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    <title>U.S. Coast Guard. Historian's Office collection, 1746-1951 (bulk 1800-1900)</title>
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    <namePart>United States</namePart>
    <namePart>Coast Guard.</namePart>
    <namePart>Historian's Office.</namePart>
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    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">jap</languageTerm>
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  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>350</extent>
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  <abstract>Autograph collection; account books of general merchant, Ebenezer Smith; draft, typescript, and galley proofs of Our Coast Guard Academy: A History and Guide by Riley Hughes, published in 1944; and miscellaneous papers.  The autograph collection, compiled by William Ferguson Morgan, consists of the autographs of presidents James Buchanan, Grover A. Cleveland, Millard Fillmore, Ulysses S. Grant, Herbert Hoover, James Monroe, James K. Polk, and Martin Van Buren, and other leading figures in politics, business, the military, and the arts.  Includes a letter dated 1846 from Henry Clay regarding the death of his son.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Posters transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English and Japanese.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007029">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007029</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Buchanan, James</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1791-1868</namePart>
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    <topic>Autographs</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Clay, Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1777-1852</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Cleveland, Grover</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1837-1908</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Fillmore, Millard</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1800-1874</namePart>
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    <topic>Autographs</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1822-1885</namePart>
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    <topic>Autographs</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hoover, Herbert</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1874-1964</namePart>
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    <topic>Autographs</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Monroe, James</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1758-1831</namePart>
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    <topic>Autographs</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Polk, James K. (James Knox)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1795-1849</namePart>
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    <topic>Autographs</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Van Buren, Martin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1782-1862</namePart>
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    <topic>Autographs</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Arts</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Autographs</topic>
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    <topic>Businesspeople</topic>
    <topic>Autographs</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Politicians</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Presidents</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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      <title>Ebenezer Smith account books. 1797-1840</title>
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      <namePart>Smith, Ebenezer,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">active 1797-1840</namePart>
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