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Manuscripts.

 Subject
Subject Source: Fast

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Herbert H. Rawnsley Autograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 050
Summary

This collection consists of unpublished correspondence and documents dating from the 13th through 20th centuries relating to and/or signed by historically prominent individuals. Also included in the collection are examples of English and American (Pennsylvania) legal papers such as deeds and a few early examples of published material such as newspapers.

Dates: c.1200-1976,; Majority of material found within 1500-1945

Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 000
Summary

This collection consists of miscellaneous letters, diaries, scrapbooks, notebooks, autographs, drawings, legal papers, deeds, legal papers, invoices, ledgers, advertising materials, promissory notes, mortgages, commissions, playbills, speeches, reports, charters, ephemera, and literary manuscripts of disparate or unknown provenances.

Additionally, it contains specialized collections, including WWI and WWII posters, historical prints, photographs, newspapers and maps.

Dates: 1642-2001,; Majority of material found within 1850-1920