1780+ American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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Norman H. Davis* (1878-1944), Papers of, 1915-1960. Norman Hezekiah Davis*: Businessman, 1902-17 in Cuba; advisor, Assistant Secretary, 1917-20, U.S. Treasury Department; Undersecretary of State, 1920-21. “Correspondence, diaries, journals, minutes, scrapbooks, memoranda, clippings and other printed matter, copies of statements and speeches, and photographs. Most of the papers relate to Davis's services as financial and economic consultant and participant in international conferences and commissions on peace, disarmament, and monetary matters. . . . Correspondents are Frank A. Vanderlip, Herbert Hoover, Lord Robert Cecil, and Thomas W. Lamont.” Paris Peace Conference, 1919 (4 boxes); Supreme Economic Council, 1919 (6 boxes).
Henry and Nina Webster Dumont, Papers of, 1905-1943, bulk: 1930-1936. Henry Dumont* (1878-1942): Business career, 1897-1930, San Francisco, Chicago, New York: advertising, marketing, Assistant Sales Manager, Pacific Coast Borax Company; poet, novelist, biographer of his mentor, poet George Sterling: Faun on Olympus (1936); member, Business Men's Art Clubs: San Francisco, Chicago, New York. Nina Webster Dumont* (1887-1953): Married, 1930, Henry Dumont; statistician: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, state and federal agencies. “Henry Dumont's papers consist of correspondence, much of it with George Sterling, 1905-26, printed matter, scrapbooks, clippings, business papers, and several drafts” of the biography. “Includes Dumont's correspondence about Sterling with Albert M. Bender, Theodore Dreiser, Arnold Genthe, Charmian London, Virgil Markham, William McDevitt, H. L. Mencken, George Steele Seymour, Upton Sinclair, and Sterling's daughters, Alice Chrystal Sterling Gregory and Mary Isabelle Sterling Routhwaite. Also includes poems by Sterling, many of them autographed.” Also includes “such material . . . as advertising prospectuses and information on the Pacific Coast Borax Company 1922-35.” “The Nina Dumont* Papers, 1924-39, relate primarily to her work as statistician and conductor of surveys . . . on such topics as air pollution, consumer purchases, cost of living, health, medical care costs, and occupational morbidity and mortality.” Rudulph Evans* (1878-1960). Papers of, 1900-1959, bulk: 1932-1957. Sculptor. “Correspondence, photographs, drawings, financial and legal records, awards and citations, printed material, and other papers relating to the creation of Evans's sculptures, in particular the commission and execution of the statue for the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, Washington, D.C.” Letters and poems received from Wilbur Underwood (d. 1935), 1900-37 (1 box); letters, sketches, photographs, 1896-1920, concerning sculptures (2 boxes). Ernest Joseph King* (1878-1956), 1908-1966, bulk: 1936-1952 (1/39). U.S. Naval Academy, 1901; Admiral Henry Mayo’s staff, 1915-18; Rear Admiral, 1933, and Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics; commanded aircraft carriers of Battle Fleet; Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Fleet, 1941; Fleet Admiral and Chief of Naval Operations, 1942-45. “Official and general correspondence, orders to duty, speech, article, and book file, memoranda, notes, photographs, printed matter, and miscellany, relating primarily to King's activities during World War II. Correspondents include Henry H. Arnold, Clement R. Attlee, Bernard M. Baruch, Omar N. Bradley, Mark Clark, Charles Edison, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Douglas Southall Freeman, William F. Halsey, Cordell Hull, Frank Knox, Paul W. Litchfield, Oliver Lyttleton, George Marshall, Louis Mountbatten, Chester W. Nimitz, Charles F. A. Portal, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dorothy Thompson, Harry S. Truman, and Orville Wright.” Letters, orders to duty, 1908-20 (1 box). R. C. Leffingwell* (1878-1960), Papers of, 1917-1920 (46/46). Senior Partner, J.P. Morgan and Company; Russell Cornell Leffingwell*: U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, 1917-20. “Official letters (46 v.), that relate to war debts and loans, postwar financing, and bond drives, signed by Leffingwell and by other Treasury officials. Includes letters to Gordon Auchincloss, Newton D. Baker, Bernard Baruch, Edouard de Billy, John Burke, Count Vincenzo Macchi di Cellere, Bainbridge Colby, Oscar Crosby, Josephus Daniels, Thomas W. Gregory, William P. G. Harding, Herbert Hoover, Robert Lansing, Alexander Legge, Sir Hardman Lever, Breckinridge Long, William G. McAdoo, A. Mitchell Palmer, Frank L. Polk, Benjamin Strong, Jr., André Tardieu, and Woodrow Wilson.” Leonard Porter Ayres* (1879-1946), Papers of, 1902-46 (14/27). Statistician: Puerto Rico, 1902-08 and Russell Sage Foundation, 1908-20; U.S. Army, 1918-20; educator, author. “Family and general correspondence, journals, notes, reports, subject files, statistical tables and graphs, printed material, and clippings, relating primarily to Ayres' work during World War I as chief statistical officer for the War Dept., his service to the Dawes Commission, and his work during World War II as statistical coordinator for the War Dept., and as consultant to the War Manpower Commission. Also includes a file of correspondence between Christian Herter and Alan Goldsmith relating to the Dawes Commission and material relating to education, especially education in Puerto Rico, the Russell Sage Foundation, and Ayres' travels in Europe.” Statistical reports, World War I; some letters, 1902-20. Benjamin Delahauf Foulois* (1879-1967), Papers of, 1898-1966, bulk: 1908-1935. Enlisted, 1898, U.S. Army Engineer Corps; Puerto Rico, 1898, during the Spanish-American War; infantryman and, 1902, commissioned officer, Philippines during and after the insurrection, 1899-1905; Signal Corps, 1906; taught to fly, 1910, by Wright Brothers; aerial operations during the Mexican Punitive Expedition, 1916-17; Chief, American Expeditionary Forces Air Service in World War I; Military Observer and Attaché in Berlin, Germany, 1920-1924; Major General, 1931, Chief of Army Air Corps. “Correspondence, diaries, reports, flight records, personnel records, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, memorabilia, and other papers relating to Foulois's military career and the development of air power in the U.S. military. . . . Includes Foulois's logbook for Aeroplane No. 1 and notebooks, 1910, kept while he learned to fly and maintain the Army's only airplane.” Diaries, 1898-1920 (1 box); personal letters, 1898-1920 (2 boxes); subject files: AEF, 1917-18 (5 boxes); aviation, 1909-17 (5 boxes); Mexico, 1916-17 (1 box). John Philip Hill* (1879-1941), Scrapbooks of, 1906-38 (15/134) John Boynton Philip Clayton Hill*: Johns Hopkins University, 1900, Harvard Law and Massachusetts Bar, 1903; practiced Boston, 1903-04, Baltimore 1904-10 and 1927-37; U.S. District Attorney, Maryland 1910-1915; Judge Advocate, U.S. Army, 1916, Mexican border; Major and Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army, 1918-19; U.S. Congress, 1921-26, Republican, Maryland. “Scrapbooks of newspaper clippings and other papers,” mainly biographical, “compiled by Hill. Subjects include Maryland and national politics, World War I, and prohibition.” John Haynes Holmes*(1879-1964), Papers of, 1899-1983, bulk: 1935-1964. Grandson of John Haynes, Treasurer, Theodore Parker’s 28th Congregational Society, who financed publication of Parker’s Works, and helped pay his namesake’s tuition at Harvard. Harvard, 1902 and Divinity, 1904; installed, 1904, Unitarian minister; pastor, 1907-1949, Church of the Messiah (Holmes and congregation left Unitarian Fellowship, 1919, thereafter: Community Church of New York); helped found and President, 1908-11, Unitarian Fellowship for Social Justice; Vice-President, 1908-19, Middle States Unitarian Conference; Vice-President, 1909-64, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; President, 1914-19, Free Religious Association; denounced all wars, 1915, in sermon, "Is War Ever Justified?" and thereafter made anti-war speeches; Chair, 1915-17, General Unitarian Conference; President, 1917-18, Unitarian Temperance Society; Director, 1917-64, American Civil Liberties Union; also associated with: War Resisters' League, American Friends Service Committee, Council Against Intolerance in America, League for Industrial Democracy, and Foster Parents' Plan for War Children; author: The Revolutionary Function of the Modern Church (1912), and others, including many hymns. “Correspondence, published and unpublished writings, printed material, and other papers reflecting all facets of Holmes's public career and the libertarian movements of the 20th century. Correspondence concerns Holmes's personal life,” his ministerial activities, and his involvement with organizations dedicated to civil liberties, civil rights, pacifism, and social service. “The writings file includes Holmes's articles, hymns, sermons, and MSS. of his books including I Speak for Myself: The Autobiography of John Haynes Holmes (1959) and My Ghandi (1953). Correspondents include Roger Baldwin, Henry Beckett, Arthur E. Calder, Carl Colodne, Ethelwyn Doolittle, Donald Harrington, Arthur Garfield Hays, Arthur Heller, Benjamin W. Huebsch, Fiorello La Guardia, Corliss Lamont, Lillian Laub, S. O. Levinson, Minnie Loewenthal, Louis Mayer, George E. Moesel, Francis Neilson, Carl Nelson, Edith Lovejoy Pierce, Henriette Posner, Ralph C. Roper, Norman Thomas, Carl Hermann Voss, Blanche G. Watson, and Walter White.” General letters, 1906, 1914-35 (1 box); writings file, 1907-64 (17 boxes); miscellany, 1907-64 (5 boxes). William Marion Jardine* (1879-1955), Papers of, 1908-1955, bulk: 1925-34. William M. Jardine*: Utah State College of Agriculture, B.A. 1904, Illinois University, 1906; taught agronomy, 1906-08, Utah State; lecturer, 1912, Graduate School of Agriculture, Michigan State; Dean of Agriculture, 1913-18, and President, 1918-25; Kansas State; assistant U.S. cerealist, 1907-10, for dry land investigations, and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, 1925-29; U.S. Minister to Egypt, 1930-34; President, Wichita University, 1934-1949. “Correspondence, articles, speeches, lectures, notes, and scrapbooks of clippings concerned mainly with the economic aspects of agriculture and rural life” as well as Jarine’s government service. Correspondents include Milton Stover Eisenhower, Herbert Hoover, Alfred M. Landon, Andrew W. Mellon, Henry Lewis Stimson, and Harry Hines Woodring.” Speeches and articles, 1908-44 (1 box); scrapbooks, 1918-23 (1 box). Scudder Klyce* (1879-1933), Papers of, 1911-1933. Naval officer and philosopher, logician, semanticist; author: Universe (1921), Sins of Science (1925); Dewey's Suppressed Psychology . . . (1928). “Correspondence, drafts of published and unpublished articles, and a typescript of Klyce's Universe, that relate to his ideas on logic, philosophy, religion, mathematics, and psychology” as well as the relationships between them. “Correspondents include Robert Daniel Carmichael, James McKeen Cattell, Clarence Day, John Dewey, Waldo Frank, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, David Starr Jordan, Robert Andrews Taylor, Theodore William Richards, William Emerson Ritter, and Upton Sinclair. Letters, 1911-33, arranged alphabetically, concerning American philosophy and philosophers, following the line of John Dewey, Alfred Korzybski, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Emory Scott Land* (1879-1971), Papers of, 1901-1972 U.S. Naval Academy, 1902; naval architect, specialist in undersea warfare; Vice-Admiral, U.S. Naval Headquarters, 1919-21, London, England, World War I; Rear Admiral and Chief of the U.S. Navy Bureau of Construction and Repair, 1932-1937; civilian, Chair, 1938-46, U.S. Maritime Commission. “Correspondence, diary notes, speeches, copies of orders, photos, scrapbooks, clippings, and other papers chiefly relating to Land's forty-eight years of government service, particularly in the 1930s and during World War II; Vice-President and Treasurer, 1926, Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, Inc.; and his role as advisor, 1927-28, during the tours of his cousin, Charles A. Lindbergh, and Land's testimony, 1938, in the Lindbergh kidnapping case. Correspondents include William E. Boeing, Admiral Richard E. Byrd, James F. Byrnes, Homer L. Ferguson, James V. Forrestal, Julius A. Furer, Jerome C. Hunsaker, Edgar E. Kaiser, Joseph P. Kennedy, Admiral William A. Moffett, Admiral William V. Pratt, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Admiral William S. Sims, Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., Henry L. Stimson, Admiral David Watson Taylor and Fred M. Vinson.” Waldo Gifford Leland* (1879-1966), Papers of, 1844-1966, bulk: 1915-1928 and 1948-1966. Brown, 1900; Harvard, M.A., 1901; staff member, 1903-32, Department of Historical Research, Carnegie Institution of Washington DC, including activities in Paris, France 1907-14, 1922-27; Secretary, 1909-20, American Historical Association; organizing Secretary, 1919, and administrator, 1927-46, American Council of Learned Societies; co-author: Guide to the Archives of the Government of the United States in Washington (1904, 1907), and others. “Correspondence, diaries, articles, reports, memoranda, notes, and miscellaneous papers, including unpublished drafts, relating to Leland's ongoing Guide to Materials for American History in the Libraries and Archives of Paris (2 v., 1932, 1943), the American Philosophical Society, Brown University, Cosmos Club in Washington DC, and the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation of the League of Nations. Correspondents include Julian P. Boyd, Solon J. Buck, Abel Doysié, J. Franklin Jameson, Halvdan Koht, Henri Pirenne, and Walter M. Whitehill.” Family letters, 1896-1920 (4 boxes); general letters, 1890-1966, arranged alphabetically (15 boxes). 1880+ Arthur P. Schmidt Company, Records of the, 1880-194- (210/340). Music publishers, Boston. Music Division: Series I. letters: general, 1897-1904 (3 v.), American, 1904-16 (5 v.), Henry Litolff Press, 1895-1934 (6 v.), copyright renewals, 1917-40 (4 v.), composers, 1908-20 (9 boxes); Series II. royalties (3 v.); Series III. catalogue (19 v.); Series IV. organ music (2 v.); Series V. financial records, 1880-1903 (33 v.); Series VI. scores, alphabetical by composer, of published works (122 boxes). Joseph Warren Beach* (1880-1957), Papers of, 1891-1955 (5/48). Graduate student, Harvard University, 1902-07; Professor of English, University of Minnesota, 1907-23; literary critic. “Correspondence, diaries, MSS. of published works, poems, scholarly and critical notes, essays, and lectures relating to Beach's career, literary subjects, and family matters. Correspondents include his sons Warren and Northrop, his wife Dagmar Doneghy, Stephen Early, James Thomas Farrell, Robert Frost, George Lyman Kittredge, Harriet Monroe, Carl Sandburg, Robert Penn Warren, and Richard Wilbur.” Diaries, 1898-1920 (2 boxes); letters, 1900-20 (2 boxes). Ernest Bloch* (1880-1959), Papers of, 1888-1940 (20/26). Composer, conductor, teacher; professor, 1911-15, Geneva Conservatory; emigrated, 1916, from Switzerland to United States; teacher, 1917, Mannes School of Music, New York City; Dierctor, 1920-25, Institute of Musical Art, Cleveland OH. Music Division: Family letters, 1902-23; scrapbooks: Europe, 1896-1910 (1 v.), 1910-15 (1 v.), America, 1916-17 (1 v.), Cleveland, 1920-25, (1 v.); subject file, Cleveland Institute of Music; music scores, published and unpublished. Julius Augustus Furer* (1880-1963), Papers of, 1910-1962, bulk: 1915-1961. U.S. Naval Academy, Secretary of Class, 1901; M.S., 1905, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; applied, 1911, principles of “scientific management,” to administration of Philadelphia Navy Yard; outfitted and set up, 1914-15, technical facilities at the Navy’s new base at Pearl Harbor; commanded, 1915 through World War I, Supply Division, Bureau of Construction and Repair, Washington DC; technical staff advisor, 1919-22, Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Fleet; Rear Admiral, 1941-45, Coordinator of Naval Research and Development. “Correspondence; diary, 1941-1945; subject file; speech, article, and book file, including numerous articles on naval and maritime subjects, published in the Encyclopedia Americana; and miscellaneous material, chiefly 1915-1961, relating to Furer's activities as director” of the successful and innovative effort to salvage the submarine F-4 (SS 23), Pearl Harbor, 1915, and other assignments. . . . “Correspondents include Arleigh Burke, Vannevar Bush, Karl T. Compton, John Foster Dulles, Ernest M. Eller, Albert Furer, Kurt Fürer, William F. Halsey, John B. Heffernan, Jerome C. Hunsaker, Dudley W. Knox, Charles Little, Samuel E. Morison, and Clifton Toal.” Letter and subject files, 1910-62; arranged alphabetically (8 boxes). Arnold Gesell* (1880-1961), Papers of, 1870-1971, bulk: 1910-1950. Arnold Lucius Gesell*: Clark University, Ph. D., 1906 and Yale, M.D., 1915; Professor of Psychology, 1908-10, Los Angeles CA State Normal School, early predecessor of U.C.L.A; founder and director, 1911-48, Yale Juvenile Psychological Clinic; Social Psychologist, 1915-19, Connecticut State Board of Education; author: The Normal Child and Primary Education (1912); with Julia Wade Abbot, The Kindergarten and Health (1923), and others. “Correspondence, memoranda, reports, drafts and published writings, addresses and lectures, articles, book reviews, clinical and medical records, broadcast and film scripts, financial and legal papers, appointment books, personnel records, contracts, biographical and genealogical material, abstracts, announcements, bulletins, certificates, charts, diplomas, manuals, press releases, tests, scrapbooks, clippings, illustrations, photographs, and other papers pertaining primarily to Gesell's years as director of the Yale Clinic of Child Development, his studies of the mental and physical development of infants and children, and his role in the debate on the developmental influences of environment and heredity (nature and nurture). Includes material on Gesell's own childhood and education, his membership on the Connecticut Commission on Child Welfare, his work as a research consultant with the Gesell Institute of Child Development, and his relations with colleagues Catherine Amatruda, Louise Bates Ames, Burton Menaugh Castner, Frances Lillian Ilg, and Helen Thompson. Also includes material relating to German immigration and assimilation in the United States, ca. 1870-1910, the character of J. Willard Gibbs (1839-1903), the childhood development of Abraham Lincoln, and the use of motion pictures as educational and scientific research tools, 1920-1950. Correspondents include James Rowland Angell, Roswell Parker Angier, Charlotte Malachowski Buhler, Glenna E. Bullis, Leonard Carmichael, Beatrice Chandler Gesell, Henry Herbert Goddard, G. Stanley Hall, Walter R. Miles, Grover Francis Powers, Edgar James Swift, Lewis Madison Terman, T. Wingate Todd, Frederick Jackson Turner, and Robert Mearns Yerkes.” Arranged alphabetically: family letters, 1870-1960 (16 boxes); general letters, 1884-1957 (28 boxes); subject files, 1910-59 (90 boxes). Frederick Joseph Horne* (1880-1959), Papers of, 1893-1967, bulk: 1900-1945. U.S. Navy, 1895-1947; U.S. Naval Attaché, Tokyo, Japan, during World War I; Vice Chief of Naval Operations, World War II. “General correspondence, 1919-1965, speeches and articles, 1922-1946, Congressional material, 1943-1959, flight logbooks, 1931, 1933-1937, minutes and reports, 1945-1946, and other papers documenting Horne's naval career. Also includes material on the coronation of Crown Prince Yoshihito as Taish¯o, Emperor of Japan, 1915, Congressional hearings on naval appropriations, naval aviation, the navy and national defense, and Horne's studies at the Naval Academy. Correspondents include William Augustus Ayres, Clarence Darrow, Chester W. Nimitz, and Richard M. Nixon.” Newspaper clippings, 1915-17 from Japan Times; memorabilia, Japan, 1908, 1916 (1 box). Clarence Edwin Carter* (1881-1961), Papers of, 1763-1956 (3/37). Professor of History: Illinois College, 1908-10; Miami (Ohio) University, 1910-38. “Correspondence, reports, financial papers, book reviews, photos, printed matter, and legal papers. Bulk of the collection is comprised of copies of the correspondence, 1763-1775, of the British general, Sir Thomas Gage, assembled by Carter for publication. Other papers concern Carter's work at the National Archives in editing The Territorial Papers of the United States, and in editing with Clarence W. Alvord several works on early Illinois history. . . . Carter's personal papers mainly concern academic appointments and tenure at several universities, and historical society matters. . . . Correspondents include his mother, Anna Rogers Carter, his brother, Fred Armstrong Carter, and Frederick Jackson Turner.” Letters and other material, 1896-1920 (3 boxes). Barry Faulkner* (1881-1966), Papers of, 1861-1966, bulk: 1900-1966 (1/2). American artist. “Chiefly correspondence, 1900-1966, with family associates” some about his training and early work. “Also typescripts of articles and speeches, and photographs of Faulkner's murals. Correspondents include Witter Bynner, Eric Gugler, Leon Kroll, James Johnson Sweeney, and Lawrence Grant White.” Irving Langmuir* (1881-1957), Papers of, 1871-1957. Columbia School of Mines, 1903; Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, Ph. D., 1906; chemistry instructor, 1906-09, Stevens Institute, Hoboken NJ; physical chemist, 1909-50, Research Laboratory, General Electric Company; author: Laws of Heat Transmission in Electrical Machinery (1913), and others. “Correspondence, diaries, experimental notebooks, speeches, writings, card reference file, clippings, printed material, awards, photographs, and other papers. The notebooks, 1894-1957, contain data that led to the development of the gas-filled incandescent lamp, the high vacuum power tube, atomic hydrogen welding, screening smoke generators for the Armed Forces, and weather control. Includes subject files on such research topics as cloud seeding experiments, smoked bathythermograph records, and charts of Lake George NY. Also includes material pertaining to Langmuir's years, 1903-1906, as a graduate student in Germany. Correspondents include Niels Henrik David Bohr, Vannevar Bush, Leopold Stokowski, and Willis Rodney Whitney.” Diaries, 1897, 1900, 1902 (1 box); letters, 1895-1927 (2 boxes); subject files, 1910-57, (36 boxes); lab notebooks, 1894-1921 (3 boxes). 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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