Pease, Barzillai, 1773-

American seaman, pilot, ship's captain. Journals combining ship's logs and personal diaries concerning Pease's career as a merchant seaman and tenure as Commander of United States Transports on Lake Ontario during the War of 1812.

North, Belus F.

Papers of the Union Army soldier from Marcellus, New York. Civil War diaries, 1862-1865; personal ledger, 1869-1870; and a photograph.

Shaktman, Ben, 1937-

Papers of the American playwright and director. Correspondence subject files; production material comprising research, notes, costume sketches, and drafts for plays by Bertolt Brecht, Eugene O'Neill, Arnold Wesker, Ben Shaktman and others; manuscripts; printed material (posters, playbills, programs, more); audiovisual material including audiotapes, photographs; material pertaining to Royal Court Theater in London, The Berliner Ensemble, Pittsburgh Public Theater (PPT), Theatre Nationale Populaire (TNP) in Paris, The National Endowment for the Arts; more

Neal, Benjamin E.

Papers of the American who taught English in the Philippines from 1901-1904. Correspondence, diaries, account books, photographs, postcards, and memorabilia related to Neal's work in the Philippines.

Johnson, Beth Ann

The Beth Ann Johnson Family Papers contain clippings, journals, scrapbooks, and other materials related to Beth Ann Johnson, killed in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

Cassara, Beverly Benner.

Correspondence, writings, research material, personal papers, audiovisual material, printed material of the American adult educator. Includes extensive information on participatory research, volksschule (folk schools), and international and multicultural education. Organizations and institutions with a significant presence in the collection include the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE), Association for Women in Development (AWID), the International Council for Adult Education (ICAE), Colby College, Highlander Research and Education Center, the University of Southern Maine, and the University of the District of Columbia. Notable individuals with a significant presence in the collection include Thelma Barer-Stein, Julius Seelye Bixler, Marcie Boucouvalas, Willard Callender, Paolo Freire, Martha Friedenthal-Haase, Peter Jarvis, Faustine Jones-Wilson, Malcolm Knowles, Volker Lühr, Helge Pross, and Matthias Wesseler.

Peck, Jesse T. (Jesse Truesdell), 1811-1883.

The Bishop Jesse Truesdell Peck Papers contain numerous diaries related to Peck's work in the Methodist Episcopal Church and his role in founding Syracuse University.

Chandler, Flora Blanche.

Diary of a young woman in Hampton, New York.

Brisbane family.

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).

Brockway family.

Papers of the members of the Brockway family (of Central New York State, Syracuse, N.Y, and Fulton County, N.Y.). The collection consists of correspondence (largely incoming, to various family members), account books, church records, diaries, financial and legal papers, and memorabilia.

Burlingame family.

Correspondence, incoming and outgoing (1856-1967); legal and financial records; memorabilia, including address books, clippings, genealogical records, and photographs; and writings, mostly of Roger Burlingame, including manuscript and/or published articles, books, book reviews, diaries, poems, short stories, and speeches. Family members represented include Anson Burlingame (1820-1870), a politician and diplomat; Edward L. Burlingame (1848-1922), author and editor; William Roger Burlingame (1889-1967), author, biographer, and novelist; and his wife, Angeline Whiton (d. 1967), a literary agent, known professionally as Ann Watkins. Notable correspondents include authors, poets, artists, etc.