![Cover title:] Japanese Russian War 1904. [A personal album of hand-captioned stereographic...](/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.....
An archive compiled by one J.L. Ferrell, mostly consisting of letters from his eventual wife Hazel E. Pinkard, illuminating her progression from college courses, dances, and basketball games to marriage, jobs, and children, dogged all the while by financial worry and occasional loneliness. Also included are various papers relating to.....
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.....
![Lot of playbills for African American movie theaters in Virginia]. Lichtman Theatres](/pictures/thumb/6614_1.jpg?v=1640876112)
An archive of twenty-one playbills for a group of segregation-era movie theaters for African Americans in Virginia, owned by noted white Jewish businessman Abe Lichtman. By the time he retired in 1946, Abe E. Lichtman (1889–1965) ran some forty-six theaters in Washington D.C., Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina under.....
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.....
![Scrapbook of WWI Intelligence Officer and Author.] World War Scrap Book [cover-title]. Alison...](/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.....
![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.....
![Two inquests regarding the deaths by morphine of two prostitutes in Montana]. State of Montana](/pictures/thumb/6532_1.jpg?v=1640617385)
A pair of inquests regarding the deaths due to morphine overdoses of two prostitutes in the same brothel in Anaconda, Montana in 1907 (only two months apart), shedding light on the sad lives of sex-workers in a western mining region. The city of Anaconda, Montana is located some twenty-five.....
An archive of correspondence, writings, photographs, news-clippings, etc. documenting the philanthropic work of Carolyn and Mary Verhoeff, as well as genealogical and family papers documenting the Verhoeff and Parker families of Louisville, Kentucky. The archive also includes peripheral material relating to the eldest, third sister, Minne C. Verhoeff, who married.....
![Deadwood and Black Hills photo archive]. Bob Zuver, compiler?](/pictures/thumb/6545_1.jpg?v=1613080145)
A photo archive documenting gold-mining and fossil-hunting excursions in Deadwood and the Black Hills, South Dakota, undertaken by Nebraska engineer Bob Zuver and his company of men during the late-19th century; the archive also captures the town of Deadwood and the broader South Dakota scene. The infamous town of.....