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South America

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Records:

Frederick Allan Whitehead papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 162
Overview

This collection consists of activist publications from the 1960s and 1970s, including from the Stevens Institute of Hoboken, New Jersey, and from the Students for a Democratic Society, maintained by Fred Whitehead from when he was a student at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas and Columbia University in New York.

Dates: 1963 - 1970

Hungate family papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1420
Overview

This collection consists of correspondence, photographs, and other miscellaneous materials from the Hungate family, particularly Dr. Carroll Paul Hungate and his immediate family during the end of World War II when he was stationed in Rio de Janerio, Brazil. There is also a small amount of material, including a scrapbook, from Ida (Devaney) Patterson, Hungate's mother-in-law, and her family.

Dates: circa 1860-1967 (bulk 1920s-1948)

Naturalist’s Sketch Book

 Collection — Volume 1
Call Number: MS D130
Overview

Book of natural history. Brief scientific descriptions and paintings of butterflies and moths, birds, beetles, mantides and locusts, other insects, coral, shellfish, jellyfish, etc. Gives generic and specific characteristics, other names, locality, and bibliographical references to Linnaeus and mid-18th century writers.

Dates: between 1821 and 1900

Solon Otis Thacher papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 87
Overview

The collection of papers by Solon Otis Thacher contains original manuscripts, along with copies of his addresses, sermons and speeches, including some he made while he was in South America. The collection also includes journals, notebooks, newsclippings and articles, and a diary owned by Thacher.

Dates: 1849 - 1895