Manuscripts
American admirals collection
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Admiral A. H. Foote
Visual Materials
Image of a bust-length portrait of Admiral Andrew Hull Foote in military jacket, shirt, and bow tie.
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United States Army and Navy officer photographs
Visual Materials
The Civil War collection of United States Army and Naval officers consist of twenty-four carte de visite and cabinet card portraits attributed to the James William Eldridge collection (mssEG). The military figures include such persons as Admiral David Glasgow Farragut (1801-1870), Admiral Andrew Hull Foote (1806-1863), Major General George Brinton McClellan (1826-1885), Brigadier General Theodore Runyon (1822-1896), and Admiral William Branford Shubrick (1790-1874). The collection also includes an image of George W. Sadler (1819-1876), the undertaker who escorted John Brown to his execution.
photPF 3276-3299b
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English admirals autograph collection
Manuscripts
Volume of bound autographs and correspondence by British admirals including Earl Richard Howe. Some letters have typescripts.
mssHM 60665
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Jeny Jumper's Chaunt: a ballad
Manuscripts
An autograph ballad, or flash song, in six stanzas, with corrections and a typewritten transcription. Also included in the volume is the poem "Henley" (1827), seventeen autograph letters, with typewritten transcriptions, from Ainsworth to various addressees, a signed, black and white photograph (1857), and three black and white engravings of Ainsworth.
mssHM 14961-14980
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Two license books of John Larpent
Manuscripts
Register of licenses issued by John Larpent from Jan. 1801 to Jan 15, 1824. The entries include the names and brief descriptions of the plays for which licenses were granted, with the name of the theatre where it was to be performed, together with the entry for the license fee. In addition to the London theatres -- the Haymarket, Covent Garden, Drury Lane, the Adelphi and the Olympic -- there are entries for provincial theaters such as Norwich, Birmingham, Margate, Liverpool, Manchester, York, Hull, and Glasgow, sometimes with the name of the manager. A few plays are crossed out as "refused." There is an entry for "An address to be spoken on Master Betty's 1st appearance in London, Theatre Royal Covent Garden Dec. 1st 1804."
mssHM 19926
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Correspondence from and to George L. Davenport, grandson of Ellen Sewall Osgood, regarding material in this collection. Also contains off-print of: Harding, Walter Roy, 1917-. "Henry Thoreau and Ellen Sewall," The South Atlantic Quarterly, 64 no. 1 (Winter 1965): 100-109
Manuscripts
The collection contains correspondence and manuscripts. The correspondence and manuscripts are arranged together alphabetically. The correspondence covers the years of 1790-1876, with the majority between 1831 and 1876. The majority of the correspondence is to or from Ellen Sewall Osgood. The collection also contains a scrapbook kept by several members of the Thoreau family. There is a rock labeled opal that was sent to Ellen Sewall Osgood by John Thoreau. The last item is a three-ring binder. It contains photocopies of typed transcriptions of the letters and manuscripts in the collection. There are also five ambrotypes of a man, woman, and three children-two girls and one boy. These ambrotypes were transferred over to Photo Archives on Sept. 23, 2002; call numbers photDAG 149-153.
mssHM 64835-64969