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Burney family collection

 Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 3
Abstract:

The collection contains correspondence of several members of the Burney family, particularly Charles Burney (1726-1814); his children Charles Burney, D. D. (1757-1817), Fanny Burney (1752-1840), and Susanna Burney Philips; and Charles Burney IV (1815-1907). Other major correspondents include Alexandre d'Arblay, William Bewley, Peter Paul Dobree, George Isaac Huntingford, John Kaye, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Thomas Twining, and John Young.

Dates: 1767-1903, bulk 1790-1825

Burney-Lear drawings collection

 Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS fd 59
Abstract:

The collection contains more than 1,000 drawings, sketches and watercolors by Edward Francis Burney, other members of the Burney family, members of the Hoare family, James Pattison Cockburn, and Edward Lear.

Dates: 1800-1866

Photographs of Abandoned Wooden Buildings and Artifacts in Montana

 Collection
Call Number: WA Photos 410
Abstract:

Photographs created by Richard S. Buswell of Helena, Montana, of abandoned wooden buildings and artifacts in Montana, 1975-2018, and printed by him, 1986-2019. Images include exteriors and interiors of cabins, barns, hotels, general stores, and blacksmith shops, as well as railroad trestles and cemeteries.

Dates: 1986-2019

Solomon D. Butcher photographs and photographic postcards of Nebraska

 Collection
Call Number: WA Photos 1273
Abstract:

Photographs and photographic postcards created by Solomon Devore Butcher of Nebraska, circa 1870-1916. Identified locations include Alliance, Anselmo, Ansley, Arcadia, Arnold, Bayard, Broken Bow, Callaway, Cozad, Crawford, Gibbon, Gothenburg, Kearney, Maxwell, Merna, Oconto, Pleasanton, Seneca, Shelton, and Wood River. Depicted are towns, businesses, events, sod houses, and landscapes.

Included are postcards of Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and South Dakota.

Dates: circa 1870-1916

Don Byrd papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 967
Scope and Contents: The collection consists of correspondence, sketchbooks, notebooks, photographs, audiovisual materials, and other papers that document the work and social circle of poet Don Byrd. Notable correspondents include Charles Bernstein, Clayton Eshleman, Susan Howe, Gerrit Lansing, Paul Metcalf, and Jed Rasula. Photographs include color and black and white portraits of Byrd and other poets. Audiovisual materials consist of audiorecordings made by Byrd of poets including John Ashbery, Charles...
Dates: 1953-2010

George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron collection

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 892
Abstract:

The collection consists primarily of manuscripts and letters by George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron, including a manuscript of the Preface to Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and the manuscript of The Prisoner of Chillon; and letters to John Murray, Francis Hodgson, and Samuel Rogers. Other contents include several letters by Anne Isabella Milbanke, Baroness Byron; two notes by Catherine Byron, the poet's mother; and eighteen letters from Augusta Leigh to Francis Hodgson.

Dates: 1804-1927 1804-1822, bulk 1804-1822

Thomas Campbell correspondence

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 226
Abstract:

Letters to and from Thomas Campbell. 18 letters to various people, many of them drafts, nine of them to William George Spencer Cavendish, duke of Devonshire. 54 letters to Campbell from various people, including 8 letters from James Thomson Gibson Craig, and 6 letters from Charlotte Townshend Osborne, duchess of Leeds. Accompanied by miscellaneous notes, clippings, theater programs, etc. belonging to Thomas Campbell; in all, 10 items.

Dates: 1826-1851

Thomas Campbell papers

 Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 106
Abstract: Correspondence, writings, commonplace books, and other papers related to Thomas Campbell. Correspondence consists of a copy of a letter from Thomas Jefferson to Campbell. Campbell's writings include drafts of essays and biographies included in Specimens of British Poets; additional biographies of British poets; lectures on English poetry and drama; an annotated copy of The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell; English history timelines, 872-1189; and research notes on English history and...
Dates: 1821-1846

Carlingford papers

 Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 5
Abstract: The Carlingford papers contain correspondence and diplomatic and other papers, mostly relating to Theobald Taaffe, 1st Earl of Carlingford. 24 letters signed in cipher from Charles II to Carlingford document the King's personal and political activities in the last years of his exile; other correspondence and papers concern Carlingford's diplomatic mission during the second Anglo-Dutch War, including letters by Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington, Sir William Swan, and Sir William Temple. Other...
Dates: 1651-1764, bulk 1657-1667

Edward Bliss Reed carol collection

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 126
Abstract:

The collection contains: two manuscripts of carols, a single "Noel- Nouveau" and a collection of carols by Raymondus, Curio Parochiae St. Stephani as well as two letters regarding Reed's collection and a notebook Reed kept on his research on the history of carols.

Dates: ca. 1610-1930

Rachel Carson papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 46
Abstract:

The Rachel Carson Papers consist of manuscripts, notebooks, letters, newspaper clippings, photos, and printed material relating to the research and publications of Rachel Carson.

Dates: 1921-1989

Cartes-de-visite photographs of individuals in Salt Lake City, Utah.

 Collection — Box: 1
Call Number: WA Photos 359
Scope and Contents: Cartes-de-visite photographs, tintypes, and a cabinet card photograph created by photographers in Salt Lake City, Utah of individuals, ca. 1860-1880. Images consist chiefly of portraits depicting men, women, and children. An image by the studio of Fox & Symons depicts the organ of the Tabernacle, probably decorated for the Sabbath School Union Jubilee celebration, July 1874. Other identified images by C. R. Savage depict the exterior of the Tabernacle and a geological feature, known as...
Dates: circa 1860-1880

Chinese gaming counters

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 757
Abstract: This collection includes over three hundred discrete mother of pearl gaming counters handcrafted by artisans in China for use in scoring and bidding in card games in the West, circa 1700-circa 1840. The collection also includes a nearly complete set of gaming counters and an accompanying lacquer box made for William Andrew Dyer of London, England, circa 1810. Most of the gaming counters bear a coat of arms, crest, or monogram of a family or individual. Many of the gaming counters also depict...
Dates: circa 1700-circa 1840

Civil War. Collection of letters and state papers, apparently from the papers of John Pym

 Collection
Call Number: OSBORN FB94
Abstract: Collection of 28 letters and other documents, many written to John Pym and all concerned with military activities of the Parliamentary army during the English Civil War. Numerous writers request financial assistance, food, clothing, and arms for their soldiers, including Alexander Carew, who asks for money and arms to combat an uprising in Cornwall; Sir William Balfour, who requests back pay for his services as commissary and captain of a troop in Ireland and requests two months' advance for...
Dates: 1584-1643

William Clark field notes

 Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-897
Abstract: The field notes consist of 69 sheets of paper of varying sizes and shapes on which William Clark wrote journal entries, drew maps, made lists, and calculated distances during the first sixteen months of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The entries date from December 13, 1803 to April 3, 1805, and record activities at Camp Dubois during the winter of 1803/1804, during the voyage up the Missouri from May to November, 1804, and to a lesser degree the winter at the Mandan villages in 1804/1805....
Dates: 1803-1805

Clayton papers

 Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 40
Abstract:

Papers documenting Clayton's and Morris's work as scriveners. The papers include receipts, indentures, money orders, notes, and short letters to Clayton and Morris. Some bear the signatures of Clayton and Morris.

Dates: 1589-1824

Clinton papers

 Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 168
Abstract: The Clinton Papers contain correspondence, letterbooks, financial papers and other material documenting aspects of the lives and military careers of Sir William Henry Clinton (1769-1846) and his brother Sir Henry Clinton (1771-1829). They include hundreds of letters from Henry to William Henry, many written from Spain during the Napoleonic Wars, as well as letters by other members of the Clinton family; journals kept by Sir Henry Clinton, the letterbooks of Sir William Henry Clinton, and...
Dates: 1754-1879

Photograph File of Close Up Magazine

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 337
Abstract:

This collection consists chiefly of promotional photographs and film stills created by motion picture studios for their films and actors, which the editors of Close Up used to illustrate the magazine.

Dates: 1911-1947, bulk 1926-1933

"A colleccon of many learned letters"

 Collection
Call Number: OSBORN fb117
Abstract:

Contemporary MS copies, in unknown hand.

Dates: [early 17th century]

Collection of Dorset, England legal documents

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1870
Abstract:

Eighteen manuscript wills, deeds, leases, marriage settlements, and other legal documents for matters taking place in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset, England, 1723-1812. Most documents concern the Willis and Best families.

Dates: 1723-1812