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     MANUSCRIPTS and ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

South American Description and Travel

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Gustavus Richard "Brown" Horner papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 379
Scope and Contents This collection contains over 4,000 letters to Dr. Gustavus Richard Brown Horner (from family members and colleagues as well as a letterbook containing copies of letters from Dr. Horner in Warrenton, Virginia, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1824 to 1892. (The collection totals 41 document boxes). The letters chronicle the historical and political events of the time including enslavery, violence against indigenous persons, the Civil War, post war conditions, westward...
Dates: 1820-1892 (1920)

Thomas Nelson Berkeley Noland papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS -16476
Content Description This collection documents Thomas Nelson Berkeley Noland's time in Peru, and contains his journal, a typed transcript of the journal by Mary Noland Young, photographs (chiefly albumen prints) of items, places, and peoples in the Amazon, correspondence (including drafts and translations), and legal documents. Also present are oversize blueprint maps of the Peruvian Amazon region drawn by Noland, a "Map of a Section of South America - Peru, a Vertical Cross Section of the Continent...
Dates: 1872 - 2020; Majority of material found in 1872-1906, 1964, 2020