MicroFinder Titles M to Z

Madison, James, 1751-1836. Papers, 1723-1859. Washington, D.C., Library of Congress, Photoduplication Service, 1965

Call number:Microfilm A7

Guide: Index to the James Madison Papers
Call number: Z8540.U53

Note: 28 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in the Library of Congress.

Description: The James Madison papers include correspondence, memoranda, autobiography, Thomas Jefferson's notes on debates in the Continental Congress and Madison's notes of debates in the Congress of the Confederation and the Federal Convention of 1787.

Most of the material dates from 1771 to 1836. The papers are arranged in the following five series:

Series I : General correspondence and related items, 1723-1859
Series II : Additional correspondence and related items, 1780-1837
Series III : Madison's correspondence with John Armstrong, 1813-1836
Series IV : Autobiography (ca. 1751-1829) with legal documents, 1779-1852
Series V : Thomas Jefferson's notes on the debates in the Continental Congress, 1776; Madison's notes on the debates in the Congress of the Confederation, 1782-1783 and 1787 and the Federal Convention of 1787

Subjects: Madison, James; Presidents (Personal Papers); Jefferson, Thomas; United States Continental Congress; United States History Confederation (1783-1789); Federal Convention of 1787

Major Council Meetings of American Indian Tribes. Frederick, Md. : University Publications of America, c1981-[198_]

Call number: Microfilm A209

Guide: Major Council Meetings of American Indian Tribes
Call number: E76.M3 pt. 1-2

Note: 52 reels 35 mm. microfilm

Description: As the deliberative and governing bodies of Native American tribes, Councils consider topics of importance to the members of the tribe. Topics covered include hunting, fishing, timber, and mineral rights; water supply and irrigation; role of Indian government; function of agents and commissioners; civil rights; relations with Whites and other Indians; culture and religion; etc.

Part 1, section 1 (reels 1-12) contains minutes of meetings held 1914-1956 by the following tribes: Navajo, Five Civilized Tribes, Pueblo, Cheyenne and Arapaho. Part 1, section 2 (reels 13-26) contains minutes of meetings held 1911-1956 by the following tribes: Chippewa, Klamath, Sioux. Part 2, section 1 and 2 (reels 27-52) contains minutes of meetings held 1957-1971 by the following tribes: Five Civilized Tribes, Navajo, Cheyenne and Arapaho, Consolidated Utes (Southern and Mountain), Pueblos, Sioux, Klamath, Chippewa.

Subjects: Ute Indians; Klamath Indians; Navajo Indians; Dakota Indians; Chippewa Indians; Arapaho Indians; Cheyenne Indians; Pueblo Indians; Five Civilized Tribes; Native Americans (20th Century); Government Relations; Social Life and Customs (20th Century); Civil Rights (20th Century)

Malcolm X, FBI Surveillance File. Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources, 1978

Call number: Microfilm A127

Guide: No guide available

Note: 2 reels 35 mm. microfilm

Description: Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little) became a leading figure in the Black militant movement during the 1960's. Malcolm X's early activities focused on crime and drugs. While serving a prison sentence he converted to the Black Muslim faith and became a minister in Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam. Upon his release from prison in 1952. Malcolm X became a leading spokesman for the Nation of Islam stressing Black separatism and advocating the use of violence for self-protection--an attitude which was in direct conflict with many other contemporary Black leaders.

Internal conflict forced Malcom X out of the Black Muslim sect. He formed his own organization and shortly before his death converted to the Islam faith and abandoned his earlier radical views. His rift with the Black Muslims continued until his assassination in 1965. The FBI surveillance file, released under the Freedom of Information Act, spans from 1953 to the death of Malcolm X. Included are reports which document his activities and involvement with several organizations.

The 2,360 pages were filmed as they appeared in the file. A guide is not available. File was assembled as part of the counterintelligence program of the F.B.I. : Cointelpro. File material reproduced in the exact order in which it was received from the FBI. Includes clippings from the New York Times. Some pages have indistinct print.

Subjects: X, Malcolm; Muhammad, Elijah; United States Federal Bureau of Investigation; Nation of Islam; African Americans (20th Century); Religious Life (20th Century); Civil Rights (20th Century)

Manhattan Project : Official History and Documents. edited by Paul Kesaris. Washington, D.C., University Publications of America, c1977

Call number: Microfilm D297

Guide: A Guide to Manhattan Project : official history and documents
Call number: QC773.A1G83

Note: 12 reels 35 mm. microfilm

Description: The Manhattan Project was the U.S. government sponsored effort that produced the first atomic bomb. Established in 1942 under the administration of the Army Corps of Engineers, the project grew from small laboratories at Columbia and Princeton to huge installations at Chicago; Oak Ridge, Tennesse; Hanford, Washington; University of California at Berkeley; and Los Alamos, New Mexico. While the research, design, and final assembly of the bomb took place at Los Alamos, work involving plutonium production and the separation of Uranium 235 was carried out at the other sites.

The microfilm collection, filmed from materials in the National Archives, consists of documents that describe the administration and various programs of the Manhattan project. Included are reports, memoranda, charts, maps, and photos that relate to research and development; site selection; design, engineering, and construction of facilities; costs; organization; operations; and personnel. Some of the original material is still restricted and not microfilmed, most notably documents relating to the project involving the separation of Uranium 235 by gaseous diffusion.

Other items of special interest are documents that investigate the after-effects of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings; the diary (1943-1945) of Lt. Colonel F. T. Matthias who was in charge of the plutonium production project; and the daily log of Lt. Colonel W. Ashbridge who was at Los Alamos. For reel guide and index consult A Guide to Manhattan Project : official history and documents.

Subjects: Manhattan Project; United States Army. Manhattan Engineer District; Matthias, F. T; Ashbridge, W; Atomic bomb; World War II (1939-1945); Hiroshima; Nagasaki; Japan

Marcus Garvey, FBI Investigation File

Call number: Microfilm A126

Guide: No guide available

Note: 1 reels 35 mm. microfilm

Description: Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican immigrant, organized a Black nationalist movement based in Harlem between 1919 and 1926. The goal of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) was to promote unity among Blacks of the world by instilling pride of race, acquiring economic power, and building, in Africa, a Black-governed Negro nation. Membership figures in the UNIA vary greatly but Garvey's movement is estimated to have been the largest mass movement among African Americans, although his concepts of racial purity and separatism brought him in conflict with other contemporary Black leaders.

This movement was brought to an abrupt halt with the conviction of Garvey for mail fraud and misuse of funds from UNIA enterprises. Garvey served two years of a seven year prison sentence before being deported as an undesirable alien. Garvey died in obscurity in 1940. The FBI file focuses on the investigation of Garvey's fund-raising activities. Included are reports of FBI investigators, testimony of individuals, interviews by FBI agents, and newspaper clippings. The material was filmed in the order it appeared in the original file. A guide is not available. Some pages have indistinct print.

Subjects: Garvey, Marcus; United States Federal Bureau of Investigation; Universal Negro Improvement Association; African Americans (20th Century); Civil Rights (20th Century); African American Immigrants

Martin Luther King, Jr. FBI Assassination File. Wilmington Del. : Scholarly Resources, 1978.

Call number: Microfilm D305

Guide: No guide available

Note: 25 reels 35 mm. microfilm

Description: Martin Luther King, Jr. became the most prominent leader of the United States civil rights movement from the mid-1950's until his assassination in 1968. A proponent of non-violent action to achieve racial equality, King's early activities were focused in his native South where he led a boycott in Montgomery, Alabama to end segregation of public transportation. He rose to national prominence as the leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).

The FBI assassination file, containing nearly 45,000 pages, was released under the Freedom of Information Act. The file contains all the investigative and physical evidence gathered in the case which concluded in the arrest of James Earl Ray as King's assassin. Included are reports sent to the FBI. The papers were filmed in the order in which they appeared in the file. No index is available.

Subjects: King, Martin Luther Jr.; United States Federal Bureau of Investigation; Assassinations; African Americans (20th Century); Civil Rights (20th Century)

Maryland State Colonization Society. Microfilm Edition of the Papers of the Maryland State Colonization Society. [Philadelphia : Rhistoric Publications, 1970]

Call number: Microfilm A78

Guide: Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Papers of the Maryland Colonization Society
Call number: E448.M393

Note: 31 reels 35 mm. microfilm

Description: The Maryland Colonization Society was founded in 1817 as an auxiliary of the Washington-based American Colonization Society. Its function was to provide funds for the parent organization and to recruit colonists for the American Society's settlement of Liberia. By 1831 the Maryland Colonization Society decided to act as an independent organization, establishing its own colony, Maryland, in Liberia, in 1834. The Society remained active in its colony's affairs until it merged with Liberia to insure protection from native attack. Once Liberia was recognized by the U.S. in 1862, the remaining efforts of the Maryland Society were directed toward the support of a school in Cape Palmas. The Society was officially disbanded in 1902.

The Papers, part of the Maryland Historical Society Library include correspondence, financial records, manumission books, copies and extracts of documents and wills freeing slaves, pamphlets and a complete set (1836-61) of the Maryland Colonization Journal. The microfilm edition is arranged chronologically within sixteen different categories. A printed index, as well as a history of chronology of the Society is provided in the Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Papers of the Maryland Colonization Society.

Subjects: Maryland State Colonization Society; African Americans (19th Century); Colonization; Africa (19th Century); Liberia (19th Century); American Colonization Society; Slavery; Maryland Colonization Journal

Mascarene Family Papers 1687-1839. Cambridge : M.I.T. microreproduction laboratory, [c1969?]

Call number: Microfilm A72

Guide: No guide available

Note: 1 reel 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Description: The collection contains the correspondence of a Loyalist family during the Revolutionary War. Included are about 70 personal and family letters of Mrs. Margaret Mascarene of Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts from her sister-in-law, Margaret Mascarene Hutchinson; her nephew, Thomas Perkins; and Thomas Lane, a merchant seaman and family friend. The correspondence of Mrs. Hutchinson, a Massachusetts refugee living in Halifax, Nova Scotia reflects the plight of American loyalists in Canada.

Subjects: Mascarene family; United States History Revolutionary War (1775-1783); Mascarene, Margaret; Hutchinson, Margaret Mascarene; Massachusetts (17th Century); Massachusetts (18th Century); Massachusetts (19th Century); Loyalists; Halifax, Nova Scotia; Canada

Mather Papers. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1970-

Call number: Microfilm A88

Guide: Mather Microfilm

Call number: Z8554.M38

Note: 19 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Description: Cotton Mather, Puritan clergyman, scholar, and author, was born in Boston in 1663. The son of clergyman Increase Mather, he was ordained in 1685 at his father's church, the Second Church of Boston, where he held office for the rest of his life. Like most Puritans, Mather believed in supernatural phenomena and during the Salem witchcraft trials (1692-93) he urged fasting and prayer for those who were found guilty of conspiring with the devil.

Mather was less in the public eye after the witchcraft trials but he remained a leader in the church, supported programs for a variety of good causes, and continued his tireless activity as a writer (he wrote more than 450 books). His published and unpublished works reveal a complex personality and show Mather to be a skillful preacher, an able editor and historian, and a well-bred amateur in many fields of knowledge. The Mather Papers include: sermons; diaries (1681-1724); a notebook (1720); and letters (1690-1724). Also included are the manuscripts of unpublished works such as Biblia Americana and The Angel of Bethesda.

Subjects: Mather, Cotton; United States History Colonial Period (1600-1775); Massachusetts (17th Century); Massachusetts (18th Century); Correspondence (17th Century); Correspondence (18th Century); Literary Manuscripts (17th Century); Literary Manuscripts (18th Century); Sermons (17th Century); Sermons (18th Century); Diaries (17th Century); Sermons (18th Century)

McCarthy Era Blacklisting of School Teachers, College Professors, and Other Public Employees, the FBI Responsibilities Program File and the Dissemination of Information Policy File. Frederick, Md., University Publications of America, 1989

Call number: Microfilm A268

Guide:cMcCarthy Era Blacklisting of School Teachers, College Professors, and Other Public Employees
Call number: HV8144.F43 1989

Note: 8 reels 35 mm. microfilm

Description: From February 1951 to March 1955, the FBI Responsibilities Program disseminated personal and political information to employers of than 400 school teachers and college professors; 200 city, county, and state government employees; 109 public utilites workers; and a few individuals working for tax-emempt organizations like the March of Dimes. The program was terminated after questions about academic freedom were raised belatedly by the media.

The files contain newspaper clippings, periodic summaries, memoranda recording contacts with the Truman and Eisenhower administrations, policy statements, and action documents. The policy documents are important because they indicate opinions and recommendations of FBI officials regarding strategy and include Hoover marginalia. Action documents also include some policy level information, but primarily are a record of communications between the FBI and its field offices regarding targeted individuals. The guide provides background information of the FBI Responsibities Program and anti-Communism activities in the post-World War II period. The information was released under provisions of the Freedom of Information Act

Subjects: United States Federal Bureau of Investigation; Subversive Activities; College Teachers; Political Activity; Civil Rights (20th Century); Teachers; McCarthyism; Hoover, J. Edgar; Truman, Harry; Eisenhower, Dwight; Public Employees; Communism (20th Century); Anti-Communism (20th Century); Freedom of Information Act

McCreary, Millie J. b. 1858. Diaries, 1895-1896. New Canaan, CT : Readex Film Products, [1988]

Call number: Microfilm A246 reel 34

Guide: Guide to American Women's Diaries : Segment II : Southern Women
Call number: HQ1418.A441 1988

Note: 1 reel 35 mm. microfilm. Original is in the collection of the Atlanta Historical Society.

Description: Millie J. McCreary was a Northern teacher, who moved to Atlanta in 1895 to teach at the Atlanta Baptist Seminary (later Morehouse College), a school for African-American men. In her diary, McCreary describes teachers at the school, the Colored Baptist Mission Society Convention in Atlanta, visits to Spellman College, and the Cotton States and International Exposition. This diary is one of the few that exist for a nineteen century African-American woman. Unfortunately nothing is known of McCreary after the diary ends in 1896. Part of the American Women's Diaries (Southern Women) collection.

Subjects: McCreary, Millie J.; Women (19th Century); Georgia (19th Century); African American Women; African American Teachers; Women Teachers; African Americans; Higher Education (19th Century); Morehouse College; Atlanta Baptist Seminary; Colored Baptist Mission Society; Cotton States Exposition; Diaries (19th Century)

McDonnell, Joseph P, 1847-1906. Joseph P. McDonnell Papers, 1869-1906. Frederick, Md. : University Publications of America, 1985

Call number: Microfilm A241 Reel 4

Guide: A Guide to American Bureau of Industrial Research, Manuscript Collections on the Early American Labor Movement, 1862-1908
Call number:HD8072.S343

Note: 1 reel 35 mm. microfilm

Description: In 1883, Joseph P. McDonnell was instrumental in organizing the New Jersey Federation of Trades and Labor Unions, serving as chairman for many years. He was also president of the American Federation of Labor in New Jersey. In 1892, McDonnell was appointed to the New Jersey Board of Arbitration, and later served as president of the board.

The bulk of the McDonnell papers consists of annual reports of the New Jersey Federation of Trades and Labor Unions and a manuscript report of the New Jersey Board of Arbitration for 1893-1894. Part of the American Bureau of Industrial Research collection at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Subjects: McDonnell, Joseph P.; American Bureau of Industrial Research; New Jersey. State Board of Arbitration; Labor and laboring classes (19th Century); Labor Unions (19th Century); New Jersey; New Jersey Federation of Trades and Labor Unions; American Federation of Labor

McKaig, Priscilla Ellen Beall, 1810-1885. Family Journal, 1851-1866. New Canaan, CT : Readex Film Products, [1988]

Call number: Microfilm A246 reel 8

Guide: Guide to American Women's Diaries : Segment II : Southern Women
Call number: HQ1418.A441 1988

Note: 1 reel 35 mm. microfilm. Original is in the collection of the Allegany Historical Society.

Description: The McKaig Journal was a joint effort of William and Priscilla McKaig from 1851 to 1862 when Priscilla became the sole diarist. It records the social, economic, religious, and political life of a well-to-do family of Cumberland, Maryland. William McKaig was a lawyer, state legislator, and president of the Frostburg Coal Company. Two of the McKaig's sons fought for the Confederacy. The McKaig Journal was published in 1984. For additional information consult the guide to the collection. Part of the American Women's Diaries (Southern Women) collection.

Subjects: McKaig, Priscilla Ellen Beall; McKaig, William; Women (19th Century); Maryland (19th Century); Diaries (19th Century); United States History Civil War (1861-1865) (Personal Narratives); Social Life and Customs (19th Century)

McKinley, William, 1843-1901. Papers, Ca. 1847-1902. Washington, D.C., Library of Congress, Photoduplication Service, 1963

Call number: Microfilm A20

Guide: Index to the William McKinley Papers
Call number: Z6616.M18U5

Note: 98 reels 35 mm. Microfilm. Originals are in the Library of Congress.

Description: The McKinley papers include correspondence, speeches, messages, scrapbooks and some records kept at the time of McKinley's assassination. They also contain copies of letters send and signed by John A. Porter and George B. Cortelyou, secretaries to the President. Most of the material falls in the period from 1897-1901.

The collection includes very little information on McKinley's early career, his governorship of Ohio, or his service as a member of Congress from Ohio, 1877-91.

Subjects: McKinley, William; Porter, John A.; Cortelyou, George B.; Presidents (Personal Papers); Assassination

McLellan, Harriet Tatem, fl. 1865. Diaries, 1864-1869. New Canaan, CT : Readex Film Products, [1988]

Call number: Microfilm A246 reel 7

Guide: Guide to American Women's Diaries : Segment II : Southern Women
Call number: HQ1418.A441 1988

Note: 1 reel 35 mm. microfilm. Original is in the collection of the Perkins Library at Duke University.

Description: McLellan's diary is the diary of a Southern woman who fled the South during the Civil War. She describes her travels with her two daughters from Georgia to Alabama, and then to Cincinnati and Baltimore. McLellan was accused of being a spy and her trunk was searched. In Baltimore, she gave birth to her last daughter while staying with friends. She then moved to New York for the remainder of the War.

The diary skips a year to the end of the War and her return to Georgia where neighbors treated her as a traitor. She opened a mercantile store because of her husband's financial situation. Diary entries are sporadic until 1869. The diaries are of interest because of the record of her trip through enemy lines, references to marital difficulties, and the account of running a business in the South during the reconstruction period. For additional information consult the guide to the collection. Part of the American Women's Diaries (Southern Women) collection.

Subjects: McLellan, Harriet Tatem; Women (19th Century); Georgia (19th Century); United States History Civil War (1861-1865); United States History Reconstruction; Social Life and Customs (19th Century)

Middle East, Special Studies, 1970-1980. Frederick Md. : University Publications of America, [1981?]

Call number:Microfilm A137

Guide: The Middle East, Special Studies, 1970-1980
Call number: DS63.M516

Note:18 reels 35 mm. microfilm

Description: A collection composed of unclassified papers prepared by various government and private research organizations on the political, economic and social developments in the Near East during the 1970's and the growing trend towards military involvement. Authors are associated with research facilities in the United States: The Army War College's Strategic Studies Institute, National Defense University, Institute for Defense Analysis, Army Command and General Staff College, American Institutes for Research and international institutes at Harvard, Columbia, Stanford, MIT and Yale.

Subjects: Middle East (20th Century); Economic Conditions (20th Century); Politics and Government (20th Century); Foreign Relations (20th Century)

Middle East, Special Studies, 1980-1982 Supplement. Frederick, Md. : University Publications of America, c1983

Call number: Microfilm A137a

Guide: The Middle East, Special Studies, 1980-1982 Supplement
Call number: DS63.M5162

Note: 3 reels 35 mm. microfilm

Description: A collection of unclassified papers prepared by various govenment and private research organizations on the political, economic, and social developments in the Middle East during the 1980's and a growing trend toward military involvement. This collection supplements a set covering 1970-1980.

Subjects: Middle East (20th Century); Economic Conditions (20th Century); Politics and Government (20th Century); Foreign Relations (20th Century)

Miscellaneous Vietnam Pamphlets : In South Asia Section, Orientalia Division [of Library of Congress]. Washington, D.C., Library of Congress photoduplication service, 1971

Call number:Microfilm D196

Guide: No guide available

Note: 9 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in the Library of Congress.

Description: A pamphlet collection most produced by the United States Joint Publications Research Service.

Subjects: Vietnam

Mission of Apollo 11, July 15-25, 1969 : Special Edition Microfilm Record. Wooster, Ohio] : Micro Photo Division, Bell & Howell Company, [1969]

Call number: Microfilm D138

Guide: No guide available

Note: 4 reels 35 mm. microfilm

Description: Newspaper clippings of the journey of Apollo 11 and accounts of its landing on the moon from 80 American newspapers.

Subjects: Project Apollo; Space Flight to the Moon; Moon; American Newspapers (20th Century); 1960s

Mitchell, Harry Leland. The Harry Leland Mitchell Papers, 1910-1977. Glen Rock, N.J. : Microfilming Corp. of America, 1977

Call number: Microfilm A128 Reels 1-11

Guide: The Green Rising, 1910-1977, A Supplement to the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union Papers : A Guide to the Collection
Call number: Z1251.S7G833

Note: 11 reels 35 mm. microfilm

Description: Harry Leland Mitchell was one of the founders in 1934 of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union (STFU), a biracial union of sharecroppers, tenant farmers, and small landowners. He served as the Union's executive secretary from 1934 to 1939 and from 1941 to 1944, when he was elected president of the National Farm Labor Union, the successor of the STFU.

Mitchell also worked on numerous labor related commissions and groups, including the Commission on Farm Tenancy, Commission on Farm Labor, ILO Committee on Plantation Work, United States-Mexico Joint Trade Union Committee, Citizen's Advisory Committee on Farm Labor, and the Southern Rural Welfare Association. From 1948 to 1958, Mitchell was a member of the Federal Advisory Council of the Bureau of Employee Security in the Department of Labor.

Mitchell's papers date from 1910 to 1977. The correspondence section covers from 1933 to 1977, with the majority dating after 1960 and concerns activities of the STFU, Mitchell's activities with other unions, and his public speaking career. The Mitchell papers also contain unpublished book length manuscripts by Howard Kester, Ernesto Galarza, and Mitchell; oral histories of Mitchell and Hank Hasiwar; union broadsides, 1962-1972; and books on the conditions of farm workers.

Subjects: Mitchell, Harry Leland; Galarza, Ernesto; Hasiwar, Hank; Southern Tenant Farmers' Union; Oral Histories; Broadsides; Sharecropping; Southern States (20th Century); Agriculture (20th Century); Commission on Farm Tenancy; Commission on Farm Labor; ILO Committee on Plantation Work; United States-Mexico Joint Trade Union Committee; Citizen's Advisory Committee on Farm Labor; Southern Rural Welfare Association; United States Department of Labor Bureau of Employee Security. Federal Advisory Council; Labor Unions (20th Century); Farm tenancy; National Farm Labor Union. 33. Agricultural Laborers; African American Agricultural Laborers

Mitchell, John, 1870-1919. John Mitchell Papers 1885-1919. Glen Rock, N. J. : Microfilming Corp. of America, 1974

Call number: Microfilm A99

Guide: Guide to the John Mitchell Papers 1885-1919
Call number: HD8073.M5T87

Note: 55 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in the collection of Catholic University of America Library.

Description: Labor leader John Mitchell was born in Braidwood, Illinois in 1870, the son of a coal miner. He began working in the mines at the age of twelve and soon learned of labor difficulties. When the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) was organized in 1890, Mitchell joined the local chapter. His enthusiasm and dedication to this still weak union was rewarded by his rapid rise within the organization. By 1898, Mitchell was president of the Union, a post he held until 1907.

The UMWA grew and became powerful while Mitchell was president. His major contributions to the union and the labor movement were his management of various labor disputes, especially the anthractie coal strikes of 1900 and 1902. He also served as vice president of the American Federation of Labor from 1900 to 1914. Mitchell was the first to successfully organize immigrant workers in one cause. After leaving his post with the UMWA, Mitchell served on various governmental committees and agencies on the state and national levels.

The Mitchell papers are comprised of correspondence, journals, financial records, reports, lectures, speeches and photographs for the period of 1885-1919. Minutes, proceedings, and constitutions of the United Mine Workers are included for 1891-1908.

Subjects: Mitchell, John; United Mine Workers of America; American Federation of Labor; National Civic Federation; New York State Workmen's Compensation Commission; New York State Food Commission; Correspondence (19th Century); Correspondence (20th Century); Photographs (19th Century); Photographs (20th Century); Speeches (19th Century); Speeches (20th Century)

Monroe, James, 1758-1831. Papers, 1758-1839. Washington, D.C., Library of Congress, Photoduplication Service, 1960

Call number: Microfilm A8

Guide: Index to the James Monroe Papers
Call number: Z8587.8.M6 Q

Note: 11 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in the Library of Congress.

Description: In addition to being President of the United States, Monroe served in the Virginia legislature, the Continental Congress, the United States Senate, and as Secretary of War. The Monroe papers contain correspondence relating to negotiations for the Louisiana Purchase and the Monroe Pinkney Treaty, the War of 1812, the Florida Purchase, South American Independence, and Virginia Politics. There is also an account book containing memoranda, official and personal accounts (1794-1802) and miscellaneous material. The Papers are arranged in three series:

Series I : General Correspondence, 1758-1839
Series II : Additional Correspondence, 1789-1836
Series III : Letterbooks, 1803-1806

containing copies of dipliomatic correspondence of Monroe as minister to England and comments (1794-1796) on his mission to France. In addition to the index, see Calendar of the Correspondence of James Monroe.

Subjects: Monroe, James; United States Department of War (Personal Papers); United States Congress Senate (Personal Papers); United States Department of State (Personal Papers); Presidents (Personal Papers); Virginia (18th Century); Virginia (19th Century); Louisiana Purchase; War of 1812; Florida; Latin America; Great Britain (18th Century); France (18th Century)

Montezuma, Carlos, 1866-1923. The Papers of Carlos Montezuma, M.D : Including the Papers of Maria Keller Montezuma Moore and the Papers of Joseph W. Latimer. Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources, 1983

Call number: Microfilm A223

Guide: Guide and Index to the Scholarly Resources Microfilm Edition of the Papers of Carlos Montezuma, M.D., 1871-1952
Call number: Z8590.6.G8 1984

Note: 9 reels 35 mm. microfilm

Description: Carlos Montezuma (1867-1923) was a Yavapai Indian, but raised in an urban White society. He was a crusader for Native American rights and a prominent physican. His papers are an important source of Native American history and contain information on the history of medicine.

The collection contains correpsondence (1887-1926); essays, speeches, and testimony (1882-1922); the newspaper Wassaja (1916-1922); Society of American Indian materials (1911-1923); medical papers and case notes (1886-1922); and the Justice Department's file on Montezuma (1917-1919). Also included are the papers of his wife, Maria Keller Montezuma More, and his attorney, Joseph W. Latimer.

Subjects: Montezuma, Carlos; Latimer, Joseph W; Moore, Maria Keller Montezuma; Society of American Indians; Native Americans (Personal Papers); Yavapai Indians; Native Americans (19th Century); Native Americans (20th Century); Physicians (Personal Papers); Medicine (20th Century); Wassaja (Newspaper); Native American Newspapers

Moore, Cornelia Jackson. Diaries, 1894, 1917-1919. New Canaan, CT : Readex Film Products, [1988]

Call number: Microfilm A246 reel 34

Guide: Guide to American Women's Diaries : Segment II : Southern Women
Call number: HQ1418.A441 1988

Note: 1 reel 35 mm. microfilm. Original is in the collection of the Atlanta Historical Society.

Description: Cornelia Jackson Moore was the granddaughter of two Confederate Generals. Her first diary is of a tour of Europe in 1894. The diaries for 1917-1919 record her activities in Atlanta during the First World War. Cornelia Moore was the wife of the president of the Southern States Insurance Company and of the Atlanta Chamber of Congress. She started the Cornelia Moore Day Nursery in 1917, but unfortunately the diaries give few details about this activity. The diaries are part of the American Women's Diaries (Southern Women) collection.

Subjects: Moore, Cornelia Jackson; Moore, Wilmer L.; Women (19th Century); Women (20th Century); Georgia (20th Century); Diaries; Georgia (19th Century); Social Life and Customs (19th Century); Description and Travel (Europe); Atlanta, Georgia

Mordecai, Emma, 1812-1906. Diaries, May 1864-May 1865. New Canaan, CT : Readex Film Products, [1988]

Call number: Microfilm A246 reel 20

Guide: Guide to American Women's Diaries : Segment II : Southern Women
Call number: HQ1418.A441 1988

Note: 1 reel 35 mm. microfilm. Original is in the Southern Historical Collection of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Description: Emma Mordecai was one of twelve children of Jacob and Rebecca Myers Mordecai. The Mordecais were a Jewish-Christian family. The father was a prominent merchant in North Carolina and Richmond, Virginia. The original diaries for 1864 and 1865 were recopied by the author in 1884 because of their deteriorating condition. The diaries describe deprivations caused by the Civil War and the ways people coped. Her family evacuated from Richmond to the country. Near the end of the diary, Emma gives an account of newly freed slaves, and their attitudes towards their former owners. Part of the American Women's Diaries (Southern Women) collection.

Subjects: Mordecai, Emma; Women (19th Century); Virginia (19th Century); Diaries; Religious Life (19th Century); United States History Civil War (1861-1865) (Personal Narratives); Jews (19th Century); Slavery; Emancipation; Jewish Women; African Americans (19th Century)

Morison, Emily Marshall Eliot, 1857-1925. Diaries, 1868-1922. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, 1976

Call number: Microfilm D285 reel 976-977 M19

Guide: No guide available

Note: 2 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals are in Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College.

Description: Emily Marshall Eliot Morison was a member of a prominent Boston family and the mother of Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison. Her diaries, which cover the period 1868-1922, focus on social and family life, first as a young girl and later as a wife and mother. In addition to entries on everyday life in Boston, there are accounts of vacations in various parts of New England and of trips to Europe. A brief synopsis of the diaries precedes the manuscripts. The diary of her mother, Emily Marshall Eliot is also available in the collection. Part of the History of Women Collection.

Subjects: Morison, Emily Marshall (Eliot); Eliot, Emily Marshall (Otis); Morison, Samuel Eliot; Women (19th Century); Women (20th Century); Massachusetts (19th Century); Massachusetts (20th Century); Social Life and Customs (19th Century); Social Life and Customs (20th Century); Europe; Description and Travel

Morris, Clara, 1848-1925. Diaries, 1867-1924. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, 1976

Call number: Microfilm D285 reel 977-981

Guide: No guide available

Note: 5 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals are in the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College.

Description: Clara Morris was a renowned actress and author of articles, short stories, and three books. After a difficult childhood, she began a career on the stage, becoming a ballet girl in the resident company of the Cleveland Academy of Music in 1861. In 1872, under the direction of Augustin Daly of the Fifth Avenue Threatre, she received widespread acclaim for her role in L'Article 47 and was hailed as the greatest emotional actress of her time.

Her diaries (1867-1924) include descriptions of her career as an actress, accounts of her travels, discussions of her illness and domestic life, comments on the social and political issues of her day, and references to notable personalities. A brief biography and summary of the diaries precedes the manuscripts. Part of the History of Women Collection.

Subjects: Morris, Clara; Daly, Augustin; Actresses; Women Authors; Theatre; Diaries; Women (19th Century); Women (20th Century)

Mudge, M. I., 1830- . Diary, 1854. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, 1976

Call number: Microfilm D285 reel 982 M21

Guide: No guide available

Note: 1 reel 35 mm. microfilm. Originals are in the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College.

Description: M. I. Mudge was a school teacher in Lynn, Massachusetts. Her 1854 diary provides an account of social life and customs in Lynn, together with comments on her work. Included are frequent comments on church attendance, sermon topics, etc. The diaries are part of the History of Women Collection, the original manuscripts are in the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women at Radcliffe College.

Subjects: Mudge, M. I.; Women (19th Century); Massachusetts (19th Century); Diaries (19th Century); Religious Life (19th Century); Women School Teachers; Education; Lynn, Massachusetts; Social Life and Customs (19th Century)

Murrow, Edward R. Edward R. Murrow Papers, 1927-1973. Sanford, N.C. : Microfilming Corp. of America, [1981?]

Call number: Microfilm A184

Guide: Edward R. Murrow Papers, 1927-1965 : A Guide to the Microfilm Edition
Call number: PN4874.M89E3

Note: 50 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in the Edward R. Murrow Center of Public Diplomacy in the Tufts University Library.

Description: Edward R. Murrow was one of the founding fathers of broadcast journalism. After serving as Assistant Director of the Institute of International Education for three years, Murrow began his 25 year career with the Columbia Broadcasting System in 1935. At CBS, Murrow's achievements include trans-Atlantic radio broadcasts during the Second World War, the television documentary series See It Now, an interview program Person to Person, and CBS Reports, which contained indepth investigation into controversial issues. In 1961, he was appointed Director of the United States Information Agency, a position he held until shortly before his death in 1965. The Murrow papers contain professional and personal correspondence, reports, speeches, scripts, and interviews. The papers are organized into four series:

Series I (reels 1-16) : Correspondence, 1941-1965
Series II (reels 17-19) : Personal, 1927-1968
Series III (reels 20-45) : Professional employment, 1934-1973
Series IV (reels 46-50) : Activities, 1941-1967

Subjects: Murrow, Edward R; Columbia Broadcasting System; United States Information Agency; Broadcast journalism; Television Broadcasting

Myers, George A., 1859-1930. George A. Myers Papers, 1890-1929. Columbus, Ohio, Ohio Historical Center

Call number: Microfilm A299

Guide: The George A. Myers Papers, 1890-1923 : An Inventory of the Microfilm Edition
Call number: E743.M932 1974

Note: 8 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Original manuscripts located in the Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio.

Description: George A. Myers was born in Baltimore in 1859, the son of free Blacks. Because many college programs would not accept him on account of his race, Myers apprenticed as a barber. He moved to Cleveland, Ohio in 1878 and established his own barber shop in 1888. Myers' shop was a center for political discussions. He served as a Republican National Convention delegate in 1892 and was a member of the Ohio Republican Central Committee.

Subjects covered in this collection include the role of African Americans in the Southern Republican party, the Ohio Republican party and the Party Central Executive Committee, political patronage, and the role of Black people in America. Information on Black soldiers in Cuba and Black people living and traveling in the South is included. Because the time period 1890-1929, when Myers was involved in politics, was a time of increasing racism and racial segregation, his papers provide insight into the response of the African American middle class to the changing racial situation.

The guide to the collection has a reel guide listing major topics covered, a list of selected correspondents, a biographical sketch, and a list of related sources. Documents are arranged chronologically. The original documents are located in the Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio.

Subjects: Myers, George A.; African Americans (Personal Papers); African American (19th Century); African Americans (20th Century); Segregation; Politics and Government (19th Century); Politics and Government (20th Century); Republican Party; Ohio

National Clearinghouse on Aging. SCAN Microfiche Collection. Washington, D.C., U.S. Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare, Office of Human Development, Administration on Aging

Call number: Micro 4 SCAN

Guide: Program Categories for Microfiche Directory
Call number: HQ1064.U5I55

Note: ???? microfiche

Description: This microfiche collection consists of full text documents on aging distributed by the National Clearinghouse on Aging's Service Center for Aging Information (SCAN). This will include SCAN's monthly journal of abstracts, special bibliographies on issues in gerontology, the inventory of Federally- funded research on aging, the quarterly and annual inventory of AoA grants and contracts, user guides, the newsletter SCANNER, and all microfiche produced by the system. Indexed in its entirety by: Indiana State Commission on the Aging and Aged/Program categories for microfiche directory.

Subjects: Gerontology; Aged; United States

National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers. Archives of the National Federation of Settlements and Successors, 1899-1958. Woodbridge, Ct., Research Publications, 1990

Call number: Microfilm A280

Guide: Archives of the Settlement Movement : Listing and Guide to Parts One to Five of the Microfilm Edition
Call number: HV4194.A7 1990

Note: 29 reels, 35 mm. microfilm

Description: The Settlement Movement began in the United States with the founding of the University Settlement in New York City in 1886. Settlement workers, primarily women, lived in the communities that they were working to improve and were interested in housing and labor reform, child welfare, sanitation and other programs of social reform. The National Federation of Settlements was founded in 1911 and Jane Addams of Hull House served as the first president. This collection contains selected documents from the Archives of the National Federation of Settlements located in the Social Welfare History Archives Center at the University of Minnesota. The Penn State Libraries have Series 1, Parts 2 & 5. Part 2 contains project files on domestic programs. Topics covered include housing, unemployment, civil rights, prohibition, arts and music, and health. Correspondence, testimony and articles are included. Many of the documents date from the New Deal era. Part 5 contains documents from leaders of the Settlement Movement, including Jane Addams. Documents include speeches, correspondence, and articles. The guide book contains biographical sketches of leaders of the Settlement Movement and a reel guide. Parts of the collection not owned by Pattee Library are described in the guide. Information about the collection also is included at the beginning of each reel. This collection is a rich source of documents for social historians.

Subjects: National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers; Social Settlements; Settlement Movement; Social Service; Women (19th Century); Women (20th Century); Child Welfare; Housing; Labor; Peace; Addams, Jane; Children; Social Conditions (20th Century); Unemployment; Civil Rights (20th Century); Health Care; United States History New Deal (1933-1939); Speeches (20th Century); Correspondence (20th Century)

New England Hospital for Women and Children. Finance Committee Minutes, 1877-1915; Records of the Meetings of Physicians, 1876-1917. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, 1976

Call number: Microfilm D285 reel 982 M22

Guide: No guide available

Note: 1 reel 35 mm. microfilm. Originals are in the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College.

Description: New England Hospital, founded in 1862, was the first hospital in New England to educate women to be physicians, the first training school for nurses in the United States, and the first hospital in the United States to provide medical care for women and by women. The hospital was staffed exclusively by women until the 1950's. The papers consist of minutes from Finance Committee Meetings, 1877-1915, and records of the Meetings of the Physicians, 1876-1917. Insight is provided into the internal functioning and evolution of the Hospital.

A printed guide is not available, but an index precedes each volume of the proceedings of the physician's meetings. The papers are part of the History of Women Collection.

Subjects: New England Hospital for Women and Children; Women (19th Century); Women (20th Century); Health and Hygiene; Nurses; Women Physicians; Hospitals; Medicine

Nicholson, John, 1757-1800. John Nicholson Papers in the Pennsylvania State Archives, 1772-1819. Harrisburg : Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1967

Call number: Microfilm A41

Guide: Guide to the John Nicholson Papers
Call number: Z6616.N4

Note: 21 reels 35 mm. microfilm

Description: Nicholson was an important financier, land company promoter, and Comptroller General of Pennsylvania from 1782 to 1794. As such he was almost the fiscal dictator of the state. He is credited with bringing the Pennsylvania through the Revolutionary Period on a strong fiscal basis. Following charges that he used his office for private gain and an unsuccessful attempt to impeach him, Nicholson resigned his office in 1794.

After his resignation, Nicholson devoted his energies to land speculation and development, areas in which he was already extensively involved. In partnership with Robert Morris and others, he was involved in land speculation and other business enterprises in Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, and the District of Columbia. Financial trouble developed after 1796, and Nicholson and Morris spent time in debtor's prison.

Only the general correspondence section of Nicholson's papers in the Pennsylvania State Archives have been filmed. Correspondence of Nicholson (dating from 1772-1819), and that of two of his partners, T. B. Freeman (1794-1799) and William Moulder, Jr., (1794-1800) is arranged alphabetically by correspondent. The correspondence covers a broad range of economic, political, and social developments and includes correspondence from state and local leaders. Guide to the microfilm of the John Nicholson papers contains a short biography of Nicholson, a description of the papers, and an alphabetical list of correspondents.

Subjects: Nicholson, John; Freeman, T. B; Moulder, William; Morris, Robert; Pennsylvania (18th Century); Virginia (18th Century); North Carolina (18th Century); South Carolina (18th Century); Georgia (18th Century); Kentucky (18th Century); Washington (D.C.)

Ohio County and Regional Histories. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, [1974]

Call number: Microfilm D254

Guide: Reel Index to the Microfilm Collection of County Histories of the 'Old Northwest' : Ohio
Call number: Z1330.R43

Note: 91 reels 35 mm. microfilm

Description: A collection of over 300 local and regional histories of Ohio published in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. The collection covers 21 cities and regions in Ohio.

Subjects: Ohio; County Histories

Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903. The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted. Washington, D.C., Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1975

Call number: Microfilm A243

Guide: Frederick Law Olmsted, A Register of his Papers in the Library of Congres
Call number: Z6616.O5U53 1977

Note: 60 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in the Library of Congress.

Description: Frederick Law Olmsted was the designer and superintendent of New York's Central Park, designer of the U.S. Capitol grounds, and an acute and perceptive observer of slavery and economic conditions in the antebellum South. His personal papers include material on his brief partnership with the publisher of Putnam's Magazine, his long association with Central Park, his two years as manager of John C. Fremont's Mariposa mining estates in California, where in 1864 he was also appointed Commissioner of Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Big Tree Grove, and his career in planning parks.

The extensive subject file is arranged by type of project and contains substantial files on Central Park, the U.S. Capitol, Fenway Park in Boston, and George Vanderbilt's Biltmore estate. In addition, the papers include subject files relating to 35 city parks and the grounds of 28 private estates, 12 educational institutions, and 7 public buildings including the state capitols of New York, Connecticut, and Alabama. Material relating to his published works apparently perished in a fire in 1863.

The papers span the years 1777 to 1952, with the bulk of the material dated 1838 to 1903, include family, personal, and business papers of Olmsted's father, John Olmstead, a Hartford merchant; his brother, John Hull Olmsted; his son, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.; and his nephew and stepson, John Charles Olmsted. Business details appear frequently in their correspondence as John Olmsted financed his son's early ventures in farming and publishing, and his son and stepson eventually assumed positions in their father's firm. The earliest item in the collection is the journal of Gideon Olmsted (1749-1845), which describes his adventures as a privateer in the American Revolution.

Prominent correspondents include Henry W. Bellows, Samuel Bowles, Charles Loring Brace, Daniel H. Burnham, Horace W.S. Cleveland, George W. Curtis, Charles A. Dana, Edwin Lawrence Godkin, Andrew H. Green, Edward Everett Hale, William James, Clarence King, Frederick J. Kingsbury, Frederick N. Knapp, Charles Follen McKim, Charles Eliot Norton, Whitelaw Reid, Henry R. Richardson, Charles N. Riotte, Carl Schurz, George Templeton Strong, George W. Vanderbilt, Calvert Vaux, Henry Villard, George E. Waring, Jr., and Katharine Prescott Wormeley. Reel guide filmed at the beginning of reel 1. Information on this collection is also available in: Frederick Law Olmsted, a register of his papers in the Library of Congress (Microfilm Z6616.O5U53 1977). The collection contains additional papers given to the Library by Olmsted's biographer, Laura Wood Rooper. The addition includes correspondence, a diary and memorandum book, financial papers, reports, and other items and is especially rich in information on Nigara, N.Y., and the World's Columbian Exposition.

Contents:

Reel 1-2 : Journals, 1777-1888 and undated
Reel 2-23 : Correspondence, 1838-1928 and undated
Reel 24-41 : Subject file, 1857-1952 and undated
Reel 41-47 : Speeches and writings file, 1839-1903 and undated
Reel 47-51 : Miscellany, 1837-1952 and undated
Reel 52-60 : Addition, 1821-1924 (Olmsted items forwarded to the Library of Congress in 1975 by Olmsted's biographer, Laura Wood Roper)

Subjects: Olmsted, Frederick Law; Landscape architects; Landscape architecture

Oneida Community Books, Pamphlets and Serials 1834-1972. Glen Rock, N. J. : Microfilming Corp. of America, 1973

Call number: Microfilm A80

Guide: Oneida Community Books, Pamphlets and Serials 1834-1972
Call number: HX656.O5E75

Note: 15 reels 35 mm. microfilm

Description: The Oneida Community, established in New York State in 1848 under the leadership of John Humphrey Noyes, was one of the most successful Utopian communities of the nineteen century. Influenced by the fervor of the evangelical revivalism of the period and Noyes' personal beliefs, Oneida was based on the concepts of perfectionism and Bible communism.

These beliefs were manifested in both social and economic relationships in the community. Private ownership was abandoned, 'complex marriage' replaced monogamy, children were raised communally and the members practiced an eugenics program known as 'stiriculture'. The labor, in a variety of industrial and agriculural pursuits, was shared by all members and the community flourished until 1879. At that time, Oneida, which had grown from 87 members in 1849 to 306 members in 1878, experienced the resignation of Noyes and, presumably due to outside pressure, adopted monogamy. In 1881, the community was further reorganized into a joint stock company.

The collections contains books, pamphlets and serials and is arranged into three sections: books and pamphlets printed by or for the Oneida Community, 1838-1879; books and pamhlets printed about the Community, 1848-1878; Serial Publications of the Community. The guide provides a list of materials included in the collection and a history of the Oneida Community.

Subjects: Oneida Community; Religious Life (19th Century); New York (19th Century); Noyes, John Humphrey; Utopian Communities; Marriage; Communism; Socialism

Pamphlets by Communists Published by the Communist Press. Madison, Wisconsin : The State Historical Society of Wisconsin

Call number: Microfilm D75

Guide: Pamphlets by Communists Published by the Communist Press : Reel Guide to Microfilm D75
Call number: Z7164.S67.P34 c.4

Note: 3 reels 35 mm. microfilm

Description: This collection contains a set of pamphlets published by the Communist press primarily between 1930 and 1940. Subjects include labor unions and work conditions, segregation and race relations, World War II, the New Deal, unemployment, political elections, and the Communist Party. Pamphlets on the Scottsboro verdict, fascism, steel and railroad unions, and the C.I.O. are included. The guide contains a reel listing of the pamphlets. With a few exceptions, the pamphlets are filmed in alphabetical order by author. The originals are located at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.

Subjects: Labor Unions (20th Century); United States History New Deal (1939-1939); Civil Rights (20th Century); Communist Party; World War II (1939-1945); Pamphlets (20th Century); Communism; Race Relations (20th Century); African Americans (20th Century)

Pamphlets on Socialism, Communism, Bolshevism, Etc. : 1849-1930. Washington, D.C., Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1968

Call number: Microfilm D188

Guide: Pamphlets on Socialism
Call number: Z7164.S67P342

Note: 3 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in the Library of Congress.

Description: The collections contains 164 pamphlets, dating from 1849 to 1930, in English, French, and German. Most were printed in the United States, with a few England, France, Beligium and Germany. The authors include Emma Goldman, Alexandra Kolontay, Jack London, Eugene V. Debs, Frederick Engels, and Robert Bridges, as well as many organizations.

Subjects: Socialism; Communism; Pamphlets (19th Century); Pamphlets (20th Century)

Pamphlets on the Spanish Civil War, and the Franco Regime. University Park, Pa., University Library Photoduplication Service, 1979

Call number: Microfilm D301

Guide: Pamphlets on the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939, and the Franco Regime : Reel Guide
Call number: Z2701.C5P35

Note: 3 reels 35 mm. microfilm

Description: This collection is a set of 65 pamphlets on the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939, and the Francisco Franco Regime. Franco was the authoritarian leader of Spain from the end of the Civil War until his death in 1975. Pamphlets written in Spanish and English are included in the collection. Most of the pamphlets were published in Spain or in London. Subjects covered include the church, education, syndicalism, revolutionary leaders, and the Communist Party. The reel guide contains a reel listing and an alphabetical listing of the pamphlets. Publication information is included in the guide. The originals are located in the Special Collections Library, 1st Floor Paterno Library. For a related collection see Pamphlets on the Spanish Civil War, 1939-1939.

Subjects: Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Franco, Francisco; Spain (20th Century); Pamphlets (20th Century)

Pamphlets on the Spanish Civil War : 1936-1939. Washington, D.C., Library of Congress. Photoduplication Service, 1968

Call number: Microfilm D189

Guide: Pamphlets on the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
Call number: Z2701.C5.P34

Note: 2 reels 35 mm. microfilm.

Description: The collection consists of 123 pamphlets and other materials on the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Included are political pamphlets, letters, reports, speeches, and newspaper articles and editorials. The pamphlets represent various political views. Most pamphlets are in Spanish, but English, French, and German pamphlets also are included. Pamphlets are filmed in alphabetical order. The guide includes a reel guide and publication information. The collection was compiled by the Library of Congress. For a related collection see Pamphlets on the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939, and the Franco Regime.

Subjects: Spanish Civil Wa (1936-1939); Spain (20th Century); Pamphlets (20th Century); Franco, Francisco; Fascism

Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Wilmington, Del., Scholarly Resources, 1991

Call number: Microfilm A297

Guide: The Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, Guide and Index to the Microfilm Editon
Call number: HQ1413.S689P37

Note: 45 reels 35 mm. microfilm.

Description: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) and Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) created the nineteenth century movement for the equality of women. The women's suffrage movement developed out of the anti-slavery movement following the Civil War. Stanton and Anthony worked for a Constitutional amendment to give women the right to vote. This collection represents the combined holdings of over 200 libraries and printed matter from 700 journal titles.

The collection covers the years 1831-1906 and contains of more than 14,000 documents. Series I includes a complete run of the Revolution (1868-1871), a weekly newspaper created by Stanton and Anthony. Series II contains the Chicago Historical Society's collection of letters and petitions for a woman's suffrage plank in the 1880 Republican Party platform. Series III consists of legislative testimony, correspondence, diaries, speeches, calls to action, articles, and financial papers arranged in chronological order. The Guide contains reel notes, index, and chronology.

Subjects: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady; Anthony, Susan B.; National Woman Suffrage Association; Feminists; Suffragettes; Women's Rights; Women Suffrage; Feminism; Women (19th Century); Women (20th Century); Politics and Government (19th Century); Politics and Government (20th Century); Women (Personal Papers); Revolution (Magazine); Republican Party

Papers of the International Labor Defense. Frederick, MD : University Publications of America, 1987

Call number: Microfilm A260

Guide: Papers of the International Labor Defense
Call number: KF4749.S33 1987

Note: 22 reels 35 mm. microfilm.

Description: Founded in 1925, the International Labor Defense (ILD) was a radical legal-action group that represented jailed union members, immigrants, political activists, and minority group members, particularly African Americans. Less active during World War II, the organization merged into the Civil Rights Congress in 1946 which continued many of its policies. Soon after its founding, the ILD became involved in unsuccessful attempts to save the lives of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. During the late 1920s and 1930s, the ILD supported political prisoners like Tom Mooney, Warren Billings, and James B. McNamara and the Centralia, Washington, defendents.

Beginning in 1930, influenced by the Communist Party, the ILD placed more emphasis on African-American cases, and William L. Patterson, an African-American Communist, became the ILD's national secretary. Among the African American cases handled by the ILD were Angelo Herndon, Euel Lee, Willie Peterson, and Jesse Hollins. The most significant case was the Scottsboro case, in which nine Black men were accused of raping two White women. Its defense of the Scottsboro men and its tactic of mass protest made the case an international cause.

In 1937, the ILD was reorganized with Vito Marcantonio as president and Anna Damon, a Communist, as national secretary. Under their leadership, the ILD was involved in defending trade union members, immigrants, and resident aliens. It conducted an important campaign against the practice of debt peonage on Southern plantations. Includes index.

Subjects: Sacco, Nicola; Mooney, Tom; Billings, Warren; McNamara, James B; Patterson, William L; Communist Party; Herndon, Angelo; Lee, Euel; Peterson, Willie; Hollins, Jesse; Scottsboro Case; Marcantonio, Vito; Damon, Anna; Vanzetti, Bartolomeo; Civil Rights Congress; International Labor Defense; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Civil rights (20th Century); Discrimination in employment; African Americans (20th Century); Civil rights (20th Century); Peonage

Papers of the NAACP. Part 1, Supplement 1951-1955. Meetings of the Board of Directors, Records of Annual Conferences, Major Speeches, and Special Reports, 1909-1950. Frederick, Md. : University Publications of America, 19??

Call number: Microfilm A183 pt. 1 supp

Guide: Papers of the NAACP. Part 1, Supplement 1951-1955. Meetings of the Board of Directors, Records of Annual Conferences, Major Speeches, and Special Reports, 1909-1950
Call number: E185.5.N276A2 pt. 1 supp.

Note: ???? reels 35 mm. microfilm

Description: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded in 1910 to promote the legal and political rights of Afro-Americans. Early efforts focused on anti-lynching legislation. Since the Second World War, the emphasis has been on legislation and litigation for voting rights and housing and school desegregation. The papers of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People document the Association's structure, activities, and developments and provide information on almost every aspect of the American race relations.

The collection dates from 1909 to 1950 and is filmed from material in the Library of Congress and private collections. Part 1 includes Meetings of the Board of Directors, records of annual conferences, major speeches, and special reports, 1909-1950.--Part 2. Personal correspondence of selected NAACP officials, 1919-1939. Part 2 includes the personal correspondence of selected NAACP officials from 1919-1939. The correspondence is with friends, relatives, other civil rights groups and organizations, publishers, editors, literary correspondents, journalists, academicians, and in the case of Thurgood Marshall and Charles Houston, with clients and other lawyers. Also included are office diaries for part of the period covered.

The selected NAACP officials are: Charles H. Houston, Juanita Jackson, James Weldon Johnson, Thurgood Marshall, E. Frederick Morrow, Mary White Ovington, William Pickens, Walter White, and Roy Wilkins. The guide to the collection (Microforms E185.5.N276A2) must be consulted since some material is not filmed in order, and in some instances, only selected material has been filmed. The guide describes each part of the collection and provides a subject index to the proceedings of the annual conferences and business meetings (reels 8-14).

Subjects: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Houston, Charles Hamilton; Jackson, Juanita; Johnson, James Weldon; Marshall, Thurgood; Everett Frederic; Ovington, Mary White; Pickens, William; White, Walter F.; Wilkins, Roy; African Americans (20th Century); Civil Rights (20th Century)

Papers of the NAACP. Part 1, Supplement 1956-60. Meetings of the Board of Directors, Records of Annual Conferences, Major Speeches, and Special Reports, 1909-1950. Frederick, Md. : University Publications of America, 19??

Call number: Microfilm A183 pt. 1 supp. 1956-60

Guide: Papers of the NAACP. Part 1, Supplement 1956-60. Meetings of the Board of Directors, Records of Annual Conferences, Major Speeches, and Special Reports, 1909-1950
Call number: E185.5.N276A2 pt. 1 supp. 1956-60

Note: ???? reels 33 mm. microfilm

Papers of the NAACP. Part 1. Meetings of the Board of Directors, Records of Annual Conferences, Major Speeches, and Special Reports, 1909-1950. Frederick, Md. : University Publications of America, [1981]-1982

Call number: Microfilm A183 pt. 1

Guide: Papers of the NAACP. Part 1. Meetings of the Board of Directors, Records of Annual Conferences, Major Speeches, and Special Reports, 1909-1950
Call number: E185.5.N276A2 pt. 1

Note: ???? reels 35 mm. microfilm

The collection dates from 1909 to 1950 and is filmed from material in the Library of Congress and private collections. Part 1 includes Meetings of the Board of Directors, records of annual conferences, major speeches, and special reports, 1909-1950. Part 2 : Personal correspondence of selected NAACP officials, 1919-1939. Part 2 includes the personal correspondence of selected NAACP officials from 1919-1939. The correspondence is with friends, relatives, other civil rights groups and organizations, publishers, editors, literary correspondents, journalists, academicians, and in the case of Thurgood Marshall and Charles Houston, with clients and other lawyers. Also included are office diaries for part of the period covered.

Papers of the NAACP. Part 2. Personal Correspondence of Selected NAACP Officials, 1919-1939. Frederick, Md. : University Publications of America, 19??

Call number: Microfilm A183 pt. 2

Guide: Papers of the NAACP. Part 2. Personal Correspondence of Selected NAACP Officials, 1919-1939
Call number:E185.5.N276A2 pt. 2

Note: 20 reels 35 mm. microfilm

Papers of the NAACP. Part 3. The Campaign for Educational Equality, 1913-1950. Frederick, Md. : University Publications of America, 1986

Call number: Microfilm A183 pt. 3

Guide: Papers of the NAACP. Part 3. The Campaign for Educational Equality, 1913-1950
Call number: E185.5.N276A2 pt. 3

Note: 43 reels 35 mm. microfilm

The collection dates from 1909 to 1950 and is filmed from material in the Library of Congress and private collections. Part 1 includes Meetings of the Board of Directors, records of annual conferences, major speeches, and special reports, 1909-1950. Part 2. Personal correspondence of selected NAACP officials, 1919-1939. Part 2 includes the personal correspondence of selected NAACP officials from 1919-1939. The correspondence is with friends, relatives, other civil rights groups and organizations, publishers, editors, literary correspondents, journalists, academicians, and in the case of Thurgood Marshall and Charles Houston, with clients and other lawyers. Also included are office diaries for part of the period covered.

Subjects: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Civil Rights (20th Century); Discrimination in Education

Papers of the NAACP. Part 4. The Voting Rights Campaign, 1916-1950. Frederick, Md. : University Publications of America, c1986

Call number: Microfilm A313 pt. 4

Guide: Papers of the NAACP. Part 4. The Voting Rights Campaign, 1916-1950
Call number: E185.5.N276A2 pt. 4

Note: 13 reels 35 mm. microfilm

The collection dates from 1909 to 1950 and is filmed from material in the Library of Congress and private collections. Part 1 includes Meetings of the Board of Directors, records of annual conferences, major speeches, and special reports, 1909-1950. Part 2. Personal correspondence of selected NAACP officials, 1919-1939. Part 2 includes the personal correspondence of selected NAACP officials from 1919-1939. The correspondence is with friends, relatives, other civil rights groups and organizations, publishers, editors, literary correspondents, journalists, academicians, and in the case of Thurgood Marshall and Charles Houston, with clients and other lawyers. Also included are office diaries for part of the period covered.

Subjects: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; African Americans (20th Century); Civil Rights (20th Century); Voting

Papers of the NAACP. Part 5. The Campaign Against Residential Segregration, 1914-1955. Frederick, Md., University Publications of America, c1986

Call number: Microfilm A314

Guide: A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of Papers of the N.A.A.C.P: Part 5. The Campaign Against Residential Segregatation, 1914-1955
Call number: E185.5.N276A2 pt.5

Note: 23 reels 35 mm. microfilm

Description: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (N.A.A.C.P.) was founded in 1909 to fight racism and segregation. The Association has been most effective in achieving legal solutions to racial discrimination, guaranteeing constitutional rights to Black citizens.

Subjects covered in this collection of N.A.A.C.P. documents include residential segregation, racially restrictive covenants, discrimination in federal housing programs, violence against Black property owners and renters, and N.A.A.C.P litigation and fundraising programs. Documents include correspondence, legal briefs, newsclippings, memorandums, reports, and copies of legislation. The documents provide information on both housing programs and race relations.

The guide has a reel and frame index, case name index, and subject index. It also contains a good description of the N.A.A.C.P.'s legal strategy to fight discrimination. The originals are located in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress in the Collection of the N.A.A.C.P. The microfilm collection contains selected files from this collection. Selected files were filmed in their entirety, with a few exceptions noted in the guide.

A related collection dealing with housing discrimination is A183, Part I - Papers of the N.A.A.C.P.: Meeting Minutes, Correspondence and Part III - Papers of the N.A.A.C.P.: The Campaign for Educational Equality.

Subjects: National Association of the Advancement of Colored People; African Americans (20th Century); Civil Rights (20th Century); Discrimination in Housing; Race Relations (20th Century)

Papers of the NAACP. Part 6. The Scottsboro Case, 1931-1950. Frederick, Md., University Publications of America, c1986

Call number: Microfilm A183 pt. 6

Guide: A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of Papers of the NAACP. Part 6. The Scottsboro Case, 1931-1950
Call number: E185.5.N276A2 pt. 6

Note: 24 reels 35 mm microfilm. Originals are in the Library of Congress.

Description: In April 1931 in Scottboro, Alabama, eight African American teenagers were convicted and sentenced to death for raping two White women. The Scottsboro Case defendents were represented by the International Labor Defense (ILD), part of the Communist Party. A series of appeals and new trials between 1931-1937 focused international attention on the case. The Supreme Court ruled in 1932 that the defendants had been denied adequate counsel.

In 1933, an Alabama judge ordered a new trial because of insufficient evidence. In 1935, the Supreme Court overturned convictions on the grounds that Alabama had systematically excluded African Americans from jury service. However, the defendants were retried and five were given sentences ranging from twenty years to life.

This collection contains the complete NAACP files of this celebrated case. The collection documents the problems of African Americans in the Southern judicial system and the relationship between the Communist Party and the civil rights movement headed by the NAACP.

Subjects: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Scottsboro Case; African Americans (20th Century); Civil Rights (20th Century); Rape; Patterson, Haywood; Race Relations (20th Century); Alabama (20th Century); Southern States (20th Century); International Labor Defense; Communist Party

Papers of the NAACP. Part 10. Peonage, Labor, and the New Deal, 1913-1939. Frederick, Md. : University Publications of America, c1990

Call number: Microfilm A183 pt. 10

Guide: Papers of the NAACP. Part 10. Peonage, Labor, and the New Deal, 1913-1939
Call number: E185.5.N276A2 pt. 10

Note: 23 reels 35 mm. microfilm

The collection dates from 1909 to 1950 and is filmed from material in the Library of Congress and private collections. Part 1 includes Meetings of the Board of Directors, records of annual conferences, major speeches, and special reports, 1909-1950. Part 2. Personal correspondence of selected NAACP officials, 1919-1939. Part 2 includes the personal correspondence of selected NAACP officials from 1919-1939. The correspondence is with friends, relatives, other civil rights groups and organizations, publishers, editors, literary correspondents, journalists, academicians, and in the case of Thurgood Marshall and Charles Houston, with clients and other lawyers. Also included are office diaries for part of the period covered.

Subjects: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; African Americans (20th Century); Civil Rights (20th Century); United States History New Deal (1933-1939); Peonage; Contract Labor

Papers of the NAACP. Part I. Meetings of the Board of Directors, Records of Annual Conferences, Major Speeches, and Special Reports, 1909-1950. Frederick, Md., University Publications of America, c1???

Call number: Microfilm A351 pt. 1 Suppl. 1961-65

Guide: A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of Papers of the NAACP. Part 1. Supplement 1961-1965
Call number: E185.5.N276A2 pt. 1 Suppl. 1961-65

Note: 24 reels 35 mm microfilm. Originals are in the Library of Congress.

Description: In April 1931 in Scottboro, Alabama, eight African American teenagers were convicted and sentenced to death for raping two white women. The Scottsboro Case defendents were represented by the International Labor Defense (ILD), part of the Communist Party. A series of appeals and new trials between 1931-1937 focused international attention on the case. The Supreme Court ruled in 1932 that the defendants had been denied adequate counsel.

In 1933, an Alabama judge ordered a new trial because of insufficient evidence. In 1935, the Supreme Court overturned convictions on the grounds that Alabama had systematically excluded African Americans from jury service. However, the defendants were retried and were given sentences ranging from twenty years to life.

Subjects: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; African Americans (20th Century); Civil Rights (20th Century); Race Relations (20th Century)

Papers of the Women's Trade Union League and Its Principal Leaders. Woodbridge, Conn. : Research Publications, [1979?]

Call number: Microfilm A192

Guide: Papers of the Women's Trade Union League and its Principal Leaders, Guide to the Microfilm Edition
Call number: HD6079.2.U5P36

Note: 131 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women, Radcliffe College.

Description: The Women's Trade Union League (WTUL) was founded in Boston in 1903 by a group of trade unionists and social reformers. The WTUL tried to prevent the exploitation of working women by organizing women into trade unions and by securing protective legislation to regulate working conditions, hours, and minimum wages. The efforts to organize women faced many obstacles, not the least of which was resistance of male trade unionists and the lack of active support of the American Federation of Labor. As a result after the First World War, most WTUL efforts were toward protective legislation. Throughout its history, the WTUL also supported the suffrage movement. The Union ceased to exist in 1947, although the New York WTUL continued until 1950.

The papers of the WTUL include manuscript and printed materials from a number of libraries. Manuscript collections relating to leaders in the WTUL also document other aspects of their lives. For example, Mary Anderson headed the United States Women's Bureau and Margaret Dreier Robins was active in the Progressive Party and the prohibition and peace movements.

Microfilm edition of the papers was sponsored by the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Mass. A guide is available which contains a history of the Union, a bibliography of its publications, biographical accounts of its leaders, and an index (Microforms HD6079.2.U5P36).

Contents:

Collection I : Margaret Drier Robins papers (66 reels)
Collection II : National W.T.U.L. papers (Schlesinger Library) (4 reels)
Collection III : Mary Anderson papers (4 reels)
Collection IV : New York W.T.U.L. papers (25 reels)
Collection V : Leonora O'Reilly papers (13 reels)
Collection VI : Rose Schneiderman papers (2 reels)
Collection VII : Agnes Nestor papers (7 reels)
Collection VIII : O'Sullivan autobiography, Boston W.T.U.L. collections, Chicago W.T.U.L. collections (1 reel)
Collection IX : W.T.U.L. publications (9 reels)

Subjects: Robins, Margaret Drier; Anderson, Mary; O'Reilly, Leonora; Schneiderman, Rose; Nestor, Agnes; O'Sullivan, Mary Kenney; Women's Trade Union League of America; National Women's Trade Union League of America; New York Women's Trade Union League of America; Boston Women's Trade Union League of America; Chicago Women's Trade Union League of America; Employment; Sexual Discrimination Against Women; Women (20th Century); Women in Labor Unions; Labor Unions (20th Century)

Park, Louisa Adams, 1773-1813. Diary, 1800-1801. New Canaan, CT : Readex Film Products, [1983?]

Call number: Microfilm A239 reel 4

Guide: Guide and Index to Women's Diaries : Segment 1 : New England Women
Call number: HQ1418.A442 1984

Note: 1 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Original in the American Antiquarian Society Collection.

Description: Louisa Adams Park was the first wife of physician John Park (1775-1852). The diary was recopied by Dr. Parks in 1848 into which he also copied several letters that she wrote him. The diary is a description of daily life and of her thoughts while Dr. Parks was away from home. It includes commentaries on various medical treatments and the death of her infant son, references to the French Revolution and Thomas Jefferson, description of trips to neighboring towns, and comments of her life in Windham, New Hampshire and Salisbury, Massachusetts. The diaries are part of the American Women's Diaries (New England Women) collection.

Subjects: Park, Louisa Adams; Park, John; New Hampshire (19th Century); Diaries; Massachusetts (19th Century); Social Life and Customs (19th Century); Women (19th Century)

Parsons, Alfred Richards, 1848-1887. Alfred R. Parsons Papers, 1876-1893. Frederick, Md. : University Publications of America, 1985

Call number: Microfilm A241 Reel 5

Guide: A Guide to American Bureau of Industrial Research, Manuscript Collections on the Early American Labor Movement, 1862-1908
Call number: HD8072.S342

Note: 1 reel 35 mm. microfilm

Description: Alfred R. Parsons, an anarchist and militant labor advocate, was one of four men executed following the 1886 Haymarket bombing in Chicago. Parsons was a speaker at the May 4, 1886 rally in Chicago's Haymarket Square. The rally grew out of the eight-hour movement and was specifically to protest the shooting of several strikers by police outside the McCormick Harvester factory on May 3. A policeman was killed by a bomb, and Parsons and nine others were charged with murder.

During the trial, Parsons' wife Lucy undertook extended speaking tours to build support and raise money for the defendants. Nearly all of Parsons' papers document the trial. Included are correspondence to Mrs. Parson during her husbands trial, notes taken by Parsons during the trial, and a large volume of clippings and broadsides. Part of the American Bureau of Industrial Research collection at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Subjects: Parsons, Alfred R.; Parsons, Lucy; American Bureau of Industrial Research; Labor and laboring classes (19th Century); Illinois (19th Century); Correspondence (19th Century); Women (19th Century); Anarchists (Personal Papers); Haymarket Square Riot; Chicago, Illinois

Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976. Paul Robeson Collection. Bethesda, MD, University Publications of America, 1991

Call number: Microfilm A304

Guide: A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Paul Robeson Collection
Call number: E185.97.R63A2 1991

Note: 9 reels 35 mm. microfilm

Description: Paul Robeson (1898-1976) was an internationally famous African American actor and singer of the 1930s, '40s and '50s. He was a graduate of the Columbia University law school. Robeson was supportive of the labor movement and spoke on behalf of world peace during his extensive travels. He was accused of being a member of the Communist Party during the McCarthy era and this accusation helped to bring his singing career to an end.

This collection focuses primarily on Robeson's political and artistic career from 1926-1956. Documents include correspondence, manuscripts, miscellaneous printed materials, and speeches and articles written by Robeson. Documents are included from Robeson's passport case in the 1960s, when the United States Department of State revoked his passport. Also of note are the document files of organizations associated with Robeson, including the World Peace Council, The Council on African Affairs, and the National Negro Labor Council. Information about, and documents from, Eslanda Robeson, Robeson's wife, are included in this collection.

The guide contains a reel and subject index and a biographical sketch. The originals are located at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York City Public Library. For another collection on Robeson see FBI File on Paul Robeson (Microfilm A245 & E185.97.R63.G85 1987).

Subjects: Robeson, Paul; African Americans; Actors; Singers; McCarthyism

Peet, Azalia Emma, 1889-1973. Diaries, 1902, 1910-1917, 1923-1928. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, 1976

Call number: Microfilm D285 reel 983 M23

Guide: No guide available

Note: 1 reel 35 mm. microfilm. Originals are in the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College.

Description: Azalia Emma Peet was a Christian missionary in Japan, a champion of women's rights, and a worker for peace. Although one of the diaries records the thoughts of a young girl, the majority deal with her adult life. The Diary for 1910-1916 provides some glimpses of A. E. Peet just out of college and her struggle before she became a missionary. The remaining manuscripts focus on her missionary experiences. The diaries are part of the History of Women.

Subjects: Peet, Azalia Emma; Women (20th Century); Missionaries; Japan (20th Century); Women's Rights; Peace; Religious Life (19th Century)

Peirce, Charles S, 1839-1914. The Charles S. Peirce Papers [and Supplement]. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Library, Microreproduction Service, 1963-1966, 1970

Call number: Microfilm A49

Guide: Annotated Catalog
Call number: Z6616.P4R6

Note: 32 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in the Department of Philosophy, Harvard University.

Description: Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher, physicist, and mathematician, and founder of pragmatism, was the son of a Harvard mathematics professor. After graduating from Harvard, he worked as an astronomer at the Harvard Observatory, as a physicist for the US Coast and Geodetic Survey, and as a lecturer in philosophy and logic at John Hopkins University. In 1887 he retired to Milford, Pennsylvania and devoted himself to his writings on philosophy and logic. He remained in Milford in near-isolation and poverty until his death.

He has been called the 'most original and versatile of America's philosophers and America's greatest logician.' While Peirce's greatest contributions were in the field of logic, he also wrote extensively on epistemology, scientific methods, semiotics, metaphysics, cosmology, ontology, and mathematics, and less extensively on ethics, aesthetics, history, phenomenology and religion. The Peirce papers consist of over 1600 manuscripts and 700 letters.

The correspondence section contains correspondence to and from Peirce, to and from his second wife Juliette, family and miscellaneous correspondence. Reels 31 and 32 consist of manuscripts and correspondence either missed or discovered in other Harvard collections.

Subjects: Peirce, Charles Santiago Sanders; Philosophy; Pragmatism; Peirce, Juliette; Semiotics; Logic; Science; Mathematics

Penn, Thomas, 1702-1775. The Thomas Penn Papers, 1729-1832, At the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. [Philadelphia] : Historical Society of Pennsylvania, [1968]

Call number: Microfilm A60

Guide: Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Thomas Penn Papers
Call number: Z6616.P42W35

Note: 10 reels 35 mm. microfilm

Description: The son of William Penn, Thomas Penn inherited a one-fourth interest in the proprietorship of Pennsylvania in 1727, and an additional half interest in 1746. While living in Philadelphia from 1732 to 1741, he became familar with his Pennsylvania properties. He returned to England in 1741 and conducted business by correspondence. The majority of the papers consist of letters written by Penn and the replies he received from his representatives in the colony. Because he was interested in almost every aspect of life in Pennsylvania, the papers provide a valuable source of information on the colonial period.

Subjects include governmental affairs, political conflicts, relations with Indians, fur trade and boundary disputes with Maryland. The correspondence consists of the Thomas Penn letterbooks, dating from 1729 to 1775, which are mostly transcribed copies of outgoing correspondence and incoming correspondence dating from 1714 to 1775. Also included are correspondence of his son John Penn for 1809-1832.

A description of the collection and a biography of Penn are found in the guide, along with the location on the film of unpublished indexes to the correspondence.

Subjects: Penn, Thomas; Penn, John; Penn, William; Pennsylvania (18th Century); Pennsylvania (19th Century)

Penn, William, 1644-1718. The Papers of William Penn. Philadelphia : The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1975

Call number: Microfilm A101

Guide: Guide to the Microfilm of the Papers of William Penn
Call number: F152.G84

Note: 14 reels 35 mm. microfilm

Description: The collection contains the public and private papers of William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, Quaker religious leader, and social philosopher. The over 3,000 documents are arranged chronologically and include correspondence (1,000 letters from Penn and 800 to him), patents, wills, commissions, petitions, constitutional documents, account books, list of charges, diaries, travel accounts, etc. The material date from 1644 until 1718, with the period from 1678 to 1688 and from 1701 to 1712 being best documented. The colection was filmed by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania from documents assembled from over 60 institutions and individuals. The William Penn papers document English religious persecution of Penn and other Quaker leaders, the founding and early years of Pennsylvania, Penn's friendship with James II, and his arrest for debt. The business and financial papers are important for insight into problems facing a British landowner and colonial proprietor. The guide includes a biographical sketch of Penn, a brief history of the collection, reel notes, and a checklist of correspondence.

Subjects: Penn, William; Great Britain (17th Century); Great Britain (18th Century); Quakers; Religious Life (17th Century); Religious Life (18th Century); Pennsylvania (17th Century); Pennsylvania (18th Century)

Pennsylvania (Colony). Provincial council. Records of the Provincial Council 1682-1776. [Harrisburg] : Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1966

Call number: Microfilm A53

Guide: Guide to the Microfilm of the Records of the Provincial Council 1682-1776
Call number: F146.P45

Note: 26 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals are in the Pennsylvanai Historical and Museum Commission.

Description: Microfilm reproduction of the manuscript Minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania along with published Minutes of the Provincial Council (known by the binder's title; Colonial records), and the Executive and Crown Correspondence of the Governor-in-General (referred to as the Papers of the Provincial Council).

Subjects: Pennsylvania Provincial council; Pennsylvania (17th Century); Pennsylvania (18th Century)

Pennsylvania County and Regional Histories. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, Inc, 1973

Call number:Microfilm D187

Guide: Reel Index to the Microform Collection of Pennsylvania County and Regional Histories
Call number: Z1330.R44

Note: ???? Reels 35 mm. microfilm

Description: A collection of local and regional histories of Pennsylvania published in the 19th and early 20th Centuries.

Subjects: Pennsylvania; County Histories

Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery. Papers. Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources, 197-

Call number: Microfilm A52

Guide: No guide available

Note: 5 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals are in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania Collection.

Description: Founded in 1775 as the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, the Pennsylvania Society for promoting the abolition of slavery was the first organized society to deal with the plight of Black slaves in America. Several prominent colonial Americans were affiliated with this, predominantly Quaker, organization based in Philadelphia. The papers of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery consist of the Society's minutes (1787-1916) and manuscript collection (1787-1868), as well as a history of the Society by William J. Buck. The original documents are housed in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania collection. A guide is not available for the papers.

Subjects: Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery; Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Kept in Bondage; African Americans (19th Century); Slavery; Pennsylvania (19th Century); Quakers; Religious Life (19th Century); Pennsylvania (18th Century)

Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery. Pennsylvania Abolition Society Collections At the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. [Ann Arbor, MI : University Microfilms International, 1988]

Call number: Microfilm A253

Guide: Guide to the Microfilm Publication of the Papers of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society
Call number: BX7642.P4P2 1976

Note: 32 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

Description: The collection of the Society's papers documents the activities of the organization from its founding and contains primary sources central to a study of the American abolitionist movement both before and after the Civil War. The early years cover Philadelphia Quakers' anti-slavery activities, and their withdrawal from the Society; the Societies reestablishment with influential members as Tench Coxe, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, and Thomas Paine. The early activities centered around manumission and anti-slavery petitions during the Civil War. Later emphasis was on education and employment of Blacks, founding of a school for free Blacks in Philadelphia; and support for Black educational institutions such as Howard University.

The Society remained active in the twentieth century with involvement in the civil rights movement; advancement of a Black cultural and historical museum in Philadelphia; and advocacy of Black history studies in Philadelphia's public schools. Contains the official records and papers of the Society for the years 1775-1975; also includes the records of 15 related organizations, collectively spanning the period 1794-1870.

Series 1 : Minutes and reports (reels 1-10)
Series 2 : Correspondence (reels 11-15)
Series 3 : Financial papers (reels 16-19)
Series 4 : Manumissions, indentures, and other legal papers (reels 20-24)
Series 5 : Miscellaneous (reels 25-32)

Subjects: Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery; Slavery; African Americans (19th Century); Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania (19th Century); Antislavery Movements; Religion (19th Century); Quakers

Peonage Files of the U.S. Department of Justice, 1901-1945. Frederick, MD. : University Publications of America, c1989

Call number: Microfilm A270

Guide: The Peonage Files of the U.S. Department of Justice, 1901-1945
Call number: HD4875.U5S3

Note: 26 reels 35 mm. microfilm.

Description: During the early 20th Century, farms, plantations, mines, and mills used a system of forced labor known as peonage. Peonage consists of holding a laborer in debt and forcing them to remain to work off the debt. Since an overwhelming majority of peon laborers were African Americans, the system served to re-enforce racial and class divisions in the South, and in many aspects, peonage served as a holdover for slavery. The peonage files of the U.S. Department of Justice from 1901, when the Department first began a massive crackdown on peonage, through 1945 are reproduced.

The collection includes various documents, letters, newspaper articles concerning peonage. These files include incoming complaints from local U.S. Attorneys as well as from private individuals and civil rights groups like the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. They also contain the Justice Department's response to each complaint and related correspondence, legal memoranda, trial transcripts, etc. Federal Bureau of Investigation case reports which were previously restricted are also reproduced.

In addition to detailed information on the practice of peonage, the files are valuable for information on Southern Agricultural labor and race relations in the rural South. Accompanied by printed reel guide, compiled by Martin P. Schipper (Microforms HD4875.U5S3).

Subjects: United States Federal Bureau of Investigation; United States Department of Justice; Peonage; Southern States; Indentured Servants; Economic Conditions (20th Century); African Americans (20th Century); Civil Rights (20th Century); Agricultural Laborers; Employment; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Phillips, Thomas, 1833- . Thomas Phillips Papers, 1865-1908 and Miscellaneous Cooperative Association Records, 1862-1881. Frederick, Md. : University Publications of America, 1985

Call number: Microfilm A241 Reel 9

Guide: Guide to American Bureau of Industrial Research, Manuscript Collections on the Early American Labor Movement, 1862-1908
Call number: HD8072.S343

Note: 1 reel 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in the State Historical Society of Wisconsin collection.

Description: Thomas Phillips was instrumental in founding the Union Co-operative Association. By 1869, he had become active in the Knights of St. Crispin. In the 1870's, he served as an organizer in the Sovereigns of Industry and later in the Knights of Labor. He was elected national president of the Boot and Shoe Workers International Union in 1889.

The Phillips papers, including correspondence, account books and minutes, cover the principals and prospects of cooperation and the workings of cooperative societies. Part of the American Bureau of Industrial Research collection at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Subjects: Phillips, Thomas; American Bureau of Industrial Research; Labor and laboring classes (19th Century); Cooperation; Cooperative Societies; Union Co-operative Association; Knights of St. Crispin; Sovereigns of Industry; Knights of Labor; Boot and Shoe Workers International Union

Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829. The Timothy Pickering Papers. Boston, Massachusetts Historical Society, 1966

Call number:Microfilm A22

Guide: Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Timothy Pickering Papers
Call number: Z6616.P52A4

Note: 69 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals are in the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Description: During the Revolutionary War, Pickering served as an administrator rather than in the field, first as Adjutant General, then on the Board of War, and finally as Quartermaster General from 1780-1785. Even before leaving government service, he was involved in trading operations in Pennsylvania with his friend Samuel Hodgdon, and by 1785, was involved in land speculating in Pennsylvania.

He later moved to Wilkes-Barre where he was appointed clerk, recorder and judge of Luzerne County. He represented the government in negotiations with the Seneca Indians in Western Pennsylvania, the first of several missions with Indians. Returning to public service, he was Washington's Postmaster General (1791-1795), Secretary of War (1795), and Secretary of State (1795-1800). He continued in this position under Adams until his dismissal.

As one of the main authors of the Federalists Policy which advocated war with France, upheld American Rights abroad, and sought to destroy political opposition at home through the Alien and Sedition Acts, he proved to be too partisan and blunt to be a successful diplomat. The rest of his public career was as United Senator (1803-1811) and Representative (1813-1817) was dedicated to opposition to Thomas Jefferson and his policies. Pickering was opposed to the Louisiana Purchase, the embargo policy, and the War of 1812. After his retirement he gathered materials for a proposed history of the American Revolution.

The Pickering Papers are considered the largest and most important collection of manuscripts relating to the history of the Federalist Party. The Papers include family and general correspondence; business and legal papers concerning land speculation in Pennsylvania, Virginia, and North Carolina; military papers; papers concerning Pickering's missions to the Indians; correspondence, official documents, and historical notebooks relating to his proposed history of the Revolution; account books of the Quartermaster General's office. The collection also includes papers of his sons.

Subjects: Pickering, Timothy; Federalist Party; United States History Revolutionary War (1775-1783); Washington, George; Adams, John; Jefferson, Thomas; Pennslvania (18th Century); Pennsylvania (19th Century); Indians of North America; Seneca Indians; United States Postmaster General (Personal Papers); United States Congress Senate (Personal Papers); United States Congress House of Representatives (Personal Papers); United States War Department (Personal Papers); United States Department of State (Personal Papers)

Pierce, Franklin, 1804-1869. Papers, 1820-69. Washington, D.C., Library of Congress, Photoduplication Service, 1960

Call number: Microfilm A13

Guide: Index to the Franklin Pierce Papers
Call number: Z8689.9.U5

Note: 7 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals are in the Library of Congress and photostats from other collections.

Description: Very few of Peirce's papers have survived. This collection, filmed from materials in the Library of Congress and photostats from other collections, includes correspondence, a diary, and drafts of Pierce's messages to Congress. The papers are arranged in five series: Series I Diary, May-July 1847. Series II General correspondence, 11838-1868. Series III Additional correspondence, 1820-1869. Series IV Miscellaneous correspondence, 1838-1869. Series V Messages to Congress, 1854-1856. The index provides a history of the collection and name index to the correspondence.

Subjects: Pierce, Franklin; Presidents (Personal Papers)

Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946. Diaries of Gifford Pinchot, 1882-1946. [Washington, D.C., Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1976]

Call number: Microfilm A106

Guide: No guide available

Note: 4 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in the Library of Congress.

Description: Gifford Pinchot was a famous conservationist, founder of the United States Forest Service and twice Governor of Pennsylvania (1923-27, 1931-35). A dispute with Richard Achilles Ballinger, Taft's Secretary of the Interior, led to Pinchot's dismissal from the Forest Service. The resulting controversy led to the growing breach between Taft and Roosevelt, which eventually split the Republican Party and led to the election of Woodrow Wilson. The Pinchot diaries, located at the Library of Congress, cover the years 1882-1907, 1910-1915, 1918-1931, and 1935-1946. Contents: Reel 1. 1882-1899; reel 2. 1899-1915; reel 3. 1918-1940; reel 4. 1941-1946.

Subjects: Pinchot, Gifford; Ballinger, Richard Achilles; Taft, William Howard; Roosevelt, Theodore; United States Forest Service; Conservation; Pennsylvania (20th Century); Diaries (19th Century); Diaries (20th Century); Governors (Personal Papers); Diaries (19th Century)

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection. [Charlottesville : University of Virginia Library], 1967[c1966]

Call number: Microfilm A29

Guide: Guide to the John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection
Call number: Z6616.P59H6

Note: 9 reels 35 mm. microfilm

Description: The collection contains forty-four letters, pictures, and rare editions of Edgar Allan Poe, as well as material (articles, letters of acquaintances, etc.) about him, collected by John Henry Ingram, a British defender of Poe's reputation. Ingram was the author of two biographies and over fifty articles on Poe and the edit

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