Southern States
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on the part of the United States south of the Mason-Dixon Line, the Ohio River, and the southern border of Missouri and Kansas, extending from the Atlantic Ocean to the western border of Texas, sometimes including or excluding individual states along these borders.
Found in 34 Collections and/or Records:
John Moore papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 355
Overview:
Physician and merchant. The papers consist of sixty-six letters from John Moore in Alabama and Texas to members of his family.
Dates:
1837-1866
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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John Moore papers
Thomas E. Packer papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1010
Overview:
The papers consist of letters written to Packer from fellow teachers, family, and business associates, plus financial, legal, and miscellaneous papers. The correspondence covers the years 1851-1858, when Packer was teaching school in West Mystic, Connecticut; Brandon, Mississippi; and Mystic Bridge, Connecticut. The letters contain news about teaching, discussions of spiritual and intellectual concerns, and remarks about places visited.
Dates:
1833-1864
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Thomas E. Packer papers
Parker Family Papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 685
Overview:
The collection consists of correspondence, poems, estate papers, notebooks, account books, logbooks, legal books, and miscellaneous papers of the Lay, Parker, Pratt, Shaler, Smith, Stark, Tyler, and Williams families of eastern Connecticut.
Dates:
1747-1930, bulk 1789-1866
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Parker Family Papers
Ulrich Bonnell Phillips papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 397
Overview:
The papers consist of the research files of Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, an author and history professor. The papers include Phillips's notes and transcripts of historical source materials and the collected papers of several southern families from 1712-1933. The collected papers include correspondence, account books, business records, farm and plantation records, diaries, photographs, and other papers which focus primarily on the years 1790-1865, and the Shenandoah Valley region of Virginia and the...
Dates:
1712-1933, bulk 1800-1861
William Henry Potter Papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1047
Overview:
Private journals, ledgers and scrapbooks kept by William H. Potter of Groton, Conn. and Brandon, Mississippi (1851-1955). The journals contain descriptions of his activities and discourses on religion and politics. A commonplace book (1837-1848) gives some information on his brief attendance at Yale and his stay at Bacon School. The papers contain an unidentified 1933 judicial diary and a Norwich, Conn. account book. The papers also contain a diary (1859-1861) and other materials of Kittie...
Dates:
1832-1933
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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William Henry Potter Papers
Rufus and S. Willard Saxton papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 431
Overview:
The papers include correspondence, journals, memorabilia, and photographs that document the life of Samuel Willard Saxton and the career of his brother General Rufus Saxton during the Civil War. The largest portion of the papers is composed of S. Willard Saxton's multi-volumed journal, which he began in 1847 while at Brook Farm and continued until the 1920s. The journal chronicles his career as a printer, aide-de-camp, and civil servant; his travels; family; his interests in the cultural life...
Dates:
1834-1934
Henry Sherman family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 832
Overview:
The papers are made up almost entirely of scrapbooks assembled by Henry Sherman, his wife and four of his children. The scrapbooks offer vivid documentation of their lives in the period 1850-1900 in Washington, D.C. with correspondence, photographs, drawings, clippings and memorabilia of all kinds.
Dates:
1795-1926
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Henry Sherman family papers
William Graham Sumner papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 291
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, writings, notes and research materials, clippings, memorabilia, photographs and financial records of William Graham Sumner, a sociologist, professor at Yale University, and advocate of free trade and the gold standard. The correspondence (over 13,000 items) documents many of Sumner's interests including the Yale College curriculum and economic and political issues. It also includes substantive accounts from friends in the South about Reconstruction, the...
Dates:
1863-1946
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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William Graham Sumner papers
Tarleton family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 481
Overview:
Correspondence, autograph album, genealogical notes, photographs and miscellaneous papers of the Tarleton and Lightfoot families of Alabama. The major figures represented in the collection are Robert Tarleton, his wife Sarah Bernard Lightfoot Tarleton, and Sarah Bee Ross Lightfoot. Most letters were written by Robert Tarleton and date from the Civil War period. The papers also contain an 1834 letter from Marquis de Lafayette to the President of the French Chamber of Peers.
Dates:
1830-1888, bulk 1861-1869
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Tarleton family papers
Terry-Slocomb family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 483
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, a diary, household accounts, and professional documents relating to William Terry; his wife, Maria Roxana Slocomb Terry; his sister, Esther Asenath Terry; and their family and friends in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota.
Dates:
1809-1891
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Terry-Slocomb family papers
Treadway collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 504
Overview:
Chiefly miscellaneous letters and legal documents connected with the Civil War and land transactions in Virginia. The Civil War papers include letters from Lt. Col. Andrew Terry, among them one describing the capture of Roanoke Island in 1862. The Virginia papers are largely records of the Lee and Fendall families (1811-1865). In addition there is a letter written by Henry Clay on the election of 1848. A small number of papers pertain to Morton C. Treadway, the collector of these items, and...
Dates:
1811-1954, bulk 1811-1865
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Treadway collection
Washington family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 538
Overview:
The collection contains correspondence and other papers of President George Washington, Martha Dandridge Washington, and William Augustine Washington, half brother of George Washington.
Dates:
1751-1870
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Washington family papers
Wildman family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1029
Overview:
Principal figure in the papers is Zalman Wildman, lawyer and congressman who, with his brother, Seymour, were proprietors of Z. & S. Wildman, Hat Manufacturers, and the first manufacturers from Danbury to establish outlets in the South for Danbury hats. The papers consist almost entirely of business records including correspondence, financial and legal papers, and a receipt book. This latter volume (1803-1821) records the commodities shipped from Danbury by the firm to its Charleston, South...
Dates:
1803-1877
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Wildman family papers
Wood family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1157
Overview:
Chiefly the letters of William Cowper Wood to his parents written from Washington, D.C. and Joliet, Illinois. Also included is a ledger (1809-1837) kept by his father, Joseph Wood, a judge in New Haven, Connecticut, miscellaneous family letters, and genealogical materials.
Dates:
1809-1934, bulk 1839-1868
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Wood family papers