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Serge Hollerbach Papers, 1914-2019
11.5 linear feetSergei Ivanovich Mamontov Memoirs, 1969-1976
3 itemsMamontov's typescript memoirs consist primarily of a single manuscript entitled "Mes chevaux et chevauchees" (317 p.); there are also several short pieces. The memoirs discuss primarily Mamontov's military experiences in the White Army in the period 1917-1920.
Shadrach Woods architectural records and papers, 1923-2008, bulk 1948-1973
45 manuscript boxesSighle Kennedy papers, 1920s-1996, bulk 1963-1996
13.91 linear feetSlavery papers, 1600s-1860s
0.5 linear feetThe collection contains various documents relating to the practice of enslavement in the Americas. It includes three documents related to the case of Joseph Pochin and John Milner who were accused of murder on the island of Jamaica, ca. 1681; a group of police reports for the city of New Orleans, August-November 1833, listing all arrests, mainly concerned with Afro-Americans sentenced to the chain gang; and other documents.
Stewart Lillard Stereographs Collection of World Travel, 1870-1931
5 linear feetSylvia Ardyn Boone Papers, 1925-2011, bulk 1961-1993
40 linear feetTheodore Richards Conant Collection, 1949-2010, bulk 1953-2000
76 Linear FeetTibor Gergely papers and drawings, 1935-1977
9 linear feetCorrespondence, manuscripts, drawings, watercolors, sketches, proofs, and printed materials. The collection includes original watercolor, pen-and-ink, and pencil illustrations for fifty books by various authors, beginning with Georges Duplaix's TOPSY TURVY CIRCUS (1940), and continuing with Golden Book's Scuffy the Tugboat & Tootles the Train by Gertrude Crampton; Duplaix's The Merry Shipwreck; Kipling's The Jungle Books, and the artist's dummy for The Wheel on the Chimney by Margaret Wise Brown, a Caldecott Honor book. Also included are illustrations for nineteen books by Gergely; advertising and commercial art of the 1940s, political cartoons and carricatures from the 1930s 1940s in Europe and America; designs for greeting cards, posters, and record jackets; and eighteen watercolor drawings for NEW YORKER covers, many of which were published in the 1940s. A selection of manuscripts, correspondence, and printed materials is also included in the collection.
Toulouse (France) Gild Hall records, 1270-1450
4 boxesCopies of parts of the Archives Municipales de Toulouse, Mss. H.H.1s and H.H.2, which include statutes of craft gilds dating from ca. 1270 A.D. to 1450 A.D. The codices are of the 14th century and contain the earliest known records of the gilds of Toulouse.