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1.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Dodson, John E., 1857-1931
Inclusive Dates:
1857-1931
Abstract:
A letter likely written by the English actor and vaudeville performer.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
New York (N.Y.) -- History.
Actors.
New York State
Dance and theatre
Vaudeville -- New York (State) -- New York.

2.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Milton, J. Elet.
Inclusive Dates:
1848-1958
Abstract:
Correspondence, financial records, and legal papers from the Brewerton, NY historian
Type of Material:
Contracts.
Correspondence.
Financial records.
Ledgers (account books)
Legal documents.
Microfilms.
Subject:
Brewerton (N.Y.) -- History.
New York State
Railroads -- United States.
Bridges -- United States.

3.

Collection Title:
Creator:
DuBois, J. Harry (John Harry), 1903-
Inclusive Dates:
1940-1993
Abstract:
Collection consists of the personal and professional papers of J. Harry DuBois, covering his long career in the plastics industry. It includes scrapbooks and photograph albums of his family and world-wide travel for business, photographs and slides, and audio and film reels.
Type of Material:
Audiotapes.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Negatives (photographs)
Photographs.
Scrapbooks.
Slides (photographs)
Subject:
Düsseldorf (Germany)
Marshalltown (Iowa)
Businessmen.
Industrialists.
Business and Industry
Plastics
Bakelite -- History.
Industrialization -- India.
Plastics industry and trade.

4.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Brown, J. J.
Inclusive Dates:
1875-1894
Abstract:
Papers related to Brown's time as a professor at Syracuse University
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Notebooks.
Attendance records.
Subject:
College teachers.
Chemistry teachers.
Physics teachers.
Higher education.
University Archives
Syracuse University -- History
Syracuse University -- Faculty and Staff
College attendance.

5.

Collection Title:
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.

6.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Keifer, Joseph Warren, 1836-1932.
Inclusive Dates:
1858-1883
Abstract:
U.S. Army officer (U.S. Civil War, Spanish-American War) and legislator (U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio, 1877-1885, 1905-1911). Collection contains correspondence, primarily from 1881-1883, when Keifer was Speaker of the House of Representatives, and two items of miscellany. Incoming letters, mostly from military and political figures, of Susan B. Anthony, James G. Blaine, William Jennings Bryan, Carrie Chapman Catt, James A. Garfield, Marcus A. Hanna, Warren G. Harding, Rutherford B. Hayes, Nicholas Longworth, Whitelaw Reid, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John Sherman, William Tecumseh Sherman, William Howard Taft, Leonard Wood, and others.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
United States -- Politics and government, 1865-1933.
Legislators.
Soldiers.
Military history
Politics, government and public administration
Civil War (U.S.)
Legislators -- United States.

7.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Christie, Jack.
Inclusive Dates:
1945-1987
Abstract:
Includes clippings, correspondence, and ephemera about Christie's student experience at Syracuse University and career in broadcasting.
Type of Material:
Photographs.
Correspondence.
Clippings files.
Ephemera (general object genre)
Subject:
Broadcaster.
University Archives
Syracuse University -- History
Syracuse University -- Alumni

8.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Hill, Jack E.
Inclusive Dates:
1967-1974
Abstract:
Correspondence, technical reports, biographical material of the American plastics engineer
Type of Material:
Advertisements.
Articles of incorporation.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Financial records.
Technical reports.
Subject:
Engineers.
Business and Industry
Plastics
Blow molding.
Plastic toys.
Plastics -- History.
Plastics -- Marketing.
Plastics -- Molding.
Plastics industry and trade.
Thermoforming.

9.

Collection Title:
Creator:
London, Jack, 1876-1916.
Inclusive Dates:
1904-1931
Abstract:
Correspondence from American author Jack London and (after his death) his wife Charmian, to various recipients
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
Literature -- American Fiction
Authors, American -- 20th century.

10.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Mezirow, Jack, 1923-2014
Inclusive Dates:
-
Abstract:
Files of Dr. Jack Mezirow, adult educator, including personal letters, article drafts, book draft and articles he was collecting for his own writings.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
Adult education
Adult education -- United States.

Creator:
Robbins, Jack Alan.
Inclusive Dates:
1973-1977
Abstract:
Collection of material relating to the American author. Collection includes correspondence, memorabilia, and writings by Farrell and by Robbins about Farrell.
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Manuscripts for publication.
Subject:
Editors.
Literature -- American Fiction
Literature -- American Poetry
American literature -- 20th century.
Authors, American.
Novelists, American.

12.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Robbins, Jack Alan.
Inclusive Dates:
1982-1982
Abstract:
Manuscript of Robbins' book, Marxism and the Humanist Perspective, which is in part about Granville Hicks.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Manuscripts for publication.
Subject:
United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Marxism and the humanist perspective.
Authors.
Critics.
Radicalism
Politics, government and public administration
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Authors, American.
Biographers -- Authorship.
Communism -- United States.
Communism and intellectuals.
Critics -- United States
Literature -- History and criticism.
Marxist criticism.
Radicalism -- United States.

13.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Stachel, Jack.
Inclusive Dates:
1943-1982
Abstract:
Correspondence, writings, speeches, clippings, printed matter, books and other material from the American Communist Party member and political activist.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Manuscripts for publication.
Speeches (documents)
Poems.
Essays.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Reports.
Subject:
United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
United States -- Politics and government.
Activism and social reform
Politics, government and public administration
Communism -- United States.
Labor unions -- United States.
Communist Trial, New York, N.Y., 1952-1953.
United States. -- Alien Registration Act, 1940.
Civil Rights demonstrations--1960-1970..
Civil rights and socialism.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
Socialism.
Capitalism.

14.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Martin, Jackie, 1903-1969.
Inclusive Dates:
1924-1968
Abstract:
Papers of the American photographer, journalist, war correspondent; born Cecilia Martin. Correspondence, family and general; financial records and office files; manuscripts and research relating to various projects and assignments, including her published books, magazine and newspaper features, and material about World War II, the American Battle Monuments Commission, and the United States Information Agency; subject files; and memorabilia, including clippings, maps, audio tapes and sound recordsings, and scrapbooks. Also glass plate negatives, lantern slides, photographs, and negatives which cover a wide range of subjects including the American Battle Monuments Commission (1967), Brazil (1941-1942), World War II (1944), Europe (1951-1954), world leaders, entertainment and theatrical personalities, and sports.
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Lantern slides.
Manuscripts for publication.
Photographs.
Audiotapes.
Phonograph records.
Scrapbooks.
Subject:
Journalists.
Photojournalists.
Photographers.
Photography
Women Authors
Journalism
Documentary photography -- Europe.
Journalists -- United States.
Military nursing -- United States -- 20th century.
Photojournalists -- United States.
Photographers -- United States.
Photographs.
Photojournalism.
War correspondents -- 20th century.
Women journalists -- United States.
Women photographers.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Journalists.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Photography.

15.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Burckhardt, Jacob, 1818-1897.
Inclusive Dates:
1842-1968
Abstract:
German art and cultural historian. Collection contains items both by and about Burckhardt, including correspondence, clippings, printed material, typescripts, photographs, and more.
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Brochures.
Photographs.
Typescripts.
Book jackets.
Photocopies.
Magazines (periodicals)
Manuscripts for publication.
Subject:
Art historians.
Historians
Art historians -- Switzerland.
Art historians -- 19th century.

16.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000.
Inclusive Dates:
1937-2000
Abstract:
Spanning 1937-1971, the Jacob Lawrence Papers consist of biographical material, correspondence, artwork reproductions, writings, printed material, and memorabilia of the African-American painter, printmaker, and artist.
Type of Material:
Announcements.
Articles.
Awards.
Clippings (information artifacts)
College catalogs.
Correspondence.
Exhibition catalogs.
Interviews.
Invitations.
Photographs.
Slides (photographs)
Speeches (documents)
Subject:
Artists.
Painters.
Printmakers.
Art -- Painters
African Americans
Literature -- Children's
African American art.
African American artists.
African American painting.
African American printmakers.
African Americans -- Biography.
African Americans and art.
Art, American.
Art and race.
Art, American -- Exhibitions.
Art, American -- 20th century.
Painters -- United States -- 20th century.
Painting -- Study and teaching.
Painting, American -- Afro-American painting.
Painting, American -- 20th century.
Printmakers -- United States.

17.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Weber, Jacob, fl. 1770-1795.
Inclusive Dates:
1770-1889
Abstract:
Letters to and from Weber and several other men, relating to family and business affairs in Canajoharie and German Flatts, New York.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Photocopies.
Subject:
Canajoharie (N.Y.) -- History.
German Flats (N.Y.) -- History.
New York State

18.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Offenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880.
Inclusive Dates:
1844-1844
Abstract:
One letter from the German-born French composer composer, to a friend in Paris.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
Composers.
Music
Composers -- France.

19.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Schnier, Jacques, 1898-1988.
Inclusive Dates:
1962-1968
Abstract:
Manuscripts, published material, correspondence of the Romanian-born sculptor and muralist.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Manuscripts for publication.
Posters.
Subject:
Sculptors.
Painters.
Art -- Painters
Art -- Sculptors
Art, American.
Art, Modern.
Artists -- United States.
Sculpture -- Study and teaching.
Sculpture -- 20th century.

20.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881.
Inclusive Dates:
1880-1880
Abstract:
Two letters written by the American President.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
Wadsworth (Ohio) -- History.
Mentor (Ohio) -- History.
Politicians.
Presidents.
Politics, government and public administration
Presidents -- United States -- Correspondence.