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Autograph album of Hartman Hotel
Manuscripts
This album includes autographs, short notes, and some sketches by over 100 visitors to Hotel Hartman, many of whom were famous. They include actors, both stage and screen, opera singers, performers, artists, and dancers. Some notable people are: American dancer Ruth St. Denis; comic strip writer and creator of Buster Brown, Richard F. Outcault; American actor Tyrone Power; musician John Philip Sousa; and Italian tenor Enrico Caruso; among many others. With the volume are two photographs of unidentified men and a typed list of all of the autographs.
mssHM 76512
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Lydia Woodworth autograph album
Manuscripts
Autograph album of Lydia Woodworth chiefly containing blank pages with 10 drawings, 1 handwritten piece of music, and 3 manuscript pieces contributed by her friends including members of the Strong family and Charles Warren Stoddard. Consists of: a poem titled "Madrigal" by Charles Warren Stoddard, 1880; an undated unsigned poem in French beginning "Ah! Mademoiselle Lydie! est a bien vous..."; 1880; pen-and-ink sketch of a woman by Joseph D. Strong, 1880; two pages of music, "To Lydia" with "words by J. E. T." and "music by C. T.", February 1879; three pen-and-ink sketches of a woman by Belle Osborne Strong, 1878 and undated; a pen-and-ink sketch of a figure in Chinese costume with a fan by Jules Tavernier; a watercolor of a misty landscape by J. W. Rix; a watercolor of flowers signed E. Williams; an ink-and-watercolor of a human skull, unsigned; an unfinished watercolor of a woman and flowers, unsigned; and a colored sketch of a flying duck by E. N. [McCoy?] . Also includes a note from Austin Strong, son of Joseph and Belle Strong, dated September 1919, identifying the contents as contributions "all from young artists living in San Francisco in the real Bohemia days." The volume is inscribed "Lydia Woodworth, from her dear Friend Jessie Rand, Dec. 25th, 1876."
mssHM 45669
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----. Autograph Album [autograph album] (1924)
Manuscripts
There are 8,002 pieces of manuscripts, 6,044 of which are by Annie C. Bill. The manuscripts comprise of articles, drafts, essays, excerpts, notebooks, proofs, speeches, statements, and miscellaneous notes. There are 7,218 pieces of correspondence, 1,629 of which are by Annie C. Bill; most of her correspondence comprises of incomplete drafts of letters. The majority of the correspondence includes letters by her publisher, A.A. Beauchamp, Deputy Advisor, John V. Dittemore, officers, and students relating to her religious movement. There are 2,129 pieces of ephemera, the majority being related to Annie C. Bill. The first part of the ephemera is applications, brochures, fliers, and tracts that are arranged according to Bill's religious organization that she joined or led. The remaining ephemera consists of an appointment book, British Museum copyright receipts, Bill's British passport, calling cards, circular letters, empty envelopes, financial records, a greeting card, Kelly's Directors LTD., legal documents, miscellaneous ephemera, newspaper clippings, periodicals, photographs, postcards, and reprints.
mssBill collection
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----. Autograph Album [autograph album] (1924)
Manuscripts
There are 8,002 pieces of manuscripts, 6,044 of which are by Annie C. Bill. The manuscripts comprise of articles, drafts, essays, excerpts, notebooks, proofs, speeches, statements, and miscellaneous notes. There are 7,218 pieces of correspondence, 1,629 of which are by Annie C. Bill; most of her correspondence comprises of incomplete drafts of letters. The majority of the correspondence includes letters by her publisher, A.A. Beauchamp, Deputy Advisor, John V. Dittemore, officers, and students relating to her religious movement. There are 2,129 pieces of ephemera, the majority being related to Annie C. Bill. The first part of the ephemera is applications, brochures, fliers, and tracts that are arranged according to Bill's religious organization that she joined or led. The remaining ephemera consists of an appointment book, British Museum copyright receipts, Bill's British passport, calling cards, circular letters, empty envelopes, financial records, a greeting card, Kelly's Directors LTD., legal documents, miscellaneous ephemera, newspaper clippings, periodicals, photographs, postcards, and reprints.
mssBill collection
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John Kenyon Autograph Album
Manuscripts
The majority of the collection consists of manuscripts and letters written by leading British Victorian political, scientific, and literary figures; there is also a small amount of material by American, French, German, and Polish writers. The manuscripts include poems by Daniel Webester, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Helen Maria Williams. The political correspondents include John Bright, Hugh McCalmont Cairns (Earl Cairns), George William Villiers (Earl of Clarendon), Frances Power Cobbe, Richard Cobden, William Ewart Gladstone, George Cornewall Lewis, Henry Temple (Viscount Palmerston), and George Frederick Robinson (Marquess of Ripon). The artist, scientific, and literary correspondents include Charles Babbage, Sara Coleridge, Charles Eastlake, Maria Edgeworth, Robert Fitzroy, John Forster, Elizabeth Gaskell, Grace Greenwood, Felicia Hemans, Richard Monckton Milnes (Baron Houghton), Edwin Landseer, William Macready, Harriet Martineau, Roderick Impey Murchison, Caroline Norton, and Catharine Maria Sedgwick.
mssHM 69273-69383
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Autograph Album of the Ohio Constitutional Convention
Manuscripts
Autograph album containing signatures of the delegates from the Ohio Constitutional Convention, 1873-1874.
mssHM 79902