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    <title>Field-Osgood family papers, 1702-1938 (bulk 1780-1930)</title>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, speeches and writings, household financial accounts, legal papers, genealogical material, printed matter, photographs, lithographs, and engravings chiefly dating from 1780 to 1930.  Includes personal financial papers of Samuel and Maria Bowne Franklin Osgood; correspondence (1814-1821) of Susan K. Osgood Field with her sisters living near Troy, N.Y., and Andover, Mass., and with a cousin in Charleston, S.C., reflecting everyday life of young women in the nineteenth century; sermons of David Osgood (1747-1822), brother of Samuel Osgood; manumission papers from New York State and a letter of Maria Bowne Franklin Osgood concerning her obligations to Chloe Field, an African American woman; letter (1846) from poet Robert Browning to Hickson Woolman Field; and papers (1917-1919) of William B. Osgood Field relating to World War I aerial photography, the U.S. Army Signal Corps, and the Military Intelligence Division, U.S. War Dept.; and papers of the related Bradhurst family.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Field-Osgood family pictorial material located in Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.</note>
  <note>Family members include Samuel Osgood (1748-1813), member of the Continental Congress and U.S. Board of Treasury, first U.S. postmaster general, and New York State legislator; his wife, Maria Bowne Franklin Osgood; their daughter, Susan K. Osgood Field; and their descendants.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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      <namePart>Browning, Robert</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1812-1889</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Field, Chloe</namePart>
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      <namePart>Field, Hickson W. (Hickson Woolman)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1823-</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Field, William B. Osgood</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Osgood, David</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1747-1822</namePart>
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      <namePart>Bradhurst family</namePart>
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      <namePart>Signal Corps.</namePart>
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      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Board of Treasury.</namePart>
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    <topic>Sermons, American</topic>
    <temporal>18th century</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Slaves</topic>
    <topic>Emancipation</topic>
    <geographic>New York (State)</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>World War, 1914-1918</topic>
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    <topic>World War, 1914-1918</topic>
    <topic>Photography</topic>
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    <topic>Young women</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <temporal>19th century</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Andover (Mass.)</geographic>
    <topic>Social life and customs</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Charleston (S.C,)</geographic>
    <topic>Social life and customs</topic>
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    <geographic>New York (State)</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>1775-1865</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Troy (N.Y.)</geographic>
    <topic>Social life and customs</topic>
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      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Postmaster General.</namePart>
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      <title>Maria Bowne Franklin Osgood papers</title>
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      <namePart>Osgood, Maria Bowne Franklin.</namePart>
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      <title>Samuel Osgood papers</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Osgood, Samuel,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1748-1813</namePart>
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