Elementos de identidad
Nombre y localización del repositorio
Nivel de descripción
Colección
Título
Historical Documents collection
Fecha(s)
- 1642-1977 (Creación)
- 1760s-1920s (Creación)
Extensión
15 Boxes
Área de contenido y estructura
Alcance y contenido
The Historical Documents Collection includes letters, deeds, bonds, receipts, orders, position appointments, writings, and other documents that are individual in nature and do not belong to any particular collection. The materials represent a number of prominent figures in the areas of art, literature, music, science, scholarship, business, law, military, politics, diplomacy, and religion. The items range in date from 1642-1977, but the bulk date from the 1760s through the 1920s. Most of the materials are American in origin, although some are from Mexico and Europe, particularly Great Britain.
Individuals represented in the collection include, but are not limited to: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain), Charles Dickens, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Washington Irving, Aldous Huxley, Rudyard Kipling, Ezra Pound, John Muir, Sigmund Freud, and Igor Stravinsky, Benjamin Butler, James Longstreet, Edmund Gaines Pendleton, Matthew Perry, William Tecumseh Sherman, Friedrich Wilhelm August Heinrich Ferdinand von Steuben, John Quincy Adams, Napoleon Bonaparte, Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, Jefferson Davis, Ulysses Simpson Grant, Sam Houston, Andrew Jackson, James Madison, James Oglethorpe, William Howard Taft, Herbert Hoover, Thomas Paine, Woodrow Wilson, and King Louis XVIII.
Sistema de arreglo
The Historical Documents Collection is organized into seven series.
I. Art, Literature, Music, and Science
II. Business
III. Military
IV. Politics, Diplomacy, and Law
V. Religion
VI. Education
VII. Miscellaneous
Please see the Finding Aid/Inventory section of this guide for more detailed information.
Condiciones de acceso y uso de los elementos
Condiciones de acceso
This collection is open for research.
Acceso físico
Acceso técnico
Condiciones
Historical Documents Collection Finding Aid © 2011 University of Miami. All rights reserved. Requests to reproduce or publish materials from this collection should be directed to asc.library@miami.edu.
Idiomas del material
- inglés
- francés
- alemán
- latín
- español
Escritura(s) de los documentos
Notas sobre las lenguas y escrituras
Instrumentos de descripción
instrumento de descripción generado
Elementos de adquisición y valoración
Historial de custodia
Origen del ingreso
CAAD Items purchased with the support of the Florida Blue Cross Blue Shield Grant, Summer 2013
Valoración, selección y eliminación
Acumulaciones
Elementos de material relacionado
Existencia y localización de originales
Existencia y localización de copias
Selected materials from this collection have been digitized.
https://digitalcollections.library.miami.edu/digital/collection/asm0566
Unidades de descripción relacionadas.
See also Thomas Jefferson Collection (ASM0569), the Caribbean Documents Collection (ASM0570), the Latin America Documents Collection (ASM460), the Jamaica Manuscripts Collection (ASM0320), and the Florida Documents Collection (ASM0567).
Descripciones relacionadas
Elemento notas
Nota general
Other Information:
Descriptive abbreviations used in the collection:
ALS (Autograph Letter Signed): A letter in the hand of and signed by the author.
TLS (Typewritten Letter): A typewritten letter signed by the author
DS (Document Signed): A document written by another person, but signed by the author.
ADS (Autograph Document Signed): A document written and signed by the author.
MS (Manuscript): Nonlegal or unofficial papers such as speeches, biographical sketches, sermons, reminiscences, writings, and such other items of a generally narrative nature, in the hand of the author but unsigned.
ANS (Autograph Note): A line or two, at most a half-page, or any fragment which could not be classified as an ALS or AMS, such as a signed memorandum.
Notas especializadas
Identificador/es alternativo(os)
Área de control de la descripción
Reglas o convenciones
Fuentes
Puntos de acceso
Puntos de acceso por materia
Puntos de acceso por lugar
Puntos de acceso por autoridad
- Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 -- Correspondence (Materia)
- Alba, Víctor (Materia)
- Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850 -- Correspondence (Materia)
- Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908 (Materia)
- Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 -- Correspondence (Materia)
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 (Materia)
- Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870 -- Correspondence (Materia)
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 (Materia)
- Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 (Materia)
- Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881 -- Correspondence (Materia)
- Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 -- Correspondence (Materia)
- Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804 -- Correspondence (Materia)
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 -- Correspondence (Materia)
- Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 -- Correspondence (Materia)
- Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885 -- Correspondence (Materia)
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 (Materia)
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882 (Materia)
- Louis XVIII, King of France, 1755-1824 (Materia)
- Madison, James, 1751-1836 -- Correspondence (Materia)
- Monroe, James, 1758-1831 -- Correspondence (Materia)
- Moore, George, 1852-1933 -- Correspondence (Materia)
- Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809 -- Correspondence (Materia)
- Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 -- Correspondence (Materia)
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 -- Correspondence (Materia)
- Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971 (Materia)
- Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 -- Correspondence (Materia)
- Washington, George, 1732-1799 -- Correspondence (Materia)
- Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 -- Correspondence (Materia)