Creator:
Back Door Computer Services, Inc.
Inclusive Dates:
1995- 1995
Abstract:
User manual for The Back Door, a bulletin board system or BBS (an early form of social media) for gay men
Type of Material:
Manuals (instructional materials)
Brochures.
Subject:
San Francisco (Calif.)
Activism and social reform
Science and medicine
AIDS activists.
Computer bulletin boards.
Internet and gay men.
Social networks.
Creator:
Benjamin, Eliab C.
Inclusive Dates:
1855- 1862
Abstract:
Diary of Eliab C. Benjamin of Rushford, New York, possibly minister or deacon. He was evidently much involved with the First Baptist Church of Rushford.
Type of Material:
Diaries.
Photographs.
Tintypes (prints)
Subject:
Rushford (N.Y.) -- History.
Activism and social reform
African Americans
New York State
African Americans.
Farmers -- New York (State) -- History.
Fugitive slaves -- United States.
Creator:
Bliss, J. S.
Inclusive Dates:
1867- 1882
Abstract:
Papers of the Wisconsin-based lecture agent and promoter who arranged for both American and European speakers to tour the American West. Includes incoming letters from social reformers, political activists, authors, journalists, and performers concerning arrangements for their lecture tours. Letters include discussions of lecture fees, subject matter of lectures, scheduling, and accommodations. Correspondents include Charles Bradlaugh, B. Gratz Brown, Jason Mason Brown, Ned Buntline, Will Carleton, Lewis Carmichael, Mrs. Edwin Hubbell Chapin, Robert Laird Collier, Russell Conwell, Charlotte Cushman, Washington Donaldson, Neal Dow, Paul DuChaillu, Volney French, Grace Greenwood, Asa Burnham Hutchinson, Judson Kilpatrick, Dio Lewis, David Locke, Olive Logan, J.E. McCarthy, John J. Pinkerton, John Wesley Powell, Abby Sage Richardson, John Ripley, John Godfrey Saxe, John Strachan, David Swing, Benjamin Franklin Taylor, George Francis Train, O.P. Whitcomb, Victoria Woodhull, and others.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
Commercial agents.
Lecturers.
Activism and social reform
Commercial agents -- United States.
Lecturers -- United States.
Lectures and lecturing -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Lectures and lecturing -- Economic aspects.
Lyceums -- United States.
Social reformers -- Correspondence.
Creator:
Bloom, Lynn Z., 1934-
Inclusive Dates:
1963- 1971
Abstract:
Collection of research material amassed by Lynn Z. Bloom for and
during the writing of her 1972 biography of Dr. Spock.
Type of Material:
Research notes.
Manuscripts for publication.
Audiotapes.
Photographs.
Subject:
Biographers.
Biography
Activism and social reform
Science and medicine
Pediatricians -- United States.
Creator:
Bradford, S. S.
Inclusive Dates:
1836- 1836
Abstract:
A single letter from S. S. Bradford of Homer, New York to Mr Ben Johnson of Ithaca, asking Mr Johnson to speak to the Homer Anti-Slavery Society.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
Homer (N.Y. : Town) -- History -- 19th century.
New York State
Activism and social reform
Abolitionists -- United States.
Antislavery movements -- New York (State) -- Homer.
Political activists -- United States.
Creator:
Brisbane family.
Inclusive Dates:
1819- 1965
Abstract:
The Brisbane Family Papers are a collection of documents, mostly correspondence dated 1819-1965, by and about the Brisbane family. The collection has been divided into three sections: items relating to social reformer Albert Brisbane (1809-1890); those of his journalist son, Arthur (1864-1936), and his descendents; and documents pertaining to journalist Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman ("Nellie Bly") (1867-1922).
Type of Material:
Autobiographies (literary works)
Cartoons (humorous images)
Diaries.
Notebooks.
Obituaries.
Scrapbooks.
Subject:
France -- Description and travel.
Italy -- Description and travel.
Journalists.
Social reformers.
Journalism
Activism and social reform
Fourierism.
Journalism.
Journalists -- United States.
Journalists -- Family relationships.
Newspaper editors -- United States.
Publishers and publishing -- United States.
Social reformers -- United States.
Women journalists -- United States.
Creator:
Brown, John, 1821-1895.
Inclusive Dates:
1849- 1895
Abstract:
Papers of the farmer and soldier, free soil advocate, son of abolitionist John Brown
(1800-1859). 13 combination diary/account books (1856-1895), and 3 letters of his
father to family members.
Type of Material:
Account books.
Letters (correspondence)
Diaries.
Subject:
Social reformers.
Military history
Activism and social reform
Civil War (U.S.)
Abolitionists -- United States.
Farmers -- Diaries.
Creator:
Buffington, Kath, 1951 or 1952.
Inclusive Dates:
1963- 2000
Abstract:
Correspondence, printed material and posters/memorabilia relating to non-violent direct action and war/tax resistance.
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Newsletters.
Posters.
Subject:
Syracuse (N.Y.)
Rome (N.Y.)
Nuclear times.
Peace newsletter.
Activism and social reform
New York State
Civil disobedience -- New York (State)
Civil disobedience -- United States.
Civil disobedience -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Direct action.
Government, Resistance to.
Nonviolence.
Nuclear disarmament.
Passive resistance -- United States.
Pacifists -- United States.
Peace -- Societies, etc.
War tax resistance.