The collection comprises 66 items including 23 travel letters, 15 diaries, 4 scrapbooks, 22 photographs and 2 pieces of miscellaneous ephemera. The travel letters cover two trips taken by Mary Catton: 1. Trip to Japan, China, Hong Kong, Cambodia,...
his collection consists of typescripts of reminiscences, diaries, notebooks, and photographs. The first typescript was written in 1941 and is an autobiography that details Parker's life from his high school days in New York to his times in Alaska,...
About one-half of the correspondence is made up of letters between James C. Riggin and his wife Rebeca Jane Pettyjohn. The other half of the correspondence is made up of letters written by various members of the Pettyjohn family. The letters tell...
The collection consists of the papers of the Grenville, Temple, Nugent, and Brydges families. It also includes papers of Charles O'Conor (1764-1828), the Irish Catholic scholar who served at Stowe as chaplain and librarian in 1792-1828.
60-inch telescope dome under construction; portion of shutter frame being hoisted into place. Mount Wilson Observatory. A crane is being used to place the shutter frame in place.
London. Published by A. Arrowsmith Rathbone Place 1797. Engraved by T. Foot, Weston Place, Battle Bridge. London. Published January 1st. 1797 by A. Arrowsmith No. 24 Rathbone Place.
A view of the John C. Howard Livery Stables on G Street between 6th and 7th Streets in Washington, D.C., where John Wilkes Booth kept his horse while carrying out the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Two horses are drawing a four-wheel...
The collection includes manuscripts for essays, novels, and monographs of collected columns as well as screenplays and television scripts. In the correspondence there is a large series of letters written by Al Martínez to his wife, while serving...
Accounts, deeds, legal papers, court records, household books, inventories and catalogs of family papers, estate and manorial papers, and correspondence relating to the estates, personal and financial affairs of the Hastings family. Most of the...
The Samuel G. Hibben collection is divided into four sections: articles, photographs, correspondence, and ephemera. The bulk of the collection consists of articles, both handwritten and printed, and most written by Hibben. The rest are...
West portion of the fork for the Hooker telescope being swung into place, Mount Wilson Observatory. The interior walls of the observatory dome are visible in the background.