March 16 - 1713 April 10 0.1 Linear Feet (1 item)

Samuel Sewall was a judge, businessman, and printer in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. Collection comprises an affidavit sworn by Susanna Ramer before Samuel Sewall, testifying "that going up into her Garret this Monday Morning to call her Negro Alexander, she found Anne Staples Servant Maid of Samuel Eaton, in Bed with the said Alexander, which was a great surprise to her, not knowing that such an one was at all in the house. Sworn March, 16 1713 in presence of Anne Staples...." With attestation in a different hand, reading "April 10 1713 Sworn in Court at Boston Att. Davenport."
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Italy -- Politics and government, 1718-1943 2444 items

This large series contains 2444 items and includes formats such as pamphlets, almanacs, newspapers, clippings, and broadsides, some quite large. Some items contain illustrations, usually photographs or charts, but also engravings. The genres represented are quite varied, including many speeches, articles, reports, and propagandistic literature, which can include poetry.

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  2. Guido Mazzoni pamphlet collection, 1572-1946, bulk 1750-1940

Catalonia: Instruccion para el Servicio Uniforme, que se ha de hazer en todas las plazas del Principado de Cataluña, 1719 January 1 340 pages Box 6, Volume 4

Detailed orders, in 26 chapters and 630 paragraphs, for the governors and garrisons of the fortresses of Catalonia. The second half of the heading on f1, including the words printed above in square brackets, and all the writing on the last two pages have been inked over, but the orders appear to have been issued by the Marquis of Ciudad Rodrigo from Barcelona on 1 January 1719.

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  2. José Carrillo de Albornoz (Duke of Montemar) papers, circa 1710-1746

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