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Collection
Identifier: 2013-027
Abstract
Collection contains the Beta Tapes during the student unrest May 1970 at the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1970-05
Collection
Identifier: MSS-5048
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a four-page manuscript transcript of the 1833 Virginia legal case Alexander Pilcher vs. William Spencer, heard in the Circuit Inferior Court of Law and Chancery for Wood County. The document includes detailed legal arguments, witness statements, and judicial instructions to the jury regarding the unauthorized use and subsequent death of Monroe, a hired enslaved boy. The manuscript features handwritten corrections, deletions, and...
Dates:
1833-04
Collection
Identifier: 2012-025
Abstract
Photographs, majority are iconographic, filmstrips, slides, audio cassettes, hand-written notebooks, microfilms and negatives, bulk dates: 1860-mid 1900s. A procedure is now underway of accessing and housing the ‘photographic’ collection. Photographs originally stored in 22 cartons and one Hollinger boxes; other items include 7 cartons of Alabama filmstrips, 5 Hollinger boxes containing filmstrips and audio tapes relating to history of Alabama, Florida, Illinois, California, Ohio and...
Dates:
1860 - 1900
Collection
Identifier: MSS-5023
Scope and Contents
This collection contains two letters from Edward Vernon Sparhawk to Walter Jones, regarding Tucker vs. Randolph's Executors, a case related to the will of Virginia planter and politician John Randolph of Roanoke, Virginia. Sparhawk contacted Jones, who litigated the case before the Supreme Court, to inform Jones of his research, which Sparhawk planned to publish in an article or book. The first letter, dated August 5, 1835, was sent from Richmond,...
Dates:
1835-08-05; 1835-10-01
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2936
Abstract
Contains correspondence letters of Jim Edwards written to his family and friends, mostly containing information about his daily life. Also contains his grade reports during his time at Miami University, 1934-1938.
Dates:
1934-1947
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2148
Abstract
Letter to brother Albert, from Army sergeant serving during World War I and training in Camp Sherman, Ohio, discussing camp life, training, rifles, and a fire that killed horses and mules. He mentions the possibility of "going over" soon.
Dates:
1918 August 18
Collection
Identifier: W-0091
Abstract
Letters written by Dr. Townsend Heaton, a member of the 70th Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War
Dates:
1861-1864
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4374
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a printed letter and resolution by Henry Johnson, Governor of Louisiana, dated February 16, 1826. The letter is addressed to New York Governor DeWitt Clinton and states Louisiana's rejection of Ohio's proposed plan for the gradual emancipation of enslaved people. The document reflects the ongoing debates over slavery in the early nineteenth century and Louisiana's stance on the issue, emphasizing the state's opposition to gradual emancipation efforts. This letter...
Dates:
1826 February 16
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1092
Abstract
Diary of a Pennsylvania minister and agent of the American Tract Society, written while he was in New Orleans and Greenville, Louisiana, in 1839 and 1846.
Dates:
1837-1847
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4838
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a four-page handwritten letter from Isaac J. Sperry, a Union soldier in the 73rd Ohio Infantry, to his wife Hulda, composed over ten days in December 1862 during the Battle of Fredericksburg. The letter is written on patriotic stationery featuring the red and blue slogan “The Banner of the Free, 1776–1861” with an image of Lady Liberty bearing a U.S. flag. The letter, which includes commentary on camp life, the brutal defeat at Fredericksburg, and candid opinions...
Dates:
1862
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4738
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a letter written by J.A. Means from Munroe Falls, Ohio, to his cousin, Samuel Cochran, in Cadiz, Ohio. The letter provides a unique firsthand account of the early development of Munroe Falls, capturing the experience of a surveyor engaged in laying out the village in the late 1830s. Means describes the challenges of frontier life, the isolation felt by his wife, Eliza, and the practical aspects of surveying and settlement.In addition to local affairs,...
Dates:
1837 April 12
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4884
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a letter from Albert T. Goodwyn to his sister Elizabeth Goodwyn Oliver, written while he was imprisoned at Johnson's Island in 1864. The letter offers insight into the life and morale of a Confederate officer in captivity and is fairly positive, discussing Goodwyn's relief to hear that Elizabeth's husband, Sam, was not wounded as he had been informed. Goodwyn expresses resignation about the duration of his imprisonment, noting his only hope for early release would be...
Dates:
1864-10-24
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4860
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a single letter dated 1862, written by Lewis Smith of Ripley, Ohio, to George Hamlong, a slave trader or seller residing in Germantown, Kentucky. In the letter, Smith complains about the death of a young enslaved girl he had recently purchased as part of a family group, alleging that she was already sick at the time of sale and requesting financial reimbursement. Smith expresses frustration at Hamlong’s failure to respond to his prior correspondence.
Dates:
1862
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4266
Abstract
Peter Reeder Fortney (1843-1919) was a Union soldier from Ohio who fought in the US Civil War between 1862-1865. This collection contains two diaries he kept during 1864-1865, when his company served in Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, and Alabama.
Dates:
1860 - 1865; 1915
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3674
Abstract
Materials from three generations of the Reade family
Dates:
1917-1982
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1376
Abstract
A 1927 letter from "Miss Ellen" in Cleveland Heights, Ohio to her aunt, Louise Swilley in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Dates:
1927
Collection
Identifier: MSS-5072
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a four-page letter signed by Thurlow Joseph Wright, dated September 7, 1863, and written from the “Contraband Camp” in Memphis, Tennessee. Wright, a U.S. Army surgeon who would later serve with the 64th United States Colored Troops, writes to his sister Caroline Wright in Cincinnati. The letter discusses military life, pay issues, and weather, but its most significant content is Wright’s detailed account of the African American school at the contraband...
Dates:
1863-09-07
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4850
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises forty-one letters and three invoices, exchanged among members of the Uhler family of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, between 1838 and 1848. The bulk of the correspondence consists of letters written by four Uhler brothers (Cyrus, William, John, and Sam) from various locations in the American South and Midwest, including Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, and Ohio. Most letters are addressed to their father, John Uhler Sr., President of the Barks and Dauphin Turnpike Company....
Dates:
1838 - 1848
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3042
Abstract
Letter from W.H. Allard to his brother concerning the sale and value of marble.and letter to S. H. Allard regarding plows, horses, and land.
Dates:
1857 - 1859
Collection — Box: 2009001.012
Identifier: 2009-052
Abstract
This collection consists of eighteen black and white photographs depicting scenes from San Francisco, California; Ohio River; Huntington, West Virginia, and some unknown locations.
Dates:
1920 - 1937
Collection — Box: 2009001.014
Identifier: 2009-055
Abstract
Seventy-nine images of mainly African Americans from late nineteenth century and early twentieth century.
Dates:
1870 - 1950
Collection — Box: 2009001.017
Identifier: 2009-074
Abstract
Three photographs of people at a brewery in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Dates:
1890
Collection — Box: 2009001.017
Identifier: 2009-075
Abstract
This collection consists of seven photographs depicting members of Dietrich family and some unidentified people.
Dates:
1898 - 1923
Collection — Box: 2009001.019
Identifier: 2009-089
Abstract
This collection consists of two photographs depicting people in Ohio.
Dates:
1900 - 1930
Collection — Box: 2009001.025
Identifier: 2009-110
Abstract
This collection consists of twenty-six photographs depicting unidentified people in Ohio.
Dates:
1910 - 1919
Collection — Box: 2009001.033
Identifier: 2009-154
Abstract
This collection consists of seventeen photographs depicting people engaged in everyday activities.
Dates:
1910 - 1915
Collection — Box: 2009001.035
Identifier: 2009-167
Abstract
This collection consists of eleven photographs depicting people and places in Ohio.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1910 - 1922
Collection — Box: 2009001.020
Identifier: 2009-096
Abstract
This collection of 155 photographs of unidentified people, and various scenes of New Zealand and United States, navy ship and sailors, people fishing, and other activities.
Dates:
1890 - 1959
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2254
Abstract
Records from WLW, the Cincinnati, Ohio, radio station
Dates:
circa 1930-circa 1940
