Washington (D.C.) -- Description and travel.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
John P. Sanderson, Jr. autobiography
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1233
Scope and content
A typescript of the autobiography of John P. Sanderson, Jr. (1850-1920), a Congregational minister. Although primarily an account of his religious work in Michigan, Missouri, and Illinois, the volume also includes a detailed description of Sanderson's boyhood in Philadelphia, Washington, and Springfield, Ohio. Later chapters also include a description of a European tour he made in the summer of 1914, just before the outbreak of World War I.
Dates:
1850-1920.
John Reps papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 15-2-1101
Abstract
Drafts, resource materials, proofs and correspondence concerning Reps's book, Monumental Washington, ca.1967; first drafts, final manuscripts and galley proofs of The Making of Urban America, ca.1965 and Town Planning in Frontier America, ca.1968. Also, five photographs, ca.1865: three albumen prints of the Rochester flood; and two gelatin prints of the Sibley fire, Rochester, New York, collected by Professor Reps. Also notes on Competitors Australian Federal Capital Competition for the book...
Dates:
1865 - 2006; Majority of material found within 1940 - 2006
Robertson family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 852
Abstract
Correspondence and other papers of the Robertson family of Washington County, New York, and several other related families. The papers of Smith Robertson consist of his letters written while a student at Union College (Schenectady, New York) and as superintendent of Common Schools in Tompkins County; also as a medical student at Geneva Medical College, at Yale University, and while traveling to Washington, D.C.; a painting by F. E. Robertson (brother of Mary "Grandma" Moses). Robertson...
Dates:
1820-1907.