1780+ American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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Bernard Richardson Green*: Graduate civil engineer, 1863, civilian employee, U.S. Army Engineer Corps; worked, from 1877, in Washington DC on completion of Washington Monument and new construction: Executive Office (then State, War, Navy) Building, Library of Congress, Museum of Natural History, and Smithsonian Institution; Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, Library of Congress. “Consists of three scrapbooks containing clippings, and a photocopy of the Journal of Operations, mainly relating to the construction of the Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress,” and also includes pages from the Congressional Record. Elijah Walker Halford* (1843-1938), Papers of, 1867-1928. Emigrated from England, 1850; printer; war correspondent, managing editor in 1876, Indianapolis IN Journal; private secretary, 1889-1893, to President Benjamin Harrison; with others, editor, Militant Methodism: The Story of the First National Convention of Methodist Men, Held at Indianapolis, Indiana, October 28-31, 1913 (1913). “Correspondence, writings, scrapbooks, printed material, photographs, and other papers concerning Halford's service during the Harrison administration. Also includes a volume of articles from the Journal written by Halford during a trip to Europe in 1887. Correspondents include Chester Alan Arthur, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Calvin Coolidge, Frederick Douglass, Benjamin Harrison, Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Robert Todd Lincoln, William McKinley, Helena Modjeska, James Whitcomb Riley, Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Lew Wallace, and members of Halford's family.” Henry James* (1843-1916), Papers of, 1883-1914. Studied some law at Harvard, but far more interested in literature; traveled the world and finally settled in England; wrote articles and short stories for such journals as the Nation and Atlantic Monthly, including Watch and Ward (1871), the first of many novels and plays; autobiographies: A Small Boy and Others (1913), Notes of a Son and Brother (1914), and The Middle Years (1917). “Correspondence and miscellaneous papers.” Letters, 1899-1907 (1 box) and 1896-1915 (2 v.). H. W. Lawton* (1843-1899), Papers of, 1849-1930 (5/9). Henry Ware Lawton*: Enlisted, Sergeant, 1861, 9th Indiana Infantry, rose to Brevet Colonel, 1865; Major General, Volunteers, 1898, Santiago, Cuba; successfully engaged Philippine Insurgents, 1899, but fatally shot by a sharpshooter. “Correspondence, military papers, scrapbooks, printed matter, and photographs relating chiefly to Lawton's military career, his campaign, 1886, against and capture of Geronimo, life in the field in Cuba during the Spanish-American War, and the campaign in the Philippines. Includes a copy of diary, 1886, of Leonard Wood, and letters to Lawton’s wife, Mary Craig (d. 1934) after 1900 from Dean C. Worcester describing the Philippine Commission's struggle and adjustment in governing the Philippines.” Subject files, Philippines (3 boxes). William McKinley* (1843-1901), Papers of, ca. 1847-1935, bulk: 1897-1901. Attended one term, 1860, Allegheny College, Meadville PA; enlisted, Private, 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry, rose to Major, 1865; Ohio Bar and practiced, 1867-76; U.S. Congress, 1877-83 and 1885-91, Republican, Ohio; Ohio Governor, 1891-96; U.S. President, 1897 until fatally shot, 1901, Pan American Exposition, Buffalo NY. “Correspondence, speeches, will, messages, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other papers pertaining primarily to McKinley's presidential administration. Includes copies of outgoing letters signed by John Addison Porter and George B. Cortelyou, presidential secretaries, and records kept at the time of McKinley's assassination. Correspondents include Alvey A. Adee, R. A. Alger, James Gillespie Blaine, John Rutter Brooke, Julius C. Burrows, William E. Chandler, Joseph Hodges Choate, Grover Cleveland, Henry Clark Corbin, Shelby M. Cullom, Charles Gates Dawes, William R. Day, William W. Dudley, Joseph Benson Foraker, Charles Foster, John Fowler, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, Lyman J. Gage, James A. Garfield, James Albert Gary, Charles Henry Grosvenor, Murat Halstead, Marcus Alonzo Hanna, John Hay, Rutherford Birchard Hayes, George Hoadly, Garret A. Hobart, Philander C. Knox, Robert Todd Lincoln, Henry Cabot Lodge, John Davis Long, John Tyler Morgan, Levi P. Morton, William McKinley Osborne, Henry C. Payne, Thomas Collier Platt, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, James A. Saxton, John Sherman, William H. Taft, James Wilson, Leonard Wood, and John Russell Young.” Series: 1. general letters and related items, 1847-1902 (86 v.); 2. letterpress copy books, 1894-1901 (99 v.); 3. additional letters and related items, 1879-1901 (55 boxes); 4. speeches, 1878-1901 (6 boxes); 5. messages to Congress, proclamations, 1897-1900 (4 boxes); 6. record of letters received, 1897-1901 (7 v.); shorthand notebooks and notes, 1898-1901 (2 boxes); 8. guest lists, White House, 1901 (1 v.); 9. photographs, 1901; 10. assassination records, 1901 (3 v.); 11. miscellaneous manuscripts, 1897-1901 (3 boxes); 12. scrapbooks, 1897-1901 (34 v.); 13. newspaper clippings, 1897-1901 (5 boxes); 14. printed matter, 1897-1901 (10 boxes); 15. bound volumes and books (4 boxes); 16. ???; 17. family and general letters, 1872-1935, some printed material, mainly political (300 items). George Albert Converse* (1844-1909), Papers of, 1895-1908 (2/2). Naval officer, 1861-1906; Rear Admiral, 1903; Chief of Bureaus, 1903-07: Equipment, Ordnance, Navigation, in retirement; pioneered use of electricity aboard ships, smokeless powder, torpedo boats. “Letterbooks, general correspondence, printed matter, and miscellaneous material,” including MSS., “Statement Regarding Criticism of Navy”. Copies of letters to “Charles J. Bonaparte, Willard H. Brownson, French E. Chadwick, George Dewey, William F. Halsey, Henry Cabot Lodge, Benjamin R. Tillman, and George P. Wetmore,” mainly about such topics as “torpedo boats, battleships and the Russo-Japanese War, 1904, and plans for the review of the Atlantic Fleet, 1906.” A.W. Greely* (1844-1935), Papers of, 1753-1959, bulk: 1880-1935. Adolphus Washington Greely*: Private to Brevet Major, 1861-65, Massachusetts Volunteers; Second Lieutenant, 1867, U.S. Army; volunteered, 1881-84, for hazardous Arctic scientific exploration; Brigadier General and Chief, 1887-1903, Army Signal Corps and, to 1891, U.S. Weather Service; directed construction of telephone lines and underground cables, 1898-1902: Puerto Rico, Cuba, China, Philippines and, 1900-04, Alaska; delegate, 1903, London International Telegraph Conference and Berlin International Wireless Telegraph Congress; Major General and commanded, 1906-08, Northern, then Pacific Divisions, including San Francisco. “Correspondence, memoranda, letter books, diaries, notes, MSS. and galley proofs of Greely's books and articles, speeches, lectures, military papers, biographical material, financial papers, scrapbooks, clippings, printed materials, maps, pictures, memorabilia, and other papers relating primarily to his military career, the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition and the polar regions in general. . . . Correspondents include Henry T. Allen, Edward W. Bok, David L. Brainard, William E. Chandler, Gilbert H. Grosvenor, William Babcock Hazen, Francis Long, George W. Melville, and Charles Scribner.” Family letters, 1896-1920 (3 boxes); general letters, 1896-21, (21 boxes); letterbooks, 1896-1903, (2 boxes); San Francisco CA earthquake relief, 1906 (2 boxes). Lewis M. Haupt* (1844-1937), Papers of, 1861-1923 (7/9). Son of Union Army Brigadier General Herman Haupt, later Chief Engineer, Pennsylvania Railroad and General Manager, Northern Pacific Railroad. Lewis Muhlenberg Haupt*: University of Pennsylvania and U.S. Military Academy, 1867; resigned, 1869, U.S. Army; directed engineering surveys and construction projects, many in Philadelphia PA; directed town surveys in North Dakota and Assistant Engineer, Northern Pacific Railroad; Member, 1897-99, Nicaragua Canal Commission and, 1899-1902, Isthmian Canal Commission; author: “Planning the Site for a City,” The Engineering Magazine (1895), and others. “Correspondence, 1890-1923, speeches, and articles relating to the selection of a route for an isthmian canal and to Haupt's efforts to secure the Nicaraguan route. Includes such records as work papers, reports, minutes, memoranda, drawings and charts, news clippings, and copies of congressional hearings, speeches, and proposed bills. Correspondents include Newton Diehl Baker, William Jennings Bryan, Andrew Carnegie, John Hay, John Tyler Morgan, and Theodore C. Search. Includes letterbook, 1861-1863, of Haupt's father, concerning his duties as Chief of Construction and Operation of the U.S. Bureau of Military Railroads.” Letters and other papers, 1896-1905, isthmian canal (7 boxes). Horace H. Lurton* (1844-1914), Papers of, 1860-1914 (250 items). Horace Harmon Lurton*: Douglas University, Chicago IL; Confederate Army and twice a Union prisoner; Cumberland University Law, 1867, and thereafter practiced; Justice and Chief Justice, 1886-1893, Tennessee Supreme Court; professor and Dean, 1898-1909, Vanderbilt University Law School; Judge, 1893-1909, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit; Associate Justice, 1909-14, U.S. Supreme Court. “Correspondence and telegrams, some written before 1865. Most of the letters are addressed to A. W. B. Allen, of Bridgeford & Company, Louisville KY. Other correspondents include William Rufus Day, John Marshall Harlan, Joseph Rucker Lamar, Whitelaw Reid, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, William Howard Taft, and Edward Douglass White.” 1845+ Rebekah Crawford and Linda Clarke-Smith*, Papers of, 1715-1929. Rebecca Crawford* (1845-1934): Social worker; Red Cross, 1915-19, France and Italy. “Correspondence, scrapbooks, and miscellaneous papers concerning relief work with the Red Cross and Duryea War Relief during and after World War I with Italian and French war wounded and children. Also includes family papers, account books, scrapbooks, manuscript plays and miscellany, some relating to Richard Crawford.” George Kennan* (1845-1924), Papers of, 1840-1937. Great-uncle of George Frost Kennan (1904-2005), diplomat, advocate of containment: “The Sources of Soviet Conduct,” by “X”, Foreign Affairs (July 1947). Messenger, telegrapher, and office manager, Cleveland and Toledo Railroad Company; telegraph engineer in northeast Siberia, 1865-67, Russia-American Telegraph Company; studied, 1870, Caucasus region, and 1886, Russian exile and penal system for Century Club; special observer, 1898-1909, for Red Cross, Outlook, and McClure’s Magazine in Cuba, Martinique, and Japan, during the Russo-Japanese War; author: Tent-life in Siberia and Adventures Among the Koraks and Other Tribes in Kamtchatka and Northern Asia (1881); A Russian Comedy of Errors, with Other Stories and Sketches of Russian Life (1915), and others. Correspondence, including family letters and letter books, notes and notebooks, articles, diaries, journals, clippings, lecture material, printed matter, memorabilia, autobiographical and biographical material, photographs, and maps. The collection is particularly detailed for Czarist Russia and Siberia, where Kennan made extensive explorations and prepared studies on social conditions, the prisons, and the exile system. Other materials deal with travels and events in Japan, Korea, Cuba, the Caucasus, Arctic regions, and Martinique, where Kennan reported the Mont Pelée volcano disaster. Also includes papers concerning the Alexander Graham Bell family, and correspondence, 1891-1937, of Kennan's wife, Emeline Rathbone Weld*. Among George Kennan's correspondents are Theodore Roosevelt, Robert Lansing, Walter Hines Page, Stephen Wise, Felix Volkhovsky, Catherine Breshkovsky, and S. Stepniak.” Diaries, journals, notebooks, 1896-1920 (3 boxes); letters, 1896-1920 (10 boxes); notes on flowers, especially Nova Scotia (5 boxes); subject files, 1896-1920 (25 boxes). L. R. Klemm* (1845-1925), Papers of, ca. 1870-1907. Louis Richard Klemm*: Superintendent of Schools, 1884-87, Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio; Special Superintendent of German, Cleveland OH Schools. Author: Elementary German Reader (1883), Educational Topics of the Day (1888), European Schools (1889), and others, some in German; translator: Higher Education of Women in Europe (1897). “Drafts of Klemm's books, monographs, essays, articles, addresses, and book reviews; scrapbooks; clippings; and printed matter concerning agriculture, European and American educational institutions and systems, history, and culture.” Wharton Barker* (1846-1921), Papers of, 1870-1920. Financier; publisher, 1880-1900, of financial weekly, The American; agent for Czar of Russia; Republican until 1896; Populist Party nominee for U.S. president, 1900. “Correspondence, letter books, photos, pamphlets, clippings and other printed matter, and scrapbooks, reflecting Barker's broad interests in American and foreign business matters (banking, mining, railroad, telegraph, and telephone rights in China and Russia) and in the late 19th century political agitation over bimetallism, which at successive periods drew him into the Republican, Democratic, and Populist Parties. Correspondents include George Baird, William Carroll, Shelby M. Cullom, James A. Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Rutherford B. Hayes, Anthony Higgins, Henry M. Hoyt, William D. Kelley, Henry Cabot Lodge, Alexander MacKenzie, John I. Mitchell, Count Mitkiewicz, Boies Penrose, Orville H. Platt, Thomas C. Platt, Theodore Roosevelt, John Sherman, Goldwin Smith, Henry M. Teller, John Wanamaker, and Andrew D. White.” Letters, 1896-1921 (5 boxes); scrapbooks, 1896-1917 (2 boxes). William D. Bynum* (1846-1927), Papers of, 1894-1905, bulk: 1896 (1/1). William Dallas Bynum*: Attorney; U.S. Representative, 1885-95, Democrat, Indiana; Chair, 1896, National (Gold-Standard) Democratic Party. “Incoming and outgoing correspondence relating primarily to the National Democratic Party convention held in Indianapolis IN, prior to the U.S. presidential election of 1896, and to the party's support of the gold standard” in opposition to Democrats like William Jennings Bryan. “Correspondents include Calvin Tomkins, Charles Tracey, Joseph E. Washington, and Thomas A. Wilson.” Donald McDonald Dickinson* (1846-1917), Papers of, 1863-1917 (1/3) University of Michigan Law, 1867; active, from 1872, in Michigan Democratic Party; member from Michigan, 1880-85, Democratic National Committee; U.S. Postmaster General, 1888-89; helped organize, 1896, Gold Democrats in opposition to William Jennings Bryan; supported, 1900, William Mckinley and, 1912, Theodore Roosevelt; Senior U.S. Counsel, 1896-97, Bering Sea claims Convention. Letterbooks, 1888-89, mainly regarding personal matters; letters related to politics and the Bering Sea Claims Convention. Correspondents include Robert Lansing, Richard Olney, and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen J. Field (24 letters, 1887-96). Robley D. Evans* (1846-1912), Papers of, 1901-1950 Robley Dunglison Evans*: U.S. Naval Academy, 1864; commanded, 1898, battleship Iowa, Battle of Santiago, Cuba; member, 1998, President and Rear Admiral, 1901-02, Naval Board of Inspection and Survey. “Typescript, in bound volume, entitled ‘Sea Fight at Santiago as Seen From the Iowa’ with pictures of Evans and autographs of William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew S. Rowan, and William T. Sampson; photo of Evans, 1901; printed matter; and two copies of letters concerning the collection.” Joseph Benson Foraker* (1846-1917), Papers of, 1884-1916 (1/2). Cornell University, studied law, Ohio Bar, 1869; practiced law, Cincinnati OH; Superior Court Judge, 1879-1882, Cincinnati OH; Ohio Governor, 1885-1889; U.S. Senate, 1897-1909, Republican, Ohio. “Five volumes of correspondence pertaining chiefly to national politics and to the Republican Party. Correspondents include Marcus Alonzo Hanna, Theodore Roosevelt, John Sherman, and William H. Taft.” Letters, 1896-1919, (1 v.). Frank Samuel Lahm* (1846-1931), Papers of, ca. 1850-1931 Frank S. Lahm*: Pioneer aviator, balloonist, and U.S. Army’s first airplane pilot; AEF during World War I; businessman in Paris, France; Vice President, Federation Aeronautique International. Correspondence, logs and barograph records of Lahm's balloon ascensions, regulations, resolutions, receipts, lectures, memoranda, photographs, clippings, part of an unfinished history of aeronautics, a biographical sketch by Lahm's children, and memorabilia. Includes several writings and two diaries of Henry Weaver, who, in 1905, investigated for Lahm the achievements claimed by Wilbur and Orville Wright. Includes correspondence of the Wright brothers and their sister Katharine, Griffith Brewer, Patrick Y. Alexander, Walter Wellman, Melvin and Ida Vanniman, and R. P. Skinner.” Hamilton Wright Mabie* (1846-1916), Papers of, 1882-1914 (1/1). Williams College, 1867; Columbia University Law, 1869; an editor and Associate Editor, Christian Union (from 1893, Outlook ); essayist, anthologist, and critic: Books and Culture (1896), American Ideals, Character, and Life (1913), and others. “Principally Mabie's correspondence with literary and political figures concerning literature, relations with Japan, and the European crisis of 1914. Correspondents include Thomas Bailey Aldrich, John Burroughs, William Dean Howells, J. J. Jusserand, Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund C. Stedman, Henry Van Dyke, and Owen Wister.” G. F. Becker* (1847-1919), Papers of, 1814-1928. George Ferdinand Becker*: Geologist, mathematician, engineer, physicist; Geologist-in-charge, 1879-1919, U.S. Geological Survey; geophysicist, 1898, Carnegie Institution; geologist, 1898-99, U.S. Army, Philippines; U.S. Representative, 1910, Radioactivity Congress, Brussels; President, 1914, Geological Society of America. “Correspondence (including family letters dating from 1814), diaries, letter books, notebooks, notes and memoranda, charts, tables, reports, articles, memorabilia, landscape sketches, blueprints, maps, and miscellaneous printed matter relating primarily to Becker's service with the U.S. Geological Survey, during which time he conducted investigations in Nevada, southern Alaska, South Africa, the Pacific slope, and the Philippines. Correspondents include Andreas Arzruni, James F. Bell, Theodore E. Burton, William Crozier, Edward S. Dana, James D. Dana, Samuel F. Emmons, Archibald Geikie, Arnold Hague, Eugene W. Hilgard, Edmund O. Hovey, Henry M. Howe, Louis Janin, Waldemar Lindgren, Charles W. Merrill, Simon Newcomb, Charles S. Peirce, Chester W. Purington, Theodore Roosevelt, Henry W. Turner, Charles D. Walcott, and Robert S. Woodward.” Letters, 1896-1920 (6 boxes) and subject file (8 boxes). Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers, 1834-1974. Alexander Graham Bell* (1847-1922): Studied, 1868-70, University College, London, England; emigrated, 1870, with parents to Canada; instructed teachers in the use of visible speech, 1871-78, Boston MA and helped educate a deaf child, George Sanders; experimented, 1873-76, with phonautograph, a multiple telegraph, and an electric speaking telegraph or telephone; experimented, with aerial flight, 1891, tetrahedral kites, 1898, and hydrodrome or hydrofoil, 1908; helped found: Science, 1883, and Aerial Experiment Association, 1907; President, 1898-1903, National Geographic Society; Regent, 1898-1922, Smithsonian Institution. “Correspondence, diaries, journals, laboratory notebooks, patent records, speeches, writings, subject files, genealogical records, printed material, and other papers pertaining primarily to Bell's invention, 1876, of the telephone. Also includes material documenting his contributions to the education of the deaf and his interests in a wide range of scientific and technological fields including aviation, eugenics, and marine engineering.” Also includes “correspondence and related papers of the Genealogical Record Office founded by Bell to study the impact of heredity on longevity. Also included are docket books of United States and British patents, published volumes of the American Annals of the Deaf, some of which were annotated by Alexander Graham Bell, scrapbooks, and court proceedings of Bell patent litigation.” “Correspondents include Edward Miner Gallaudet, Ulysses S. Grant, Joseph Henry, Helen Keller, George Kennan, S. P. Langley, Guglielmo Marconi, Simon Newcomb, John Wesley Powell, Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Charles Sumner Tainter, and Woodrow Wilson. Family papers include papers of Bell's father, Alexander Melville Bell, relating chiefly to elocution and the physiology of speech; papers of Alexander Graham Bell's father-in-law, Gardiner Greene Hubbard; papers of Mabel Hubbard Bell including correspondence with her husband, Alexander Graham Bell; correspondence of their daughter, Marian Fairchild; and papers of other members of the Bell, Fairchild, Grosvenor, and Hubbard families.” Finding aid online: Journal, 1910 (1 v.); family papers, 1834-1972, arranged alphabetically (100 boxes); letterbooks, 1894-1922 (21 boxes); general letters, 1870-1922, arranged alphabetically (10 boxes); stenographic notebooks, 1895-97 (2 boxes); subject file, 1870-1970, arranged alphabetically, including some letters available online (185 boxes); Bell’s bulletin: Beinn Bhreagh Recorder, bound volumes, 1909-22 (8 boxes); scientific notebooks, 1879-1922 (50 boxes); article and book file, 1901-04 (4 boxes); speeches, some holograph, and interviews, 1876-1922 (6 boxes). 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