United States -- Description and travel
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:
Tracy family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 816
Abstract:
Papers of ten members of the Tracy family, originating in Litchfield, Connecticut. The most prominent figures are Uriah Tracy, Roger Sherman Tracy, Howard Crosby Tracy, and Evarts Tracy. The papers of Uriah Tracy include letters to his children written while he was in Congress (1794-1806), letters to others on Congressional business, and his journal of a trip to the West in 1800. The papers of Roger Sherman Tracy consist chiefly of letters written to his family from Yale College in 1859 and...
Dates:
1794-1937
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Tracy family papers
Waterbury family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 537
Abstract:
Correspondence, financial records, and memorabilia of this Stamford, Connecticut family. The principal figure is David Waterbury (1722-1801), who served as a colonel in the French and Indian War and again in the American Revolution. Included in the papers are military records relating to these events and a letter to him from Roger Sherman (1776 Apr 30) about a Continental Commission. Also two travel journals kept by his son, William Waterbury IV, one for a trip throught New York,...
Dates:
1700-1966, bulk 1750-1897
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Waterbury family papers
William Wells Family Papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 546
Abstract:
Correspondence, diaries, wills, inventories of estates, financial records, daguerreotypes, drawings, clippings and genealogies of three branches and of seventeen individual members of the Wells family, whose founder William Wells migrated to Brattleboro, Vermont from England in 1793. Major figures in the papers are Jane Wells Howard Green (1808-1884), Edward Watkins Wells (1819-1898) and James Hancox Wells (1774-1857). The diaries of five family members include accounts of travel both in the...
Dates:
1749-1966, bulk 1820-1880
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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William Wells Family Papers
George Ritch White Diaries
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-2605
Abstract:
The diaries of George Ritch White, which span from 1896 to 1954 (the diary for 1937 is absent), provide an extensive record of one man's life, work, interests, observations, and travels. Diary entries document in detail White's family life, friendships, and hobbies as a boy; his studies as a young man at Tufts University and Yale University; his work as a statistician for the New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad; his daily observations, social and housekeeping activities, and income...
Dates:
1896-1954
Yale Tocqueville Manuscripts
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 982
Abstract:
The Yale Tocqueville Manuscripts collection contains papers of both Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont, intermixed. The papers include correspondence, personal papers, and autograph manuscripts by Tocqueville (including the autograph manuscript of De La Democratie en Amerique), Beaumont, and their families and associates, as well as autograph copies of Tocqueville and Beaumont documents by contemporary and later copyists, and photoduplicated copies of originals held elsewhere in...
Dates:
circa 1802-1960, bulk 1831-1840