CCF1, D2, Folder 1

Dartmouth College

1. Artist’s conception of the Dartmouth campus in 1793, reproduced by E.J. Haley
2. Cherry Valley Scout: Lieutenant Colonel John Wheelock on the New York Frontier, Dartmouth College Library Bulletin, November 1973, published version and 13 page manuscript
3. Drawing of Shattuck Observatory, reproduced by E.J. Haley
4. Drawing of John Wheelock, Reproduced by E.J. Haley
5. Free Tuition at Dartmouth, Ripley’s Believe it or not!, Tuscaloosa News, 4-10-83
6. Historical Sketch [of Dartmouth], 4 pages
7. Letter from Dartmouth, March 28, 1979
8. Letter to Dartmouth, 1972
9. Letter from Hanover Historical Society, May 26, 1972
10. Letter from Hanover Historical Society, June 12, 1972
11. Letter from Dartmouth, June 16, 1972
12. Letter to Dartmouth, March 14, 1979
13. Memo from Dartmouth, June 6, 1972  
14. New Hampshire: Historic Dartmouth, 4 pages
15. New Hampshire: [Life of Wheelock], 8 pages
16. Note card about Eleazar Wheelock
17. Photo of Dartmouth Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
18. Photo of Eleazar Wheelock, 1^st President of Dartmouth College and its founder
19. John Singler named managing editor of America’s oldest college newspaper, The Hillsboro Journal, February 22, 1968   
20. Eleazar Wheelock, Dictionary of American Biography

CF1, D2, Folder 2

Stephen Decatur, 1779-1820

1. Stephen Decatur from Dictionary of American Biography
2. Drawing of Stephen Decatur, Reproduced by E.J. Haley
3. “Modern day pirates employ many tricks”, Tuscaloosa News, February 6, 1983
4. Rhode Island/Maryland: Our Navy’s Decaturs, 12 pages, two copies

CF1, D2, Folder 3

Delaware History

1. Brochure, “Hagley Museum”
2. Brochure, “Historical Guide to Delaware”
3. Brochure, “Winterthur program in early American Culture”
4. “Colonial Delaware”, 18 pages
5. “Colonial Delaware”, Julia Hickok, pages 18-29
6. Copy of letter from T. Rodney to C. Rodney, July 30, 1776
7. “Delaware Council of Safety”, 9 pages
8. “Delaware Council of Safety”, 8 pages
9. Delaware is the only state that does not have a single cave, Ripley’s believe it or not, June 5, 1982
10. Du Pont Mills note card
11. “The Hagley Museum”, 4 pages
12. “Hometown Heartbeat”, Capper’s Weekly, October 31, 1978, and 2 page copy
13. Letter to Eleutherian Mills, May 16, 1968
14. Letter from the Eleutherian Museum, May 24, 1968
15. Letter to the Hagley Museum, June 6, 1968
16. Letter from Eleutherian Mills, June 11, 1968
17. Letter to Eleutherian Mills, July 3, 1968
18. Letter to Public Archives Commission, February 5, 1971
19. Letter from Div. of Archives and Cultural Affairs, February 22, 1971
20. Letter to Division of Archives and Cultural Studies, February 25, 1971
21. Letter to UD, March 10, 1971
22. Letter from UD Library, March 18, 1971
23. Letter to UD Library, March 23, 1971
24. Letter from UD Photo Department, May 11, 1971
25. Letter from UD Library, May 11, 1971
26. Letter to UD Library, May 14, 1971
27. Letter to UD Library, May 17, 1971
28. Letter from University of Delaware, June 1, 1971
29. Letter to UD Library, June 4, 1971
30. Letter from UD, June 8, 1971
31. Notes, 2 pages
32. Picture of someone burning a portrait, looks like from the Revolutionary War
33. Photo of Birkenhead Rolling Mills built by E.I. du Pont for his powder Manufactory in 1822-24
34. “The Revolutionary Soldiers of Delaware”, William G. Whitely, pages 5-17
35. Rodney, Caesar Augustus, Dictionary of American Biography
36. Rodney, Caesar Augustus note card
37. Slides of Delaware buildings and monuments, 10
38. “The things we say”, by Ruby Shannon, Record Republican, February 9, 1967
39. “This First State, This Delaware”, 1 page
40. “The Winterthur program in early American culture”, 10 pages

CF1, D2, Folder 4

Frederick Douglas, 1817-1895

1. Photo of Frederick Douglas
2. “Frederick Douglas”, 8 pages

CF1, D2, Folder 5

Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931

1. “The Diary of Thomas A. Edison”, introduction by Kathleen L. McGuirk
2. Photo of Edison’s electric lamp
3. Photo of Philip J. Roberts, must be a biographer of Edison
4. Post card of Edison National Historic Site, West Orange, NJ, two different views
5. Post card of birthplace of Thomas Edison, Milan, OH
6. Post card of Edison’s cot bed in alcove of library office
7. “Thomas Edison” Ripley’s Believe it or not

CF1, D2, Folder 6

Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931

1. “Birthplace of Thomas Edison”, 28 pages
2. “Birthplace of Thomas Edison” brochure
3. “The Centennial of Light” in New Jersey Historical Commission newsletter,  October 1979
4. “Edison, the electric light and the eclipse”, by Phillip J. Roberts, in Annals of Wyoming”, Spring 1981
5. “Edison and his inventions”, New Jersey Historical Commission Newsletter” January 1976
6. New Jersey Historical Commission Newsletter, “…commemorates 100 years of light” December 1978
7. Notable events and achievements in the life of Thomas Alva Edison
8. Photo of one of Edison’s inventions
9. Photo of Edison’s birthplace
10. Photo of Edison when he was 14, “Dutch Boy” photo, 1861
11. Photo of Edison when he was 31, by Matthew Brady
12. Photo of Edison about 31, close-up
13. Photo of Edison in front of his home, Glenmont, 1925
14. Photo of Main Building, West Orange Laboratory
15. Photo of Edison looking forward
16. Postcard of Edison painting from 1926
17. “Send us your Edison plans”, New Jersey Historical Society Newsletter, May 1978
18. Sidebar about the Edison effect

CF1, D2, Folder 7

Education – Ohio

1. Notes accompanying photos requested, 5
2. Photo of drawing of Joseph Ray
3. “Joseph Ray [, M.D.]”, by Jerry Dennis, Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society, vol. 46, 1937
4. Joseph Ray note card
5. “West Virginia: Joseph Ray, M.D., a doctor of digits et al”, 14 pages

CF1, D2, Folder 8

Education Secondary – Virginia

1. Massanutten Military Academy brochure and application
2. Massanutten Military Academy brochure typed out and possibly annotated, 55 pages 
3. Slides of Woodstock, Virginia buildings and tombstones, 13
4. Slides of Woodstock, Virginia, Miller Bible, 2
5. Slides of Woodstock, VA Massanutten Military Academy, 2

CF1, D2, Folder 9

Educators – Ohio

1. “Four wise men of Ohio”, 4 pages
2. Letter to Ohio Historical Society, November 2, 1974
3. Letter to Ashtabula County Historical Society, December 14, 1978
4. Letter to Seneca County Historical Society, February 26, 1979
5. Letter to Heidelberg College, May 21, 1979
6. Letter and envelope from Heidelberg College, May 25, 1979
7. New York: Platt Rogers Spencer, 3 pages
8. “Ohioans authored basic school texts”, The Ohio Historical Society, November 1974, complete and copy of first page
9. Photo of Platt Rogers Spencer and accompanying note
10. Photo of Thomas Wadleigh Harvey and accompanying note
11. “Platt Rogers Spencer” from Dictionary of American Biography

CF1, D2, Folder 10

Emerson Family

1. Birthday card
2. Book request form for a genealogy book and note
3. Card from Nancy Halbert
4. “Charles L. Emerson papers donated to the Julia Tutwiler Library”,  LU Review, includes picture of Dr. Snider accepting the collection
5. Christmas card and letter from Electra Pearson, 1971, card looks like a hymn book with the first verses of Angels we have heard on high, The first Noel, and Hark!, the herald angels sing
6. Christmas card from Electra Pearson, no date
7. Envelope from Ranger, TX, December 22, 1970
8. Index to American Genealogies, one page
9. Letters from Fairfield, IL, 2
10. Letter from Carl Gunderson
11. Letter from Halbert’s Inc., OH
12. Letter from Electra Pearson
13. Letter from Republican Precinct Committee Women of Neosho County, November 23, 1925, two copies
14. Letter from American Registry, November 18, 1935, 2 copies
15. Letter from Reserve Officers Association of the United States, January 7, 1936
16. Letter from State of Wisconsin, September 25, 1939
17. Letter to The County Clerk of White County, IL, July 18, 1961
18. Letter from John Whetstone, July 21, 1961
19. Letter to Edwin Emerson, July 26, 1961
20. Letter to John Whetstone, July 26, 1961
21. Letter to Edwin Emerson, September 1, 1961
22. Letter to Cousin Ted, February 6, 1962
23. Letter to Cousin Ted, July 6, 1962
24. Letter to National Genealogical Society, March 10, 1970
25. Letter to Electra Pearson, March 24, 1970
26. Letter to Caroline Historical Society, May 12, 1970
27. Letter from Caroline Historical Society, July 8, 1970
28. Letter to Spotsylvania Historical Society, July 12, 1970
29. Letter from Spotsylvania Historical Association, July 27, 1970
30. Letter from Mrs. Blaydes, August 4, 1970
31. Letter to Mrs. Blaydes, August 6, 1970
32. Letter from Spotsylvania Historical Society, September 14, 1970
33. Letter to Electra Pearson, October 28, 1970
34. Letter to Electra Pearson, November 12, 1970
35. Letter to Multnomah County Library, March 15, 1971
36. Letter to Lorna Walsh, March 15, 1971
37. Letter from Library Association of Portland, March 22, 1971
38. Letter from Lorna Halbert, March 8, 1971
39. List of genealogy books, 2 about Emerson possibly from Goodspeed’s Book Shop, Boston, Mass.  
40. Newsletter from Salem Historical Society, OH
41. Reference from Nicholas Schantz, October 29, 1934

CF1, D2, Folder 11

Daniel Decatur Emmett, 1815-1904

1. Copy of picture of Daniel Emmett
2. Copy of younger picture of Daniel Emmett
3. Copy of picture of Emmett’s birthplace
4. “The Birth of Dixie” brochure
5. Daniel Decatur Emmett from the Dictionary of American Biography
6. Letter to The Chamber of Commerce, Mount Vernon, July 30, 1969
7. Letter from Lee Durieux, August 4, 1969
8. Letter to Lee Durieux, August 12, 1969
9. Letter to Helen Virden, August 12, 1969
10. Note card about Emmett

CF1, D2, Folder 12

Farm Equipment

1. John Deere factories and office map
2. “John Deere historic site” brochure
3. Letter to John Deere Historic Site, May 17, 1979
4. Letter from John Deere historic site, May 29, 1979
5. Photo of John Deere
6. Photo of Deere plow, 1838, two copies, one close up
7. “The Story of John Deere” brochure, two different versions
8. Vermont/Illinois John Deere note card
9. “Vermont/Illinois: John Deere”, 10 pages

CF1, D2, Folder 13

Firearms - American

1. “Kentucky Rifle Title is disputed”, Fred Walters, Spokane Daily Chronicle, June 12, 1963, two copies
2. “Lancaster Rifles” by Henry Kinzer Landis and George Diller Landis from The Pennsylvania German Folklore Society, volume 7, 1942
3. “Martin Meylin A progenitor of the Pennsylvania Rifle”, Papers of the Lancaster County Historical Society, pp. 33-62 and a family tree

CF1, D2, Folder 14

Firearms – American

1. Armed Citizens News, August 1973
2. “Army drops plans to hold national rifle matches” Amarillo Daily News, November 2, 1967
3. “Samuel Colt” from Dictionary of American Biography
4. Colt Company: 1835-1857
5. Colt Dome, two pages and another page
6. Colt Firearms catalog, 1976
7. Colt note card
8. “Colt’s NSGA Walker No.1”, 7 pages
9. “Connecticut: Sam Colt – he wiped out crime”3 pages
10. Copy of Drawing of Samuel Colt
11. Gun ad
12. “Gun control would have shaken famed pistol inventor”, Ralph H. Minard, September 5, 1968
13. Letter to Colt, January 3, 1974
14. Letter to Colt Inc., June 4, 1976
15. Letter to Guy Arnaud, June 4, 1976
16. Letter from Colt, June 11, 1976
17. Letter to Colt, July 20, 1976
18. Letter from Colt, August 2, 1976
19. “Sam Colt’s Big Pistol”, Guy L. Aurand, Old West, Spring 1974
20. “The Evolution of the Colt from the year 1836”
21. “Masterson Colt brings $36,000”
22. “NRA’s gunsmith school growing”, 6 pages
23. “An Obituary of Colonel Samuel Colt” taken from the Daily Courant, Hartford, January 11, 1862
24. Photo of Colonel Samuel Colt
25. Publications concerning Colt’s firearms

CF1, D2, Folder 15

Firearms – American

1. Certificate of membership in the Knox Trail Historical Society
2. Drawing of Henry Knox reproduced by E.J. Haley
3. Knox delivers the guns, bicentennial bookshelf
4. “Henry Knox”, Dictionary of American Biography
5. Massachusetts: Henry Knox note card
6. “Massachusetts: Henry Knox…first in gunnery”, 8 pages
7. “The Noble Train of Artillery 200 years ago and today”, Jordan D. Fiore and Susan E. Schruth
8. “The Noble Train of artillery Colonel Henry Knox’s New Year’s gift to General Washington (1776)”
9. Photo of Henry Knox monument, two copies, one miniature
10. Photo negative of Henry Knox monument

CF1, D2, Folder 16

“The pros and cons of our right to keep and bear arms”, 10 pages, 2 copies

CF1, D2, Folder 17

Flags – United States

1. The Battle of Cooch’s Bridge Delaware, September 3, 1777 by Edward M. Cooch, 63 pages

2. The Flag Book of the United States, Whitney Smith, 31 pages

CF1, D2, Folder 18

Forest Fires – Prevention and Control

1. “The Cooperative Forest Fire Prevention Campaign Smokey Bear Program”, 2 versions, 7 pages, and 4 pages

2. “Fire on Capitan Mountain the true story of Little Smokey Bear”

3. “In your service, The work of Uncle Sam’s Forest Rangers”, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, A.I.B. 136

4. Landscape Littering Drama in three parts brochure

5. Letter from Smokey Bear Museum, March 16, 1977

6. National Forest Garden brochure, 3 copies

7. Note about Little Smokey Bear

8. Photos

·  Little Smokey

·  Smokey Bear plaque close up

·  Smokey in pool at zoo

·  Building rock wall around park

9. Post Card

·  Smokey Bear Museum, Capitan, NM

10. Questions and answers about Little Smokey

11. Smokey Bear’s forest fire prevention campaign

12. Smokey Bear dies, November 1976

13. Smokey the Bear litter bag

14. Smokey the Bear song and conservation pledge

15. “Smokey to continue to stay in Washington”, Forest Service News, August 8, 1975

16. “Your Club can open the door to conservation education” brochure

CF1, D2, Folder 19

Fortifications – Georgia

1. Biographical data sheet for Colonel Frank L. Dietrich

2. Biography of Colonel Frank L. Dietrich

3. “Exemplary is the career of a gallant soldier and gentleman as read in this resume of education, professional training, and military experience of Horace Welles Doty, MD, Lieutenant Colonel Regular Army, retired”, 10 pages

4. Photo of Dietrich

5. Flier about Fort Stewart, GA

6. Photo of BG Richard F. Cox

CF1, D2, Folder 20

Fortifications – Illinois

1. “4^th annual Fort de Chartres Rendezvous” brochure

2. “An early New Year’s Eve in Prairie Du Rocher”, December 30, 1953

3. “Black Watch [Scottish Dancers] coming to Victory Center”, Bicentennial Newsletter, June 1976

4. Fort Chartres bibliography

5. Historic Illinois, August 1979

6. “Keystone back at Fort de Chartres

7. Letter to Illinois Dept. of Conservation, August 8, 1973

8. Letter from State of Illinois Dept. of Conservation, August 13, 1973

9. Letter to Miss Pickett, October 2, 1973

10. Letter from Department of Conservation, December 14, 1973

11. Letter to Division of Parks and Memorials, IL, May 30, 1979

12. Letter to Illinois Dept. of Conservation, July 12, 1979

13. Letter to Illinois State Historical Library, July 26, 1979

14. Letter from Illinois State Historical Library, August 23, 1979

15. Letter from Illinois Dept. of Conservation, August 28, 1979

16. Letter to Dept. of Conservation, August 28, 1979

17. Letter to Illinois Dept. of Conservation, September 12, 1979

18. Letter from Illinois Dept. of Conservation, September 17, 1979

19. Photo of a man in a kilt at Fort Chartres

20. Photo of a man working

21. Photo of young white man in native American garb throwing a tomahawk

22. Photo of men shooting a cannon

23. Photo of marching band in revolutionary war gear

CF1, D2, Folder 21

Fortifications – Illinois

1. Fort De Chartres, Joseph Wallace, M.A.

2. Fort de Chartres 4^th annual rendezvous

3. Fort de Chartres State Park brochure, two copies

4. Historic and beautiful Randolph County, IL [home of Fort Chartres, France’s most expensive fort in the new world] brochure

5. Letter from Dept. of Conservation, September 21, 1973

6. Letter and envelope from Dept. of Conservation, October 22, 1973

7. Note card about Fort Chartres

8. Note page about Fort de Chartres

9. Pages 93-112 of something about Fort Chartres

10. Photo of 3 canoe loads of people, one boy about age 15 is looking back at the camera

11. Photo of boy throwing a tomahawk

12. Photo of cannon firing

13. Photo of marching band in revolutionary war costumes

14. Photo of marching band side view

15. Photo of men in kilts playing bag pipes

16. Photo of men playing tug of war

17. Photo of men laying on their stomachs shooting rifles

18. Photo of people in buckskin shooting rifles

19. Slides of Fort de Chartres monuments, two

CF1, D2, Folder 22

Fortifications – Kansas

1. 1976 map of USA

2. Photo of Fort Leavenworth marker

3. A Tour of Fort Leavenworth brochure

4. A Tour of Fort Leavenworth typed out 9 pages

CF1, D2, Folder 23

Fortifications – Kansas

1. George H. Cameron, 1861-1944, pages 41-58

2. “Chief, last cavalry horse, dies”, The Junction City News, May 29, 1968

3. Fort Riley, its historic past brochure

4. Letter from Chief of Information, Dept. of the Army, May 5, 1966

5. Letter from Fort Riley, KS, January 8, 1970

6. Edmund A. Ogden, 1809-1855, pages 29-40

7. Photo of Chief, the last living cavalry horse, 1963

CF1, D2, Folder 24

Fortifications – Kansas

1. 1898 – World War I, pages 12-26

2. “Army mule dies”, Capper’s Weekly, 12-12-78

3. “Cavalry glory goes with old chief”, 3 pages

4. Chief, 3 pages

5. “Famous names at Fort Riley, Bennett Riley”, pages 27-28

6. Funeral for Chief, 1935-1968, 5 pages

7. Photos of Army mule, two different versions

CF1, D2, Folder 25

Fortifications – Ohio

1. Drawing of Fort Harmar in 1790, two copies, one big and one small, and accompanying piece of paper

2. “Fort Harmar”, Echoes the Ohio Historical Quarterly, March 1972

3. Invoice and envelope from the Ohio historical society, January 17, 1979

4. Letter from The Ohio Historical Society, December 20, 1978

5. Ohio Fort Harmar…to guard Ohio Indian…6 pages

CF1, D2, Folder 26

Fortifications – Rhode Island

1. “Fort Adams – other items of interest”, two pages

2. “Fort Adams, the rock on which the storm will beat”, 24 pages

3. “History of Fort Adams, Rhode Island”, 13 pages

4. Letter from Rhode Island Development Council, January 10, 1971

5. Photo of Fort Adams, RI

CF1, D2, Folder 27

Fortifications – South Carolina

1. Letter from SC Dept. of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism, February 16, 1972

2. Letter from University of South Carolina, January 3, 1979

3. “South Carolina: So it was renamed Fort Moultrie”, 36 pages

CF1, D2, Folder 28

Fortifications – Washington

1. Fort Vancouver brochure

2. “Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, NPS”, 19 pages

3. Letter from the Royal Engineer’s archives, March 25, 1970

4. Letter from the US Dept. of the Interior, March 31, 1970

5. Letter from the US Dept. of the Interior, April 14, 1970

6. Letter from the Columbian, September 16, 1981

7. “Newest Old Picture [of Fort Vancouver]”, The Columbian, January 30, 1975

8. “Old Tree, New Sign”, [Oldest apple tree in the Northwest was planted in 1829], The Columbian, February 28, 1977

9. Photo and negative of Chief Factor’s House, Fort Vancouver

10. Photo of Monument of Dr. John McLoughlin, Father of Oregon

11. Something about Fort Vancouver, pages 6-19

12. Vancouver Public Schools menu, May 1973, 3 copies

CF1, D2, Folder 29

Fortifications – Washington

1. California water history brochure

2. Fort Vancouver brochures, two different versions

3. Fort Vancouver National Historic Site brochure

4. Fort Vancouver site and plot plan

5. Help stop vandalism flier

6. Idaho Yesterdays, the quarterly journal of the Idaho historical society, Spring 1982

7. Letter from US Dept. of the Interior, April 19, 1978

8. The Pacific Historian, Fall 1978

9. “Wilderness Sanctuary”, 5 pages

CF1, D2, Folder 30

French in the United States

1. Footprints of the Iron men, 6 pages, 2 copies

2. “Footprints of the Ironmen, Westward, June – July, 1961

3. Letter to Kaiser Steel Corporation, March 10, 1980

4. Letter from Kaiser Steel, April 2, 1980

5. Letter from Kaiser Steel Corporation, April 9, 1980

6. Letter to Kaiser Steel Corporation, April 23, 1980

7. Letter from Kaiser Steel, May 7, 1980

8. The Mountain Light, the newsletter of the Idaho State Historical Society, Summer 1985

9. Post card of Kaiser company shipyard, Vancouver, WA

CF1, D2, Folder 31

Frogs

1. “Championship frog jumping to be presented on TV this Saturday”, Caracas, September 30, 1976

2. Check from Dinah! [Shore?], November 12, 1976

3. Check from American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, May 24, 1973

4. Contract from Walt Disney’s “The new Mickey Mouse Club”

5. “Croaker College” brochure

6. “Croaker College press kit”

7. “Croaker College is where frogs go to learn”, Midnight, A Canadian tabloid, April 9, 1973

8. “Croaker College, where frogs go to learn”, 6 pages, 2 copies

9. “Croakers’ College”, Sunday People, London England, June 20, 1976

10. “The Ex’s newest star: a giant leap for frog kind”, San Francisco Examiner, May 11, 1976

11. [Bill Stead and Frog articles], The Sacramento Bee, June 20, 1976

12. “Frog of the Leap Year”, Daily Mirror, August 18, 1976

13. “Frogs’ coach extols their ways”, The Spokesman Review, Oct. 19, 1974

14. Frog diploma

15. “Frog student body graduates to jump”, [Sacramento Bee?]

16. “Frogs jump at chance  to win competition”, note card

17. “Frogs listen, learn before they leap”, San Diego, March 3, 1976

18. “He runs college for jumping frogs”, The Mercury, San Jose Calif. May 14, 1974

19. “Hypnotized frogs one jump ahead”, Veda Federigh, Sacramento Union, May 18, 1973

20. “It’s Calaveras County or croak”, San Francisco Examiner, May 11, 1974

21. Letter to Steed from “I’ve got a secret”, August 8, 1972

22. Letter from Arneson to Steed, May 4, 1973

23. Letter to Steed from “To Tell the Truth”, Oct. 26, 1973

24. Letter from Expo ’74 to Steed, Oct. 29, 1974

25. Letter from Sports Expo to Steed, February 24, 1975

26. Letter from State of California to Venezuela, September 23, 1976

27. Letter from Sacramento to Caracas, September 23, 1976

28. Letter to Sacramento Chamber of Commerce, May 27, 1977

29. Letter from Sacramento Chamber of Commerce, June 28, 1977

30. Letter and envelope from Croaker College, January 13, 1978

31. Letter to Bill Stead, Croaker College, January 26, 1978

32. Letter to Steed, April 24, 1978

33. Letter from Bill Stead, June 7, 1978

34. Photo of check from Mike Douglas entertainments, Inc., Oct. 19, 1973

35. Photo of Croaker College Hypnopedia, and twenty froggies poem

36. Photo of Steed and a frog lifting weights from a German newspaper

37. “Putting on the Frog”, Hartford Courant, May 30, 1976

38. “School of Frogs?”, Los Angeles Times, March 28, 1976

39. Letter to California Dept. of Parks and Recreation, July 8, 1976

40. “This frog’s a real prince”, Las Vegas Review Journal, October 29, 1976

41. “Tribune Frog on Race: I am the greatest”, Oakland Tribune, May 18, 1973

42. “Welcome to Croaker College”, San Francisco Chronicle, February 28, 1977

CF1, D2, Folder 32

Frontier and Pioneer Life

1. “West Virginia – Patrick M. Gass: last of our first westers”, 22 pages

CF1, D2, Folder 33

Geographers

1. Map of original Mason-Dixon Line

2. New Jersey: Thomas Hutchins…meridian base line…

3. Paragraph about Captain Thomas Hutchins from the Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society

CF1, D2, Folder 34

Patrick Henry, 1736-1799

1. Patrick Henry from the Dictionary of American Biography

CF1, D2, Folder 35

Historical Societies – California

1. “Announcing Monuments to Jedediah Smith” brochure, 2 copies

2. “Californiana Catalog 16”, 12 pages

3. Cancelled check from Emerson to Jedediah Smith Society, April 14, 1981

4. Cancelled check from Emerson to Jedediah Smith Society, 4-30-83

5. Cancelled check from Emerson to Pacific Historian, February 20, 1981

6. Cancelled check from Emerson to Pacific Historian, February 6, 1984

7. “Castor Canadensis – The Newsletter of the Jedediah Smith Society”, March 18, 1981

8. “Castor Canadensis – The Newsletter of the Jedediah Smith Society”, February, 1982

9. “Castor Canadensis – The Newsletter of the Jedediah Smith Society”, August, 1982

10. “Castor Canadensis – The Newsletter of the Jedediah Smith Society”, March 1983

11. “Castor Canadensis – The Newsletter of the Jedediah Smith Society”, December, 1983

12. “Castor Canadensis – The Newsletter of the Jedediah Smith Society”, March, 1984

13. “Castor Canadensis – The Newsletter of the Jedediah Smith Society”, Fall, 1985

14. “Castor Canadensis – The Newsletter of the Jedediah Smith Society”, no date

15. “E Clampus Vitus”, 4 pages

16. “Jedediah Smith, once of this area honored in California”, The Hillsboro Journal, IL, May 7, 1964

17. Jedediah Smith Society Fall Rendezvous registration form

18. Jedediah Smith Society membership cards, Charles Emerson, 2, one dated 1982

19. Jedediah Smith Society sales list

20. Letter to Jedediah Smith Society, January 5, 1981

21. Letter to Jedediah Smith Society, May 11, 1981

22. Letter from Jedediah Smith Society, May 12, 1981

23. Letter from Conference of California Historical Societies, June 5, 1981

24. Letter from The Pacific Historian, July 28, 1982

25. Letter from James Shebl, February 8, 1983

26. Letter to James Shebl, February 24, 1983

27. Letter from Pacific Center for Western Historical Studies, May 12, 1983

28. Note from the Jedediah Smith Society

29. Postcard reminder about Jedediah Smith Society Rendezvous, September 21, 1981

30. “The Pacific Historian”, December 12, 1983

31. “The Pacific Historian” renewal receipt

32. Receipt from Jedediah Smith Society

33. Scrap of letter from Pacific Center for Western Studies, February 9, 1981

CF1, D2, Folder 36

Historical Societies – Iowa

1. Harstad accepts post at Bethany Lutheran College, Iowa State Historical Department News for members, Summer 1981

2. Letter to Iowa Historical Society, June 25, 1979

3. Letter from Iowa State Historical Department, July 3, 1979

4. Letter to Iowa Historical Society, July 9, 1979

5. Peter T. Harstad, 3 pages

6. Peter T. Harstad, Iowa’s best, 3 copies of first page plus 5 more pages, plus another copy 3 pages long

7. Peter T. Harstad’s resume, 1 page

8. Peter T. Harstad’s publications, 1 page

CF1, D2, Folder 37

Historical Societies – Kansas

1. The Kansas Historical Quarterly, Winter, 1977

2. “Two for KSHS and America”, 9 pages

CF1, D2, Folder 38

Historical Societies – Massachusetts

1. Cudworth House and Barn, 1797 photo

2. Lawson Tower, 1902 postcard

3. Letter to Scituate Historical Society, April 7, 1977

4. Letter to Scituate Historical Society, May 11, 1977

5. Mann Historical Museum photo

6. “The Old Oaken Bucket” by Samuel Woodworth, 9 pages

7. Old Oaken bucket postcard

8. Old Oaken bucket marker photo

9. Scituate Historical Society brochure

10. Scituate map

11. Scituate Light[house] postcard

12. Scituate Lighthouse 1810 photo

CF1, D2, Folder 39

Historical Societies – Missouri

1. “At the River’s Bend, an illustrated history”, brochure

2. “At the River’s Bend” order card and envelope

3. Jackson County Historical Society advertisement for “At the River’s Bend”

4. Jackson County Historical Society Journal, Winter 1981          

5. Jackson County Historical Society Journal, Jan. - Feb. - Mar.1982, 2 copies

6. Jackson County Historical Society Journal,  Oct. – Nov. – Dec. 1982

7. Jackson County Historical Society Journal,  Oct. – Nov. – Dec. 1983

8. Letter from Jackson County Historical Society, December, 1981

9. Oregon Historical Society News, May, 1985

CF1, D2, Folder 40

Historical Societies – New Hampshire

1. 15 loose scraps

2. “Finding old cask of Demarara Rum”, George Woodbury, The NH Sunday News, October 17, 1965

3. Letter from Bill Herman, no date

4. Letter to the Weare Junior Historical Society, April 12, 1972

5. Letter to Bill Herman, February 22, 1979

6. Letter to William Loeb, March 1, 1979

7. Letter from William Loeb, March 13, 1979

8. Letter from Bill Herman, April 9, 1979

9. Letter to Bill Herman, May 25, 1979

10. New Hampshire gazette, Spring 1972

11. “NH Youth Scene” by Bill Herman, from Manchester NH Union Leader, January 19, 1974

12. “Ordinary Americans…capable of greatness”, by Bill Herman, age 15, 79 pages plus another article from a newspaper with picture of Bill Herman

13. Photo of 15 year old William “Bill” Herman accepting the Freedoms Foundation Award

14. Photo of central fireplace with Dutch oven

15. Photo of central staircase

16. Photo of dining room
17. Photos of downstairs parlor, two different views
18. Photo of Eva Speare
19. Photo of Grant Sugarhouse
20. Photo of keeping room
21. Photo of living room
22. Photo of men shaking hands
23. Photo of people standing next to Pine Tree Tavern plaque, two different groups plus photo copies of both pictures, apparently they made the newspaper
24. Photo of Pine Tree Tavern plaque
25. Photo of sawmill built in 1760
26. Photo of school
27. Photo of small fireplace that warms the study
28. Photo of small library off the main living room
29. Photo of Weare High School
30. Photo of William Loeb
31. Photo copy of old document
32. Postcard of Pine Tree Tavern plaque
33. “Remarks by Congressman Cleveland at observance of anniversary of Pine Tree Riot, April 15, 1972, 7 pages plus another 6 page copy
34. The Weare Junior Historical Society, Pine Tree Riot, April 4, 1772

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