Manuscripts and Archives Division

The Division holds over 29,000 linear feet of manuscripts and archives in over 5,500 collections. The strengths of the Division are the papers and records of individuals, families, and organizations, primarily from the New York region. These collections support research in the political, economic, social, and cultural history of New York and the United States.

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Collections in the Manuscripts and Archives Division

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Century Company records
15,771 items
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New York World's Fair 1939 and 1940 Incorporated records
13,637 items
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Benjamin K. Miller collection of United States stamps
5,505 items
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Thomas Addis Emmet collection, [legacy collection]
4,408 items
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Diana Davies photographs
3,845 items
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Theodorus Bailey Myers collection
1,810 items
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Committee of Fifteen records
1,731 items
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Samuel J. Tilden papers
1,561 items
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Philip Schuyler papers
1,531 items
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Renaissance and medieval manuscripts collection
1,476 items
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Samuel Adams papers
1,248 items
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Bancker plans
1,080 items
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Duyckinck family papers
1,011 items
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Gay Men's Health Crisis records
853 items
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Thomas Addis Emmet collection
779 items
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Schwimmer-Lloyd collection
752 items
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Barbara Gittings and Kay Tobin Lahusen gay history papers and photographs
574 items
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Wilberforce Eames Babylonian collection
437 items
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James Madison papers
368 items
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William Smith Jr. papers
342 items
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Benjamin R. Tucker papers
261 items
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Boston Committee of Correspondence records
258 items
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International Gay Information Center collection. Photographs
252 items
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United States Sanitary Commission records. Condensed historical matter
246 items
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Abraham Yates, Jr. papers
246 items
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Andrew Jackson and William B. Lewis correspondence
237 items
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George Chalmers collection
195 items
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Brown Brothers & Company records
174 items
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Liebmann collection of American historical documents relating to spiritous liquors
167 items
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Yaddo records
154 items
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Thomas Kelah Wharton diaries and sketchbook
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Thomas A. Larcom photographs collection
151 items
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ACT UP New York records
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Gran Fury collection
147 items
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Port Washington Public Library Gallery Talks
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Harold M. Fleming papers
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George Washington papers
107 items
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Augusta Melville papers
92 items
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New York World's Fair 1964-1965 Corporation records
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Robert Brewster Stanton papers
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Gansevoort-Lansing collection
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Noah Webster papers
67 items
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Thomas Jefferson papers
58 items
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Fifty-seven early New York documents
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George Gibbs collection of Oliver Wolcott correspondence
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Livingston family papers
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Schuyler-Malcom family papers
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William Williams papers
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Robert Morris papers
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John Bigelow papers
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Frank J. Sprague papers
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August Belmont papers
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John Quinn papers
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Joseph Hawley papers
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Alexander Hamilton papers
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Robert F. Byrnes collection of automat memorabilia
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William H. Meyers diary
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Philip Schuyler letters and documents
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Henry Knox papers
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Abraham Lincoln collection
28 items
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Timothy Leary papers
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Stefan George letters to Ernst Morwitz
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Philip Mazzei papers
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Raphael Lemkin papers
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Carl Van Vechten papers
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Frank Thompson photograph albums
24 items
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Emigrant Savings Bank records: microfilm
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Arabic manuscripts collection
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William B. Osgood Field papers
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Fred F. French Companies records
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New York Times Company records. General files
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Richard Henry Lee letters
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Piccirilli family papers
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People's Institute records
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Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars records
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Angela Morgan papers
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Highland Notes
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Sydney Howard Gay papers
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New Yorker records
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Robert Moses papers
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Draper Collection of cuneiform
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Edward F. Caldwell Lighting Company records
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Stratemeyer Syndicate records
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Nathaniel Trumbull papers
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Hugh Gaine papers
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Florence Kelley papers
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Cravath, Swaine & Moore collection of historical documents
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Robert Brooke papers relating to the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
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Gilbert H. Montague collection of Robert Fulton manuscripts
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Moe Berg papers
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Alexandria, Virginia account books
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H.L. Mencken papers
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Babette Deutsch papers
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Whitney cookery collection
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Silas Deane letters
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Joe Baum papers
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Bacon cipher collection
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Committee of Fourteen records
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Benjamin Randolph ledger
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Spalding baseball collection
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Monumentos Guadalupanos
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Paul Kester papers
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Mattachine Society, Inc. of New York Records
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Shaker manuscript collection
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Frank P. Walsh papers
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Straus family papers
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Collin MacGregor letterbooks
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Raphael Patai papers
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Society of Tammany, or Columbian Order records
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Hudson collection
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William Conant Church papers
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United States Sanitary Commission records. Hospital Directory archives
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Dutchess County Anti-Slavery Society Executive Committee minutes
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Edward Clark Potter papers
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Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender periodical collection
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Truman Capote papers
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Bertram David Wolfe papers
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Bettye Lane Gay Rights Movement Photographs
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Holger Cahill papers
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Horace Grant Healey penmanship collection
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Joel Sayre papers
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Elizabeth Van Lew papers
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Hayden Carruth papers
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Robert Fulton collection
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Ezra A. Carman papers
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Henry George papers
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Edward S. and Mary Stillman Harkness collection
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Liberal Party of New York State records
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Gerry-Townsend papers
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Litchfield family photograph collection
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Lee Kohns collection
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Ruth and Hermann Vollmer papers
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Jacob Riis papers
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National American Woman Suffrage Association records
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Albert S. Bard papers
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Georgia Lloyd papers
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Michael P. Riabouchinsky papers
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Schieffelin family papers
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Theodore Winthrop papers
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Tom Wolfe papers
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The works of William E. Channing
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William Barclay Parsons collection of Robert Fulton manuscripts
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Genet family papers
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Craig Rodwell papers
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Moses Taylor papers
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H. R. Newton's Oyster House ledger and photographs
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Vito Marcantonio papers
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Gino Speranza papers
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Bryant-Godwin papers
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Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh papers, 1871-1934.
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Central and Eastern European Planning Board records
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Crane family papers
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Louis Waldman papers
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Maitland collection of South Sea Company and Mississippi Scheme papers
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Patricia Cornwell collection
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Samuel Ward papers
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Propaganda collection
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Isabel Florence Hapgood papers
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Thomas Bohen papers regarding Grace Paley
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Carnegie Corporation of New York correspondence
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Obadiah Rich collection
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John A. Roebling Sons Company Brooklyn Bridge engineer's drawings
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Sol Bloom papers, 1898-1949, bulk (1935-1949)
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Pierre F. Simon collection of artists' letters
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Harry Miller Lydenberg papers
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Willa Cather literary manuscripts
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Constance Lindsay Skinner papers
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Berenice Abbott papers
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Montague collection of historical autographs
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Dorothy Frooks papers
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Miscellaneous Collections: U.S. States and Territories
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American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society records
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Clark M. Eichelberger papers
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Albert Tracy papers
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Alexandre Vattemare papers
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Alfred Williams Anthony collection
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Pierre Toussaint papers
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J.G. Holland papers
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Camera Club of New York records
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John Shaw Billings papers
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International Gay Information Center collection. Ephemera - Organizations
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Robert H. Davis papers
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International Gay Information Center collection. Ephemera - Bars
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Alexander Jackson Davis papers
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Ernest Harvier scrapbooks
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Martin B. Duberman papers
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Gustav Scholer papers.
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New Netherland papers
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The Life of Robert Fulton / by Cadwallader D. Colden ; illustrated by Thos. Addis Emmet M.D
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Genevieve Taggard papers
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Chester F. Carlson papers
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Constable-Pierrepont papers
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Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research correspondence
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National Board of Review of Motion Pictures records
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United States Sanitary Commission records. Department of North Carolina archives
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Washington Irving papers
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Artkraft Strauss records
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Max Wertheimer papers
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A particuler discourse concerninge the greate necessitie and manifolde commodyties ...
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John H. Finley papers
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William Henry Jackson papers, 1862-1942
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Foster-Murphy collection
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Notes to the Retreat of the English: a Yankee song containing a variety of facts, circumstances and anecdotes, relating to the late invasion of New Orleans by a member of the Mississippi Society K.R
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David Fulton Karsner papers
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Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi papers
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Gideon Welles papers, 1825-1878, bulk (1840-1864)
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James Harlan (1820-1899) miscellaneous file
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Diana Vreeland papers
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Ida M. Mellen papers
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Levi P. Morton papers
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Montague-Collier family papers
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Log of the ship Lawrance
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Arthur Bell papers
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American Industrial Mission to Mexico records
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Vito Marcantonio photographs
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Vito Russo papers
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William Frey papers
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Smyth of Nibley papers
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Samuel B. Ruggles papers, 1801-1881.
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Emma Mills correspondence
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Bayard-Campbell-Pearsall families papers
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Brewster and Company records, 1837-1924, bulk (1897-1924)
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Emily Fowler Ford papers
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Maryam Jameelah papers
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Beale shorthand collection
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Conewago Canal Company records, 1788-1820.
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Horace Greeley papers
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National Audubon Society records
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F. M. Esfandiary / FM-2030 papers
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Thomas F. Madigan collection, 1817-1931.
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Emerson family papers
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Prison Association of New York records
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Edward C. Taintor papers, 1839-1879.
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United States. Mission to Russia - Official Papers of Albert Gallatin, John Quincy Adams and James A. Bayard.
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William Greenleaf Webster papers, 1820-1865.
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Robert Stone papers
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Robert Burns and William Nicol Burns letters
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Forgeries collection
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Gilbert Livingston papers
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Ward family papers
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Town Hall, Inc. records
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Victory Book Campaign records
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Van Cortlandt-Van Wyck family papers
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International Gay Information Center collection. Ephemera - Subjects
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Dutch West India Company Brazil records
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Ely family letters
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Alexander Anderson papers
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Lewis Hine papers
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Ford, Roelker, Turle family papers
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Richard Upjohn and Richard Michell Upjohn papers
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Richard Mansfield family papers
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Schuyler Colfax papers
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Spanish Child Welfare Association of America records
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Simeon A. Stearns papers
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Adeline Oppenheim Guimard papers
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William Edgar papers
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Contemporaries gallery records
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United States Sanitary Commission records. Washington, D.C. archives
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Copy Berg papers
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Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement records
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Ronald Sanders papers
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Almon Harris Thompson and Ellen Powell Thompson diaries
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Astor family papers, 1792-1916.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett manuscripts
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Minutes of the Committee of Brookhaven, Manor of St. George and Patentship of Moriches
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Merle De Vore Johnson papers
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Farewell address
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John Hyslop diary
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Nicholas Kelley papers
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United States Sanitary Commission records. California Branch archives
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Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street Elevations
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Joseph Hawley correspondence and documents
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Robert E. Lee engineering notebook
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Environmental Action Coalition records
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Alexander Hamilton plan of a constitution for America
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Joseph Johnson diary
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Mol[i]tvʹnikʹ o gospodě Bozě pochina︠i︡emʺ ... Slūzhba s[via]togo Īoana Zlatousta ...
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New York City Court of Aldermen records
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Rodd family papers
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Five amulets (discovered in Jewish tombs in Irbid, Jordan. 5th-6th c.)
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Diplomatic correspondence
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Ford autograph collection
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Francis Toohey papers
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Citizens for a Quieter City records
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Promulgation of the City of New Amsterdam
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Psalterium Americanum
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Emma Goldman papers
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New York Typographical Union No. 6. records
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Fort Niagara statement of account with Edward Pollard
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Fort Ontario ledger
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Herman Rosenthal papers
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Minutes of the Commissioners of the Alms-House and Bridewell
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Bronson family papers
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Miss Frank E. Buttolph papers
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Vincent Astor Foundation records
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Francis Stanfell papers
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Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) miscellaneous file
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George H. Budke collection
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British headquarters papers
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Sir John Franklin (1786-1847) miscellaneous file
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Coats of arms of New Amsterdam and New Netherland
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James Monroe papers
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James Riker papers
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Campaign for World Government. Records of the Chicago office
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Mormon miscellaneous collection
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Helen Lansing Grinnell diary
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Isaac Goldberg papers
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Cleveland-Perkins family papers
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Barbara Goldsmith papers
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Compendio historico del los indios de Peru
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Ivins family papers
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John Robert Gregg collection
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Reports of the Board of Treasury
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Maloney collection of Irish historical papers
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Winning of the West : manuscript, 1889
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La clef du cabinet hermetique
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Gouverneur & Kemble letter book
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Charles Blue diary kept on board the U.S.S. Vandalia
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Resolution of the High Mighty Lords States-General
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Macmillan Company records
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George Clinton Genet cash book
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CARE records
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George Endicott diary
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Horace Newton Allen papers
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William Augustine Washington letters
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Poetry Society of America records
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George Washington notebook as a Virginia colonel
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New York City Mayor's Court trial minutes
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Autograph verses and photographs of Southern poets of the Civil War
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New York Court of Vice Admiralty records
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Jeanne Manford papers
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Arcularius and Merrell record and account book
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John Milton papers
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New York State Comptroller memorandum book
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Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith papers
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Florence Nightingale Levy papers
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George Clayton Foulk papers
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Gouverneur & Kemble cash book
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Mitchell Kennerley papers
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Archibald Robertson maps
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Andrew Carnegie letters
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Emily Ellsworth Ford Skeel papers
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Isaac and Joshua Child papers
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Eugenia Hughes papers
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New York City miscellaneous collection
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Critical remarks by the committee of examination on compositions &c presented to the Calliopean Society
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Nicasius De Sille, Schout [Sheriff] of New Amsterdam
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Joel E. Spingarn papers
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Nathan Straus papers
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Kip family papers
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Joseph Smith (1805-1844) miscellaneous file
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Koppel S. Pinson papers, 1923-1960, bulk (1940s-1950s)
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Notes on a constitution for France
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Daniel Phoenix, Jr. receipt book
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H.M.S. Aeolus and H.M.S. Norwich logbooks
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Autograph album from the signing of the Treaty of Riga
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The south part of Virginia, now the north part of Carolina
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Richard John Levy and Sally Waldman Sweet collection
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A complete system of magic
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Dorothy Schiff papers
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Oliver Wolcott letterbook
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Kitty Marion papers
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Commonplace books collection
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Oliver Cromwell letter to John Cotton
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Rosika Schwimmer papers
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Robert Troup papers
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The trusts, the people, and the Square Deal
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New York State Comptroller's Office canal records
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Historia geográfica, civil y natural de la ysla de San Juan Bautista de Puerto Rico : manuscript
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Messages of the Records
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The vindication of astrology &c
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Henry Laurens diary
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Frederick W. Kobbé and Helen Jay De Bois genealogical research papers
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Peter Gansevoort, Jr. military papers
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Henry Ten Eyck docket of actions at law and related documents
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Eleonora von Mendelssohn papers
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Lewis Ogden letterbook
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Thomas Jefferson account book, 1791-1803
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Description des principaux endroites de la mer du sud [...]
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Lewis M. Isaacs collection of E.A. Robinson papers, 1896-1967.
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Henry Harrisse papers
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James Oppenheim papers
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List of loyalists against whom judgments were given under the Confiscation Act
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Title of executors & administrators by the Honbl. Tapping Reeve, Litchfield, Connecticut
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Charles Boultenhouse and Parker Tyler papers
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Samuel Hill papers, 1813-1822.
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Samuel and John Galloway papers, 1739-1812.
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Walter L. Fleming papers
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Herbert J. Seligmann papers
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) miscellaneous file
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Richard Watson Gilder papers
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George Bancroft collection
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Elizabeth Garver Jordan papers, 1891-1945.
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William Frederick Allen papers, 1870-1894, bulk (1879-1894).
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John Wolcott Phelps papers
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William Frothingham papers
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Hugh Gaine receipt book
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Edith Wynner papers
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Commissioners' plan of Manhattan Island and report with related materials
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P.T. Barnum papers
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. records
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Lillian D. Wald Papers
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Short hints towards a scheme for a general union of the British colonies on the continent
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Petition to George III, King of Great Britain, 1775
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Notes on Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787
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Album de poésies de la Comtesse Auriemma Vianelli de Venise
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El Brasil restituido
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Methodist Episcopal Church records
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Stanley M. Isaacs papers
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Map of the East Side of the North River: Done in consequence of orders from his excellency Gen'l Washington
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S. N. Behrman papers
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Israel Stoughton (?-1645) miscellaneous file
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Bliss family papers
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Incantation bowl
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Elizabeth De Hart Bleecker diary
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Uncle Tom's cabin: holograph leaf
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Masters-Davis collection
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Mapa de la Sierra Gorda, y Costa del Seno Mexicano, desde la Ciudad de Queretero,circa 1763
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Accounts and transactions relative to the estate of Samuel Bayard
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Chelsea Fire Club record book
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United States District Court of New York proceedings
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Adolph Philipse estate records
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Taunton Social Library records
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Ernst Papanek papers
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Ferguson family papers
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Frank H. Pierce papers relating to the U.S.S. Monitor
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National Civic Federation records
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T.H. Morrell collection of original autograph letters of the presidents of the United States
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William Law papers
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Augustus Porter daybook
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Miscellaneous Collections: Subjects
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George Kennan papers
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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. papers
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Rhode Island orderly book
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George Jones papers, 1825-1894 (bulk 1860-1887).
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Richard Rogers Bowker papers
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Jabez Fitch diary
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Serrell-Opdycke-Patrick papers
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James Maury letters
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United States Sanitary Commission records
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Abraham Yates, Jr. papers
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Testimony against Hugh Parsons charged with witchcraft