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Found in 282 Collections and/or Records:

Douglas Huntly Gordon, Jr. papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0368
Abstract Douglas Huntly Gordon, Jr. was born in Baltimore in 1903. During the 1930s, he served in the Maryland legislature. In 1938, he founded the Mount Vernon Improvement Association and spent much of the rest of his life fighting to retain the original architectural integrity of Baltimore's Mount Vernon Place. He was also a founder of the Johns Hopkins University Milton S. Eisenhower Library's Friends of the Library. The collection of Douglas Huntly Gordon, Jr. consists mostly of items related to...
Dates: approximately 1800-1975

Douglas Southall Freeman papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MS-0019
Abstract

Douglas Southall Freeman (1886 – 1953) was an American historian, biographer, newspaper editor, and author best known for his multi-volume biographies of Robert E. Lee and George Washington. The collection spans the years 1902-1911, and consists primarily of correspondence between Freeman and his parents.

Dates: 1902-1911; Majority of material found within 1904 - 1908

Earl Reeves Wasserman papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0063
Abstract

Earl Reeves Wasserman, authority on 18th century and romantic poetry, was born in Washington D.C. on November 11, 1913. This collection primarily consists of correspondence, notes, and meeting minutes dating from 1938-1973.

Dates: 1938-1973

Ebenezer Emmett Reid papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0104
Abstract

E. Emmet Reid (born 1872) was a professor of chemistry at Johns Hopkins. The collection consists of reprints, extensive student notes, lecture notes, correspondence, and patents dating from 1889 to 1974.

Dates: 1889-1974

Edmund Duffy cartoon collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: CC-001
Abstract

Edmund Duffy (1899 – 1962), was an American editorial cartoonist who spent the majority of his professional career working for The Baltimore Sun. This collection consists of approximately 1,000 cartoons from 1924 through 1962.

Dates: 1924-1962

Edna C. Goodall papers regarding proposed Rachel Carson biography

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0012
Abstract

Correspondence and related material created and collected by Johns Hopkins Univeristy librarian, Edna C. Goodall, concerning her efforts to write a biography about Rachel Carson. The collection spans 1940 to 1972.

Dates: 1940-1972

Edna St. Vincent Millay letter

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31151030070852]
Identifier: MS-0526
Abstract

Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 - October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright and the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Collection consists of a one page letter containing a 14-line handwritten poem. An envelope is included and post-marked in New York in 1954, four years after the author's death.

Dates: undated (postmarked 1954)

Edouard Laboulaye lectures

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0075
Abstract

Édouard-René Lefèbvre de Laboulaye was a French businessman, lawyer, author, professor and politician born in Paris January 18, 1811. The collection consists of two volumes entitled "Constitution des États-Unis" containing 59 lectures written in French and delivered by Laboulaye at the Collège de France. Most were delivered in 1862-1863.

Dates: 1848-1864

Edward E. Ayer typescript memoir

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31151030118909]
Identifier: MS-0719
Abstract Edward Everett Ayer (1841-1927) was an American business magnate, best remembered for the endowments of his substantial collections of books and original manuscripts to the Newberry Library and Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. He had over time built an immense fortune out of supplying timber to the 19th century's fast-growing railroad industry. The collection contains a bound volume of a memoir written by Ayer, titled Reminiscences and Travels of Edward E....
Dates: circa 1924

Edward Franklin Buchner papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0089
Abstract

Edward Franklin Buchner, Professor of Education and Philosophy, was born in Paxton, Illinois on September 3, 1868. The collection consists largely of the correspondence of Edward Frank Buchner with other noted educators and philosophers of the period, spanning 1890-1913.

Dates: 1890-1913