Content Description

Collection consists of materials relating to the Brent, Carroll and Chilton families of Maryland and the District of Columbia, dating from late 17th to early 20th centuries, but primarily from the 19th century.

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Content Description

Contains material related to The Big Hunt held in 2006 and 2009. Includes an ad for the 2006 event in The Hoya and game books from both 2006 and 2009 that have been filled out. Also includes programs for New Student Orientation and Parent and Family Orientation from Spring 2020.

Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Graham Greene Papers Part 2 consists mainly of original correspondence and manuscripts. The collection also contains Greene's appointment diaries and two audio recordings. The correspondence includes a series of letters written by prominent authors in response to Greene's proposal of a mass resignation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in response to the war in Vietnam. The letters often contain the authors' views on the war and the opposition to it. Some of the authors...

Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Robert S. Chilton, Jr. Papers are a collection of 300 letters, dated mostly between 1897 and 1901, written by Robert S. Chilton, Jr., chief of the U.S. Consular Bureau of the State Department from 1895 until 1905. Chilton wrote eight of the letters, and 292 letters were written to him. Amounting to one box of material (0.5 linear feet), the letters shed light on the issues facing the U.S. consular service at the turn of the twentieth century, when America was in the midst of acquiring an...

Scope and Contents Contains clippings, some of articles by University Librarian Phillips Temple, on library collections, acquisitions, and events. Reference is made to the gift of the Hunt Collection in 1953 and to "revamping" the structure of the Library in a "Hoya" article of 10/16/1954. This reports that the Randall Reading Room is to be devoted exclusively to reference books, periodicals and the card catalog and that the Shandelle Reading Room is to serve as the circulation area. Other articles focus on...

Scope and Contents Contains photographs, programs, and posters relating to performances of the Mask and Bauble Society. Among those pictured are Laura Bigman, Paul Moser, Danny Pepitone, Janet Pittinger, Nancy Shultis, Gus Kaikkonen, Richard Blackburn, Jim Illig, Wiiliam Cook, Michael Malloy, Charles Raubicheck, Kathy Martin, Rod Ferrone, Mary Wrasman, Patrick J. McMahon, Nelson C. Smith, Holly Lane, Mary Anne Gardner, Trish Johnson, Carlos Correa, Nancy Langston, and Fran Quigley. Productions featured...

Scope and Contents Authors. 1119. U.S. Playing Card Co., Cinicinnati, U.S.A. Copyright, 1897. Authors represented include Will Carlton, Eugene Field, William Cullen Bryant, Charles Reade, Robert Browning, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Buchanan Read, J. Feinmore Cooper, Robert Burns, Oliver Goldsmith, William Dean Howells, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Wordsworth, Thomas Moore, John Keats, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Louis Blafour Stevenson, William Mkaepeace Thackeray, Alexander Pope, Helen Hunt Jackson,...

Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Huie, Reid and Company Collection consists of two series as described below: Series 1. Order Requests - Alphabetical (Folders 1-47) Consisting of 47 folders, this series contains 53 order requests received by Huie, Reid and Company from various individuals, including some members of prominent Virginia families. The orders are arranged alphabetically by customer. The individuals requested a relatively wide variety of goods, such as tobacco, sugar, salt, shoes, and linen. Series 2. Leaves...

Scope and Contents The Alexander Ward Papers comprise fifteen autograph diaries of Alexander Ward from 1870 to 1889. The diaries begin while Ward is eighteen and trace his development from a wealthy youth working part-time in a factory to a wealthy land owner doing local magistracy work. The diaries offer us an interesting perspective on the day to day life of a country squire during his early years before his marriage in 1895. The entries are written in a "matter-of-fact" style, often with little commentary....

Scope and contents note Terry Ramsaye (1885 - 1954), former editor of the Motion Picture Herald and author of A Million and One Nights, an early history of the motion picture industry, was a prolific writer and respected film historian. His papers, comprising 5 boxes (6.75 linear feet), are arranged in six series: a Dope File Series, Individual Series, Subject Series, Manuscripts Series, Photographic Series, and Personal Series.Items of interest indexed in Terry Ramsaye's papers are a TLS by Wm. Kennedy...

Scope and Contents One third of this unique collection consists of correspondence received by Ms. Burnham from people from all over the United States, as well as England and South Africa, who have read her article and books on angels. Almost every letter includes an account (if not more) of some first-hand experience with paranormal phenomena. The collection includes the copious research notes and information files accummulated by the author on the subjects of angels and various paranormal phenomena....

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This processed segment of the America Magazine Archives currently consists of 68 boxes and is comprised of 39 series, the contents of the latter being found in the series description.

The remainder of the collection is currently unprocessed.

Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

This series contains five letters written by Violet Hunt to Graham Greene.

Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

This series contains five letters written by Violet Hunt to Graham Greene.

Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

This series contains five letters written by Violet Hunt to Graham Greene.

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Correspondence received by JPJM mainly in response to requests by JPJM for autographs and photographs of notable artists, writers and composers of the 1930's, 40's and 50's.

Collection-level Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The E. E. Libbey Papers are comprised of 3.0 linear feet of materials, including correspondence, receipts, and order forms documenting business conducted by E. E. Libbey, a dealer in pulpwood, cedar posts, white birch, and hemlock bark in Pittsfield, Maine. These records, spanning the years 1900 to 1912, provide a glimpse into Maine's bustling turn-of-the century timber and pulpwood industries. Libbey bought and sold various types of wood. His correspondents included individuals from all...

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Contains the transcripts for the interviews conducted by Colin Campbell with officials from the British government.

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Photographs. Arranged alphabetically by individual.

Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

This series contains five letters written by Violet Hunt to Graham Greene.