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This collection is made up of correspondence between Benedict Law of Erie County, New York, his wife Docia, and members of his extended family. Law wrote to his wife and children about his work along the Wyoming-Colorado border from 1897-1902 and in the later years of the decade. Other family members and acquaintances corresponded about their lives in Texas, New York, and New Jersey.

This collection is made up of correspondence between Benedict Law of Erie County, New York, his wife Docia, and members of his extended family.

In letters to his wife and sons, Benedict W. Law discussed his life and work on mining projects in Wyoming and Colorado, particularly in the area around Dixon, Wyoming, and Fourmile, Colorado. He described the scenery around the border area and discussed aspects of camp life and his work, which involved dredging and digging ditches. In 1898, he shared local news and occasionally commented on the progress of the Spanish-American War, though he also mentioned the general scarcity of news in the area where he lived. His letters to Docia often concern the couple's finances and sometimes contain news about her sister, Grace Graley, who lived in Fourmile, Colorado. Law wrote at least one letter to his son Lito in Spanish (May 24, 1899). Law wrote from Routt County, Colorado, in 1902.

From 1897-1901, Benedict W. Law received letters related to his personal life, his travels, and the western mining work that continued after his temporary return to New York in 1901. A few items from this period pertain to Docia Law. After 1906, Grace Graley wrote to her mother about life in Queen City, Texas, and about her children. After 1909, Benedict Law resumed his correspondence with his wife, who also received late letters from her sister and mother

The Benjamin Brown collection is made up of correspondence, documents, and artifacts related to the showman's career as a circus owner in the early 1800s. Many of the letters relate to his journey to Egypt between 1838 and 1840, as he attempted to procure giraffes for an American menagerie company; to his other travels; and to the contemporary American circus industry.

The Benjamin Brown collection is made up of correspondence, documents, and artifacts related to the showman's career as a circus owner in the early 1800s.

Letters, documents, and printed materials concern Brown's early ventures as a show owner, including correspondence and financial records pertaining to his travels in the Caribbean and to the northeast coast of South America in the early 1830s. These materials document the difficulties of transporting exotic animals by sea, the type of equipment necessary to run a circus, and other logistical issues.

A later group of letters and documents reflects Brown's experiences in Egypt, where he traveled as an agent of the June, Titus, Angevine & Company, attempting to purchase giraffes. Many of these letters are from Stebbins B. June, who was also in Egypt at the time, and several items relate to George R. Gliddon, United States consul in Cairo. Brown's friend Gerard Crane wrote about Brown's business affairs in New York, and frequently reported the increasingly frail health of Brown's father. Benjamin Brown received a letter from P. T. Barnum, who asked him to find a pair of fortune tellers for Barnum's museum. He also inquired about locating a pony small enough to accommodate his performer Tom Thumb (June 29, 1843). While in London, Brown frequently received letters from his sister, Eudocia Brown Noyes, who wrote of the Brown family farm and provided other news from Somers, New York.

The collection includes playbills and broadsides advertising Brown's circus; Brown's marriage license (March 20, 1841); a pencil sketch of Brown; two passports; and three fragments of an Arabic-language scroll, offering protection to the bearer. Later material includes newspaper clippings from 1879, 1880, and 1931, on Brown's life and career, as well as an audio tape of an interview with his grandson, Benjamin Brown.

• Kapitein Dick Op Zijne Shetland Poney: Op Verzoek Van Verscheidene Heeren En Dames, Zal Den Heer Broun Op Zaturdag Den 23 October 1830, Van 's Middags 1 Tot 's Avonds 10 Uren, Aan Het Geëerd Pupliek Ten Toon Stellen... Paramaribo: Ter drukkerij van de erven C.J. Fuchs, [1830].
• Royal Gazette of the United Colony of Demerary & Essequebo: Saturday, January 8, 1831. [Georgetown, Guyana: W. Baker, 1831].
• Royal Pavilion Circus in the Temple Yard: by Permission of His Excellency the Governor : On Thursday Evening Next the 22d Instant Mr. Brown and His Corps of Equestrians Will Have the Honor to Present to the Public a Splendid Performance, When He and His Company Will Endeavour to Gratify the Ladies And Gentlemen of the Island by Representing Various Extraordinary Feats of Horsemanship. [c. 1830?].

Box 2 of the collection includes correspondence, documents, printed items, photographs, and audio recordings related to the history of Benjamin Brown, the circus, and Somers, New York. Principally organized around the career and research of Carrie Brown Rorer (1903-1969), President of the Somers Historical Society and Benjamin F. Brown's great-grandaughter, the material provides insight into public history, memory, and research on the circus. Included is a typed document, "Circus History: Recollections by Benjamin Brown (1877-1962) as told to Carrie Brown Roher, (1903-1969), who was one of his three daughters," which details memories of Benjamin F. Brown and family stories about him.

• Two shoes, [1800s]
• Burnoose, [1800s]
• Black circus jacket, [1800s]
• Pipe stem and bowl
• Two rocks
• Fragments from an ostrich eggshell
• Canopic jar lid
• Two small boxes
• Ushabti figure
• Harpocrates figure

The Egyptian figures may date to around 600 BCE.

This collection is made up of sermons, letters, documents, printed items, and writings by or pertinent to Methodist minister Benjamin C. Phelps of Connecticut. Among the papers are Phelps' appointments as Deacon (1838) and Elder (1840) in the Methodist Episcopal Church, a volume of 43 manuscript sermons by Rev. Phelps utilized throughout his active ministry (including while chaplain at the Connecticut State Prison as Wethersfield, 1859-1869), an address on the importance of chaplaincy to correctional facilities, and a biographical sketch of Rev. Phelps by his great grandson.

This collection is made up of sermons, letters, documents, printed items, and writings by or pertinent to Methodist Minister Benjamin C. Phelps of Massachusetts and Connecticut. Among the papers are Phelps' appointments as Deacon (1838) and Elder (1840) in the Methodist Episcopal Church, a volume of 43 manuscript sermons by Rev. Phelps utilized throughout his active ministry (including while chaplain at the Connecticut State Prison as Wethersfield, 1859-1869), an address on the importance of chaplaincy to correctional facilities, and a biographical sketch of Rev. Phelps by his great grandson.

The heart of this collection is a bound volume containing 43 manuscript sermons by Benjamin C. Phelps, originally written between 1837 and 1847, but with marginal notes by Phelps indicating his re-use of them between 1848 and the 1870s. Worn from repeated use, a heavy brown paper outer cover was added; the paper bears fragments of printed imagery and text. Laid into the volume is a printed advertisement, "The Book of Dual Blanks for Pulpit and Choir," sold by publishers S. C. Dunn & Co., Bordentown, New Jersey.

An example, "Sir, what must I do to be saved?" (on Acts 16:30), he originally wrote for November 23, 1838, and then delivered it again at Manchester in March 1848 and again in Scotland June 1854. Another, "Sermon I", "And he did not many mighty works there, because of their unbelief" (on Matthew 13:58), he wrote in the later months of 1837 and delivered again at the State Prison in May 1858.

Sermon 40 is notable for its conveyance of views on the forgiveness of sin, with commentary on Universalist teachings about sin. In it, Rev. Phelps argued using quotations from Thomas Whittemore's The Plain Guide to Universalism, Otis A. Skinner's Universalism Illustrated and Defended, and Isaac D. Williamson's An Exposition and Defence of Universalism, that Universalism "utterly denies" the doctrine of forgiveness of the punishment of sin.

• 1825 October 19. Zion's Herald, vol. III, no. 42. Boston, Massachusetts.
• 1838 June 10. Elijah Hedding partially printed vellum certificate, appointing Benjamin C. Phelps a Deacon in the Methodist Episcopal Church; Boston, Massachusetts. 1 page.
• 1839 January 19. B[enjamin] C. Phelps manuscript article draft "For Zion's Herald"; s.l. 4 pages. Concerning the lives and morality of mariners/sailors.
• 1840 July 5. Elijah Hedding partially printed vellum certificate, appointing Benjamin C. Phelps an Elder in the Methodist Episcopal Church; Lowell, Massachusetts. 1 page.
• 1863 December 27. N. P. Humphrey telegraph to "B. F. Phelps" [i.e. Benjamin C. Phelps]; Oakham, Massachusetts. 1 page. From Noah Humphrey to his son-in-law Rev. Phelps at Wethersfield State Prison, relating "Mother is dead. Funeral at two (2) oclock Tuesday." The American Telegraph Company.
• 1865 March 31. B[enjamin] C. Phelps draft of an address or report to the Directors of the Connecticut State Prison; Wethersfield, Connecticut. 4 pages. On the value and importance of chaplaincy in correctional facilities, with information about religious conversions over the previous year, improvements in inmates' dispositions and character, education, development of the library, the state of the sabbath school, and visits to cells for religious consultation. Visits the "female department" and then closes the day with prayer in the hospital. "An unknown friend, who by meeting an exconvict who proposed to have been converted while here, has become so much interested in the moral and religious welfare of the prisoners, as to send three copies of the Witness to my address for one year, for the use of the men. It is an interesting religious periodical published in New York."
• 1867 September. Printed program, Prison Concert, Saturday, Afternoon, Sep. 21, '67 : For the Inmates of the Connecticut State Prison, Given by the South Church Quartette, of Hartford. Wethersfield, Connecticut. 3 pages. Mrs. Charles W. Huntington, Soprano; Miss Almira Whiting, Contralto; Mr. C. W. Huntington, Tenor; and Mr. W. H. Hunt, Basso.
• 1896 December 23. Zion's Herald, vol. LXXIV, no. 52. Boston, Massachusetts. Containing Benjamin C. Phelps' obituary on page 15.
• 1897 July 1. F. B. Noyes autograph letter signed to Charles Phelps; Stonington, Connecticut. 1 page. Address to Hartford, Connecticut, July 1, 1897. 1 page. Enclosing a copy of Noyes' "history of the Phelps family." With enclosed typed genealogy "Phelps Family". 5 pages.
• Undated. Typed biography of Benjamin C. Phelps by his great-grandson, titled "Behind the Clocks," 28 pages.

Circuit court judge and Michigan Supreme Court justice; his wife, Ann Lapham Graves, was a Battle Creek educator and civic leader; their son, Henry B. Graves, was a Detroit lawyer. Family correspondence concerning life in Battle Creek, Michigan, student life of H. B. Graves at the University of Michigan, 1879-1882, Kansas land speculation, 1883-1885, the Spanish-American War and legal affairs; personal journals and circuit court and Supreme Court record books of B. F. Graves; and photographs.

The Benjamin F. Graves papers consist of family correspondence concerning life in Battle Creek, Michigan, student life of H. B. Graves at the University of Michigan, 1879-1882, Kansas land speculation, 1883-1885, the Spanish-American War and legal affairs; personal journals and circuit court and Michigan Supreme Court record books of B. F. Graves; and correspondence of Henry B. Graves and Ann Lapham Graves. The collection has been arranged by name of individual family member: Benjamin F. Graves; Lapham family; Henry B. Graves; and Miscellaneous.

The correspondence of Benjamin F. Graves includes letters from Henry B. Brown, December 26, 1890; Julius C. Burrows, March 17, 1869; James V. Campbell, 1858-1883; Isaac P. Christiancy, June 1868, November and December 1862, February 1873, August 1877; Thomas M. Cooley (throughout); Donald M. Dickinson, undated and December 1883; Alpheus Felch, December 1894; and John W. Longyear, April 1864 and March 1865.

Correspondence relating to politics and his activities as regent of the University of Michigan; also material concerning the depression and impact of the New Deal on agriculture in Michigan.

This collection is primarily made up of Benson J. Lossing's incoming and outgoing correspondence concerning his writings about and interest in numerous subjects in American history. Essays, newspaper clippings, and ephemera are also included.

This collection is primarily made up of Benson J. Lossing's incoming and outgoing correspondence (179 items, 1850-1904) concerning his writings about and interest in numerous subjects in American history. Essays, newspaper clippings, and ephemera are also included (18 items, 1849- ca. 1884).

The Correspondence series (179 items) mostly contains incoming letters to Lossing about his career as a historian. Some writers thanked Lossing for sending them copies of his books or otherwise commented on his works, such as his Pictorial Field-Book of the War of 1812. Others offered biographical details on historical figures, notes on family genealogies, and information about historical events. Some older correspondents provided firsthand accounts of events, and other writers shared information about potential primary source material. The American Revolutionary era and War of 1812 were common topics, though at least one letter was written during the Civil War. Historical figures discussed included John André and Oliver Hazard Perry; one man wrote about busts of George Washington at Mount Vernon. Some authors enclosed newspaper clippings in their letters, and two made drawings: one of an unidentified building (June 2, 1851) and one of the grave of James Ross (May 11, 1852). One letter from a publisher postdates Lossing's death.

Benson Lossing wrote occasional letters about his work, and at least one of his letters contains a printed form letter requesting historical information.

The Writings and Biographical Sketches (8 items) are brief essays about historical topics, mostly in Benson J. Lossing's handwriting. Subjects include copied inscriptions from a monument marking the Battle of Red Bank and biographies of Colonel Anthony White, William H. Winder, and Alexander Lillington. One item is a copied "Parole of Honor," with Lossing's added notes on some of its signers. Two signed manuscript drafts of articles include "The British Flag and the American Sailor Boy," which was later published as "Anna Van Antwerp and John Van Arsdale" in the Christian Union, and "Mr. Lincoln A Statesman," which appeared in Osborn H. Oldroyd's The Lincoln Memorial: Album-Immortelles. An essay about William H. Winder is attributed to Mrs. A. W. Townsend of Oyster Bay, New York.

The Printed Items series (10 items) is comprised of programs, newspaper clippings, obituaries, a chapter in a published volume, and engravings. One clipping is a reprint of an article written by Benson J. Lossing.

Battle Creek, Mich. historian and collector of rare books and manuscripts. Much of Lowe's research was devoted to the life and career of Black abolitionist Sojourner Truth. The collection contains material related to Sojourner Truth and includes biographies and bibliographies, book reviews, clippings, songs, images and photographs, etc. Other materials in the collection include letters of John G. Whittier, George W. Cable, correspondence of Lowe with writer Gerald Carson, diaries of Lowe's 1963 trip to Europe, as well as miscellanea and photographs.

The collection is arranged into two series. The Sojourner Truth (collected material) series includes biographies and compiled biographical information about Truth, bibliographies and book reviews, obituaries, tributes, newspaper articles, images of portraits, photographs, songs, and other information relating to the life of Sojourner Truth. Of special interest is a scrapbook that was kept by Frances Titus, Sojourner Truth's assistant.

Most of the Sojourner Truth files have been microfilmed except for a folder of material which came to the library after the 1965 filming. A few photographs that were microfilmed in 1965 were reported missing. These images are only available on the microfilm.

The Other Materials series contains items concerning Lowe's various activities and interests, including Battle Creek history and personalities, her travel diaries, and materials related to her friendship with writer Gerald Carson. Also included collected autographs and papers of individuals, including authors John Greenleaf Whittier and George Washington Cable. Also of note are letters of D. J. Van Schnell who wrote to members of the Oldfield family that contain watercolor drawings indicative of English life in the late 1930s and the early years of the World War II.

The Berenson Fototeca is a collection of approximately 150,000 black-and-white photographs of Italian artwork, especially paintings and drawings from the 13th to the end of the 16th centuries. Berenson believed in capturing artwork in photograph form so as to enable the study of the creative process and the creation of artwork.

The Berenson Fototeca is a collection of approximately 150,000 black-and-white photographs of Italian artwork, especially paintings and drawings from the 13th to the end of the 16th centuries. Berenson believed in capturing artwork in photograph form in order to enable the study of the creative process and the creation of these works. The photographs are 3.9 x 5.9 inches and include the name of the artist, the subject, and the location of the original artwork, if known. The collection includes the works of artists such as Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, and Michelangelo, as well as, Cavallini, Filippino Lippi, Parmigianino, Sodoma, and many others.

Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti, Michigan resident. Glass negatives and prints of photographs of unidentified family groups and other people, of Palmer's Drugstore in Ann Arbor, Michigan, of people with bicycles, of a military unit and band, and of the Homoeopathic Hospital at the University of Michigan.

The collection consists of a single series of glass negatives relating to people, places, and events in Ann Arbor and at the University of Michigan. The glass negatives have been arranged into the following broad categories: Businesses and public places; Casual views of unidentified individuals - Ann Arbor area; Military scenes and marching bands; and Casual views of unidentified individuals. There is no information about the photographer of these images.

Physician from Rochester, Michigan and Chicago, Illinois. Correspondence, newspaper clippings, appointment books, diaries and miscellanea relating to student life at University of Michigan and her professional activities; also manuscript of autobiography, Petticoat Surgeon; and photographs.

The collection has been arranged into two series. The Van Hoosen - Jones Family series consists mainly of personal family correspondence among members of the Van Hoosen and Jones family. The Bertha Van Hoosen series consists of correspondence and other materials relating to the life and career of Dr. Van Hoosen. Included are materials from her years as a student at the University of Michigan, personal correspondence, and materials relating to her autobiography Petticoat Surgeon.