07016cpcaa2201045 4500 mm 79023945 DLC 20260227111655.0 cr ||||||||||| 790410|||||||||||| eng mm 79023945 ms 62004859 DLC dacs DLC DLC S lcmd Greely, A. W. (Adolphus Washington), 1844-1935. A.W. Greely papers, 1753-1959 (bulk 1880-1935). 46,000 items. 149 containers plus 3 oversize. 73.6 linear feet. Arranged in 11 series. Series 1: Personal File, 1864-1925; Series 2: Family Correspondence, 1851-1933; Series 3: Letters to Henrietta Hudson Cruger Nesmith Greely, 1878-1884; Series 4: General Correspondence, 1807-1939; Series 5: Letterbooks, 1887-1905; Series 6: Military Papers, 1863-1921; Series 7: Article, Book and Speech File, 1869-1927; Series 8: Miscellany, 1753-1959; Series 9: Scrapbooks, 1881-1935; and Series 10: Addition, 1826-1997; and Series 11: Oversize, 1753-1959. Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. Correspondence, letterbooks, memoranda, diaries, speeches, lectures, manuscripts and galley proofs of Greely's books and articles, notes, military papers, biographical material, Greely (Greeley) and Nesmith family papers, financial records, scrapbooks, clippings, printed matter, maps, memorabilia, and other papers relating primarily to his military career and exploration of the polar regions. Documents his service as a Civil War soldier; career in the U.S. Army Signal Corps; command of the U.S. Army's Dept. of the Columbia, Northern Division, and Pacific Division; leadership of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881-1884); direction of the construction of telegraph wire and cables worldwide; and supervision of relief work after the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906. Subjects include the development of Alaska, polar regions, radio, United States Civil Service Commission, U.S. government role in science, Ute Indian journey of 1906, and reorganization of the U.S. Weather Bureau. Includes Greely's Civil War diary (1864); Henrietta Hudson Cruger Nesmith Greely papers; and a journal kept by a mate on the schooner United States on the Hayes Arctic Expedition (1860-1861). Correspondents include Henry T. Allen, Roald Amundsen, Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Biederbick, Edward William Bok, David L. Brainard, William E. Chandler, Frank Moore Colby, Maurice Connell, Thomas A. Edison, Jesse Walter Fewkes, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, Minnie L. Gardiner, William A. Glassford, Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, William Babcock Hazen, S.P. Langley, Francis Long, Marchese Guglielmo Marconi, George W. Melville, William Mitchell, Robert E. Peary, Theodore Roosevelt, Charles Scribner, and William H. Taft. Photographs and prints transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Some maps transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division. Explorer, U.S. Army officer, and author. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010151 Allen, Henry T. (Henry Tureman), 1859-1930 Correspondence. Amundsen, Roald, 1872-1928 Correspondence. Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922 Correspondence. Biederbick, Henry, -1916 Correspondence. Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930 Correspondence. Brainard, David L. (David Legge), 1856-1946 Correspondence. Chandler, William E. (William Eaton), 1835-1917 Correspondence. Colby, Frank Moore, 1865-1925 Correspondence. Connell, Maurice Correspondence. Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931 Correspondence. Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930 Correspondence. Frelinghuysen, Frederick T. (Frederick Theodore), 1817-1885 Correspondence. Gardiner, Minnie L. Correspondence. Glassford, William A. (William Alexander) Correspondence. Grosvenor, Gilbert Hovey, 1875-1966 Correspondence. Hazen, William Babcock, 1830-1887 Correspondence. Langley, S. P. (Samuel Pierpont), 1834-1906 Correspondence. Long, Francis, -1916 Correspondence. Marconi, Guglielmo, marchese, 1874-1937 Correspondence. Melville, George W. (George Wallace), 1841-1912 Correspondence. Mitchell, William, 1879-1936 Correspondence. Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920 Correspondence. Scribner, Charles, 1854-1930 Correspondence. Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 Correspondence. Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930 Correspondence. Greeley family. United States. Army. Department of the Columbia. United States. Army. Northern Division. United States. Army. Pacific Division (1904-1911) United States. Army. Signal Corps. United States. Weather Bureau. United States Civil Service Commission. United States (Schooner) Hayes Arctic Expedition (1860-1861) Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881-1884) Disaster relief California San Francisco. Earthquakes California San Francisco. Fires California San Francisco. Radio. San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906. Science and state United States. Ship's papers 19th century. Telegraph. Ute Indians. Alaska History 1867-1959. Arctic regions Discovery and exploration. Polar regions Discovery and exploration. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865. Nesmith family. Army officers. itoamc Authors. itoamc Explorers. itoamc Greely, Henrietta Hudson Cruger Nesmith. Henrietta Hudson Cruger Nesmith Greely papers. 1878-1918. Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010151 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010151.3 42222 42222