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Autograph Files
Guide to the Autograph Files,
1783-1983
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Collection Summary
| Repository: |
Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College
Libraries
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| Title: |
Autograph Files |
| Dates: |
1783-1983
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| Quantity: |
9 cubic ft. |
| Abstract: |
Letters with some
manuscripts, speeches, poems, and other items, primarily resulting from an
official connection with Vassar College, written by Vassar students, faculty or
staff, or of historical and cultural significance.
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| Forms of Materials: |
Correspondence, autographs
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Scope and Content Note
Letters with some manuscripts, speeches, poems, and other items,
primarily resulting from an official connection with Vassar College, written by
Vassar students, faculty or staff, or of historical and cultural significance.
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Access and Use
Access
This collection is open for research according to the regulations of the
Vassar College Archives and Special Collections Library without any additional
restrictions.
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Related Material
- Several items were separated from larger collections.
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Subject Headings
Names:
- James Family
- Livingston Family
Organizations:
- Association of Collegiate
Alumnae (U.S.)
- Bryn Mawr College
- Spellman College
- Vassar College -- Employees
- Vassar College -- Faculty
- Vassar College -- History
- Vassar College -- Students
- Vassar College. History
Dept
- Vassar College. Library
- Vassar College. Observatory
- Yale University
Subjects:
- Abolitionists -- New York
(State) -- Rochester
- Afro-Americans -- Social work
with
- Apprentices -- Massachusetts
-- Woburn
- Authors, American
- Authors, English
- Chastity
- Christianity
- Dogs
- Educational fund raising
- Equal rights
amendments
- Feminism
- Feminists
- Fires -- Massachusetts --
Salem
- Fugitive Slaves --
Kentucky
- Fugitive slaves -- New York
(State) -- Rochester
- Law students
- Missions -- India
- Music -- Study and teaching
- Nonviolence -- Religious
aspects
- Ovariotomy
- Patriotism
- Peace treaties
- Peasantry -- Russia
- Poetry
- Presidents -- United States
-- Election
- Publishers and publishing
- Revolutions -- Europe
- Screenwriters -- California
-- Hollywood
- Shakers
- Shoemakers -- Massachusetts
-- Woburn
- Slavery -- Anti-slavery
movements
- Strikes and lockouts --
Marble industry and trade -- Vermont
- Syphilis
- Theater -- Spain
- Wages and women
- Women -- Education
- Women -- Employment
- Women -- Social conditions
- Women artists
- Women authors, American
- Women in politics
- Women missionaries -- India
- Women social
reformers
- Women's colleges --
Pennsylvania -- Bryn Mawr
- Women's colleges -- New York
(State) -- Poughkeepsie
- Women's health services
- Women's rights
- World War, 1914-1918 --
France
- World War, 1914-1918 -- War
work -- Red Cross
Places:
- Boston (Mass.) -- Religious
life and customs
- Boston (Mass.) -- Social
life and customs
- Europe -- History --
1848-1849
- Europe -- Politics and
government
- France -- Foreign relations
-- United States
- Ghana -- Description and
travel
- New York (N.Y.) -- Politics
and government
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social
life and customs
- Scotland -- Social
conditions
- United States -- Foreign
relations -- France
- United States -- History --
Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States -- Politics
and government
- United States -- Social
life and customs
- Woburn (Mass.) -- Economic
conditions
Document Types:
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Encoding Information
Encoded by Laura Finkel, April 2008.
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Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Autograph Files, Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar
College Libraries.
Processing Information
Partially processed by Louise Loeb, 2005.
Completed and updated by Jared Berenholz, 2008.
Acquisition Information
An artificial collection, collected over several decades by Vassar
College Library staff. Some materials removed from larger collections.
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Folder List
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Abbott, Francis Matilda |
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Abbott, Lyman |
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Abbott, Mary M. |
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Aberdeen & Temair, Ishbel Maria (Marjoribanks)
Gordon
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Acheson, Dean |
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Adam, Adolph Charles |
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Adamic, Louis |
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Adams, Charles Francis |
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Adams, Elizabeth K. |
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Adams, George Burton |
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Adams, John |
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Adams, John Quincy — including
material on Paris peace treaty and national politics, 1783
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Adams, Leonie |
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Adams, R.F.D. |
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Adams, Randolph G. |
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Adams, Ruth |
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Adams, Rev. William |
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Addams, Jane |
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Aeolian Co. |
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Agassiz, Elizabeth C. |
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Agnell, Gertrude |
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Agnell, James B. |
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Alcott, Amos Bronson |
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Aldrich, Alexander |
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Aldrich, Richard |
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Allen, Agnes Rodgers |
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Allen, Florence E. |
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Allen, Fredrick Lewis |
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Allen, Hewey |
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Allen, Low |
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Anderson, Hans Christian [Missing as of April 2008] |
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Anderson, Florence (Bennett) |
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Anderson, Marian |
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Anderson, Martin B. |
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Anderson, Sherwood |
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Apthorp, William F. |
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Armstrong, S.C. |
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Armstrong, Sarah F. (Sheppard) |
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Arne, Sigrid |
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Arnim, Elizabeth |
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Arnold, Matthew |
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Arthur, Jean |
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Ashley, Fredrick William |
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Assatouroff, Jenny ber |
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Astor, John Jacob |
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Austen, John |
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Avery, Alida Cornelia |
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Avery, Mary L. |
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Avery, Myrz H. |
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Axon, William E.A. |
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[unidentified person with initials L.J.B.] |
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Bacheller, Ann |
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Bacheller, Irving |
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Backus, Truman J. |
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Bacon, Dr. Leonard W. |
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Baird, Prof. Spencer |
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Baker, Ray Stannard |
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Baker, S. Josephine |
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Balabanoff, Angelica |
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Baldridge, Letitia |
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Baldwin, Simon |
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Bales, Robert H. |
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Ball, George W. |
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Ballou, Esther |
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Bancroft, George |
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Banfield, Edith C. |
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Bangs, John Kendrick |
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Banks, Isabella |
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Banning, Margaret Culkin |
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Bannister, Zilpah Polly |
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Barbour, Clarence A. |
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Barker, Granville |
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Barlow, George S. |
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Barlow, Howard |
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Barlow, Jane |
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Barnard, F.C. |
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Barnard, Fredrick Augustus Porter |
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Barnard, George |
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Barnes, Albert |
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Barney, Mary (Case) |
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Barnum, Charlotte C. |
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Barrie, James M. |
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Barry, Carola E. |
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Barton, Clara |
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Baruch, Bernard |
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Barus, Annie (Howes) |
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Bascom, Prof. John |
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Baskin, Leonard |
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Bates, Katherine Lee |
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Bates, Sarah Glazier |
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Baur, Harold |
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Baxter, James |
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Baxter, John B.M. |
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Baxter, Percival |
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Bayh, Birch |
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Baylinson, A.S. |
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Bazzini, Antonio |
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Beach, Lillian T. |
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Beard, D.C. |
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Beecher, Catherine E. |
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Beecher, Henry Ward |
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Belbenoit, Rene |
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Bell, Francis L. |
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Bellerman, Dr. Heinrich |
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Bellows, Henry |
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Belmont, Eleanor R. |
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Benes, Eduard |
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Benét, William Rose |
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Benjamin, Walter R. |
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Bennett, Arnold |
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Bennett, Paul A. |
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Benson, Arthur C. |
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Benson, E.F. |
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Benton, Joel |
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Benton, William |
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Berle, Adolph A., Jr. |
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Berlioz, Hector |
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Bernard, Mary Lawrence |
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Berry, Kate |
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Berry, Martha |
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Berton, Henri-Montan |
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Besant, Walter |
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Beukema, Herman |
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Bianchi, John |
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Biddle, George |
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Bigelow, Poultney |
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Billings, Henry |
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Bingham, Hiram |
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Bingham, Millicent Todd |
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Bishop, Harrie He (Warner) |
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Bishop, Helen |
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Bishop, Mabel |
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Bizet, Georges |
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Black, Ebenezer Charlton |
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Black, Hugh |
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Blackwell, Alice Stone |
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Blackwell, Antoinette Louisa Brown [Missing as of April 2008] |
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Blackwell, Elizabeth |
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Blackwell, Dr. Emily — including
material on excessive practice of ovariotomy and dangers to women from
syphilitic husbands, 1896
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Blaikie, William |
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Blake, Dr. Mary J. Stafford |
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Blake, Sillie Devereaux |
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Blashfield, Edwin Howland |
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Blatch, Harriet Stanton |
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Bliss, Rev. George R. |
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Bliss, H.S. |
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Bliven, Bruce |
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Bloomer, Amelia |
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Blunt, Katherine |
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Boieldieu, Francois Adrien |
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Bois, Jules |
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Boissevain, Eugen |
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Bolton, Sarah Knowles |
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Bond, Elizabeth Powell |
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Bondeau |
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Booth, George |
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Booth, Lydia |
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Booth, Mary L. |
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Booth, William |
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Borchard, Edwin M. |
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Borden, Fanny |
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Borg, Selma |
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Borowy, W. |
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Bosanquest, Ester Cleveland |
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Boscom, John |
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Bossi, M. Enrico |
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Boulanger, Nadia |
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Bowditch, Nathaniel |
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Bowen, Elizabeth |
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Bowen, Francis |
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Bowles, Chester |
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Bowman, E.M. |
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Boyd, James |
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Boyd, Ruth |
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Boyd, Thomas — including material on
work as screen writer in Hollywood (1931), being a father, World War I
experiences, and other issues, 1918-1934
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Boyd-Carpenter, William |
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Boynton, Marjorie M. |
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Bragan, Denis |
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Brahms, Johannes |
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Braislin, Priscilla H. |
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Brant, Henry |
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Breckenridge, Henry |
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Brent, Charles Henry |
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Bretz, J.P. |
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Brewster, Benjamin H. |
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Bridges, Robert |
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Bright, Jacob |
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Bright, John |
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Brinnin, John Malcolm |
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Brinton, Crane |
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Brittain, Vera |
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Brittan, Mary Burta |
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Brogan, Denis |
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Bromfield, Alfred J. |
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Brooks, John S. |
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Brooks, Noah |
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Brooks, Phillips |
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Browgham, H.B. |
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Brown, E. Melville |
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Brown, Ford |
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Brown, Helen D. |
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Brown, Henry |
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Brown, Zenith |
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Browne, F. Maurice |
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Brownell, Lucy E. |
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Brownlow, W.G. |
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Bruce, Edward |
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Bruce, James M. |
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Bruch Max |
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Bruhl, L. Levy |
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Bryan, E.B. |
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Bryant, William Cullen |
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Bryce, James |
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Buchan, Anna O. Douglas |
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Buchanan, James |
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Buchwald, Art |
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Buck, Gertrude |
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Buck, Pearl S. — including
correspondence with Alma Lutz on equal rights amendment and Buck's writing and
speaking work, 1938-1967
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Buckingham, Steven |
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Buckmaster, Henrietta |
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Bunche Ralphe J. |
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Bundy, McGeorge |
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Burne-Jones, Edward |
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Burns, John |
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Burns, Robert |
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Burnside, Helen W. |
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Burton, W.L. |
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Butler, Josephine E. |
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Butler, Nicholas Murry |
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Butler, R.A. |
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Bynner, Witter |
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Byron, George Gordon Noel |
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Cadman, Rev. S. Parks |
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Caine, Hall |
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Caldwell, Samuel L. |
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Caldwell, Samuel L., M.D |
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Calhoun, John C. |
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Calthorpe |
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Calverton, V.F. |
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Cameron, Edward M., Jr. |
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Campbell, George D. |
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Campbell, Helen |
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Canby, Henry Seidel |
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Carden, Mae |
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Carlyle, Thomas |
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Carnegie, Andrew |
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Carney, Albert J. |
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Carson, Gerald |
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Carter, Edna |
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Carter, John |
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Cary, Alice |
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Cary, Lillian |
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Cary, Melbert Brinckerhoff Jr. |
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Cary, Phoebe |
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Case, Clifford P. |
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Castle, W.D. |
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Cather, Willa |
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Catt, Carrie Chapman |
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Cattell, James McKeen |
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Catternall, Ralph C.W. |
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Chadbourne, Paul Ansel |
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Chadwick, George Whitefield |
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Champney, Elizabeth (Williams) |
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Chapin, E.H. |
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Chapin, Mary Whitney |
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Chapman, John Jay |
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Chapman, R.W. |
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Charpentier, Gustave |
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Chatterton, Thomas |
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Childs, Mary Cole |
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Chittenden, Kate S. |
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Choate, Augusta |
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Choate, Joseph |
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Christie, Dorothy |
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Churchill, Winston |
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Ciechanowski, J |
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Clark, Charles Upson |
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Clark, E.M. |
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Clark, Eleanor |
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Clark, Kate (Upson) |
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Clark, Mary Vida |
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Clark, Samuel |
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Clark, Thomas March |
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Clarke, Edw. H. |
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Clarke, Sarah Freeman |
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Claudel, Paul |
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Clemens, Charles Edwin |
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Clemens, S.L. |
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Cleveland, Frances F. |
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Cloetta, M |
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Clough, Anne Jemima |
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Clough, Blanche Athena |
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Clulow, HV |
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Cobb, Dorothy Penrose |
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Coes, Mary |
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Coffin, A.H. |
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Coffin, Elizabeth R. |
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Coffin, Tristram |
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Colby, Emma M. |
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Cole, Rossetter Gleason |
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Cole, Timothy |
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Coleridge |
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Collyer, Robert |
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Colum, Padraic |
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Commons, John R. |
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Combe, Harvey |
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Comstock, Ada |
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Conrad, Joseph |
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Conreid, Heinrich |
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Conron, Georgianna |
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Conrow, Wilfred S. |
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Converse & Co. Publishers |
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Conway, Moncure D. |
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Cooke, A |
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Cooke, Rose Terry |
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Coolidge, Archibald Cary |
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Coonley, Queens (Ferry) |
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Cooper, Peter |
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Copeland, Aaron |
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Copland, Suzanne |
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Cornell, Antoinette |
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Cornell, Francis |
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Cornwall, Louise |
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Corr, Maureen |
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Cortissoz, Royal |
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Cotta, Alix von |
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Cousins, Norman |
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Cowles, Rev. A.W. |
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Cowley, Malcolm |
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Coykendall, Samuel D. |
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Cracraft, Tom Adrian |
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Crawford, Francis Marion |
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Cretin, Eunice M. |
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Crippen, Ruth — including material on
Red Cross work in France, 1918
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Crookshank, Emma (Comfort) |
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Crookshank, Harry |
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Crosby, Howard |
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Crowell, E.P. |
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Curie, Marie |
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Currier, Isabel |
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Curry, J.L.M. |
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Curtis, George Ticknor |
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Curtis, George William |
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Curtis, Mrs. George William |
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Cushing, Florence M. |
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Cushman, Charlotte |
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Custer, Elizabeth (Bacon) |
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Cutlor, Sen. Leslie B. |
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Cuyler, Theodore L. |
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Daggett, Susan E. |
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Dalzell, N.R. |
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Dame, Maria |
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Damer, Anne Seymour |
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Damrosch, Frank |
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Damrosch, Walter |
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Dana, Edward Salisbury |
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Dana, James D. |
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Danes, Jiro V. |
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Daniels, Anne Paine |
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Daniels, Josephus |
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Darr, M. M. |
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Darrah, William Culp |
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Darwin, Sir George Howard |
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Daves, Graham |
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Davis, Bette — including material on
using women's rights pioneers as film material, 1944
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Davis, Elmer |
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Davis, Gladys Rockmore |
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Davis, Katharine Bement |
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Davis, Kenneth |
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Davis, Norman H. |
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Davis, Rear Admiral Charles Henry |
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Dawson, Sir William |
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Day, Henry Noble |
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de la Mare, Walter |
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De La Roche, Mazo |
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De Morgan, William |
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Dean, Willard L. |
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