Found 3 collections related to History%20--%20Research

John Edwin Bakeless (1894-1978) was an American author, historian, journalist, soldier, teacher, and amateur horticulturist. Collection contains manuscript and typescript drafts of Bakeless's writings; research notes and papers on military intelligence; general and family correspondence; and personal papers including diaries, scrapbooks and other miscellany. less

William Henry Waldo Sabine (1903- ), an English-born author and editor, emigrated to the U.S. in 1947 and became interested in the local history of Queens and the American colonial and revolutionary eras. Collection consists of papers relating to Sabine's historical projects and an autobiographical manuscript. Research materials concern Sabine's studies of William Smith (1728-1793), an American jurist and Loyalist; Nathaniel Woodhull (1722-1776), an American military officer killed in the Revolutionary War; and Robert Bayard (1739-1819). Also, Sabine's manuscript describing his perception of American social customs in Queens, New York, in the 1940s and 1950s (with photographs). less