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Printed plan for completing the Panama Canal by J. Revin, dated April 1891 with two sheets of "improvements" dated November 1891. Revin proposes using inclined planes, instead of locks, to complete the canal. Written in French and includes some technical drawings.

Scope and Contents The collection documents the six-year career of Edward F. Morley, was a sailor in the U.S. Navy serving in the Pacific from 1935 to 1941. It consists of one photograph album and one scrapbook. The album contains 279 photographs, including ships at Pearl Harbor, and other stops in Long Beach, Norfolk Air Station, Panama, Parris Island, San Diego, Washington, Haiti, and Guantanamo, as well as images of friends and family at home. Many of the photographs depict shipboard life,...

Scope and Contents Note The R. Joseph DeSutter Collection of U.S. National Security Documents contains materials related to U.S. national security and arms control from the 1980s to the 1990s. They were collected as part of DeSutter's work in the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations as a national security advisor. DeSutter was a White House expert on the Strategic Defense Initiative and its relation to the ABM Treaty; ongoing arms control negotiations; verification and compliance; national space policy; and...

Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series: Contains hundreds of Ord family photographs. Particularly significant photos are those depicting Edward Otho Cresap Ord, Edward Otho Cresap II, and World War I. Deriving from the files of James Garesche Ord, the World War I photos include a few original photos of American Expeditionary Forces commander John J. Pershing, many original photos of French Field Marshal Ferdinand Foch and American officer Hunter Liggett, some scenes of German soldiers and equipment, and aerial photos of the German...

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The Subject Files Series contains research files generated by Paul Richey during the course of his research on the air war during World War II. Original folder labels have been retained. Original folder order has been retained. This series includes correspondence, notes, manuscripts, and printed materials. The documents in the series date from 1933 to 1974. The series comprises nearly 10 boxes (nearly 4.0 c.f.).

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Topics include the instances of suicides and attempted suicide amongst the veterans of Bravo Company (Parachute Infantry Regiment), the one hundredth anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, World War II planes and the people who keep them flying, and a poll by the Pew Foundation of veterans of the Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria wars. Also includes statistics on the number of deaths by military personnel during military service; both in and out of battle.

Collection-level Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The Fitzhugh Green, Sr., Papers consist of Green's correspondence; diaries and notebooks; manuscripts (autograph and typed) to articles and prospective books; reprints of articles/papers; clippings from newspapers and magazines; and photographs including many negatives of family and a notable set of glass slides showing scenes from his Arctic travels. Most prominent are the series consisting of correspondence, scrapbooks, articles, notebooks and journals belonging to Green about the Crocker...

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Contains correspondence of John Knox with World War I aviators or their relatives. Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.

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Manuscripts of DAL publications.

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Contains over 300 photographs, most showing Parker T. Hart. Some photos date to his service in Brazil, some to his time in Saudi Arabia, and most to his posting in Turkey. Arranged chronologically.

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Correspondence with individuals. Arranged alphabetically.

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Correspondence with individuals. Arranged alphabetically.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Quigley archive is, properly speaking, the photo “morgue” of Quigley Publications, active under various titles since 1915 in motion picture industry trade publishing (Motion Picture Herald, Motion Picture Daily, and others). Primarily an assemblage of publicity photos, the archive is a unique national resource for photographs of motion picture industry people: producers, directors, animators, and their colleagues. Actors and actresses figure less prominently, but are well represented...

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The Individual Authors Series contains correspondence, manuscripts, questionnaires from the Gallery of Living Catholic Authors, photos, publications, and clippings relating to individual authors who were accepted or considered as members of the Gallery of Living Catholic Authors established by Sister Mary Joseph, S.L., in 1932. The series is arranged alphabetically by author. Boxes 1-66.

Collection-level Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The Fitzhugh Green, Sr., Papers consist of Green's correspondence; diaries and notebooks; manuscripts (autograph and typed) to articles and prospective books; reprints of articles/papers; clippings from newspapers and magazines; and photographs including many negatives of family and a notable set of glass slides showing scenes from his Arctic travels. Most prominent are the series consisting of correspondence, scrapbooks, articles, notebooks and journals belonging to Green about the Crocker...

Collection level scope/content note From the Collection: This collection reflects Garthoff’s lifelong interest in the intelligence community and the Cold War. The bulk of the collection is newsprint or copies of news articles, and scholarly articles and copies of books on intelligence topics, frequently with marginalia and comments by Garthoff. While some sources are in Russian, the majority of the collection is in English. The collection is divided into two series, one comprised of intelligence coverage in news sources from 1943 to 2010, and the...