MicroFinder Titles S to Z
Samuel, John, 1817- . John Samuel Papers, 1868-1907. Frederick, Md. : University Publications of America, 1985
Call number: Microfilm A241 Reel 1-3Guide: Guide to American Bureau of Industrial Research, Manuscript Collections on the Early American Labor Movement, 1862-1908
Call number: HD8072.S343
Note: 3 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Collection.
Description: John Samuel was appointed a Knights of Labor organizer in 1881, and three years later became a member of the Knight's Co-operative Board. By the early 1890's, Samuel's formal connection with the Knights lapsed but his interest in cooperation continued. He became general secretary of the Co-Operative Union of the United States and Canada in 1894. Nearly all of the Samuel papers concern cooperation in this country and in England, the Knights of Labor, and related topics. The collection consists of correspondence, notebooks and publications. It is part of the American Bureau of Industrial Research collection at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Subjects: Samuel, John; American Bureau of Industrial Research; Labor and Laboring Classes (19th Century); Knights of Labor; Cooperation; Cooperative Societies; Great Britain (19th Century); Co-Operative Union
Sanchez, Luis Alberto, 1900- . Cuaderno De Bitacora. University Park, Pa. : PSU Libraries, 1988
Call number: Microfilm A252Guide: No guide available
Note: 1 reel 35 mm. microfilm
Description: A collection of typescripts and holograph originals of selected articles published in Peruvian and other Latin American journals from 1941 to 1975.
Subjects: Sanchez, Luis Alberto; Peru; Authors
Sangamon State University Oral History Collection. Glen Rock, N.J. : Microfilming Corp. of America, 1975
Call number: Micro 4 NYTGuide: Oral History, A Bibliographical Listing of the Memoirs in the Unpublished Collections
Call number: AI3.O7
Note: 22 microfiche
Description: The nineteen oral memoirs contain valuable resource material for the study of 20th century midwestern local history, especially in and around the state of Illinois. Such themes as the struggle and condition of miners, racial tension and the Jewish experience in America are discussed. Each memoir contains a preface which includes a brief introduction. For additional information, see the Guide.
Subjects: Jews (20th Century); Illinois (20th Century); Oral Histories; Miners; Jewish Americans
Sargent, Winthrop, 1753-1820. The Winthrop Sargent Papers. Boston, Massachusetts Historical Society, 1965
Call number: Microfilm A85Guide: Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Winthrop Sargert Papers
Call number: Z6616.S27
Note: 7 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in the Massachusetts Historical Society
Description: Sargent was a Revolutionary War Officer, Ohio company agent, secretary and, at times, acting governor of the Northwest Territory and Governor of the Mississippi Territory. His papers include personal, business, and official correspondence, diaries, orderly books and other documents relating to the Ohio Company, Northwest Territory, and Mississippi Territory.
Subjects covered include the following: the St. Clair Expedition of which Sargent was adjutant general; Sargent's survey of the 5th range, Northwest Territory; A trip from Marietta, Ohio to Cahokia, Illinois with Governor Arthur St. Clair; Sargent's plantations near Natchez; the Congressional investigation of Sargent's administration of the Mississippi Territory and his dismissal; the Ohio Company; the early settlement and administration of the Northwest Territory; relations with the Spanish governors of Louisiana and West Florida; and military, business, and family matters. The papers are described in the Guide, which also contains a list of correspondents. The correspondence is also indexed in the Massachusetts Historical Society's Catalog of Manuscripts.
Subjects: Sargent, Winthrop; St. Clair, Arthur; Northwest Territory; Mississippi Territory; Ohio Company; Louisiana; Florida; Plantations; Correspondence (18th Century); Correspondence (19th Century); Diaries (18th Century); Diaries (19th Century)
Seawell, Molly Elliot, 1860-1916. Diaries, 1900-1914. New Canaan, CT : Readex Film Products, [1988]
Call number: Microfilm A246 reel 17Guide: Guide to American Women's Diaries : Segment II : Southern Women
Call number: HQ1418.A441 1988
Note: 1 reel 35 mm. microfilm
Description: Molly Elliot Seawell was born and raised on a country estate in Virginia. After her father's death, she moved with her mother and sister to Norfolk and Washington, D.C. Her diary begins after her move to Washington and concerns her social life and European travels. Molly Seawell was an author of a number of novels about the Southern aristocracy and historical personages. Part of the American Women's Diaries (Southern Women) collection.
Subjects: Seawell, Molly Elliot; Women (20th Century); Washington (D.C.); Women Authors; Europe; Description and Travel (Europe); Social Life and Customs (20th Century)
Selection of Titles from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Millwood, N.Y. : KTO Microform, 1973-
Call number: Microfilm D197 ser 1-2Guide: A Selection of Titles from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Call number: Z1361.N39S44 ser 1-2
Note: 534 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: The Schomburg Center is considered one of the most comprehensive collections by and about peoples of African descent. The first series contains a collection of over 70 periodicals and a 125 books by or about notable figures in Black history and culture.
Subjects: African Americans (19th Century); African American authors; African American Newspapers; African American Periodicals
Selections from the William P. Trent Collection of Works Relating to Daniel Defoe and His Time. Cambridge, Mass. : General Microfilm Co.
Call number: Microfilm D77Guide: Selections from the William P. Trent Collection of Works Relating to Daniel Defoe and His Time. Reel Guide to Microfilm D77
Call number: Z8221.S44
Note: 3 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: This collection of 53 pamphlets and tracts relate to 18th century English politics and religion. The guide contains a reel guide listing the titles and publication information. Most of the pamphlets were published in 1710 and 1711.
Subjects: Defoe, Daniel; Great Britain (18th Century)
Severance, H. A. of Leyden, Massachusetts, 1838- . Diary, 1862-1866. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, 1976
Call number: Microfilm D285 reel 983 M24Guide: No guide available
Note: 1 reel 35 mm. microfilm. Originals are in the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College.
Description: The diary of H. A. Severance is of particular interest because of her vivid descriptions of her daily life in the 1860's. In addition to an account of home life, health, and weather, are details of living and working conditions in a hoopskirt factory in Northampton, Massachusetts. The Diary includes commentary on current events (e.g., the Civil War). A guide is not available. The diaries are part of the History of Women Collection.
Subjects: Severance, H. A.; Women (19th Century); Massachusetts (19th Century); Diaries; Social Life and Customs (19th Century); Northampton, Massachusetts; Employment; Factories; United States History Civil War (1861-1865) (Personal Narratives)
Shaker Collection. Washington D.C., Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1976
Call number: Microfilm D299Guide: Shaker Collection: A Guide to the Microfilm Collection
Call number: Z7845.S5S31
Note: 32 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: The Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, commonly known as the Shakers, first settled in New York in 1774 under the inspiration and leadership of Mother Ann Lee. This millennial church, which practiced celibacy and communal living patterns, grew to six thousand members in America during the 1840's. By the 1870s membership began to decline and continued to do so until the present day when the Shakers are virtually extinct.
The collection consists chiefly of records of six Shaker communities at Enfield, Connecticut; Pleasant Hill and South Union, Kentucky; Canaan and New Lebanon, New York; and Union Village, Ohio, as well as material relating to 11 other communities. Among the records and writings of members of the Society are letters, diaries, covenants, financial and legal papers, hymnals, church orders and historical and biographical sketches, mainly for the period of 1792-1937, documenting Shaker theology and religious practices, the role of music in daily life and the histories of various communities.
Subjects: Shakers; Religious Life (18th Century); Religious Life (19th Century); Religious Life (20th Century); Hymns; Music; United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing; Social Life and Customs (18th Century); Social Life and Customs (19th Century); Social Life and Customs (20th Century); Diaries (19th Century); Connecticut (19th Century); New York (19th Century); Kentucky (19th Century); Ohion (19th Century)
Shaw, Lemuel, 1781-1861. The Lemuel Shaw Papers. Boston : [Massachusetts Historical Society, 1970]
Call number: Microfilm A84Guide: Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Lemuel Shaw Papers
Call number: Z1240.S602 1971
Note: 46 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Social Law Library.
Description: The Dictionary of American Biography says of Shaw that probably 'no other state judge has so deeply influenced commercial and constitutional law throughout the nation.' His judicial career coincided with many economic and social changes in the United States and he was important in the development of laws relating to water power, railroads and other public utilities. Although opposed to slavery, he issued an early separate but equal ruling in a school desegregation case.
This collection includes the personal papers and legal files of Lemuel Shaw, lawyer, Massachusetts state legislator, and chief justice of Massachusetts for over thirty years. The legal files contain records concerning Shaw's private legal practice and fifty-two volumes of the minutes of the Supreme Judicial Court in Shaw's handwriting. There are references in his papers to his son-in-law Herman Melville. The Guide contains biographical information on Shaw and a reel guide to the collection. For an index to the Shaw papers and other Massachusetts Historical Society collections see its Catalog of Manuscripts.
Subjects: Shaw, Lemuel; Melville, Herman; Massachusetts (19th Century); Laws (19th Century); African Americans (19th Century); Education (19th Century)
Slavery Pamphlets. Louisville, Ky. : Lost Cause Press, 1965.
Call number: Micro 3Guide: Anti-Slavery Propaganda in the Oberlin College Library
Call number: Z1249.S6A5
Note: 7,500 micro-opaques. Originals in the Oberlin College Library.
Description: A collection of books, journals, and pamphlets relating to slavery filmed from the Anti-Slavery Propaganda Collection of the Oberlin College Library. The majority of the collection is dated prior to January 1, 1863, the date of the Emancipation Proclamation. Some proslavery and British anti-slavery material is included. A Classified Catalog of the Collection of Anti-Slavery Propaganda lists pamphlets by broad subject area (e.g., proslavery, religious aspects, slave narratives).
Individual titles in the collection are listed in The CAT, the Penn State University Libraries' online catalog.
Subjects: Slavery; African Americans (19th Century); Slavery; Great Britain (19th Century); Antislavery Movements; Pamphlets (19th Century)
Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874. Gerrit Smith Papers, 1775-1924. Glen Rock, N. J. : Microfilming Corporation of America, 1974
Call number: Microfilm A109Guide: Guide to the Microfilm Editin of the Peter Smith Papers, 1763-1850 Gerrit Smith Papers, 1775-1924
Call number: Z8822.L5M5
Note: 77 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: Gerrit Smith is best-known for his extensive involvement in nineteenth century reform movements. A wealthy businessman and landowner from central New York, Smith channeled his wealth into numerous philanthropic activities, which included various social and moral reforms. Although the anti-slavery movement dominated his energies, Gerrit Smith supported other causes through his oratories, writing, and monetary contributions. These causes included temperance, women's rights, prison reform, international peace, anti-Masonry, vegetarianism, and religious reform. Smith was also active in politics. He served one year in the House of Representatives (1853-54) and was the presidential nominee of the National Liberty Party (1842) and the Abolitionist Party (1860). The papers document Smith's controversial involvement with John Brown. The collection is arranged in the following series:
- Series I : Correspondence, 1795-1897, indices, general business and family correspondence
- Series II : Business and land records, 1775-1910
- Series III : Writings, 1820-1924, including articles, speeches and verse by Smith as well as writings by others
- Series IV : Subject files, 1813-1904
Subjects: Smith, Gerrit; Brown, John; Miller, Elizabeth Smith; Temperance; Women's rights; Prisons (19th Century); Peace Movement; Anti-Masonry; Vegetarianism; Slavery; Abolitionists (Personal Papers); Religious Life (19th Century); United States Congress House of Representatives (Personal Papers); National Liberty Party; African Americans (19th Century); Correspondence (19th Century); Social Conditions (19th Century); Government and Politics (19th Century)
Smith, Peter, 1768-1850. The Peter Smith Papers, 1763-1850. Glen Rock, N. J. : Microfilming Corp. of America, 1974
Call number: Microfilm A110Guide: Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Peter Smith Papers, 1763-1850 and Gerrit Smith Papers, 1775-1924
Call number: Z8822.15.M5 1974
Note: 12 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in the George Arents Research Library of Syracure University.
Description: Peter Smith was a prominent upper New York State businessman and landowner. He was a partner with John Jacob Astor in the fur trade and other business dealings. His land holdings finally included almost a million acres in New York state. After turning his business and land holdings over to his son Gerrit Smith in 1818, Peter became more and more obsessed with religion. His papers reflect his business, family, and religious interests. The four sections of the Peter Smith papers include:
- Series I : Correspondence, 1791-1837, to and from Smith and concerned mostly with business and land interests as well as politics, religion and family affairs
- Series II : Business and land records, 1763-1850
- Series III : Writings, 1798-1821
- Series IV : Photographs. An index to correspondence appears in the guide.
Subjects: Smith, Peter; Smith, Gerrit; New York State (18th Century); New York State (19th Century); Religious Life (18th Century); Religious Life (19th Century); Land Ownership
Socialist labor party. Records of the Socialist Labor Party [1877-1907]. Madison : State Historical Society of Wisconsin, [1970]
Call number: Microfilm A77Guide: Records of the Socialist Labor Party of America, Guide to a Microfilm Edition
Call number: Z7165.U5S55
Note: 39 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in the Wisconsin State Historical Society.
Description: Established in 1877, the Socialist Labor Party developed into the foremost Socialist organization in the United States at the turn of the century and was the first American Marxist party to survive and maintain its existence over a long period of time. Throughout its early history, the Party was torn with internal disputes and controversies. Under the leadership of Daniel DeLeon, the Socialist Labor Party developed an aggressive political program designed to have wider appeal. Although the membership and influence of the Socialist Labor Party did expand, it was not strong enough to withstand internal discontent and appeal from other parties. By the early 1900's, the Party had declined.
The collection consists of official papers of the Socialist Labor Party from its organization in 1877 until 1907. Included are correspondence, financial records, minutes, and scrapbooks.
Subjects: DeLeon, Daniel; Socialism; Socialist Labor Party; Correspondence (19th Century); Correspondence (20th Century); Politics and Government (19th Century)
Socialist Party of America Papers, 1897-1976. Glen Rock, N.J. : Microfilming Corp. of America, 1975-
Call number: Microfilm A100Guide: Socialist Party of America Papers: Guide to the Microfilm Edition
Call number: HX81.M87
Note: 180 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in the Perkins Library of Duke University.
Description: The American Socialist Party was founded in 1901 when Morris Hillquit and other Socialist Labor Party dissidents joined with members of the Democratic People's Party of Eugene V. Debs and Victor Berger to form a united political party. The influence of this political party on the American people has varied throughout its history, often in reaction to the prevailing economic and political mood of the nation. From the beginning, the concerns of the Socialists have included such areas as civil rights, labor reform, and pacifism. Although the Socialist Party itself has played a relatively small role in the American political system, many of its platforms and programs have been incorporated into the ideology of the major parties.
The Socialist Party of America Papers (1897-1965) and the Addendum (1919-1976) consist of correspondence, press releases, political literature, court records, convention records, financial records, broadsides, leaflets, books, pamphlets and serial publications. They document the history of the Party on both a national and local level. An example of local coverage is the inclusion of both correspondence and printed sources relating to party activities in Pennsylvania from 1912 to 1974.
Subjects: Hillquit, Morris; Socialist Party (United States); Socialism; Socialist Labor Party; Democratic People's Party; Civil Rights (20th Century); Social Conditions (20th Century); Labor and Laboring Classes (20th Century); Pacifism
SOROSIS. Executive Committee Minutes, 1884-1907; Minutes, 1868-1937. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, 1976
Call number: Microfilm D285 reel 983-987 M25Guide: No guide available
Note: 5 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals are in the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College.
Description: SOROSIS, the nation's first incorporated woman's club, was formed in New York City in 1868 by Jennie June Croly. Croly, a journalist, established the club after she was excluded from a New York Press Banquet for Charles Dickens on the basic of her sex. SOROSIS, a Greek word meaning an aggregation or union of many into one, grew rapidly with chapters forming in other states. Not only did its own membership grow, but the formation of SOROSIS prompted the establishment of numerous other women's clubs throughout the country. This collection includes the executive committee minutes (1884-1907), and minutes of both social and business meetings (1884-1907). No guide is available. The records are part of the History of Women Collection.
Subjects: SOROSIS; Croly, Jennie June; Women (19th Century); Women (20th Century); Societies and Clubs; Women's Clubs; Women Journalists
Sotheby & Co. (London, England). Catalogues of Sales. Ann Arbor : Xerox University Microfilms, 1973-
Call number: Microfilm D288Guide: Sotheby, Firm, Auctioneers, London. Catalogues of Sales
Call number: Z999.S68
Note: 611 reels 16 mm. microfilm
Description: Sotheby and Company is the world's largest and most prosperous art auction house. This collection contains approximately 10,000 auction catalogs dating from Sotheby's founding in 1733 to 1980. The items auctioned include autographed letters, art objects, pictorial art, books, coins, medals, and Western and Oriental manuscripts. Each catalog is proceeded on the microfilm by a card that lists the name of the owner of the items to be auctioned, date of sale, number of pages in each catalog, location of the copy that was filmed, and contents of the sale.
Subjects: Auctions; Art; Manuscripts
Source Materials in the Field of Theatre. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms, 1967
Call number: Microfilm D82Guide: An Annotated Bibliography and Subject Index to the Microfilm Collection
Call number: PN2020.S682
Note: 22 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: This collection contains a set of 80 sources, both primary and secondary, for the study of theater and drama. The documents date from the 17th to the 20th century. Documents include books, periodicals, diaries, journals and manuscripts. Periodicals include The Mask (1908-1929), The Mirror of Taste and Dramatic Censor (1810-1811), and The Theatrical Inquisitor (1812-1815). The works are in English, French, German, Italian, and Latin. Subjects include acting and actors, theaters, architecture, dramatic theory and criticism, music, opera, and playwrights. The originals are located in various collections. The guide provides an alphabetical listing and short description of works included in the collection. A subject index also is included. A second guide "Source Materials in the Field of Theater : a guide to the microfilm collection" provides a reel index.
Subjects: Theater; Dramatic Theory and Criticism; Plays; Architecture
Southern Tenant Farmers Union Papers, 1934-1970 : Located At the Southern Historical Collection, the University of North Carolina Library, Chapel Hill, N. C. Glen Rock, N. J. : Microfilming Corp. of America, [1971]
Call number: Microfilm A54Guide: Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union Papers Located at the Southern Historical Collection
Call number: Z1251.S7G83
Note: 60 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in the Southern Historical Collection of the University of North Carolina.
Description: The Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU), a biracial union of sharecroppers, tenant farmers, and small landowners, was formed in 1934 in Arkansas by local Socialists in response to an unintended consequence of the New Deal cotton plow-up program which resulted in the eviction of sharecroppers from their homes. The early papers document the plantation justice prevailing at that time in Arkansas and the STFU's base of operation remained in Arkansas until 1945, although other locals appeared in other Southern states.
The Union was affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations and the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America from late 1937 until spring 1939. Following the Second World War, the STFU shifted its emphasis from sharecroppers to migrant farm workers and began to organize farm workers in California and Louisiana. The Union's name changed to the National Farm Labor Union, AFL in 1945; the National Agricultural Workers Union, AFL-CIO in 1955; and the Agricultural and Allied Workers Union Local 300 of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters in 1960. The STFU was one of the first groups to assist agricultural laborers and was one of the predecessors of the United Farm Workers Union.
The papers, filmed from materials in the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina, contain correspondence, reports, Union newspapers and documents produced by the STFU's leaders H.L. Mitchell, Howard Kester, and E.B. McKinney, and by union supporters Walter and Victor Reuther and Roy Wilkins. In addition to the correspondence of the union's leaders, thousands of letters from sharecroppers appear, particularly for the 1930's, describing their living conditions and everyday problems. A selection of related material from the Socialist Party Archives and the Howard Kester papers are also included in the collection. The Guide provides a history of the STFU and an index to the persons and organizations in the papers. A supplement to the papers contains personal papers of four of the SFTU's leaders.
Subjects: Southern Tenant Farmers' Union; Mitchell, H. L; Kester, Howard; McKinney, E. B; Reuther, Walter; Reuther, Victor; Wilkins, Roy; Labor Unions (20th Century); Agriculture (20th Century); Southern States (20th Century); Farm tenancy; Sharecropping; National Farm Labor Union; National Agricultural Workers Union, AFL-CIO; Agricultural and Allied Workers Union Local 300 of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters; Agricultural laborers; Congress of Industrial Organizations ; United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America; African American Agricultural Laborers; Arkansas (20th Century); Agricultural laborers; Louisiana (20th Century); California (20th Century)
Southern Tenant Farmers' Union Scrapbook and Newspaper Clippings, 1934-1973. Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Library, 1971-1973
Call number: Microfilm A73Guide: Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Southern Tenant Farmers in the News
Call number: Z1252.S7G84
Note: 5 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in the Southern Historical Collection.
Description: A collection of newspaper clippings and other materials relating to the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU) and its successor unions, dating from 1934-1973. The STFU was a biracial union of sharecroppers, tenant farmers, and small landowners. Also includes papers, an oral history memoir, and speeches by H. L. Mitchell, one of the union's founders, and clippings by and about Howard Kester. The collection should be used with the STFU's papers and their supplement, the Green Uprising.
Subjects: Kester, Howard; Mitchell, Harry Leland; Southern Tenant Farmers' Union; Farm tenancy; Agricultural Laborers; Agriculture (20th Century); Southern States (20th Century); Labor Unions (20th Century); African American Agricultural Laborers; Scrapbooks; Oral Histories
Sovereigns of Industry. Sovereigns of Industry, Philadelphia Pioneer Council, 1874-1879. Frederick, Md. : University Publications of America, 1985
Call number: Microfilm A241 Reel 10Guide: 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: The Sovereigns of Industry was a cooperative and fraternal order. Beginning as the Patrons of Industry, the organization was renamed Sovereigns of Industry in 1874. The Sovereigns of Industry collection consists of six series: papers, bound volumes, correspondence, records of members, printed materials, and records. These include statistics on membership, financial records, etc. Part of the American Bureau of Industrial Research collection at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Subjects: Sovereigns of Industry; American Bureau of Industrial Research; Labor and laboring classes (19th Century); Labor Unions (19th Century); Pennsylvania (19th Century); Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Patrons of Industry
Spanish Drama of the Golden Age : The Comedia Collection in the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. [New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, Inc, 1971]
Call number: Microfilm D83Guide: Spanish Drama of the Golden Age
Call number: Z2694.D7R43
Note: 86 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals are in the University of Pennsylvania Libraries.
Description: A collection of approximately 3,000 early editions of more than 200 authors of the Spanish Golden Age. Included are works by Calderon de la Barca, Cervantes, Gongora, Lope de Vega, Perez de Moneto y Cabanar, Gabriel Tellez, Velez de Guevara, Zamora, Lope de Rueda, etc. Also included are some anonymous works. The guide lists the plays in the order they appear on the film with author and title indexes.
Subjects: Spanish Drama (16th Century); Spanish Drama (17th Century)
Spraque, Nancy Ann Atwood, 1837-1916. Diaries and Scrapbooks, 1854-1912; Pleasant Memories of My Life. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, 1976
Call number: Microfilm D285 reel 988-992 M26Guide: No guide avaiable
Note: 5 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals are in the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College.
Description: Nancy Ann Spraque lived with her family in Vermont until her marriage prompted her moving to Chicago. Pleasant Memories of My Life recollects her childhood in Vermont with accounts of family members, holidays, school, the Civil War, etc. Spraque's diaries and scrapbooks document her later life. They are filled with family news, programs from social events and organizations, travel diaries, and letters, most of which are from her daughter, Elizabeth Penn (Spraque) Coolidge and her grandson, Albert Spraque Coolidge. A brief synopsis of the papers and genealogy of Spraque can be found on reel 988 preceding the manuscripts. The diaries are part of the History of Women Collection.
Subjects: Spraque, Nancy Ann (Atwood); Coolidge, Elizabeth Penn Spraque; Coolidge, Albert Spraque; Women (19th Century); Women (20th Century); Vermont (19th Century); Illinois (19th Century); Illinois (20th Century); Social Life and Customs (19th Century); Social Life and Customs (20th Century); Scrapbooks
Stanford University Project South Oral History Collection. Glen Rock, N.J. : Microfilming Corp. of America, 1975
Call number: Micro 4 NYTGuide: Oral History Guide
Call number: AI3.O7
Note: 68 microfiche
Description: During the summer of 1965, eight students from Stanford University spent ten weeks in the Southern states tape recording information on the civil rights movement. The eight interviewers were sponsored by KZSU, Stanford's student radio station, and their original intent was to gather material suitable for rebroadcasting as radio programs. In addition to interviewing members of various well-known civil rights groups (e.g., Congress of Racial Equality, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), the student interviewers also recorded the formal and independent remarks of those working with smaller civil rights projects, of local blacks associated with the civil rights movement, and of many others including Ku Klux Klansmen and Southerners connected with the sheriff's department of Clay County, Mississippi. Also interviewed were many White volunteers who participated in SNCC's Washington Lobby, aimed at unseating the all-White Mississippi Congressional delegation, but who did not actually go to the South.
The microform edition contains transcripts of the majority of the original tape recordings which are housed in the Library of Recorded Sound, Stanford University. Pages 63-81 of Oral history guide (Microforms AI3.O7 v. 1) contains an introduction and a listing of the contents of the collection.
Subjects: African Americans (20th Century); Southern States (20th Century); Civil Rights Workers; Congress of Racial Equality; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; Mississippi (20th Century); Oral Histories
State Correction and Poverty Reports. Westport, Conn. : Redgrave Information Resources Corp, [1972]
Call number: Micro 4 SCPRGuide: No guide available
Note: 2589 microfiche
Description: A collection of reports of sixty-four social service and correctional agencies for eleven states published prior to 1930. The earliest reports date from the 1830's, but the majority are from the first part of the twentieth Century. States covered are California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas. The reports pertain to reformatories, prisons, psychiatric hospitals, public and social agencies, and child care institutions.
Subjects: Public Welfare; Poverty; Prisons; Pardons; Reformatories; Psychiatric Hospitals; California (19th Century); California (20th Century); Colorado (19th Century); Colorado (20th Century); Georgia (19th Century); Georgia (20th Century); Illinois (19th Century); Illinois (20th Century); Indiana (19th Century); Indiana (20th Century); Massachusetts (19th Century); Massachusetts (20th Century); New York (19th Century); New York (20th Century); North Carolina (19th Century); North Carolina (20th Century); Ohio (19th Century); Ohio (20th Century); Pennsylvania (19th Century); Pennsylvania (20th Century); Texas (19th Century); Texas (20th Century)
Stationers' Company (London, England). Records of the Worshipful Company of Stationers, 1554-1920. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. Teaneck, N.J. : Chadwyck-Healey, 1985
Call number: Microfilm A235Guide: The Stationers' Company Archive: An Account of the Records 1554-1984
Call number: Z329.S79M94 1990
Note: 115 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: This collection contains the documents dating from the 16th century of the Stationers' Company, a publishing and printing company in London. Information on the control of copyrights, printing and business history are subjects covered. Documents include ledgers and bills, correspondence, and minute books. Records of the Stationers' Company School are included. Biographical information about printers and stockholders can be found in the records. The guide contains a reel index, general subject index, and a glossary of terms used in the documents. For information on the history of the Stationers' Company see The Stationers' Company: A History 1403-1959 by Cyprian Blagden. An additional guide book is Records of the Worshipful Company of Stationers. The originals are located in the Stationers' Company Archives, Stationers' Hall, London England.
Subjects: Printing; Copyright; Business History; Great Britain (16th Century); Great Britain (17th Century); Great Britain (18th Century); Great Britain (19th Century); Great Britain (20th Century)
Stearns, Rachel Willard, 1813- . Journals, 1834-1837. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, 1976
Call number: Microfilm D285 reel 993 M27Guide: No guide available
Note: 1 reel 35 mm. microfilm. Originals are in the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College.
Description: Rachel Willard Stearns, daughter of Sarah Ripley and Charles Stearns (and niece to reformer George Ripley), was born in Shelbourne, Massachusetts. As she states, her journals record the most interesting events of my life and of the Lord's dealings with me, and of my own feelings and conduct. Rachel Stearns' writings are very introspective, full of self-searching and religious outpourings and they provide an excellent record of a New England conscience. Also included are accounts of her school and teaching experiences. The diaries of her mother, Sarah Ripley Stearns, are also available in the Microform Collection. The Journals are part of the History of Women Collection.
Subjects: Stearns, Rachel Willard; Stearns, Sarah Ripley; Stearns, Charles; Ripley, George; Women (19th Century); Massachusetts (19th Century); Education (19th Century); Religious Life (19th Century); Social Life and Customs (19th Century); Women Teachers
Stearns, Sarah Ripley, 1785- . Journals, 1801-1818. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, 1976
Call number: Microfilm D285 reel 993 M28Guide: No guide available
Note: 1 reel 35 mm. microfilm. Originals are in the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College.
Description: Sarah Ripley Stearns was the sister of nineteenth century reformer George Ripley. The early journals describe her life growing up in Greenfield, Massachusetts. The later journals reflect her married life with George Stearns. They are filled with descriptions of her family and social life, local news and religious meditations. For related materials see the diaries of Eunice Callender and Rachel Willard Stearns, her daughter. No guide is available. The Diaries are part of the History of Women Collection.
Subjects: Stearns, Sarah Ripley; Ripley, George; Stearns, George; Callender, Eunice; Stearns, Rachel Willard; Massachusetts (19th Century); Social Life and Customs (19th Century); Women (19th Century)
Steward, Ira, 1831-1883. Ira Steward Papers, 1863-1883. Frederick, Md. : University Publications of America, 1985
Call number: Microfilm A241 Reel 6-7Guide: 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: Ira Steward rose to leadership in the Machinist's and Blacksmiths' International Union during the Civil War and later became one of the most astute writers on American labor issues. In 1877, he helped to form the International Labor Union.
The Steward papers center on the eight-hour movement and are divided in to four major series: typescripts of writing, manuscript bundles of writing, letters, and Philadelphia Central Eight Hour League material. Part of the American Bureau of Industrial Research collection at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Subjects: Steward, Ira; American Bureau of Industrial Research; Labor and laboring classes (19th Century); Philadelphia Central Eight Hour League; Labor Unions (19th Century); Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania (19th Century); International Labor Union; Eight Hour Movement; Machinist's and Blacksmiths' International Union
Stewart, Ethelbert, 1857-1936. The Ethelbert Stewart Papers in the Southern Historical Collection of the University of North Carolina Library. Chapel Hill, 1966
Call number: Microfilm A24Guide: Ethelbert Stewart Papers in the Southern Historical Collections of the University of North Carolina Library. Guide
Call number: Z6616.S7N4
Note: 2 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: Ethelbert Stewart was a pioneer in the field of labor statistics. He edited several labor newspapers and was a member of the Board of Labor Commissioners for Illinois before he joined the United States Bureau of Labor in 1897. In 1911, Stewart was appointed statistical expert for the United States Tariff Board and later was the chief statistician of both the Children's Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. He was the United States Commissioner of Labor Statistics from 1920 until 1932. The Stewart papers include correspondence, speeches, essays, and newspaper clippings.
Subjects: Stewart, Ethelbert; Labor Statistics; United States Bureau of Labor Statistics
Stoughton, Louise, 1851-1886. Letters, 1877-1879. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, 1976
Call number: Microfilm D285 reel 993 M29Guide: No guide available
Note: 1 reel 35 mm. microfilm. Originals are in the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College.
Description: The collection consists of the correspondence in journal form of Louise Stoughton, who accompanied her aunt and uncle Edward Wallace Stoughton when he was minister plenipotentiary in Russia between 1877 and 1879. In her letters to home she describes her travels and experiences in Rome, Venice, Warsaw, and Russia; the Czarevna's palace; the Hermitage Palace; dinners at St. Petersburg, and balls and receptions. An index precedes the letters on the reels. Part of the History of Women collection.
Subjects: Stoughton, Louise; Women (19th Century); Stoughton, Edward Wallace; Russia (19th Century); Description and Travel (19th Century); Europe (19th Century); Correspondence (19th Century)
Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874. The Papers of Charles Sumner. Alexandria, VA : Chadwyck-Healey, 1988
Call number: Microfilm A257Guide: Guide and Index to the Papers of Charles Sumner
Call number: Z6616.S78P34 1988
Note: 85 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: Charles Sumner was a leader in Congress among the opponents of slavery. His attacks upon slavery and its defenders led to a physical assault by Preston S. Brooks of South Carolina in 1856. He served as chairman of the Committee of Foreign Affairs of the Senate from 1861-1871. He was active in the attempt to have Andrew Johnson impeached. He argued against Grant's annexing of Santo Domingo and opposed Grant's reelection in 1872.
The microfilm edition includes 26,000 letters from 200 repositories in the United States, Great Britain, France, New Zealand, and Canada. Sumner's correspondence is remarkable for its variety. As a major figure in the United States Senate, he was active in other reforms besides slavery and was concerned with America's intellectual reputation. Artists, office seekers, farmers, and freedmen wrote him, as well as writers like Charles Dickens and Alexis de Tocqueville and reformers like Susan B. Anthony and Horace Greeley. As a result, his correspondence touches almost every aspect of American political, social, and intellectual life in mid-nineteenth century America. The guide provides background information on the collection and index of correspondents.
Subjects: Sumner, Charles; United States Congress Senate (Personal Papers); African Americans (19th Century); Slavery; Abolitionists (Personal Papers); Correspondence (19th Century); Massachusetts (19th Century); Politics and government (19th Century)
Taft, William Howard, 1857-1930. Papers, 1814-1931. Washington D.C., Library of Congress, 1969
Call number: Microfilm A74Guide: Index to the William Howard Taft Papers
Call number: Z6616.T18U6
Note: 658 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in the Library of Congress.
Description: The Taft papers include letters received, copies of letters sent, speeches and addresses, family papers and letters, and letter press copybooks. The papers document Taft's long public career as United States Solicitor General (1890-92), judge of the Sixth United States Circuit Court (1892-1900), President of the United States Philippine Commission (1900-1901), first Civil Governor of the Philippine Islands under American control (1901-1904), Secretary of War (1904-1908), President of the United States (1909-1913), Professor of Law at Yale University (1913-1921), and Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1921-1930). Also included are the papers of Taft's father Alphonso Taft, Secretary of War (1870), Attorney General (1876-1877), and Minister to Austria-Hungary (1882-1884) and Russia (1884-1885).
The Guide contains a history and description of the papers and a name index to writers and recipients of correspondence.
Subjects: Taft, William H.; Taft, Alphonso; Presidents (Personal Papers); United States Solicitor General (Personal Papers); Philippine Islands; United States War Department (Personal Papers); Yale University; United States Supreme Court (Personal Papers); United States Attorney General (Personal Papers); Austria-Hungary (19th Century); Russia (19th Century); Foreign Relations (19th Century); Foreign Relations (20th Century); Politics and Government (19th Century); Politics and Government 20th); Judges (Personal Papers); Higher Education
Taggard, Genevieve, 1894-1948. Microfilm Edition of the Complete Works of Genevieve Taggard. Ann Arbor, Mich. : Xerox University Microfilms in collaboration with Dartmouth College Library, 1974
Call number: Microfilm A244Guide: Reel guide and index on reel 1
Note: 3 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in the Dartmouth College Library.
Description: Genevieve Taggard was an American woman poet and author of critical acclaim. She was raised in the Hawaiian Islands where her parents were missionaries. After graduating from the University of California at Berkeley, she moved to New York City where she was associated with the New Masses and a variety of liberal causes. Her first book of poetry was published in 1922. In addition to her poetry, Taggard was an accomplished biographer and anthologist. She wrote a well-received biography of Emily Dickinson. She taught at Mt. Holyoke, Bennington, and Sarah Lawrence College.
The collection reproduces 456 items in the Taggard Collection, Dartmouth College Library and includes books, magazines, clippings, musical scores, concert programs, broadsides, photostats and miscellaneous material. All of Tarrard's published writings are available, including poems, essays, stories, reviews, and articles from literary journals of the day. An introductory essay and a list of all of Taggard's books and a checklist of their first appearances is available on the first reel of microfilm.
Subjects: Taggard, Genevieve; Women Authors; Women (20th Century); Women Poets; Literature
Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850. Papers, 1814-1931. Washington D.C., Library of Congress, Photoduplication Service, 1959
Call number: Microfilm A12Guide: Index to the Zachary Taylor Papers
Call number: Z8863.5.U5
Note: 2 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: Most of Taylor's papers were destroyed during the Civil War. The microfilm edition is from materials in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress and includes correspondence, military papers, an autobiographical account (ca. 1826) and documents relating to Taylor's estate and the management of the Louisiana plantation by his son Richard. The correspondence contains 64 letters written by Zachary Taylor to Thomas S. Jesup relating to the Seminole Indian Campaign in 1837-1838. The Guide provides a history and description of the Taylor papers and a name index to writers and recipients of letters.
Subjects: Taylor, Zachary; Taylor, Richard; Presidents (Personal Papers); Plantations; Louisiana (19th Century); Seminole Indian Campaign
Tennessee Regional Oral History Collection of the Memphis Public Library. Glen Rock, N.J. : Microfilming Corp. of America, 1976
Call number: Micro 4 NYTGuide: Oral History Guide No. 2 : A Bibliographic Listing of the Memoirs in the Micropublished Collections
Call number: AI3.O7 v. 2
Note: 19 microfiche
Description: Part I of the Tennessee Regional Oral History includes the memoirs of outstanding personalities in the social and political history of Tennessee. The collection contains reminiscences about two of Tennessee's most famous citizens, Congressional Medal of Honor winner Alvin 'Sergeant' York and longtime political power Ed 'Boss' Crump. Also available are interviews with prominent Memphis businessmen and an examination of the role of city planning in the development of Memphis. Brief information and a list of interviews can be found on pages 109-110 of the guide.
Subjects: Tennessee; Memphis, Tennessee; York, Alvin; Crump, Ed; Oral Histories
Terrell, Mary Church, 1863-1954. The Papers of Mary Church Terrell. Washington D.C., Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1977
Call number: Microfilm A198Guide: Register and Reel Guide
Call number: Microfilm A198 reel 1
Note: 34 reels 35 mm. Microfilm. Originals in the Library of Congress.
Description: Mary Church Terrell's papers cover the years 1851-1962, but are riches for the period 1886 to 1954. They document her activities as an African American educator, lecturer, club woman, author, and political campaigner. Issues covered include lynching and peonage conditions in the South, women's suffrage, voting rights, civil rights, education programs for Afro-Americans, and the Equal Rights Amendment. She was involved in the National Association of Colored Women, National American Woman Suffrage Association, National Woman's Party, and Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She served on the Washington D.C. school board from 1895 to 1904 and 1906 to 1911, was active in the Republican Party in the 1920's and 1930's, and in her eighties led the move which ended discrimination in Washington, D.C. restaurants and movie theaters.
The collection includes diaries, correspondence, speeches, writings, and a subject file on matters relating to her career. A register and reel guide appears on reel 1. The papers of her husband, Robert Heberton Terrell are also available.
Subjects: Terrell, Mary Church; Terrell, Robert Heberton; Women's rights; Civil rights (20th Century); Civil Rights (19th Century); Women (Personal Papers); African Americans (Personal Papers); African American Women (Personal Papers); National Association of Colored Women; National American Woman Suffrage Association; National Woman's Party; Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; Equal Rights Amendment; Segregation; Republican Party; Washington, D.C. School Board
Terrell, Robert Heberton, 1857-1925. The Papers of Robert Heberton Terrell. Washington D.C., Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1979
Call number: Microfilm A199Guide: Register and Reel Guide
Call number: Microfilm A199 reel 1
Note: 4 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in the Library of Congress.
Description: The papers of Robert H. Terrell are less extensive than those of his wife Mary Church Terrell. Most of the collection is letters that he received during his service as judge of the Washington, D.C. Municipal Court from 1902 to 1925 and his speeches and articles. The articles are concerned with African American education and history, the Monroe Doctrine, and the relation of law to business. Among his many correspondents were Charles B. Purvis, trustee of Howard University, and John R. Lynch, reconstruction congressman from Mississippi and an early law partner of Terrell. The Terrell family correspondence is in his wife's papers. A register and guide to the collection is filmed at the beginning of reel 1.
Collection consists primarily of the correspondence, speeches and writings, newspaper clippings, printed material and other papers of Terrell relating to his interest in black education and welfare, the Washington, D.C., courts and schools, Republican politics and the Washington, D.C., Board of Trade, of which he was a member.
Subjects: Terrell, Robert Heberton; Terrell, Mary Church; Education (19th Century); Education (20th Century); Social Conditions (19th Century); Social Conditions (20th Century); African Americans (19th Century); African Americans (20th Century); African Americans (Personal Papers); Washington (D.C.); Politics and Government (19th Century); Politics and Government (20th Century); Republican Party; Judges (Personal Papers)
Testaments to the Holocaust. Woodbridge, CT, Primary Source Media, 1998-
Call number: Microfilm A423Guide: Testaments to the Holocaust, general editor, Ben Barkow
Call number: D804.3.T468 2001
Note: series 1: 76 reels 35 mm. microfilm, series 2: 153 reels 35 mm. microfilm + user guide, series 3: 64 reels 35 mm. microfilm + guide
Description: Microfilm of rare and unique historical printed and manuscript material from The Wiener Library collection documenting the Holocaust events in Germany and Europe from the early 1930s to the mid 1960s. Series 1 : Archives of the Wiener Library, London. Section 1 : Propaganda material (reel 1-45). Section 2 : Eyewitness accounts (reel 46-64). Section 3 : Wiener Library publications (reel 65-69). Section 4 : Photographs (reel 70-76). Series 2 : The Wiener Library thematic press cuttings collection, 1933-1945. Series 3 : The Henriques Archive from the Wiener Library, London.
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Germany, History (1918-1933); Germany, History (1933-1945); Barkow, Ben; Wiener Library; Archives of the Wiener Library, London; Wiener Library thematic press cuttings collection, 1933-1945
Schomburg, Arthur. The Arthur A. Schomburg Papers. Bethesda, Md., University Publications of America, 1991
Call number: Microfilm A291Guide: The Arthur A. Schomburg Papers
Call number: E184.6.S36 1991
Note: 12 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: Arthur A. Schomburg (1874-1938), was a book collector and author of articles and tracts about the history and culture of black people. He was born in Puerto Rico and moved to New York City in 1891. He remained interested in the role of black people in the Caribbean and many of his writings deal with Haiti and Cuba. His extensive collection of books, manuscripts and prints was purchased by the New York City Public Library in 1926. From 1920-1929 Schomburg was the elected president of the American Negro Academy.
Documents in the collection include correspondence, to and from Schomburg, articles by and about Schomburg, and subject and reference files. Bibliographies on slavery, race relations, Africa and other related topics are included. Correspondence is arranged alphabetically. The majority of the collection dates from 1932-1938 when Schomburg served as the curator of the Arthur A. Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and Art at the New York City Public Library. The guide includes a reel guide and a subject index. The originals are located in the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in the New York City Public Library. A related collection is D197, A Selection of Titles from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (Guide Call Number Z1361.N39S44). This collection contains periodicals, books and pamphlets from the Schomburg Center.
Subjects: Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso; African Americans (Personal Papers); African American Literature; Africa; Race Relations
Third Party Presidential Nominating Conventions, Proceedings, Records, Etc. La Crosse, Wis. : Micro 8 co, [1972]
Call number: Microfilm D181Guide: Third Party Presidential Nominating Conventions, Proceedings, Records
Call number: JK2252.T55 1972
Note: 7 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: A collection of platforms, records, proceedings and pamphlets of third party presidential nominating conventions dating from 1830 to 1968. Materials range in size from one page convention handouts to sizeable pamplets. The first six reels of film contain materials on various third parties, arranged alphabetically by party name. The seventh reel contains miscellaneous materials and pamphlets on various socialist and communist groups.
The following parties are covered: American Party (Know-Nothings), American Workers Party, Antimasonic Party, Conference for Progressive Labor Action, Free Soil Party, Greenback Party, Independent labor League of America, Industrial Workers of the World, International Workingmen's Party, Liberty Party, Populist Party (People's Party), Progressive Party, Prohibition Party, Revolutionary Workers League, Socialist Labor Party, Socialist Party, Socialist Workers Party, Union Labor Party, and Workers Party.
Subjects: Presidents; Elections (19th Century); Elections (20th Century); American Party (Know-Nothings); American Workers Party; Antimasonic Party; Conference for Progressive Labor Action; Free Soil Party; Greenback Party; Independent Labor League of America; Industrial Workers of the World; International Workingmen's Party; Liberty Party; Populist Party (People's Party); Progressive Party; Prohibition Party; Revolutionary Workers League; Socialist Labor Party; Socialist Party; Socialist Workers Party; Union Labor Party; Workers Party; United States; Politics and Government (19th Century); Presidential Candidates; Socialism; Communism; Politics and Government (20th Century)
Thomason Tracts. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1977
Call number: Microfilm D18bGuide: The Thomason Tracts, 1640-1661 : An Index to the Microfilm Edition of the Thomason Collection of the British Library
Call number: Z2018.B853
Note: 256 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in the British Library.
Description: George Thomason was a London publisher and bookseller. His collection includes between 20,000 and 30,000 tracts and pamphlets published in England between 1640 and 1661. The Tracts include political writings, speeches, news reports, accounts of battles, negotiations, and gossip. Some of the reports such as Mercurius Politicus and the Weekly Intelligence became regular enough to be considered predecessors of newspapers. The collection is a superb source for military and political study and for social, religious, constitutional, and other research for the period. Some of the material also appears in Early English Books, 1641-1700.
Subjects: English Newspapers; Manuscripts; Great Britain Civil War, 1642-1649; Great Britain Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660; Great Britain Restoration, 1660-1688; Great Britain (17th Century)
Three Centuries of Drama. New York : Readex Microprint, 1953-1960
Call number: Microprint .W462tGuide: Three Centuries of English and American Plays : A Checklist. England 1500-1800, United States 1714-1830
Call number: Z2014.D7B45
Note: 5,523 microprint cards
Description: A collection of approximately 5,500 extant plays in the English language published either separately or in a collection in the United States from 1714 to 1830 or in Great Britain between 1500 and 1800. Also included is the Larpent Collection of Manuscript Plays (1737-1800) from the Henry E. Huntington Library and Museum. Individual plays are not listed in LIAS. The guide provides author and title access.
Subjects: English Drama (16th Century); English Drama (17th Century); English Drama (18th Century); American Drama (18th Century); American Drama (19th Century); Book Collections
Ticknor, George. Microfilm Edition of The Travel Journals of George & Anna Ticknor : In the Years 1816-1819 and 1835-1838. Ann Arbor, Mich. : Xerox University Microfilms, 1974
Call number: Microfilm A206Guide: A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Travel Journals of George and Anna Ticknor
Call number: Microfilm A206 reel 1
Note: 5 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in the Dartmouth College Library.
Description: George Ticknor was a prominant American educator and literary historian. A graduate of Dartmouth, he was admitted to the bar. He abandoned the law and went to Europe in 1815 with Edward Everett to study at Gottingen. He was appointed the first professor of modern languages at Harvard in 1819. He married Anna Eliot, daughter of Samuel Eliot, a prosperous Boston merchant in 1821. He resigned his position in 1835 to travel to Europe with his Wife and children. He published a monumental history of Spanish literature in 1849. He was a founder of the Boston public library (1852), and his Spanish literature collection was given to the Library on his death.
The travel journals of George and Anna Ticknor provide a detailed view of Europe during the first half of the 19th Century. They provide insight into the views and values of well-education, upper-class Americans on the Grand Tour.
Contents:
- Reel 1 : The European journal of George Ticknor (1815-1819), v.1-7
- Reel 2 : The European journal of George Ticknor (1815-1819), v.8-9 and (1835-1838), v.1-5
- Reel 3 : The European journal of George Ticknor (1835-1838), v.6-9 and the European journal of Anna Eliot Ticknor (1835-1838), v.1
- Reel 4 : The European journal of Anna Eliot Ticknor (1835-1838), v..2-5
- Reel 5 : The European journal of Anna Eliot Ticknor (1835-1838), v.6-8.
Subjects: Ticknor, George; Ticknor, Anna Eliot; Everett, Edward; Description and Travel (Europe) Social Life and Customs (19th Century); Diaries; Europe (19th Century); Women (19th Century)
Tilton, Elizabeth Hewes, 1869-1950. Diaries, 1918-1945. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, 1976
Call number: Microfilm D285 reel 993-994 M30Guide: No guide available
Note: 2 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals are in the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College.
Description: Elizabeth Hewes Tilton was active in numerous organizations which promoted economic and social reform. She was particularly involved with the National Congress of Mothers, the Parent-Teachers Association (PTA), the Unitarian Temperance Society, and other temperance groups. Her daily diaries record her activities relating to these organizations and also include some family biographical material. The diaries are part of the History of Women Collection.
Subjects: Tilton, Elizabeth Hewes; National Congress of Mothers; Parent-Teachers Association (PTA); Unitarian Temperance Society; Temperance; Women (20th Century); Massachusetts (20th Century)
Transcripts and Files of the Paris Peace Talks on Vietnam, 1968-1973. Frederick, MD : University Publications of America, c1982
Call number: Microfilm A196Guide: Transcripts and Files of the Paris Peace Talks on Vietnam, 1968-1973.
Call number: DS559.7.T7
Note: 12 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: The Paris Peace Talks to end the war in Vietnam began in May 1968, but did not bring an immediate cessation of war. The call for the peace talks followed the Tet Offensive and intensive bombing of South Vietnam. A temporary peace was declared in 1973 and the United States withdrew from Vietnam. The fighting continued, however, until 1975.
This collection contains the verbatim transcripts of the meetings and plenary sessions of the Paris Peace Talks on Vietnam, 1968-1973. Handouts distributed at the meetings are included on the film. Some documents are in French. Documents are arranged chronologically. The main topics addressed include withdrawal of forces and deescalation, prisoners of war, terrorism and civilian casualties, Cambodia, Laos, and reunification. The guide contains a reel index and a subject index. The subject index is divided into two sections containing topics raised by the United States and South Vietnamese side and those raised by the North Vietnamese - National Liberation Front side. The collection was filmed from the United States Department of State records.
Subjects: Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Paris Peace Talks; Cambodia; Laos
Transcripts of the Malcolm X Assassination Trial. Wilmington, DE., Scholarly Resources, 1993
Call number: Microfilm A307Guide: Guide to the Transcripts of the Malcolm X Assassination Trial
Call number: BP223.Z8L57985
Note: 3 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: This collection contains documents from the 1966 trial of the three men, Thomas Hagan, Norman Butler, and Thomas Johnson, who were accused of assassinating Malcolm X. The documents include transcripts of the testimony of the defense and prosecution witnesses and of discussions between the attorneys and the judge. All three men were convicted of first degree murder. In 1979 Thomas Hagan gave testimony about the assassination, identifying the other two prisoners as innocent, but they were not released. Hagan's testimony is included in this microfilm collection. The documents are arranged in chronological order. The guide contains a reel guide lising the dates covered on each reel of film, but does not contain a subject index.
The original trial documents were bound in a five volume set and are located in the New York Supreme Court Library (Criminal Branch), New York. The case name is The People of the State of New York V. Thomas Hagan, Thomas 15X Johnson and Norman 3X Butler (Indictment No. 871 of 1965, Steno No. 7255). For additional information on Malcolm X see Malcolm X, FBI Surveillance File (Microfilm A127).
Subjects: Malcolm X; Assassinations; Hagan, Thomas; Butler, Norman; Johnson, Thomas; Trials (Assassination); African Americans (20th Century)
Travels in the Confederate States. Louisville, Ky. : Lost Cause Press, 1957
Call number: Micro 3Guide: Travels in the Confederate States
Call number: Z1251.S7C682
Note: 2,700 micro-opaques
Description: A collection of more than 480 published accounts of travel in the South during the Civil War, written either at that time or at a later date. The collection contains works by both Union and Confederate soldiers, as well as a few civilian and foreign visitors. Diaries, letters written from the scene of action, autobiographies, and regimental histories are excluded.
The collection is based on a bibliography by Ellis Merton Coulter, which has a detailed subject index. Individual titles from the collection are listed in the LIAS.
Subjects: United States History Civil War (1861-1865) (Personal narratives); Confederates (Personal Narratives); United States History Civil War (1861-1865) (Regimental histories)
Trujillo Era in the Dominican Republic : A Collection of Pamphlets. University Park, Pa. : The Pennsylvania State University Libraries, Photoduplication Service, 1980
Call number: Microfilm D307Guide: The Trujillo Era in the Dominican Republic : A Collection of Pamphlets. Reel Guide
Call number: Z1511.C57
Note: 1 reel 35 mm. microfilm
Description: This collection is a set of 76 pamphlets published between 1933 and 1961 on political and economic issues in the Dominican Republic. Rafael Trujillo took power in the Dominican Republic in 1930 and ruled until 1961. The majority of the pamphlets were written in Spanish. The guide contains a chronological reel guide and an alphabetical index by pamphlet author. Publication information is included in the guide. The original copies of these pamphlets are located in the Special Collections Library, 1st Floor Paterno Library.
See also: Dominican Republic : Pamphlets on History and Culture.
Subjects: Dominican Republic; Central America; Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leonidas
Tyler, John, 1790-1862. Papers, 1691-1918. Washington D.C., Library of Congress, Photoduplication Service, 1960
Call number: Microfilm A11Guide: Index to the John Tyler Papers
Call number: Z6616.T95U5
Note: 3 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: The papers of Tyler were destroyed in a fire in 1865. Tyler's son, Dr. Lyon Gardiner Tyler, assembled this collection by writing to correspondents of the President. The collection also includes letters to and from Julia Gardiner Tyler and other members of the Tyler family and concern Virginia social life and Customs. Many of the letters were published in Letters and Times of the Tylers.
Subjects: Tyler, John; Presidents (Personal Papers); Tyler, Lyon Gardiner; Tyler, Julia Gardiner; Virginia (19th Century); Social Life and Customs (19th Century)
U.S. Military Intelligence Reports : Surveillance of Radicals in the United States, 1917-1941. Frederick, MD : University Publications of America, 1984
Call number: Microfilm A219Guide: U.S. Military Intelligence Reports : Surveillance of Radicals in the United States, 1917-1941
Call number: UB251.U5U6
Note: 34 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: The U. S. Army's G-2 negative branch, Military Intelligence Division (M. I. D.), was established during World War I as a counter-propaganda and domestic intelligence agency. It tracked the activities of any organization which it perceived to be an opponent of the war effort. After the war, the branch remained in place and the surveillance continued. The M.I.D. cooperated with such civilian agencies as the Justice Department, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and the Department of State.
This collection includes selected files from the National Archives and Records Service Record Group 165 relating to the U.S. Military Intelligence Division's Surveillance of Radicals in the United States. Material not available includes material on international communism and African Americans.
Subjects: United States Department of the Army. Military Intelligence Division; United States Federal Bureau of Investigation; Radicalism; Anarchism and Anarchists; Communism; Emigration and Immigration (20th Century); Labor and Laboring Classes (20th Century); Socialism; Politics and Government (20th Century); National Security
Underground Newspaper Collection. Wooster, Ohio, Bell & Howell, 1969-
Call number: Microfilm E158Guide: Underground newspaper collection
Call number: PN4888.U5U5401
Note: 313 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: The underground or alternative press movement began in 1964 as a result of growing opposition to the Vietnam War on college campuses, changing life styles, growing ethnic and racial pride, and the failure of conventional newspaper sources to reflect the viewpoints of these variant groups. Hundreds of underground papers were published in the heyday of the movement between 1967-1969. Some papers lasted only a few issues, and most are now defunct.
The Underground Newspaper Collection is important because of the variety of viewpoints represented by papers in the collection. Titles included are general papers such as the Berkeley Barb, Great Speckled Bird, and the East Village Other, African American radical publications such as the Black Panther, a few foreign underground papers, and women's liberation journals. One important title in the collection is the Liberation News Service, which provided a service to underground papers similar to the UPI or API for established newspapers. Additional women's journals are found in Herstory. The guide provides alphabetical and geographical access to the collection.
Subjects: American Newspapers (20th Century); American Periodicals (20th Century); Underground Press; 1960s; Radicalism; Politics and Government (20th Century); Vietnam War; African Americans; Women (20th Century); Liberation News Service
United States Direct Tax of 1798 : Tax Lists for the State of Pennsylvania. Washington D.C., National Archives and Records Service, 1962
Call number: Microfilm D115Guide: United States Direct Tax of 1798 : Pamphlet Accompanying National Archives Microfilm Publications Microcopy no. 372
Call number: HJ2430.A29U55
Note: 24 reels 35 mm. microfilm. National Archives Microfilm Publication M372
Description: The tax lists show the names of persons who owned property or slaves in Pennsylvania subject to a property tax levied by the Act of July 14, 1798, the first direct tax law of the United States government. The tax was upon all dwellings, lands, and slaves between the ages of twelve and fifty. The unpopularity of the direct tax and of various excise taxes resulted in their repeal in 1802, and except for a period around the War of 1812, direct taxation was not used again until the Civil War. The tax lists of 1798 are valuable for genealogical research and for an insight into economic conditions in early Pennsylvania.
Subjects: Pennsylvania (18th Century); Taxation; Genealogy; Economic Conditions (18th Century)
United States Documentary Posters from World War I. Washington D.C., Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1978
Call number: Microfilm A129Guide: No printed guide available
Note: 1 reel 35 mm. microfilm. Originals are in the Library of Congress.
Description: Approximately 300 American posters from World War I are available.
Subjects: World War I (1914-1918); Posters
United States Documentary Posters from World War II. Washington D.C., Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1978
Call number: Microfilm A130Guide: No printed guide available
Note: 3 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Originals in the Library of Congress.
Description: Approximately 1,200 posters from World War II are available in this collection. The posters were issued by various governmental agencies, such as the Armed Services, Office of War Information, and the Public Health Service, and by private business and volunteer organizations. The purpose of the posters was to enlist public support for various drives, fund collections, conservation of food and materials, increased production in industry and agriculture, and to encourage good health and safety practices.
These posters are arranged by promotional goal. The major promotional goal groupings are agricultural production; industrialization and production; special interest groups (including labor, women, and children); welfare activities; political propaganda, policy and ideology; foreign relations and war; and war films. Although the collection is not considered to be a complete collection of posters issued during the Second World War, it does represent different advertising styles, indicate the country's intellectual mood and social attitudes, and show the roles men, women, children, minorities, and other nations played in the war effort.
Subjects: World War II (1939-1945); Posters
United States. Anthracite Coal Commission, 1902-1903. Proceedings of the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission. Washington D.C., Hanna & Budlong, official stenographers, [1902-1903]
Call number: Microfilm D267Guide: No guide available
Note: 8 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: The Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902 proved to be a critical turning point in the improvement of relations between labor and management in the United States. More than 140,000 miners went on strike in May 1902 because of low wages, long hours and laxity in weighing the coal they mined. In October 1902, the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission was formed, under the direction of President Roosevelt, to arbitrate between the miners and operators. A settlement, based on the findings and recommendations of the Commission, was reached in March 1903.
The microfilm edition of the Proceedings reveals the broad negotiations which led to this settlement. Included are the testimony, exhibits and statistical reports presented to the Commission. A printed guide is not available. The John Mitchell Papers (Microfilm A99) also contain information on the strike. Mitchell was president of the United Mine Workers during the strike.
Subjects: Anthracite Coal Strike; Pennsylvania (20th Century); Mining; Labor Unions (20th Century)
United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands. Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Alabama, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1870. Washington D.C., The National Archives, 1972
Call number: Microfilm D277Guide: Black Studies : A Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications
Call number: Z1361.N39U55 1984
Note: 23 reels 35 mm. microfilm. National Archives Microfilm Publications M809
Description: The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, popularly called the Freedmen's Bureau, was established in 1865. Its function was to supervise affairs relating to refugees and former slaves, and to control all lands abandoned or confiscated during the Civil War. The types of activities the Bureau engaged in include establishing schools, hospitals, dispensaries, and camps for the homeless; issuing rations, clothing, and medicine; registering marriages; filing pensions; etc. By 1869 most of these activities had ceased and the Bureau was formally abolished in 1872.
The collection contains all the records created or received by the Assistant Commissioner for Alabama. The Freedmen's Bureau began operation in Alabama in July 1865 when Brig. General Wager Swayne became Assistant Commissioner. Bvt. Brig. General Julius Hayden succeeded Swayne between January and August 1868. Bvt. Lt. Col. Edwin Beecher was the last Assistant Commissioner, serving from August 1868 and January 1869. Bureau operations in Alabama were terminated in January 1869 except for educational functions and collection of claims. Colonel Beecher remained as Superintendent of Education until the office was closed in July 1870.
The collection consists of letters sent (July 1865-July 1870), annual and weekly reports, endorsements sent, register of letters received, letters received, telegrams, issuances, reports of operations, form reports, and other records. Reproduced from Record Group 105 (Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands) in the National Archives.
Subjects: United States Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands; United States History Reconstruction; Alabama (19th Century); African Americans (19th Century); Freedmen
United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands. Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Georgia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1869. Washington D.C., The National Archives, 1968
Call number: Microfilm D278Guide: Black Studies : A Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications
Call number: Z1361.N39U55 1984
Note: 36 reels 35 mm. microfilm. National Archives Microfilm Publications M798
Description: The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, popularly referred to as the Freedmen's Bureau, was established in 1865. Its function was to supervise affairs relating to refugees and former slaves, and to control all lands abandoned or confiscated during the Civil War. The types of activities the Bureau engaged in included establishing schools, hospitals, dispensaries, and camps for the homeless; issuing rations, clothing, and medicine; registering marriages; filing pensions; etc. By 1869 most of these activities had ceased and the Bureau was formally abolished in 1872.
The Assistant Commissioner assigned to Georgia and South Carolina was Major General Rufus Saxton, who assigned Brig. General Edward A. Wild the Bureau's responsibilities for Georgia. Wild was replaced by Brig. General Davis Tillson in September 1865. Tillson was replaced first by Col. Caleb C. Sibley and then by Major John R. Lewis who served until the office was discontinued in May 1869.
The records consist of letters and endorsements sent or received, reports of operations, orders and circulars, station books and registers, and miscellaneous records. Reproduced from Record Group 105 (Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands) in the National Archives.
Subjects: United States Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands; Saxton, Rufus; Wild, Edward A; Tillson, Davis; Sibley, Caleb C; Lewis, John R; United States History Reconstruction; African Americans (19th Century); Georgia (19th Century); Freedmen
United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands. Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Mississippi ... 1865-1869. Washington D.C., National Archives, 1971
Call number: Microfilm D274Guide: Black Studies : A Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications
Call number: Z1361.N39U55 1984
Note: 50 reels 35 mm. microfilm. National Archives Microfilm Publication M826
Description: The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, popularly referred to as the Freedmen's Bureau, was established in 1865. Its function was to supervise affairs relating to refugees and former slaves, and to control all lands abandoned or confiscated during the Civil War. Bureau activities include: establishing schools, hospitals, dispensaries, and camps for the homeless; issuing rations, clothing, and medicine; registering marriages; filing pensions; etc. By 1869 most of these activities had ceased and the Bureau was formally abolished in 1872.
The first Assistant Commissioner was Col. Samuel Thomas in June 1865. He was succeeded by three other officers who acted both as Assistant Commissioners and as military commanders of Mississippi: General Thomas J. Wood, General Alvan C. Gillem, General Adelbert Ames. The jurisdiction of the Assistant Commissioner included parts of northeastern Louisiana until December 1865.
The records include: letters and endorsements sent, letters received, a resister of letters received, orders and circulars, reports, personnel records, registers of indentures and marriages of freedmen, labor contracts of freedmen. Reproduced from Record Group 105 (Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands) in the National Archives.
Subjects: United States Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands; Thomas, Samuel; Wood, Thomas J; Gillem, Alvan C; Ames, Adelbert; United States History Reconstruction; Mississippi; Louisiana; Freedmen; African Americans
United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands. Records of the Education Division of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1871. Washington D.C., The National Archives, 1969
Call number: Microfilm D273Guide: Black Studies : A Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications
Call number: Z1361.N39U55 1984
Note: 35 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, popularly known as the Freedmen's Bureau, was established in 1865. Its function was to supervise affairs relating to refugees and former slaves, and to control all lands abandoned or confiscated during the Civil War. The Bureau's activities were concentrated primarily in the former Confederate States, the border states, and the District of Columbia. By 1869 most of the Bureau's activities had ceased and the Bureau was formally abolished in 1872. Initially, the education of freedmen were the concern of Northern benevolent societies, and there was no organized department concerned with matters of education. The societies quickly realized that their finances were inadequate to meet the needs.
Rev. John Alvord was appointed Inspector of Finances and Schools in October 1965, and General Superintendent of Education in January 1887. Although education activities were to continue after the Bureau was discontinued in 1869, by late 1870 most state Superintendents of Education offices had closed, and Alvord resigned on November 30, 1870. All activities ceased in March 1771.
The records consist mainly of letters sent, letters received, and reports of schools by the State Superintendents of Education on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis. Reports are available for the following states: Alabama; Arkansas; District of Columbia (including Delaware, Maryland, and West Virginia); Florida; Georgia; Kentucky; Louisiana; Mississippi; Missouri; North Carolina; South Carolina; Tennessee; Texas; Virginia. Reproduced from Record Group 105 (Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands) in the National Archives.
Subjects: United States Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands; Alvord, John W; African Americans (19th Century); Education (19th Century); Alabama (19th Century); Arkansas (19th Century); Washington (D.C.) (19th Century); Delaware (19th Century); Maryland (19th Century); West Virginia (19th Century); Florida (19th Century); Georgia (19th Century); Kentucky (19th Century); Louisiana (19th Century); Mississippi (19th Century); Missouri (19th Century); North Carolina (19th Century); South Carolina (19th Century); Tennessee (19th Century); Texas (19th Century); Virginia (19th Century)
United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands. Records of the Superintendent of Education for the State of Alabama, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1870. Washington D.C., The National Archives, 1971
Call number: Microfilm D276Guide: Black Studies : A Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications
Call number: Z1361.N39U55 1984
Note: 8 reels 35 mm. microfilm. National Archives Microfilm Publications M810
Description: The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, popularly referred to as the Freedmen's Bureau, was established in 1865. Its function was to supervise affairs relating to refugees and former slaves, and to control all lands abandoned or confiscated during the Civil War. By 1869 most activities of the Bureau had ceased, and the Bureau was formally abolished in 1872.
Bureau educational activities in Alabama began with the appointment of Rev. Charles W. Buckley as Bureau inspector and Superintendent of Schools in October 1865. He was succeeded by Henry M. Bush and R.D. Harper. In January 1869, all activities of the Bureau were terminated except for educational functions and the collection of claims. Edwin Beecher became Superintendent of Education at that time and served until July 1870 when the remaining activities of the Bureau were terminated.
The records of the Superintendent of Education for Alabama include letters, reports, and endorsements sent; letters and orders received; a register of letters received; form reports pertaining to schools; and other records. Reproduced from Record Group 105 (Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands) in the National Archives.
Subjects: United States Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands; Buckley, Charles W; Bush, Henry M; Harper, R. D; Beecher, Edwin; United States History Reconstruction; Alabama (19th century); African Americans (19th century); Freedmen
United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands. Records of the Superintendent of Education for the State of Georgia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1870. Washington D.C., The National Archives, 1968
Call number: Microfilm D279Guide: Black Studies : A Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications
Call number: Z1361.N39U55 1984
Note: 28 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, popularly called the Freedmen's Bureau, was established in 1865. Its function was to supervise affairs relating to refugees and former slaves, and to control all lands abandoned or confiscated during the Civil War. By 1869 most of the Bureau's activities had ceased, and the Bureau was formally abolished in 1872.
Bureau educational activities began in Georgia with the appointment in October 1865 of G. L. Eberthart as Superintendent of Schools. He was succeeded by Edward A. Ware and John R. Lewis. Ware served as acting Superintendent until August 1870 when all Bureau officers except claims agents were withdrawn from the state.
The records consist of letters sent, letters received, a register of letters received, school reports, and account records. Reproduced from Record Group 105 (Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands) in the National Archives.
Subjects: United States Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands; Eberthart, G. L; Ware, Edward A; Lewis, John R; United States History Reconstruction; African Americans (19th Century); Georgia (19th Century); Freedmen
United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands. Registers and Letters Received By the Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872. Washington D.C., The National Archives, 1973
Call number: Microfilm D280Guide: Black Studies : A Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications
Call number: Z1361.N39U55 1984
Note: 74 reels 35 mm. microfilm. National Archives Microfilm Publication M752
Description: The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, popularly known as the Freedmen's Bureau, was established in 1865. Its function was to supervise affairs relating to refugees and former slaves, and to control all lands abandoned or confiscated during the Civil War. The Bureau's activities were concentrated primarily in the former Confederate States, the border states, and the District of Columbia. The types of activities the Bureau engaged in included establishing schools, hospitals, dispensaries, and camps for the homeless; issuing rations, clothing, and medicine; registering marriages; filing pensions; etc. By 1869 most of these activities had ceased and the Bureau was formally abolished in 1872. In spite of the intentions of the Bureau, little was done to permanently improve the position of the Freedmen in Southern society.
This microfilm publication reproduces 33 volumes of registers and indexes and the related unbound letters received by the Commissioner between 1865-72. The letters pertain to all aspects of the Bureau's activities. Two consolidated indexes to names and subjects are filmed on reel 1. The indexes are incomplete. The letters are filmed in the order of entry in the registers. Reproduced from Record Group 105 (Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands) in the National Archives.
Subjects: United States Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands; United States History Reconstruction; Southern States (19th Century); Freedmen; African Americans (19th Century); Correspondence (19th Century)
United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands. Selected Records of the Tennessee Field Office of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872. Washington D.C., The National Archives, 1958
Call number: Microfilm D281Guide: Black Studies : A Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications
Call number: Z1361.N39U55 1984
Note: 73 reels 35 mm. microfilm. National Archives Microfilm Publication T142
Description: The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, popularly referred to as the Freedmen's Bureau, was established in 1865. Its function was to supervise affairs relating to refugees and former slaves, and to control all lands abandoned or confiscated during the Civil War. The types of activities engaged in included establishing schools, hospitals, dispensaries, and camps for the homeless; issuing rations, clothing, and medicine; registering marriages; filing pensions; etc. By 1869 most of these activities had ceased and the Bureau was formally abolished in 1872.
The records include letters and telegrams sent by the Assistant Commissioner, 1865-69; letters sent by the Superintendent of Education, 1866-70; letters sent by the Chief Quartermaster and disbursing officer, 1867-68; letters sent by the general claims agent, 1867-72; district office records; letters received by the Assistant Commissioner, 1865-69; reports relating to the restoration of property; educational records; letters received by the office of the general claims agent, 1867-72; leases for abandoned property, 1865-66; and labor contracts, 1865-67. Reproduced from Record Group 105 (Records of the Bureau of Refugees, freedmen and Abandoned Lands) in the National Archives.
Subjects: United States Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands; United States History Reconstruction; African Americans (19th Century); Tennessee (19th Century); Freedmen
United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands. Selected Series of Records Issued By the Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872. Washington D.C., The National Archives, 1968
Call number: Microfilm D275Guide: Black Studies : A Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications
Call number: Z1361.N39U55 1984
Note: 7 reels 35 mm. microfilm. National Archives Microfilm Publications M742
Description: The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, popularly known as the Freedmen's Bureau, was established in 1865. Its function was to supervise affairs relating to refugees and former slaves, and to control all lands abandoned or confiscated during the Civil War. The Bureau's activities were concentrated primarily in the former Confederate States, the border states, and the District of Columbia. Types of activities engaged in by the Bureau included establishing schools, hospitals, dispensaries, and camps for the homeless; issuing rations, clothing, and medicine; registering marriages; filing pensions, etc. By 1869 most of these activities had ceased and the Bureau was formally abolished in 1872. In spite of the intentions of the Bureau, little was done to permanently improve the position of the freedmen in Southern society.
The Records consist of letters sent, endorsements sent, circulars issued, and special orders issued by Commissioner Oliver Otis Howard. Also included are copies of Howard's annual report to the President, letters of appointment, and other administrative materials. Reproduced from Record Group 105 (Records of the Bureau of the Refuges, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands) in the National Archives. The guide provides a description of the collection and special indexes that are available on the microfilm.
Subjects: United States Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands; Howard, Oliver Otis; United States History Reconstruction; African Americans (19th Century); Southern States (19th Century)
United States. Bureau of the Census. Eleventh Census of the United States, 1890. Pennsylvania: Schedules Enumerating Union Veterans and Widows of Union Veterans of the Civil War. Washington D.C., the National Archives, 1948
Call number: Microfilm D22aGuide: No guide available
Note: 14 reels 35 mm. microfilm. National Archives and Records Service Microfilm Publication M123
Description: All the 1890 population schedules for Pennsylvania were destroyed or badly damaged by fire. The 1890 special census of Union veterans and widows of Union veterans of the Civil War gives information about the military service of each veteran named and the post office address of each listed person who was alive at the time of enumeration.
Subjects: Pennsylvania (19th Century); Census (1890); Veterans; United States History Civil War (1861-1865); Genealogy
United States. Bureau of the Census. Federal Population Censuses, 1790-1880. Pennsylvania. [Washington D.C., the National Archives, 19__]
Call number: Microfilm D22Guide: Federal Population Censuses, 1790-1890 : A Catalog of Microfilm Copies of the Schedules
Call number: HA37.U548F44
Note: 496 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: The Federal decennial population census schedules contain more information on individuals and families who lived during the 1800's than any other source. In addition to their obvious value to genealogists, the census schedules are important for historians and social scientists. For example, they are valuable for historians interested in westward expansion, the status of free and slave African Americans, regional and local history, immigration and so on.
The schedules for 1790-1840 show the names of enumerated heads of families only, with other members of the family being simply tallied by age groups, sex and race. All subsequent enumerations list each individual in a household by name. The 1850 census was the first to record by name. The 1850 census was the first to record each person's age, occupation if over age 15, and place of birth. The 1870 schedule indicates if the parents of a person were of foreign birth. The 1880 census lists the relationship of each individual to the head of the family. Indexes are available for the 1800-1850 censuses (Microforms HA605.P45). A soundex index is available for 1880. The 1880 soundex index lists only those households including a child age 10 or under. Indexes are not available for 1860-1870.
Subjects: Pennsylvania; Census (1800); Census (1810); Census (1820); Census (1830); Census (1840); Census (1850); Census (1860); Census (1870); Census (1880); Population; Genealogy
United States. Census Office. 10th census. 1880. Manufactures : Pennsylvania. Washington D.C.
Call number: Microfilm D176Guide: No guide available
Note: 5 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: United States census records of manufactures in Pennsylvania for the year ending May 31, 1880. Manufactures censuses list products of industry by county and include the name of the individual or company, product or business, capital investment in real and personal estate in the business, raw material use, kind of motive power, number employed, and wages (separate list for male and female), and the quanities, kind, and value of the annual product.
Subjects: Pennsylvania (19th Century); Manufactures; Industries; Census (1880); Genealogy
United States. Census Office. 10th census. 1880. Mortality : Pennsylvania. Washington D.C.
Call number: Microfilm D177Guide: No guide available
Note: 4 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: United States census records of mortality in Pennsylvania for the year ending May 31, 1880.
Subjects: Pennsylania (19th Century); Census (1880); Genealogy
United States. Census Office. 7th census. 1850. Manufactures : Pennsylvania. Washington D.C.
Call number: Microfilm D170Guide: No guide available
Note: 2 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: United States census records of manufactures in Pennsylvania for the year ending June 1, 1850. No records are filmed for Pike or York counties.
Subjects: Pennsylvania (19th Century); Manufactures; Census (1850); Genealogy
United States. Census Office. 7th census. 1850. Mortality: Pennsylvania. Washington D.C.
Call number: Microfilm D171Guide: No guide available
Note: 2 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: United States census records of mortality in Pennsylvania for the year ending June 1, 1850.
Subjects: Pennsylvania (19th Century); Census (1850); Genealogy
United States. Census Office. 8th census. 1860. Manufactures : Pennsylvania. Washington D.C.
Call number: Microfilm D172Guide: No guide available
Note: 2 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: United States census records of manufactures in Pennsylvania for the year ending June 1, 1860.
Subjects: Pennsylvania (19th Century); Manufactures; Census (1860); Genealogy
United States. Census Office. 8th census. 1860. Mortality : Pennsylvania. Washington D.C.
Call number: Microfilm D173Guide: No guide available
Note: 2 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: United States census records of mortality in Pennsylvania for the year ending June 1, 1860.
Subjects: Pennsylvania (19th Century); Census (1860); Genealogy
United States. Census Office. 9th census. 1870. Industry : Pennsylvania. Washington D.C.
Call number: Microfilm D174Guide: No guide available
Note: 4 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: United States census records of manufactures in Pennsylvania for the year ending June 1, 1870.
Subjects: Pennsylvania (19th Century); Census (1870); Manufactures; Industries; Genealogy
United States. Census Office. 9th census. 1870. Mortality : Pennsylvania. Washington D.C.
Call number: Microfilm D175Guide: No guide available
Note: 3 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: United States census records of mortality in Pennsylvania for the year ending June 1, 1870.
Subjects: Pennsylvania (19th Century); Census (1870); Genealogy; Population
United States. Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes. Report of the Commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes. Washington D.C., G.P.O, 1893-1920
Call number: Microfilm D317Guide: No guide available
Note: 3 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: This collection includes annual and special reports by the Commissioner, covering the years 1893 to 1920. Some of the key congressional hearings concerning the Five Civilized Tribes are also included. The reports and hearings provide important sources of information on the Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, Seminole, and Cherokee Indians.
Subjects: Five Civilized Tribes; Native Americans (19th Century); Native Americans (20th Century); Government Relations; Indians of North America; Oklahoma; Delaware Indians; Cherokee Indians; Chickasaw Indians; Creek Indians; Seminole Indians; Choctaw Indians
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs. Survey of Conditions of the Indians in the United States. [Arlington, Va. : University Publications of America, 1975]
Call number: Microfilm D266Guide:A Guide to the Survey of Conditions of the Indians in the United States, Reports of the Commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes, Survey of Indian Reservations
Call number: E93.G84
Note: 8 reels 35 mm. microfilm
Description: The collection contains 41 volumes of Hearings held before a subcommittee of the Committee on Indian Affairs United States Senate, 17th-78th Congress from 1928-1943. Native American tribes covered in the hearings include: Sioux, Navaho, Quapaw, Chickasaw, Apache, Pueblo, Ute, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Kickapoo, and Klamath. Agents, scholars, businessmen, politicians, and Indians offered evidence at hearings held throughout the United States. While the Survey was a government publication, it was distributed only for the use of the committee and few complete sets exist in libraries.
Subjects: Native Americans (20th Century); Indian Reservations; Politics and Government (20th Century)
United States. Constitutional Convention. 1787. Records of the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Washington D.C., National Archives, 1971
Call number: Microfilm A194Guide: No guide available
Note: 1 reels 35 mm. microfilm. Original in the National Archives.
Description: The collection contains the official records of the Constitutional Convention, May 14-September 17, 1787; the papers of David Brearley, September 27, 1785-September 12, 1787; the credentials of delegates, 1786-1787, from 'Ratifications of the Constitution,' also known as 'Bankson's journal;' and a single motion in the hand of Elbridge Gerry [July 24, 1787]. The official records consist of four volumes of journals; drafts of the Virginia plan, of the Constitution, and of a letter from the Convention to Congress; and four letters and one enclosed resolution received. They are organized in the order indicated with the incoming correspondence in chronological order. The credentials of delegates are arranged in geographical order from New Hampshire to Georgia.
Subjects: United States Continental Congress; Politics and Government (18th Century); United States History Revolutionary War (1775-1783); Constitutional History; Breasley, David; United States Constitution; Gerry, Elbridge
United States. Continental Congress. Miscellaneous Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789. Washington D.C., National Archives, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1962
Call number: Microfilm A37Guide: Index : The Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789
Call number: J10.A1 1978
Note: 9 reels 35 mm. microfilm. National Archives Microfilm Publication M332
Description: The Miscellaneous Papers, for the most part, include materials not contained in the numbered item series known as the Papers of the Continental Congress (Microfilm A36). They consist of loose papers and volumes relating to foreign, naval, and fiscal affairs, papers relating to specific states, and papers kept by the Office of the Secretary of Congress. Among the papers and originals and copies of dispatches and letters; reports of the Marine Committee; the Marine Committee Letterbook; bonds, receipts, deeds of cession of Western Lands, credentials of delegates to the Continental Congress, and broadsides issued by the Congress.
Subjects: United States Continental Congress; Politics and Government (18th Century)
United States. Continental Congress. Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789. Washington D.C., National Archives, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1959
Call number: Microfilm A36Guide: Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789
Call number: Z1238.U6 1971
Note: 204 reels 35 mm. microfilm. National Archives Microfilm Publication M247
Description: The papers consist of the rough, corrected, and secret journal of the Continental Congress: the letterbooks (containing letters sent) of the Presidents of the Congress and of a few committees, such as the committee on Headquarters and the Committee for Foreign Affairs; transcripts of diplomatic dispatches received from political agents and ministers of the United States; copies of correspondence from Generals Washington, Gates, Greene and Schuyler; and a few supplementary record books containing copies of passports and copies of commissions of foreign ministers and consuls, kept by the Department of Foreign Affairs.
Also included are the reports of committees of Congress; official communications from the states; miscellaneous correspondence addressed mostly to the President of the Congress; letters from the Dutch, French, and Spanish envoys in this country; papers relating to the claims for captured vessels, including some decisions by the admiralty courts of the states; papers relating to the New Hampshire Grants controversy; oaths of allegiance; ships' bond required for letters of marque issued to American privateers; and letters and reports from the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Board of Treasury, the Office of the Superintendent of Finance, the Board of War, the Secretary of War, and the Office of the Postmaster General.
The papers were collected by Charles Thomson, Secretary of the Continental Congress. The collection is supplemented by the Continental Congress' Miscellaneous Papers (Microfilm A37) and its Foreign Letters (Microfilm A38). Indexes to many sections of the papers can be found on the microfilm. The journals are also indexed in Index/Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789 (Documents J10.A34 Index 1976). The rest of the papers and related sets are indexed in Index: The Papers of the Continental Congress (Microforms J10.A1 1978).
Subjects: United States Revolutionary War (1775-1783); Politics and government (18th Century); Constitutional History; United States Continental Congress
United States. Department of State. Dispatches from United States Ministers to Liberia 1863-1906. Washington D.C., National Archives Microfilm Publications, [1972?]
Call number: Microfilm A59Guide: Register at beginning of reel 1
Call number:Microfilm A59 reel 1
Note: 14 reels 35 mm. microfilm. National Archives Microfilm Publication M170
Description: A detailed description of this collection is not available. The contents include correspondence concerned with both domestic and foreign affairs of Liberia. A Register of Documents at the beginning of reel 1 provides a brief abstract and chronological listing of documents included in this microfilm edition. Papers are arranged chronologically.
Subjects: Liberia (19th Century); Liberia (20th Century)
United States. Department of State. Diplomatic and Consular Instructions of the Department of State, 1791-1801. Washington D.C., National Archives, 1945.
Call number: Microfilm A39Guide: Guide on reel 1
Note: 5 reels 35 mm. microfilm. National Archives Microfilm Publication M28
Description: The collection contains record copies of correspondence sent by the Department of State to officials of the United States assigned to foreign service, including diplomatic and consular representatives, special agents, and bearers of dispatches. This collection is a continuation of Foreign Letters of the Continental Congress and the Department of State (Microfilm A38). While some copies of letters from foreign diplomats and rulers and other miscellaneous correspondents are included, the majority of the collection is instructions to United States diplomatic and consular representatives from the Department of State.
The correspondence is arranged chronologically. The first and last letters by the various Secretaries of State are as follows: Thomas Jefferson, January 23, 1791-December 14, 1793; Edmund Randolph, January 10, 1794-August 15, 1795; Timothy Pickering, August 25, 1795-May 9, 1800; Charles Lee, May 14-27, 1800; John Marshall, June 16, 1800-February 26, 1801; Levi Lincoln, March 10-April 25, 1801; James Madison, May 25-September 28, 1801. A detailed description of the correspondence and an index to both the Foreign Letters (Microfilm A38) and this collection appear at the beginning of the first reel. The index lists letters by the name of the diplomatic or consular post held and alphabetically by the name of the person addressed.
Subjects: Foreign Relations (18th Century); Foreign Relations (19th Century); United States History Constitutional Period (1789-1809)
United States. Department of State. Notes from the Liberian Legation in the United States to the Department of State, 1862-1898. Washington D.C., National Archives Microfilm Publications, [1972?]
Call number: Microfilm A58Guide: No guide available
Note: 1 reels 35 mm. microfilm. National Archives Microfilm Publication M807
Description: A detailed description of this collection is not available. The contents are primarily correspondence between Liberian diplomats including President HRW Johnson, and representatives of the United States Department of State. The documents are arranged chronologically. A reel guide is not included.
Subjects: Liberia (19th Century)
United States. Department of State. Records of the Department of State Relating to Internal Affairs of Egypt, 1930-1939. Washington D.C., National Archives, National Records and Archives Service, General Services Administration, 1980
Call number: Microfilm A250Guide: No guide available
Note: 22 reels 35 mm. microfilm. National Archives Microfilm Publication T1251.
Description: This collection contains United States Department of State correspondence, memoranda, newsclippings, and miscellaneous background material from the State Department files. The documents focus primarily upon Egyptian political affairs, including reports on elections, political parties, political refugees, amnesty, revolutions, riots and political conspiracies. During this time period Egypt was ruled under a constitutional monarchy. Independence had been declared from Britain in 1922, yet Great Britain continued to be involved in the daily affairs of the country. Political conflict existed between the Egyptian king, Great Britain, and a popular national political party. A treaty of mutual defense and alliance was signed between Egypt and Great Britain in 1936. In 1937 Egypt joined the League of Nations.
No reel guide is available for this collection. Documents are arranged chronologically. The original documents are located in the Department of State Records, Record Group 59, in the National Archives. See also Records of the Department of State Relating to the Internal Affairs of Egypt, 1910-1929 (Microfilm A249).
Subjects: Egypt; United States Foreign Relations