Box GTM Shared Box 20 (Oversized)

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Hartley Rowe papers document the life and works of Hartley Rowe, an American electrical engineer who worked for the Isthmian Canal Commission and the Panama Railroad Company in the early 20th century. The collection is organized into three series as detailed below.Series 1: Correspondence. More than 200 autograph letters from Hartley Rowe to his future wife Inez Oswald. The first set of letters was written by Rowe from Purdue University. Subsequently, in a large number of...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: An assortment of documents collected by John L. Cecil. The collection includes the following:Legal document on vellum, England, 2 September 1628. A conveyance of lands in the country of York from Emanuel, Earl of Sunderland and Baron Bolton, to four yeoman of the said country in return for a sum in excess of 2,500 pounds. With remnant of original seal.10 manuscript antiphonal leaves on vellum, 14 inches by 20 inches each. Possibly of Spanish origin and dating from the...

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Contains large poster partially printed, partially autographed: "Graham Greene's First Play - Picture Post."

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Pages of the following newspapers relating to World War I: The New York Herald (19 August 1914), The Times (14 August 1914), The Daily Mail (5, 8, and 11 August 1914), and "Le Matin" (5 August 1914). Also includes an issue of Le Miroir (7 February 1915).

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English broadside published by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee.

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The series contains an assortment of graphic materials, including posters, calendars, printed ephemera, maps, and textiles (tshirts, one hat, and one banner). These materials were produced during the Soviet–Afghan War, the Afghan Civil War, and the post-2001 U.S. invasion period.

The materials feature several notable political and military leaders, such as Burhanuddin Rabbani, Osama Bin Laden, and Hamid Karzai.

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Miscellaneous documents in Arabic script, late 18th to mid 19th century. A few show notes or calculations, but many contain repetitive text and a significant portion contain illustrated charts of national flags and other maritime signaling intelligence. These manuscripts were originally described as part of the Nicholas Cleary Collection, now separated, sometime before 1970.