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The collection contains articles by C. Evan Stewart on historical and legal topics.

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Hodder's corrections, criticisms, and suggestions for manuscripts of Albert J. Beveridge (1925-1927) and George Fort Milton (1931-1935), which deal with the Oregon migration, the Mexican War, the Dred Scott case, the Lecompton Constitution, John C. Calhoun, Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, Roger B. Taney, and other figures and events in American history,

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Historical letters, documents and ephemera relating to American presidential campaigns from Abraham Lincoln to Barack Obama.

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Scrapbook of contemporary copies of official War Department telegraph messages, from March 25 to May 17, 1865, documenting the end of the Civil War, Lee's surrender at Appomatox, and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Many of the telegrams were directed to Major General Dix or to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton.

Scope and content Three postcards, two of them addressed to Henry Allen in Mansfield, Pennsylvania, the other to Abram Shuart (also in Mansfield), on business matters. The postcards to Henry Allen, from Elliott Watson [?] in Wellsboro (September 26, 1879) and A. Morgan in Troy, Pennsylvania (May 6, 1886), urge him to draw up legal documents for clients. The postcard to Abram Shuart is a receipt for payment on his membership in the Equitable Accident Association in Binghamton (October 1, 1886). Also included...

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Business and personal correspondence and miscellaneous papers of the Hill, Atkinson, Fleming, Greene, and Popham families of Scarsdale, N.Y., and Bellows Falls, Vt. Includes letters (1813-1819) to William Hill on the European market for American cotton, flaxseed, potash, etc.; four letters (1851-1852) to Margaret Hill from Anna McNeill Whistler mentioning the poor health of the artist James Whistler and his favorable reactions to life at West Point;

Scope and content A typescript of the diary of Col. John P. Sanderson who served in the 13th Infantry Division of the United States Army during the Civil War. It includes accounts of the role he and his division played in the Kentucky and Tennessee campaigns in 1863. A large portion of the diary is devoted to his description of the Battle of Chickamauga. Also of interest are Sanderson's assessments of such prominent figures of the period as James A. Garfield, U. S. Grant, and Abraham Lincoln. The diary...

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Consists mostly of graphic arts materials of Howard McCormick and correspondence of family and friends.

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Collection of photographs on various subjects demonstrating the technological evolution of photography, with emphasis on the period of 1822 to 1885. Includes 19th- and 20th-century photographs organized in several major groups.

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Powerpoint presentation, by David Quinlan, with Martin Sweeney, presented as part of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial in Homer, NY .