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    <unittitle>Samuel Finley Breese Morse papers</unittitle>
    <origination label="Creator">
      <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50070284" source="naf">Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872</persname>
    </origination>
    <origination label="Creator">
      <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2020067470" role="collector" source="naf">Morse, Leila Livingston, 1878-1977</persname>
    </origination>
    <unitid>4079137</unitid>
    <unitid>MS#0906</unitid>
    <langmaterial>
      <language langcode="eng">English</language>
.    </langmaterial>
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    <physdesc altrender="whole">
      <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">3 boxes</extent>
      <extent altrender="carrier">4 scrapbooks in 3 boxes</extent>
    </physdesc>
    <unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1930/1952" type="inclusive">1930-1952</unitdate>
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    <head> Restrictions on Access</head>
<p>This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.</p>  </accessrestrict>
  <accessrestrict id="aspace_018b202766e0e28e0357445435e198fe">
    <head> Restrictions on Access</head>
<p>This collection has no restrictions.</p>  </accessrestrict>
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    <head>Summary</head>
<p>Letters, photographs, clippings, and printed materials relating to Morse, collected by his granddaughter, Leila Livingston Morse. Much of the material, including the two hundred letters in the collection, relate to the Morse Centennial in 1944.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <head>Preferred Citation</head>
<p>Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Samuel Finley Breese Morse papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.</p>  </prefercite>
  <userestrict id="aspace_bce42b0101c62fc925d7ac192dbff40e">
    <head>Terms Governing Use and Reproduction</head>
<p>Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.</p>  </userestrict>
  <acqinfo id="aspace_fb757f00750e028d03e6b4c347845495">
    <head>Immediate Source of Acquisition</head>
<p>Source of acquisition--319700. Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1960. Accession number--M-60.</p>  </acqinfo>
  <bioghist id="aspace_da46ca7fb1d4a9185f74522b8a75bbfe">
    <head>Biographical / Historical</head>
<p>American artist, inventor.</p>  </bioghist>
  <processinfo id="aspace_166eea4a9c6e8cdbc656b2180d455762">
    <head>Processing Information</head>
<p>Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 08/--/89.</p>  </processinfo>
  <accruals id="aspace_56dcf28edb10e9399b0c028659c5023c">
    <head>Accruals</head>
<p>Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.</p>  </accruals>
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    <genreform authfilenumber="http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300127104" source="aat">Photographic prints</genreform>
    <occupation authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008276" source="lcsh">Artists</occupation>
    <occupation authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067676" source="lcsh">Inventors</occupation>
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