Harold H. Burton papers, 1792-1965
118,000 items ; 399 containers plus 4 oversize plus 1 classified ; 159.5 linear feet ; 5 microfilm reels -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Associate justice of the United States Supreme Court and United States senator. Diaries, correspondence, legal case files, speeches and writings, reports, photographs, maps, printed matter, and newspaper clippings pertaining primarily to Burton's activities as an associate justice of the Supreme Court and Senator.
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Riggs family papers, 1763-1945
100,000 items ; 359 containers ; 145.6 linear feet ; 3 microfilm reels -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Merchant and banking family of New York, New York, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C. Family and business correspondence, diaries, account books, writings, financial records, biographical and genealogical papers, printed materials, and other papers of Riggs family members.
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Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of America. Diocese of Alaska records, 1733-1938
87,000 items ; 748 containers plus 23 oversize ; 326 linear feet ; 402 microfilm reels -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Principally ecclesiastical records relating to the administration of the numerous parishes and chapels of the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska, and, to a lesser extent, in Canada and the United States, comprising correspondence, registers of births, marriages, and deaths, confession and communion records, a clergy dossier, orders and edicts (ukases) from imperial and ecclesiastical authorities,...
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Yudin collection of Russian-American Company records, 1783-1946
150 items ; 3 containers ; 1 linear foot ; 2 microfilm reels -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Official letters, work reports, tariff and cargo registers, ships’ journals, accounts of exploratory expeditions, and other papers relating to the exploration and colonization of Alaska and Siberia by the Russian-American Company (Rossiĭsko-amerikanskai︠a︡ kompanii︠a︡).
Samuel Dash papers, 1748-2004
87,000 items ; 253 containers plus 2 classified ; 101 linear feet -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Lawyer, educator, and author. Correspondence, memoranda, legal material and opinions, writings, speeches, engagement file, teaching file, organization and committee file, clippings, photographs, appointment calendars, and other papers relating primarily to Dash's legal career after 1964, and more particularly his role in governmental investigations.
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Joseph Stanley-Brown papers, 1730-1941
2,000 items ; 9 containers plus 1 oversize ; 3.6 linear feet -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Presidential secretary, civil servant, and banker. Correspondence, family papers, notes, reports, briefs, printed material, and miscellany relating to Stanley-Brown's genealogical studies, his service as private secretary to Presidents James A. Garfield and Chester Alan Arthur, and career in diplomacy and business.
Carl John Sacarisen diary, 1898-1899
2 items ; 1 container ; .2 linear feet -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Cook for the Lapland-Yukon Relief Expedition. Diary kept by Sacarisen during an expedition to relocate reindeer from Norway to Alaska.
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Agnes Bellinger Tlingit collection, 1985
1 folder. 1 videocassette of 1 (VHS) (30 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in. 1 videocassette of 1 (Beta) (90 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in. -- Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Collection comprises two videocassettes and a pamphlet on traditional music, dance, and other customs of the Tlingit nation of southeast Alaska.
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Thomas T. Craven papers, 1842-1969
500 items ; 2 containers plus 1 oversize ; .6 linear feet -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Naval officer. Correspondence, family papers, and subject files relating primarily to his convoy duty and command of United States Naval Aviation Forces in Europe during World War I, and his command of a gunboat flotilla on the Yangtze River in China during 1929-1931.
George F. Becker papers, 1814-1928
9,900 items ; 36 containers plus 1 oversize ; 14.5 linear feet -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Geologist, mathematician, engineer, and physicist. Correspondence, diaries, letterbooks, notebooks, notes, memoranda, maps, charts, tables, landscape sketches, and printed matter primarily relating to Becker's service at the United States Geological Survey, Carnegie Institution of Washington, and as president of the Geological Society of America.