Henry Horenstein is an American photographer, author, teacher, and filmmaker based in Massachusetts. The collection comprises of approximately 250 black-and-white and color photographic prints selected from his projects, a large series of about 2500 contact sheets, and a few other related materials. Subjects in the project prints series include Horenstein's family and friends; beachgoers in Havana, Cuba; blues and country musicians, the venues where they play, and their fans; the human body in extreme close-ups; horse and stock car racing; burlesque and drag performers; and historic tri-racial communities in Maryland. Together, the prints and contact sheets offer landscapes, street scenes, storefronts, theaters, highways, museums, concerts, bars, nightlife, fairs, and people and animals in Cuba, Dubai, Germany, Los Angeles, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts and all of New England, Missouri, New York, Paris, Tennessee, Texas, Venezuela, and other places. The dominant format is gelatin silver, with some chromogenic and digital work; print sizes range from 8x10 to 20x24 inches. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.
Letter (ALS) regarding a case of sudden death immediately following and apparently caused by aspiration of the chest witnessed by McMurtry at the Charity Hospital of New Orleans in 1873 or 1874.
Lawyer, election clerk, and Virginia legislator, of Martinsburg and Hedgesville, Virginia (now West Virginia). Correspondence, account books, ledgers, and other professional, business, and family correspondence (chiefly 1820-1885), of Seibert and of his family. The collection relates to family matters, Virginia and national politics before the Civil War, migration into the Old Northwest, social life and customs, and slavery in Virginia.
Henry J. H. Thompson (1832-1901) was a private soldier in the drum corps of Company B, 15th Regiment of the Connecticut Volunteers during the American Civil War. The collection consists of letters between Thompson and his wife, Lucretia E. Thompson, as well as small diaries discussing his daily life and observations while his unit was stationed in Washington D.C., throughout Virginia, and the vicinity of New Bern, N.C.
Correspondence, field notes, writings,photographs and other subject files of Henry J. Oosting, Professor of Botany and Chairman of the Department of Botany at Duke University from 1931 to 1962. Major subjects include the ecology of virgin forests, vegetation on bare rocks, maritime vegetation in the Southeastern United States, North Carolina vegetation, the 1937 Louise A. Boyd expedition to Greenland with the American Geographical Society, the Victory Garden project in Durham, N.C., the Ecological Society of America, and the serial Ecological Monographs.
18 letters (ALS). Bradfield writes Philippart regarding manuscripts submitted for publication in the "United Service Journal" and regarding his financial difficulties, which followed upon his release from the colonial service for quarreling with another officer. Includes translations of 6 of the letters.
Two copies of a printed "Act to oblige vessels coming from foreign parts to perform quarantine" of the Virginia General Assembly. One copy bears a note by Lee on the reverse, stating that the law expires in October, but that the new law contains the same principles and regulations.