Holdings Information
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Author/Creator:Knollenberg, Bernhard, 1892-1973.
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Title:Bernhard Knollenberg collection, 1560-1943 (inclusive).
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Physical Description:8.75 linear ft. (15 boxes, 2 folios)
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Links:View a description and listing of collection contents in the finding aid
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Yale Holdings
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Notes:Gifts from Bernhard Knollenberg from 1939.
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Organization:Arranged in two series: I. Correspondence. II. General File.
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Access and use:The collection is open for research. Copyright status for collection materials is unknown, though much of the material in this collection is likely in the public domain. Additional information is provided in the finding aid.
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Biographical / Historical note:Yale University librarian (1938-1945); administrator in the Lend Lease Administration (1943-1944), Office of Strategic Services (1944-1945); U.S. Commissioner for the North-West Atlantic Fisheries (1950-1958).
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Summary:Correspondence, diaries, manuscripts of writings, narratives, biographical sketches, documents, reports, addresses, deeds, tax receipts, printed material, and other papers, relating to early American colonial settlement, the American Revolution, settlement of the West, slavery, the Civil War, Spanish-American War, women's suffrage, and various political questions. Includes ca. 100 letters (1838-1855) to Alvah Hunt, of Greene, Chenango Co., N.Y., describing current political issues, especially Whig politics, from Millard Fillmore, Hamilton Fish, Horace Greeley, Washington Hunt, William H. Seward, and Thurlow Weed; 171 letters written by Homer Sackett Curtiss to members of his family during his Civil War service in the 2nd Connecticut Volunteer Regt., Heavy Artillery; papers of George Panton, loyalist, of New York, containing letters from Daniel Batwell, Thomas Bradbury Chandler, other loyalist Anglican ministers who escaped to England during the Revolution, and others interested in the Church of England in America; 35 letters and documents (1779-1804) by and relating to Nathanael Greene; correpondence, deeds, and tax receipts, relating to Joel Barlow and the Ohio Company; 2 vols. of letters and papers by François Alexandre-Frederick La Rochefoucauld Liancourt; correspondence and writings of Seth Reynolds; and diaries of Alfred Brammer, English workman.
In part, photocopies of originals in the Leffingwell collection at the New Haven Colony Historical Society, and transcripts (typewritten) and photocopies of originals in many libraries, historical societies, and private collections.
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Other formats:Correspondence to George Panton is available on microfilm (ca. 125 frames on 1 reel, 35mm.) from Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library, at cost. Order no. HM199.
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Indexes/Finding aids:Finding aid is available in the repository and on the Internet.
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Cite as:Bernhard Knollenberg Collection (MS 26). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.
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Subjects:Curtiss, Homer Sackett.
Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786.
Hunt, Alvah.
Knollenberg, Bernhard, 1892-1973.
Panton, George.
Connecticut. Militia. Regiment, 19th (1775-1777)
United States. Army. Connecticut Infantry Regiment, 2nd.
United States. Army. Connecticut Infantry Regiment, 7th (1861-1865)
Whig Party (N.Y.)
American loyalists.
Clergy.
New York (State)
New York (State)--Politics and government.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
United States--Politics and government--1783-1865.
Worksop (Nottinghamshire)
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Genre/Form:Deeds.
Diaries.
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Occupation:Librarians.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/967597