Women’s Views on the Civil War

Our processing work for the Digital Center for Americana pilot project is winding down. Over the last year, we’ve processed, conserved, described, and selectively digitized 51 collections at HSP that have ties to the Civil War. We worked on the papers of President James Buchanan, Treasury Secretary and Supreme Court Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, [...]

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Dueling for honor

I’ve been working on processing a collection of Wister family papers – now known as the Wister and Butler families papers (collection #1962) – that contain papers of Pierce Butler, his former wife Frances Anne (Fanny) Kemble, their daughters Sarah Butler Wister and Frances Butler Leigh, and many other family members. Pierce Butler is perhaps [...]

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What’s in the box?

Just a typical document box? Not so! From the Wister Family Papers, this box contained journals and record books belonging to Sarah Butler Wister from the late 1800s. Each volume received a custom-made enclosure using acid-free corrugated board or library board.

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