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003. Manuscript Collections

 Record Group
Identifier: 003
Manuscript materials.

Found in 209 Collections and/or Records:

Charles Tubbs letters

 Collection
Identifier: 003-MS 44
Scope and Contents

Correspondence. Consists of letters from recipients of his book "Osceola in the War of the Rebellion" and other works. Includes comments relating to the American Civil War.

Dates: 1885-1911

Charlie Pollock autograph book

 Collection
Identifier: 003-MS 410
Scope and Contents

Autograph book of students and faculty of MSNS, friends of Pollock, as well as Boston Corbett (who shot JohnWilkes Boothe).

Dates: 1866-1875; Other: Date acquired: 10/02/2011

Christ family legal papers

 Collection
Identifier: 003-MS 60
Scope and Contents

Security funds, inventories, letters of administration, releases, and promissory notes signed by Jacob, Samuel, and Amos B. Christ of Millerstown (Millersville), Lancaster County, Pa.

Dates: 1846-1890; Other: Date acquired: 12/07/1985

Clara Barton letter to her associates organizing the First Aid Society

 Collection
Identifier: 003-MS 176
Abstract

Letter to her associates organizing the First Aid Society telling of her safe arrival to her home in Oxford from a trip from Chicago in May, 1910, where she was honored at Lincoln Center. Biographical material including a facsimile letter written to President Abraham Lincoln is included in folder.

Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 8 June 1901

Collection of music

 Collection — Box Box 1
Identifier: 003-MS 30
Scope and Contents

Music notebooks. Consists of handwritten copies of musical compositions by various composers believed to have been copied by Charlotte Brown in 1816.  Includes period songs, ballads, waltzes, and other dance music from the late 18th and early 19th centuries.  Music written in English and German.

Dates: ca. 1816; Other: Date acquired: 12/05/1990

Community Historians of Lancaster County records

 Collection
Identifier: 003-MS 52
Scope and Contents

Constitution, bylaws, minutes, correspondence, membership lists, treasury reports, newspaper clippings, oral histories, notes on field trips, and issues of the Community Historians of Lancaster County's journal, Community history are included in the collection.

Dates: 1961-1981

Conestoga Indian treaties and traders, 1682-1722

 Collection
Identifier: 003-MS 37
Scope and Contents

Typescript documents the contacts between the Native Americans and the early settlers of Lancaster County, Pa.  It later formed the basis for a condensed version appearing in Millersville-Penn Manor Community History, ed. Robert E. Coley, James A. Jolly, and Carole E. Slotter. Includes a partial revision and illustrative materials used with the published article.

Dates: 1976

Cyril and Luella Wingenroth Travel Diaries

 Collection
Identifier: 003-MS 166
Abstract

European travel diaries.

Dates: 1963 Sept. 17 - Oct. 15

Daily memorandum book for 1863

 Collection
Identifier: 003-MS 34
Scope and Contents

Diary describes the daily activities of Adam Geist from Feb. 1 to May 3, 1863, a period just prior to Geist's enlistment in the Pennsylvania Militia.  Includes entries on events relating to the American Civil War.

Dates: Majority of material found in 1863

David Heber Plank School Notebook

 Collection
Identifier: 003-MS 106
Abstract

School notebook of David Heber Plank from his years as a student at the Pennsylvania Normal School at Millersville. The notes were taken sometime between 1860 and 1864. Includes notes from lectures given by Edward Brooks who served as principal of Millersville Normal School from 1866 to 1883.

Dates: 1860-1864