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A.S: 1859 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF THE RARE AND UNUSUAL METEOROLOGICAL EVENT KNOWN AS PARHELIA OR SUN DOGS WILLARD N. KNOWLES: 1911 - 1921 and 1926 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF MANUSCRIPT DIARIES [2] AND EPHEMERA INCLUDING PHOTOS OF A CHIEF ENGINEER AND MERCHANT SEAMAN PLYING HIS TRADE ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC W. HENNEY: 1922 & 1923 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARIES OF ACTIVITIES OF A DECKHAND AND DOCK WORKER DELIVERING, PROCESSING, OFF LOADING ALL MANNER OF CARGO INCLUDING 'THE HUDDLED MASSES' POURING INTO AMERICA VIA ELLIS ISLAND AND NEW YORK ALL METICULOUSLY DOCUMENTED
MRS. GEORGE W. BROWN: 1936 - 1937 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT TRAVEL DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY AN UNUSUAL WOMAN DIARIST WHO TAKES UNUSUAL TRIPS BEGINNING WITH A TWO DAY VOYAGE ABOARD THE ZEPPELIN LZ 129 TO BERLIN ENDING AT TIN CAN ISLAND IN NIGERIA AFRICA ALBERT SHAW: 1941 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT TRAVEL DIARY OF A VISIT TO EDUCATOR MARTHA BERRY MERE MONTHS BEFORE HER DEATH AND HANDWRITTEN LITERARY NOTES AND COMMENTS BY A NOTED AUTHOR AND SCHOLAR UNKNOWN: 1950s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT BOOK DETAILING 37 MOSTLY BRITISH CHURCH AND CATHEDRAL PIPE ORGANS
ELLEN FRANCES TOBEY [later WASHBURN]: 1943 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A PORTSMOUTH NAVAL YARD WORKER WHO DETAILS HER WORK AND DUTIES AND HOMEFRONT LIFE AND PROVIDES EPHEMERAL PROOF OF AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM DENNIS E. McFEELY: 1941 ORIGINAL GROUP OF NOTEBOOKS [5] DETAILING THE EDUCATION, PROCEDURES AND PREPARATIONS BY THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION AS THEY TRAINED G-MEN TO COMBAT HITLER'S AGENTS, HOMELAND SPIES, COMMUNIST AGITATORS AND JAPAN'S NEFARIOUS PROPAGANDA MACHINE ROSCOE JOHN, ORVILLE JOHN, LYLE JOHN: 1942 - 1946 ORIGINAL LARGE 230+ ARCHIVE OF HANDWRITTEN LETTERS FROM THREE MONTANA NEPHEWS AND SON WRITING BACK HOME WHILE BRAVELY SERVING THEIR COUNTRY
ENSIGN R.L. ATWELL, USN: 1919 ORIGINAL GROUP OF MANUSCRIPT NOTES, JOURNALS AND DOCUMENTS REGARDING THE EDUCATION OF A YOUNG ENSIGN OF THE UNITED STATES NAVAL RESERVE FORCE IN THE NAVAL ACADEMY AND SUBMARINE SCHOOL UNKNOWN: 1905 CHARMING, ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT TRAVEL DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG SCOTTISH WOMAN DEPARTING LEITH SCOTLAND TO HOLLAND MARGARET MATILDA HARDIE, [MRS ROBERT ALEXANDER HARDIE]: 1925 ORIGINAL UNCOMMON EAST TO WEST MANUSCRIPT TRAVEL DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A NOTED METHODIST MISSIONARY'S WIFE ON A TRIP BACK HOME TO AMERICA WHERE THE WORK OF CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CONTINUES
CHRISTIAN NEWSWANGER [ALSO XTIAN NEWSWANGER]: 1945 ORIGINAL GROUP OF THREE [3] ART BOOKS BY A NOTED ARTIST HAND DRAWN DURING HIS MERCHANT MARINE SERVICE DURING WORLD WAR II MARIO RUBEN COOPER: 1960s ORIGINAL PRE PUBLICATION MANUSCRIPT ART AND LAYOUT BOOK BY RENOWNED MEXICAN-AMERICAN MASTER WATERCOLOURIST B.F. CARR [?]: 1894 - 1900 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT ACCOUNT BOOK AND FINANCIAL DIARY OF THE SECRET FRATERNAL ORDER OF THE ANCIENT ORDER OF THE MYSTIC CHAIN [AOKMC]
For DR. ROY ZACHARIAH THOMAS: 1923 SUPERB, ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT AND PHOTOGRAPHIC RELIC OF EARLY 20TH CENTURY RAILROAD TRAVEL AND TOURING HOSTED BY DR. ROY ZACHARIAH THOMAS UNKNOWN: 1940s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT TRAVEL DIARY THROUGH THE DESERTS AND MOUNTAINS OF NEVADA AND UTAH KALAT, DOROTHY K. [later MRS. WILLIAM E. WIRSCH]: 1934 - 1937 ORIGINAL, CHARMING MANUSCRIPT 5-YEAR DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A 12 YEAR OLD CLEVELAND GIRL-NEXT-DOOR
LT. RAY L. VEKROFF: 1945 ORIGINAL GROUP OF MANUSCRIPT DIARIES AND EPHEMERA DEATAILING ONE MAN'S SERVICE IN THE CRITICAL INDIA-BURMA THEATER AND THEN LATER WHIRLWIND TRAVELS AROUND THE GLOBE WILLIAM E. McKAY: 1893 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG MIDSHIPMAN WHO RECALLS HIS TIME IN MOROCCO DURING THE MELILLA WAR ROBERT J. SCHRIEBER: 1942 - 1945 ORIGINAL GROUP OF FIVE [5] MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG TELL CITY INDIANA WWII FIELD HOSPITAL PHARMACIST
HAROLD E. BENSON: 1915 - 1929 ORIGINAL GROUP OF THREE 5-YEAR MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG STUDIOUS AND PERHAPS OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE VALMONT COLORADO BOY WHO BECOMES A CHARMING MARRIED MAN IRENE NAFZIGER [?]: 1927 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG WOMAN DETAILING HER FIRST YEAR IN THE ST CLOUD, DAVENPORT, KISSSIMMEE PART OF FLORIDA WILLIAM B. STARK: BOOK ON CD: DIGITAL COPY OF ORIGINAL 1862 - 1865 IMPORTANT CIVIL WAR JOURNAL DETAILING THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF THE 34TH MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY REGIMENT VOLUNTEER TO THE STEPS OF APPOMATTOX AND THE SURRENDER OF LEE
UNIDENTIFIED: 1805 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF EARLY NEW YORK STATE LIFE BY A YOUNG SCHOOL AGE MAN JENNAVEVE JOHN [HOWLEY later]: 1910 - 1930 ARCHIVE OF 4 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARIES AND ONE [1] JOURNAL OF A YOUNG ARIZONA GIRL GROWING UP JUST PRIOR TO THE START OF WORLD WAR I PEARSON FAMILY [HANNAH & WARREN]: 1875 - 1905 ARCHIVE OF HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT LETTERS BETWEEN PEARSON FAMILY MEMBERS FROM ALASKA, ARKANSAS AND OHIO TO INDIANA
LEGISLATURE OF KENTUCKY - MULTIPLE SIGNATURES: 1849 ARCHIVE OF FOUR [4] HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE FORMATION OF THE LEESBURG LIGHT ARTILLERY UNIDENTIFIED: 1838 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT LETTER TO THE EDITOR REGARDING THE POOR STATE OF HOME AND POLITICS DURING AND AFTER THE REBELLIONS OF UPPER AND LOWER CANADA JOHN ROWE: 1862 - 1865 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT PRE-CONFEDERATION CANADA WEST 'LETTERS BOOK' DETAILING ONE CANADIAN'S DESIRE TO FIND HIS TRUE LOVE AND FIND ADVENTURE AS A VOLUNTEER IN THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR: BUCHANAN'S 13th BATTALION
HENRY C. CHAUNCEY: 1843 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT LETTER [ALS] REGARDING THE KILLING OF MRS. BACON 'AND THE WRETCHES THEY HAVE CAUGHT' HANDWRITTEN BY A HARVARD MAN TO A WASHINGTON COLLEGE FRIEND AMOS B. GEORGE: 1862 - 1863 SMALL ARCHIVE OF ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN CIVIL WAR LETTERS HANDWRITTEN BY A 48th REGIMENT MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEER GEORGE B. CARLTON: 1861 - 1864 ARCHIVE OF MANUSCRIPT LETTERS HANDWRITTEN BY A 19th REGIMENT OF MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEER TO HIS DEAR FRIEND AND FORMER BOSS DAVID SMITH: SUPER CIVIL WAR CONTENT
E.D. MANDELL, H.W. EMERSON: 1887 ARCHIVE OF THREE [3] MANUSCRIPT LETTERS DETAILING THE WHALING BUSINESS OF CAPTAIN GEORGE FOX BRIGHTMAN BETWEEN NEW ZEALAND AND NEW BEDFORD AND INTELLIGENCE REGARDING HIS COMPETITORS [HEWSTONE] REMY RAYMENTON: 1917 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT TRAVEL DIARY OF A SEASONED TRAVELER TO JAPAN WHO GIVES THE IMPRESSION THAT HE LOVES THE COUNTRY BUT THINKS IT WOULD BE BETTER OFF WITHOUT JAPANESE PEOPLE Multiple Authors: 1836 - 1850 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF MANUSCRIPT LETTERS TO THE PROMINENT PRE CIVIL WAR STEEL FIRM OF WM. JESSOP AND SONS DETAILING THE STATE OF THE STEEL INDUSTRY AND ECONOMY
HIPPOLYTE DE SAINT-ANTHOINE: 1856 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER FROM FRENCH ABOLITIONIST TO ONE OF AMERICA'S MOST NOTED ANTI SLAVERY ACTIVISTS: JOSHUA R. GIDDINGS Multiple Authors: 1920s ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH ALBUM WITH MANY NOTED IRISH POETS, AUTHORS, EDUCATORS AND ARTISTS WITH HANDWRITTEN STORIES, QUOTES AND PERSONAL ANECDOTES AND INSCRIPTIONS ASHBEL STEELE: 1840 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG EPISCOPAL MISSIONARY TO LAFAYETTE INDIANA WRITING TO HIS WIFE
BISHOP HENRY EVINGTON: 1898 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER HANDWRITTEN BY ONE MISSIONARY BISHOP IN KIUSHU TO HIS COLLEAGUE THE BISHOP OF NAGASAKI LOUIE PATTEN: 1891 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER DETAILING ONE MAN'S GRAND TOUR OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE'S CAPITAL CITY TO HIS FRIENDS IN KANSAS Rev. C.E.C. LILLINGSTONE: 1902 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER HANDWRITTEN BY AN ENTHUSIASTIC CLERGYMAN TENDING THE TROOPS IN SOUTH AFRICA DURING THE BOER WAR
UNKNOWN: 1910 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT ESSAY DETAILING THE DIFFICULTIES OF CHRISTIAN OUTREACH IN THE CONGO AFRICA RALPH FREDRICK MACDONALD: 1925 FASCINATING ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER WITH DETAILS OF THE SCOPES MONKEY TRIAL HANDWRITTEN BY AN OFF THE WALL, OBTUSE MAN TO HIS FORMER TEACHER UNKNOWN: 1880 - 1938 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN HISTORY OF THE BOBBILI CASTE GIRL'S SCHOOL FOUNDED BY CANADIAN BAPTIST MISSIONARY MATILDA MOORE FAULKNER CHURCHILL
E.C. BOND: 1891 ORIGINAL WARM FAMILY LETTER BY NOTED DOCTOR AND MISSIONARY IN KOHALA HAWAII TO HIS CHILDREN AT THE PUNAHOU SCHOOL JOHN GAILBREATH: 1763 ORIGINAL COLONIAL AMERICA MANUSCRIPT LANDLORD TENANT AGREEMENT WITH SURPRISING TERMS OF TENANCY ANGELA A: 1986 - 2007 SUPER ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF FIVE [5] MANUSCRIPT DIARIES & ONE [1] PHOTO ALBUM DETAILING THE LIFE, LOVES AND SINGING CAREER OF A DRUG TAKING, SEXUALLY CONFUSED WOMAN WHO INTIMATELY DETAILS HER HIGHS, LOWS AND CONSTANT CRAVINGS FOR TRUE HAPPINESS
J.M. HAMMONS: 1865 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER HANDWRITTEN BY AN AUBURN CORRECTIONAL FACILITY GUARD AND CIVIL WAR VETERAN THANKFUL HE RETURNED FROM HIS SERVICE IN THE CAROLINAS FOR 'UNCLE SAMUEL' ROSS SMILEY: 1811 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT MATHEMATIC AND ARITHMETIC CYPHERING COPYBOOK FILLED WITH COMPLEX EQUATIONS AND SOLUTIONS CHARLES SCHOBINGER: 1939 - 1951 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF TEN [10] MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY OUTDOORSMAN, FUTURE SKI HALL OF FAMER, GRADUATE OF HARVARD SCHOOL FOR BOYS WHO SERVED HIS COUNTRY IN THE NAVY DURING WORLD WAR II
PVT. FRANKLIN T. RHODES: 1918 ORIGINAL MANUAL, SCRAPBOOK AND EARLY AVIATION MECHANIC'S TECHNICAL JOURNAL DURING WORLD WAR I FREDERIC DAMON HATFIELD: 1826 ORIGINAL EARLY 19TH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT CYPHERING AND MATHEMATICS BOOK HANDWRITTEN BY A SARATOGA COUNTY NEW YORK MAN UNIDENTIFIED: 1854 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT REPORT ON A LADY'S LITERARY SOCIETY 'ATHENA'
GEORGE A. HENDERSON: 1889 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT AUTOGRAPHED LETTER SIGNED BY SAINT JOHN NEW BRUNSWICK METHODIST CHURCH MAN WRITING THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH TO THE SON OF A FORMER PASTOR H. LOUISA CHAMBERS: 1860s SUPER, ORIGINAL MISS STEVEN'S MANUSCRIPT SCHOOL PROJECT DETAILING THE COUNTIES OF ENGLAND IN A BEAUTIFUL CALLIGRAPHIC HAND UNKNOWN: 1834 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT ACCOUNTS BOOK FILLED WITH NAMES, TRANSACTIONS, ACCOUNTS AND JOURNAL ENTRIES OF A BUSY MARYLAND TRADER, TRADESMAN AND BUSINESSMAN
for JOHN MYERS: 1849 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT STATEMENT OF MR. MYERS DETAILING THE MOOD OF THE PEOPLE AND THE STATE OF THE ECONOMY AND POLITICS BY A BUSY TAVERN OWNER, LAND HOLDER AND MASON FROM GEORGETOWN IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROFESSOR CANDELARIO CALOR MOTA and DR. ALBERT SHAW: 1940s ORIGINAL GROUP OF TYPED MOSTLY AND SOME HANDWRITTEN LETTERS BETWEEN PROFESSOR C. CALOR MOTA AND DR. ALBERT SHAW DISCUSSING COMMON INTERESTS, AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM AND THE POLITICS OF THE DAY UNKNOWN: 1940s ORIGINAL SCRAPBOOK AND HOMAGE TO WORLD WAR II ERA AIRPLANES AND AVIATION BY AN ENTHUSIASTIC FAN OF ALL THINGS FLYING
MARVIN J. MILLER: 1944 - 1945 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY AND TESTAMENT TO HUMAN SURVIVAL AND ENDURANCE HANDWRITTEN BY AN AMERICAN AIRMAN SHOT OUT OF THE AIR, IMPRISONED IN GERMANY'S HARSHEST POW CAMP AND THEN NEARLY MARCHED AND STARVED TO DEATH MATILDA SCHWABE: 1910 ORIGINAL SCRAPBOOK AND DIARY OF AN ENTHUSIASTIC STUDENT'S TRIP TO THE NATION'S CAPITOL HARRY GRANT PEARSON: 1911 - 1913 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF EXOTIC TRAVEL, LOVE TRIANGLES, SECRET ROMANCE HANDWRITTEN BY A FASCINATING, EMOTIVE, DEEPLY INTROSPECTIVE MAN FROM AN ARTISTIC FAMILY AND MARRIED TO AN ARTIST AND IN LAW TO A FRIEND OF BUFFALO BILL CODY
for JESUS [?]: CIRCA LATE 1700s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT COPY: "A LETTER WRITTEN BY OUR BLESSED LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST AND FOUND UNDER A GREAT STONE SIXTY FIVE YEARS AFTER HIS CRUSIFIXION" CHRISTIAN HENRY AITKEN: 1920 - 1927 ORIGINAL GROUP OF EIGHT [8] DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY A RISING AND FOR THE MOST PART KEEN MEMBER OF THE MIDDLE CLASS ENJOYING LIFE AS BEST HE CAN CHARLES P. LEVY: 1910 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTERS COPYBOOK FILLED WITH ECLECTIC COPIES OF LETTERS TYPED AND HANDWRITTEN BY A GARRULOUS MARYLAND BUSINESSMAN, SPORTSMAN AND POLITICO
CAROLINE SMITH: 1940s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT BOOK ON WEAVING WITH SAMPLES INCLUDED CREATED AND COMPILED BY A RUTGERS UNIVERSITY STUDENT to ARCHDEACON SIDNEY RICHARD SMITH, MABEL KATHERINE SMITH: 1900s - 1947 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF MANUSCRIPT LETTERS, ILLUSTRATIONS, PHOTOS AND EPHEMERA RELATING TO A RENOWNED REVEREND, LATER ARCHDEACON AND MISSIONARY BRINGING CHRISTIAN OUTREACH TO ONE OF THE EARTH'S MOST DIFFICULT REGIONS CHRISTOPHER GRUT BUCKTON: 1916 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT WWI BRITISH HOME FRONT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG MARRIED LAW CLERK IN LONDON TRYING TO ENJOY THE IDYLLIC LIFE WHILE FEARING HIS CALL UP TO AN ACTION STATION
D.R: 1965 - 1968 ORIGINAL GROUP OF FOUR [4] MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG 1ST LIEUTENANT SERVING HIS COUNTRY IN A BALLISTIC MISSILE BUNKER READY TO DEFEND AMERICA FROM THE SOVIET THREAT M.S. WALKER [perhaps MABLE]: 1907 - 1920 ORIGINAL, CHARMING SOUTH WESTERN ONTARIO MANUSCRIPT DIARY THAT BEGINS WITH SAD LOSS THEN CONTINUES TO HAPPINESS AND CONTENTMENT DR. JOHN [JAMES] HUME SPRY: LATE 18th, EARLY 19th C. HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY OF THE GOSPELS IN GREEK BY THE RECTOR OF MARLEBONE AND PREBENDARY OF CANTERBURY
GEORGE R. WILSON: 1914 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF ONE FAMILY'S TIME SPENT ON THE EASTERN SHORE OF PUGET SOUND MANNING THE WEST POINT LIGHT STATION LIEUTENANT CLAUDE A. ASHLEY: 1943 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY COVERING 52 BOMBING MISSIONS FROM HANSA BAY TO THE BATTLE OF THE BISMARCK SEA HANDWRITTEN BY ONE OF THE 'JOLLY ROGERS' IRIS TERVORT [later LINDSTROM]: 1932 ORIGINAL DEPRESSION ERA MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A CHARMING ALL AMERICAN MORMON GIRL IN UTAH