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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Alfred Mason Badger papers, 1832-1863</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Badger, Alfred Mason</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1808-1868</namePart>
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  <typeOfResource collection="yes" manuscript="yes">mixed material</typeOfResource>
  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <abstract>Diary (1832-1836) documenting Badger's merchant and building contracting businesses in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., and Boston, Mass., and reflecting the growth of the nation's capital (1832-1833); letters from Badger to his family while on a trip in New England (1868); his obituary (1868); genealogies of the Badger family (1635-circa 1949), of the Beck family (1743-circa 1860), and of the Hamden family (1666-circa 1909); and a scrapbook of poems.  Also includes Civil War letters from Badger's son, Frank Appleton Badger, 140th New York Volunteers, and from his nephew, Hamlet F. Richardson, 108th New York Volunteers, and photographs of the two soldiers.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>In part, transcripts. [S.l.].</note>
  <note>Merchant and building contractor, of Georgetown, Washington, D.C., Boston, Mass., and Rochester, N.Y.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Badger, Frank Appleton</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1842-1864</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Richardson, Hamlet Faxon</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1842-</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Badger family</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Beck family</namePart>
    </name>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hamden family</namePart>
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      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Army.</namePart>
      <namePart>New York Infantry Regiment, 108th (1862-1865)</namePart>
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      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Army.</namePart>
      <namePart>New York Infantry Regiment, 140th (1862-1865)</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Construction industry</topic>
    <geographic>Washington (D.C.)</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Construction industry</topic>
    <geographic>Massachusetts</geographic>
    <geographic>Boston</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Genealogy</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Merchants</topic>
    <geographic>Washington (D.C.)</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Merchants</topic>
    <geographic>Massachusetts</geographic>
    <geographic>Boston</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Washington (D.C.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
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    <occupation>Contractors</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Merchants</occupation>
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  <identifier type="lccn">mm 79011528</identifier>
  <accessCondition type="restrictionOnAccess">Open to research.</accessCondition>
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