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Lavater collection

 Collection
Call Number: YCGL MSS 13
Abstract:

Collection of engravings, drawings, silhouettes, and miniature paintings, many of them annotated in the hand of Johann Caspar Lavater. The artists most heavily represented among the signed works in the collection are Daniel Chodowiecki and Johann Heinrich Lips, both major contributors to Lavater's Physiognomische Fragmente.

Dates: 1775-1816

Lavington papers: Stuart negotiations

 Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 43
Abstract:

The papers include correspondence and copies of legal documents relating to Lavington's secret commission to negotiate with the daughter of the Young Pretender for the return of the jewel of the Order of the Garter, which Charles I had given to Bishop Juxon and which had descended to the Young Pretender.

Dates: 1771-1799

Le Keux correspondence

 Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 27
Abstract:

The collection consists of professional correspondence of John, Henry and John Henry Le Keux, including letters from publishers, artists, fellow engravers, patrons, and prospective students. Among the correspondents are Robert Batty, Edwin Guest, Augustus Charles Pugin, and Dawson Turner. A letter by George Doo encloses a copy of the Associated Society of Engravers' plan for publishing their National Gallery collection.

Dates: 1811-1879

Sir William Lee family papers

 Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 52
Abstract: The papers, most of which date from the lifetime of Sir William Lee, consist of personal and official correspondence, notes, memoranda, household accounts and financial papers, records of court cases, and other documents. Family correspondents include Lee's brothers Sir George and Thomas Lee; his brother-in-law, William Melmoth, and his son William. William's letters describe student life at Wadham College, Oxford and Clare College, Cambridge. Subsequent letters detail William's Grand Tour...
Dates: 1588-1814, bulk 1710-1754

Copies of letters to and from Col. William Legge, transcribed from the originals in the possession of William Fourth Earl of Dartmouth, during the years 1816 and 1817, by William, 2nd Lord Bagot.

 Collection
Call Number: OSBORN FB190
Abstract:

Autograph MS. Contains copies of 373 letters, illustrated with prints and drawings.

Dates: 1816-1817

[Unbound letters from Charles I, King of Great Britain (1600-1649), and from Edward Conway, 2nd Viscount Conway (1594-1655), written in the 1640's]

 Collection
Call Number: OSBORN FB163
Scope and Contents:

The following finding aid is a complete inventory of the contents of Osborn fb163. This list was reformatted from previously existing cataloging.

Dates: [1640's]

Edward G. Levy collection of papers relating to music

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 955
Abstract: Contains manuscript and printed music, and scrapbooks, photographs, printed material, and other materials relating to nineteenth-twentieth century American and European music, collected by Edward G. Levy. Four scrapbooks made by Helen D. Love Scranton, genealogist and daughter of Edward Gurley Love (1850-1919) and Lucy Cleveland Prindle, contain advertisements, programs, tickets, and manuscript notes relating to performances of opera, musicals, plays, orchestral music, chamber music, vocal...
Dates: 1859-1970s, bulk 1880-1910

Edward G. Levy collection relating to temperance

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 956
Abstract: Papers and other materials collected by Edward G. Levy, relating to temperance and prohibition, most 19th-early 20th centuries, most from the United States, with a small amount of material about temperance in Great Britain. Materials include documents and fragments, signed, by temperance advocates Marie Caroline Brehm, John B. Gough, Theobald Mathew, and John G. Woolley; a circular letter of the American Temperance Society, 1832; printed license and tax documents issued by the United States...
Dates: 1794-1970s, bulk 1880-1970

Lewis and Clark Expedition maps and receipt

 Collection
Call Number: WA MSS 303-304
Abstract: The collection consists of 83 manuscript maps and related material on 66 sheets, dating from ca. 1803 to 1810. The maps detail the route of the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Pacific Coast and back, 1804-1806. Many of them were created or annotated during the expedition by William Clark. A sketch map of Vancouver's Island and the region of Nootka Sound has been attributed to Captain Lewis. Several of the maps include information supplied by Native Americans. The collection also includes...
Dates: circa 1803-1810

Herman W. Liebert manuscript collection

 Collection
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

Abraham Lincoln collection

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 257
Abstract: Correspondence and writings by and about Abraham Lincoln, and a gold pen used by Lincoln. 4 ALS from Lincoln to Benjamin F. James, William M. Dickson, and to an unidentified recipient. Writings by Lincoln include an autograph praecipe issued by Lincoln for writ in his first law case, "David Woolridge vs. Hawthorne", and a fragment of a speech on slavery. Also present is a letter by Edwin Booth to Colonel A. Badeau concerning Lincoln's assassination by his brother, John Wilkes Booth, two days...
Dates: 1824-1865

Tracings of illustrations by William Blake for Dante's Divina Commedia.

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Call Number: GEN MSS 1396
Abstract:

The collection consists of a series of tracings by John Linnell of 99 of the 102 drawings made by William Blake to illustrate Dante's Divina Commedia.

Dates: 1831

Moses F. Little papers

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Call Number: WA MSS S-1028
Abstract: A collection of 58 journals recording 72 years of Moses Little's life. He spent 1844-1848 aboard the whaler Arnolda, commanded by Captain D. U. Coffin out of New Bedford, Massachusetts. In 1849, Little joined the Sagamore Mining and Trading Company of Lynn, Massachusetts, and traveled to California, returning in 1851. Making a second trip to California in 1852 via the Isthmus to Panama City, he sailed on the Tennessee. He...
Dates: 1841-1916

Living Theatre records

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1038
Abstract: The collection consists of general files, correspondence, subject files, publicity files, scripts, journals, writings, personal papers, photographs, audiovisual material, and born digital materials relating to The Living Theatre, its founders, Julian Beck and Judith Malina, and its co-director, Hanon Reznikov. The collection documents the adminstration of the theater, its stage productions, and its relationship to other avant-garde and radical cultural and political movements in the United...
Dates: 1815-2012, bulk circa 1947-2012

Llewelyn Davies family papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 554
Abstract:

The Llewelyn Davies family papers contain correspondence, photographs, and other material relating chiefly to the Llewelyn Davies family, though materials also relate to members of the Du Maurier family and to author and dramatist J. M. Barrie, whose character, "Peter Pan," was inspired by the Llewelyn Davies children.

Dates: 1842-1963

Photographs of Washington, D.C., and New Haven, Connecticut

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 590
Abstract:

Photographs created by Alexander Lmanian that document locations and events in Washington, D.C., and its vicinity, 1964-1968, as well as New Haven, Connecticut, 1968-1969. The images of Washington document the physical impact of riots on the city following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4-8, 1968.

Dates: 1964-1969, bulk 1968-1969

A Long Way from Home: The Untold Story of Baseball's Desegregation digital archive

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1249
Abstract:

The digital archive consists of born-digital audio files and publicity materials relating to the production of the 2018 documentary A Long way from home: the untold story of baseball's desegregation.

Dates: 2017-2020

Stephen Longstreet papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 262
Abstract: The Stephen Longstreet Collection consists of four types of material: a heavily illustrated typescript of an undated and unpublished book project; 130 drawings in various formats and media; seven collages; and a small group of ephemeral items. The focus of the collection is Longstreet's observation of jazz culture, particularly as it engaged African Americans. He lived in cities on all three American coasts, as well as major cities in Europe, where he recorded scenes and people in local...
Dates: 1925-1990

Photographs of Alaska and British Columbia

 Collection
Call Number: WA Photos Folio 154
Abstract: Photographs at Klawock, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, as well as West Cracroft Island and Haida Gwaii (formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands), British Columbia created during the summers of 2012 and 2013, and printed as 91 inkjet color and black-and-white prints that document Tlingit, Haida, and other indigenous people and cultures. The collection consists of six groups of images related to discrete events. Events include a memorial service for Dian Darlene White, the ceremonial...
Dates: 2012-2013

Photographs of Alaska and Haida Gwaii, British Columbia

 Collection
Call Number: WA Photos Folio 151
Abstract:

Photographs of Alaska and Haida Gwaii (formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands), British Columbia, 2011-2012, printed as thirty-three black-and-white gelatin silver prints and five color inkjet prints that chiefly document Haida and Tlingit people, sites, and cultures.

Dates: 2011-2012