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Charles Williamson papers

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-1006
Abstract Extensive correspondence, documents, a journal describing an information gathering trip to Turkey of Charles Williamson, politician, British government agent, and developer of central New York State lands in the late 1700s. Williamson is suspected to have been involved in the "Burr Conspiracy," an episode in history in which Burr was accused of treason. Collection also includes research materials compiled by Isaac Joslin Cox, a scholar who wrote several articles on the Aaron Burr...
Dates: 1775-approximately 1940s; Majority of material found within 1790-1810

David Tilden Brown Papers

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-1819
Abstract Letters, receipts, contracts, 2 manuscript maps, and drawings pertaining to Brown's activities in Nicaragua around 1848-1850. Brown traveled to Central America in 1849 planning to establish a cheaper and faster commercial route west from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean across the isthmus of Nicaragua. Brown and several associates formed the Compañía de Vapores de Nicaragua and, on March 14, 1849, negotiated the first treaty with General José Trinidad Muñoz for exclusive rights to steamship...
Dates: 1848-1866; Majority of material found in 1849 - 1849

Dorothy Hild papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Hild
Abstract Former Director of Entertainment at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago and founder of the dance troupe Africana Dancers. Papers include correspondence, clippings, financial information, photographs, publicity, sheet music for her productions and dance numbers at the Edgewater Beach Hotel as well as the auto and fair shows Dorothy Hild directed under the auspices of Barnes - Carruthers, and files from her instruction at various YMCA and YWCA locations in Chicago. Additionally, the papers...
Dates: 1847-1984; Majority of material found within 1929-1980

John M. Wing Foundation printing ephemera collection

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Identifier: Wing-Ephemera-File
Abstract

Printed ephemera from a variety of companies, organizations, and individuals, mostly concerned with printing, publishing, graphic design, and related book arts. Geographic coverage includes North America, Great Britain, Europe and East Asia.

Dates: approximately 1750-ongoing; Majority of material found within 1900-1999

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Correspondence 2
Correspondence -- 1801-1850 2
Manuscripts, American 2
Address books 1
Advertisements 1
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Advertising 1
Advertising cards 1
Alternative publications 1
Announcements 1
Annual reports 1
Artists' books 1
Ballet 1
Birthday cards 1
Blank forms 1
Book jackets 1
Book prospectuses 1
Bookmarks 1
Bookplates 1
Booksellers' advertisements 1
Booksellers' catalogs 1
Broadsides 1
Brochures 1
Burr Conspiracy, 1805-1807 -- Sources 1
Business cards 1
Buttons (informational artifacts) 1
Calendars 1
Calligraphy 1
Calligraphy (visual works) 1
Canals -- Nicaragua -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Canals, Interoceanic -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Catalogs 1
Certificates 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- Sources 1
Choreographers -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Christmas cards 1
Clippings 1
Clippings (information artifacts) 1
Colonial agents -- Great Britain -- Biography 1
Colonial agents -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Conference programs 1
Contracts 1
Correspondence -- 1751-1800 1
Correspondence -- 1851-1900 1
Costume design 1
Dance cards 1
Dance teachers -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Dancers -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Diaries -- Turkey -- 1751-1800 1
Direct mail 1
Envelopes 1
Exhibition catalogs 1
Folk dancing, Mexican 1
Folk dancing, Yoruba 1
Genesee County (N.Y.) -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
Genesee Region (N.Y.) -- Biography 1
Graphic arts 1
Graphic design (Typography) 1
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Latin America -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Greeting cards 1
Hotels 1
Industrial musicals 1
Invitations 1
Istanbul (Turkey) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800 1
Keepsakes 1
Labels (identifying artifacts) 1
Land companies -- New York (State) -- Genesee Region -- History -- Sources 1
Land settlement -- New York (State) -- Genesee Region -- History -- Sources 1
Letterheads 1
Mailing labels 1
Manufacturers' catalogs 1
Manuscript maps 1
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Manuscripts, English 1
Manuscripts, Spanish 1
Membership lists 1
Menus 1
New Year cards 1
New York (State) -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
Nicaragua -- History -- 1838-1909 -- Sources 1
Nicaragua Canal (Nicaragua) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Nightlife 1
Order forms 1
Penmanship manuals 1
Periodicals 1
Photographs 1
Physicians -- Nicaragua -- Correspondence 1
Postcards 1
Posters 1
Prayer books 1
Press releases 1
Price lists 1
Printed ephemera 1
Printers' advertisements 1
Printing 1
Printing industry 1
Programs 1
Promotional materials 1
Proofs (printed matter) 1
Prospectuses 1
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Language
French 1
German 1
Italian 1
Russian 1
Swedish 1
 
Names
Ackerman, Simeon H. 1
Africana Dancers 1
Aliquando Press 1
American Institute of Graphic Arts 1
Balaban & Katz 1