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MRS. ANN [WAITHMAN] RUSCHENBERGER et al: 1826 - 1845 ARCHIVE OF 16 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN STAMPLESS LETTERS OF NAVAL BUSINESS AND VERY INTIMATE PERSONAL LETTERS FROM MOM TO US NAVAL SURGEON AND NOTED AUTHOR WILLIAM WAITHAM RUSCHENBERGER
KATE ????: 1900 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT TRAVEL DIARY AND SOAP OPERA ON THE ATLANTIC OCEAN ABOARD THE SS DERONIAN
AARON GLASSBERG [LATER VOLPE]: 1911 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A RUSSIAN BORN, TORONTO EMIGREE AND ZIONIST 16 YEAR OLD JARVIS COLLEGIATE STUDENT AND FUTURE PATRIARCH OF A FAMILY OF DOCTORS
MARION BUTTERWICK: 1926 - 1930 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF THREE [3] MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY A NOTED ARTIST DURING HER FORMATIVE COLLEGE YEARS
EMMA L. KITCHELL [nee REYNOLDS]: 1863 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT NEW JERSEY CIVIL WAR HOMEFRONT DIARY OF A 29 YR OLD WOMAN HOPING TO BE A BETTER CHRISTIAN IN THE NEW YEAR
GRANT L. JOHNSON: 1919 - 1921 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT RELIC OF OPERA AND BALLET IN POST WAR CHICAGO BEING THE ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT'S HANDWRITTEN PLOT BOOK
SGT. JOHN REED, 316 INFANTRY BAND: 1917 ORIGINAL SENSATIONAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF AN ARMY BAND SERGEANT WHO LOOKS FOR FRIENDS AND FOES ON THE FRONTLINES BETWEEN CONCERTS, A REVOLVER HIS ONLY COMPANION
UNIDENTIFIED: c1930 ORIGINAL PHOTO ALBUM: 105 SUPERB PHOTOS THAT RECORD THE MODERNITY OF TRACKS AND TRAINS AS THEY PASS THROUGH ANCIENT AFRICAN TRIBAL LANDS AND THE PEOPLE OF THE BELGIAN CONGO
MRS. REVEREND EDGAR STANNARD [?]: 1906 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER FROM THE WIFE OF A PERSECUTED BELGIAN CONGO MISSIONARY INVOLVED IN THE NOTORIOUS INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL CONTROVERSY OF CRUELTY AND CANNABILISM: THE COMMANDANT HAGSTROM AFFAIR
A.K. JACOBS: 1862 ORIGINAL INTRIGUING MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A PENNSYLVANIA CIVIL ENGINEER AND SCHOOL TEACHER WHO INSISTS HE IS "INNOCENT OF ALL CHARGES"
UNIDENTIFIED FIREMAN: 1871 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A DEDICATED PENNSYLVANIA FIREMAN AND FIRST RESPONDER TO MANY LOCAL DISASTERS AND CONFLAGRATIONS
PRIVATE RICHARD [BARNEY] R. MATSON: 1942 - 1946 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF HUNDREDS OF MANUSCRIPT LETTERS, EPHEMERA AND TELEGRAMS DETAILING ONE PRIVATE FIRST CLASS' AIR FORCE EXPERIENCE FROM NEW MEXICO TO ALASKA
REVEREND JOHN C. STUFF & ISABELLE GISH [later STUFF]: 1929 - 1931 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARIES [4] HANDWRITTEN BY A DOUBT FILLED SEMINARIAN AND HIS DEVOTED WITHOUT-A-DOUBT FUTURE WIFE
MAE McLOUTH: 1913 - 1940 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY AND JOURNAL OF A YOUNG WOMAN'S TRAGIC STORY OF HER MOTHER'S EARLY DEATH, A FATHER'S LOSS OF LOVE, A TREACHEROUS AUNT AND A CARNIVAL THAT LEADS TO COCAINE AND CRIMINALITY
EDWARD DE MONTULE: TRAVELS IN EGYPT DURING 1818 AND 1819
'AN AMERICAN' [commonly known to be J.S. STEVENS]: INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL IN EGYPT, ARABIA PETRAEA AND THE HOLY LAND
Phebe Anne Hanaford: LUCRETIA THE QUAKERESS or PRINCIPLE TRIUMPHANT
JOHN JAY VIETS: 1863 ORIGINAL CIVIL WAR MANUSCRIPT DIARY AND HANDWRITTEN RELIC OF EAST GRANBY CONNECTICUT BY NOTED LOCAL MERCHANT WITH STRONG CONNECTION TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND CIVIL POLITICS
Mrs. Albert [Anna] Burns [?]: 1912 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A MIDDLE AGED KALAMAZOO WOMAN AND KEEN EYED OBSERVER OF LIFE AND SOMETIMES SAD TIMES AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY PRE WORLD WAR I AMERICA
Di Sileza, Hizkiya: Pri hadash al-Sefer Orakh Hayim ve-Even ha-Ezer
ROBERT WILLIAM ADDISON: 1939 - 1959 ARCHIVE OF ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN LETTERS, PERSONAL PHOTOGRAPHS AND EPHEMERA OF THIS NOTED CHICAGO ILLUSTRATOR AND ARTIST
DANIEL WRIGHT KITTERIDGE: c1905 - 1906 CHARMING ARCHIVE OF ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTERS FROM NOTED AMERICAN NOVELIST TO HIS DEAR FRIEND AND THE ONE DAY WIFE OF DIPLOMAT AND INDUSTRIALIST FAY INGALLS
JOSIAH QUINCY III: 1834 PRINTED PAMPHLET ISSUED BY THE HARVARD FACULTY WITH HANDWRITTEN NOTES BY THE PRESIDENT OF HARVARD REGARDING THE 'INQUISITION OF THE FACULTY'
DR. WILLIAM FROST et al: 1812 - 1813 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF MANUSCRIPT RECIEPTS, DOCUMENTS AND NOTES DETAILING THE IMPORT, EXPORT OF GOODS BETWEEN HAVANA CUBA AND AMERICA DURING THE WAR OF 1812
MRS. HEREWARD CARRINGTON [MARIA ELENE CARRINGTON]: 1977 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF ECLECTIC NOTES AND WRITINGS HANDWRITTEN BY THE WIFE OF RENOWNED INVESTIGATOR OF PSYCHIC PHENOMENA HEREWARD CARRINGTON
LEO EDWIN BROMBERG: 1933 - 1936 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF A FAILED BUSINESS TRIP TO CHINA AND THE FOILED PROSPECTS OF A YOUNG LOS ANGELES ATTORNEY AS HE DESCRIBES THE HELL OF HIS FIRST YEARS IN PRACTICE
Di Cesare, Carlo Antonio: 1744 - 1764 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT VADE MECUM HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG JESUIT SCHOLAR DETAILING HIS LOGIC STUDIES UNDER PROFESSORE GIUSEPPE GUIDONE, HIS FINANCIALS, HIS BOOKS AND HIS NOTES OF HIS RELIGIOUS DEVOTIONS AND DEDICATION
FRITS THAULOW: c1890s ORIGINAL,UNIQUE, MANUSCRIPT AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED [ALS] HANDWRITTEN BY THE NOTED NORWEGIAN POET
EVA M. DAVIS: 1922 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT RELIC OF HANDWRITTEN HISTORY OF WEST POWNAL MAINE
SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE: Blackstone's Commentaries: VOLUME 2 PART 2: WITH HANDWRITTEN NOTES, OBSERVATIONS AND COMMENTS BY TWO NOTED LOYALISTS - WILLIAM WYLLY AND CADWALLADER D. COLDEN
CHRISTOS IKONOMIDIS: 1906 HISTORY OF THE EASTERN CHURCH FROM ANCIENT TIMES HANDWRITTEN OVER 570 PAGES IN A NICE CALLIGRAPHIC HAND
FALAGITIS [?]: 1936 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A YOUNG GREEK AS THE FASCIST REVOLUTION OF METAXAS AND THE GREEK NATIONALISTIC RIGHT ARE ON THE MOVE
HERBERT W. LEECH, Manager Mining Operations: 1919 ARCHIVE OF TWO [2] ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOK AND DIARY OF ARCTIC EXPLORATION AND MARBLE MINING IN THE FAR NORTH OF NORWAY WITH THE THREAT OF BOLSHEVISM LOOMING BY THE MANAGER FOR THE NORTHERN EXPLORATION COMPANY
DR. WILL P. SHERIDAN and MRS MARY W. P. SHERIDAN: 1909, 1910 & 1911 ARCHIVE OF THREE [3] MANUSCRIPT JOURNALS AND DIARIES OF TWO DEDICATED CANADIAN MISSIONARIES BRINGING WESTERN HEALTH CARE AND CHRISTIAN OUTREACH TO THE SICHUAN PROVINCES WITH THE BACK DROP OF SUN YAT-SEN AND THE REVOLUTION
UNIDENTIFIED: c. 1730 - 1750s ORIGINAL 500+ PP MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF ANCIENT MONASTIC [?] ALCHEMY, CHEMISTRY, PHARMACOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL LORE
CROSS, STANLEY THOMAS: 1907 - 1950 AWESOME ARCHIVE OF 35 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY AN INSIDER AT THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS, THE INTERNATIONAL COURTS AND THE UNITED NATIONS WORKING UNDER THE NOTED NORWEGIAN EDVARD HAMBRO
ADMIRAL THOMAS COCHRANE, 10th EARL OF DUNDONALD, a.k.a. LE LOUP DES MERS [THE WOLF OF THE SEA]: 1823 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER HANDWRITTEN BY ONE OF ENGLAND'S GREATEST NAVAL HEROES - THE MODEL FOR HORATIO HORNBLOWER AND 'LUCKY' CAPTAIN JACK AUBREY BUT KNOWN TO THE FRENCH NAVY AS THE 'WOLF OF THE SEAS'
J.J. HALSEY, PROFESSOR [?]: 1883 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT AUTOGRAPH LETTERS [2] SIGNED [ALS] BY A KEEN EYED AMERICAN VISITOR TO ST. JOHN'S NEWFOUNDLAND WHO ADVISES 'I AM DELIGHTED WITH THIS PLACE AS A SUMMER RETREAT'
UNKNOWN CHEMIST [?]: c. LATE 18TH CENTURY RECIPE [RECEIPT] FOR 'THE KING'S EVIL' aka SCROFULA, TUBERCULOSIS
SIR DR. DAVID MOORE LINDSAY: 1899 - 1930s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY, FAMILY HISTORY AND GENEALOGY HANDWRITTEN BY AN ESTEEMED IRISH DOCTOR, WAR HERO, KNIGHT TEMPLAR, EXPLORER, FRIEND OF THE WEALTHY, FAMOUS AND SOMETIME GUEST OF THE KING OF ENGLAND
MRS. CORA WELCH SMITH [MRS. DAVIID STANLEY SMITH] nee Cora Deming Welch: 1923 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT TRAVEL DIARY OF FAMED YALE PROFESSOR OF MUSIC, CONDUCTOR OF THE NEW HAVEN SYMPHONY AND RENOWNED COMPOSER DURING HIS GRAND EUROPEAN TOUR
DELOS A. DENHAM: c1970s - 1980s ARCHIVE OF EPHEMERA RELATIVE TO THE HISTORY, BIBLIOGRAPHY AND TOURNAMENT STATISTICS RECORDED AND KEPT BY A NEAR OBSESSIVE FAN AND PLAYER
T.H. BLUNT: 1899 - 1909 ORIGINAL FRIENDSHIP AND MEMORY ALBUM OWNED BY RENOWNED CHRISTIAN AUTHOR AND MISSIONARY SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY NOTED MISSIONARIES AROUND THE WORLD
Jack Ernest Bridgman, SX3874: 1940 - 1942 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT ARCHIVE OF LETTERS AND EPHEMERA BY AN AUSTRALIAN SIGNALMAN WHO FOUGHT FOR THE LIBERATION OF GREECE AND HIS RECOVERY OF WOUNDS SUFFERED IN SYRIA
UNIDENTIFIED: 1893 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN LETTER BY THE SON OF MISSIONARIES RELATING HIS OBSERVATIONS OF RELATIONS BETWEEN CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS TO AUNT LUELLA BACK HOME
GENERAL EDMUND WINSTON PETTUS' SISTER: 1864 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT CIVIL WAR LETTER HANDWRITTEN BY THE SISTER OF NOTED CONFEDERATE GENERAL AND 3 TIME PRISONER OF WAR WHO WOULD LATER BECOME A US SENATOR
VALENTINO JAY TOLMAN: 1985 - 1986 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF ONE EAGER YOUNG MORMON'S FIRST MISSION TO ROME IN INTIMATE DETAIL
UNIDENTIFIED TRAVELLER: c1807 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT TRAVEL DIARY OF A NEAR OBSESSIVE MAN RECORDING THE STATE OF ENGLAND AND A CENSUS OF HOMEOWNERSHIP AND HOUSING IN EARLY 19TH CENTURY ENGLAND
MRS. MATILDA [nee WIMPFHEIMER] REIGELMAN: 1870s ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF MANUSCRIPT AUTOGRAPH ALBUMS AND FRIENDSHIP BOOKS AND A MEMORY BOOK OF CONGRATULATORY TELEGRAMS TO THE NEWLYWEDS
JACK FLEMING a.k.a. PEAWADI THE MAGICIAN: 1939 - 1947 ORIGINAL SCRAPBOOK AND EPHEMERAL MEMORY BOOK OF A TEENAGE MAGICIAN WHO WORSHIPS HOUDINI AND SCARNE - BOASTING A RARE ORSON WELLES MERCURY WONDER SHOW FOR SERVICE MEN
JACOB F. BLUM, H.B. REED, FRANK P. MUHLENBERG et al: 1864 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF 71 MANUSCRIPT TELEGRAMS WITH ORDERS FROM THE WAR DEARTMENT OF THE UNION INCLUDING THE PROVOST GENERAL, THE SECRETARY OF WAR et al
RICHARD ROUSE BOUGHTON ORLEBAR: 1890 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT TRAVEL DIARY BY A CONTRARY, CRITICAL, XENOPHOBIC ENGLISH MAN
ANTON HUGH SYREE, M.R.C.S., L.S.A: 1893 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF TWO [2] JOURNALS DETAILING LIFE AND DUTIES ABOARD A CABLE LAYING SHIP PLYING THE MEDITERRANEAN
ALFRED WILLIAM LAFONE: 1909 - 1910 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL AND NOTEBOOK OF A YOUNG BRITISH MAN SENT BY HIS FATHER TO SOUTHEAST ASIA TO ANALYZE AND PURCHASE RUBBER AND TEA PLANTATIONS
JAMES C. DOW, ROYAL AIR FORCE: 1944 - 1945 ORIGINAL DIARY AND PHOTO ALBUM OF A 19 YEAR OLD BRITISH MAN TRAINING TO BE A RADIO OPERATOR IN CANADA
MANUEL ANTONIO MATOS: 1873 - 1914 ARCHIVE OF ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE LIBERATION REVOLUTION OF VENEZUELA HANDWRITTEN TO AND FROM ONE OF THE COUNTRY'S GREATEST BANKERS, FINANCIERS, BUSINESSMAN AND GENERAL
UNIDENTIFIED CANADIAN SOLDIER: 1952 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DAY BOOK DIARY OF ONE CANADIAN SOLDIER'S WORK LAYING MINEFIELDS, BUILDING RAFTS AND DODGING MORTARS WITH THE FAMED VANDOOS IN KOREA
N: 1998 - 2005 ORIGINAL DIARIES, SCRAPBOOKS [7] AND RELATED EPHEMERA DETAILING ONE YOUNG WOMAN'S DESCENT INTO DRUG ABUSE, SEXUAL ADDICTION AND OBSESSION AND HER REHABILITATION
DR. and MRS. H.G. KRIBS: 1920s ORIGINAL SCRAPBOOK OF EDUCATIONAL AND CHRISTIAN OUTREACH BY THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN MISSION AS A PENNSYLVANIA DOCTOR OF BIOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY SPENDS 7 YEARS IN INDIA TEACHING
L.E. FARINO, PFC, 4TH P.O.T.C. T-55: 1943 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOK OF DETAILED INFORMATION REGARDING THE STATE OF AMERICA'S AMMUNITIONS, ARMAMENTS AND METHODS OF BOMB MAKING: "MILITARY EXPLOSIVES REFERENCE"
PROFESSOR EDGAR C. KNOWLTON: 1911 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL AND DIARY OF BRILLIANT AND NOTED LINGUIST AND FUTURE PROFESSOR WHILE AN UNDERGRADUATE AT HARVARD
C. TURNER, ROYAL MARINE: 1880 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED [ALS] HANDWRITTEN BY A ROYAL MARINE ABOARD THE THE STORIED HMS LONDON RELATING HIS EXPERIENCES SUPPRESSING THE SLAVE TRADE
Rev. D.M. MACLISE: 1877 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER BY NOTED REVEREND IMPLORING THE SINGER SEWING COMPANY TO HELP PROVIDE A MEANS OF INCOME TO THE DRESSMAKERS AND SEWING GIRLS WHO LOST ALL IN THE MASSIVE FIRE THAT DESTROYED HALF THE CITY SAINT JOHN NEW BRUNSWICK
Dr. Henry Blanchard: c1850s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT ESSAY/SPEECH DETAILING THE THEN UNPOPULAR VIEW OF THE DANGERS OF TOBACCO
UNTEROFFIZIER A. KONIG: 1941 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT AND PHOTGRAPHIC RELIC OF GERMANY'S INVASION OF GREECE DURING WORLD WAR II - ORIGINAL ONE OF A KIND PHOTOS TAKEN BY A GERMAN OFFICER
KARL GRABBLE: 1940 ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM DETAILING ONE YOUNG GERMAN OFFICER'S MEMORIES OF INVADING NORWAY
UNIDENTIFIED: 1939 ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM WITH OVER 150 PHOTOS AND MEMORIES OF ONE GERMAN OFFICER'S PART IN THE INVASION OF POLAND
W. NORWOOD LOWRY: 1929 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT BOOKS [4] BEING THE THESIS ON THE 'LOCATION OF THE ELECTROMOTIVE FORCE IN THE PHOTO-VOLTAIC CELL' BY RENOWNED DOCTOR OF PHYSICS
LIEUTENANT DAVID M. WOERNER: 1944 - 1945 RIVETING ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT FIRST HAND ACCOUNT OF GERMAN ARMY AND THEIR SERBIAN MINION'S BRUTALITY, MURDER AND THE HORRIBLE DEPRIVATIONS METED OUT TO THEIR AMERICAN PRISONERS
GERALDI CAUAILBER: c1600s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LATIN BOOK: LOGICA METAPHISICA et THEOLOGIA NATURALIA ex libris CHATEAU DE POINTIS
CLARENCE LAKEN, GUNNERS MATE FIRST CLASS: 1936 - 1940 ORIGINAL FIVE YEAR MANUSCRIPT DIARY FULLY HANDWRITTEN BY A KEENLY OBSERVANT GUNNERS FIRST MATE
UNKNOWN: 1938 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT TRAVEL JOURNAL AND ACTIVITIES DIARY OF HITLER YOUTH TROOP GEFOLGSCHAFTEN 6/59 AS THEY MARCH FROM STUTTGART TO BADEN BADEN SPREADING THE MESSAGE OF THE THIRD REICH
JAMES CONNELLY, FORREST L. EVANS et al: 1901 ORIGINAL MARITIME MANUSCRIPT DIARY DETAILING THE DESERTION AND DAY TO DAY HARDSHIPS OF THE DESERTERS AND FORMER SAILORS OF THE STORIED USS HARTFORD
KAISER, LOUIS A. USN: 1889 - 1890 ORIGINAL CRUISE JOURNAL, DIARY AND LOG BOOK OF A YOUNG MAN DESTINED TO BE A CAPTAIN AND THE FUTURE ACTING GOVERNOR OF GUAM ON HIS INITIAL US NAVAL ACADEMY VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC STATION ABOARD THE STORIED USS IROQUOIS
WILL A. BRIGGS [WILLIAM ADAMS BRIGGS]: 1870 - 1871 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT TRAVEL AND STUDY DIARY OF A DETERMINED MUSICIAN AND COMPOSER TRAVELING AND STUDYING IN BERLIN GERMANY AT THE HEIGHT OF THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR