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Photographs of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Aftermath, 1906

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0.2 linear feet and 1 box

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Consists of a collection of photographs documenting the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco, California, taken by various photographers including Willard Elmer Worden, Charles C. Pierce, Frederick Arthur Webster, A. Blumberg, Shaw and Shaw, and others.

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Public Works Administration Photographs of the Bonneville Dam Project, 1934-1943 (inclusive)

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0.2 linear feet and 1 box

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Consists of a collection of seventy-six photographs documenting the construction and installation of power-generating machinery for the Bonneville Dam project in the Columbia River Gorge near Portland, Oregon, beginning in the Great Depression and continuing through World War II.

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Dhoruba Bin Wahad & Robert Boyle Documents Related to the Black Panther Party, 1966-2004 (inclusive)

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115.62 linear feet ((123 containers))

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Dhoruba Bin Wahad is an African American writer and activist, formerly a leader in the Black Panther Party. Robert J. Boyle is a criminal defense attorney in New York City who has worked in appeals and post-conviction motions, and has also been involved in civil rights and police misconduct litigation. The collection consists of FBI files and litigation documents from legal cases in which Bin Wahad was involved. The FBI Files series consists of approximately 110,000 pages of redacted FBI and NYPD photocopies about the Black Panther Party (BPP) and its top leaders, obtained pursuant to a court order in the legal case Bin Wahad v. FBI, et al. The litigation documents generated during the legal cases comprise the other two series: Bin Wahad vs. FBI and Motion to Vacate Conviction Documents, and Bin Wahad vs. Coughlin, et al. Files.

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Van Coufoudakis Collection of Materials Relating to Cyprus and Greece, 1971-2001 (inclusive)

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4 boxes and 1.6 linear feet

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Consists of correspondence, writings by others regarding the Cyprus Problem, literature about several organizations, conferences, and seminars. There are also printed material, mostly offprints relating to the

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Thomas J. Kofodimos Papers, 1927-1998 (inclusive)

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2 boxes and 0.6 linear feet

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Archivo de Roberto Gottardi, circa 1960-2016 (inclusive)

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16.71 linear feet

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La colección consiste mayormente en materiales relacionados con los diversos proyectos/obras de Roberto Gottardi y materiales relacionados con sus actividades docentes como profesor de arquitectura. Incluye apuntes, modelos y esquemas, planes de clases y material de estudio, material impreso, correspondencia, material fotográfico, planos arquitectónicos y otros materials.

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Benjamin Taylor Collection of Philip Roth Materials, 1987-2014 (bulk) 1951-2017 (inclusive)

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6 linear feet and 5 boxes

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Consists of a group of writings and speeches, biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, and medical records of American author Philip Roth (1933-2018) collected by his close friend and literary collaborator Benjamin Taylor (1952- ).

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Henry Martin Papers, 1949-2003 (inclusive) 1980s-1990s (bulk)

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9 boxes and 1 folder

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Consists of scrapbooks of tearsheets and clippings, original artwork in pencil and in pen and ink, correspondence, financial documents, periodicals, permission agreements, and contracts spanning Henry Martin's career as a cartoonist and illustrator.

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Bernard McSherry and Richard Coale Tavern Ledgers, 1784-1791 (inclusive)

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1 box and 1.6 linear feet

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Consists of two tavern ledgers kept by Bernard (Barney) McSherry (1764-1796) and Richard Coale (1760-1834), brothers-in-law who both operated taverns in Libertytown, Frederick County, Maryland. The ledgers document the sale of liquor and alcoholic drinks, as well as the hosting of games, dinners, shows, and other entertainment. Patrons listed in the ledgers include American Revolutionary War officers Ely Dorsey (1744–1803), Lilburn Williams (1748–1794), and William Lamar (circa 1755-1838), as well as members of the local free African American community.

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Uel Merrill Fisk Lectures, 1856-1868 (inclusive)

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0.2 linear feet and 1 box

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Consists of a series of manuscript lectures by U. M. (Uel Merrill) Fisk, a white Universalist pastor and lecturer on the radical abolitionist lecture circuit in New York and New England in the years leading up to and during the American Civil War. The lectures in the collection from this period argue for the abolition of slavery, and another from the Reconstruction Era advocates for voting rights for Black men.

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