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Microfilm
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Literature,
Language, and Lingusitics: American
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| Title |
Description |
Call
Number |
Separate
Records Available? |
| American
literary annuals and gift books, 1825-1865 |
Based on Ralph Thompson's bibliography
of the same name, American Literary Annuals
and Gift Books, 1825-1865, contains some of
the best literature and art from the pre-Civil War
period. This collection contains 469 titles, focusing
on The Atlantic Souvenir: A Christmas and New
Year's Offering -- a lavishly decorated, fully
illustrated anthology of prose and poetry. Guide
available. |
MICFILM 3627 |
No |
| American
women's diaries New England |
The American Women's Diaries collection
offers firsthand accounts of the lives, contributions,
and innermost thoughts of women from the colonial
period through the turn of the 20th century. Researchers
gain new perspectives on a myriad of topics including
daily life and the struggle to survive, religion,
childbirth and child rearing, education, social
issues, war and peace, and personal strengths of
women from diverse ethnic and social backgrounds.
Guide available. |
MICFILM 1581 |
No |
| American
women's diaries. Southern women |
The American Women's Diaries collection
offers firsthand accounts of the lives, contributions,
and innermost thoughts of women from the colonial
period through the turn of the 20th century. Researchers
gain new perspectives on a myriad of topics including
daily life and the struggle to survive, religion,
childbirth and child rearing, education, social
issues, war and peace, and personal strengths of
women from diverse ethnic and social backgrounds.
Guide available. |
MICFILM 1599 |
No |
| Archives
of the Federal Writers' Project. Series 1: printed
and mimeograph publications in the surviving FWP
files, 1933-1943, excluding state guides |
The Federal Writers' Project materials
in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division are
part of a larger collection titled The U.S. Work
Progress Administration Federal Writers' Project
and Historical Records Survey. The holdings from
Federal Writers' Project span the years 1889-1942
and cover a wide range of topics and subprojects.
Altogether, the Federal Writers' holdings number
approximately 300,000 items and consist of correspondence,
memoranda, field reports, notes, graphs, charts,
preliminary and corrected drafts of essays, oral
testimony, folklore, miscellaneous administrative
and miscellaneous other material. Guide available. |
MICFILM 4350 |
No |
| The
Charles E. Feinberg collection of the papers of
Walt Whitman (in part), 1834-1919 |
The papers of Walt Whitman
(1819-1892) in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection
span the years 1763 to 1985, with the bulk of the
items concentrated in the period after 1841. The
collection of correspondence, literary manuscripts,
books, proofs, and associated items assembled by
Feinberg during a period of six decades contains
letters, notes, postcards, telegrams, and memoranda
written by Whitman and letters written to him by
friends and admirers, as well as a variety of manuscripts
and proofs, many of them annotated by Whitman, that
reflect the development of literary technique in
his prose and poetry. Whitman's private concerns
and interests, some of which would later be voiced
in his writings, are revealed in diaries, notes,
and notebooks. Digital
guide. |
MICFILM 3186 |
No |
| John
Beecher papers |
John Beecher (1904-1980) was an
activist poet who wrote about the Southern United
States during the Great Depression and the American
Civil Rights Movement. Beecher was extremely active
in the American labor and Civil Rights movements.
During the McCarthy era, Beecher lost his teaching
job for refusing to sign a state loyalty oath; seventeen
years later the California Supreme Court overturned
this and reinstated him. This collection includes
manuscripts, correspondence, printed materials,
speeches, radio scripts about social and political
reform, and his testimony before the U.S. Senate
on migrant conditions in the United States. Guide
available. |
MICFILM 1037 |
No |
| Protocol
of a field record for the linguistic atlas of the
Gulf States |
The colelction provides descriptive
data gathered from field interviews conducted by
linguistic researchers over the last decade. The
project is comparable to major studies conducted
for other regions of the United States and covers
the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas. |
MICFILM 1526 |
No |
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