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Henry Duncan Grant watercolor sketchbooks and scrapbooks

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 611
Overview: Watercolor sketchbooks created and scrapbooks chiefly compiled by Henry Duncan Grant that document his world travel as an officer in the Royal Navy, 1866-1896 and his family until 1900.
Dates: 1866-1900

[Journal of the proceedings in Parliament]

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Call Number: OSBORN FB165
Overview: Anonymous 17th century MS. Includes speeches, petitions, messages, and committee proceedings. Most printed in Rushworth, v.i., but the versions in this MS are much longer and more complete. Includes the Commons' remonstrance to the King, April 1626. Signature of Thomas Cole on inside cover and his stamp. From the library of Dr Cox Macro and later of Hudson Gurney. The historical MSS Commission reported on this MS in the XII Report, Part IX, p.123, #XIV.
Dates: [1627/8 March 17 - 1628 June 26]

[Collection of proceedings, debates, etc.]

 Collection
Call Number: OSBORN FB177
Overview: Anonymous MS, 17th century.
Dates: 1571-1679

[Parliamentary speeches and two treatises].

 Collection
Call Number: OSBORN FB174
Overview: Anonymous MS, written in various scribes' hands. Original limp vellum.
Dates: 17th century

Bertie Greatheed papers

 Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 68
Overview: Correspondence, printed ephemera, and clippings regarding Greatheed's play, "The Regent." Also includes poetry by Greatheed and others, such as Robert Merry and William Parsons. There is one letter from Thomas King detailing his comments on the prologue to Greatheed's play.
Dates: 1785-1819

[Miscellanea historica: Collection of papers of historical interest relating to the reigns of James I and Charles I]

 Collection
Call Number: OSBORN FB164
Overview: Manuscript, in multiple secretary hands, of a collection of 19 Parliamentary documents, primarily concerning the marriage negotiations between Charles I and the Spanish Infanta Maria. These include the petition of John Digby, Earl of Bristol, asking leave to defend his actions in the Spanish negotiations against his accusers; the information of Thomas, Baron Coventry presented to the House of Lords against Digby; and King Charles I's letter to Digby charging him with misconduct regarding the...
Dates: [17th century]

Photographs of the American West

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Call Number: WA Photos Folio 75
Overview: This collection includes portfolios of photographs and panoramic photographs created by Halverson that document the American West, 1987-2017.
Dates: 1987-2017

Lady Mary Hamilton papers

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Call Number: OSB MSS 75
Overview: Series I, Letterbook of Lady Mary Hamilton, contains correspondence by and to the author Lady Mary Hamilton, principally with her daughter Betsey Walker Thiébault and her son-in-law Paul Thiébault; her siblings, including Anne Leslie Carnegie, Countess of Northesk, and Alexander Leslie; and with George Robinson Hamilton and Sir Herbert Croft. Series II, Family Papers, contains a detailed biographical memoir of Lady Mary by her grandson, Baron Adolphe Thiébault.
Dates: 1758-1863

Mrs. Edward S. Harkness collection of Lady Hamilton

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Call Number: GEN MSS 23
Overview: 9 bound volumes of music manuscripts mainly by Italian composers; letters written by Lady Hamilton, Horatio Nelson, and Sarah Nelson; 10 reproductions of paintings and engravings of Lady Hamilton; 9 bound volumes of printed music; and Lady Hamilton's music cabinet.
Dates: 1730-1812

J. L. Hargett collection of Choctaw Nation papers

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Call Number: WA MSS S-2397
Overview: Correspondence, documents, financial papers, printed materials and other papers relating to the Choctaw removal to lands in Indian Territory and claims made by the Choctaw Nation against the United States Government. Correspondence includes letters from David Folsom, Choctaw Chief, to missionaries Cyrus Byington and Cyrus Kingsbury while in Washington negotiating the treaty of 1825. He writes of the deaths of two chiefs on the trip, and of the illness of others who had overindulged in the...
Dates: 1821-1917

Alfred A. Hart and Carleton E. Watkins Stereographs of the Central Pacific Railroad

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Call Number: WA Photos 1265
Overview: Albumen stereographs and half stereographs published by Alfred A. Hart and Carleton E. Watkins of the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad in California and Utah, 1865-1869.
Dates: 1865-1869

William Hazlitt collection

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Call Number: GEN MSS 33
Overview: Letters from William Hazlitt to various parties, along with letters by Hazlitt's father (William Hazlitt) and Hazlitt's son (William Hazlitt) as well as three manuscripts by Hazlitt.
Dates: 1790-1835

Jessica Helfand scrapbook collection

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Call Number: GEN MSS 837
Scope and Contents: The collection consists of scrapbooks collected by Jessica Helfand as research for her book Scrapbooks: an American History (Yale University Press, 2008). Also includes examples of volvelles.
Dates: 1892-1981

Maurice Hewlett collection

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Call Number: GEN MSS 60
Overview: Collection contains letters by Maurice Hewlett to various recipients, including Sir John Collings Squire, and some third party correspondence. Also in the collection are holograph and typescript writings by Hewlett including his Song of the Plow, an obituary of Hewlett and a collotype of Hewlett by Alvin Langdon Coburn.
Dates: 1892-1930

Clifton Ewing Hickok papers

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Call Number: WA MSS S-2762
Overview: Correspondence, reports, charts, and maps created and compiled by Clifton Ewing Hickok related to water use and availability studies in southern California, as well as efforts by the Volcan Land and Water Company to sell its land and water rights to the city of San Diego, 1897-1915. The collection also includes reports and charts created by his business partner, William S. Post, and others, including Philip E. Harroun and Charles H. Lee.
Dates: 1897-1915, bulk 1912-1915

Higham correspondence

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Call Number: OSB MSS 38
Overview: Letters addressed to Higham regarding fund raising for various churches in Great Britain and his donations to them.
Dates: 1868-1925

Thomas R. Hill papers

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Call Number: WA MSS S-259
Overview: The papers consist of correspondence between Thomas R. Hill, Jennie M. Hill, Angelo Heilprin, and others, Thomas Hill's journal and drawings of gold mining in Alaska, and papers of the Philadelphia Exploration and Mining Company, which organized to mine in Alaska.
Dates: 1898-1900

Carroll T. Hobart papers

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Call Number: WA MSS S-2396
Overview: The papers document Carroll T. Hobart's involvement in the Yellowstone Park Improvement Company and the Northern Pacific Railroad through correspondence, photographs, printed material, and documents. The correspondence consists mostly of Hobart's business correspondence. Principal correspondents include his wife Alice, his contractor brother Charles F. Hobart, and T. F. Oakes and Robert Harris of the Northern Pacific Railroad. The photographs include images of Yellowstone National Park by F....
Dates: 1871-1904

James Hogg collection

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Call Number: GEN MSS 61
Overview: Letters by James Hogg to various persons; one letter by Margaret Phillips Hogg and one by William Hogg; manuscripts of writings by James Hogg, including "Memoir of Burns," and "Tales of Fathers and Daughters by the Ettrick Shepherd"; one drawing of James Hogg.
Dates: 1803-1836

W. E. Hook photographs of Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas.

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Call Number: WA Photos 511
Overview: Photographs collected by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library that document the photography of W. E. Hook, 1885-1908. The collection chiefly includes photographs of sites in Colorado, as well as some images of New Mexico and Texas. Photographs in the collection document the different presentation methods used by Hook to market his images, including cabinet photographs, as well as the variant titles he used in negatives and on photographic mounts.
Dates: 1885-1908