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Materials for history printed from original manuscripts. With notes and illustrations

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    Manuscripts, notes, photographs and printed material

    Manuscripts

    The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, clippings, photographs, brief biographies and receipts. The correspondence is by far the largest component of the collection and contains both items written by, and items addressed to, Kate Rennie Archer. Included in the correspondence are two letters signed by the secretary of Madame Chiang Kai-shek and a single letter signed by the secretary to Queen Mary, wife of George V of Great Britain. All of the manuscripts in the collection are poems by Archer, and the remaining materials are items that were collected by Archer or that pertain to her life and interests. Issues addressed within the collection include Archer's writing as well as the work of other contemporary writers. Correspondents include Julia Cooley Altrocchi, Anne Archer, Douglas Archer, Sr., Douglas Archer, Jr., Jessica Pryce Arthur, Avonne Ballin, Grace Douglas Burlingame, Harry Edwards, Helen N. Faulkner, Jessamine S. Fishback, Adam L. Gowans, Ina Defoe Greathead, Dora Hagemeyer, Herbert Hoover, Cullen Jones, Florence R. Keene, Sarah Hammond Kelly, Frona Lane, Arthur L. Price, Jean C. Reade, Hattie Hecht Sloss, Sarah Wingate Taylor, Jennette Yeatman and Virginia Youngreen.

    mssArcher

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    9. Manuscript notes, drawings, and printed materials

    Manuscripts

    mssNicholson papers and addenda

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    Manuscript and printed material

    Manuscripts

    The papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, documents, ephemera, and printed material related to the FNCB, NCB and local ballet companies; the papers also include sheet music and original music scores, ballet production files and photographs for the FNCB and NCB. The papers are especially strong as a visual record with a large number of photographs, publicity material, costume sketches, and printed posters.

    mssHM 68942-69272

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    Miscellaneous Manuscripts and Printed Material

    Manuscripts

    The Christen papers consist of papers and photographs saved by Harvey C. Christen, chronicling his career in management through more than four decades of his service to the Lockheed Corporation, as well as his personal interests in aviation in the twentieth century.

    mssChristenpapers

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    Correspondence, manuscripts and printed material

    Manuscripts

    The collection consists of Louis Pasteur's correspondence, manuscripts, working notes and drawings, notebooks, printed material with his annotations, photographs of Pasteur, as well as photographs related to his work.

    mssPasteurcollection