- unitid
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{"value"=>"18819", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"MssCol 18819", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1861-1871", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1861/1871"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"United States Sanitary Commission records. Condensed historical matter"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"23 boxes, 87 volumes, 5 oversized folders", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"26.22 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Manuscripts and Archives</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Condensed Historical Matter contains the printed publications, graphics, photographs, maps and artifacts brought together by the USSC during post-war arrangements of its records, including some materials from the Medical Committee Archives."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"United States Sanitary Commission", "type"=>"corpname"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>Condensed Historical Matter contains the printed publications, graphics, photographs, maps and artifacts brought together by the USSC during post-war arrangements of its records, including some materials from the Medical Committee Archives.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The United States Sanitary Commission records. Condensed historical matter is arranged in ten series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/18819#c762797'>Monographs</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/18819#c762843'>Periodicals</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/18819#c762875'>Collected publications</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Items typically include printed reports, circulars and forms.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/18819#c762931'>Government documents</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/18819#c762957'>Photographs</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/18819#c763211'>Surgical photographs, prints and drawings</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/18819#c763261'>Graphics</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Illustrations from April 1864 newsweeklies concern the Metropolitan Fair.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/18819#c763293'>Maps</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/18819#c763324'>Documents</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/18819#c763327'>Artifacts</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Donated by the United States Sanitary Commission to the Astor Library, 1879</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Compiled by <span class=\"name\">Susan P. Waide, Joseph Lapinski and Jane Rothstein</span>, <span class=\"date\">2013</span></p><p>Revised <span class=\"date\">December 2013</span></p><p>The conservation, arrangement, and description of the collection was made possible by generous funding from the Robert W. Wilson Charitable Trust.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>Two archival groupings, Photographs in Portfolio (see Photographs) and Surgical Photographs, Prints and Drawings, were listed under one container number by the USSC. Individual items were later numbered 1-115 by Library staff.</p><p>Those item numbers are now represented by identical folder numbers in boxes 14 and 15; for oversize items separated into box 16, the item numbers are noted in their descriptions.</p><p>The photographs housed in Box 16, folder 11 (United States Sanitary Commission Hospital Car) and folder 12 (Howard Ambulance salt prints and pamphlet), were added to the first group during the 2010-2013 USSC Processing Project; they were not given item numbers.</p>"}
- accessrestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>Surrogates must be used when available.</p>"}
- sponsor
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{"value"=>"The conservation, arrangement, and description of the collection was made possible by generous funding from the Robert W. Wilson Charitable Trust."}
- revisiondesc
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{"value"=>"Revised by Susan P. Waide to accommodate digital images", "date"=>"2024-04-10"}
- date_start
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1861
- keydate
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1861
- date_end
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1871
- date_inclusive_start
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1861
- date_inclusive_end
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1871
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"United States Sanitary Commission records. Condensed historical matter, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library"}