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Giannini, A. H. (Attilio H.), 1874-1943; United Artists Corporation |
Title: Dr. A.H. Giannini Files: United Artists Corporation Records, Series 5B, 1935-1939
Quantity: 1.6 cubic feet (4 archives boxes) Call Number: U.S. Mss 99AN/5B Abstract: Largely routine policy correspondence of Dr. Attilio Giannini, president and chairman of the board. Compiled by Giannini's assistant, Thomas L. Walker, and by Leo F. Samuels, assistant secretary, this file contains almost daily correspondence between Giannini, who remained in Beverly Hills, California, and the corporation's home office in New York City. The correspondence deals with the daily affairs of the corporation, with occasional letters relating to the personal affairs of Giannini and Walker. The file consists almost exclusively of the most routine of policy correspondence. No mention is made of the circumstances surrounding Giannini's appointment to the presidency, nor to the reasons for his abrupt resignation nor to the upheavals among the stockholders during this period. |
| ZIV Television (Firm) | Title: “Dr. Christian” Films: ZIV-TV Productions, United Artists Corporation Records, 1956-1957
Quantity: 39 film reels Call Number: DA 372-DA 410 Abstract: Thirty-nine episodes of Dr. Christian, a half-hour syndicated medical series about the problems faced by a small-town doctor. All the films are 16 mm prints in black and white with sound. Each episode is approximately 950 feet long. |
| Buenker, John | Title: Dr. John Buenker Ethnicity Research Slide Collection,
circa
1970s
Quantity: 0.6 cubic feet (2 archives boxes) Call Number: UWP Manuscript Collection 29 Abstract: The collection is comprised entirely of slides taken or perhaps copied by Dr. John Buenker as part of his ethnicity research in Kenosha, Racine, Chicago, and New York. Slides were used to produce three tapes. Most of the photography was coordinated by Head of Media David Campbell. Many of the historical Racine photos are copies from the collection of an unidentified local Racine resident. |
| Elmergreen, Dr. Ralph | Title: Dr. Ralph Elmergreen Papers, 1813-1930
Quantity: 4.6 cubic ft. (13 boxes) Call Number: Local History Manuscript Collection 15 Abstract: Dr. Ralph Elmergreen was a Milwaukee, Wisconsin medical doctor, mayoral candidate and author. The collection consists of clippings, short stories, poetry, photographs, correspondence, speeches, publications, legal and financial documents. Also included are personal papers from his father, August Sr., and his wife, Clara. |
| Draft Counseling and Information Center (Madison, Wis.) | Title: Draft Counseling and Information Center Records, 1968-1974
Quantity: 1.2 c.f. (4 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 442 Abstract: Records of a volunteer draft counseling service primarily operated for University of Wisconsin students. The contents, chiefly dating from 1970-1971, include counselor training materials, statements to draft boards, conscientious objector claims, and a subject file of pamphlets, reprints, and newsletters collected to provide information to young men about their rights and about alternatives possible under the Selective Service system. Unfortunately, the correspondence is almost entirely routine, and the permanent files on individual counselees containing personal and draft history information are missing. As a result the collection provides only a limited picture of DCIC development and internal operations. |
| Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891 | Title: Draper Manuscripts, 1740-1891
Quantity: 97.2 cubic feet (491 volumes) and 123 reels of microfilm (35 mm) Call Number: Draper Mss; Micro 1034 Abstract: Papers created and collected by Lyman Draper reflecting his life-long interest in the history of the trans-Allegheny West from the frontier conflicts of the 1740s to the War of 1812. Although Draper's goal was to gather information on military events and the soldiers, scouts, and settlers who battled Indians, the British, and Tory sympathizers as white settlement advanced westward, the materials he collected also document social and economic factors, with details on the role of women and minorities on the frontier, cultural attitudes toward Indians, tribal history and traditions, and opinions on contemporary topics such as the Civil War, Reconstruction policies, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, and other nineteenth century concerns. The papers are grouped by topic, period, or document type into fifty series. |
| Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891 | Title: Draper Manuscripts: Border Forays Manuscript, 1875-1876
Quantity: 0.8 cubic feet (5 volumes) Call Number: Draper Mss D Abstract: Draft, written in 1875-1876 by Lyman Draper in collaboration with Consul Butterfield, of an unpublished work concerning Indian-White conflict on the frontier from 1538 to 1876, but primarily from 1750 to 1782. |
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Brady, Samuel, 1756-1795; Wetzel, Lewis, 1763-1808 |
Title: Draper Manuscripts: Brady and Wetzel Papers, 1757-1891
Quantity: 2.2 cubic feet (16 volumes) and 3 reels of microfilm Call Number: Draper Mss E; Micro 1034 Abstract: Collection, primarily correspondence (1843-1865), concerning Samuel Brady and Lewis Wetzel, who were scouts, spies, and “Indian fighters” in southwestern Pennsylvania and northwestern Virginia during and after the American Revolution. |
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Drake, Daniel, 1785-1852; Drake, Benjamin, 1794-1841 |
Title: Draper Manuscripts: Daniel and Benjamin Drake Papers, 1787-1853
Quantity: 0.5 cubic feet (2 volumes) Call Number: Draper Mss O Abstract: Papers of two brothers, Daniel Drake (1785-1852), physician, scientist, educator, and historian; and Benjamin Drake (1795-1841), attorney, author, and biographer; prominent residents of Cincinnati, Ohio, primarily concerning the history of Cincinnati and the Miami River area of Ohio. Included are notes and essays on the geography, minerals, and plants of the Old Northwest and on Indian antiquities in Ohio (including maps); correspondence (1808-1853), including Cincinnati anniversary materials (1838); a certified copy of the 1804 Sauk and Fox treaty; business and legal documents (1787-1816); a biography of Presbyterian minister John P. Campbell; obituaries; interview notes; and clippings. |
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Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820; Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891 |
Title: Draper Manuscripts: Daniel Boone Papers, 1760-1911
Quantity: 5.6 cubic feet (33 volumes) Call Number: Draper Mss C Abstract: Collection of original Daniel Boone manuscripts and correspondence and notes of Lyman C. Draper concerning Daniel Boone, other Kentucky pioneers, Indian-White conflict, and the American Revolution in the West. |
| Brodhead, Daniel, 1736-1809 | Title: Draper Manuscripts: Daniel Brodhead Papers, 1775-1846
Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (3 volumes) Call Number: Draper Mss H Abstract: Papers of Daniel Brodhead, an officer in the Continental Army, who served as an Indian negotiator and as commander of the Western Department, headquartered at Fort Pitt from 1779-1781. Included are correspondence, speeches, and treaty papers, 1775-1781, concerning Indian leaders Big Cat, Captain John Killbuck, Jr., Captain Johnny (also known as Israel), Captain Pipe (Hopocan) and John Montour of the Delaware; Half King (Tanacharison) of the Seneca and Samuel Houston (known as Raven) of the Cherokee; as well as copies of letters from George Washington to Brodhead, and Draper's copy of Brodhead's outgoing correspondence letterbook for 1780-1781. |
| Shepherd, David, 1734-1795 | Title: Draper Manuscripts: David Shepherd Papers, 1755-1802
Quantity: 0.8 cubic feet (5 volumes) Call Number: Draper Mss SS Abstract: Papers of David Shepherd (1734-1795), a distinguished militia officer, businessman, sheriff, and legislator from the Wheeling, West Virginia region. Although military correspondence and records constitute the bulk of the collection, some letters and papers concerning Shepherd's business affairs and family are intermingled. Major topics of discussion include Dunmore's expedition, the Revolutionary War, military matters in the Wheeling area, western defense, and Indian troubles; and military plans and events such as the assault on Detroit and St. Clair's expedition. |
| Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891 | Title: Draper Manuscripts: Draper's Biographical Sketches, circa 1835-1836
Quantity: 0.3 cubic feet (3 volumes) Call Number: Draper Mss P Abstract: Notebooks compiled in Lyman Draper's youth primarily concerning clergymen, missionaries, educators, and military and naval officers. Most are from Massachusetts or other eastern states, but a few westerners are included. The sketches are wholly based on published sources. |
| - - - | Title: Draper Manuscripts: Draper's Historical Miscellanies, 1720-1887
Quantity: 2.0 cubic feet (8 volumes) Call Number: Draper Mss Q Abstract: A “catch all” series arranged by Reuben G. Thwaites and his staff for a varied assortment of manuscripts found among Draper's possessions. Although some pieces could more logically have been placed in other groups related to the author or content, most of the papers did not appear to fit into series which Draper had himself arranged. Some items were acquisitions with topics ranging outside the major areas of his interest, some were personal papers he had created, and a few were documents which had originated in his family. |
| Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891 | Title: Draper Manuscripts: Draper's Memoranda Books, 1844-1879
Quantity: 0.2 cubic feet (3 volumes) Call Number: Draper Mss R Abstract: Notes on topics to be investigated, inquiries to be made, and people to be interviewed during Lyman Draper's research and collecting journeys in Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Missouri. |
| Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891 | Title: Draper Manuscripts: Draper's Notes, 1841-1868
Quantity: 3.6 cubic feet (33 volumes) Call Number: Draper Mss S Abstract: Lyman Draper's notes, primarily of interviews (1841-1868), with maps and transcriptions from state and county archives, newspapers, and personal manuscripts, concerning the trans-Appalachian West from about 1750 to 1815, with emphasis on Indian-White conflict, the Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812. |
| - - - | Title: Draper Manuscripts: Frontier Wars Papers, 1754-1885
Quantity: 5.6 cubic feet (24 volumes) Call Number: Draper Mss U Abstract: Papers collected and arranged by Lyman Draper preparatory to writing a series of sketches on border warfare. Though the earlier Indian wars are briefly considered, the larger portion of the material deals with wars waged in the Northwest (1788-1795) and with Western operations during the War of 1812. The papers include several significant series of original documents and journals of participants in the campaigns. Present is the manuscript original of General Dearborn's defense against the charges of General Hull in relation to the Detroit surrender; papers of Richard Butler, Josiah Harmar, Absolom Baird, James Winchester, Charles S. Todd, Benjamin Whiteman, Nathan Heald, Joseph Martin, Daniel Smith, and others; and much information on Indian treaties and their negotiation. |
| Bedinger, George Michael, 1756-1843 | Title: Draper Manuscripts: George Michael Bedinger Papers, 1775-1860
Quantity: 0.2 cubic feet (1 volume) Call Number: Draper Mss A Abstract: Papers of George Michael Bedinger, a major in the Continental Army who participated in the battles of Germantown and Yorktown, the defense of Boonesborough, and John Bowman's Ohio campaign, and later served in the Kentucky legislature and U.S. Congress. Included are 1843 reminiscences, correspondence, legal records, election campaign broadsides, pension applications, and two maps of the Blue Licks battlefield. |
| - - - | Title: Draper Manuscripts: George Rogers Clark Miscellanies, 1781-1909
Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (6 volumes) Call Number: Draper Mss K Abstract: Papers concerning George Rogers Clark's Revolutionary War campaigns. Includes a roster of the Illinois Regiment, and court and congressional documents (1831-1875) concerning land claims and Revolutionary service compensation. |
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Clark, George Rogers, 1752-1818; Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1851-1891 |
Title: Draper Manuscripts: George Rogers Clark Papers, 1756-1891
Quantity: 15.0 cubic feet (64 volumes) Call Number: Draper Mss J Abstract: Papers of and about George Rogers Clark, the most noted military commander in the western campaigns of the Revolution, gathered by Draper from relatives, descendants, and other historians; by transcripts from archives in Spain, Virginia and other localities for an intended complete biography. Included are papers gathered from Clark's descendants and from others who had proposed biographies, recollections of Clark's role in the early history of Kentucky and the Revolutionary War in the West, notes, copies of documents, and interviews with participants or their descendants. Draper's own voluminous notes and drafts of the first two chapters of Draper's proposed biography are also present. |
| - - - | Title: Draper Manuscripts: Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina Papers, 1782-1878
Quantity: 0.2 cubic feet (1 volume) Call Number: Draper Mss V Abstract: Correspondence, genealogical data, and notes concerning residents of Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina. The papers include Elijah Clarke correspondence (1782-1794) concerning land, legislative, and militia business; George Stiggins' reminiscences of the Creek Indians; Fannie S. Stiggins' commemorative poetry; and papers (1786-1790) concerning the South Carolina Yazoo Land Company. |
| - - - | Title: Draper Manuscripts: Illinois Papers, 1776-1868
Quantity: 0.1 cubic feet (1 volume) Call Number: Draper Mss Z Abstract: Letters, 1842-1868, to Lyman Draper from Illinois pioneer settlers, authors, and historians; interview notes; and scattered original papers of James Piggott. Includes correspondence of Sidney Breese, James Lemen, Jr., George and John T. Lusk, Pierre Menard, John Mason Peck, Isaac Newton Piggott, John Reynolds, and Benjamin Scott. |
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Symmes, John Cleves, 1742-1814; Symmes, John Cleves, 1780-1829 |
Title: Draper Manuscripts: John Cleves Symmes Papers, 1791-1846
Quantity: 0.8 cubic feet (4 volumes) Call Number: Draper Mss WW Abstract: Papers of two men, an uncle and a nephew, bearing the same name. The elder John Cleves Symmes (1742-1814) was a prominent political and military figure in New Jersey and later a judge, pioneer, and land developer in the Northwest Territory. The younger John Cleves Symmes (1780-1829) was a military man and settler along the Mississippi River. The bulk of the collection deals with the younger Symmes and his work to promote his “concentric spheres” theory, which held that the earth was composed of concentric spheres with a habitable interior which could be entered at either pole. |
| Clark, Jonathan, 1750-1811 | Title: Draper Manuscripts: Jonathan Clark Papers, 1728-1810
Quantity: 0.3 c.f. (2 volumes) Call Number: Draper Mss L Abstract: Papers of Jonathan Clark, the elder brother of George Rogers Clark, including deeds and the will (1734) of his grandfather Jonathan Clark; family letters and military papers, including pay and muster rolls for the 8th Virginia Militia Regiment, lists of prisoners, orders from his superior officers, military commissions, and correspondence describing Continental Army operations, including William Clark's experiences as an officer under Anthony Wayne (1794). |
| - - - | Title: Draper Manuscripts: Joseph Brant Miscellanies, 1779-1892
Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (3 volumes) Call Number: Draper Mss G Abstract: Printed materials primarily documenting Mohawk leader Joseph Brant's military career, including descriptions of battles at Oriskany, Saratoga, Wyoming, and Minisink, the siege of Ft. Stanwix, and a massacre at Cherry Valley; and Brant's campaign from 1778 to 1780. Also included are biographical sketches of Brant, Red Jacket, Barry St. Leger, and Philip Van Cortlandt; histories of the Susquehanna Valley; and genealogies of the Frey and Brant families. |
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Brant, Joseph, 1742-1807; Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891 |
Title: Draper Manuscripts: Joseph Brant Papers, 1710-1879
Quantity: 4.4 cubic feet (22 volumes) Call Number: Draper Mss F Abstract: Papers concerning Joseph Brant, a Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) chief who served as a British officer during the American Revolution, including material on that war and Indian-White conflicts, Brant's life, his relatives, and descendants. |
| Harmar, Josiah, 1753-1813 | Title: Draper Manuscripts: Josiah Harmar Papers, 1778-1799
Quantity: 0.2 cubic feet (2 volumes) Call Number: Draper Mss W Abstract: Copies and excerpts of correspondence, diaries, and other papers of Josiah Harmar, a Pennsylvania officer during the American Revolution, who also served as Commander of the army on the Ohio frontier (1784-1791), and as adjutant general of Pennsylvania (1793-1799). Harmar led an unsuccessful expedition against the Shawnee and Miami in Ohio and Indiana in 1790. |
| - - - | Title: Draper Manuscripts: Kentucky Papers, 1768-1892
Quantity: 6.0 cubic feet (37 volumes) Call Number: Draper Mss CC Abstract: Collection of papers of diverse dates and formats dealing with the early history of Kentucky. The original manuscripts were created by pioneer Kentucky settlers representing numerous occupations and professions--land promoters, surveyors, farmers, housewives, historians, teachers, clergymen, merchants, and soldiers. Several volumes relate primarily to events, institutions, and people in the city of Lexington, Kentucky; elsewhere is material on the development of Louisville and other communities. A major portion of the collection consists of the papers of John D. Shane, a Presbyterian minister in Ohio and Kentucky. |
| - - - | Title: Draper Manuscripts: King's Mountain Papers, 1756-1887
Quantity: 3.0 cubic feet (19 volumes) Call Number: Draper Mss DD Abstract: Papers about the Battle of King's Mountain, South Carolina, on October 7, 1780, in which some 1,400 frontier troops from Virginia and North Carolina trapped and routed 1,000 Loyalist soldiers and killed their commander, Patrick Ferguson. Besides his own notes and interviews, Draper gathered materials for over 40 years, and acquired the papers of several of the prominent officers, such as William Campbell, John Sevier, and Isaac Shelby. |
| Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891 | Title: Draper Manuscripts: Life of Boone Manuscript, circa 1856-1893
Quantity: 0.8 cubic feet (5 volumes) Call Number: Draper Mss B Abstract: Draper's unfinished manuscript for his “Life of Boone,” a revised draft written before 1856 which covered possibly one-third of his projected and widely publicized biography of Daniel Boone (1734-1820). Although Draper continued to gather Boone materials until his death, he made no further progress in writing the book. The materials also include a copy of Thomas Walker's 1750 journal of his trip through what is now Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia; summaries of western exploration before Boone, and of early Kentucky history; a Boone family genealogy; biographical sketches; maps; and testimonials to Draper's competence to write the biography. |
| - - - | Title: Draper Manuscripts: London Documents at Albany, 1671-1778
Quantity: 0.1 cubic feet (1 volume) Call Number: Draper Mss EE Abstract: Selections and extracts copied from transcripts of Colonial Office papers which had been made in London for the New York State Library in Albany. This volume illustrates one of Draper's methods of gathering source material, but not long after his copies were made, the records were published. |
| - - - | Title: Draper Manuscripts: Mecklenburg Declaration Miscellanies, 1819-1895
Quantity: 0.4 cubic feet (2 volumes) Call Number: Draper Mss HH Abstract: Pamphlets, periodical articles, and newspaper clippings gathered by Draper during his study of the Mecklenburg resolutions. These printed materials reflect the interest in the Mecklenburg Declaration aroused during the centennial period. Pamphlet writers include John H. Wheeler, Charles Phillips, George W. Graham, and Alexander Graham. |
| Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891 | Title: Draper Manuscripts: Mecklenburg Declaration Papers, 1775-1887
Quantity: 0.6 cubic feet (3 volumes) Call Number: Draper Mss GG Abstract: Papers, mainly Draper's notes and correspondence, collected during his research and writing on the Mecklenburg Declaration controversy including the sources used in his proposed book (Draper Mss FF), and biographical and genealogical research correspondence. |
| - - - | Title: Draper Manuscripts: Newspaper Extracts, 1748-1840
Quantity: 0.8 cubic feet (4 volumes) Call Number: Draper Mss JJ Abstract: Notebooks containing copies, excerpts, and summaries of articles on Western history compiled by Draper between 1846 and 1848 almost entirely from eighteenth-century newspapers, most of which he found in the Baltimore Library Company and Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore, Maryland, and in the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Also included are extracts and copies from journals and letters of Conrad Weiser and George Croghan. |
| - - - | Title: Draper Manuscripts: North Carolina Papers, 1756, 1768-1818
Quantity: 0.2 cubic feet (1 volume) and 1 reel of microfilm Call Number: Draper Mss KK; Micro 1034 Abstract: Primarily papers of Waightstill Avery, a North Carolina Revolutionary patriot, an ally of the Scots-Irish of Mecklenburg County who was a member of the committee dealing with the Mecklenburg Declaration, holder of civil and military positions during the American Revolution, North Carolina congressional delegate, participant in drafting a new state constitution, and attorney general of North Carolina, among other roles. Also included are materials related to the French and Indian War in 1756, and a broadside of 1789 addressed to the Creek (Muscogee) Nation. |
| - - - | Title: Draper Manuscripts: Paris Documents at Albany, 1718-1765
Quantity: 0.2 cubic feet (1 volume) Call Number: Draper Mss LL Abstract: Draper's copies, in French, of selected French documents from 1718-1765, on Indian and military events on the western frontiers. The transcripts used by Draper in 1848 had been made for the New York State Library in Albany, New York. |
| - - - | Title: Draper Manuscripts: Pittsburgh and Northwest Virginia Papers, 1768-1854
Quantity: 2.0 cubic feet (10 volumes) Call Number: Draper Mss NN Abstract: Copies and original papers dealing with the military commanders, popular heroes, and events in the Fort Pitt, Pennsylvania region, created by or about leaders Daniel Brodhead, William Irvine, Edward Hand, William Harrod, John McCulloch (Jr. and Sr.), Samuel Brady, Hugh Brady, David Williamson, Benjamin Biggs, John Redd, and Nathan Reid. |
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Potter family; Potter, John, approximately 1705-approximately 1759; Potter, James, 1729-1789; Potter, James |
Title: Draper Manuscripts: Potter Family Papers, 1747-1807
Quantity: 0.2 cubic feet (1 volume) Call Number: Draper Mss PP Abstract: Original papers of three members of a prominent early family in central Pennsylvania: John Potter, a businessman with Indian traders and sheriff in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania; his son, James, a military officer and deputy surveyor for state lands in Northumberland County; and the latter's son, also named James, a lieutenant colonel of militia in 1795 and an associate county judge in 1800. Included are correspondence, financial records, militia records, family records, and legal records. |
| - - - | Title: Draper Manuscripts: Revolutionary War Pension Statements, compiled 19th century
Quantity: 0.2 cubic feet (1 volume) Call Number: Draper Mss OO Abstract: Three notebooks numbered and bound together by Lyman Copeland Draper. These contain extracts from the statements of military service in the federal pension applications of approximately one hundred western Revolutionary soldiers or their widows, which Draper copied in the Pension Office in Washington, D.C. Each notebook contains his index by name of applicant. Also in this volume is a genealogical statement by James Sevier about the marriage of his father John Sevier to his second wife Catherine Sherrill with a list of their children. |
| Patterson, Robert, 1753-1827 | Title: Draper Manuscripts: Robert Patterson Papers, 1758-1855
Quantity: 0.6 cubic feet (3 volumes) and 1 reel of microfilm Call Number: Draper Mss MM; Micro 1034 Abstract: Papers of Robert Patterson, a soldier, magistrate, and legislator from Virginia and Kentucky, and frontier settler and founder of Georgetown and Lexington in Kentucky, and Dayton and Cincinnati in Ohio. Included are papers relating to his military and business careers, as well as his personal life. |
| - - - | Title: Draper Manuscripts: Rudolph-Ney Papers, 1816-1890
Quantity: 2.0 cubic feet (10 volumes) Call Number: Draper Mss RR Abstract: Papers and research materials gathered by Lyman Draper in an attempt to unravel two curious and mystery-filled nineteenth-century rumors involving three historical people: Peter S. Ney, an eccentric schoolteacher active in the Carolinas and Virginia from 1821 to 1846; Michel Ney (1769-1815), a French military leader allegedly executed by a firing squad in December 1815; and Michael Rudolph, a Maryland officer in the Revolution and later a member of Wayne's army who reportedly disappeared in a shipwreck in the West Indies in 1794. When intoxicated, Peter S. Ney claimed to be the French General Michel Ney and to have escaped his publicized execution and fled to America. The other popular legend is that Michael Rudolph had survived the shipwreck, and assumed a new identity and had achieved a second military career as the famed Marshal Ney of France. |
| Kenton, Simon, 1755-1836 | Title: Draper Manuscripts: Simon Kenton Papers, 1755-1836
Quantity: 1.5 cubic feet (13 volumes) Call Number: Draper Mss BB Abstract: Papers which Lyman Draper gathered for a proposed biography on Simon Kenton, a noted scout and Indian fighter. Included are biographical sketches by other writers; correspondence with surviving pioneers and Kenton descendants; narrative notes about Kenton and his associates; original manuscripts by Kenton's contemporaries; dispositions describing Kenton's military career; legal documents; and newspaper and periodical articles. Kenton's own papers are sparse; although he could sign his name, he never learned to read or write. |
| - - - | Title: Draper Manuscripts: South Carolina in the Revolution Miscellanies, 1775-1877
Quantity: 0.4 cubic feet (2 volumes) Call Number: Draper Mss UU Abstract: A collection of materials focusing on South Carolina during the American Revolution. Included are descriptions of battles, biographies and sketches, accounts of military service, and speeches. A few unrelated items include a narrative by John Stuart about the campaign of Andrew Lewis and the Battle of Point Pleasant during Dunmore's War in 1774 in West Virginia, and articles on the presidential election of 1800 in the electoral college. |
| - - - | Title: Draper Manuscripts: South Carolina Papers, 1777-1778, 1781
Quantity: 0.2 cubic feet (1 volume) Call Number: Draper Mss TT Abstract: Notebook consisting of a document concerning American officers who were prisoners of war at Charleston, South Carolina; records of sales of goods and services primarily for military use; and a copy of the muster roll for Captain Harman Davis's company of South Carolina artillery. |
| Title: Draper Manuscripts: Tecumseh Papers, 1811-1931
Quantity: 1.2 cubic feet (13 volumes) Call Number: Draper Mss YY Abstract: Papers collected and arranged by Draper in preparation for writing a biography of the distinguished Shawnee chief and statesman, Tecumseh (1768-1813). Tecumseh proposed a program designed to halt western white settlement through a great Indian confederacy against further land cessions, through refusal to trade for or use white men's alcoholic beverages, and through adoption of a self-sufficient agricultural life. Along with the acquisition of papers of Tecumseh's early biographers, Benjamin Drake and his brother Daniel, Draper collected intensively on Tecumseh from about 1863 to his death. |
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| - - - | Title: Draper Manuscripts: Tennessee Papers, 1771-1883
Quantity: 1.4 cubic feet (7 volumes) Call Number: Draper Mss XX Abstract: Original papers of early Tennessee settlers, their reminiscences, and Draper's correspondence with surviving pioneers and descendants. Draper gathered most of this material for proposed biographies of Joseph Martin, James Robertson, John Sevier, and their comrades. Included are original correspondence; military records; papers on Indian affairs; land surveys; and Draper's correspondence with noted historian J.G.M. Ramsey and descendants of the settlers. |
| Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891 | Title: Draper Manuscripts: The Mecklenburg Declaration, 1876
Quantity: 0.6 cubic feet (3 volumes) Call Number: Draper Mss FF Abstract: An unpublished manuscript by Lyman Draper entitled “The Mecklenburg Declaration: Its Origin, History, and Actors,” which is about the North Carolina claim that the citizens of Mecklenburg County, on May 20, 1775, had adopted resolutions declaring the independence of the colony from Great Britain. This draft originated from his study of the controversy and his conclusion that the May 20 declaration was spurious. Also included within the manuscript are biographies of the delegates, certifiers, and other participants of the event; appendices include Draper's introductions and annotations of the text of papers which support his claims. |
| Forsyth, Thomas, 1771-1833 | Title: Draper Manuscripts: Thomas Forsyth Papers, 1804-1833
Quantity: 1.5 cubic feet (9 volumes) Call Number: Draper Mss T Abstract: Papers of Thomas Forsyth, a Chicago and Peoria, Illinois fur trader who served as Indian agent for the Sauk and Fox in Illinois and Missouri from 1818-1830 at Rock Island. The papers contain materials on the War of 1812 in the West, including correspondence (1812-1817) of the territorial governors of Illinois and Missouri, Ninian Edwards and William Clark, concerning military operations in Illinois and American attempts to secure Indian allies. |
| Hinde, Thomas S. (Thomas Spottswood), 1785-1846 | Title: Draper Manuscripts: Thomas Spottswood Hinde Papers, 1807-1845
Quantity: 6.0 cubic feet (41 volumes) Call Number: Draper Mss Y Abstract: Papers of Thomas Spottswood Hinde, a journalist, land salesman, legal clerk, and Methodist minister in Kentucky, Ohio, and Illinois, who was one of the founders of Mount Carmel, Illinois. Includes diaries (1808-1809, 1825-1826, 1830-1846, 1856), scattered correspondence, articles, reminiscences, poetry, and sermons. |
| Sumter, Thomas, 1734-1832 | Title: Draper Manuscripts: Thomas Sumter Papers, 1763-1885
Quantity: 4.6 cubic feet (24 volumes) Call Number: Draper Mss VV Abstract: Papers of and about Thomas Sumter, a South Carolina merchant, military officer, and Congressional representative and senator; about the men who served under his command during the American Revolution; and their British and Loyalist opponents. Most of the volumes contain the notes Draper made on his 1871 trip to the South. The notes document the soldiers, their families, events of the period, anecdotes, and personal reminiscences from descendants. Included are notes, correspondence, newspaper and periodical articles, pension statements, interviews, and plans and negotiations with the Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Choctaw Indians. |
| - - - | Title: Draper Manuscripts: Virginia Papers, 1772-1869
Quantity: 3.2 cubic feet (16 volumes) Call Number: Draper Mss ZZ Abstract: Papers collected by Lyman Draper when he was planning to publish an enlarged and revised edition of Joseph Doddridge's Notes on the Settlements and Indian Wars of the Western Parts of Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1763-1783. The major topics of discussion center around the development of the region and the American Revolution. Major battles include Dunmore's Expedition, 1774; the Battle of Point Pleasant, 1774; and skirmishes in Valley Forge and Pennsylvania. Defense and relationships with the Shawnee and Cherokee are discussed throughout the various military and family papers. The collection also contains information on many prominent families in the region; major figures include Joseph Doddridge and his family, William Fleming, William Christian, John Stuart, Patrick Henry, William Preston, Thomas Madison, Daniel Smith, John Evan Finley, and Joseph Martin. |
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Clark, William, d. 1791; Clark, William, 1770-1838 |
Title: Draper Manuscripts: William Clark Papers, 1780-1804
Quantity: 0.5 c.f. (6 volumes) Call Number: Draper Mss M Abstract: Papers of William Clark (d. 1791), a cousin of George Rogers Clark, who served in the Illinois Regiment and as commissioner and surveyor of the Illinois grant; and of George Rogers Clark's younger brother, also named William Clark (1770-1838), who was one of the leaders of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, governor of the Missouri Territory (1813-1821), and superintendent of Indian affairs at St. Louis (1822-1838). |
| Croghan, William, 1752-1822 | Title: Draper Manuscripts: William Croghan Papers, 1769-1818
Quantity: 0.4 cubic feet (3 volumes) Call Number: Draper Mss N Abstract: Military and personal papers of William Croghan, a Revolutionary War officer in the 8th Virginia Militia Regiment, who was also the brother-in-law of Jonathan, George Rogers, and William Clark. |
| Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841 | Title: Draper Manuscripts: William Henry Harrison Papers, 1811-1833
Quantity: 0.5 cubic feet (5 volumes) Call Number: Draper Mss X Abstract: Papers concerning William Henry Harrison's service in the War of 1812, including copies of his reports to the secretary of war (1811-1813); original correspondence of Harrison (1812-1817) and others; Harrison's 1840 manuscript defending his conduct of the 1813 Thames campaign; engravings and drawings of Harrison; and a map of the Tippecanoe battleground. Harrison was governor of Indiana Territory (1800-1812), commander of the Army of the Northwest in the War of 1812, and much later president of the United States (1841). |
| Irvine, William, 1741-1804 | Title: Draper Manuscripts: William Irvine Papers, 1776-1834
Quantity: 0.4 cubic feet (2 volumes) Call Number: Draper Mss AA Abstract: Copies of correspondence of William Irvine, the Commander of the Seventh Pennsylvania Regiment, who later (1779) became a brigadier general in the Continental Army, including materials from his command at Fort Pitt (1781-1783). Border defense and Irvine’s military career are the most prominent topics, but personal letters written to his wife discuss family health, business affairs, servants, and the children’s education. |
| Preston, William, 1729-1783 | Title: Draper Manuscripts: William Preston Papers, 1731-1791
Quantity: 1.2 cubic feet (6 volumes) Call Number: Draper Mss QQ Abstract: Papers of William Preston, a colonial and frontier political figure in Virginia, and a few of his relatives. Business and military records concern Preston's land dealings and his role in Indian negotiations. Also included is correspondence with prominent military and political figures, as well as some papers of James Patton and John Buchanan. |
| Dreutzer Family | Title: Dreutzer Family Papers, 1876-1923
Quantity: 2.0 c.f. (5 archives boxes) Call Number: Green Bay Mss 55 Abstract: Papers of the Dreutzer family, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, including correspondence of Yngre and Elizabeth Dreutzer with their children, Carl, Cedric, and Genevieve, while at the University of Wisconsin or the U.S. Naval Academy, 1905-1912; Elizabeth's correspondence with Ada James and Olympia Brown on woman's suffrage, 1912; drafts of stories by Carl Wernicke, Genevieve's husband; legal papers from the Dreutzer law firm; and other papers. |