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Formal title:: Cortazzo autograph collection
Extent:: 0.83 linear feet (2 document cases)
Date range:: 1656-1916 and undated (bulk 1880-1900)
Abstract:: Autographs, letters and letter fragments, postcards, notes, calling cards, poems, military orders, and other official documents collected by Emma Cullum Cortazzo and her daughter, Katherine Cortazzo, from various literary, historical, and royal figures.
Repository:: Redwood Library and Athenaeum
Collection call no:: RLC.Ms.027

Formal title:: Joe and Lil Shapiro collection of laundry ephemera
Extent:: 15.0 linear feet
Date range:: 1805-2010 (bulk 1880-1955)
Abstract:: The Joe and Lil Shapiro collection of laundry ephemera is a collection consisting largely of small format ephemera that depict the history, artifacts and materials used in doing laundry over several centuries. Most of the material was produced by companies involved in the manufacture of laundry products. The collection includes, but is not limited to, advertising premiums, billheads, broadsides, brochures, calendars, greeting cards, labels, matchbooks, pamphlets, photographs, postage stamps, poster stamps, promotional booklets, puzzles, scrapbooks, shirt boards and trade cards. Much of the material in the collection is undated. The dated material is from 1805 to 2010. Most was produced between 1880 and 1955.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: MS.2014.002

Formal title:: Lester Frank Ward papers
Extent:: 11 Linear Feet
Date range:: 1860-1913
Abstract:: The Lester Frank Ward papers in the John Hay Library consists of the correspondence, manuscripts, published writings, and personal library of a noted nineteenth-century American geologist, paleontologist, and sociologist. These materials reflect virtually all aspects of Ward's professional life, including his years of service as a member of the U. S. Geological Survey staff, his activities as a professor at both Columbian College (now George Washington University) and Brown University, and his long career as a writer of scholarly monographs and articles on many subjects. The papers also contain some information concerning his personal life.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.90.23

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