United States
Found in 56 Collections and/or Records:
Letters from Florence Jewel Baillie, 1917-1959
Letters to John Baillie from his wife Florence Jewel Baillie
Letters from Florence Jewel Baillie (from general filing), 1919-1934
Letters to John Baillie from his wife Florence Jewel Baillie originally filed as discrete bundles with in early general filing & correspondence files (Auburn, Toronto and New York files).
Louisiana Purchase, the Thirteen Original States, and Europe, 1870s-1930s
Map of the United States of America showing the area of the Louisiana Purchase and the thirteen orignal states next to a map of Europe. Figures of the land area and population statistics are noted beneath the images.
Newspaper cutting entitled 'Claim to a Baronetcy: Curious Narrative', c1908
Newspaper cutting entitled 'Claim to a Baronetcy: Curious Narrative' about the claim made by John Ford, musical instrument repairer, Philadelphia, United States of America, to the baronetcy of Sir James Robert Carmichael.
Oldham. Miscellaneous Papers, 20th century
This section contains twelve separate folders within which are photographs, journals and reports on visits abroad and documents relating to various other topics. There is material relating to India, China, Japan, USA, Germany, and Africa, as well as the World Council of Churches and British Council of Churches. There are also assorted minutes and memoranda.
Pulszky, Ferenc, 1 July 1851 - 23 July 1875
Quotation from a poem by Whittier under the title 'Rune', c1892
Quotation from a poem by John Greenleaf Whittier under the title 'Rune' beginning 'You find but common bloom and green, The rippling rivers rune'.
Racing Mishap. Sensational Tumble, 1870s-1930s
Photograph of a horse racing mishap showing a 'sensational tumble' a horse took at an American steeplechase event throwing its jocky many feet away in 1919.
Song beginning 'Ailein Duinn shiulain leat' and accompanying story, 7 August 1870
Song beginning 'Gum bean Dia tai mor Thunga' and accomapnying note and vocabulary note, 22 April 1871
Song collected from Ruary an Ruma [Roderick MacNeil, fisherman, Miùghlaigh/Mingulay] beginning 'Gum bean Dia tai mor Thunga, S fhad a chualas' [Taigh Mòr Thunga]. The song is composed of thirty-seven lines. MacNeil states that he heard the story from his father who heard it while he was in America. The vocabulary note reads 'Fosrachadh = Geamhrachadh [aruidh] Sgitheal = a Bothy'.