Highlights
- More than 600 letters and documents received by Blanche K. Bruce, the first African American to serve a full term in the US Senate. Born into slavery, Bruce was elected in Mississippi and served from 1875 to 1881.
- John Quincy Adams Ward’s archive of more than 370 designs, drawings, studies, and sketches for the entrance to the New York Stock Exchange, the statue of George Washington on the steps of the sub-treasury building on Wall Street, Ulysses S. Grant’s memorial, the James Garfield memorial, and other works
- More than 100 presidential pardons
- 50 remarkably detailed letters by Daniel and Nancy Hemans, two Santee Indians who served as missionaries in South Dakota, discuss the Sioux-Dakota language, teaching and preaching efforts, the Santee Agency, description of a wedding with Native American and White guests, as well as references to farming, deprivations, child-rearing, illness, and death on the reservation.
- 42 cyanotype photographs of the Fitchburg, Massachusetts Railroad
- 5 issues of The Atlantic Monthly from 1900 include articles by Zitkála-Ša, John Muir, Mary Baldwin, Jukichi Inouye, Henry B. Fuller, and Julia C.R. Dorr.