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Harold L. Ickes* (1874-1952), Papers of, 1815-1969, bulk: 1933-1951. Harold LeClair Ickes*: University of Chicago, B.A., 1897, Ll.D., 1907; practiced Chicago IL; Republican who campaigned, 1912, for Theodore Roosevelt, Progressive Party, and, 1932, for Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democrat; U.S. Secretary of the Interior, 1933-46; columnist, New Republic (1946-52); The Autobiography of a Curmudgeon (1943), and Secret Diary (3 v., 1953-54). “Correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, family papers, legal and financial records, subject files, scrapbooks, and other papers documenting Ickes's service in the Interior Department, Progressive Party politics, presidential election campaigns, 1916-1948, the Franklin D. Roosevelt cabinet, Illinois state politics, municipal reform, Ickes's law practice, conservation, Indian affairs, Japanese-Americans during World War II, Puerto Rico, oil policy, and the Arabian-American Oil Company. Individuals represented include Oscar L. Chapman, James M. Cox, Paul Howard Douglas, James Aloysius Farley, James Rudolph Garfield, Will H. Hays, Charles Evans Hughes, Samuel Insull, Hiram Johnson, Lyndon B. Johnson, Frank Knox, Henry Morgenthau, Gifford Pinchot, Donald R. Richberg, Raymond Robins, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Karl D. Vittum, Henry Agard Wallace, and William Allen White.” Letterbooks, 1905-12 (1 box); Chicago files, 1906-20 (5 boxes); financial papers, 1907-20 (1 box); legal files, Chicago, 1899-1920 (7 boxes). Jesse H. Jones* (1874-1956), Papers of, 1916-1960, bulk: 1926-1945. Jesse Holman Jones*: Family lumber business: manager, Dallas, and general manager, Houston TX, 1895-1905; established, 1904, Jesse H. Jones Lumber Company; developed and built in central Houston, 1910-30, major office buildings; purchased and published, Houston Chronicle; president, National Bank of Commerce and Bankers Mortgage Company; financed a new convention center and helped obtain for Houston the Democratic National Convention, 1928; Director, 1932-45, Reconstruction Finance Corporation; U.S. Commerce Secretary, 1940-45. “Correspondence, MSS. of speeches, reports, Congressional releases, subject file, newspaper clippings including bound volumes documenting all phases of Jones' career, and other printed material. Correspondence relates chiefly to his government service. Correspondents include Presidents Wilson, Hoover, Franklyn D. Roosevelt, and members of their cabinets.” Subject file and clippings, 1916-20 (1 box). Frank Knox* (1874-1944), Papers of, 1898-1954 (3/19). William Franklin Knox*: Alma MI College; U.S. Army: Private, 1st Volunteer Cavalry (Rough Riders), Cuba, 1898, and Major, Calvary, AEF, 1917-19; reporter, editor, 1898-1900, Grand Rapids MI Herald; publisher, 1901-12, Sault Ste Marie MI Weekly News; publisher, 1912-13, Manchester NH Leader; supported Theodore Roosevelt, Progressive Party, 1912; publisher, 1913-44, Manchester NH Union and Leader; General Manager, 1928-31, Hearst Papers; publisher, 1931-44, Chicago Daily News. “Correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and miscellany” relating to Knox's early military service, his publishing career, Progressive and Republican politics, and his work as U.S. Navy Secretary during World War II. “Includes Papers, 1934-1954, of Knox's wife, Annie Reid* (1876-1958). Correspondents include Chiang Kai-shek, Calvin Coolidge, Henry Ford, James Forrestal, Felix Frankfurter, Cordell Hull, Harold Ickes, Walter Lippmann, George Marshall, John Adam Muehling, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Arthur Vandenberg, William Allen White, and Wendell Willkie.” Frank Ross McCoy* (1874-1954), 1847-1957, bulk: 1892-1954. Son of Brevet Brigadeer General Thomas Franklin McCoy. U.S. Military Academy, 1897; Wounded, Cuba, San Juan Hill with 10th Calvary (Negro); Aide-de-Camp to Major General Leonard Wood; protégé of Wood and aide to Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft; AEF, temporary Major General and commanded 63rd Infantry Brigade; Philippines, 1921; later, several diplomatic posts and President, 1939, Foreign Policy Association. “General and family correspondence, diaries, military and subject files, notebooks, dispatch books, speeches and writings, financial papers, scrapbooks, and miscellaneous material pertaining to Philippine affairs, the Isthmian Canal route, 1912-13, the American Relief Mission, earthquake, 1923, Tokyo, Japan; the Lytton Commission, League of Nations, 1931-32 (investigation of Japanese invasion of Manchuria); and the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association. Correspondents include W. Cameron Forbes, James G. Harbord, George C. Marshall, Matthew B. Ridgway, Theodore Roosevelt, Hugh L. Scott, Henry L. Stimson, and Leonard Wood.” Notebooks and dispatch books, 1903-05 (1 box); family letters, 1896-1920 (4 boxes); general letters, 1896-1920 (8 boxes); subject files: AEF (2 boxes), Philippines (2 boxes). 1875+ George Sabin Gibbs* (1875-1947), Papers of, 1896-1947. Iowa State University, 1897 and M.S., Engineering, 1901; Private, Iowa Volunteers, 1898, Sergeant, First Lieutenant, and Signal Officer: Philippines, 1898-1900; American occupation of Cuba, 1907-09; Hawaii, 1913-15; Assistant Chief Signal Officer, AEF, 1917-19; War Department General Staff, 1920-21; Major General and Chief, 1928-31, of Signal Corps; Vice President, International Telephone and Telegraph Company; President, Postal Telegraph Cable Company; Director, Vice Chair of the Board, Federal Telephone and Radio Corporation. “Correspondence, field notebook, 1898-1899, telegrams, reports, memoranda, military records, clippings, printed material, and other papers chiefly concerning Gibbs's military career,” and his later work as an executive in the communications industry. Correspondents include Sosthenes Behn, Dwight Filley Davis, Adolphus W. Greely, William Mitchell, Edgar Russel, and Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright.” William D. Leahy* (1875-1959), Papers of, 1897-1959. William Daniel Leahy*: U.S. Naval Academy, 1897, and Instructor, 1907-09, Physics and Chemistry; Santiago, Cuba, 1898; Philippines and Boxer Rebellion, China, 1899-1902; Nicaragua, 1912; Turkey and Greece, 1921; Rear Admiral and Chief, 1927-1931, Ordnance Bureau; Commander, 1931-33, Destroyer Scouting Force; Chief, 1933-35, Navigation Bureau; memoir: I Was There: The Personal Story of the Chief of Staff to Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, Based on His Notes and Diaries Made at the Time (1950). Diaries, 1897-1956, correspondence, scrapbooks, 1936-1959, documents, photographs, and other papers relating to Leahy's personal life and to his naval career. Includes correspondence, 1948-1950, and production materials relating to the publication of Leahy's book. Correspondents include Bernard M. Baruch, François Darlan, Joseph C. Grew, Cordell Hull, George C. Marshall, Philippe Pétain, Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, and Sumner Welles.” Diary, 1897-1931 (1 v.). Raymond G. Carroll* (1876?-1943), Papers of, 1905-1935 (3/22). Journalist; foreign correspondent for several American newspapers: 1915, Mexico; 1916, South America; 1917-18, AEF; 1919, Paris; in London, 1918-20, for Philadelphia Public Ledger. “Chiefly scrapbooks of clippings, mostly of Carroll's articles. Includes some correspondence, 1905-34, and other items.” George Creel* (1876-1953), Papers of, 1857-1953, bulk: 1896-1953. Editor, 1899-1909, Kansas City Independent; editorial writer, 1909-13, Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News; columnist, Collier's; Denver police commissioner who appointed, 1912, Josephine Aspinwall Roche, policewoman and probation officer, to combat prostitution; commissioner, Golden Gate International Exposition; lecturer, author. “Scrapbooks and bound volumes of writings by and about Creel form the bulk of the collection. Includes correspondence, notes, speeches, lectures, book reviews, an unpublished MS., ‘Liberty Bells.’ . . . A series,” 1917-19, (3 boxes) “on Woodrow Wilson and the U.S. Committee on Public Information contains correspondence with Wilson as well as his corrections of drafts of Creel's cables, letters, speeches, and other writings relating to the Wilson administration during World War I and subsequent peace negotiations. Includes a manuscript of Wilson's Fourteen Points, speech of Jan. 8, 1918, bearing corrections and revisions in the president's hand. Subjects include Russia and the Russian revolution, African Americans during World War I, air power and aircraft production, the teaching of the German language in American schools, Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference, the Versailles Treaty, world peace and the League of Nations, friction between Creel and the U.S. Department. of State, America's postwar problems, national politics, . . . and women's rights. Also documents . . . his activities as an amateur athlete in Kansas City and Denver and his marriage to Blanche Bates. Correspondents or individuals discussed include Bernard M. Baruch, Randolph Bolling, Harry Flood Byrd, Josephus Daniels, Joseph Edward Davies, George Dewey, Robert Donner, James Aloysius Farley, Garet Garrett, Carter Glass, Jr., Samuel Gompers, Henry Hazlitt, Herbert Hoover, Robert Houghwout Jackson, Robert H. Kelley, William F. Knowland, Arthur Bliss Lane, Robert Lansing, Breckinridge Long, William Gibbs McAdoo, Joseph McCarthy, Raymond Moley, Thomas J. Mooney, Felix M. Morley, Karl E. Mundt, Richard M. Nixon, Kathleen Thompson Norris, Walter Hines Page, J. Westbrook Pegler, Donald R. Richberg, Robert A. Taft, Lowell Thomas, Albert C. Wedemeyer, Burton K. Wheeler, and Edith Bolling Galt Wilson.” Joseph Edward Davies* (1876-1958), Papers of, 1850-1957, bulk: 1936-1955. Wisconsin States Attorney, 1902-06; chair, 1912, Western Headquarters, Democratic Party; U.S. Commissioner of Corporations, 1913-15; Chair, 1915-16, Federal Trade Commission; economic advisor, 1919, Paris Peace Conference. “Family papers, diaries, journals, correspondence, memoranda, subject files, newspaper diaries, and mss. of articles, books, and speeches relating chiefly to foreign affairs” after 1935. “Correspondents include Bernard M. Baruch, Lord Beaverbrook(Max Aitken), James Francis Byrnes, Sir Winston Churchill, Homer S. Cummings, Josephus Daniels, Stephen T. Early, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Felix Frankfurter, Joseph C. Grew, Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, the Earl of Halifax (Edward Frederick Lindley Wood), Loy W. Henderson, Harry Lloyd Hopkins, Cordell Hull, Arthur Krock, Oskar Lange, George C. Marshall, Marvin Hunter McIntyre, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov, Henry Morgenthau, N. V. Novikov, Key Pittman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Samuel Irving Rosenman, Edward R. Stettinius, Harry S. Truman, Millard E. Tydings, Fred M. Vinson, Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky, Sumner Welles, and Harry Morris Warner.” Family and personal file, 1860-1941 (2 boxes); speeches and articles, some 1915-1917 (2 boxes). B. W. Huebsch* (1876-1964), Papers of, 1893-1964. Benjamin W. Huebsch*: publisher, 1900-24; member, 1915-16, Ford Peace Plan Commission; publisher, 1920-24, Freeman; combined his press with Viking, 1924, and became vice-president and general editor; author: Busman's Holiday: "What, Exactly, Do Publishers Do?" Chiefly correspondence reflecting Huebsch's thoughts on literature and to his career as a publisher under his own imprint, B.W. Huebsch, and after its merger with Viking Press, at that publishing house until 1964. Also documents his publication of the liberal weekly Freeman and his connection with such organizations as the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association of Book Publishers. Also includes a diary, 1926-1961, articles and speeches by Huebsch, literary MSS., notebooks, 1893-1940, containing advertisements for the B.W. Huebsch publishing house, the autograph collection of musical personalities belonging to Sam Franko* and other papers. Correspondents include Sherwood Anderson, Van Wyck Brooks, Theodore Dreiser, Irwin Edman, Lion Feuchtwanger, Sam Franko, Rumer Godden, Daniel A. Huebsch, Harold Joseph Laski, D. H. Lawrence, William Ellery Leonard, Roger Martin du Gard, Francis Neilson, Albert Jay Nock, Walter Pach, Bertrand Russell, Siegfried Sassoon, Upton Sinclair, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Franz Werfel, Patrick White, and Stefan Zweig.” Letters, 1893-1964, arranged alphabetically (32 boxes); notebooks, 1893-1921, 6 boxes. John Adams Kingsbury*(1876-1956), Papers of, 1841-1966, bulk: 1906-1939 (83/165). Teacher, Principal, 1897-1901, and Superintendent, 1901-04, Prosser WA; Principal, 1904-07, Seattle WA; University of Washington, Columbia University Teachers College, 1908; Assistant Secretary, 1907-11, New York State Charities Aid Association; General Director, 1911-14, New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor; Commissioner of Public Charities of New York City, 1914-18, administration of Mayor John Purroy Mitchel; Assistant Director of General Relief, American Red Cross, France, 1918-19; active and an official, 1921-35, private humanitarian organizations; author: Red Medicine: Socialized Health in Soviet Russia (1933), Health in Handcuffs (1939). “Correspondence, journals and diaries, family papers, autobiographical material, travel notes, MSS. of and other material relating to Kingsbury's books, speeches and articles, news releases, legal and financial papers, newspaper clippings, and memorabilia. Kingsbury's professional papers, 1907-1939, including correspondence, financial papers, reports, and other business records” relate almost entirely to his work through 1919. “Topics include agriculture, American-Soviet and American-Yugoslav relations, astronomy, Chinese life and culture, Eastern European relief efforts, group health insurance, multiple sclerosis, mushrooms, public health in America and the Soviet Union, socialist societies, socialized medicine, travel, tuberculosis, unemployment, venereal disease, war relief, welfare, and world peace. Correspondents include Jane Addams, Alexander Graham Bell, Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Charles C. Burlingham, Bailey B. Burritt, Mary E. Dreier, Paul De Kruif, Albert Einstein, Homer Folks, Harry Lloyd Hopkins, Elbert Hubbard, Charles Evans Hughes, Harold L. Ickes, Walter Lippmann, Jack London, Henry Morgenthau, Sir Arthur Newsholme, Frances Perkins, Gifford Pinchot, Jacob A. Riis, Raymond Robins, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, and William Henry Welch.” Finding Aid Online, files arranged alphabetically and chronologically within folders: professional general letters, mainly 1907-17, (18 boxes); personal letters, including financial matters and student letters, mainly 1895-1918, (16 boxes); writings file, 1904-17 (3 boxes); miscellany, 1908-17, including diary, 1908 (3 boxes); professional files: American Red Cross, 1917-19 (11 boxes), Milbank Memorial Fund, 1918-35 (5 boxes), America-Yugoslav Society, 1920-30 (4 boxes); autobiographical material (4 boxes); personal financial papers, 1904-60 (6 boxes); family letters, including financial, legal papers, mainly 1909-35 (7 boxes); general letters, friends, mainly 1909-35 (3 boxes); professional subject file: New York charities, 1909-17 (2 boxes), Progressive Party, 1912-15 (1 box). Anthropology: MSS, 1948 (2 items). A. L. Kroeber* (1876-1960), Alfred Lewis Kroeber*: Professor, Curator, 1901-25, Anthropological Museum, University of California; expeditions: New Mexico, 1899-1901, and Mexico, 1915-20; author: Arapaho Dialects (1916); Indians of Yosemite: Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921), and others. Notes and MSS. drafts of books (3 boxes). Alessandro Fabbri* (1877-1922), Papers of, 1917-1922 (3/3). Yachtsman and owner of an amateur radio station who, because of his knowledge, experience, and his comparatively advanced equipment, joined, together with his yacht and shore facilities, the Naval Reserve in order to pursue research in wireless communication. “Correspondence, biographical material, memorabilia, and photographs. Letters relate to Fabbri's service as officer in charge of the radio station at Otter Cliffs, Bar Harbor ME, during World War I, and hence contributes to the early history of transatlantic radio communication. One item is described as the original wireless message from the German Government received at Otter Cliffs, Nov. 10, 1918 ,the day before the Armistice, asking for mitigation of conditions imposed by the Allies. Includes correspondence of Samuel C. Hooper.” Samuel Guy Inman* (1877-1965), 1901-1965, bulk: 1920-1965. Add-Ran Christian University (later, Texas Christian University), Kentucky University (later, Transylvania College), Columbia University, B.A., 1904 and M.A., 1923; assistant pastor, 1901, New York City, and pastor, 1904, Fort Worth TX, Disciples of Christ; began, 1905, missionary endeavors in Latin America; helped found, 1908, El Instituto del Puebla in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico and, 1913, Mexican Christian Institute (later, Inman Christian Center); helped found schools throughout Latin America and coordinate often divergent Protestant Christian missionary efforts; helped found and Executive Secretary, 1915-39, Committee on Cooperation with Latin America and, from 1920, edited its monthly, La Nueva Democracia; delegate, 1923, Fifth Pan American Conference, Santiago, and subsequent Conferences; Professor, 1937-42, University of Pennsylvania and lecturer, Yale University, among others; member, Church Peace Union; author: Intervention in Mexico (1919), A History of Latin America for Schools (1945), The Rise and Fall of the Good Neighbor Policy (1957), and others. “Correspondence, diaries, MSS. of books and articles, subject files, notebooks, scrapbooks, clippings, memorabilia, and photographs relating primarily to Latin America. Topics include clericalism, education, inter-American relations, international law, labor, literature, and politics and government. Correspondents include Dean G. Acheson, Willard F. Barber, William E. Borah, Nicholas Murray Butler, Manuel Avila Camacho, Cordell Hull, Edward G. Miller, Jr., Palmer E. Pierce, Dean Rusk, Ellery Sedgwick, Harry S. Truman, and Sumner Welles.” Diaries, 1905-28, (1 box); notebooks (5 boxes); letters, 1901-20 (3 boxes); subject files, arranged alphabetically (29 boxes); clippings, mainly New York, 1900-04 (1 box). Dudley Wright Knox* (1877-1960), ca. 1864-1950, bulk: 1921-1946. U.S. Naval Academy, 1896; blockade of Cuba, 1898; Philippines and Boxer Rebellion, China, 1899-1901; “White Fleet,” 1907-09; Naval Intelligence, 1914-16; Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 1916-17; naval staff, historian, and Captain, London, England, 1917-19; Director, 1921-46, U.S. Office of Naval Records and Library; Secretary, 1926-46, Naval Historical Foundation; author: The Eclipse of American Sea Power (1922); A History of the United States Navy (1936), and others. Correspondence, subject files, speeches, articles, book file, printed matter, newspaper clippings, and other material relating to Knox's activities at the U.S. Office of Naval Records and Library and Naval Historical Foundation, and as an author of books and articles on naval affairs. The papers document Knox's views on international naval limitation conferences, naval aviation, the revival of a strong merchant marine, naval readiness, relations with East Asia, foreign trade, and national defense. Includes typescripts and letters, reviews, and clippings relating to Knox's History. Also includes photocopies of correspondence, memoranda, and other documents pertaining to efforts by Knox and President Franklin D. Roosevelt to publish naval records concerning American wars. Chief correspondent is Thomas Goddard Frothingham,” author of A Guide to the Military History of the World War, 1914-1918 (1920), The Naval History of the World War (3 v., 1924-26); and others. “Other correspondents include J. H. Adams, John V. Babcock, Earle Henry Balch, Harry Alexander Baldridge, Hanson Weightman Baldwin, James Phinney Baxter, Charles Bittinger, Wilson Brown, Howard G. Brownson, Willard H. Brownson, Raymond Leslie Buell, Charles Perry Burt, Kenneth G. Castleman, Bennett Cerf, William Bell Clark, Wat Tyler Cluverius, George P. Colvocoresses, Albert Lyman Cox, Leonard M. Cox, Thomas T. Craven, Josephus Daniels, Ralph E. Davis, Harvey A. DeWeerd, Philip Robert Dillon, Ralph Earle, Edwin A. Falk, Guy Stanton Ford, George Edmund Foss, Julius Augustus Furer, William Howard Gardiner, Charles E. Gilpin, Harpur Allen Gosnell, Edwin E. Grabhorn, Fitzhugh Green, Kent Roberts Greenfield, F. Griffith, John George Hartwig, Jan Hasbrouck, N. A. Helmer, Roy Hoffman, James J. Hogan, Franklin Henry Hooper, Alfred G. Howe, Hiram Johnson, Ira Rich Kent, John Knox, Warren B. Koehler, William Chauncey Langdon, Robert J. LaPorte, Henry Cabot Lodge, Stanford E. Moses, Orson D. Mumm, R. E. Pope, Charles N. Robinson, William Sowden Simms, Edward E. Spafford, J. D. Springer, Harold R. Stark, and Lewis L. Strauss.” Lee Lawrie* (1877-1963), Papers of, 1908-1990, bulk: 1920-1963 (4/67). Lee Oskar Lawrie*: Sculptor. “General and family correspondence, sculpture commission files, biographical file, and other papers that document Lawrie's career and his works, which became an integral part of public buildings, monuments, and churches throughout the United States.” Family letters, 1916-21 (1 box); general letters, 1920-63, arranged alphabetically (13 boxes). Paul Hedrick Clark* (1878-1946), Papers of, 1918-1922 (2/2). U.S. Military Academy, 1905; Colonel, Liaison Officer, 1918, to French GHQ. “Copies of confidential reports and dispatches sent to General Pershing and other officers of the high command of the American Expeditionary Forces, in pursuance of Clark's duties as American liaison officer to the French General Headquarters, beginning early in 1918 and continuing until after the Armistice. A detailed, almost daily, account of the French officers' activities, attitudes, and plans, insofar as they affected the American forces. Names of officers appearing frequently include Carl Boyd, Fox Conner, James G. Harbord, Ferdinand Foch, Henri P. Pétain, and comte Louis Charles de Chambrun. Includes a list of the letters to Pershing, and Pershing's statement concerning Clark's services.” Directory: documents documents -> Concept stage documents -> Concept stage documents -> The great global switch-off documents -> Nonprofit grant application documents -> The Truth about the Rwandan Genocide documents -> Annual InStructional unit plan documents -> Chaos equipment included Download 0.75 Mb. Share with your friends:
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