Abstract This collection contains correspondence, postcards, handwritten/typed manuscripts, photographs, pre-publication proofs, art, and flyers. This material dates from 1984-2009 with the majority of the material falling within the dates 1988-2006. Most of the material consists of items mailed or sent to Buck Downs from other artists, poets, publisher, authors, and friends. Most of the material (whether typed manuscripts or graphic art) includes original poetry. This collection also contains...

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Collection includes meeting minutes, correspondence, newsletters, and files with subjects of importance to the residents of Burleith. The collection also includes material about the social activities sponsored by the Burleith Citizens Association such as a neighborhood flea market and art show.

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Collection contains bylaws, annual reports, membership lists, lists of officers, flyers, correspondence, one stapled booklet "My Favorite Recipes", and the neighborhood tot lot and flower mart generated by the Burleith Garden Club between 1949 and 2000.

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The C. Darwin Stolzenbach papers consists of correspondence and memoranda, bound and unbound reports, original and photocopied news clippings, documents related to civil action suits pertaining to highway legislation, excerpts from law review magazines, press releases, copies of speeches, minutes and agendas of meetings, original and photocopied Congressional and other legislation, photographs, and maps.

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This collection contains issues of California Teamsters Public Affairs Council Teamstergrams from 1978 to 1986.

Abstract Collection consists of material gathered and created by the Capitol Hill Restoration Society as a function of their work as an advocacy agency in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. The type of material in the collection includes newsletters, correspondence, photographs, treasurer reports, maps, reports, and studies. This material dates from 1904-2012 with the majority of the material falling within the dates 1958-2012. Topics of interest include Eastern Market, Barney Circle Freeway Modification...

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Materials in this collection include annual reports, publications, publications scrapbooks, and microfilm. They range in date from 1951-2002.

Abstract The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace was founded in 1910 by Andrew Carnegie. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, which since 1983 has again been headquartered in Washington, D.C., continues the work begun by its founders. Elihu Root and Nicholas Murray Butler were activists in a segment of a larger peace movement both in the U.S. and abroad that had its roots in the later years of the nineteenth century. This collection consists of over 7,200 items of bound pamphlets,...

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Collection contains correspondence, brochures, videos, films, photographs, newspaper articles, financial records, speeches, and invitations from 1971-1996 relating to the work of homeless rights activist Carol Fennelly and Mitch Snyder as part of the Community for Creative Non-Violence (CCNV).

Abstract The papers of Carol Schwartz relate to her term as a member of DC Council. The collection primarily contains documents relating to legislative proceedings that Schwartz was involved in as a member of the Council of the District of Columbia. These documents are contained in the series, Legislative History. This series includes a number of memoranda correspondence, notes, financial documents, reports, and official legislative documents. Some of the subjects addressed in this series include...

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The materials in this collection consist of Continuing Education for Women Program publications and correspondence; Publication samples, advertisements, and press clippings; Continuing Education for Women Program brochures, articles, history, course schedules, and programs; Legal Assistant Program special events and office files; and American Bar Association annual reports and correspondence related to the Legal Assistant Program.

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The Center for Washington Area Studies (CWAS) is a multi-disciplinary university-wide research center whose purpose is to encourage, promote and engage in research related to Washington, D.C. and surrounding region. This collection includes publications produced by the Center for Washington Area Studies. The materials range from 1975 to 1992 and include various topics and people in and about the Washington, D.C. area.

Abstract Charles Blaschke worked in the Johnson Administration on education policy and later started Education TURNKEY Systems, a consultanting company that provided market research, analysis, planning and funding information about educational technology to more than 1,200 local education agencies, every state education agency and over 800 policy makers. The majority of the collection consists of TURNKEY's reports. The only exception is box UP 1, which contains some background material on Blaschke...

Abstract This collection contains correspondence, speeches, clippings, videos, and slides. This material dates from 1964-1984 with the bulk falling between 1968-1973. The slides document mass transit operations throughout the world including Tokyo, Singapore, Toronto, Montreal, and Hong Kong. Most of the correspondence and memos are those Carter sent and is primarily business related although there are personal letters. The collection also contains files related to urban systems that were...

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This collection contains correspondence, publications, photographs, genealogical documents and miscellaneous souvenirs from the collection of Charles Melville Pepper. The bulk of the material pertains to his travels and research in Latin America. The material dates between 1800-1945.

Abstract Dr. Charles E. Munroe (1849-1938), the inventor of smokeless powder, had a distinguished career, both nationally and internationally. After graduating summa cum laude from Harvard in 1871, he continued on as an assistant professor of chemistry until 1874. In 1874 he left Harvard to become professor of chemistry at the United States Naval Academy, where he remained for twelve years. From 1886-92 he was chemist at the United States Naval Torpedo Station and war College. Between 1892 and 1898,...

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This collection contains reports, transit studies, meeting agendas, marketing material, maps, memos, tour information, correspondence, photographs and construction drawings related to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. The material dates between 1965-1985. This material about WMATA relates specifically to research about other metropolitan transit systems and the early construction of the Metrorail system.

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Collection includes computer programming materials developed at GW between 1966 and 1980. It also contains Educational Computing Technology Workshop materials, TMIS Training Program Modules, Medical Computer Programming for Patients and other items such as a Chi-Square, Data Red, Deeds, MLS, Paired T-Test, Plot 12A, Rankcorr, Dersim Notebook, Orcon/S2632, POMR, Pharmacokinetics, Drug-Receptor Interactions and Regresso, Serdis, T-Test, Variance.

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Collection includes photographs and negatives, slides, postcards, stereoscopes, and some manuscript material and ranges in date from 1856-1983. The bulk of the material ranges from 1890-1920 (which consists mainly of copy prints of photographs). The images in the collection cover primarily the northwest section of Washington, D.C. including many buildings and street scenes.

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Collection consists of fifty boxes of material documenting Chauncey M. Depew's career in public speaking from approximately 1880-1920. It features many published speeches, handwritten and typescript speeches, and notes, in addition to scrapbooks, memorial books, clippings, and photographs that portray Depew as an orator.

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Materials in this collection include correspondence, pamphlets and a syllabus. They range in date from 1893-1983.

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Collection includes Cherry Tree yearbooks, photographs from the Cherry Tree of buildings, students groups, events, clubs, departments, presidents, etc.

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Collection contains correspondence, obituaries, reports, photographs, slides, newsletters, booklets, membership data, programs, brochures, minutes, and by-laws. The material dates from the early 1800s to 2021 with the bulk of the material falling between 1954-2013. This material relates to the history of both the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Association.

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Collection contains reports, newspaper articles, correspondence, news releases, and court documents related to the efforts of the Citizens Committee to Save Historic Rhodes Tavern to preserve Rhodes Tavern.

Abstract Citizens for New Columbia was a statehood advocacy group active in the early 1990s that actively supported statehood for D.C. The group was a pro-statehood grass-roots group working to promote citizen participation using civil disobedience and congressional lobbying in advance of the initial House vote. Prominent members of the group included former mayors of Washington D.C. Sharon Pratt and Walter Washington, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, Senator Jesse L. Jackson, and Senator...

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Records consist of newsletters, meeting minutes, correspondence, member directories, program booklets, field trip records, maps, news clippings, and announcements of organizational events. One folder contains miscellaneous materials, mostly newsletters from other Civil War Round Tables across the countryfrom the Civil War Round Table of the District of Columbia cover the years 1951 to 1994. The bulk of the contents can be found from 1951 to 1959.

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This collection contains information on the Bernard Knox lectures, departmental correspondence, student information and exams, programs, and class syllabi. They range in date from 1963-1996.

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This collection contains seven drawings related to politics in America. The cartoons are all dated 1924. All titles have been supplied by staff.

Abstract Collection consist of cartoons (209), Christmas cards (12), and facsimiles of cartoons (3), all drawn by Clifford K. Berryman. The cartoons with identified dates span the years 1899-1949, thus exemplifying Berryman's work over much of his career. Berryman was employed as a cartoonist by the Washington Post from 1891-1970 and by the Washington Star from 1907-49. There are only a handful of cartoons which were composed before 1907, when Berryman left the Washington Post to draw for the...

Abstract The Hon. Clifford B. “Cliff” Stearns is a GWU alumnus and Air Force veteran who represented Florida’s 6th district in Congress for almost a quarter century. A self-styled “Citizen Congressman,” he strongly advocated for financial restraint and conservative values. This proved to be a powerful message that resonated with voters during the 1990’s when the GOP reclaimed the majority in the House of Representatives. While his committee work lies at the core of this collection, the papers...