Special Collections Research Center

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Contains certificates, postcards, artwork, and a notebook by Gustav Klemp (1882-1941), an artist and German army medic during the First World War.

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Hand-colored printed broadside illustration of costumed characters from the opera “Oberon," made circa 1826.

Abstract The collection includes a draft copy of Energy Flow in Biological Systems (published as Energy Flow in Biology), including chapter and appendix notes, calculations for mathematical operations, and correspondence between the author and his editor; a draft copy of Beginnings of Cellular Life, including the index and notes; a draft copy of The Facts of Life with the author's copy and the original artwork for the illustrations; and working papers, correspondence, and other documents pertaining...

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Collection consists largely of speeches, meeting transcripts, peace conference documents, news clippings about Saunders, photographs, and approximately 150 pocket notebooks that he carried with him that include insights from conversations and other experiences that were important to him.

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31 boxes of aerial black and white photographs of areas around the world including: the United States, Canada, Algeria, and Japan. The photographs were taken between the 1930s and 1980s.

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Papers, newsclippings, photographs, negatives, slides, and VHS tapes documenting the work of architectural sculptor Harold Vogel.

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Content warning: Racist imagery. Harper’s Weekly broadside featuring a double page illustration by Thomas Nast of the Grand Masquerade Ball - also known as the Bal d’Opera - at the New York City Academy of Music, which was held on Thursday, April 5, 1866. It also features caricatures drawn by Thomas Nast, published April 14, 1866.

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Two black and white photographs of Harry Partch playing his Cloud-Chamber Bowls instrument, taken March 10 and 11, 1962.

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The Hedley Gordon Graham papers contains a scrapbook, acting classes grade books, family photographs and photographs of Federal Theatre Project productions, correspondence, playbills, cards (possibly used for a treasure hunt game), scripts, and magazine and newspaper articles. Federal Theatre material includes photographs, newspaper clippings, and scripts for productions of O Say Can You Sing, Triple A Plowed Under, Altars of Steel, and Living Newspaper productions in Chicago.

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1 box that contains a DVD as well as some pamphlets and empty letters from the Helen A. Kellar Institute for Human Disabilities

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One pamphlet and two leaves printed on the Henkel Press in New Market, Virginia, printed 1829 and circa 1820s.

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Notes, articles, correspondence and other materials regarding information on Prince William County, Virginia and surrounding areas.

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The collection contains materials on a variety of subjects pertaining to his diverse career as a government employee, transportation planner, and civic activist.

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This collection contains research materials and correspondence of Herbert Feis, including three letters from Ruth Feis to her husband's assistant, Arline Pratt.

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1 box of items from the Honor Commmittee.

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One box collection that contains items from the Honors College.

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Research materials relating to the executive branch of the United States federal government. Several presidential administrations beginning with the 1932 Roosevelt Administration are represented. Materials include documents pertaining to cabinet posts and functions, federal bureaus, foreign and domestic policy.

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The Hugh Sockett Institute for Educational Transformation Records contains the records Hugh Sockett collected during his time as the director for the IET as well as the records of programs that were run by the IET.

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Contains 48 boxes of papers on human engineering, systems of men machines, visual imputs and processes (biophysics), toxicology, physiology, and brain research.

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This collection contains items donated by Human Resources and Payroll.

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An illustrated scroll - or emakimono - of samples of masks and a record of props used in Noh theater, created circa late 19th century or early 20th century. The scroll measures nearly 30 feet in length when unrolled and is constructed of individual illustrated leaves that have been adhered together to create the scroll. When rolled, the scroll is housed in a wooden box.

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Indenture for a miller apprenticeship for Hugh Ogden in Loudoun County, Virginia, created on March 17, 1815.

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1 box that contains materials from the Indochina Institute records.

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This collection includes documents and promotional materials from Initiatives in Educational Transformation.

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This collection contain 3 boxes of content from the Institute for Advanced Public Policy Studies records.

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1 box that contains brochures and pamphlets that promote the Institute for Computational Sciences and Informatics.

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One box that contains two pamphlets from the Institue for History, Resources, and Policy

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Interviews conducted by Zachary Schrag for his book Ethical Imperialism: Institutional Review Boards and the Social Sciences, 1965 to the Present. Schrag interviewed key shapers of the institutional review board regime to raise important points about the effect of the IRB process on scholarship.

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One box containing promotional materials from the Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science.

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One box that contains materials from the International Center for Applied Studies in Information Technology