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The Wells family photograph albums and scrapbook include photographs of H.G. Wells and Catherine Wells, their sons G.P. Wells and Frank Wells, and other individuals. The photographs encompass a variety of subjects, such as landscapes, exterior and interior architecture, everyday scenes, picnics, formal portraits, and family portraits. Some albums contain ...

The Wells family photograph albums and scrapbook include photographs of H.G. Wells and Catherine Wells, their sons G.P. Wells and Frank Wells, and other individuals. The photographs encompass a variety of subjects, such as landscapes, exterior and interior architecture, everyday scenes, picnics, formal portraits, and family portraits. Some albums contain ...

Letters, account books, and receipts concerning Hacienda De Xochimanga.

Richard Harwell is a prolific author and editor of literature on the Civil War and the Reconstruction periods. His collection of 1200 Confederate imprints and 900 Civil War publications contains documents of the Confederate Congress, as well as other publications of the period.

The Sir Robert Heath papers consist of letters, documents, a commonplace book, and a diary created or kept by Sir Robert Heath (1575-1649), an English lawyer. The materials document various aspects of London legal life—Parliament, the royal prerogative, prosecution of recusants, and Star-Chamber prosecutions—Puritanism, the English Civil War, English agriculture, ...

The Ben Hecht collection includes all of the author's first editions (several signed or inscribed), many British and first paperback editions, as well as a selection of reprints. Special attention is paid to variants. Also included are mimeographed copies of five of his screenplays, and Hecht's agent's typescript of the ...

3 A.L.S from writer, Ben Hecht. 1) To Eugene Brewster January 22, 1925. 2) To Oscar Borron August 31, 1954. 3) To Charles R. Condon December 14, 1959.

The Edward S. Held collection contains drawings of architecture, interior designs, and film sets created by Edward S. Held (1894-1985), a Hollywood set and architectural designer. The collection notably includes designs for Disneyland Park in Anaheim, CA, and numerous Hollywood films produced between the 1930s and 1950s.

The Heller-Shimkin papers document the lives and work of the Heller-Shimkins, a Jewish-American family who lived in New York in the 20th century. Materials include correspondence, personal papers and files, periodicals, books, a/v material, and typewriters. The Sarah G. Heller materials document her life on Long Island, involvement in the Zionist ...

Papers of George Hendrick, emeritus professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Also contains documents and correspondence collected by George Hendrick of various individuals such as Carl Sandburg and Samel Arthur Jones.

The Flodden Heron collection of Lewis Carroll contains correspondence, photos, and realia kept by English novelist, Lewis Carroll (1832-1898), as well as research material kept by Heron: typescripts, dealers' catalogs, and ephemera relating to Lewis Carroll, Alice Liddell Hargreaves (1852-1934), and [i]Alice in Wonderland[/i].

A.L.S from "Mariano Herrera" to Harrison S. Kerrick dated Jan 16, 1926. Col. Harrison Summers Kerrick created the code of conduct on how to properly handle and display the U.S. flag which was adopted by the United States Congress.

Marvin T. Herrick (1899 - 1966) was a member of the UIUC Department of English whose interests led him to select for the library primarily sixteenth century editions of early Italian drama. The collection was named for him at the time of his death.

The collection consists of publications by classical economists as Adam Smith, Malthus, Thornton, J. B. Sayl, Lord Lauderdale, James and John Stuart Mill, Robert Torrens and David Ricardo, almost completely included in first editions.

The Jacob H. Hollander collection contains manuscript materials gathered by Jacob H. Hollander (1871-1940), an American professor of political economy. The collection is primarily comprised of correspondence discussing the following topics: 18th- and 19th-century theories of political economics in Europe, the publication of economic monographs, discussions about social engagements, and ...

The Jacob H. Hollander collection contains manuscript materials gathered by Jacob H. Hollander (1871-1940), an American professor of political economy. The collection is primarily comprised of correspondence discussing the following topics: 18th- and 19th-century theories of political economics in Europe, the publication of economic monographs, discussions about social engagements, and ...

Henry C. Hutchins of Yale University was a scholar and bibliographer of Daniel Defoe. His collection contains works by Defoe and his contemporary polemicists, among other eighteenth century works, especially travel literature and translations from the French.