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{"value"=>"3020", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"MssCol 3020", "type"=>"local_call"}
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{"type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1843/1893", "value"=>"1843-1893"}
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1843
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1893
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1843
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1843
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1893
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Albert Tracy papers"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>".5 linear foot (2 boxes)"}], "supress_display"=>true}
{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1 microfilm reel"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.</span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">Stephen A. Schwarzman Building</span> <span class=\"addressline\">Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Papers contain letters received by Tracy, 1843-1888; an 1876 transcript of his diaries, 1858-1862; sketches; military papers including commissions, an annotated promotions and brevet book, 1847-1848, and copies of his annual reports as Adjutant General of Maine, 1852-1854; a patent for a steam damper, 1871; and newspaper clippings. Correspondence is related to his aspirations as an artist and poet, service in the Mexican War and the Civil War, and activities as Adjutant General of Maine. Prominent correspondents include Albert H. Tracy, John C. and Jessie B. Frémont, and Franklin Pierce. Diaries cover his service in the 10th Infantry, Camp Scott, Wyoming Territory, the Mormon expedition, official and social life in Washington, D.C. and Portland, Maine, and his participation in Frémont's campaigns in Missouri, Virginia, and the Shenandoah Valley."}
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{"value"=>"Materials in English"}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p>Albert Tracy papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Tracy, Albert, 1818-1893", "type"=>"persname"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>Six series: I. Letters Received; II. Diaries; III. Military Papers; IV. Sketches; V. Clippings; VI. Patent</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
- altformavail
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{"value"=>"<p>Entire collection available on microfilm; New York Public Library; *ZL-426</p>"}
- bibliography
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{"value"=>"<p>Diaries, 1858-1860 published as \"The Utah War Journal of Capt. Albert Tracy, 1858-1860\" in Utah Historical Quarterly, Vol.13, Nos.1-4, 1945</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>Diary, 1861 Feb.4-Nov. 25 (incomplete) published as \"Missouri In Crisis,\" in Missouri Historical Review, Vol.51, Oct.1956-July 1957</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>Diary, 1862 Mar.-July published as \"Fremont's Pursuit of Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley; the journal of Colonel Albert Tracy, March-July, 1862\" in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol.70, Nos.2-3 (April and June, 1962)</p>"}
- extent_statement
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.5 linear feet (2 boxes); 1 microfilm reel
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Albert Tracy papers are arranged in six series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/3020#c1080736'>I. Letters received</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/3020#c1080737'>II. Diaries</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/3020#c1080738'>III. Military Papers</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/3020#c1080742'>IV. Sketches</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/3020#c1080745'>V. Clippings</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/3020#c1080746'>VI. Patent</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}