United States
Subject
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Found in 67 Collections and/or Records:
Importance of Women's Votes by Representative Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts, broadside
Collection
Identifier: MS 0605
Overview
Small broadside written by U.S. Representative Edith Nourse Rogers articulating an appeal to women voters to use their votes to "stabilize...this extraordinary era of experimental administration under which we have been living during the past four years."
Dates:
ca. 1936
Jack Burke Jr. papers/Champions Golf Club records
Collection
Identifier: MS 0525
Overview
Champions Golf Club was founded by golfing greats Jimmy Demaret and Jack Burke, Jr. in 1957 with the purpose of promoting the game of golf and bring active competition to its members and guests and to host significant national championships. The club is located north of Houston, Texas along the FM (Farmers Market road) 1960. This collection includes photographs, business papers, correspondence, news clips, and area maps from 1956 to 2007. The collection consists of 24 boxes and cartons with...
Dates:
1956-2017
James F. Grimes Letters
Collection
Identifier: MS 0105
Abstract:
Letters of James F. Grimes, a Union soldier of the 17th U.S. Infantry during the Civil War (1861-1865), written to Sarah A. Jones while Grimes was stationed mainly in Virginia near Warrenton and Culpepper, mentioning camp life and current events, but primarily of a more personal and affectionate nature.
Dates:
1863 - 1864
James M. Reding letter
Collection
Identifier: MS 0107
Abstract:
A letter written during the Civil War in December 1863 by James M. Reding, a Confederate soldier, to his sister concerning recent action near his army camp, including capture of a Union boat in Matagorda Bay, Texas, and the arrival of a Confederate boat loaded with arms; he also advises against his brother Bob’s enlistment in the army before reaching eighteen years of age.
Dates:
1863
James Pinckney Miller papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0013
Overview
Drafts, including screenplays, of several of Miller's works including "Days of Wine and Roses" (1963), "Rabbit Trap," and "Race for Home" (1968); together with correspondence and notes concerning these works, copyright procedures, credits, and research. Includes material relating to Writers Guild of America, West.
Dates:
circa 1939-1999, bulk dates 1960-1999; Majority of material found within
Jefferson Davis letters and related materials collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 0005
Overview
Original handwritten letters between U.S. Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his government and military colleagues, and his wife, Varina. Colleagues include General William H. Emory, Senator Stephen A. Douglas, Sidney W. Burbank, Secretary of War John B. Floyd, General Joseph E. Johnston, Col. Abraham Myers, General James Chesnut, and William H. Sanders. The bulk of the letters date from the 1850s and 1860s. Additional materials are letters to and from other persons, U.S. and...
Dates:
1838 - 1964
John A. Dix Civil War Pass and Letter
Collection
Identifier: MS 0110
Abstract:
John A. Dix (soldier, attorney, and politician) was commissioned Major General by President Lincoln in 1861 and served in administrative positions during the Civil War, issuing the military pass in this collection during that time; after the war he became minister to France (1866-69), then returned to New York State to resume his professional and business activities. In his letter of December 1, 1869, written to “My dear Colonel,” he discusses a recent land purchase and investment opportunity,...
Dates:
1862; 1869
John C. Crosby U.S. Civil War diary
Collection
Identifier: MS 0287
Abstract:
A leather-bound hand-written diary kept by John C. Crosby, first from 1861 to 1862 during the United States Civil War while Crosby served in the Seventh Maine Regiment of the Union army (probably as a hospital orderly), recording daily activities in tending the sick while moving about on campaign; then, from 1865 to 1868 after Crosby’s return to civilian life, recording his activities and personal finances as a hired farm worker.
Dates:
1861 - 1868
John H. Wright U.S. Civil War and related ephemera collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 0061
Abstract:
U.S. Civil war imprints and currency, various 19th century broadsides, brief histories of Army Generals including U.S. Grant, W.T. Sherman, A.E.Burnside, and others, as well as other ephemera such as Mussolini's shaving kit. This material was collected over a period of years by John H. Wright.
Dates:
1838-1936
John R. Dunban U.S. Civil War correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MS 0150
Abstract:
This collection consists of letters to family written by Private John R. Dunban from 1864 to 1865 while serving in the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War.
Dates:
1864 - 1865