| 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 |