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Joe Sitter collection of Gaylord Schanilec, 1980-2015 and undated
5.0 Linear Feet- Abstract Or Scope
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Joe Sitter is a collector and friend of Gaylord Schanilec. Gaylord Schanilec is a notable American wood engraver, printer, designer and illustrator. He is the proprietor of the press Midnight Paper Sales, located in Stockholm, Wisconsin. Sitter's collection includes original wood engravings, publications, clippings, printer's waste, correspondence, and other materials documenting the artwork and career of Gaylord Schanilec.
Cedric N. Chatterley photographs, 1983-2013 and undated
15 Linear Feet (29 boxes)- Abstract Or Scope
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The photographs of Cedric N. Chatterley span the years 1983-2013, and were created throughout his career as a documentary photographer, beginning with his MFA thesis project on religious experience in the U.S. The photographs are primarily black-and-white prints ranging in size from 8x10 to 18x24 inches. The most prominent themes in Chatterley's work are labor, community, and religious expression. He has photographed chicken slaughterhouse workers in Maine; Cambodian immigrants in North Carolina; David "Honeyboy" Edwards and other Southern blues musicians in Mississippi and on tour; a substance abusers' rehabilitation community in Durham, N.C.; tornado survivors in South Dakota; an abandoned religious theme park in Connecticut; and sheep rancher Judith Fae "Pachy" Burns in Montana. Some of his documentary work also includes oral history interviews. There are also several recordings of interviews with Chatterley, where he speaks about his work as a documentary photographer, and a book by Barbara Lau containing his photographs of Cambodian immigrants. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.
Mississippi River, Memphis, Tennessee, 1994 Winter Box 17
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- Mississippi River, Memphis, Tennessee, 1994 Winter
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Kentucky side of the Ohio/Mississippi River confluence - just south of Cairo, Illinois. High water, 1993 March Box 16
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- Kentucky side of the Ohio/Mississippi River confluence - just south of Cairo, Illinois. High water
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Looking west, under the Mississippi River Bridge, Memphis, Tennessee. After a rare snowstorm. Holga plastic "panoramic" camera, 2006 February (6x20 inch print) Box 27
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- Looking west, under the Mississippi River Bridge, Memphis, Tennessee. After a rare snowstorm. Holga
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Edgar Marquess Branch papers, 1939-2003 and undated (bulk 1960-1990), bulk 1960-1990
10 Linear Feet 4052 Items- Abstract Or Scope
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The Edgar Marquess Branch Papers span the years from 1939 to 2003, with the majority of the materials dating from 1960 to 1990. Through correspondence and writings, they document Branch's lifelong research on nineteenth-century American author Mark Twain. Important correspondents include such Twain scholars as Fred Anderson, Louis Budd, Cyril Clemens, Robert Hirst, and Henry Nash Smith. Topics chiefly focus on issues concerning academic writers, and Twain's life and literary output. Although the bulk of this collection concerns Branch's work on Twain, it should be noted that Professor Branch was also an eminent scholar of James T. Farrell, a twentieth-century American novelist best known for his "Studs Lonigan" series (1932-1935). Branch's papers are organized into three series: Correspondence, Special Projects Files, and Writings. Although Branch taught for many years as a Professor of English, there are no teaching materials in the collection. However, the correspondence may contain some references to teaching American literature and to activities as a faculty member at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
Mud Island, Mississippi River Museum, 1983 Box 8
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- Mud Island, Mississippi River Museum, 1983
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Mississippi Freedom Summer 50th Anniversary Conference DVDs, 2014 June 25 - 2014 June 29
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The Mississippi Freedom Summer 50th Anniversary conference was held June 25-29, 2014 at Tougaloo College in Jackson, Mississippi, to commemorate the Freedom Summer of 1964. Collection contains 9 DVDs of conference sessions. Acquired as part of the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture.
Disc 3A: "In the Mississippi River", 2014 June 27 Box 1, Dvd RL11991-DVD-0004
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- Disc 3A: "In the Mississippi River", 2014 June 27
Mississippi Freedom Summer 50th Anniversary Conference DVDs, 2014 June 25 - 2014 June 29 - Collection Context
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Picture File, 1700s-1980s, bulk 1814-1950
50 Linear Feet- Abstract Or Scope
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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.
[Mississippi River] "The Jolly Flatboatmen," 1800s Box 6, Folder M205
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- [Mississippi River] "The Jolly Flatboatmen," 1800s
Mississippi - Collection Context
Brilliant Naval Victory on the Mississippi River, Near Fort Wright, May 10th 1862, 1862 Box 59
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- Brilliant Naval Victory on the Mississippi River, Near Fort Wright, May 10th 1862, 1862
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Pope-Carter Family papers, 1791-1967
4 Linear Feet 1,370 Items- Abstract Or Scope
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Pope and Carter familes of Giles, Maury, and Williamson Counties, Tennessee. Chiefly correspondence, together with writings, legal and financial papers, and other material, of the related Pope and Carter families of Giles, Maury, and Williamson counties, Tenn. Letters (1820-1865) pertain to agriculture, steam boating on the Mississippi River, selling goods to Choctaw Indians, pioneering in Texas, travels of a planter's wife, Confederate military service, Columbus, Miss, and related Clark, Rivers, Rodes (or Rhodes), and Trotter families. Twentieth century material centers on the career of Col. William Rivers Pope, especially during World War I, when he was a regimental commander in the Meuse-Argonne offensive.
Pope-Carter Family papers, 1791-1967 4 Linear Feet 1,370 Items
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- Mississippi River -- Description and travel
, 1827-1834, describe working on steamboats on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, mercantile business in
boating on the Mississippi River, selling goods to Choctaw Indians, pioneering in Texas, travels of a - Abstract Or Scope
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Pope and Carter familes of Giles, Maury, and Williamson Counties, Tennessee. Chiefly correspondence, together with writings, legal and financial papers, and other material, of the related Pope and Carter families of Giles, Maury, and Williamson counties, Tenn. Letters (1820-1865) pertain to agriculture, steam boating on the Mississippi River, selling goods to Choctaw Indians, pioneering in Texas, travels of a planter's wife, Confederate military service, Columbus, Miss, and related Clark, Rivers, Rodes (or Rhodes), and Trotter families. Twentieth century material centers on the career of Col. William Rivers Pope, especially during World War I, when he was a regimental commander in the Meuse-Argonne offensive.
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Eltinge-Lord Family papers (Peter Eltinge papers), 1856-1871
7 Linear Feet (14 boxes) 2,245 Items- Abstract Or Scope
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Correspondence of Peter Eltinge, an officer in the 156th New York Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War, relating to his service in the Dept. of the Gulf (1863-1864), Maryland and Virginia (1864), and Georgia and the Carolinas (1865), participation in the occupation of Georgia; and operation of a grocery store in Memphis, Tenn., and speculation in cotton after the war. Topics include politics, temperance, economic conditions, Black soldiers in the Union Army, and Black agricultural laborers during Reconstruction. Also, naval records and other papers of George P. Lord of Camden, Del., brother-in-law of Peter Eltinge, chiefly relating to his duty as a navel officer on ironclads of the Mississippi Squadron (1861-1865), including the U.S.S. Chillicothe, U.S.S. Ozark, and U.S.S. Osage. Topics include the Red River Expedition of 1864 and the regulation of commerce on the Mississippi River.
Eltinge-Lord Family papers (Peter Eltinge papers), 1856-1871 7 Linear Feet (14 boxes) 2,245 Items
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- Mississippi River
(Island No. 10), and Red River campaigns and served afterwards on the lower Mississippi River. Lord's
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Correspondence of Peter Eltinge, an officer in the 156th New York Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War, relating to his service in the Dept. of the Gulf (1863-1864), Maryland and Virginia (1864), and Georgia and the Carolinas (1865), participation in the occupation of Georgia; and operation of a grocery store in Memphis, Tenn., and speculation in cotton after the war. Topics include politics, temperance, economic conditions, Black soldiers in the Union Army, and Black agricultural laborers during Reconstruction. Also, naval records and other papers of George P. Lord of Camden, Del., brother-in-law of Peter Eltinge, chiefly relating to his duty as a navel officer on ironclads of the Mississippi Squadron (1861-1865), including the U.S.S. Chillicothe, U.S.S. Ozark, and U.S.S. Osage. Topics include the Red River Expedition of 1864 and the regulation of commerce on the Mississippi River.
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Eugene Marshall papers, 1839-1962
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Farmer, banker, and Union Cavalry officer of Caledonia, Minnesota. Collection includes correspondence, diaries, writings, legal documents, printed material, record books, scrapbooks, and photographs, chiefly relating to Marshall's military service with Brackett's Battalion, Minnesota Cavalry, in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama (1862-1864) and on the Northwest Indian expedition (1864-1865). Diaries include comments on his immigration from Brockton, MA to Minnesota in 1853, and on secessionist spirit in Texas, 1859-1860. Letters from his sister reflect impact of immigrants on Brockton, 1890-1910. Includes material documenting aspects of the Dakota Territory in the 1860s; Plains Indians; Red River carts; the impact of the Civil War on southern unionists, middle Tennessee, and African Americans; religion; education; the status of women; towns in southeastern New England, upper Middle West, Tennessee, and Mississippi River Valley; and Ignatius Donnelly, Horace Mann, and William T. Sherman.
Eugene Marshall papers, 1839-1962 5 Linear Feet
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- Mississippi River Valley; and Ignatius Donnelly, Horace Mann, and William T. Sherman.
Mississippi River Valley; and Ignatius Donnelly, Horace Mann, and William T. Sherman.
material documenting aspects of the Dakota Territory in the 1860s; Plains Indians; Red River carts; the - Abstract Or Scope
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Farmer, banker, and Union Cavalry officer of Caledonia, Minnesota. Collection includes correspondence, diaries, writings, legal documents, printed material, record books, scrapbooks, and photographs, chiefly relating to Marshall's military service with Brackett's Battalion, Minnesota Cavalry, in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama (1862-1864) and on the Northwest Indian expedition (1864-1865). Diaries include comments on his immigration from Brockton, MA to Minnesota in 1853, and on secessionist spirit in Texas, 1859-1860. Letters from his sister reflect impact of immigrants on Brockton, 1890-1910. Includes material documenting aspects of the Dakota Territory in the 1860s; Plains Indians; Red River carts; the impact of the Civil War on southern unionists, middle Tennessee, and African Americans; religion; education; the status of women; towns in southeastern New England, upper Middle West, Tennessee, and Mississippi River Valley; and Ignatius Donnelly, Horace Mann, and William T. Sherman.
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William Baskerville Hamilton papers, 1700-1975
80 Linear Feet (53,700 items)- Abstract Or Scope
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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.
Journal of Thomas Rodney kept on trip from Dover, Delaware, through Pennsylvania and down Mississippi River, Aug.-Oct., 1803. Library of Congress, Negative. Box 142, Reel 7
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- Mississippi River, Aug.-Oct., 1803. Library of Congress, Negative.
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Alfred and Elizabeth Brand Collection of Civil War and Lee Family papers, 1757-1925, bulk 1838-1868
3.4 Linear Feet 100 Items- Abstract Or Scope
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Collection consists of two series, Civil War Papers and Lee Family Papers, acquired and assembled by collectors Alfred and Elizabeth Brand. Materials relate to the Lee family, including Francis Lightfoot Lee, Henry Light Horse Harry Lee, Richard Henry Lee, and Robert E. Lee, as well as Civil War history, including battle reports, correspondence between Confederate and Union leaders and officers (such as Braxton Bragg, Jefferson Davis, William T. Sherman, and Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson), presidential pardons and oaths of allegiance, and some printed materials.
Certification by Lee, Captain of Engineers, that barrels of corned beef and potatoes were necessary for the improvement of the Mississippi River, 1838 May 19 Box 1
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- for the improvement of the Mississippi River, 1838 May 19
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Enclosed in above letter to Miss Day.
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Certification by Lee, Captain of Engineers, that 340 lbs of fresh beef were necessary for sustenance of the workers improving the Mississippi River, 1838 June 20 Box 1
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- sustenance of the workers improving the Mississippi River, 1838 June 20
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Earl Dotter photographs and papers, 1967-2023
62 Linear Feet (86 boxes; 2 oversize folders) 6.45 Gigabytes (1052 files)- Abstract Or Scope
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Earl Dotter is a documentarian, photojournalist, and labor activist based in Maryland. Collection comprises 818 mounted black-and-white and color photographs documenting hazardous occupations, conditions for workers, and labor activism in the United States, and related materials such as photography subject files, work prints, digital image files, exhibit items, a large series of publications, and ephemera. A few historical photographs of coal mining settings by Russell Lee are also present. Specific occupations and topics represented by collection materials spanning many decades include: working conditions in the coal mining, garment, auto, poultry, public safety, logging, and fishery industries; child labor in the U.S.; conditions for migrant and Native American workers; the labor behind hand-harvested crops; medical care for workers; U.S. occupational safety standards and labor laws; and labor activism in support of people in hazardous occupations. There is also a series on the 9/11 Ground Zero site and first responders. Mount sizes range from 8x10 to 22x28 inches; most are 11x14 and 16x20. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.
Dioxin-contaminated river from paper mill effluent, Pascagoula, Mississippi, 1991 Box 4, Image RL.12047-P-0290
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- Dioxin-contaminated river from paper mill effluent, Pascagoula, Mississippi, 1991
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Ephraim Kirby papers, 1763-1878 and undated
8 Linear Feet Approx. 2900 Items- Abstract Or Scope
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Revolutionary soldier, lawyer, state legislator, and land speculator, of Litchfield, Connecticut. The papers of Ephraim Kirby consist of correspondence, broadsides, legal papers, bills and receipts pertaining to the Revolutionary War, early settlements west of the Alleghenies and Alabama, land speculation, internal improvements, and U.S. and Connecticut politics. Revolutionary War letters describe life in the Continental Army, the quartermaster disorder, military engagements, including Germantown and the surrender of Cornwallis, and the beginnings of Ephraim Kirby's legal practice. Political correspondence concerns the government of the United States under the Articles of Confederation; the ratification of the Constitution; foreign relations with Great Britain, France, Algiers, and Spain; Madison's resolutions regarding trade and navigation; Jay's Treaty; Whiskey Rebellion; taxation for revenue; the presidential campaigns of 1796 and 1800; Cherokee affairs; politics and patronage in Connecticut; and the repeal of the Judiciary Act of 1801.
Ephraim Kirby papers, 1763-1878 and undated 8 Linear Feet Approx. 2900 Items
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- Natchez, Mississippi, including a description of the lands east of the Pearl River, settlers, crops, trade
Natchez, Mississippi, including a description of the lands east of the Pearl River, settlers, crops, trade
Mississippi -- History - Abstract Or Scope
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Revolutionary soldier, lawyer, state legislator, and land speculator, of Litchfield, Connecticut. The papers of Ephraim Kirby consist of correspondence, broadsides, legal papers, bills and receipts pertaining to the Revolutionary War, early settlements west of the Alleghenies and Alabama, land speculation, internal improvements, and U.S. and Connecticut politics. Revolutionary War letters describe life in the Continental Army, the quartermaster disorder, military engagements, including Germantown and the surrender of Cornwallis, and the beginnings of Ephraim Kirby's legal practice. Political correspondence concerns the government of the United States under the Articles of Confederation; the ratification of the Constitution; foreign relations with Great Britain, France, Algiers, and Spain; Madison's resolutions regarding trade and navigation; Jay's Treaty; Whiskey Rebellion; taxation for revenue; the presidential campaigns of 1796 and 1800; Cherokee affairs; politics and patronage in Connecticut; and the repeal of the Judiciary Act of 1801.
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Charles Wilkes papers, 1816-1876
7 Linear Feet (4,566 items)- Abstract Or Scope
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U.S. naval officer and explorer, of Washington, D.C. Family correspondence, chiefly relating to naval cruises of Wilkes and his son, John Wilkes; the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842, to Antarctica, the Pacific Islands, and the Northwest Coast of the U.S., including preliminary planning, the voyage itself with detailed descriptions of places visited, and publishing the results; gold mining and milling in North Carolina; the Civil War; and Wilkes family business ventures in North Carolina; together with legal and financial papers, writings, printed material, clippings, and other papers. Includes correspondence, 1848-1849, with James Renwick (1792-1863) and others.
Charles Wilkes papers, 1816-1876 7 Linear Feet (4,566 items)
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- River. Description and Travel 1851 Dec. 27 Choate, Rufus 1843 Dec. 22; 1845[?] Jan. 31. Chrononlogy
West (Chapter XIII) Coal Company of Deep River 1860 Sept. 3 Coal Mines and Mining. Ohio 1856 Nov. 19
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U.S. naval officer and explorer, of Washington, D.C. Family correspondence, chiefly relating to naval cruises of Wilkes and his son, John Wilkes; the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842, to Antarctica, the Pacific Islands, and the Northwest Coast of the U.S., including preliminary planning, the voyage itself with detailed descriptions of places visited, and publishing the results; gold mining and milling in North Carolina; the Civil War; and Wilkes family business ventures in North Carolina; together with legal and financial papers, writings, printed material, clippings, and other papers. Includes correspondence, 1848-1849, with James Renwick (1792-1863) and others.
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Alfred Cumming papers, 1792-1889
4 Linear Feet 760 Items- Abstract Or Scope
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Public official, Indian agent, and Territorial Governor of Utah (1857-1861). Family and political correspondence, mainly of the 1850s, with material on Mormon history, including the "Mormon War," and on frontier and pioneer life. Includes journals, scrapbooks, letter books, and proceedings pertaining to councils and negotiations with the Blackfoot Indians and other tribes (1855). Letters of Cumming's wife, Elizabeth Wells Randall Cumming, describe incidents on her trip to Utah with her husband when he was named governor with frontier conditions and Indian troubles. Cumming's official letter books contain correspondence to James Buchanan, Lewis Cass, Howell Cobb, John B. Floyd, Albert S. Johnston, Brigham Young, and others. Additional correspondents include W.W. Bibb, J.S. Black, William Medill, B.F. Perry, Franklin Pierce, Alexander Stephens, and G.M. Troup. Includes papers of William Clay Cumming, a brother, pertaining to his studies at Princeton University (1805) and at Litchfield Law School; his accounts of opposition to Federalism in New England; his experiences in the War of 1812; travels in the Mississippi Valley and the South; and a few comments on Brazil and Uruguay (1816). The collection also contains papers from Thomas Cumming.
Alfred Cumming papers, 1792-1889 4 Linear Feet 760 Items
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- Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel
opposition to Federalism in New England; his experiences in the War of 1812; travels in the Mississippi
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Public official, Indian agent, and Territorial Governor of Utah (1857-1861). Family and political correspondence, mainly of the 1850s, with material on Mormon history, including the "Mormon War," and on frontier and pioneer life. Includes journals, scrapbooks, letter books, and proceedings pertaining to councils and negotiations with the Blackfoot Indians and other tribes (1855). Letters of Cumming's wife, Elizabeth Wells Randall Cumming, describe incidents on her trip to Utah with her husband when he was named governor with frontier conditions and Indian troubles. Cumming's official letter books contain correspondence to James Buchanan, Lewis Cass, Howell Cobb, John B. Floyd, Albert S. Johnston, Brigham Young, and others. Additional correspondents include W.W. Bibb, J.S. Black, William Medill, B.F. Perry, Franklin Pierce, Alexander Stephens, and G.M. Troup. Includes papers of William Clay Cumming, a brother, pertaining to his studies at Princeton University (1805) and at Litchfield Law School; his accounts of opposition to Federalism in New England; his experiences in the War of 1812; travels in the Mississippi Valley and the South; and a few comments on Brazil and Uruguay (1816). The collection also contains papers from Thomas Cumming.
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Munford-Ellis Family papers, 1777-1942
30 Linear Feet 12522 Items- Abstract Or Scope
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The Munford and Ellis families were connected through the marriage of George Wythe Munford and Elizabeth Throwgood Ellis in 1838. The earliest papers from the Munford family center around William Munford (1775-1825) of the first generation, George Wythe Munford (1803-1882) of the second generation, and the children of George Wythe Munford, notably Thomas Taylor Munford (1831-1918), Sallie Radford (Munford) Talbott (1841-1930), Lucy Munford and Fannie Ellis Munford. Papers of the Ellis family begin with those of Charles Ellis, Sr. (1772-1840), Richmond merchant; his wife, Margaret (Nimmo) Ellis (1790-1877); and his brother, Powhatan Ellis (1790-1863), jurist, U.S. senator, and diplomat. Later materials include letters from Thomas Harding Ellis (1814-1898), son of Charles and Margaret Ellis, as well as some materials from their other children and grandchildren. Collection contains family, personal, and business papers of three generations of the Munford and the Ellis families of Virginia. The papers contain information on politics, literary efforts, social life and customs, economic conditions, and military questions principally in nineteenth century Virginia. Includes materials on the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Munford-Ellis Family papers, 1777-1942 30 Linear Feet 12522 Items
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- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Jackson's stand against South Carolina on the nullification issue; the digging of the James River Canal; his
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The Munford and Ellis families were connected through the marriage of George Wythe Munford and Elizabeth Throwgood Ellis in 1838. The earliest papers from the Munford family center around William Munford (1775-1825) of the first generation, George Wythe Munford (1803-1882) of the second generation, and the children of George Wythe Munford, notably Thomas Taylor Munford (1831-1918), Sallie Radford (Munford) Talbott (1841-1930), Lucy Munford and Fannie Ellis Munford. Papers of the Ellis family begin with those of Charles Ellis, Sr. (1772-1840), Richmond merchant; his wife, Margaret (Nimmo) Ellis (1790-1877); and his brother, Powhatan Ellis (1790-1863), jurist, U.S. senator, and diplomat. Later materials include letters from Thomas Harding Ellis (1814-1898), son of Charles and Margaret Ellis, as well as some materials from their other children and grandchildren. Collection contains family, personal, and business papers of three generations of the Munford and the Ellis families of Virginia. The papers contain information on politics, literary efforts, social life and customs, economic conditions, and military questions principally in nineteenth century Virginia. Includes materials on the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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United Methodist Church records, 1784-1984, bulk 1800-1940
48.8 Linear Feet- Abstract Or Scope
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The United Methodist Church Records are comprised primarily of bound volumes of quarterly conference minutes that document the administrative life of church units (circuits, charges, and churches) in the N.C. Conference (1784-1974, bulk 1841-1919) and the Western N.C. Conference (1884-1962, bulk 1893-1932) of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (MECS). Counties in N.C. represented in the collection include Alamance, Ashe, Bladen, Burke, Caswell, Catawba, Chatham, Cleveland, Dare, Davidson, Durham, Forsyth, Gates, New Hanover, Iredell, Lincoln, Perquimans, Randolph, Rowan, Yadkin, and Wake. However, this collection does not include complete runs of any set of bound minutes, correspondence, or other documentation for any N.C. county or district. There are also bound volumes of N.C. Conference, MECS, district conference minutes (1866-1939); financial, administrative, and legal records for the Board of Missions and Church Extension of the Western N.C. Conference, MECS (1909-1952); bound journals of annual conference meetings of the N.C. Conference, MECS (1838-1913); as well as some district, conference, and national records for non-N.C. conferences and for the MECS and the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC). National records include correspondence and financial records from the American Mission in North Africa, MEC (1909-1952). Although the entire collection dates from 1784-1984, the bulk of the material dates from 1800-1940.
Quarterly Conference Minutes, 1835-1877 (312 pp.) Box NNC1-B
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- Mississippi, 1800s
Various districts: Biloxi, Choctaw, Covington, Paulding, Pearl River, Mt. Carmel, and Seashore - Collection Context
Various districts: Biloxi, Choctaw, Covington, Paulding, Pearl River, Mt. Carmel, and Seashore Districts; Mt. Carmel, Westville, and White Sand Circuits
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- Various districts: Biloxi, Choctaw, Covington, Paulding, Pearl River, Mt. Carmel, and Seashore
Mississippi, 1800s - Collection Context
United Methodist Church records, 1784-1984, bulk 1800-1940 48.8 Linear Feet
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- Mississippi Conference Unknown Co., White Sands, Westville, and Mt. Carmel Circuits, Quarterly
Papers, 1926 and 1942. Available on microfilm, #191-7-1. Chatham, Moore and Carteret Cos., Deep River
. Found in Benjamin E. Stanfield Papers. Unknown Co., plan of Tar River Circuit. Found in John Wesley - Abstract Or Scope
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The United Methodist Church Records are comprised primarily of bound volumes of quarterly conference minutes that document the administrative life of church units (circuits, charges, and churches) in the N.C. Conference (1784-1974, bulk 1841-1919) and the Western N.C. Conference (1884-1962, bulk 1893-1932) of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (MECS). Counties in N.C. represented in the collection include Alamance, Ashe, Bladen, Burke, Caswell, Catawba, Chatham, Cleveland, Dare, Davidson, Durham, Forsyth, Gates, New Hanover, Iredell, Lincoln, Perquimans, Randolph, Rowan, Yadkin, and Wake. However, this collection does not include complete runs of any set of bound minutes, correspondence, or other documentation for any N.C. county or district. There are also bound volumes of N.C. Conference, MECS, district conference minutes (1866-1939); financial, administrative, and legal records for the Board of Missions and Church Extension of the Western N.C. Conference, MECS (1909-1952); bound journals of annual conference meetings of the N.C. Conference, MECS (1838-1913); as well as some district, conference, and national records for non-N.C. conferences and for the MECS and the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC). National records include correspondence and financial records from the American Mission in North Africa, MEC (1909-1952). Although the entire collection dates from 1784-1984, the bulk of the material dates from 1800-1940.
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Civil War Manuscripts Map collection, 1861-1865
1 Linear Feet (14 items)- Abstract Or Scope
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Sketch maps from the Civil War period representing geographic areas in Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and one unidentified location. These maps chiefly depict roads, waterways, mountain ranges, fortifications, counties, cities, and towns. There are two battlefield maps present, including Bull Run (Va., 1861; a Confederate map) and Spring Hill (Tenn., 1864). Most maps are unsigned; however, there are maps drawn by A. M. Thornton, Barbette Sims, and Edward Fontaine, as well as Confederate Army engineers A. B. DeSaulles and Jeremy F. Gilmer. Primarily drawn in ink on paper or linen cloth. Sizes of maps vary between 24 x 20 cm. and 63 x 60 cm.
1862-1864: Louisiana.
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- De Saulles, A. B. Port Hudson and Vicinity showing roads, plantation lands, and the Mississippi
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De Saulles, A. B. "Port Hudson and Vicinity" showing roads, plantation lands, and the Mississippi River. Colored ink on linen cloth. Scale, 2:1. 46 x 44 cm.
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1862-1864: Louisiana.
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- as well as the Mississippi River. Ink on paper. 35 x 42 cm.
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De Saulles, A. B. "Map of Baton Rouge" showing streets and roads, a garrison, and a powder magazine as well as the Mississippi River. Ink on paper. 35 x 42 cm.
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Southern United States manuscript map collection, 1850-1923 and undated
14 Linear Feet (33 items)- Abstract Or Scope
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This collection contains 33 sketch maps of locations in Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia. It includes a number of B. P. Baker Co. plats for a tract of land in Gates County, N.C.; plans of subdivisions and improvements in Savannah by Percy Sugden; a map of Durham, N.C., in 1867 by Lewis Blount; a map of Mississippi representing Choctaw and Chickasaw territories and missionary stations by Sarah Coffin; and a detailed plat of the Bennett & Wallace Lands in West Virginia. Maps signed by Robert Jayne, W. F. Brown, John Tebeau, and Ravenel Gignilliet are present.
Map primarily representing Lake Pontchartrain, Lake Borgne, the Gulf of Mexico..., undated Oversize-folder 2
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- Map primarily representing Lake Pontchartrain, Lake Borgne, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Mississippi
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Map primarily representing Lake Pontchartrain, Lake Borgne, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Mississippi River as well as New Orleans and Biloxi. Colored ink on paper reinforced with cloth.
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Jeanine Michna-Bales photographs, 2013-2015
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Jeanine Michna-Bales is a conceptual documentary photographer based in Dallas, Texas. Her series "Through Darkness to Light: Seeking Freedom on the Underground Railroad" won the 2016 ADA Collection Award for Documentarians of the American South. The project comprises 40 color photographs of a route taken by travelers on the Underground Railroad between 1800 and the end of the Civil War. Michna-Bales researched the route over a decade and photographed the locations between 2012 and 2015.
Off the Beaten Path, 2014 Box 1, Folder 1
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- Along the Yockanookany River, Mississippi
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Along the Yockanookany River, Mississippi
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Bedinger and Dandridge family papers, 1752-1950s, 2000, bulk 1752-1920s
30 Linear Feet (65 boxes, 1 oversize folder)- Abstract Or Scope
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The Bedinger and Dandridge families were based in Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, and New York. Collection consists of journals, correspondence, poems, photographs, scrapbooks, literary writings, legal and financial records, and other papers of the Bedinger, Dandridge, Washington, Rust, Clay, and Stephen families of Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio; and of the Cornwall, Lawrence, Mitchell, Bowne, King, and Southgate families, of Connecticut, Maine, and New York, primarily created or collected by Caroline Danske (Bedinger) Dandridge. The papers fall into six classes: journals and fragments of journals of Danske Dandridge (1864-1909) in 23 volumes, writing notebooks of her daughter Violet Dandridge in 12 volumes, and journals of Henry Bedinger (1830s) and Daniel Bedinger (1811); correspondence and materials on Ohio, Kentucky, New York, Virginia, and the northern Shenandoah Valley from the Revolutionary period through the Civil War; extensive family correspondence, genealogies, and memoirs used in writing Bedinger family histories; papers of Henry Bedinger, the American Minister to Denmark in the 1850s; poems, reviews and literary correspondence of Danske Dandridge, and poems and prose of her father and daughter; and horticultural writings of Danske Dandridge. The collection also includes many pieces of memorabilia and paper ephemera.
Daniel Bedinger Journal, 1811-1812 Box 46
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- daughter Margaret in 1808). Beginning by stagecoach to Pittsburg, by boat to the Mississippi River, and by
, 1811, tremors lasting five days. Vivid descriptions of this event with its effects on the river and the
countryside are given. Comments on Baton Rouge, New Orleans, and the lower Miss. River are followed by travel - Abstract Or Scope
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Journal describes a journey to the Gulf of Mexico with Dr. Seth Bellfield Foster (married Daniel's daughter Margaret in 1808). Beginning by stagecoach to Pittsburg, by boat to the Mississippi River, and by barge to New Orleans. Near Little Prairie, Catahoula Parish, La., violent earthquakes begin on Dec. 16, 1811, tremors lasting five days. Vivid descriptions of this event with its effects on the river and the countryside are given. Comments on Baton Rouge, New Orleans, and the lower Miss. River are followed by travel on the Gulf Coast, early 1813, from Bayou St. John to Mobile, Alabama. Daniel Bedinger returned through North Carolina (Salem) and Virginia.
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Bedinger and Dandridge family papers, 1752-1950s, 2000, bulk 1752-1920s 30 Linear Feet (65 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
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- Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783
valley; trade and transport of farm commodities; travel on the Mississippi to New Orleans, 1811-1812 - Abstract Or Scope
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The Bedinger and Dandridge families were based in Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, and New York. Collection consists of journals, correspondence, poems, photographs, scrapbooks, literary writings, legal and financial records, and other papers of the Bedinger, Dandridge, Washington, Rust, Clay, and Stephen families of Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio; and of the Cornwall, Lawrence, Mitchell, Bowne, King, and Southgate families, of Connecticut, Maine, and New York, primarily created or collected by Caroline Danske (Bedinger) Dandridge. The papers fall into six classes: journals and fragments of journals of Danske Dandridge (1864-1909) in 23 volumes, writing notebooks of her daughter Violet Dandridge in 12 volumes, and journals of Henry Bedinger (1830s) and Daniel Bedinger (1811); correspondence and materials on Ohio, Kentucky, New York, Virginia, and the northern Shenandoah Valley from the Revolutionary period through the Civil War; extensive family correspondence, genealogies, and memoirs used in writing Bedinger family histories; papers of Henry Bedinger, the American Minister to Denmark in the 1850s; poems, reviews and literary correspondence of Danske Dandridge, and poems and prose of her father and daughter; and horticultural writings of Danske Dandridge. The collection also includes many pieces of memorabilia and paper ephemera.
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Harry L. and Mary K. Dalton collection, 1695-1955 and undated
80.5 Linear Feet approx. 11,160 Items- Abstract Or Scope
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Harry L. and Mary K. Dalton collected art, rare books, and manuscripts, and made many contributions to art museums and libraries, most notably the Duke University Library, the Mint Museum, and the library of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The Dalton Collection is comprised of sub-collections acquired by Harry L. and Mary K. Dalton.
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de papers, 1825-1830
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- Letter of Lafayette, 1825, written on board the "Natchez" on the Mississippi River, introducing
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Letter of Lafayette, 1825, written on board the "Natchez" on the Mississippi River, introducing Prince Achille Murat, son of the King of Naples, and a group of Murat's Neapolitan friends; letter from Lafayette in Halifax, N.C., responding to an invitation to visit Tarboro, N.C.; letter from Lafayette to unidentified friend, written from LaGrange, France, 1830, concerning funds for a statue of Thomas Jefferson to be commissioned in Europe on behalf of the University of Virginia (Lafayette favored the appointment of his friend Pierre-Jean David for this commission).
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Confederate States of America collection, 1850-1876 and undated
17.5 Linear Feet 13160 Items- Abstract Or Scope
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The Confederate States of America (CSA) was formed in 1861 by eleven states in the southern United States that declared secession from the U.S. in order to protect their right to own slaves. The CSA collapsed in 1865 after its defeat in the American Civil War by Union forces. Collection was assembled from various sources and includes a variety of materials originating from administrative bodies within the Confederate States of America, including the Army, Executive Department, Congress, state governments and agencies, and the Navy. In addition to official records, the collection also includes some personal correspondence and miscellany.
Army--Miscellany, 1861-1876 and undated 2 boxes and 5 folders; 607 items
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- , Sandusky Bay, Ohio; and Rock Island in the Mississippi River between Rock Island, Illinois, and Davenport
, Mississippi; roads between Columbus and Tuscaloosa; and the Wilmington Fort Fisher area in December, 1864 - Abstract Or Scope
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This series includes maps, personal letters from officers and soldiers, and prison papers.
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Parapsychology Laboratory records, 1893-1984
340 Linear Feet (approximately 250,115 items)- Abstract Or Scope
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The Parapsychology Laboratory records span the years 1919-1984, with the exception of an 1893 letter written by Richard Hodgson, Secretary of the American Society for Psychical Research, to William James. Included are personal papers of J. B. Rhine, J. G. Pratt, L. E. Rhine and other Laboratory staff, as well as professional correspondence, research records, legal and financial papers, clippings, and photographs. Over half the collection is represented by correspondence, and about a third of it by research files. Included are editorial files (1942-1959) of Dorothy Pope, Managing Editor of the Journal of Parapsychology, and papers (1957-1963) relating to the tenures of Rhea White and J. G. Pratt as officers of the Parapsychological Association.
Mississippi State Hospital series, 1950 2 folders Box 566
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- Mississippi State Hospital series, 1950
Rivers, O. - Collection Context
Mississippi State Hospital series, 1950 3 folders Box 567
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- Mississippi State Hospital series, 1950
Rivers, O. - Collection Context
Mississippi State group ESP, 1951 2 folders Box 568
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- Mississippi State group ESP, 1951
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Knight family papers, 1784-1960 and undated, bulk 1840s-1890s
5.5 Linear Feet (13 boxes)- Abstract Or Scope
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Correspondence, diaries and notebooks, financial papers, legal papers, genealogical documents, printed materials, and other materials pertain to the John Knight family of Natchez, Mississippi and Frederick, Maryland. Materials in the collection date from 1784 to 1960, and the bulk date from the 1840s to the 1890s. The majority of the papers concern the personal, legal, and financial activities of John Knight (1806-1864), merchant, plantation owner, lawyer, and investor; Frances Z.S. (Beall) Knight (1813-1900), his wife; and their daughter Frances (Fanny) Beall Knight McDannold; as well as their children, relatives, friends, and business partners, especially banker Enoch Pratt and William Murdock Beall. Significant topics include: life in Natchez, Mississippi and Frederick, Maryland; their management of plantations and enslaved people; slavery in Mississippi and other Southern states; 19th century economic conditions, especially concerning cotton, banking and bank failures; U.S. politics in the 1850s-1860s; the Civil War, especially in Maryland; cholera and yellow fever outbreaks; 19th century family life; and the Knights' travels to Europe, Russia, and other places from 1850 to 1864. Genealogies chiefly relate to the descendants of Elisha Beall of Maryland, and the McCleery, Pettit, and McLanahan families of Indiana and Maryland. Papers of John Knight's wife, Frances (Beall) Knight, include her diaries, correspondence, and legal papers. There are also diaries kept by Fanny, their daughter, documenting her travels in the 1860s, as well as her school notebooks and correspondence.
Correspondence, 1817-1895 and undated 1.5 Linear Feet (3 boxes)
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- medical care of slaves; the operation of Knight's plantations; piracy on the Mississippi River, 1841
and bank failures; investment in cotton land in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas; the purchase and
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Correspondence consists chiefly of business letters by John Knight and his partners and friends. However, there are also many letters by Knight family members and their relatives and friends. The correspondence begins in 1817 with letters from Mary (McCleery) Knight in Indiana to her sister Frances (McCleery) Beall, William M. Beall's wife. There is also correspondence between Fanny Knight, John and Frances Knight's daughter, and Thomas McDannold during their courtship. Correspondence also includes letters from friends and relatives while the Knights were traveling abroad. Many letters also mention John Knight's attempts at various cures for ill health, including water cures, hot springs, and baths.
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George McClellan Derby Letters, 1874-1924 and undated
0.4 Linear Feet 145 Items- Abstract Or Scope
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George McClellan Derby (1856-1948) was a U.S. Army engineer recognized for his aerial balloon assents and reconnaissance efforts during the Santiago de Cuba campaign of the Spanish-American War. For the majority of his military career, he was involved in river engineering projects throughout the United States. The collection includes letters to George McClellan Derby, letters to his wife, Bessie (Kidder) Derby, and several letters written by Derby to his mother. Over 50 letters are grouped by originator within the George McClellan Derby series, 29 of which pertain to Derby's military career, mainly in relation to his responsibilities as Assistant Engineer in charge of New York river and harbor works during the mid-1880s. Nearly 90 letters, written by Derby's friend and uncle-in-law, Clarence F. Low, are arranged chronologically by year within the Clarence F. Low series. The collection, chiefly personal in nature, offers insights into the private life of this prominent military engineer and an indication of the challenges involved in conducting underwater explosions. Materials range in date from 1874 to 1907, 1924, and undated.
George McClellan Derby Letters, 1874-1924 and undated 0.4 Linear Feet 145 Items
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- Commissioner of the District of Columbia 1894-1902 In charge of 4th District, Mississippi River improvements
, Kentucky 1903-1906 In charge of reservoirs at headwaters of the Mississippi River in Minnesota 1904 Apr. 4
River engineering -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th century - Abstract Or Scope
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George McClellan Derby (1856-1948) was a U.S. Army engineer recognized for his aerial balloon assents and reconnaissance efforts during the Santiago de Cuba campaign of the Spanish-American War. For the majority of his military career, he was involved in river engineering projects throughout the United States. The collection includes letters to George McClellan Derby, letters to his wife, Bessie (Kidder) Derby, and several letters written by Derby to his mother. Over 50 letters are grouped by originator within the George McClellan Derby series, 29 of which pertain to Derby's military career, mainly in relation to his responsibilities as Assistant Engineer in charge of New York river and harbor works during the mid-1880s. Nearly 90 letters, written by Derby's friend and uncle-in-law, Clarence F. Low, are arranged chronologically by year within the Clarence F. Low series. The collection, chiefly personal in nature, offers insights into the private life of this prominent military engineer and an indication of the challenges involved in conducting underwater explosions. Materials range in date from 1874 to 1907, 1924, and undated.
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Derek Anderson photographs, 2006-2008
1 Linear Feet 16 Items- Abstract Or Scope
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Durham-based photographer specializing in editorial and documentary photography. Collection contains 16 11x14 color digital photographs produced by Derek Anderson for his project "When the Dust Settles: A photographic survey of the former Liggett & Myers tobacco factory in Durham, NC." Photographs include captions and range in date from 2006 to 2008.
Derek Anderson photographs, 2006-2008 1 Linear Feet 16 Items
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- States and is based in Durham, North Carolina. Recent areas of focus include the Mississippi River and
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Durham-based photographer specializing in editorial and documentary photography. Collection contains 16 11x14 color digital photographs produced by Derek Anderson for his project "When the Dust Settles: A photographic survey of the former Liggett & Myers tobacco factory in Durham, NC." Photographs include captions and range in date from 2006 to 2008.
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Phebe Ann Palmer letters, 1864, 1865
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Collection comprises two letters (1864 January 3 and 1865 October 13) Phebe Ann Palmer wrote to unidentified recipients. Topics include the weather, health of family members, visitors and visiting, the local school teachers, the Clinton County Fair, the Civil War and its related deaths and sacrifices. She added at one point "I have told you all the gossip I know," and she writes at length about her thoughts and feelings regarding other people and situations.
Phebe Ann Palmer letters, 1864, 1865 0.1 Linear Feet (2 items)
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- across the Mississippi River. Mr. Palmer was elected to the General Assembly in 1866, where he read the
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Collection comprises two letters (1864 January 3 and 1865 October 13) Phebe Ann Palmer wrote to unidentified recipients. Topics include the weather, health of family members, visitors and visiting, the local school teachers, the Clinton County Fair, the Civil War and its related deaths and sacrifices. She added at one point "I have told you all the gossip I know," and she writes at length about her thoughts and feelings regarding other people and situations.
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Tom Rankin photographs and papers, 1977-2016
33.5 Linear Feet (28 boxes; 2 film reels)- Abstract Or Scope
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Tom Rankin is a documentary photographer, filmmaker, folklorist, professor of art and documentary studies, and former director of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Collection consists of 147 black-and-white and color photographs documenting the American South and China. Photographs from the South focus on religious sites, rituals, and communities in the Mississippi Delta region, as well as portraits of individuals, including portraits of Mississippi writer Larry Brown, and Southern landscapes. An additional documentary project from 2016 took Rankin to China, where he photographed semi-rural landscapes, often taken with high-rise buildings in the far distance or adjacent to industrial structures, as well as bridges and rivers, markets and live fish vendors, and a few street scenes. Finished prints range from 8x11 inch contact prints to 11x14, 16x20, and 20x24 large-format prints. Supporting materials include manuscripts, publications files, and two films, all deriving from Rankin's career and art practice. Includes a digital audio recording of a talk by Rankin at the exhibit opening of his work, "Near the Cross: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta." Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.
Tom Rankin photographs and papers, 1977-2016 33.5 Linear Feet (28 boxes; 2 film reels)
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- Mississippi -- Pictorial works
Mississippi -- Religious life
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Tom Rankin is a documentary photographer, filmmaker, folklorist, professor of art and documentary studies, and former director of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Collection consists of 147 black-and-white and color photographs documenting the American South and China. Photographs from the South focus on religious sites, rituals, and communities in the Mississippi Delta region, as well as portraits of individuals, including portraits of Mississippi writer Larry Brown, and Southern landscapes. An additional documentary project from 2016 took Rankin to China, where he photographed semi-rural landscapes, often taken with high-rise buildings in the far distance or adjacent to industrial structures, as well as bridges and rivers, markets and live fish vendors, and a few street scenes. Finished prints range from 8x11 inch contact prints to 11x14, 16x20, and 20x24 large-format prints. Supporting materials include manuscripts, publications files, and two films, all deriving from Rankin's career and art practice. Includes a digital audio recording of a talk by Rankin at the exhibit opening of his work, "Near the Cross: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta." Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.
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Stacy Kranitz photographs, 2017
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Stacy Kranitz is a documentary photographer and author based in Tennessee. Collection consists of 15 color inkjet prints and a 100-page handmade illustrated book fom a project titled Fulcrum of Malice, which documents the connections between conditions in African American neighborhoods and the siting and management of hazardous industries and waste sites around Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The photographs show African American families at home and in their neighborhoods, people in church and at meetings about the hazardous waste sites, biodegraded landscapes, and the industrial sites themselves. The book also includes text, maps, charts that narrate the community histories, government policies which led to the current situation, and the decades-long struggle for environmental and health justice for the inhabitants. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.
Stacy Kranitz photographs, 2017 .5 Linear Feet (1 box)
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- slaves working on sugar cane plantations along the Mississippi River." "Alsen was established in 1872 as
Mississippi river. This method has been used to justify and grow petrochemical corridors around the world." - Abstract Or Scope
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Stacy Kranitz is a documentary photographer and author based in Tennessee. Collection consists of 15 color inkjet prints and a 100-page handmade illustrated book fom a project titled Fulcrum of Malice, which documents the connections between conditions in African American neighborhoods and the siting and management of hazardous industries and waste sites around Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The photographs show African American families at home and in their neighborhoods, people in church and at meetings about the hazardous waste sites, biodegraded landscapes, and the industrial sites themselves. The book also includes text, maps, charts that narrate the community histories, government policies which led to the current situation, and the decades-long struggle for environmental and health justice for the inhabitants. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.
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Samuel Smith Downey papers, 1762-1965
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Samuel Smith Downey (1792-1851) was an Irish American, plantation owner, and enslaver of Granville County, N.C. The early portion of this collection is made up of the papers of Ephraim Macquillen, a merchant of Richmond, Va., containing letters, bills, and receipts from business firms in New York, Philadelphia, and Boston to which he sold flour and tobacco and from which he bought supplies. The papers of Samuel S. Downey, which also contain the papers of James Webb Alexander, John Granville Smith, Thomas Downey, James Downey, and son-in-law Isaac H. Davis, concern S. S. Downey's administration of the estate of John G. Smith and the many suits involving the estate; management of plantations in Mississippi and North Carolina including correspondence and legal papers dealing with hiring enslaved people to build a railroad from Natchez to Jackson, Miss., in the 1830s; letters from factories in Richmond, Va., concerning Downey's tobacco; and the Civil War letters of Downey's sons, for the most part describing the effects of the war on civilians.
Samuel Smith Downey papers, 1762-1965 20 Linear Feet
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- Plantations -- Mississippi
Railroads -- Mississippi
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Samuel Smith Downey (1792-1851) was an Irish American, plantation owner, and enslaver of Granville County, N.C. The early portion of this collection is made up of the papers of Ephraim Macquillen, a merchant of Richmond, Va., containing letters, bills, and receipts from business firms in New York, Philadelphia, and Boston to which he sold flour and tobacco and from which he bought supplies. The papers of Samuel S. Downey, which also contain the papers of James Webb Alexander, John Granville Smith, Thomas Downey, James Downey, and son-in-law Isaac H. Davis, concern S. S. Downey's administration of the estate of John G. Smith and the many suits involving the estate; management of plantations in Mississippi and North Carolina including correspondence and legal papers dealing with hiring enslaved people to build a railroad from Natchez to Jackson, Miss., in the 1830s; letters from factories in Richmond, Va., concerning Downey's tobacco; and the Civil War letters of Downey's sons, for the most part describing the effects of the war on civilians.
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Mary Dowdell Ashley film collection, 1937-1975
3 Linear Feet (13 16mm film reels)- Abstract Or Scope
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The collection consists of approximately 9,000 film feet (about 5.5 hours across 13 reels) of 16mm home movies, shot from the 1930s to the 1970s by Mary Dowdell Ashley. The footage consists primarily of Ashley's family and community life in Montgomery, Alabama and the Gulf Coast area.
Reel 2, compilation, segments 13-24, 1956-1958
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- Original notes on can: 13: Bankhead - Rick and Shap in cowboy suits - Spring 1956 - Mississippi
River - New Orleans - Zoo, 3rd grade, Mrs. Haber, Ann; 14: Spring 1956 - Hull St. Big Ann - Stausses
Reel 2. Sequence 13. Scene 2. New Orleans, LA: Visit of Ashley family to New Orleans: Mississippi - Abstract Or Scope
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Original notes on can: 13: Bankhead - Rick and Shap in cowboy suits - Spring 1956 - Mississippi River - New Orleans - Zoo, 3rd grade, Mrs. Haber, Ann; 14: Spring 1956 - Hull St. Big Ann - Stausses - Ann D. (baby) Bonnie and Gray - Bonnie, camp, Mary Esther 1956 - Mary Ellis and Dolphin. Gulf - all 5 children; 15: 1956 - Mary Esther - Mary Wood and Mary Ellis. Uncle Phil's boat. Perdido diving. Coosa. Country Club; 16: 1955 - Bankhead - Tutsie's puppies - Shap and Mollie - Backyard on slide. Mother, Dad, Little Ann and Eddie. (Lots of blank) Coosa, falls; 17: Summer 1957 - Jamestown and Williamsburg. Boat trip - Ann, Bonnie, Rick (sleeping) Shap and Dad; 18: Summer 1957 - Ocracoke - Bird Island - Marshall and Exie; 19: Summer 1957 - Perdido, Garth pier. Lake Martin, Hubbard and Ellie; 20: 1957 - Von Gal pool. Perdido. Garth skiis - Rusty Seawell; 21: January 1958 - Coosa - Rick's Birthday party - Billy, Thomas, Joesph, Julian. Easter; 22: 1958 - Mary Esther - Deep sea fishing. Swim meet. East "Y". Hula contest - Murchinson; 23: Floyd School chearleading. Bankhead w/puppies. Backyard - Ann and Roselyn Weil - Coosa party for Bonnie - Jack's Creek; 24: Blue and Gray Tennis. Rick the Cowboy. Swim meet. Mary Esther. Exie.
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Purviance family papers, 1757-1932, bulk 1776-1920
3 Linear Feet (5 boxes, 2,363 items (includes 16 vols.))- Abstract Or Scope
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This collection contains professional, business, personal and family correspondence and other papers of the related Purviance and Courtenay families of Baltimore, Md., and elsewhere. The collection pertains to Revolutionary War activities in Maryland, shipping and trade, Western lands, settlement of estates, Civil War veterans' activities, the Cuban independence movement, and other matters. Includes papers of John Henry Purviance, U.S. diplomat in Paris, concerning the Monroe Mission (1794), U.S. relations with Napoleon and the Revolutionary French Government; papers relating to the financial affairs of Elizabeth Isabella Purviance Courtenay; papers of Edward H. Courtenay, Sr., relating to his career at West Point, his later teaching duties there and at other colleges, and his investment activities; and letters of Edward H. Courtenay, Jr., written in Washington, D.C., during the Civil War, describing the city and political opinion there. Correspondents include Alexander Dallas Bache, George William Erving, John Graham, Gessner Harrison, Anthony Hart, William Homes McGuffey, William Maclay, George Mason, James Monroe, Abner Nash, Fulwar Skipwith, George Muirson Totten, Thomas Tudor Tucker, and John Vanderlyn.
Purviance family papers, 1757-1932, bulk 1776-1920 3 Linear Feet (5 boxes, 2,363 items (includes 16 vols.))
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- Mississippi River open to American trade; memoranda, 1796, concerning the difficulties of obtaining cash for a
Indiana Land companies, sale of lands owned by Purviance on the Chillisquaque River near Sunbury
(Pennsylvania), lands owned by George Washington on the Kanawha River, and proposed development of the James - Abstract Or Scope
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This collection contains professional, business, personal and family correspondence and other papers of the related Purviance and Courtenay families of Baltimore, Md., and elsewhere. The collection pertains to Revolutionary War activities in Maryland, shipping and trade, Western lands, settlement of estates, Civil War veterans' activities, the Cuban independence movement, and other matters. Includes papers of John Henry Purviance, U.S. diplomat in Paris, concerning the Monroe Mission (1794), U.S. relations with Napoleon and the Revolutionary French Government; papers relating to the financial affairs of Elizabeth Isabella Purviance Courtenay; papers of Edward H. Courtenay, Sr., relating to his career at West Point, his later teaching duties there and at other colleges, and his investment activities; and letters of Edward H. Courtenay, Jr., written in Washington, D.C., during the Civil War, describing the city and political opinion there. Correspondents include Alexander Dallas Bache, George William Erving, John Graham, Gessner Harrison, Anthony Hart, William Homes McGuffey, William Maclay, George Mason, James Monroe, Abner Nash, Fulwar Skipwith, George Muirson Totten, Thomas Tudor Tucker, and John Vanderlyn.
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Lois Wright Richardson Davis family papers, 1851-1912 and undated
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Working-class New England family that was involved with both the Union and the Confederacy during the American Civil War. The mother, Lois Wright was born in Northfield, Massachusetts and died in Lowell, Massachusetts. She had at least seven children with her first husband Luther Richardson. The bulk of the collection is made up of letters between Davis and her children during the Civil War. In the late 1850s two of Lois Davis' daughters moved to Mobile, Alabama and their husbands served in the Confederate Army. Two of Lois Davis' sons fought with Massachusetts regiments, Charles Henry at first with the 6th Massachusetts Infantry, and then both Charles Henry and Luther with the 26th Massachusetts Infantry. Includes letters written from Ship Island, MS (1861-1862) and New Orleans, LA (1862-1864); and material on the riots in Baltimore, MD, and battles at Manassas, Malvern Hill, Petersburg, Winchester, VA, and the Shenandoah Valley, Baton Rouge and Port Hudson, LA, Sabine Pass, TX, and along the Mississippi and Red Rivers. The letters include descriptions of living and working conditions; illnesses; deaths; and thoughts on politics, race, and religion. Also includes letters about life after the Civil War. Daughter Eunice, whose husband died while serving the Confederacy, remarried to William Smiley Connolly, an Afro-Caribbean and mixed-race ship captain. They married in Dracut, Massachusetts, and she moved with him to Grand Cayman Island. Her letters, 1870-1875, describe their life in Grand Cayman. There are additional papers relating to Charles Henry Richardson's life in Lowell, Massachusetts where he worked in a textile mill and served as an Alderman.
Lois Wright Richardson Davis family papers, 1851-1912 and undated 0.75 Linear Feet
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- , and the Shenandoah Valley, Baton Rouge and Port Hudson, LA, Sabine Pass, TX, and along the Mississippi
and Red Rivers. The letters include descriptions of living and working conditions; illnesses; deaths
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Working-class New England family that was involved with both the Union and the Confederacy during the American Civil War. The mother, Lois Wright was born in Northfield, Massachusetts and died in Lowell, Massachusetts. She had at least seven children with her first husband Luther Richardson. The bulk of the collection is made up of letters between Davis and her children during the Civil War. In the late 1850s two of Lois Davis' daughters moved to Mobile, Alabama and their husbands served in the Confederate Army. Two of Lois Davis' sons fought with Massachusetts regiments, Charles Henry at first with the 6th Massachusetts Infantry, and then both Charles Henry and Luther with the 26th Massachusetts Infantry. Includes letters written from Ship Island, MS (1861-1862) and New Orleans, LA (1862-1864); and material on the riots in Baltimore, MD, and battles at Manassas, Malvern Hill, Petersburg, Winchester, VA, and the Shenandoah Valley, Baton Rouge and Port Hudson, LA, Sabine Pass, TX, and along the Mississippi and Red Rivers. The letters include descriptions of living and working conditions; illnesses; deaths; and thoughts on politics, race, and religion. Also includes letters about life after the Civil War. Daughter Eunice, whose husband died while serving the Confederacy, remarried to William Smiley Connolly, an Afro-Caribbean and mixed-race ship captain. They married in Dracut, Massachusetts, and she moved with him to Grand Cayman Island. Her letters, 1870-1875, describe their life in Grand Cayman. There are additional papers relating to Charles Henry Richardson's life in Lowell, Massachusetts where he worked in a textile mill and served as an Alderman.
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John Hobart Davis papers, 1832-1920
1 Linear Feet 400 Items- Abstract Or Scope
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The papers of John Hobart Davis span the years 1832-1920, but the bulk of the collection is the Civil War correspondence, 1862-1865. Davis chiefly wrote the letters to his sister, Elisa E. Davis, with a few letters to other family members, such as his brother Frank. Private Davis was stationed at Camp Beaufort, Me. (1861, Dec. - 1862, Feb.); Ship Island, Miss. (1862, Mar. - 1863, Feb.); Fort Jackson, La. (1863, Feb. - Aug.); Pass Manchoc, La. (1863, Aug. -Sept.); Fort Stephens, La. (1863, Oct. - 1864, July); and Washington, D.C. (1864, Aug. - 1865, Apr.).
John Hobart Davis papers, 1832-1920 1 Linear Feet 400 Items
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- Mississippi -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Red River Expedition, 1864
stationed at locations in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Washington, D.C. Davis was a clerk, and later was in - Abstract Or Scope
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The papers of John Hobart Davis span the years 1832-1920, but the bulk of the collection is the Civil War correspondence, 1862-1865. Davis chiefly wrote the letters to his sister, Elisa E. Davis, with a few letters to other family members, such as his brother Frank. Private Davis was stationed at Camp Beaufort, Me. (1861, Dec. - 1862, Feb.); Ship Island, Miss. (1862, Mar. - 1863, Feb.); Fort Jackson, La. (1863, Feb. - Aug.); Pass Manchoc, La. (1863, Aug. -Sept.); Fort Stephens, La. (1863, Oct. - 1864, July); and Washington, D.C. (1864, Aug. - 1865, Apr.).
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W. Eugene Smith Reference CD collection, 1946-1971
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The W. Eugene Smith Reference Reference CD Collection includes 5,087 compact discs containing audio originally recorded to quarter-inch open reel tape by photographer W. Eugene Smith. Smith recorded the bulk of the 1,740 reels represented in this collection between 1957 and 1971, while living in the "Jazz Loft" at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York City. The original tapes are housed in the W. Eugene Smith Collection at the University of Arizona's Center for Creative Photography.
Reel 1226, undated
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- cough medicine. Guest and Philadelphia Mississippi murders 7. ad for Raleigh cigarettes, Bel air
, inlcuded PBP, and Trud Adventure Series Hector Acebes (repeat from "River of Nagi Waycama" show, orig on - Abstract Or Scope
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Note 1: "Blank."; Note 2: CDI 1. talk show on civil rights 2. Shell Oil ad 3. David Susskind on Open end with civil rights discussion and race 5. ad for coffee Maxwell House, Campbell's Soups and REM cough medicine. Guest and Philadelphia Mississippi murders 7. ad for Raleigh cigarettes, Bel air cigarettes and LeCroix Beer. 8. more talk with ads 11. guests listed and end of show on WPIX Edward Keating, Frank Trippett, William Kunstler, Louis Lomax., Dr. David M. Spain and PD East. 12. ads and shows, inlcuded PBP, and Trud Adventure Series Hector Acebes (repeat from "River of Nagi Waycama" show, orig on ABC TV 14. cont'd 15. cont'd with ads for Listerine, Fling hoisiery ad, then show cont'd. CDII 1. cont'd documentary 3. ads and WPIX ID Radio Free Dixie and talk show on WOR 4. 164 discussed. guests Amazing Randi show. cont'd -11. Record snowfall expected. CDIII 1. WBNC TV from November 15, 1964. Mary S. McDowell Profiles in Courage. 6. ads and show ID 11. ending and refrence to JFK special next show on Thomas Hart Benton, then ads and ends during ads. for RCA color TV. Wonderful World of Walt Disney (Ben and Me and Peter and the Wolf episode. with ads 5. jumps back to talk show on Open End with David Susskind. lots of good talk -11. CDV 1. mid debate "William C Williams not there) guest in studio is Shelley Winters. WOR Barry Farber and guest argue then show ends to ads for Nestles cocao and news, jumps to other talk show "All Things Considered" on 4. tthen to civil rights discussion on 6 and 7. then to Cuban Spanish speaking Channel and then to BBC Texans interviewed on BBC (JFK special on WBAI produced by BBC) 14. Tim Andrews and tohers credited at end. Edward P Morgan Anniversary of JFK's assassination. CDVI 1. Edward P Morgan, cont'd, WBAI 2. 3. 4. Music, symphony by JS Bach, 1. Concierto #1 in D Minor, string orch 5. new piece.;
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Reel 356, [circa 1960]
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- **** 8. river and window photography "Jim" (in loft) 9. cont'd 10. con'td and some proof print reference
Explorer" 3. Kane Lane singers and Robert M. Hutchins 4. con'td speech, Mississippi and Robert F. Kennedy 5 - Abstract Or Scope
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Note 1: "Leroy Parkins and Smith Talking about Dick Carry's Amplifier Janita and Gene 2nd side: I believe Art Director who came up with Jan Mason's sister or the man who came here (with girl) looking for industrial ads. 1960? 1961? Gene playing his notorious "Rolling Hand Piano." Inside Tracks: Starts halfway in Germany theater celebration Swell, others. Or Young Poet readings interview. Track 4: California (Fund for Republic) thinking Block study of Democratic Institutions. Festival of performing arts."; Note 2: CDI 1. Gene Smith, Caroline, (Dick Cary as subject**) Dick Cary's amplifier. Viking tape deck in pawn by Smith. Piano and loft. 2. Smith and Carole, Bobby, Pending. WBAI radio on in loft, pop songs. 3. con'td, less talk, Gene and Carole 4. con'td 5. con'td with piano in loft, other room. prints, ashtray cigarettes, loft. 6. starsteps and knocks 7. Smith and cat 8. cont'd ambient 9. cont'd stair steps 10 . Juanita present 11. Smith/Carole T./Juanita in hallway 12. con'td 13. cont'd CDII 1. street noise in loft 2. stairsteps, door, Smith's voice and loft noise 3. stair steps, loft noise CDIII 1. loft noise, Smith's voice 2. con'td and Carole's presence "drawings" (Smith's) 3. photos, Pittsburgh coke factory (steel) 4. Bob Mack and Thompason story, Harry Weiss. Wales. 5. Smith's material in loft. list 16 and a half tons. and photo talk ***** 6. cont'd 7. loft piano's, elevated train, 6th Avenue and neighbor hood history **** 8. river and window photography "Jim" (in loft) 9. cont'd 10. con'td and some proof print reference from Smith 11. Pittsburgh steel "coke" 12. photo talk: clouds 13. ocn'td 14 cont'd with "no, no I don't" (have a phone here) CDIV 1. Smith sings and humms with street noise and background radio in loft 2. cont'd 3. same 4. same with piano and puttering 5. con'td but less clear audio 6. con't d with piano 7. con't d 8. weird piano con'td 10 con'td 11. ends and Smith humming and puttering in loft after stopping piano 12. cont'd CDV 1. WBAI radio 3:10. Groucho Marx song "hooray for Captain Spalding the African Explorer" 3. Kane Lane singers and Robert M. Hutchins 4. con'td speech, Mississippi and Robert F. Kennedy 5. cont'd 6. Qand A 7. con'td 8,9,10 con'td then @2:55: ends. UN Delegates and sign off. 11. Richard Pigart composer piece 12. back to loft sound 13. loft noise and arrival with radio con'td WABC then sax riffs in loft 14. news on radio and sax riffs in loft. CDVI 1. drum riffs, hammering and Smith's voice Carole's voice 2. (New content) mic tapping and TV or radio story by Joyce Grenfell, British comedienne 3. cont'd with impersonations 4. cont'd 5. cont'd 6. cont'd 7. cont'd with lullaby 8. cont'd 9. song 10. announcer 6th Presentation: Festival of Performing Arts. Standard Oil Company. NJ. Next week: Miriam Makeba. Channel 5 (TV) Robert Taylor in "The Detectives" Excedrin commercial. The Balcony (film) commercial. 10 The Detectives begins (aired 1959-62) CDVII 1. TV Yeats. Troy. Live audience. 2. Yeats letter, Ezra Pund. Hauptman. 3. cont'd ends with applause (Carl Ebert) 4. German theater 5. cont'd 5. "The World Turns" 6. news story and German theater cont'd 7. Maximillan Schell, Hamlet in Wittenburg 8. other speaker, "Expressionists" set desgin 9. cont'd 10. fragment of "Mack the Knife" Lenya/Weill (jumps to) German theatre show 12. cont'd 13. cont'd 14. cont'd with Heretic of Joanna;
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William Law papers, 1761-1890
2.4 Linear Feet (4 boxes, 1,863 items (including 20 vols.))- Abstract Or Scope
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Collection has personal and business correspondence of William Law, the Dubose family, and of Cyrus Bacot, with whom Law was connected by marriage. As captain of the Black Creek Militia, 1813-1820, Law's papers include muster rolls, accounts of courts-martial, lists of absentees with their excuses, and numerous orders. Law's plantation records are confined to frequent lists of slaves, accounts of cotton planted and produced, and weights of hogs killed. The bulk of the papers is concerned with Law's activities as a merchant in partnership with Daniel Dubose, include records of large amounts of cotton sold to Charleston commission merchants, of turpentine and bricks sold, and papers, bills, receipts, account books, daybooks, cashbooks, and ledgers. Included also are an account book of lumber sold by Law and Bacot, and letters and papers showing Law's activities in the temperance movement and the Presbyterian Church. Personal letters, mostly post 1839, include letters of sympathy at the death of Law's wife in 1839, frequent letters from member of the Cooper and Dubose families, and letters from Law's brother, James Robert Law, who was often in financial difficulties. J. R. Law was a planter in the Sumter District of South Carolina and in Madison County, Fla., after 1848. Miscellaneous materials include a description of the Alabama River and environs, 1815, accounts of trips to Red Sulphur Springs and other springs in Virginia, 1835, and Civil War letters from William Law's son discussing camp life.
William Law papers, 1761-1890 2.4 Linear Feet (4 boxes, 1,863 items (including 20 vols.))
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- Alabama River (Ala.) -- Description and travel.
There are also a description of the Alabama River and its fertile lowlands by William I. DuBose
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Collection has personal and business correspondence of William Law, the Dubose family, and of Cyrus Bacot, with whom Law was connected by marriage. As captain of the Black Creek Militia, 1813-1820, Law's papers include muster rolls, accounts of courts-martial, lists of absentees with their excuses, and numerous orders. Law's plantation records are confined to frequent lists of slaves, accounts of cotton planted and produced, and weights of hogs killed. The bulk of the papers is concerned with Law's activities as a merchant in partnership with Daniel Dubose, include records of large amounts of cotton sold to Charleston commission merchants, of turpentine and bricks sold, and papers, bills, receipts, account books, daybooks, cashbooks, and ledgers. Included also are an account book of lumber sold by Law and Bacot, and letters and papers showing Law's activities in the temperance movement and the Presbyterian Church. Personal letters, mostly post 1839, include letters of sympathy at the death of Law's wife in 1839, frequent letters from member of the Cooper and Dubose families, and letters from Law's brother, James Robert Law, who was often in financial difficulties. J. R. Law was a planter in the Sumter District of South Carolina and in Madison County, Fla., after 1848. Miscellaneous materials include a description of the Alabama River and environs, 1815, accounts of trips to Red Sulphur Springs and other springs in Virginia, 1835, and Civil War letters from William Law's son discussing camp life.
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Looking at Appalachia photographs collection, 2014
3 Linear Feet (2 oversize boxes)- Abstract Or Scope
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These 75 black-and-white (11) and color (64) exhibit photographs were selected from 297 images collected online from the crowdsourced project, "Looking at Appalachia," directed by documentarian Roger May. They were taken by 51 photographers from a wide range of backgrounds and aesthetics, from a hobbyist retired coal miner to a young photojournalist working regularly for The New York Times. States represented include: Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. Subjects include portraits of people, rural landscapes, and farm and town life, with social events predominating. Sizes range from 14x23 to 16x20 inches, along with several 3.25 x 4.25 inch prints. Acquired by the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.
Looking at Appalachia photographs collection, 2014 3 Linear Feet (2 oversize boxes)
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- was born in the Tug River Valley, located on the West Virginia and Kentucky state line, in the heart
area from southern New York to northeast Mississippi. These submissions resulted in 297 photographs
represented include: Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, New York, Ohio - Abstract Or Scope
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These 75 black-and-white (11) and color (64) exhibit photographs were selected from 297 images collected online from the crowdsourced project, "Looking at Appalachia," directed by documentarian Roger May. They were taken by 51 photographers from a wide range of backgrounds and aesthetics, from a hobbyist retired coal miner to a young photojournalist working regularly for The New York Times. States represented include: Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. Subjects include portraits of people, rural landscapes, and farm and town life, with social events predominating. Sizes range from 14x23 to 16x20 inches, along with several 3.25 x 4.25 inch prints. Acquired by the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.
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Bullock family papers, 1784-1940s and undated
1.5 Linear Feet (3 boxes)- Abstract Or Scope
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Papers of several generations of a family of southern Virginia and central North Carolina, including Williamsboro, Granville County (now Vance), and southern Virginia. Fourteen photographs added at a later date represent bi-racial descendants of this family who lived in Nutbush and Manson, NC. The bulk is comprised of correspondence, 1820-1920, between John and William H. Bullock, a second John Bullock and his wife, Susan M. (Cobb) Bullock, their sons and daughters, and other children and grandchildren. Topics include family relationships and genealogy; illnesses and deaths; farming; enslaved persons and tenants (including lists with names of enslaved persons); campus life at the University of North Carolina, 1850s; plantation management; market prices, 1850s-1860s; secessionist and Union sentiments in Granville County; religious life; the Spanish-American War; and the Civil War in North Carolina and Virginia, with details on camp life, troop movements, and the Battle of Kinston and the siege of Petersburg. Volumes include two ledgers, a travel diary, 1848, from a business trip to Tennessee, and Susan Bullock's diary, 1869-1871. Included are legal and financial papers dating from 1784-1876.
Correspondence, 1820-1920 and undated 11 folders
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- Tennessee and Mississippi, where the Bullocks owned land. Other place names appearing include Grassy Creek
major naval engagement at the mouth of the James River. A letter from June 1862 brings the news that a - Abstract Or Scope
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About one third of the correspondence dates from the 1820s to 1865, and two-thirds dates from after the Civil War to the early 20th century. Included are 46 letters from the Civil War period to and from members of John and Susan Bullock's family, chiefly concerning their son Walter Bullock's service in the Confederate Army.
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William Alexander Smith papers, 1765-1949
20 Linear Feet (51 boxes; 9 separately bound volumes)- Abstract Or Scope
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William Alexander Smith was a textile manufacturer and businessman of Ansonville, North Carolina. Collection includes correspondence, account books, business records, and other papers, relating to Smith's career as a merchant, cotton textile manufacturer, farmer, and investor. Includes material relating to the family's agricultural, mercantile, and milling enterprises during the antebellum period, with references to Smith's interests in education, the Protestant Episcopal Church, the Civil War, and the United Confederate Veterans, and to automobile manufacture, banking, commercial finance, cosmetics, furniture, insurance, lumbering, patent medicine, personal loans, self-propelled railway passenger cars, real estate development, tobacco processing, and the mining of gold in Alaska and Montana, copper in Arizona, and mica in North Carolina. Correspondents include Bishop Joseph Blount Cheshire, Francis Johnstone Murdoch, and George Stephens.
William Alexander Smith papers, 1765-1949 20 Linear Feet (51 boxes; 9 separately bound volumes)
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- The management of Smith's farm on the Pee Dee River is documented by records on the cotton trade
Mining of gold, copper, and mica is the subject of material on the Eagle River Mining Company in
the son of Smith's first cousin; and politics in Mississippi and Tennessee. Other papers include the - Abstract Or Scope
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William Alexander Smith was a textile manufacturer and businessman of Ansonville, North Carolina. Collection includes correspondence, account books, business records, and other papers, relating to Smith's career as a merchant, cotton textile manufacturer, farmer, and investor. Includes material relating to the family's agricultural, mercantile, and milling enterprises during the antebellum period, with references to Smith's interests in education, the Protestant Episcopal Church, the Civil War, and the United Confederate Veterans, and to automobile manufacture, banking, commercial finance, cosmetics, furniture, insurance, lumbering, patent medicine, personal loans, self-propelled railway passenger cars, real estate development, tobacco processing, and the mining of gold in Alaska and Montana, copper in Arizona, and mica in North Carolina. Correspondents include Bishop Joseph Blount Cheshire, Francis Johnstone Murdoch, and George Stephens.
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