- ASM0363
- Colección
- 1940s
The J. H. Brown Papers contains eight photographs of pilots training at the University of Miami during World War II.
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The J. H. Brown Papers contains eight photographs of pilots training at the University of Miami during World War II.
The Calvin Shedd papers consists of approximately fifty letters and documents of a Civil War soldier stationed in Florida from 1862-1863. Calvin Shedd served with Company A and Company C of the 7th New Hampshire Regiment. Shedd and his family, a wife and three daughters, were frequent correspondents. The documents consist only of Calvin Shedd's letters, with no responses from family members available. The letters comprise a fascinating, thoughtful summary of one man's experiences during this tragic era of American history. The lengthy, detailed letters offer an insightful view of Shedd's military activities, observations on life in Florida, and his concerns for the wife and three daughters he left behind in New Hampshire.
The Seventh Regiment left New Hampshire on January 14, 1862, and traveled to New York where soldiers passed a month of relative inactivity. On February 13, 1862, orders directed the troops to the Dry Tortugas in Florida. Six companies under the command of Colonel Putnam embarked on the S.R. Mallory, and four companies under the direction of Lieutenant Colonel Abbott left on the barque, Tycoon. The Tycoon reached the Dry Tortugas in sixteen days, the S. R. Mallory arrived six days later. Two men died of an outbreak of yellow fever on the Tycoon, a sampling of things to come in the weeks and months ahead.
The Dry Tortugas, located at the far end of the Florida Keys, served as a principal depot for the distribution of rations and munitions to union forts and military posts in the area. The Seventh Regiment was stationed at Fort Jefferson, where "good quarters were arranged and other preparations made for the comfort of officers and men." Primary duties for soldiers consisted of garrison and fatigue duty, with military drill in infantry and heavy artillery.
On June 16, 1862, the regiment embarked for Port Royal, South Carolina, and arrived safely on July 22, 1862. Troops remained here, engaged primarily in picket and guard duty, until a September 15, 1862, re-assignment to st. Augustine, Florida. In st. Augustine the major effort was on recruitment, as the regiment lost some two hundred men to death and discharge since leaving New Hampshire. The regiment remained in st. Augustine until May, 1863, when it was ordered to Fernandia, Florida, to relieve the Seventh Connecticut Regiment, and then to Hilton Head, South Carolina, in preparation for efforts to attack Charleston. ln June, 1863, fortified with approximately one hundred new recruits, the regiment headed to Folly Island, to prepare the batteries that would support the landing of forces.
The unsuccessful assault on Fort Wagner cost more than two hundred lives, including many important officers. The regiment remained stationed on Morris Island for five months of intensely warm weather, serving duty in trenches, on picket and in fatigue. On December 20, 1863, the regiment left Morris Island, and prepared for a return trip to Florida.
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Florida Riverboat Trip collection
Contains 53 glass negatives and prints of "First boat trip across Florida by inland waterways, Jacksonville to Punta Gorda."
The Felix Jay Papers consist of the manuscripts of over 40 unpublished research papers by Dr. Jay on Latin American history and culture, with an emphasis on the Spanish presence in the New World. The folder numbers used by Dr. Jay are retained here.
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Harold M. Bixby (1890-1965) was a business developer who helped sponsor and organize Charles Lindbergh's "Spirit of St. Louis" flight from New York to Paris in 1927. In the 1930's he was key in setting up Pan Am air routes in China through the China National Aviation Corp. and helped pioneer China's first trans-atlantic flight aboard the China Clipper in 1935. He later served as the vice president of Pan Am until his retirement in 1955.
Two typescripts by Donald Rogers : "Comments from the Diary of a Stoic" (1977) and "Above the Gods" (1978).
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The F. Charles Ruegg Papers consists primarily of correspondence, photographs, and notes from Ruegg’s employment with Pan American World Airways from 1940 to 1951. These materials primarily document his experience with Pan Am in Africa (PAA Africa) during World War II.
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A copy of American composer Jack Beeson's sheet music with corrections for the opera, "Hello out there" (1953). The papers also include a letter from the composer.
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The Abner T. Allen Papers consist primarily of Allen's correspondence with family in New England during the mid- to late-1800s.
The papers of Abner T. Allen reflect his life as a farmer and merchant in the state of Ohio during the 1800's. The correspondence is typical of this period as the letter itself is folded to form the envelope, the address is printed on the outside, and the fold sealed with a wax seal. The majority of the correspondence was to Abner T. Allen from his parents, brothers and sister. These letters concerned all aspects of family affairs and travel between Chagrin Falls, Ohio, South and Western Warren, Massachusetts and New Hartford, Connecticut, where each of the families resided. The collection includes the following documents: leaf of cash transactions, booklet of expenses and revenues, an award. and two Last Will and Testaments; also included are invitations to social affairs.
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The Johann Heinrich Hesse Papers contains a 1791 manuscript of Johann Heinrich Hesse (1712-1778)'s "Anweisung zum General-Baß," or "Guide to Thorough-Bass."
The Lemuel Adams Papers contains a ledger belonging to Lemuel Adams. There are logged transactions from 1792 to 1804, mostly from Hartford, Connecticut; however, the ledger also contains letters written by Adams, a genealogy of the Adams family, and a few dozen poems by Adams with titles ranging from "On Life" to "Description of the Tea Party."
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The Alan Crockwell Collection contains a variety of materials from different sources that document the history of Miami, Coconut Grove, Coral Gables, and greater Miami-Dade County. Much of the content is related to Ralph Middleton Munroe and his family. Topically, the papers also address criminal history in Miami-Dade County, historic buildings in Coconut Grove including the Barnacle and the Coconut Grove Library, the history of the University of Miami, and the early settling of Miami-Dade County. The dates of items range from 1873 into the 1970s.
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The W.A. Blount Papers consist of the correspondence of 1910 and 1911 between W.A. Blount of the Pensacola, Florida, law firm of Blount, Blount and Carter and R.E. Hall, superintendent of the Department of Public Instruction of Dade County, Florida. Blount's law firm was retained to review the Dade County school board's warrants issue of 1910.
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Fourteen color photographs of a fishing trip to the Florida Keys.
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Dr. Behram Kursunoglu was the Chairman of the Board for the Center for Theoretical Studies at the University of Miami. The papers consist of letters of communication between Kursunoglu and the professors that lectured at the Center to faculty and students, research plans, video-cassettes and audio-cassettes of the lectures, and publications containing the text of the lectures. Many of the lectures concerned high energy physics, theoretical chemistry, neurosciences, nuclear physics, and issues pertaining to energy problems. Among notable participants were the physicists and Nobel Laureates Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Robert Oppenheimer, Francis Crick, and Murray Gell-Mann; the member of the Florida House of Representatives Dante Fascell; and Richard Kennedy, the U.S. Ambassador At Large for Nuclear Energy.
The following is a list of visiting professors that are represented in the collection:
(*=Nobel Laureate
The numbers after the names signify the number of files. )
*Nikolai Basov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Lebedev Institute
*Hans A. Bethe, Cornell University
Gregory Breit, Yale University
Nikolai Bogolubov, Soviety Academy of Sciences, Moscow University
*Walter H. Brattain, Columbia University
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Cambridge University
H.B.G. Casimir, Phillips, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Britton Chance, University of Pennsylvania
*Leon Cooper, Brown University
Jean Couture, Former Sec. of Energy for France
*Francis H.C. Crick, Salk Institute
Richard Dalitz, Oxford University
*Hans G. Dehmelt, University of Washington
*Max Delbruck, of California Tech
*P.A.M. Dirac (16), Cambridge University
Freeman Dyson (2), Institute for Advance Studies, Princeton
*John C. Eccles, University of Buffalo
*Gerald Edelman, Rockefeller University, NY
*Manfred Eigen, Max Planck Institute Gottingen
*Albert Einstein (2), Institue for Advance Studies, Princeton
*Richard Feynman, of California Tech
*Paul Flory, Stanford University
*Murray Gell-Mann, of California Tech.
*Donald Glaser, Berkeley, UniversityCal
Thomas Gold, Cornell University
Marvin Goldberger, Princeton University
Gerson Goldhaber, Berkeley, University of California
Maurice Goldhaber, Berkeley, University of California
*Gerhard Herberg, NRC of Canada
*Robert Hofstadter, Stanford University
Fred Hoyle, Cambridge University
Erdal Inonu, Ankaro University, Turkey, Currently Foreign Minister of Turkey
Leopold Infeld, Warsaw, Poland
D. Ivanenko, Moscow University
Max Jammer, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Nicolas Kemmer, University Edinburgh
Richard Kennedy, US Ambassador At Large for Nuclear Energy
*Tjallinq Koopmans, Yale University
Alan D. Krisch, University of Michigan
*Willis Lamb, Jr. (2), Yale University
Joseph E. Lannutti, Fla. State University
*Leon Lederman, Ferni Laboratory
Benjamin W. Lee, Ferni Laboratory
J.G. Linhart, ISKRA, Italy
Bernard Lipman (2), Harvard University
Franklin Long, Yale University
Sydney Meshkov, US Bureau of Standards
Elliott Montroll, Rochester University, NY
*Robert S. Mulliken, University of Chicago
Yoichiro Nambu, University of Chicago
*Louis Neel, Grenoble University, France
Kazuhiko Nishijima, Chuo University, Japan
*Lars Onsager, Yale University
Robert Oppenheimer, Former Director of Institute for Advance Studies, and principal architect of the first US atomic bomb
Henry Primakoff(2), University of Pennsylvania
*A.M. Prokhorov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Lebedev Institute
*Theodore I. Rabi, Columbia University
George Rathjens, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
*Norman F. Ramsey, Harvard University
Dixie Lee Ray, Former Governor of the State of Washington, former Chairman of U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Frederick Reines, University of California, Irvine
Tullio Regge, University Torino, Italy
*Abdus Salam (3), Director, Int'l Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
Edwin E. Salpeter, Cornell University
*Arthur Shavlow, Stanford University
*Julian Schwinger (2), Harvard University
Dennis W. Sciama, Cambridge University
*Glenn T. Seaborg, Former Chairman of US Atomic Energy Commission
Frederick Seitz, Rockafellar University, Former President of the National Academy of Sciences
Robert Serber, Colombia University
Lord Charles P. Snow (4), distinguished author, London
E.C.G. Sudarshan, University of Texas
Edward Teller (4), Known as the father of the hydrogen bomb
*Charles H. Townes, University ofCalifornia at Berkeley
Stanislav Ulam, University Colorado
Georges A.Vendryes, One of the principal architects of the Nuclear Energy Program for France
*George Wald, Harvard University
*Steven Weinberg, University of Texas
Victor F. Weisskopf, Massachusetts Institue of Technology
John A. Wheeler, Princeton University
*Eugene P. Wigner (3), Princeton University
*Kenneth Wilson, Cornell University
Lord Solly Zuckerman, former Chief Scientist to British Government, and distinguished zoologist
Vladimir Zworykin (3), Inventor of TV picture tub, Honorary Vice President of RCA
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The Seymour Samet Papers document primarily Mr. Samet’s civil rights work for the American Jewish Committee (AJC), the Dade County Community Relations Board and the U.S. Department of Justice Community Relations Service from the 1960s to the 1980s. The correspondence, speeches, writings, articles and newspaper clippings articulate issues of discrimination, desegregation and general human relations from various group and geographical perspectives.
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A 12 page manuscript entitled: The Bahama Island" by Capt. Basil Hall (1788-1844) of the Royal Navy.
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Thomas Jefferson (1742-1826) was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), Governor of Virginia (1779-1781), the first Secretary of State (1790-1793), second Vice-President of the United Sates (1797-1801), the third President of the United States (1801–1809), the founder of the University of Virginia (1819), and one of the most influential Founding Fathers.
The Thomas Jefferson collection includes four letters by Thomas Jefferson, three official documents, an entry of merchandise, a biography, and twenty-six printed portraits.
Caribbean Documents collection
This collection includes various types of documents pertaining to the historical and cultural production taking place in the Caribbean. Materials include correspondence, diaries, ledgers, property transactions including slave registers, reports, typescripts, from the various islands of the Caribbean such as Antigua, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts, St. Christopher, Trinidad and Tobago from the 16th to the present. The collection is further enhanced by the acquisition of antique maps from cartographers such as Linschoten and Sanson.
The Werner M. Sauer contains a bound typescript by Werner M. Sauer detailing his experiences during the Holocaust.