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1896 22 items Box 1

Correspondents include T. Lauder Brunton, Agnes Irwin, I. Burney Yeo, Dabney Herndon Maury, Emily Hare, Thomas Richard Fraser, William Croswell Doane, Henry Thompson, Daniel C. Gilman, William Farrar Smith, W. H. Welch, Charles Leonard Moore, Henry W. Acland, Isaac Jones Wistar, John Collins Warren, George Edward Woodberry, John A. Kasson, Jane Marsh Parker, and John T. Morse.

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1899-1900 33 items Box 2

Correspondents include William Markby, John S. Goodwin, William Farrar Smith, S. D. Irwin, Alfred Ainger, Edward Willard, Lionel A. Tollemache, George Otto Trevelyan, Beatrix L. Tollemache, Mary Elcho, Sarah Angelina Acland, George Edward Woodberry, Annie Fields, Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz, Louisa E. Lawrence, Catherine K. Meredith, Alexander R. Becker, Eleanor Jay Schieffelin, T. Lauder Brunton, Mary Putnam Jacobi, T. Clifford Allbutt, J. S. Carpenter, Willard H. Brownson, and William Osler (recipient).

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A.C. Nielsen Company. Media research reports, 1978-1989 0.2 Linear Feet

A.C. Nielsen is a media research and information management company founded in 1923, based in New York, currently known as Nielsen. Collection consists of newsletters, serial publications, and promotional brochures produced by the A.C. Nielsen Company. Materials primarily relate to Nielsen's research into television audience research; media broadcast ratings; television ownership; broadcast stations; and retail promotional activities such as coupons and refunds/rebates. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.

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Frances D. Acomb papers, 1953 - 1975 0.5 Linear Feet 500 Items

Frances D. Acomb (1907-1984) served as a professor of history at Duke University from 1945 to 1975. She specialized in French history. The Acomb papers contain correspondence, memoranda, manuscripts, and printed matter dealing with Acomb's study of European history, particularly Jacques Mallet Du Pan; as well as the Duke University chapter of the American Association of University Professors, the American Association of University Women, and other professional organizations. English.

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Adamos manuscript, undated 1 items

Four pages of a materia medica, of which one section bears the title "The Efforts and Vertuos: with the severall use of Venice Triache."

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Abigail Adams (n.p.) letter to Julia Stockton Rush (Philadelphia), 1813 July 7 1 Leaves Box 1, Folder 1

Adams sends her condolences to Rush, and confides her own concern about her daughter's struggles with breast cancer.

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Abigail Adams letters, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Mrs. Esther Black, Quincy, Massachusetts., 1797-1798 15 items

6 letters (ALS) to Mrs. Black concerning Mr. and Mrs. Hall, who died in the yellow fever epidemic of 1797, and their orphaned infant daughter. Mr. Hall was treated by Dr. Benjamin Rush and Dr. John Redman Coxe. The infant was later inoculated for small pox by Dr. Rush. Includes transcriptions.

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Charles Baker Adams letter, Amherst, Mass. to H.G. Brown, 1851 Nov. 17 1 items

Letter (ALS) acknowledges receipt of parcel of South African and other shells. Refers to Adams' work on Panamanian shells.

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John Adams letter, Quincy, Mass., to President James Monroe, 1821 Jun. 6 1 items

In this letter (ALS) to President James Monroe, Adams forwards a letter of Benjamin Waterhouse and suggests that Waterhouse's present difficulties are a result of his outspoken support of "the Union."

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John Quincy Adams (St. Petersburg, Russia) letter to Benjamin Rush (Philadelphia), 1811 January 11 1 Leaves Box 1, Folder 2

Adams writes regarding his presenting a copy of Rush's "Medical Inquiries and Observations" to the Emperor of Russia, who is sending Rush a ring in thanks.

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Martha O. Adams papers, 1960-2016 16 Linear Feet

Martha Olds Adams is an American writer and poet. Her works center primarily on the areas of feminist theology, female spirituality and social justice. The Martha O. Adams papers contain her poetry collections and other writings; correspondence and ephemera related to her publications, workshops and speaking engagements, as well as documentation of her research and activist work.

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Leon S. Adler papers, 1943-1993 5.5 Linear Feet

Collection comprises letters, military service and medical records, two photograph albums, and printed items maintained by Leon S. Adler, along with a scrapbook maintained stateside by Roslyn "Posy" Adler between 1943 and 1945 to record Leon's naval service, from his training and teaching at Ft. Schuyler, N.Y., to his service as part of the fleet which occupied Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, following the war. Includes two printed items, a copy of the book U.S.S. Biloxi published around 1945, and a CRAM'S WAR ATLAS, dating between 1941-1945, along with a U.S. Service flag from World War II.

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Advertising Council records, 1935-2013 21.6 Linear Feet

The Advertising Council is a nonprofit organization, founded in 1942 and based in New York, N.Y., that produces and distributes public service messages and advertising. Collection includes annual reports; newsletters; correspondence; status reports; scripts; audiovisual materials; press releases and other materials relating to the administrative operations of the Advertising Council and its involvement in public service advertising campaigns. Campaigns include U.S. Savings Bonds, United Service Organizations (USO), food policies and other wartime activities; American Economic System and other Cold War-era programs; American Red Cross; child abuse and child nutrition and fitness promotions; equal opportunity; fair housing; Religion in American Life; Smokey Bear and other fire prevention campaigns; and the war on poverty. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.

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Leroy T. Walker Africa News Service Archive, 1952-1998 and undated 606.6 Linear Feet 439,500 Items

The LeRoy T. Walker Africa News Service Archive is an extensive resource file assembled by ANS over the course of two decades in support of its news gathering efforts about Africa-related issues and U. S. foreign policy towards Africa. The collection spans the years from approximately 1960 to 1995, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1978 through 1994. Newspaper clippings, magazine articles, press releases, newsletters, brochures, and reports comprise the collection. Much of the material is gathered from mainstream media sources and government documentation in the United States, Europe, Africa, and other parts of the world. In addition, the collection includes significant resources from alternative, minority, and special interest presses world-wide that may be difficult to locate elsewhere. The archive contains scarce and difficult-to-locate materials such as numerous publications produced by non-governmental organizations and grass-roots/community groups that are/were involved in efforts related to independence movements, economic development, and human rights issues in Africa.

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1887-1889 32 items Box 1

Correspondents include T. Gaillard Thomas, Oliver Wendell Holmes, George Meade, Henry I. Bowditch, Alfred Stillé, Lyon Playfair, Alexander Agassiz, J. William Smith, Jonathan Hutchinson, Thomas Frederick Crane, Anna Eliot Ticknor, Solomon Solis Crane, Edith Matilda Thomas, Florence K. Howland, Louisa Lee Schuyler, Catharine C. Hunt, Samuel Wylie Crawford, W. W. Storey, and John Harley.

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1893 19 items Box 1

Correspondents include Anna Eliot Ticknor, Edith M. Thomas, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles Leonard Moore, Julian Stafford Corbett, T. R. Lounsbury, H. B. Whipple, Francis C. Lowell, A. Bruce-Joy, Charles-Eduoard Brown-Séquard, A. [Alexander] Biddle, and Alexander Agassiz (to Mrs. Mitchell).

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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz letter to Dr. Thomas Hill and photograph, 1886 0.1 Linear Feet (2 items)

Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz (December 5, 1822 – June 27, 1907) was an American educator, and the co-founder and first president of Radcliffe College. Collection comprises an autograph, signed letter Elizabeth Cary Agassiz wrote to Dr. Thomas Hill on January 20 [1886] regarding his article on her husband published in the Unitarian Review in December 1885. Also includes a printed photograph of her.

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Undated, A-M Box 2

Correspondents include Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz, Henry Mills Alden, Harriet S. Blaire, Alice J. Bronson, Marianne Brinner, [J. H. or D. G.?] Brinton, Walter Buell, Louisa [A. or N.?] Bullard, Charles H. [Cramp?], L. A. D. (?), Georgianna Hall, S. D. Irwin, C. Handfield Jones, Martha G. Lindsay, George Cabot Lodge, [Lylela Lotulla?], Elizabeth Marsh, Harriet Hare McClellan, S. C. McConnell, John Forsyth Meigs, and Frances J. Morgan.

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1902 25 items Box 2

Correspondents include William Farrar Smith, Joseph Wheeler, James Crichton-Browne, Philip Schuyler, Lily Millet, Frank H. Scott (The Century Co.), Lyle Eastman (Mrs. Henry L. Eastman), W. D. McKinley, D. B. Ogden, George C. Wilkins (to Theodore N. Ely), General Patrick Maxwell, Winfield Scott Meehan, J. W. McQueen, Julian Stafford Corbett, Edward Porter Alexander, E. W. Lummis, Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz, Thomas March Clark, Louisa E. Lawrence, Charles P. G. Scott, Joseph Lindon Smith, and William Osler (recipient).

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Louis Agassiz letters, 1836-1861 2 items

2 letters (ALS). The first, in German, to fellow zoologist Dr. Kaup of Darmstadt. The second, in French, to W. G. Abel, a musician who applied for a position at Agassiz's school for girls.

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