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Lyrasis Special Collections

Lyrasis Library
3390 Park Avenue
New York
NY
10024
USA
collections@lyrasis.org
The Lyrasis Special Collections showcase unique and rare materials curated to support research, education, and the preservation of cultural heritage across member institutions. (DEMO).

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Communist Party of the United States of America Records, 1900-2007, circa 1900-2007-1940 - 1991

1 Linear Feet 525.0 linear feet (approx. 525 records cartons; some flat boxes, possibly)
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Jedediah Horcrux Congreave fly fishing correspondence and photographs, 1925-1992

1 Electronic file 1 Box 1 Linear Feet 1 record cartons

Content Description

Correspondence and photographs spanning 1925-1992 and documenting Jedediah Horcrux Congreave's interest in fly fishing. Included in the collection are letters to Congreave's father between 1925-1935; correspondence from and to diverse friends, colleagues, and associates sharing Congreave's interest in fly fishing; and photographs of many of Congreave's fishing expeditiions. More detailed descriptions of the materials are provided below.

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1925-1935 Carton 1, Folder 1-2

 

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Thirty-two letters from Congreave to his father Wilberforce, written during Congreave's school and college years and describing summer fishing trips around New England with his maternal uncle Socrates Whipple. These letters describe materials used in fly fishing during these years, especially materials for tying artificial flies. The letters also contain exquisite, detailed, hand-drawn illustrations of various artificial flies, which Congreave either drew himself or acquired from other sources and then sent to this father.

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1952-1992 Carton 1, Folder 3-17

 

Content

Correspondence from and to numerous friends, colleagues, and associates during the years 1952-1992. Correspondents include the French philosopher Michel Foucault, a companon of Congreave's on several fly fishing trips to the French Alps; Julia Child, with whom Congreave discussed recipes for serving trout and salmon; and B. F. Skinner, the Harvard behaviorial psychologist, who Congreave met during his final year at Harvard and whith whom Congreave maintained a correspondence, until Skinner's death in 1990, about their mutual passion for fly fishing. One letter from 1960 recounts Congreave's failed attempt to keep a journal during his fishing trips, which was thwarted when the journal fell into the Housatonic River and washed downstream. At that point Congfreave decided that making copies of his outgoing letters was the best way to document his passion for fly fishing; hence the collection typically includes both incoming and copies of outgoing correspondence.

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Santa Fe Light Cone Simulation research project files, Bulk, 2005-2007, 2005-2012, Bulk 2005-2007

683.0 Gigabytes 39 Electronic file 683.0 Gigabyte(s) 39 digital objects collectively containing 1,797 digital files of various types.

Scope and Contents note

The project files consists of data in three broad categories: the simulation data ("Data at Redshift" components); analysis tools and example scripts (Data Processing Tools) for processing the data; and project administration and background documents (Historical Documents) related to the project. All these materials were created between 2005 and 2012, beginning with a proposal for the LUSciD Project, continuing on to the simulation data, and ending with the recent analysis tools. The historical documents are proposals and progress reports that were part of grants or requests for computational resources supporting the research. The component for analysis tools and example scripts contains the source code to yt (http://yt-project.org/), which was used to produce the example data analysis results. The results are a combination of structured text, binary files, and images. The historical documents and analysis tools are described in greater detail in their component descriptions.

The scientific motivations for the light cone simulation are described in the Project Background. Here we describe how the simulation data was generated. The simulation was the final in a group of simulations, with each one designed to meet certain requirements, such as resolution. Earlier simulations tied to the LUsciD Project were performed on Thunder, a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory cluster. This calculation for the Santa Fe Light Cone Simulation was a demonstration of the software's ability to perform adaptive refinement throughout the volume, and as a result, was run on the San Diego Supercomputer Center's DataStar system and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications Altix, Cobalt.

The simulation was initialized at high redshift, assuming a standard cosmological model incorporating dark energy and cold dark matter. The physical volume represented was a periodic cube 512 comoving megaparsecs on a side. The simulation was evolved to the present day, using models for gravity and adiabatic gas dynamics. At specific points, snapshots of the simulation were saved, and a representative subset of those are contained in this collection.

These snapshots are organized by time (or, equivalently, redshift) at the top level, and named from RD0009 to RD0036; lower numbers (e.g., RD0009) represent earlier times in the universe's evolution, while higher numbers are later times and ones closer to the present day. Each snapshot has an archive (tar) file of the original data, a checksum of the archive, and text files of the parameters, grid hierarchy, and boundary conditions. The parameter, hierarchy, and boundary files are also in the archive file, but are available separately for convenience in a component named "Parameters."

The contents of each project component labeled RD00## are the same:

* RD00## (parameters, ASCII): All of the simulation parameters are listed in these files as key-value pairs, using a "key = value" format. The input parameter are identical across all parameter files, while variables such as the current time, or redshift, change.

* RD00##.hierarchy (grid metadata, ASCII): A list of the grid data structures, their spatial position, file names, and numerical size.

* RD00##.cpu0XXX (physical data, HDF5): These files hold the physical fields (density, velocity, etc.) for each grid.

* RD00##.boundary (boundary conditions, ASCII): Boundary metadata.

* RD00##.boundary.hdf (boundary conditions, HDF5): Boundary data for necessary fields

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Joe Brainard Archive, 1960-1992

32.20 Electronic file (8 archives boxes, 59 art bin items and 88 oversize folders) 32.20 linear feet (8 archives boxes, 59 art bin items and 88 oversize folders)
Materials collected by Robert Butts consisting primarily of diverse works by and regarding the popular New York artist and writer Joe Brainard (1942-1994). Brainard was the author of fifteen books of writing, the illustrator of numerous other books produced by members of the New York School, and a celebrated graphic artist whose work covered a broad range of sizes, styles and media. The Joe Brainard Archive consists of numerous examples of Brainard's graphic work dating from 1962 to 1979, most of the books illustrated by Brainard, all of Brainard's manuscripts and published writings, notebooks for Brainard's I REMEMBER series and several other books, Brainard's correspondence with members of the Butts family and correspondence to Brainard from Ned Rorem and Virgil Thompson, checklists of Brainard's artistic production constructed by Robert Butts, and a selection of articles devoted to Brainard's career. In addition to the Brainard materials, the Joe Brainard Archive also includes several lithographs by Alex Katz (b. 1927), an oil painting by Tom Clark, and a few ink sketches by poets Ron Padgett and Allen Ginsberg. There are also manuscripts of Ted Berrigan, Tom Clark and Rudy Kikel, in addition to broadsides and books written by New York School writers such as John Ashbery, Edwin Denby, and Kenneth Koch. The accessions processed in 1991 contain primarily original artworks by Joe Brainard in collaborations with Bill Berkson and Kenward Elmslie, including THE BABY BOOK (1965). Also included are correspondence, manuscript materials and photographs. The accession processed in 1993 comprises 16 letters and postcards from Joe Brainard to Robert Butts and one print by Andy Warhol.
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Amazing Pemberly Collection of Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett Darcy, 1987, bulk 1778-1838

6 Cubic Feet 6 cubic feet (6 record cartons) of materials spanning the years 1778-1838 and documenting the business and personal interests of several generations of the Darcy family, who resided at the estate of Pemberly in Derbyshire in England. Their business interests included agriculture, tenant farming, and a coal mine. The records include letters, rent books, and other business records. The collection also includes personal correspondence, diaries and journals, and personal ephemera.

This collection contains material regarding Jane Austin and Mr. Darcy, collected and compiled by the Pemberly Estate archivists, Patty Wanninger and George Holbert Tucker between 1987-present day. The bulk of the material was collected by the Darcy Family.

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Amazing Pemberly Collection of Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett Darcy, 1987, bulk 1778-1838 6 Cubic Feet 6 cubic feet (6 record cartons) of materials spanning the years 1778-1838 and documenting the business and personal interests of several generations of the Darcy family, who resided at the estate of Pemberly in Derbyshire in England. Their business interests included agriculture, tenant farming, and a coal mine. The records include letters, rent books, and other business records. The collection also includes personal correspondence, diaries and journals, and personal ephemera.

 

This collection contains material regarding Jane Austin and Mr. Darcy, collected and compiled by the Pemberly Estate archivists, Patty Wanninger and George Holbert Tucker between 1987-present day. The bulk of the material was collected by the Darcy Family.

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Cat Pictures collection, 2000-ongoing

6 Gigabytes Several born digital photographs
Collection of photographs of Lyrasis staff pets.
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Carry A. Nation collection, 1880s-1920s

2 Linear feet 3 boxes + 1 oversize box
Compiled collection of materials donated by and related to temperance organizer and women's rights activist Carry A. Nation.
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Carry A. Nation collection, 1880s-1920s 2 Linear feet 3 boxes + 1 oversize box

 
Compiled collection of materials donated by and related to temperance organizer and women's rights activist Carry A. Nation.
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Sherlock and Doyle Ephemera Collection, 1900-2008, 1925-2008

.14 Cubic feet Contains 2 boxes of items, 1 slim document case of manuscripts and 1 electronic file of digitized materials.
This collection contains miscellaneous ephemera related to Sherlock Holmes. Many of the items were owned by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Sherlock and Doyle Ephemera Collection, 1900-2008, 1925-2008 .14 Cubic feet Contains 2 boxes of items, 1 slim document case of manuscripts and 1 electronic file of digitized materials.

 
This collection contains miscellaneous ephemera related to Sherlock Holmes. Many of the items were owned by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Flannery O'Connor Collection, 1939-2000, 1939-2000

24.5 Linear feet 27 boxes

24.5 linear feet. 27 boxes of papers about and by Flannery O'Connor's writings and life. 1 box contains artwork.

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Wayward Family papers, 1847-1963

2.0 Linear Feet 2 Box 2.0 Linear feet 2 record cartons

Scope and Contents note

The Wayward family papers includes material from several Wayward descedents living in the 19th and 20th centuries, and was collected by variou family members. Document types in the collection include correspondence, diaries, clippings, posters and audio tapes about the Wayward family and their various activities.

See the scope and content note for each series for more details about the collection contents.

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Sara Wayward Lewis journal and letters, 1849 0.25 Cassettes 4 Folders 0.25 Linear feet 4 folders

 

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A journal and fifteen letters documenting the overland journey of Sarah Wayward Lewis with her husband and family to California in 1849. The Lewis family departed from St. Joseph, Missouri in April, 1849, and the collection contents detail their trip along the Mormon Route, encounters with hostile Native Americans on the Great Plains, privations, hardships, and internal strife among their traveling companions; and their sojourn along the Humboldt and Truckee Rivers prior to their traverse of Donner Pass into the goldfields of California. The correspondence, from Sarah Lewis to her mother, Frances Wayward of Great Barrington, Massachusetts, also provides details about life in a mining camp before Sarah and her children settled in Sacramento in November of the same year.

Wayward Family papers, 1847-1963 2.0 Linear Feet 2 Box 2.0 Linear feet 2 record cartons

 
Palmer, Russell

Scope and Contents note

The Wayward family papers includes material from several Wayward descedents living in the 19th and 20th centuries, and was collected by variou family members. Document types in the collection include correspondence, diaries, clippings, posters and audio tapes about the Wayward family and their various activities.

See the scope and content note for each series for more details about the collection contents.

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