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WILLIAMS CARTER WICKHAM: 1908 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF A YOUNG MIDSHIPMAN'S EDUCATION IN NAVIGATION AND SEAMANSHIP ABOARD THE USS HARTFORD
UNIDENTIFIED: 1879 - 1885 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A PROMINENT SALEM NEW JERSEY BOARD OF EDUCATION MEMBER AND LEADER AMONG THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS
THE FUTURE MRS. COLONEL THOMAS PARKER: 1860 - 1865 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF AN OBSERVANT AND DEDICATED CAMDEN NEW JERSEY WOMAN AND DIARIST
JOHN OF SEGOVIA: TWO [2] ORIGINAL LATE 16TH CENTURY, EARLY 17TH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT VOLUMES OF THE NOTED CATHOLIC THEOLOGIAN: TRACTATUS DE DEO and TRACTATUS DE SACRAMENTIS - SUPERB IN VELLUM
REV. LEVI SPAULDING: 1846 & 1847 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT STAMPLESS FOLDED LETTERS HANDWRITTEN BY FAMED AMERICAN MISSIONARY BRINGING EDUCATION AND THE GOSPEL OF CHRISTIAN OUTREACH TO THE PEOPLE OF CEYLON
LANCE SGT. G. WEBSTER: 1900 - 1902 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY INTIMATELY DETAILING THE BATTLE SERVICE OF THE LOYAL NORTH LANCASHIRES UP TO AND INCLUDING LORD METHUEN'S BATTLE AT HARTY RIVER
UNIDENTIFIED DOCTOR: 1881 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT TRAVEL DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A KINGSTON ONTARIO DOCTOR MORE INTERESTED IN HOSPITALS THAN HOTELS AND SURGERY MORE THAN STATUARY
UNKNOWN: c1910 - 1920 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT RELIC OF EARLY POLICE WORK BEING A HANDWRITTEN MUG SHOT NOTEBOOK FILLED WITH MURDERERS, ARMED ROBBERS, KIDNAPPERS AND ESCAPED FELONS AND MUCH MORE
ROSE and SALEEM N. SABA: 1921 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF EMIGREES TO TORONTO CANADA WHO RETURN OF THE NEWLY ESTABLISHED COUNTRY OF SYRIA
PIERRE W. GOLAY et al: 1938 - 1950 ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH ALBUM AND RELIC OF SWISS NEUTRALITY DURING WORLD WAR II AS ONE STUDENT VORACIOUSLY COLLECTS AUTOGRAPHS INCLUDING MONTGOMERY, GUISAN AND DOLLFUS
PAUL VON HINDENBURG et al: 1896 - 1920 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF MANUSCRIPT POSTCARDS, LETTERS, PHOTOS AND EPHEMERA TO AND FROM ONE OF GERMANY'S PRE EMINENT FAMILIES AND THE MAN WHO SINGLEHANDEDLY GAVE HITLER THE REINS OF POWER AND THEREBY PUT GERMANY ON THE ROAD TO WORLD WAR II
UNIDENTIFIED: 1945 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT AND PHOTOGRAPHIC DIARY AND 'HOMAGE' TO HITLER'S MANIPULATION OF YOUNG GERMAN GIRLS IN THE BUND DEUTSCHE MADEL - BDM
MARY TURNER: 1942 - 1943 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LECTURE NOTES, STUDY MATERIALS, ESSAYS, EXAM QUESTIONS AND TRANSLATIONS OF ANGLO-SAXON LITERATURE INCLUDING J.R.R. TOLKEIN'S LECTURES ON BEOWULF, CAEDMON AND THE WANDERER AND MUCH MORE
MARTHA HERNDEGGER, HERTA KALB, E. BAUER et al: 1945 ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM AND MANUSCRIPT MEMORY BOOK HANDWRITTEN BY ONE YOUNG WOMAN'S REICHSARBEITSDIENST - RAD - REICH WORKERS SERVICE SISTERS ON HER DEPARTURE
RENTZEL [?]: 1914 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN 'STATEMENT' OF DEATH FOR A GERMAN CAPTAIN AND EARLY CASUALTY AND GREAT LOSS TO THE IMPERIAL PRUSSIAN RESERVE INFANTRY BATTALION
SGT. ARTHUR J. HANTSCHEL: 1918 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT WORLD WAR I DIARY INTIMATELY DETAILING ONE WISCONSIN SERGEANT'S SERVICE DUTY TO HIS FAIRY PRINCESS BACK HOME
UNIDENTIFIED: 1893 - 1898 ORIGINAL MASSIVE MANUSCRIPT LEDGER OF EVERY POSSIBLE MEDICAL PROBLEM AND PERIL AS SHIPS FROM AROUND THE WORLD ARE INSPECTED BY THE MERSEYSIDE PORTS MEDICAL OFFICER
UNIDENTIFIED: 1942 - 1946 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT WORLD WAR II TORONTO HOME FRONT DIARY OF A WEALTHY WASP MATRON DEDICATED TO WORK AT THE RED CROSS IN SUPPORT OF THE WAR EFFORT
SAMPSON, LOUISA HOLDSWORTH: 1920 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF NOTED ABSTRACT ARTIST ROGER HILTON'S MOTHER
ELLENBERG, REVEREND JULIAN S: 1938 - 1940 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOKS ON CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY AND RELIGIOUS STUDY HANDWRITTEN BY NOTED IOWA THEOLOGIAN
THEODORE STEWART: 1913 - 1923 ARCHIVE OF ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARIES AND WORK JOURNALS OF A POPULAR FARMINGTON MAINE ARCHITECT AND CARPENTER
Multiple Authors: 1941 - 1942 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY AND JOURNAL OF BUND DEUTSCHER MADEL [BdM] CAMP MEMORIES, ACTIVITIES AND THOUGHTS HANDWRITTEN BY THE CREAM OF GERMANY'S YOUNG WOMEN WHO ARE SERVANTS OF THE NAZI REGIME AND THE THIRD REICH
CECILIA RUTH STEVENSON and CHARLES A.WARD: c1940 ANNOTATED COPY OF 'ORACLES OF NOSTRADAMUS' WITH HANDWRITTEN AND TYPED NOTES BY FAMED OCCULTIST AND SPIRITUALIST AND DISCIPLE OF THE ENIGMATIC PRINCE RAKOCKZY, COMTE DE ST. GERMAIN
DR. and MRS. H.J. MINTHORN: 1896 - 1897 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF SIX [6] MANUSCRIPT LETTERS HANDWRITTEN BY MISSIONARIES TO ALASKA AND RELATIVES OF PRESIDENT HERBERT HOOVER
UNKNOWN: 1849 - 1850 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A REBEL AND PARTICIPANT IN THE REVOLUTION OF BADEN DETAILING HIS PARTICIPATION, ARREST, INTERROGATION AND IMPRISONMENT
SARAH HOWE: c1840s ARCHIVE OF HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE, DOCUMENTS, AND EPHEMERA OF THE AMERICAN WIFE OF THE FRENCH VICE CONSUL
CURE FRANCOISE ADAM et al: 1656 ANCIENT HAND WRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT WITH FIVE (5) BOLD SIGNATURES MOST NOTABLY THE PASTOR OF THE CHURCH OF MAGNY
EDITH LONG and SADIE LONG: 1880s THROUGH 1910s SCRAPBOOK HOMAGE TO THE LIFE AND TIMES OF TWO DEDICATED SOUTH DAKOTA SISTERS AND THEIR LOVE FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA
KENNETH E. CROSS, Delaware Steel and Ordnance Company: 1927 ORIGINAL CONTRACTOR'S LOG BOOK AND JOURNAL OF THE DECOMMISSIONING AND REMOVAL OF WORLD WAR I MUNITIONS FROM THE CURTIS BAY ORDNANCE DEPOT AND THE RARITAN ARSENAL
UNIDENTIFIED: 1917 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER DETAILING GERMAN SUBMARINE ATTACK OFF SICILY IN THE IONIAN SEA
BOWDITCH/PAUL F. SMITH Ph.D: AMERICAN PRACTICAL NAVIGATOR WITH HANDWRITTEN NOTES OF A FUTURE PROFESSOR EMERITUS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS
HENRY CABOT LODGE, SCHUYLER COLFAX, JOHN HAY, CHARLES ELIOT, FRANCIS PARKMAN, HENRY ADAMS et al: 1861 - 1896 LARGE ARCHIVE OF ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH LETTERS [76] SIGNED [ALS], HISTORICAL CIVIL WAR DOCUMENTS AND EPHEMERA SENT TO FRANCIS AMASA WALKER NOTED CIVIL WAR GENERAL, YALE ECONOMIST AND PRESIDENT OF THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY [MIT]
SHIRLEY COOPER: 1952 ORIGINAL AMERICAN HISTORY SCHOOL PROJECT SCRAPBOOK DETAILING THE EISENHOWER STEVENSON 1952 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
A. GULHNER: 1861 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT RELIC OF MID 19TH CENTURY GERMAN MILITARY ARTILLERY AND GUNNERY SKILL AND TECHNIQUE
[HENRY MORTON STANLEY]: 1890s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT NOTES ON A LECTURE BY THE RENOWNED AFRICAN EXPLORER DETAILING THE EMIN PASHA RELIEF EXPEDITION
LT. COLONEL GEORGE A. WIECZOREK: 1921 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY AND JOURNAL OF THE 'SCHOOL OF THE LINE' HANDWRITTEN BY A DISTINGUISHED WORLD WAR I SOLDIER AND AUTHOR
DR. HARRY H. BAKER: 1910 - 1911 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF TWO [2] MANUSCRIPT DIARIES DETAILING THE LIFE AND ILLNESS OF A BROOKLYN DOCTOR FROM DIAGNOSIS TO DEATH
UNIDENTIFIED: 1915 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A NEW YORK CITY FIREMAN AND HIS SOMETIMES UNEASY RELATIONSHIP WITH THE DEPARTMENT
VICE ADMIRAL HANS ALFRED NYHOLM: 1939 - 1940 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY AND NOTEBOOK OF DENMARK'S MOST NOTED AND DECORATED HEROES OF WORLD WAR II AND THE RESISTANCE TO THE GERMAN OCCUPATION OF DENMARK
GEORGE CRAWFORD MURRAY, LAVINIA MURRAY, JAMES M. HOAGLAND et al: 1830s - 1870s ORIGINAL MASSIVE ARCHIVE OF MANUSCRIPT DIARIES [50] AND HANDWRITTEN LETTERS [65+] DETAILING THE LIFE AND LOVES AND RELIGIOUS DEVOTIONS OF NEW JERSEY AND NEW YORK CITY COUSINS
COGSWELL, MRS. GRACE PHILLIPS: 1917 - 1926 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARIES OF AN EXCEPTIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SERVING HER COUNTRY DURING WORLD WAR I AS A FOREIGN SERVICE AGENT AND THEN AN OPERATIVE FOR THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY [CIA] WHILE HER HUSBAND SAILED WITH THE PACIFIC FLEET
CAPTAIN FRANCIS COGSWELL, USN: 1919 - 1923 ORIGINAL POST WORLD WAR I MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY MUCH NOTED AND DECORATED COMMANDER OF THE USS CHANDLER AND HUSBAND OF AN AMERICAN SPY
CHARLOTTE TUFTS: c1960s - 1980s REFERENCE LIBRARIAN'S MASSIVE SCRAPBOOK HOMAGE AND TRIBUTE TO THE QUEEN OF MYSTERY WRITERS: AGATHA CHRISTIE
WILLIAM PENNINGTON COCKS, RICHARD Q. COUCH, JONATHON COUCH: 1838 A CORNISH FAUNA BEING A COMPENDIUM OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE COUNTY - INCLUDING IMPORTANT AND SIGNIFICANT MANUSCRIPT ADDITIONS AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE NOTED NATURALIST WILLIAM PENNINGTON COCKS
MRS. HOLMES: 1900s ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF MANUSCRIPT LETTERS FROM A MOTHER TO HER 'LITTLE GIRL' MARRIED TO ONE OF AMERICA'S MOST PROMINENT FAMILY OF RAILROAD TYCOONS AND INDUSTRIALISTS
ALFRED FREDERICK BELL WOODHOUSE, COMMANDER ROYAL NAVY: 1911 + 1914 - 1915 SUPERB ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A KEENLY OBSERVANT AND DEDICATED DIARIST OF THIS BRITISH NAVAL COMMANDER'S SERVICE IN THE EARLY YEARS OF WORLD WAR I
OSCAR S. TEALE: HIGHER MAGIC - MAGIC FOR THE ARTIST - SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR
JANET HAGAN: 1941 - 1946 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY AN ENGAGING YOUNG MACON GEORGIA GIRL BECOMING A YOUNG WOMAN AND A YOUNG MOTHER WITH THE BACKDROP OF WORLD WAR II
MARY ELIZABETH KENDALL: 1933 - 1968 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF SEVEN [7] MANUSCRIPT DIARIES AND EPHEMERA DETAILING THE EVOLUTION OF A VERY YOUNG 'COWBOY CRAZY' MINNESOTA GIRL TO A MIDDLE AGED WOMAN
M.B. SAFFORD: 1892 GROUP OF TWO [2] ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTERS HANDWRITTEN BY A DEDICATED, DESCRIPTIVE SURVEYOR OF THE US COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY TEAM IN MARTHA'S VINEYARD TO FAMILY BACK HOME
UNIDENTIFIED: 1911 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY AN ENTREPENEURIAL TOBACCO FARMER AND MEDICINE SHOW WAGON OWNER
UNIDENTIFIED: 1865 ORIGINAL CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION ERA DIARY DETAILING A NEW YORK MAN'S TRIP TO GEORGIA TO BUY COTTON AND FINDS DOUBLE-DEALING PARTNERS
E. Hulbert and P.L. Smith: Churches and Views of Stroud and Neighborhood - WITH HANDWRITTEN NOTES BY LOCAL HISTORIANS
CLAUDIUS CORNELOUP: 1934 - 1942 EXTRAORDINARY ARCHIVE OF THREE [3] ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS HANDWRITTEN BY NOTED AND NOTORIOUS CANADIAN SOLDIER AND QUEBEC AUTHOR: 1934 JUDAS ISCARIOTE, 1935 LA SULTANE DE L' ATLAS, 1942 LE CANTIQUE DE L' ERABLE
LIEUTENANT N.H.V. BROWN, Department of National Defense: 1941 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A DEDICATED CANADIAN JUNIOR OFFICER DEDICATED TO CANADA'S NATIONAL DEFENSE
ERNEST WALKER BROWN Jr: 1934 - 1937 TWO [2] ORIGINAL SCRAPBOOKS, DIARIES AND MANUSCRIPT TRIBUTES TO HIS LIFE AND TIMES AT WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY PLUS CONFEDERATE FUN AND GAMES AT THE VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE
LIEUTENANT COLONEL PARKINS HEARLE: 1875 - 1914 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL AND VADE MECUM HANDWRITTEN BY A LIEUTENANT COLONEL OF THE BRITISH ROYAL MARINES
ALBERT E. GEORGE: 1914 - 1918 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY AND JOURNAL OF A RELIGIOUS MASSACHUSETTS MAN DETAILING THE BAD ECONOMY, SPIRITUAL MATTERS, SOCIETAL CONDITIONS AND SUFFRAGE EFFORTS WITHIN HIS CHURCH
JOHN EDWARD RANES: 1942 - 1944 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY AND SERVICE RECORD OF ONE YOUNG IOWA MAN'S DECORATED BUT UP AND DOWN CAREER AS AN AIR GUNNER AND BOMBER
LUTHER DOUGLAS and CHARLES EVERETT DOUGLAS: 1855 - 1862 ORIGINAL SCRAPBOOK AND DIARY OF WORK, PURCHASES, FINANCE AND PERSONAL INTERESTS OF A SAGAMORE - PLYMOUTH MASSACHUSETTS FATHER AND SON
SHERBURNE M. GRAHAM: 1886 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A YOUNG NEW JERSEY WOMAN WHOSE LIFE BOTH AT WORK AND HOME MAKE FOR A 19TH CENTURY SOAP OPERA
HILLIARD LESLIE et al: 1933 ORIGINAL CHARMING SASKATCHEWAN DEPRESSION ERA AUTOGRAPH ALBUM AND MEMORY BOOK
C.S. FORESTER: THE HAPPY RETURN aka BEAT TO QUARTERS
BRODY, SIDNEY IRVING: 1932, 1934 and 1935 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF MANUSCRIPT DIARIES INTIMATELY REVEALING THE EARLY FORMATIVE HIGH SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY YEARS OF A JEWISH BOY WHO WILL BECOME A HEROIC MAN OF MANY FIRSTS: NAVAL CAPTAIN, FLIGHT SURGEON, TEST PILOT AND MUCH MORE
UNIDENTIFIED: 1966 - 1972 ORIGINAL COMMUNIST CADRE'S HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARY AND JOURNAL DETAILING THE BEGINNING, MIDDLE AND END OF MAO ZEDONG'S CULTURAL REVOLUTION FOR ONE CHINESE VILLAGE
UNIDENTIFIED: 1966 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF THE BEGINNING OF MAO ZEDONG'S CULTURAL REVOLUTION HANDWRITTEN BY A UNIVERSITY STUDENT AND DEDICATED DIARIST DETAILING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MOVEMENT
UNIDENTIFIED: 1966 - 1969 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY ONE MILITARY OFFICER IN THE SERVICE OF MAO ZEDONG IMPLEMENTING THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION
Zhang Guang: 1960s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT RELIC OF MAO ZEDONG'S GREAT PROLETARIAN CULTURAL REVOLUTION HANDWRITTEN BY A CADRE DIRECTOR FORCED TO CONFESS TO HIS CAPITALIST SINS AND ANTI-SOCIALIST REVOLUTIONARY ACTIVITIES
WANG JIYAO: 1950s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT ARCHIVE OF CHINESE DOCUMENTS DETAILING ONE TEACHER'S CONTRIBUTION TO CHINESE POLICY AND THEN HIS REQUIRED CONFESSION AND APOLOGY ALL HIGHLIGHTING THE SCHIZOPHRENIC NATURE OF MID 20TH CENTURY CHINESE POLICY AND POLITICS
GORDON E. HAYES: 1907 and 1942 ORIGINAL UNIQUE ARCHIVE OF TWO [2] MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY AN 18 YEAR OLD BOY AND THE 53 YEAR OLD MAN HE BECAME
WILLIAM WINE [?]: 1750 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT SEAMAN'S 420pp+ HANDWRITTEN VADE MECUM AND REFERENCE MANUAL FILLED WITH CHARTS, ILLUSTRATIONS, TABLES AND HUNDREDS OF PAGES OF DETAILED INFORMATION FOR CIRCUMNAVIGATING THE OCEANS OF THE WORLD
DICKINSON, ERNEST R: 1915 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG MASSACHUSETTS LUMBER MAN, FARMER AND TEAMSTER LIVING ON THE MOHAWK TRAIL
ERNEST WALKER BROWN Jr: 1932 - 1933 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT SCRAPBOOK AND DIARY OF A KENTUCKY HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT DETAILING THE ROTC HIGH SCHOOL EXPERIENCE
UNIDENTIFIED WEST TEXAS BORDER PATROL AGENT: 1946 - 1951 ORIGINAL PAIR [2] OF MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY A WEST TEXAS BORDER PATROL AGENT
UNIDENTIFIED: 1892 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A NORTH ADAMS AREA MASSACHUSETTS MAN WHO DETAILS THE POLITICS, BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND THE MANY MANY DEATHS THAT OCCUR ALMOST DAILY