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Karl Bissinger papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0682
Abstract

The papers of American photojournalist, restaurateur, and peace activist Karl Bissinger (1914-2008) encompass nearly seventy years of professional activity. This collection not only provides abundant documentation of Bissinger's careers in photography and social activism, but also offers rich visual resources for the history of photography in post-World War II America.

Dates: 1800, 1935-2008

John C. Brinck autobiographical sketch

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0097
Abstract

This volume contains an autobiographical sketch of John C. Brinck’s childhood in upstate New York, mercantile career in New York City, and travels to the Midwest, covering the period between 1811 and the early 1890s.

Dates: approximately 1893

Journal of Travels Commencing from the Year 1798

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0009
Abstract Richard Champney’s memoir, which he entitled in full "Journal of Travels commencing from the year 1798, through various parts, of England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Spain, Portugal, Canada, United-States of North America, Denmark, Germany, Holland, & the Netherlands. &c. by Richard Champney," was handwritten in four bound volumes and are a polished and edited version of daily journals kept by Richard Champney and his parents. The journals detail Champney's childhood journey from...
Dates: 1827-1828

A holiday in Norway and along the way, 1908, being the journal of a trip by Charles H. Cummings and George G. Clark, as kept by the latter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0012
Abstract

This 1909 bound typescript manuscript was prepared by George G. Clark to commemorate his 1908 trip with Charles H. Cummings. Their travel from New York City to Norway by steamer and rail, along with details of experiences in many European locales along the way, is recounted in this travel narrative.

Dates: 1909

Winthrop Topliff Doolittle, Sr., button collection

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Identifier: MSS 0902
Abstract

Dr. Winthrop Topliff Doolittle, Sr. (1895-1967), was a Milford, Connecticut, dentist and an avid collector of stamps, coins, campaign buttons and related ephemera. His collection contains approximately 200 political campaign buttons, tobacco and advertising pin-back buttons, pins and medals, the bulk of which date between 1892 and 1920.

Dates: 1892-2008; Majority of material found within circa 1892-1920

Eliza Howe Evertson Saltus commonplace book

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Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0065
Abstract

This commonplace book was compiled by Eliza Howe Evertson Saltus in the mid-nineteenth century and passed on to her son Edgar Saltus. The volume contains clippings of poetry, short stories, news, and local events taken from various sources as well as handwritten notes and passages from various works such as Hamlet and the Bible.

Dates: after 1826

Diary of Journey taken for health in 1834 - from Franklin - South to Mount Vernon Virginia, back through Western Maryland Pennsylvania N.Y. Niagara, Canada - Rochester Oswego - then home - from April 21 to August 14th

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Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0028
Abstract This journal chronicles abolitionist Milton M. Fisher’s 1834 journey from his home in Franklin, Massachusetts, to Virginia, and back. The trip, taken for both health reasons and as an information gathering expedition for anti-slavery efforts, took Fisher through numerous northern states, the Mid-Atlantic region (including Maryland and Delaware), and Washington, D.C., to Virginia. Along the way he commented on the various towns, cities, and institutions he visited and recorded conversations...
Dates: 1834 April 21-August 29

Oliver St. John Gogarty letter to Ernest Augustus Boyd

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Identifier: MSS 0099-F0091
Abstract

A submission for the magazine The Smart Set from Irish writer Oliver St. John Gogarty to author Ernest Augustus Boyd.

Dates: 1925 [January] 20

George Hardy letters to Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

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Identifier: MSS 0099-F0922
Abstract

In 1954, British labor activist and Communist organizer George Hardy wrote to his American colleague Elizabeth Gurley Flynn to renew their acquaintance, express support for her testimony at her recent trial, and discuss the labor struggles in the United States and Great Britain.

Dates: 1954

Joseph Hoare Beale journals

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Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0002
Abstract

The Joseph Hoare Beale journals, 1796-1848, consist of nine volumes kept by a world traveler of the late eighteenth to late nineteenth-centuries. Beale, who may have been of Irish origin and served as secretary to Lord Thomas Pitt in Ceylon before traveling to America, recorded weather observations, activities, and expenses in the five "daily weather diaries." He also produced a holograph of Sir Thomas Moore's "Sacred Melodies."

Dates: 1796-1848

Alan Kaufman papers

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Identifier: MSS 0599
Abstract The papers of Alan Kaufman--an American Jewish author, editor, performer, artist, and impresario--include drafts of his memoir Jew Boy, his novel Matches, editorial material related to volumes in his Outlaw Bible series, and the magazine Davka: Jewish Cultural Revolution. There are numerous notebooks with notes, observations, lists, and drafts of poetry and writing, as well as original...
Dates: circa 19th century, 1952-2007; Majority of material found within 1952-2007

Journal of Ella Pultz Kimball

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Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0048
Abstract

This diary was kept by Ella Pultz Kimball from May 8, 1881, to May 31, 1883. The 262 page volume documents the daily social and domestic activities of a wealthy New York City-area family in the early 1880s.

Dates: 1881 May 8-1887 November 2

Black America : story

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Identifier: MSS 0099-F0868B
Abstract

American film writer and producer Lew Lipton worked on the ultimately unproduced story and screenplay for “Black America” from 1935 until his death in 1961. Originally titled “Harlem Cavalcade,” it follows the story of African American life from 1626 to the 1930s.

Dates: approximately 1960-1961

Harlem cavalcade : story and screen play

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Identifier: MSS 0099-F0868A
Abstract

American film writer and producer Lew Lipton worked on the ultimately unproduced story and screenplay for “Harlem Cavalcade” from 1935 until his death in 1961. Retitled “Black America” in later drafts, it follows the story of African American life from 1626 to the 1930s.

Dates: approximately 1935-1961

Living Theatre ephemera collection

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Identifier: MSS 0099-F0827
Abstract

Ephemeral documents (photographs, flyers, posters, announcements, stationery, and programs) which detail performances, readings, recitals and other events sponsored by the Living Theater of New York City.

Dates: 1953-1968

Remember Mauretania : typescript

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Identifier: MSS 0099-F0718
Abstract Computer typescript of Madden's still unpublished playscript in regular form, Remember Mauretania, signed and dated by the author March 6, 2004, on the cover sheet. Performed in 1987 at the Abbey Theatre, where it won the O.Z. Whitehead Award for a new play in 1985. The Irish publisher of an earlier collection of Madden's plays announced there would be a second volume to include this play and The Dosshouse Waltz, but that volume...
Dates: 1985-2004

Diary of George G. Needham

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Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0054
Abstract

This five-volume private diary documents the life of New York City resident George G. Needham, who began the diary at age thirteen and kept it until he was twenty-two, giving a description of the everyday life and physical geography of New York in the mid-nineteenth century.

Dates: 1855 April 19-1864 July 24

Nineteenth-century collecting card album

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Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0085
Abstract

This nineteenth-century album contains approximately 154 illustrated collecting cards depicting various human-built or natural landscapes, places, activities, and wildlife. Many, if not all, of these collecting cards were part of sets produced by Louis Prang & Co. of Boston, Massachussetts.

Dates: approximately 1850-1899

Chris Oakley collection of alternative press

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0471
Abstract

Chris Oakley was a longtime resident of Newark, Delaware, a community organizer and a strong advocate for media democracy. The Chris Oakley collection of alternative press consists of alternative press newspapers, community newsletters, magazines and ephemera related to from local to international communities, women's activism and local writers, as well as some personal papers.

Dates: 1968-1992

Shaemas O'Sheel letters to John and Rae Lindmark

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0691
Abstract

Seven letters from Shaemas O'Sheel to John and Rae Lindmark, dated between 1921 and 1950.

Dates: 1921-1950

Journal of Maria Louise Pool

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0060
Abstract

This diary was kept by writer Maria Louise Pool of Brooklyn, New York, for the year 1873. Entries center predominantly around Pool's domestic and social life, the weather, and her ongoing projects involving the writing of fiction.

Dates: 1873 January 1-December 31

Caesar Rodney letter to Thomas Rodney

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0058
Abstract

Autograph letter from Caesar Rodney to his brother Thomas Rodney. Caesar wrote to his brother from New York, where he was attending the Stamp Act Congress as a member of the Delaware delegation, that he expected he would not be home before the Delaware Assembly, which he was also a member of, ended its session in New Castle because the Congress would "not end in less than eight or ten days."

Dates: 1765 October 7

Swingtime at the Savoy : good time no. 1 : radio transcript

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0936
Abstract

Noble Sissle was the moderator, and Langston Hughes the primary author, of this radio transcript for the debut installment of the National Broadcasting Company program, "Swingtime at the Savoy."

Dates: 1948 July 28

Travel journal through the Mid-Atlantic

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0142
Abstract

This journal of an early twentieth-century woman contains autograph entries describing eating, drinking, sightseeing, and shopping in New York City and several excursions within the Mid-Atlantic region in the 1930s. The entries are accompanied by numerous black and white photographs of locations visited during her trips.

Dates: approximately 1935 May 5-12

Miriam E. Welliver travel diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0172
Abstract

The Miriam E. Welliver travel journal documents this Pennsylvania school teacher's month-long, 5,100 mile automobile trip across 19 states and Canada via handwritten journal entries, black-and-white photographs, postcards, telegrams, plant specimens, pamphlets, and other miscellaneous materials.

Dates: 1934

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