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Title Description Call Number Separate Records Available?
 Archives of Harper & Brothers, 1817-1914 For much of the nineteenth century Harper and Brothers were the most influential publishing house in America, their authors of the calibre of Herman Melville, Mark Twain and Henry James. Publishers of four famous magazines, they were also technical innovators and businessmen on a grand scale. MICFILM 1216 No
 Archives of the National Federation of Settlements and successors, 1899-1958 The National Federation of Settlements was founded in 1911 by a group of distinguished social workers. Jane Addams of Hull House (Chicago) served as the first president of the organization which created new initiatives, pioneered new services and addressed itself to specific problems such as housing, unemployment, sanitation and squalid living conditions in many of the poor communities in early 20th-century America. Digital guide. MICFILM 4321 No
Checklist of United States public documents, 1789-1970  The printed shelflist of all the publications in the Superintendent of Documents Library in 1909. Originally intended to be issued in two volumes, the second to be a subject index, but was never published. Guide available. MICFILM 698 No
 CIA research reports  Foreign intelligence on the Soviet Union, Africa, and Latin America, 1946-1976. Guide available. MICFILM 1486 No
 Despatches from United States Ministers to Great Britain, 1791-1906  The collection includes communications, with enclosures, addressed to the Department of State by the diplomatic representatives of the United States to Great Britain between 1791 and 1906. It contains unnumbered, informal communications reporting secret matters or personal news, occassional telegrams, and memoranda prepared by State Department officials. Among the topics discussed in the despatches are: restrictions on American shipping during the Napoleonic wars, boundary disputes, fishing rights, African slave trade, negotiation of Jay's Treaty, and prosposed ship canal in Central America. MICFILM 1491 No
 Notes from the Spanish Legation in the United States to the Department of State, 1790-1906 Notes deal with routine diplomatic matters like accreditations of diplomats, settlements of military incidents are border disputes, trade and claims of American citizens against foreign governments. MICFILM 860 No
Population schedules of the second census of the United States, 1800  Records for the country wide census taken every ten years. For the first five censuses (1790-1840) enumerators recorded only the names of the heads of household and did a general demographic accounting of the remaining members of the household. MICFILM 1494 No
 U.S. military intelligence reports: surveillance of radicals in the United States, 1917-1941 Includes FBI Intelligence Bulletins and Army Corps Area Reports with coverage of: World War I, the "Red Scare", and labor unions. However, this collection does not include reproductions of printed radical materials or information about African-American radicals (this was included in a separate publication). Guide available. MICFILM 1646 No
William Wirt papers  Wirt acted as prosecutor in the conspiracy trial of Aaron Burr in 1807 and served as United States Attorney General from 1817 to 1829. Over the course of his career, he argued over 170 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1832 Wirt was the unsuccessful nominee of the Anti-Masonic Party for the Presidency of the United States. Guide available. MICFILM 1287 No

 

 

 

 


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