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Alfred Dexter Morgan diaries, 1864-1866
Collection
Identifier: 1993-006
Content Description
Two autograph volumes of a diary kept by Alfred Dexter Morgan during his service with the 17th Illinois Cavalry Volunteers in 1864 and 1865. Morgan and his company saw duty primarily in Missouri, but was also stationed in Kansas at the end of the war. Missouri experienced some of the most bitter conflict due to sectionalism and protracted guerrilla warfare, and Morgan's diary speaks of the events occuring at that time. Mentioned in the diary are such notarious bushwhackers as Charles...
Dates:
1864 - 1866
Alfred G. Lawson USS Paulding log, 1917-1919
Collection
Identifier: 2010-063
Scope and Contents
A WWI sailor log of Alfred George Lawson on the U. S. S. Paulding from 1917-1919, which describes Lawon's experiences on the U. S. destroyer and his daily activities. The U. S. S. Paulding's primary duty was to escort convoys and protect them from German u-boat attacks. Most of the entries are very brief, merely talking about the weather and whether they were in port or at sea. However, others are much more detailed, particularly in the cases where the U. S. S. Paulding sank a submarine...
Dates:
1917 - 1919
Algernon Swinburne Library, 1865-1964
Collection
Identifier: 1974-008
Content Description
Many volumes of work by Algernon Swinburn are housed in Special Collections. For each Swinburn title the collection includes multiple editions which help trace the publishing history of his work.
To view the catalog, click on the "External Documents" link below, which will take you to the McFarlin book catalog for a list of all the included volumes.
Please note that this is a group of BOOKS and not manuscript materials.
Dates:
1865 - 1964; Record Keeping: 1974
Algot F. Carlson WWI archive, 1918-1924
Collection
Identifier: 2012-068
Scope and Contents
Diary, photographs, artefacts
Dates:
1918 - 1924; Majority of material found within 1918 - 1919
Alice B. Toklas correspondence
Collection
Identifier: 1977-001
Scope and Contents
Consists of 89 handwritten letters and postcards, and 1 telegram to John E. Dobbin, Brion Gysin, and Sir Francis and Frederica Rose. Also included is one typed letter (as secretary to Gertrude Stein) to John Hinsdale Thompson.
Dates:
1933 - 1961
Alice in Wonderland ephemera, 20th century
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 1000-014
Scope and Contents
Paper dolls from the original John Tenniel illustrations
Dates:
20th century
Papers of the Robertson and Worcester families, 1815-1932
Collection
Identifier: 1931-001
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, Creek (Muskogee) tribal materials, scrapbooks, photos, memorabilia and printed matter, pertaining to Samuel Austein Worcester, missionary to the Cherokees, his daughter Anna Eliza Worcester Roberston, his granddaughter Alice Mary Robertson, her father William Schenck Roberson, other members of her family, the reverent Timothy Hill, Robert McGill Loughridge, John Lowrie, James C. Pilling, and Pleasant Porter. Concerns missions, indian education, printing...
Dates:
1815 - 1932
Alice Welford WWI photograph album and military nursing lecture journal, 1911-1918
Collection
Identifier: 2010-064
Scope and Contents
A personal archive of a WWI military nurse stationed in Gibraltar and Malta during the Great War between 1913 - 1918. Captures a unique view of the fighting in the Mediterranean during such battles as the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915 from the perspective of various nursing hospitals in Spain and Malta, but also includes images of soldiers in trenches. 2/3 of the photographs are accompanied by captions including locations, dates, and first or last names of individuals. Included is an image...
Dates:
1911 - 1918
Alton Conrad Rowe WWI-era postcards, 1918-1919
Collection
Identifier: 2009-018
Scope and Contents
Consists of 80 postcards, most of which are written by Corporal Alton Conrad Rowe, Jr. (Co. A, 301st Engineers AEF) to family members and to his fiance; mailed from Camp Devens (Massachusetts) as well as various places in France and Germany such as Paris, Coblenz, and Metz.The black & white, tinted, or full-color, postcards are comprised of photographic reproductions, artist's renderings and 2 actual photograph cards.The postcards are addressed as follows:
8...
Dates:
1918 - 1919
Alvin F. Harlow manuscripts, 1930-1940
Collection
Identifier: 1500-001-18
Scope and Contents
Tomahawk Trails. Typescript and carbon copy typescript drafts of stories for a proposed collection of Indian fighting stories of American pioneer days.
Dates:
1930 - 1940