Bache, A. D.(Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867.

Papers of the American physicist, Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, 1843-1867. Grandson of Benjamin Franklin. Eight outgoing letters, including five to explorer and physicist I.I. Hayes; with one each to explorer Charles Wilkes and politician Millard Fillmore.

Bachman, Mary.

Files, correspondence, research notes, and other material relating to the American comb collector. Includes photocopies of material dating back to the late 19th and early 20th century.

Bachrach, Louis Fabian, 1881-1963.

Papers of the American portrait photographer. Correspondence, holograph and typescript articles, interviews, speeches, and notes; published materials, including articles by and about Bachrach, clippings, pamphlets, and press releases; and photographs taken by Bachrach, his son Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr., and his father David Bachrach. Correspondence includes that of Sherman Adams, Joseph Alsop, Stewart Alsop, Joseph S. Clark, John F. Collins, Walter Cronkite, Ralph E. Flanders, J. William Fulbright, Barry M. Goldwater, Conrad Hilton, Luther Hodges, Herbert Hoover, Walter Lippmann, Maurine Brown Neuberger, Jacqueline Onassis, Norman Vincent Peale, James Reston, George W. Romney, and Leverett Saltonstall.

Bacon, Ernst, 1898-1990.

Papers of the American composer, pianist, and conductor; Director of School of Music, Syracuse University and professor (1945-1963). Manuscripts, notebooks, sketchbooks, photographs, printed music, and essays. Notable correspondents in the collection inlude Ansel Adams, Carlisle Floyd, John Alden Carpenter, Kay Boyle, Aaron Copland, Witter Bynner, and Van Wyck Brooks.

Bacon, Peggy, 1895-1987.

Papers of the American author, caricaturist, illustrator, painter. Collection includes correspondence between Bacon and her husband Alexander Brook, as well as that of others; manuscript articles, illustrations, poems, and notebooks; published material including articles, drawings, and newspaper clippings by or about Bacon and Brook; memorabilia, including awards, photographs, and reviews; and miscellany.

Baer, Arthur, 1886-1969.

Columns, correspondence, clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, memorabilia and published material of the American cartoonist and humor writer.

Bail, Grace Shattuck.

Papers of the American poet, composer, arranger. Bail often set Biblical passages to music. Collection includes correspondence (1942-1979); musical compositions, poems, and memorabilia.

Bailey, Theodorus, 1805-1877.

Papers of the Admiral, United States Navy. Collection includes correspondence (1828-1874), much of which relates to Bailey's Civil War service; naval orders, circulars, reports and directives, and personal memorabilia.

Baird, Spencer Fullerton,1823-1887.

Papers of the American zoologist, naturalist, ornithologist; Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.

Baker, Bryant, 1881-1970.

British-born American sculptor. Collection contains published material, correspondence and photographs.

Bald, Kenneth.

Primarily contains over 2,900 pieces of original artwork for the Judd Saxon and Dr. Kildare comic strips; as well as small quantities of correspondence, proofs, photographs, sketches, printed and published material.

Baldwin, Hanson Weightman, 1903-1991.

Correspondence of the American author and military historian, related to his unpublished biography of Major General John Shirley Wood.

Baldwin Piano Company.Albright, James M.

Incorporated in 1898, the D.H. Baldwin Company manufactured grand, spinet, and upright pianos. Known as Baldwin Piano Company, 1954-1963. Collection contains business correspondence (1895-1930); administrative records, including ledgers, account books, and sales books of the company and its subsidiaries (1902-1954).

Ballard, Juliet Brooke.

Papers of the American author, poet. Author of books based on the Edgar Cayce readings. Correspondence, typescript poems, research material on Edgar Cayce, photographs, published material, including articles and clippings by and about Ballard, scrapbooks, and memorabilia.

Bancroft, George, 1800-1891.

Papers of the American historian, diplomat. Bancroft served as U.S. Secretary of the Navy under James K. Polk, and later as U.S. minister to Great Britain (1846-1849), to Prussia (1867-1871), and to the German Empire (1871-1874). Consists of correspondence, chiefly outgoing; includes recommendations for appointments, letters of introduction, responses to social invitations, and acknowledgements of receipt of books, historical documents, and various other items. Correspondents include A.D. Bache, John H. Campbell, G.W. Childs, Joel Munsell, Ambrose Sevier, Edward H. Wright, and Hendrick B. Wright.

Bank of Newburgh (Newburgh, N.Y.)

Checks, promissory notes and correspondence from the Bank of Newburgh located in Newburgh, New York.

Bannister, Henry S.

Papers of the American printer and antiquarian, founder of Albany, New York, firm which bore his name. Collection includes Munsell family genealogy, letter to William Leete Stone, letters about Munsell, invoices and receipts, photographic portraits, and biographer David S. Edelstein's research on the life and work of Joel Munsell.

Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014.

Papers of the African-American author, music critic, novelist, playwright, poet, and social activist. Baraka was also editor of Yugen, a literary magazine, and co-editor, with Diane Di Prima, of The floating bear. Correspondence (1958-1965); Baraka's typescript and published writings, including articles, book manuscripts, book and music reviews, essays, playscripts, and poems; and Yugen records, including manuscripts and page proofs. Yugen manuscripts include those of John Ashbery, Paul Blackburn, Robin Blaser, Bruce Boyd, William Burroughs, Paul Carroll, Gregory Corso, Robert Creeley, Edward Dahlberg, Diane Di Prima, Edward Dorn, Larry Eigner, Allen Ginsberg, Barbara Guest, Stephen Jonas, Jack Kerouac, Kenneth Koch, Philip Lamantia, Ron Loewinsohn, Walter Lowenfels, Michael McClure, Edward Marshall, David Meltzer, Frank O'Hara, Charles Olson, Joel Oppenheimer, Stuart Perkoff, Gary Snyder, Gilbert Sorrentino, George Stanley, Philip Whalen, John Wieners, and William Carlos Williams.

Barck, Oscar Theodore, Jr., 1902-1993.

Collection of printed engravings, bank drafts, receipts, correspondence, newspapers, and road commissions from the Revolutionary War period (1775-1783) and beyond focusing on New York State.

Barker, Eric Wilson.

Papers of the American poet (1905-1973). Correspondence, manuscripts, and published material.