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John Archiquette collection

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Call Number: WA MSS S-2662
Abstract: This collection chiefly consists of professional and personal papers of John Archiquette that document events and activities of the Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin, primarily between 1876-1919. It also contains materials collected by his heirs, 1866-1984. The personal papers include ledger volumes that Archiquette used as journals and letter books, which include brief and frequent entries related to community affairs and events, as well as to his personal life and family. The collection...
Dates: 1817-1984, bulk 1876-1919

Karl John Richard Arndt collection of Bernhard Muller and the Harmony Society

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Call Number: WA MSS S-2690
Abstract: The papers document Karl Arndt's research on the Harmony Society in the United States, 1805-1905, (including its leaders Johann George Rapp and Frederick Reichert Rapp) and the settlements founded by Bernhard Muller, also known as Count Leon (including the New Philadalphia Congregation, 1832-1833 and the settlement of Germantown, Louisiana, 1833-1871). Material includes Arndt's collection of primary sources, his research files, including photocopies of other documentation, and the draft of...
Dates: 1721-1984

Anna Catherine Bahlmann papers relating to Edith Wharton

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 361
Abstract: The papers feature correspondence and personal effects relating to author Edith Wharton, including over 130 letters to Bahlmann from Wharton, dating from Bahlmann's employment to the Wharton family in 1874, as Edith's German language tutor, to 1915. The letters document a significant, long-standing relationship and shed light on Wharton's personal and literary affairs. In addition to the Wharton correspondence, there are single and small groups of letters between Bahlmann and family members,...
Dates: 1874-1917

Josephine Baker Collection

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Call Number: JWJ MSS 108
Scope and Contents: The Josephine Baker Collection is comprised of correspondence, photographs, personal papers, and printed material documenting the life and career of Josephine Baker between 1929 and 1968. Evidence of Baker's career as a performer can be found in her correspondence with managers and producers, clippings from her performances, and pamphlets and brochures from concerts. There is correspondence and printed material regarding her appearances in Argentina in 1947 and 1952 and in...
Dates: 1929-1968

Nina Berberova papers

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Call Number: GEN MSS 182
Abstract: The Nina Berberova Papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, personal papers, memorabilia, and printed materials. The correspondence consists of personal letters from such famous Russian emigre writers and artists as Georgii Adamovich, Ivan Bunin, Zinaida Gippius, Roman Gul', Georgii Ivanov,Aleksandr Kuprin, Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Vladimir Nabokov, Aleksei Remizov, Gleb Struve, Marina TSvetaeva, Boris and Vera Zaitsev. There are 67 letters and 9 cards from Vladislav...
Dates: 1891-1993, bulk 1950-1993

Bettina Bergery papers

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Call Number: GEN MSS 844
Abstract: The Bettina Bergery Papers consist of 122 volumes of diaries, 1940-1980; a small amount of other autobiographical writings and writings about fashion design; correspondence with family and friends; scrapbooks, clippings, and other printed material relating to her interests in fashion, art, and politics; photographs and photograph albums relating to the Shaw Jones family, Bergery's friendships, travel in French Equatorial Africa, and diplomatic travels with Gaston Bergery; biographical...
Dates: circa 1900-circa 1990, bulk 1940-1980

William Bowyer papers

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Call Number: OSB MSS 105
Abstract: Correspondence and other papers relating to William Bowyer's (1699-1777) work as a printer in London. The bulk of the correspondence consists of incoming letters to Bowyer from the scholars Edward Clarke, William Clarke, and Jeremiah Markland, concerning printing, scholarly subjects, languanges including Greek and Hebrew, and family matters. Other correspondents include James Stanier Clarke, Catherine Markland, William Strode, Moses Williams, and William Wotten. Also includes two items...
Dates: 1674-1874

Ernst Cassirer papers

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Call Number: GEN MSS 98
Abstract:

The Ernst Cassirer Papers consist of manuscripts, research notes, correspondence, and personal papers documenting the life of Ernst Cassirer.

Dates: 1892-1958

Chelsea records

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Call Number: GEN MSS 1090
Scope and Contents: Manuscripts by authors, translators, and artists, submitted to Chelsea during editorship of Sona Raiziss and Alfredo de Palchi, encompassing issues 20/21 (1966)-82/83 (2007), with related author contracts, photographs, issue drafts and proofs, and digital files; similar materials for books published by Chelsea Editions, 1990s-2010s; Chelsea editorial meeting minutes and other administrative files, including digital files;...
Dates: 1967-2013, bulk 1990-2013

Collection of advertisements that depict American history

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Call Number: WA MSS S-2622
Abstract: This collection consists of collecting cards, advertising cards, sticker books, sheet music, and printed ephemera that document popular culture images of the United States and North America, as viewed chiefly by countries throughout Europe, including France, Great Britain, Belgium, Germany, Italy, and Spain. The collection provides depictions of American subjects and themes from primarily European viewpoints used by companies to advertise their products or as premiums accompanying products....
Dates: 1870-2004, bulk 1887-1970, 1870-2004, bulk 1887-1970

Barnaby Conrad papers

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 687
Abstract:

The papers consist of writings, printed material, photographs, and artwork by and relating to the American author and artist Barnaby Conrad. Material relates primarily to Conrad's published works Fun While It Lasted (1969); La Fiesta Brava: The Art of the Bull Ring (1953); Matador (1952); and Barnaby Conrad's Encyclopedia of Bullfighting (1961). Among the papers are unsorted typescript and handwritten drafts of writings.

Dates: 1951-1975

Joseph Conrad Collection

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Call Number: GEN MSS 1207
Abstract:

The Joseph Conrad Collection contains writings, correspondence, and other material by or relating to Joseph Conrad.

Dates: 1860-1957

Richard Erdoes papers

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Call Number: WA MSS S-2609
Abstract: Correspondence, writings, audio and moving image recordings, photographic materials, subject files, printed ephemera, art work, and other materials created or collected by Richard Erdoes (1912-2008), author of more than a dozen books about American Indian life. The collection primarily documents Erdoes's activities between 1968 and 1999, and is useful for the study of his writing process and research interests, specifically his work with American Indian individuals and communities. His...
Dates: 1920-2008, bulk 1965-1998

Fausto Giaccone photographs and papers

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Call Number: GEN MSS 1255
Abstract: The collection consists of photographs, papers, and publications that document the work of Italian photojournalist Fausto Giaccone (1943-), from 1966 to 2013. The material includes Giaccone's reportage of social and cultural aspects of Europe, South America, and the Middle East, with an emphasis on political movements in Italy and Portugal from 1966 to 1986. The photographic materials in this collection consist of exhibition prints, work prints, contact sheets, and original slides for...
Dates: 1966-2013

Marsden Hartley collection

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 578
Abstract: The collection consists of writings, correspondence, photographs, and other materials documenting the personal and professional affairs of Modernist-era painter Marsden Hartley. Writings contain notes and drafts, autograph and typescript, for numerous writings, chiefly essays. Correspondence is spread out over the many groupings in the collection and features large files of outgoing letters to Norma Berger, Hartley's niece, Carl Sprinchorn, and Adelaide S. Kuntz, as well as incoming letters...
Dates: 1885-1978

Eugène and Maria Jolas papers : addition

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Call Number: GEN MSS 411
Abstract:

This addition to the Eugène and Maria Jolas Papers consists of items which were separated from the printed component of the collection of Eugène and Maria Jolas when the books and serials were cataloged in 1998. The addition consists of letters, clippings, offprints, and other printed items.

Dates: 1932-1986

Frederick R. Koch collection

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 601
Abstract: The Frederick R. Koch Collection consists of musical, literary, and historical materials collected by Frederick R. Koch, principally through purchases at public auctions, 1979-1986. Including individual items, concentrations of related materials, and several extensive archives, the collection is a broad and deep resource for study of the lives and works of a range of composers, authors, and other historical figures.Most materials are music manuscripts, literary manuscripts, drawings,...
Dates: 1640-1983

Ezio Levi papers

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Call Number: GEN MSS 1138
Scope and Contents: The Ezio Levi Papers consist of autograph manuscript and typescript writings and notes about Italian and Spanish literature and art, with related correspondence, printed articles, and photographs, 1910s-1940s and undated; biographical information about Levi and Flora Aghib Levi D’Ancona, undated; legal documents and correspondence relating to their immigration to the United States, 1930s-1940s; other correspondence, 1910s-1949, most relating to Levi's academic career in the United States;...
Dates: 1863-1949, bulk 1910-1941

Herman W. Liebert manuscript collection

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Call Number: GEN MSS 237
Abstract:

The Liebert Autograph Collection contains chiefly British (as well as other European and American) historical and literary manuscripts and autographs, including items by James Boswell, Jr., Sir Joseph Banks, Marie Corelli, Eugene V. Debs, Camille Pissarro, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Henry Huxley, Samuel Johnson, Ouida, and Alfred Tennyson. The Liebert Correspondence consists of letters written to Liebert by Ian Fleming, Beverly Nichols, John Cowper Powys, and Thornton Wilder.

Dates: 1604-1987

Conrad Moricand papers

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Call Number: GEN MSS 1152
Scope and Contents: The Conrad Moricand Papers contain correspondence, 1915-1956 and undated, including two brief letters to Moricand from Henry Miller, 1938, and letters to Moricand from Théophile Briant, 1948, and Georges Oltramare, 1947-1953, from Miller to Briant, 1956, from Hermann, Graf von Keyserling, to Miller, 1938, and from O. V. de L. Milosz to Nicolas Beauduin, with poems by Beauduin, 1916-1937; writings by Moricand, including a memoir, "Les philistines (U. S. A., 1948)," typescript...
Dates: 1909-1957, bulk 1947-1953