Browse William L. Clements Library Finding Aids

Browse by:

Title

There are 2806 items in this collection

Browsing Titles starting with O.

Collection Title	Additional Information
John M. O'Connor papers -- 1810-1826	Creator: William L. Clements Library Extent: 1 linear foot Abstract: The John M. O'Connor papers contain correspondence, documents, and miscellany relating to O'Connor's military career (including the War of 1812), translation work, and political involvement.
Oberlin College carte-de-visite album -- [ca. 1860-1870s]	Creator: Anonymous Extent: 1 volume Abstract: The Oberlin College carte-de-visite album contains formal studio portraits of professors and students associated with the college in the middle to late 19th century.
Ocean House scrapbook and register -- 1895	Creator: Ocean House (Hotel : Old Orchard, Me.) Extent: 1 volume Abstract: The Ocean House scrapbook and register is a repurposed guestbook from the Ocean House hotel in Old Orchard, Maine. The volume has a manuscript inventory of the hotel's furnishings and pasted-in newspaper clippings about Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and local political meetings.
Ogden family papers -- 1790s-1850s	Creator: Ogden family Extent: 16 linear feet Abstract: The Ogden family papers consist of letters and legal documents related to members of the Ogden family of New York State, particularly David A. Ogden, Thomas L. Ogden, and Gouverneur Ogden.
David Ogden notebooks -- 1812-1848	Creator: Ogden, David L. (David Longworth), 1792-1863 Extent: 5 volumes Abstract: This collection is made up of five notebooks and diaries that Reverend David Longworth Ogden kept between 1812 and 1848. They concern intellectual debates, political and religious topics, and Ogden's life as a preacher in Whitesboro, New York, and Marlborough, Massachusetts.
Sarah and Edward Ogden travel diaries -- 1886-1908	Creator: Ogden, Sarah, b. 1831 and Ogden, Edward, b. 1832 Extent: 9 volumes Abstract: The Ogden collection consists of diaries written by Sarah and Edward Ogden detailing trips to places in Europe, Russia, the United States and Mexico from the years 1886 to 1908.
Ohio Bookseller's diary -- 1869	Creator: Anonymous Extent: 1 volume Abstract: The Ohio Bookseller's diary chronicles the experiences of a travelling book salesman in southwestern Ohio during the early months of 1869. He also recorded accounts, poetry, and quotations throughout the year.
Oklahoma Homesteader's photograph album -- [ca. 1889]	Creator: Anonymous Extent: 1 volume Abstract: The Oklahoma Homesteader's photograph album contains pictures of ranch or homestead buildings, cowboys, and Native Americans in an unidentified prairie region in the late 19th century. Some of the Native Americans posed with guns and white soldiers, and one group wore military uniforms. Two items are photographs of watercolor paintings.
Phyllis Okoniewski collection -- 1941-1945 (bulk 1942-1945)	Creator: Szymczak, Phyllis Okoniewski, b. ca. 1926 and Szymczak, Richard, 1921-1999 Extent: 0.75 linear feet Abstract: This collection is made up of letters that Phyllis Okoniewski of Buffalo, New York, wrote and received during World War II. She corresponded with servicemen in multiple branches of the United States Armed Forces during the early years of the war, and wrote over 150 letters to her future husband, Richard J. Szymczak, from September 1943-May 1945.
Olcott family papers -- 1819-1915 (bulk 1870-1898)	Creator: Olcott, George H., 1818-1897 and Olcott, S. Adelaide Extent: 91 items (0.25 linear feet) Abstract: The Olcott family papers consist of incoming correspondence, receipts and advertising flyers to George H. Olcott or his daughter Adelaide Olcott. While much of the correspondence entails discussions of current and local news and family matters, "the Olcott House," the family's hotel business in Wurtsboro, New York, is central to the correspondence.
Olean (N.Y.) cabinet card and carte de visite album -- ca. 1860-1903	Creator: Anonymous Extent: 1 volume Abstract: The Olean (N.Y.) cabinet card and carte de visite album contains 3 cabinet cards from ca. 1880s and 12 cartes de visite from ca. 1860s. The album likely dates to ca. 1880s.
Jenny Olin papers -- 1898-1911	Creator: Olin, Jenny, 1867-1911 Extent: 39 items and 8 photographs Abstract: Jenny Olin taught at a mission school on Kusaie, one of the Caroline Islands in the South Pacific. Her letters home to her friends describe her life and work with the girls in the mission school and the Kusaie natives who lived and worked with her.
Oliver (schooner) collection -- 1776	Creator: Dishon, John and Buckley, Joseph Extent: 16 items Abstract: This collection is made up of 16 documents and financial records pertaining to the schooner Oliver Burden (or Oliver). John Dishon leased the ship from Joseph Bulkley of Wethersfield, Connecticut, for a voyage to the West Indies in 1776.
Edward P. and Homer J. Oliver letters -- 1915-1918	Creator: Oliver, Elizabeth E. Extent: 10 items Abstract: This collection consists of letters that brothers Edward P. and Homer J. Oliver, originally of Utica, New York, wrote to their mother, Elizabeth E. Oliver, in the mid- to late 1910s. Edward P. Oliver wrote about his experiences on the USS Wyoming from August 1915-July 1917, and Homer J. Oliver wrote about his service with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in France and Belgium from January 1918-November 1918.
Frederic S. Olmsted journal -- 1863, 1889 (bulk 1863)	Creator: Olmsted, Frederic S., b. 1837 Extent: 1 volume Abstract: Frederic Olmsted’s pocket journal contains brief, almost daily entries of his life in the Union Army from January 1, 1863, to September 5, 1863. During this time, he was assigned the task of overseeing slaves on several Louisiana sugar plantations. Olmsted was taken as a prisoner of war at Brashear, Louisiana, after which he spent several weeks on Ship Island (as a parolee) before returning home to Connecticut in August 1863.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Bethlehem Steel Corporation Field Trip Collection -- 1969	Creator: Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1929-1994 Extent: 26 items Abstract: This collection consists of two letters from Jacqueline Onassis to Douglas Mansell, thanking him for the 4th grade field trip he led at the Bethlehem Steel Corporation's shipyard in Hoboken, New Jersey. In one letter, she enclosed 19 handwritten reflections by the students about the shipyard visit. The field trip was for Onassis's son, John F. Kennedy, Jr., and his class at the Collegiate School for Boys in New York. Five photographs depicting the class and their chaperones at the shipyard, featuring Onassis and her son, accompany the correspondence.
Ontario (Sloop of war) journal -- 1829-1831	Creator: Anonymous Extent: 1 volume Abstract: This deck log for the sloop of war Ontario (1,004 pages), commander Thomas Holdup Stevens, contains daily information on the weather, ship location, movement and response to the weather, crew activities, sicknesses, and out-of-the-ordinary events, while serving in the Mediterranean Squadron. Also recorded in the volume are 28 port stops, the most frequent at Mahon and Gibraltar, for ship repairs, delivery of specie and other items, transport of diplomats, demonstrations of amity, and other purposes.
Ontario carte-de-visite album -- 1865-1869	Creator: Anonymous Extent: 1 volume Abstract: The Ontario carte-de-visite album contains formal portrait photographs of men, women, and children, including members of the compiler's family. Many of the photographs were taken in southern Ontario cities such as Brantford, Simcoe, and Woodstock.
Henry Fairfield Osborn papers -- 1879-1885	Creator: Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 Extent: 14 letters and 2 photograph albums Abstract: The Henry Fairfield Osborn collection contains the papers of the noted biologist, paleontologist, and president of the American Museum of Natural History. This includes correspondence, both professional and personal, and two photograph albums from trips to Russia and Colorado.
Henry Fairfield Osborn photograph albums -- 1898-1899	Creator: Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 Extent: 2 volumes Abstract: The Henry Fairfield Osborn photograph albums contain pictures taken during a visit to Germany and Russia in 1898 and while camping in Colorado in 1899.
John Osborn Santo Tomas internment transcriptions -- 1945	Creator: Osborn, John W. Extent: 18 pages Abstract: The John Osborn Santo Tomas internment transcriptions are typed copies of letters that Osborn wrote from Manila, Philippine Islands, between February and April 1945. He described life in the city after Manila's liberation by the US Army and in the Santo Tomas internment camp, where he had been imprisoned during the war.
Sophronia Osborn family letters -- 1827-1845	Creator: Osborn, Sophronia Woodward Extent: 30 items Abstract: The Sophronia Osborn family papers consist of letters that Osborn wrote to her husband Elijah, a traveling dentist in Georgia and Alabama, and additional correspondence from the couple's friends and family members in Connecticut and New York.
Thomas and Daniel Osborn family papers -- 1737-1885 (bulk 1836-1852)	Creator: Osborn family Extent: 0.25 linear feet Abstract: The Thomas and Daniel Osborn family papers contain correspondence and documents related to the ancestors and descendants of Yale graduate Daniel Osborn of Cutchogue, New York. The items primarily concern his son Thomas Osborn, a doctor in Riverhead, New York, and his grandson Thomas Gilbert Osborn, a Methodist Episcopal minister in New York and Connecticut. The materials pertain to family relationships and news, religion, property, family history, and other subjects.
Ost family photograph album -- ca. 1920-1930	Creator: Ost, Gerard, 1908-1992 Extent: 1 volume Abstract: The Ost family photograph album (17.8 x 22.8 cm) contains approximately 60 portrait snapshots, including some taken at Belle Isle in Detroit, Michigan. There are several images of people wearing and holding the flag of the United States.
Lillian Ostrand papers -- 1944-1995 (bulk 1944-1945)	Creator: Ostrand, Lillian G., 1915-2007 Extent: 0.5 linear feet Abstract: This collection contains correspondence, photographs, and printed items pertaining to Lillian G. Ostrand, who was a United States Army nurse with the 123rd General Hospital in England from 1944-1945. In letters to her parents and brother, she described many aspects of life in wartime England. Other items are an early-20th century diary kept by her father Andrew and a memoir by Thomas J. Glennon, who also served with the 123rd General Hospital.
Richard Oswald collection -- 1779-1783	Creator: William L. Clements Library Extent: 6 items Abstract: The Richard Oswald collection contains three of Oswald's memoranda ("Plans for Russian Conquest of the North-West Coast--1781," "London, 9th August 1779--General Observations, Relative to the Present State of the War," and "Supplement to the Papers of August 1779 Relative to the State of the Present War") and three letters to and from Oswald concerning the Revolutionary War.
Otis family papers -- 1861-1862	Creator: Otis family Extent: 40 items Abstract: The Otis family papers contain letters home from four members of the 57th Pennsylvania Infantry, describing camp life, the battles of Williamsburg and Fair Oaks, and the hardships of war.
Ott family letters -- 1911-1914	Creator: Ott family Extent: 20 items Abstract: The Ott family letters are made up of correspondence between Emil and Ida Ott of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and their son Harvey, who lived in Madison, Wisconsin, in the early 1910s. Most of the letters concern Emil and Ida Ott's travels to Egypt and Central Europe in 1911.
John Otto typescript -- [ca. 1902]	Creator: Otto, John Henry, 1822-1908 Extent: 646 pages Abstract: This typescript contains John Henry Otto's detailed recollections about his service in the 21st Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, Company D, during the Civil War.
Walley Chamberlain Oulton, The Sleep Walker, or, Which is the Lady? -- Undated	Creator: Anonymous Extent: 1 volume Abstract: This volume contains excerpts from Walley Chamberlain Oulton's 1812 play The Sleep Walker, or, Which is the Lady?, as well as excerpts from the works of Shakespeare and other sources.
Our Generals -- 1862	Creator: Leavitt & Allen Extent: 1 volume Abstract: "Our Generals" is a lithograph album (17 x 13.25 cm) consisting of 24 gray-toned lithograph carte de visite sized portraits of Union Civil War generals sold commercially by Leavitt & Allen of New York in 1862.
Our National Ball Game [board game] -- ca. 1887	Creator: McGill & Delany Extent: 1 box Abstract: Our National Ball Game is a foldable game board with two dice, eight counters, and instructions on how to play this board game version of baseball.