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 George Francis Robert Henderson oddd.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
George Francis Robert Henderson (1854-1903) was a British soldier and military author.
Alarmed at the loss, and in an attempt to prevent more slave states from leaving the Union, the U.S. Congress passed the Crittenden-Johnson Resolution on July 25 of that year, which stated that the war was being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery.
Major General George B. McClellan took command of the Union Army of the Potomac on July 26 (he was briefly general-in-chief of all the Union armies, but was subsequently relieved of that post in favor of Maj. Gen.
www.oddd.org /en/George+Francis+Robert+Henderson   (10077 words)

  
 Teacher Resources - Collection - Photographs from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933
Search on Leopold and Loeb for photographs relating to the "trial of the century," in which two extremely bright but mislead scholars, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, were sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping and murdering the 14 year-old son of a prominent Chicago family.
Photographs include an image of the ransom letter in the murder case, police photographs of the defendants, and a portrait of defense attorney Clarence Darrow, who gave a heroic, twelve-hour summation against the death penalty.
Examine the photographs and use imagination or research to write a descriptive account of one of these events as if you were a reporter for a newspaper.
memory.loc.gov /learn/collections/chicago/file.html   (7219 words)

  
 Getting the Message Through-Chapter 3
During the Pullman strike in Chicago, the commander of the Department of Missouri, General Miles, requested the use of the General Myer, but improving conditions in the city made its deployment unnecessary.
George F. Derby, Shafter's engineer officer, ascended about a quarter of a mile to the rear of the American position at El Pozo.
A signal detachment of four officers and nineteen men under the command of Maj. George P Scriven accompanied the American troops on their march to Peking in August 1900.
www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/30-17/S_3.htm   (12352 words)

  
 U.S. Repositories Listing - V-Z
Correspondence, photographs, and individual flight and Army records chiefly relating to Thompson's experiences in France and Europe with the USAAF during World War II.
Papers include reprints of Polhamus' articles and reports, correspondence, notebooks, and photographs relating to his patents on variable wing sweeps, F-111 aircraft and cryogenic wind tunnel development, and vortex lift aerodynamics; Congressional testimony on the TFX contract investigation; and materials relating to his Wright Brothers lectureship in 1983.
This collection of vertical aerial photographs, originating from Fairchild Aerial Surveys, includes negatives, prints and photomosaics; coverage is concentrated in California, but also covers parts of 47 other states and 28 countries.
www.nasm.si.edu /research/arch/arch_repos/GUIDE.PT10.html   (4639 words)

  
 Learn more about George Pullman in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Learn more about George Pullman in the online encyclopedia.
You are here: Online Encyclopedia > George Pullman
Hint: Play with putting spaces before and after your words to see the different results you get.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /g/ge/george_pullman.html   (414 words)

  
 Plant Science Bulletin - October 1970, Volume 16, Issue 3
George Neville Jones, professor of botany and curator of the Herbarium at the University of Illinois, died June 25 at the age of 66.
This work is an ambitious undertaking to represent by line drawing, photograph, and terse statements the ecological status of (all?) the native and introduced plants of Japan.
Both the photographs and the drawings are well executed, although I am taken a bit aback at the rather overpowering exhibitions of the underground portions of a plant—masses of roots which don't seem to tell too much.
www.botany.org /PlantScienceBulletin/psb-1970-16-3.php   (8576 words)

  
 G
George collected items on the early history of Lubbock and its pioneers.
Contains a scrapbook (1940-1961) pertaining to the civic and social activities of Daisy Iva Bailey Godeke of Lubbock, Texas.
Includes correspondence, financial material, files, legal material, literary productions, newsclippings, photographs, printed material, scrapbook material, and memorabilia pertaining to Godwin's career as a political and religious essayist, minister, farmer, and his ordeals as a mental patient.
www.swco.ttu.edu /Guide/g.htm   (6562 words)

  
 Guide to the Joseph Wicks Papers 1930-1974
Correspondence, case files, and legal documents pertaining to Wicks's service as Washington State Superior Court Judge of Okanogan and Ferry Counties from 1947 through 1960, and to his private practice, 1930-1947 and 1961-1972.
While attending George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C., from 1923 to 1926, he worked as a clerk in the Justice Department.
All case files are arranged chronologically within an alphabetical sequence, except for the files pertaining to Wicks' role as Tribal Attorney for the Colvilles, which are arranged alphabetically.
nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu /findaid/ark:/80444/xv77293   (1340 words)

  
 Kudos - Praise for the Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum.
Filled with photographs, recommended readings and an electronic archive of stories from the era, the CPRR site offers a wonderful means of understanding the construction of the railroad from California to Utah.
A documentary and photographic history of the building of the transcontinental railroad, this online museum pays particular attention to the contributions of Chinese Americans during the construction of this watershed transportation system.
In addition to lots of photographs and stereographs, they have scanned or reprinted much 19th-century writing about this railroad's construction and ancillary topics.
www.cprr.org /Museum/Kudos.html   (11699 words)

  
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Pullman was a town within metropolitan Chicago built and operated by the Pullman Palace Car Company, a firm that manufactured sleeping cars for railroads.
In 1894, Pullman became the center of one of the nation’s most famous labor disputes, the Pullman Strike, which was led by Eugene Debs.
Pullman: A Social Study” by Richard T. Ely published in Harper's Magazine (February 1885) which is written from a labor standpoint, but provides images and descriptions of the town and the life in Pullman.
www.worldviewsoftware.com /links-content.html   (6164 words)

  
 Alan G. May Inventory
The reference, associated papers, refers to all pages excluding those with journal text or photographic prints, both within pages within and after the the pages of journal text.
Photographs and Negatives; n.d., 1927-1986 (168 original bandw prints; 1 original color print; 1,339 original bandw negatives; 112 bandw contact sheets; 1,173 original color negatives; 58 color contact sheets; 47 bandw contact prints; 632 bandw copy negatives; 5 bandw slides; 14 color slides).
Miscellaneous Photographs from the Smithsonian Institution Expeditions to the Aleutian Islands; 1936-1938 (102 bandw prints).
www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu /archives/CollectionsInv/KtoN/mayaginv.html   (5298 words)

  
 Plant Science Bulletin - September 1972, Volume 18, Issue 3
He had to go to the Pullman High School, and pass their final exams in 5 or 6 subjects to make up his deficiency.
George Baker Cummins, formerly Professor of Botany, Purdue University, now retired, has contributed to Mycology a comprehensive treatise on the rust fungi (Uredinales) of the Gramineae of the world.
Since the book was reproduced using a photographic technique it was available soon after the conference and therefore most of the work presented is still quite recent.
www.botany.org /PlantScienceBulletin/psb-1972-18-3.php   (9572 words)

  
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Additional correspondence pertaining to specific topics and/or projects is filed throughout the collection.
Correspondence, interviews, photographs, and other materials relating to three Carter Family projects by Green: a Carter Family Bibliography (1962), an article titled "The Carter Family's 'Coal Miners Blues'" for Southern Folklore Quarterly (December 1961), and an album, 'Mid the Green Fields of Virginia: The Carter Family for RCA-Victor (1963).
The photographs were given to Green while he was conducting research for his book Only a Miner (see also Subseries 4.6).
www.lib.unc.edu /mss/inv/g/Green,Archie   (3760 words)

  
 Volume V Appendix B
It is said of King George IV, who was subject to various hal- lucinations, that he had persuaded himself that he was present at the battle of Waterloo.
It was said that when he went upon a journey, he carried in his trunk fine large photographs of his wife.
The first thing he did when he went into his hotel room, where he was going to stay overnight, was to take them out and stand them around the looking-glass or upon the bureau, where they were in sight during the time he was to remain there.
www.ohiohistory.org /onlinedoc/hayes/appendixb.html   (17184 words)

  
 Bibliography
Buswell was a longtime Bellingham historian, who compiled an extensive collection of pamphlets, photographs, maps, journals, historical reference works, newspapers, microfilms and audio-tapes.
George E. Pickett, C.S.A. New York: Seth Moyle, 1913.
Stewart, George R. Pickett's Charge: A Microhistory of the final attack at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863.
www.nps.gov /sajh/bibliography_new.htm   (2081 words)

  
 Social Studies - US History
The learner will be able to identify issues pertaining to slavery, sectionalism, and nationalism before the Civil War, and analyze the interests, perspectives, and points of view of those involved in the issue.
The learner will be able to examine the political, economic, social, and cultural development of the United States during the period from 1870 to 1900.
The learner will be able to identify and explain the importance of key events, people, and groups associated with industrialization and its impact on urbanization, immigration, farmers, the labor movement, social reform, and government regulation.
www.hobart.k12.in.us /district/SS/CR45557.HTM   (3593 words)

  
 American Labor History Bookstore: strikes, Triangle Shirtwaist, Wobblies, Haymarket
Hines's photographs of children at work were so devastating that they convinced the American people that Congress must pass child labor laws.
We see the great factories and their wealthy owners, including men such as George Pullman, and we get an intimate view of the communities of immigrant employees who worked for them.
The result is a moving set of documentary photographs, from the 1970s and '80s, reminiscent of the work of the famous group associated with Roy Stryker and the Farm Security Administration (FSA) during the New Deal.
www.scuttlebuttsmallchow.com /laborbks.html   (4479 words)

  
 Sources of Jamaican Genealogy
Pictures include a rare woodcut of George Liele, a picture of William Knibb holding the declaration of the Abolition of Slavery, a portrait of the Rev James Phillippo after whom Phillippo Baptist Church in Spanish Town is named.
Photographs made in the 1890's of the towns and countryside of Jamaica illustrate this slim little book which was written to encourage tourists and others to visit the island and presented at the World's Fair [Columbian Exposition] in Chicago in 1893.
The photographs of the island are very interesting to see most are contemporary of 1936, but others are photographs of historical prints.
users.pullman.com /mitchelm/sources.htm   (12226 words)

  
 Henderson, Otto Hogue Photographs of Quincy, Washington, 1900-1961
The Otto Hogue Henderson collection of photographs was donated to the Washington State University Library by Faye Morris, the photographer's niece, in 1974.
The Otto Hogue Henderson collection of photographs consists of glass and film negatives most of which fall within the period from 1910 to 1950.
Also included in the collection are eight account books and one studio register which cover the period from 1909 to 1942, used by Henderson to record information pertaining to his photographic practice.
www.wsulibs.wsu.edu /Holland/masc/finders/pc17.htm   (4746 words)

  
 Joseph Wicks Papers, 1930-1974
Lists of persons subject to jury duty, voter registration lists, orders, claims of exemption, correspondence, venire for jury and other legal forms pertaining to jury selection and terms, 1947-1960.
Pertaining to Rules, Practice & Procedure--Effective Jan. 1, 1960.
Correspondence, exhibits, evidence, contracts, articles of incorporation, application forms, minutes, juror materials, orders, petitions, complaints, notices, memoranda, clippings, summons, notes, photographs, trial speeches, printed materials and other papers relating to criminal and civil cases, including defense materials for the Goldmark case, 1963-1964.
www.wsulibs.wsu.edu /holland/masc/finders/cg236.htm   (1556 words)

  
 Record Unit 361 - National Portrait Gallery, Office of Exhibitions, Exhibition Records, circa 1968-1976
On George Washington's Birthday, 1848, a resolution was introduced in the House of Representatives to thank the officers who had led the Mexican campaigns.
Consists of correspondence concerning borrowing photographs of theater and circus broadsides from the late 18th and early 19th century.
Contains photographs of Farrar by F. Kaulbach, photographs of Farrar in St. Joan and in the title role of Carmen, and photographs of Farrar's portraits by an unidentified artist.
www.si.edu /archives/archives/findingaids/FARU0361.htm   (8389 words)

  
 Railroads and the Military
The photographic albums of Illinois Central photographs of the Mississippi River flood, 1927 (77-IC) depict the activities of employees of the Illinois Central Railroad and the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad in combating the Flood of 1927 on the Mississippi River and the damage done by the flood to the two railroads.
There is documentation pertaining to railroads scattered among other record series, particularly the correspondence files of the major offices.
The photographic missions were flown by the U.S. Air Force and its predecessors and the U.S. Navy for use in military reconnaissance and mapping projects.
www.rlhs.org /narip4.htm   (6144 words)

  
 HOLLAND MSS.
The Holland mss., 1781-1953, consist of letters and papers of physicians of three generations of the Holland family in Bloomington, Indiana: Philip Calphy Holland, 1840-1929, his son, George Frank Holland, 1871-1936, and his son, Philip Todd Holland, 1905-1973.
George Frank Holland), 1870?-1956, is represented in the collection by correspondence with members of her family and friends, and by diaries of her trip to the British Isles, 1914, and to Mexico, 1938.
For Ernest Otto Holland, 1874-1950, son of Philip C. Holland and president of Washington State College, Pullman, Washington, 1916-1945, the collection contains chemistry class notes at Indiana University, 1892; correspondence with relatives, 1897-1940; and a memorial to him from the Board of Directors of the First National Bank of Seattle, Washington, 1950.
www.indiana.edu /~liblilly/lilly/mss/html/holland.html   (523 words)

  
 ITVS: press release
He photographed Dizzy Gillespie when they shared Cab Calloway's bandstand in the 1930s; he was shooting pictures as well as playing at Billie Holiday's last recording session; and he captured the legendary 1958 Esquire gathering of jazz greats in Harlem.
From his vantage point on stages across the country, on Pullman cars and tour buses and recording studios, Hinton's photographs provide a window into the itinerant world of the musicianñthe joy of performing, and both the solitude and camaraderie felt by the band members of the era.
Her work was instrumental in the creation of KEEPING TIME, which relies on Hinton's photographs of his world to tell his unique story.
www.itvs.org /pressroom/pressRelease.htm?pressId=266   (1794 words)

  
 Donald S. Nelson: An Inventory of his Architectural Records, Drawings, and Photographs, 1910-1975, Part 3 of 3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Nelson (1907-1992) spent the majority of his architectural career working in the Texas firm of Broad and Nelson, specializing in institutional and commercial works and planning.
Note that portions of the collection are located in remote storage and 72 hour notice is required for paging.
Construction photographs (originally housed in green binder,) n.d.
www.lib.utexas.edu /taro/utaaa/00042/00042p3-P.html   (4068 words)

  
 Teacher Resources - Collection - Panoramic Maps, 1847-1929
Put together maps and other items pertaining to specific locations to develop an understanding of the importance of land and railroad development to the growth of the upper-Midwest region during the mid-nineteenth century.
Another way to identify errors or exaggerations in maps and the factors that may have caused them is to compare them with photographs of the same locations.
Search American Memory on the name of a city or state to find items that pertain to that location's literary or cultural history.
memory.loc.gov /ammem/ndlpedu/collections/pmap/file.html   (8194 words)

  
 Chicago Metro History Fair Bibliography
Numerous photographs of buildings and streescapes document the growth of Chicago and nearby suburbs; includes Evanston.
Originally developed for students participating in the Chicago History Fair, these bibliographies can be used by casual researchers, the junior high and high school students, as well as by the more serious researcher.
Among government documents, many pertaining to Chicago, is a collection of photographs of Black CHicago in the 1970s.
www.epl.org /library/bibliographies/reference/chicago-metro.html   (1533 words)

  
 African Americans and the Old West
In 1857, when she was fifty-five, George Brown died, and Clara Brown, with the sum of 100 dollars she had saved, bought her freedom according to the stipulations of George Brown's will.
The song of "Home on the Range" and the vision of the U.S. Cavalry keeping the Native Americans at a distance from the frontierspeople as they moved westward could also be added to a long list of perceptions about the early American old west.
Part of this image might be true, but the broader issues pertaining to the development of the old west are much more complex.
www.liu.edu /cwis/cwp/library/african/west/west.htm#langston   (12045 words)

  
 SAA: Congressional Papers Roundtable
The addition includes photographs, clippings, and papers, including a remarkable draft of a letter to Bob Woodward in reaction to All the President's Men.
Prior to her election to Congress, she was secretary of the state of Connecticut and a member of the Hartford Court of Common Council.
The collection consists of 72 cubic feet of materials pertaining to her Congressional career and includes correspondence, reports, news clippings, press releases, speeches, committee and issue files, and audio visual materials.
www.archivists.org /saagroups/cpr/newsletters/feb_1999.asp   (5786 words)

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