![Item #3662 [Cover title:] Japanese Russian War 1904. [A personal album of hand-captioned...](/pictures/thumb/3662_1.jpg?v=1560463357)
A significant and captivating photographic archive recording the first modern war from the perspective of an important figure in its documentation, pioneering American war correspondent and photojournalist Richard Barry. This remarkable archive contains half stereographic photographs taken and captioned by Barry during the Russo-Japanese War, some of which illustrate his.....
![Item #7941 [Archive of early American missionaries to Hawaii.]. John S. Emerson, et. al, Ursula...](/pictures/thumb/7941_1.jpg?v=1674142860)
An extraordinary archive of a noted Hawaiian missionary couple, including over thirty years of epistolary journals, firsthand accounts of voyages to Micronesia and the Marquesas, numerous letters, a substantial collection of Hawaiian photos, several manuscript maps, and a charming original watercolor of the Emerson house in Waialua. Also embracing materials.....
A substantive and important archive of pioneering female mountaineer and author Elizabeth Knowlton, embracing manuscripts, typescripts, letters, photographs and more, with a strong focus on the pivotal year of 1932, when Knowlton participated in the German American Himalayan Expedition. Included are several diaries Knowlton kept at that time and over.....
An important photo archive consisting of two substantive albums owned by California politician Victor H. Metcalf who served as Theodore Roosevelt’s Secretary of Commerce and Labor, and then as Secretary of the Navy, with content relating to Roosevelt’s wife Edith and son Quentin Roosevelt, Orville Wright’s world-record breaking and first.....
![Item #5471 [Scrapbook of WWI Intelligence Officer and Author.] World War Scrap Book...](/pictures/thumb/5471_1.jpg?v=1575039072)
A fascinating, carefully organized album of original photos, maps, official military documents, letters, and other materials compiled by Intelligence Officer and later New York University Law School dean and professor Alison Reppy, the author of the regimental history Rainbow Memories (1919). Born in Hillsboro, Missouri, Lieut. Alison Reppy (1893–1958) served.....
A Reconstruction-era archive including a vitriolic anti-Reconstruction letter and a plea for character reference from a white banker embroiled in a bribery scandal with South Carolina’s first prominent Black politician. Thomas J. Robertson (1823–1897) was a South Carolina plantation and slave owner who supported the Union during the Civil War.....
![Item #7036 [Business archive of New Hampshire mill owner Alfred I. Sawyer.]. Alfred I. Sawyer](/pictures/thumb/7036_1.jpg?v=1631726193)
A substantive archive of New Hampshire mill-owner Alfred I. Sawyer including extensive business correspondence, a journal documenting his business operation in 1841, and more; taken as a whole, the archive documents Sawyer’s operation of the mill conglomerate from the 1820s to his death in 1849, as well as the afterlife.....
An astonishing archive, largely unpublished, by a self-professed Native American (“an Indian by choice”), comprising five typescript and manuscript works, one published volume, and twenty one hand-drawn educational charts, on Native American legends and language and the development and principles of cosmic life, embracing the fields of astronomy, astrology, evolutionary.....
A substantive archive of 147 photographs of Alaska primarily documenting the Alaska-Gastineau Mine and the historic construction of the Salmon Creek Dam, built by the Alaska-Gastineau Mining Co. to supply electricity to its mining operations. These images are from the collection of mining engineer Bartlett L. Thane (1877–1927), who pioneered.....