Civil War Manuscript Collection, 1860-1961

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Summary

Title:
Civil War Manuscript Collection
Dates:
1860-1961
Creators:
Abstract:
Extent:
(Boxes: 2 legal; 1/2 legal; 1 ov; 1 ov folder)
Language:
Preferred citation:

Civil War Manuscript Collection. Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

Background

Scope and content:

Union and Confederate items. Soldiers' letters, including one by a confederate soldier; documents, forms, newspapers, recruitment broadsides and ephemera. Includes contemporary ephemera about the Civil War. One 78 rpm record of the 39th annual convention of the Daughters of the Confederacy, 1939. See also P-117, Civil War Exhibit Collection; GC 1326, Abraham Lincoln Documents Collection

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid created by Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County staff.
Date Prepared:
1860-1961
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using Record Express for OAC5 on July 14, 2025, 2:55 p.m.

Access and use

Restrictions:

Research is by appointment only

Terms of access:

Permission to publish, quote or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder

Preferred citation:

Civil War Manuscript Collection. Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

Location of this collection:
900 Exposition Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90007-4057, US
Contact:
(213) 763-3359
seavercenter@nhm.org
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