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Collections at Walter Havighurst Special Collections
Descriptive Summary
- American Civil War Collections
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| American Civil War - Battle of Bull Run |
ABSTRACT: Several collections focus all or portions of their collections on the American Civil War
(1861-1865):
- The Samuel Richey Collection of the Southern Confederacy includes about 200 letters by Jefferson Davis
and
an additional 300+ letters by members of the cabinet and generals of the Confederacy, as well as members of Davis'
family. The letters date from 1830 to 1889.
- On the Union side of the conflict, Special Collections has the Gilbert-Richards Papers that include
correspondence by Col. Albert Gilbert and Giles Richards (2 archive boxes).
- The diaries of Thomas B. Marshall, 83rd Ohio Infantry.
- The letters of John Chrisman, John M. Bressler, Joseph Little, and Ezra Reasor.
- The papers of Union general and ambassador Robert C. Schenck, Miami alumnus 1827, are available at the
University Archives.
ADDITIONAL LOCATION: The University Archives
- Ferdinand Bach Collection of Native American Materials
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| Itasca Lake from "Information Respecting the History,
Condition and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States," vol. 1, by Henry Rowe
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EXTENT: 130
volumes printed between 1676-1965
ABSTRACT: The collection includes early volumes about western American travel and exploration and native
Americans and works by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft and others on discovery and exploration in America in the early
19th century.
- John W. Browne Collection
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ABSTRACT: In 1810, the Reverend John W. Browne was appointed as a missionary to solicit and receive donations for Miami University.
Receiving $50 a month and expenses along the way, Browne traveled East on horseback, collecting approximately $2,500 and accepting
books for the institution. After traveling from Cincinnati to Pittsburgh, Williamsburg, Washington, Baltimore, Delaware, New Jersey,
New York, and Massachusetts, Browne returned to Cincinnati on August 3, 1812. The John W. Browne Collection includes correspondence,
receipts, and financial documents pertaining to Browne's mission to secure donations of money and books for Miami University,
together with documents regarding the settlement of Browne's estate.
FINDING AID: The John W. Browne Collection
- Covington Collection
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"American Notes for General Circulation" by Charles Dickens (1842). Vol. two includes notes on his
trip to Cincinnati.
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EXTENT: over
6,500 volumes
ABSTRACT: The core of this collection was brought together by Samuel Fulton Covington (1819-1889), a
Miami student from 1837-1838 whose father was an early settler on the Ohio frontier. He established the
"Daily Courier" in Madison, Indiana, in 1847, was President of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce and the
Board of Trade and President of Globe Insurance Co., Cincinnati, 1865-1887.
The collection chronicles the exploration, settlement and growth of the Northwest Territory
and the Ohio River Valley. With emphasis on the states of the Old Northwest, much of the material covers
the years prior to 1850. Immigrant guides with information for early settlers, books on farming and the
mechanical arts, state and local histories, atlases and navigational guides as well as early materials
written about the native Americans of the territory comprise a major portion of the collection. These
materials, along with the manuscript diaries, letters and handwritten records of the territorial government,
provide valuable research materials for students and scholars.
Within this collection are several small, useful and significant collections, including the
Shaker collection, a transportation collection, a collection on botanical materials, and volumes about
Presidents William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison.
LANGUAGES: English, French, Spanish, German and Latin
- Cradle of Coaches Archive
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| From "Miami of Ohio - Cradle of Coaches" by Bob Kurz |
EXTENT: 8
archival boxes
ABSTRACT: Miami University has been called the Cradle of Coaches. Each of the following was a Miami
player and sometimes also a coach or assistant coach at Miami. The Archive includes playbooks,
correspondence, memorabilia, photographs, posters, artifacts, and/or papers of Weeb Ewbank (coach of the
Baltimore Colts [1954-1962] and New York Jets [1963-1973]); Paul Brown (coach at Ohio State [1941-43] and for the
Cleveland Browns [1946-1962] and Cincinnati Bengals [1968-1975]); Carmen Cozza (coach at Yale [1965-1996]);
Sid Gilman (coach of the Los Angeles Rams [1955-1960], San Diego Chargers [1961-1971], and the Houston
Oilers [1973-1974]); Bo Schembechler (coach at Miami University [1963-1968] and the University of Michigan
[1969-1989]); and Randy Walker (coach at Miami University [1990-1999] and Northwestern University [1999-
2006]). This collection continues to be under development.
LINKS: Miami Memories: a Series of Video Vignettes about the History of Miami
University Athletics
MIAMI STORIES ORAL HISTORY PROJECT: Bob Kurz
Interview
FINDING AIDS FOR CRADLE OF COACHES:
- Cradle of Coaches Sports Information
Collection Finding Aid
- Paul Brown Finding Aid
- Weeb Ewbank Finding Aid
- Bob Kurz Collection Finding Aid
- André L. de Saint-Rat Collection of Russian History, Literature and Art
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The crowning of Nicholas II and Alexandra as the last Tsar and Tsarina of Russia in 1896
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EXTENT: about 2,000 volumes
ABSTRACT: The Russian resources and the André de Saint-Rat Collection of Russian History, Literature and
Art in Special Collections document the period from 800 - 1950 AD. Several of the volumes are from the
library of Czar Nicholas II. This collection specializes in Imperial Russia and its military regiments
before, during and after the Russian Revolution into the new Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, as well as
the military units of the 18th and 19th centuries.
LANGUAGES: Russian, English, French, German, Italian, Czech, Polish, Spanish, and Latin
Additional Locations: University Libraries' microform and regular collections
- English Toy Theatre
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| Scene from Red Rover
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EXTENT: 10.5 cubic feet
ABSTRACT: The English toy theatre was a craft hobby for children of the 1800s, which evolved from the popularity of theatrical
portraits sold as souvenirs in London. Each toy theatre play (sold for either "a penny plain or two pence coloured") was comprised of
several sheets of paper illustrating characters and settings from contemporary productions that children would cut out, assemble and
then perform in little wooden theatres for their friends and family.
This collection focuses on these English theatrical toys and souvenirs, as well as other novelties printed in London during the 1800s.
It includes: 145 Toy Theatre plays, featuring plates of characters, settings, wings and script books, 74 in color (6 of those with
the pieces cut out), 71 in black & white;
95 theatrical portraits, panoramas, and miscellaneous printed novelties, 78 in color, 17 in black & white;
a wooden toy theater and accessories, including colored gels for lighting and a metal slide to manipulate the characters on
stage; promotional pamphlets, catalogs, and inventories for the Pollock Toy Museum in London; and,
business correspondence between the Pollock Toy Museum and its U.S. sales agent.
ADDITIONAL LOCTIONS: Pollock's Toy Museum, London, England
LINKS: Pollock's Toy Museum at: http://www.pollocksmuseum.co.uk/
FINDING AID: English Toy Theater Finding Aid
FINDING AID: Toy Theatre: Portraits and
Miscellaneous Plates
FINDING AID: Toy Theatre: Documents and Miscellaneous, Box
15: Folders 1 - 4
FINDING AID: Toy Theatre: Business Correspondence, Box 15:
Folder 5
FINDING AID: Toy Theatre: Complete Scenery
Information for Select Plays
- James T. Farrell Manuscript Collection
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James T. Farrell (1904-1979), American novelist, short story writer, journalist, poet, and literary
critic
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EXTENT: 7 file cabinets +
358 volumes of Farrell's works
ABSTRACT: The Edgar M. Branch Collection of James T. Farrell
Manuscript Materials includes copies of all of his correspondence, manuscript materials, maps, photos,
tapes of lectures, and copies of all of Farrell's publications. James T. Farrell (1904-1979) is best
known for the Studs Lonigan trilogy, which includes Young Lonigan: A Boyhood in Chicago Streets (1932),
The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan (1934), and Judgement Day (1935).
- Hamlin Garland Papers
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Hamlin Garland (1860-1940), American novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist, won the Pultizer
Prize for biography in 1922 for "A Daughter of the Middle Border."
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EXTENT: 6 archival boxes + more than 130 volumes
ABSTRACT: The Eldon Hill Collection focuses on U. S. writer Hamlin
Garland (1860-1940). Garland
gradually won a place for himself in the literary set of Boston and Cambridge and was influenced by the
novelist William Dean Howells. In 1891, one of his most respected books, Main-Travelled Roads, was
published, and the autobiographical A Son of the Middle Border appeared in 1917. A sequel to that
autobiography won the 1922 Pulitzer Prize.
LINKS: Hamlin Garland Society at
http://www.uncwil.edu/garland/
- Benjamin & Caroline Scott Harrison Collection
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Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901), lawyer, brigadier general during the Civil War, Senator from Indiana,
Miami alumni 1852 and 23rd President of the United States (1888-1893)
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EXTENT: An archival box of materials from
the 1888 and 1892 Presidential campaigns, including 23 letters and
telegrams; fourteen titles by him and sixteen volumes about him as well as reproductions of a place setting used
during his term as President
ABSTRACT: Letters, memorabilia of Benjamin Harrison and his wife, Caroline Scott Harrison. Benjamin
Harrison, grandson of the ninth President (William Henry Harrison, elected in 1840), graduated from Miami
University in 1852, served in the Civil War as a Union officer, and was elected to the United States Senate
from Indiana in 1881. As Senator, Harrison defended the interests of homesteaders and Native Americans
against the railroads, supported generous pensions for ex-soldiers, and fought for civil-service reform and
a moderately protective tariff. He served one term as the 23rd President of the United States (1889-1893), a
moderate Republican who won an electoral majority while losing the popular vote by more than 95,000 to
Democrat Grover Cleveland. On his campaign to secure a second term, he chose as his Vice-Presidential
candidate Whitelaw Reid, Miami alumni in 1856.
ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS: The University Archives
LINKS:
Harrision Home in Indianapolis at
http://www.presidentbenjaminharrison.org/
Official presidential website at
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/bh23.html
FINDING AID:
Benjamin and Caroline Harrison Collection
ONLINE EXHIBIT:
Benjamin and Caroline Scott Harrison
- Herbal-Botanical Collections
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From "The Botanic Magazine" (1788)
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EXTENT: about 200 volumes
ABSTRACT: This collection contains volumes on 19th-century American herbals and works on botanical
medicine. A good number of the 19th-century medical works demonstrate the importance of botanical medicine
in that time. Among the writers who added to the knowledge of plants during the next few centuries and
whose books are represented in these collections are Konrad Gesner, John Gerard, John Parkinson, and
Joseph Tournefort. Health care was largely a do-it-yourself project. There were almost no hospitals;
people who went to them expected to die and they usually did. Home care of the sick was the rule and every
woman expected to assume nursing duties along with the rest of the household tasks. Even most cookbooks of
the day contained recipes for special foods suitable for those who were ill and numerous recipes for
remedies for common ailments. Many of these domestic medicines included one of several herbal ingredients.
- William Dean Howells Collection
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William Dean Howells (1837-1920), American novelist, literary critic and editor
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EXTENT: More than 600 volumes, one
archival box + 120 manuscript letters, and a family tree
ABSTRACT: William Dean Howells (1837-1920), the son of a printer, began working as a typesetter and a
printer's apprentice before serving a term as city editor of the Ohio State Journal in 1858. He published
poems, stories and reviews in Atlantic Monthly and other magazines and wrote for the Cincinnati Gazette and
the Sentinel. He was awarded the post of U. S. Consul to Venice in 1861 for his service to the Lincoln
campaign. After leaving Venice, Howells became assistant editor (1866-1871) and then editor (1871-1881) of
the Atlantic Monthly. Although he wrote over a hundred books in various genres, including poems, literary
criticism, plays, memoirs, and travel narratives, Howells is best known for his realistic fiction, including
A Modern Stance (1881). Howells remained proud of his Ohio roots throughout his life. In the latter part
of his career, he drew increasingly on life in Ohio in his autobiographic works (e.g., A Boy's Town, 1890) and his
novels (e.g., The Kentons, 1903). A staunch critic of racial intolerance, Howells was a founding member of the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.
LINKS: William Dean Howells Society at
http://www.howellssociety.org/
William Dean Howells Bibliography: Miami University at
http://spec.lib.muohio.edu/Howells-biblio-txt.pdf
A text version of this bibliography is available at
http://spec.lib.muohio.edu/Howells-biblio.html
FINDING AID:William Dean Howells Finding Aid. This
collection includes
correspondence sent by William Dean Howells between 1861 and 1918; poems written by Howells between 1858 and 1886; an undated
manuscript titled "The Novels and Stories of Frank R. Stockton;" prints and photographs of Howells; copy negatives of personal
photographs of Howells and his Hamilton, Ohio home; and miscellaneous newspaper articles, correspondence and manuscripts regarding
Howells.
- King Juvenile Literature Collection & the Schoolbook/Textbook Collections
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"The Frog Prince" by Walter Crane
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EXTENT: Over 8,300 volumes in the King Juvenile literature collection and another 5,000 volumes in the
schoolbook/textbook collection
ABSTRACT: The Edgar & Faith King Juvenile Literature Collection covers the time period 1680 to present,
representing many countries, cultures and languages. In most recent anthologies of the history of
children's literature, this collection is among those cited.
The schoolbook collection has texts from the 1690s to 1950 and provides a study in changes
in the educational process in this country. Most areas are represented - from history and geography to
mathematics, rhetoric, elocution, spelling, music and gymnastics, as well as the manual arts.
Both of these collections complement the McGuffey collections, described below.
LANGUAGES: English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Hungarian, Italian and Latin
BROCHURE: Edgar W. & Faith King Collection of Juvenile Literature
- William Holmes McGuffey and the McGuffey Eclectic Readers
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William Holmes McGuffey, (1800-1873), American author and educator, professor at Miami University
(1826-1836) when the first eclectic readers were published
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EXTENT: 120 manuscript letters, contracts
+ four volumes of an unpublished manuscript believed to be by
William Holmes McGuffey on moral philosophy (one volume believed to be completely in McGuffey's hand). These
papers cover the time period 1814-1955, the bulk between 1826-1874, in three archival boxes + more than 300
editions of the McGuffey readers and spellers.
ABSTRACT: William Holmes McGuffey (1800-1873), U. S. educator and clergyman, is remembered chiefly for his
series of illustrated readers for elementary school. Upon their publication in 1836, they became an
immediate success and eventually sold over 150 million copies. Titled Eclectic Readers, the books became
popularly known as McGuffey's Readers and were the basic primer for school children, particularly in the
Midwest, for about a hundred years. The content includes proverbs, grammar, and selections from
Shakespeare. The tone is moralistic, extolling patriotism, religion, good behavior, and games and
sports.
McGuffey graduated from Washington and Jefferson College in 1826, taught in rural schools,
and became professor of languages at Miami University in that same year. He remained at Miami until he became president
of Cincinnati College in 1836. He later served as president of Ohio University at Athens, 1839-43, as
professor of philosophy at Woodward College, Cincinnati, 1843-1845, and as professor of moral philosophy at
the University of Virginia, 1845-73. He helped to organize the public school system of Ohio but is now
remembered chiefly as the compiler of the McGuffey Eclectic Readers, the First and Second of which were
published in 1836, the Third and Fourth in 1837, the Fifth in 1844, and the Sixth in 1857. These were
constantly revised and passed through edition after edition, maintaining their place for nearly two
generations. The readers are graded collections of didactic tales and excerpts from great books,
reflecting McGuffey's view that the proper education of young people required their introduction to a wide
variety of topics and practical matters. They became standard texts in nearly all states, eclipsing all
rival textbook publications for half a century and reaching a reputed total sale of over 150 million
copies.
LANGUAGES: English, German
FINDING AIDS FOR MCGUFFEY READERS
- McGuffey Primers
- McGuffey First Readers
- McGuffey Second Readers
- McGuffey Third Readers
- McGuffey Fourth Readers
- McGuffey Fifth Readers and Rhetorical Guides
- McGuffey Sixth Readers
- McGuffey High School Readers
- McGuffey Eclectic and Juvenile Speakers
- McGuffey Spelling Books
- McGuffey Word Books
FINDING AID: McGuffey Family Papers
ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS: McGuffey Museum and the University Archives
LINKS: McGuffey at Miami Digital Collections Website
LINKS: McGuffey
Museum
BROCHURE: McGuffey and His Readers
- Native American Women Playwrights Archive (NAWPA)
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NAWPA is the respository of the Spiderwoman Theatre.
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EXTENT: 7 archival boxes and map case-drawer of posters
ABSTRACT: Founded in 1996, NAWPA is designed to identify Native American women playwrights, to collect
and preserve their work and to serve as the repository for Spiderwoman Theatre. NAWPA has facilitated at
least one conference per year, hosted performances of Spiderwoman Theatre, Shirley Cheechoo, and Marie
Clements, and is organized by Judy Lee Olivia and Vera Manuel and others.
LINKS: NAWPA website at
http://staff.lib.muohio.edu/nawpa/.
- Old Northwest and the William Henry Harrison Collection
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"Laws of the Territory Northwest of the Ohio" (1796) first book published in the Northwest
Territory
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EXTENT: More than 400 volumes about the development of the Territory Northwest of the Ohio and of the Ohio
River Valley and about 40 volumes about William Henry Harrison
ABSTRACT: Monographs by and about William Henry Harrison, ninth President of the United States, while a
territorial governor and army general. At age 67, he was the oldest man ever elected President up to that
time, the last President born under British rule, and the first to die in office--after only one month's
service. His grandson, Benjamin Harrison, was 23rd President of the United States (1889-1893). At age 18,
Harrison enlisted as an army officer, serving as an aide-de-camp to General Anthony Wayne, who was engaged
in a struggle against the Northwest Indian Confederation over the westward encroachment of white settlers.
Harrison took part in the campaign that ended in the Battle of Fallen Timbers on August 20, 1794, near
present-day Maumee, Ohio. A decisive victory by Wayne over the Northwest Indian
Confederation ended two decades of border warfare and secured white settlement of the former Indian
territory mainly in Ohio. Wayne's expedition of more than 1,000 soldiers represented the third U. S. attempt
to eradicate the resistance posed by the Northwest Confederation, comprising the Miami, Potawatomi, Shawnee,
Delaware, Ottawa, Chippewa, Iroquois, and other tribes.
LINKS: Official Presidential site at
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/wh9.html
- Spiro Peterson Center for Defoe Studies
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Daniel Defoe (1660-1731), English novelist, poet, and businessman in portrait by Jeremiah Taverner,
engraved by Michael Vandergucht
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EXTENT: More than 550 volumes, including
70 different printings of Defoe's best known work Robinson
Crusoe, and more than 100 reels of microfilm
ABSTRACT: Daniel Defoe (1660-1731), English novelist, pamphleteer, and journalist, author of Robinson
Crusoe (1719-22) and Moll Flanders (1722). A man of many talents, he was not only a writer, but also a
businessman, secret agent, and journalist. The Defoe collection includes books, microfilm, documents, maps,
notes and files on Daniel Defoe and early fiction.
LANGUAGES: English, French, German, Russian, Dutch, Italian, Swedish, Spanish, Hungarian, Eskimo,
Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and other languages.
- Matthew Prior Project
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Matthew Prior (1664-1721), English poet and diplomat in portrait by Hyacinthe Rigaud
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EXTENT: Photographic copies (photographs
or photocopies or microform) of the nearly 3,000 letters to and
from him known to be extant in manuscript or print. Special Collections owns four of the original manuscripts; the
remaining original manuscripts are scattered among thirty-seven other repositories, both public and private,
chiefly in the U. S., Great Britain, France, and the Netherlands, with nearly 300 correspondents represented.
ABSTRACT: Matthew Prior (1664-1721) was a British poet and diplomat. A friend of Jonathan Swift and
Alexander Pope, he was also a key player on the diplomatic field and central to the Treaty of Utrecht, which
is sometimes called "Matt's Peace." Miami University has been the center of Prior research since 1948, when the "Prior Manuscripts" were
acquired for the Library. These manuscripts make up one of the most
important collections of authoritative copies of Prior's poems in the world. They provided copy-text for the
Literary Works (Wright and Spears, Literary Works, vol. 1, p. xxviii-xxx), the standard edition of Prior's
complete poems. The Matthew Prior Project focuses on the collection of Prior's correspondence.
LINKS: Matthew Prior Project website at
http://digital.lib.muohio.edu/prior/
- Whitelaw Reid Archive
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Whitelaw Reid (1837-1912), American journalist and diplomat, Miami alumni 1856, Vice-Presidential
running mate with Benjamin Harrison in 1892
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EXTENT: 7 letters and more than 50 books
by and about Whitelaw Reid
ABSTRACT: An 1856 graduate of Miami University, Whitelaw Reid was a U. S. journalist, diplomat, and
politician, successor to Horace Greeley in 1872 as editor in chief (until 1905) and publisher (until his
death) of the New York Tribune, which, during much of that period, was perhaps the most influential
newspaper in the United States. He was minister to France from 1889 to 1892, unsuccessful candidate for vice-
president on the Republican ticket with Benjamin Harrison in 1892, and ambassador to Great Britain from 1905
to 1912. See also the Benjamin Harrison collection for 1892 presidential campaign materials.
ADDITIONAL LOCATION: The Southwest Ohio Regional Depository & the Libraries' microfilm collection (more
than 237 reels)
- Samuel Richey Collection of the Southern Confederacy
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Letter written in 1877 by Jefferson Davis (1808-1889)
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EXTENT: More than 500 letters
ABSTRACT: The Samuel Richey Collection of the Southern Confederacy includes about 200 letters by
Jefferson Davis and an additional 300+ letters by members of the cabinet and generals of the Confederacy
and members of Davis' family. The letters date from 1830 to 1889.
- Shaker Collection
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"Shakers" fourth edition by F. W. Evans (1867)
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EXTENT: One folder of Shaker documents
and about 500 volumes
ABSTRACT: In 1805, the Turtle Creek New Light Presbyterian Church followed its pastor, Rev. Richard
McNemar, into Shakerism. It had been quite a journey for them moving from Calvinistic Presbyterianism into
the New Light movement (fostered by the Great Kentucky Revival) and then eventually into the United Society
of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing. However. this spiritual journey was just the beginning. From
1805 to the 1920s, the Shakers had a great presence in the Cincinnati-Dayton area. The Shaker town they
founded in 1805 was named Union Village and it was the headquarters of the Shaker bishopric in the West. It
was the parent village of the Watervliet Shaker Village located in Montgomery & Greene Counties (Dayton,
Ohio), the White Water Shaker Village located in Hamilton County (New Haven, Ohio), North Union Shaker
Village located in Cuyahoga County (Cleveland, Ohio), Pleasant Hill & South Union Shaker Villages in
Kentucky, and West Union Shaker Village at Busro, Indiana. The Union Village, near Lebanon, Ohio, was the
Center of Shakerism in the West from 1805-1912. The collection has many nineteenth century Shaker imprints,
providing researchers a perspective on this small, but influential, religious sect.
- Robert B. Stanton Collection
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Robert Stanton (1846-1922), American civil engineer and explorer, Miami alumni 1871
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EXTENT: 3 archival boxes
ABSTRACT: This collection includes photographs, diaries/journals, and correspondence of Robert Stanton
(1846-1922), civil engineer and Miami alumnus. It provides an account of his participation in a surveying expedition to determine
the feasibility of constructing a railroad through the Grand Canyon, 1889-1890. The survey is one of the
fullest primary records ever made of the Colorado River from Grand Junction, Colorado, to the Gulf of
California. Meticulously, Stanton recorded with pen and camera the day-by-day progress of the exploration
survey.
FINDING AID: The Robert Brewster Stanton Collection Finding Aid
LINKS: New York Public Library Stanton Exhibit
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Robert Brewster Stanton and the Colorado River Survey,
the 1889-1890 Expeditions
ADDITIONAL LOCATION: Other materials on this expedition are available at the New York Public Library.
- Transportation Collections
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Steamboat at the Covington, KY, landing in the 1860s unloading troops
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EXTENT: 7 file cabinets + 25 archival
boxes + an estimated 1,200-1,800 volumes from these various collections
ABSTRACT: Time period 1800 - 1900s, covering primarily the United States but also the larger world with seven
languages represented and including material on travel by land (coach, rail, trolley, streetcar, incline), water (canal, steamboat,
ocean liner) and air.
- The Philip Ronfor collection includes illustrations and paintings of locomotives. Photos of
western railroads are also included.
- The Robert Reed Collection includes 4x5 negatives and photographs of railroad accidents for Reed's
work, Train Wrecks (1968). Maps, charts, illustrations, photographs, journals, and timetables are included
in these collections.
Several other collections also have supporting materials on transportation, including the Samuel
Richey Collection of the Southern Confederacy with letters by Confederate generals about the
problems of a non-standard railroad gauge throughout the South and the problems that posed for them; the
Robert Stanton collection on the surveying expedition to determine the feasibility of constructing a
railroad through the Grand Canyon, 1889-1890; and the Samuel Covington Collections
that includes works on regional history, early Ohio River history, transportation and commerce. The John H.
White, Jr., and the Charles Murphy Transportation Collections include works, illustrations and photographs
relating to the history of transportation throughout the world.
BROCHURE: Horsecars: City Transit Before the Age of Electricity by John H.
White, Jr.
- Rodolfo Usigli Archive
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Rodolfo Usigli (1905-1979), Mexican playwright, novelist, essayist and diplomat, father of modern
Mexican theatre
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EXTENT: 70 archival boxes, plus clothing
and artifacts (hats, walking sticks and canes, eye glasses,
etc.)
ABSTRACT: The Archive is a repository of the papers of Rodolfo Usigli (1905-1979), Mexican playwright,
essayist and diplomat. The Archive is the definitive research collection relating to Usigli's life and
career, including correspondence, both manuscript and typed drafts of original plays and translations of
works by other artists, personal, theatrical, and diplomatic photographs, essays, books, playbills, posters,
theses written about Usigli, awards, newspaper and magazine articles, memorabilia, and ephemera. The
correspondence includes letters to and from George Bernard Shaw, José Clemente Orozco, Octavio Paz and many
others. The Archive also includes rare materials such as Usigli's unpublished poems, plays and short
stories and the correspondence between Usigli and Diego Rivera regarding their joint efforts to publicize
André Breton's lectures during the 1938 Surrealist Week in Mexico City. The Archive has not only copies of
Breton's lectures, which Usigli translated for the occasion, but also a rare print of Rivera's poster
"Communicating Vessels (Homage to André Breton)" and a broadsheet with the famous "Manifesto for an
Independent Revolutionary Art!" both produced as a result of the visit by Breton.
LANGUAGES: Spanish, French, English, and German
FINDING AID: The Corona Trilogy Finding Aid
FINDING AID: El gesticulador / The Impostor Finding Aid
FINDING AID: Rodolfo Usigli and Octavio Paz Correspondence Finding Aid
FINDING AID: Rodolfo Usigli: Theater of the New World
LINKS: Usigli Centennial Celebration website at
http://usigli.lib.muohio.edu/
- Victorian Trade Card Collection
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EXTENT: Both the regular and the online collections include over 1400 Victorian trade cards
ABSTRACT: The Miami University Libraries contain several hundred advertising trade cards. Trade cards
were typically used to advertise products and services, such as patent medicines, thread,
sewing machines, food and beverages, and farm equipment. Trade cards reached the height of their
popularity during the 1880s and 1890s. Reduced postal rates and the rise of magazine publishing led to the
eventual decline in popularity of this unique American form of advertising.
LINKS: Online collection at
http://digital.lib.muohio.edu/tradecards/
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Judson's Mountain Herb Pills
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Advertisement for Hood & Co
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