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Louis Anthony Kaiser* (1870-1939), Diary of, 1899-1901. Ensign, 1898, U.S.S. Concord in Admiral Dewey’s Squadron, Manila Bay, and Lieutenant, J.G, 1900, on patrol off Philippines in support of U.S. Army forces; Lieutenant Commander and contributor: Manual of Wireless Telegraphy for the Use of Naval Electricians (1906). “Diary (1 v.) kept by while serving aboard the U.S.S. Concord. Includes his observations on the Philippine Insurrection.” Helen Culver Kerr* (1870- ), Papers of, 1918-1919 (2/2). Daughter of Brooklyn attorney and developer, Andrew Roger Culver, and wife of John Clapperton Kerr, stockbroker, New York City. Civic activist, member of such organizations as the Women's Municipal League, the Consumers' League, and the Patriotic Women of America; “with Red Cross, combated the 1918 influenza epidemic and provided medical services to military camps, munitions plants, and shipyards.” Letters, 1918-19 (2 v.) from service organizations and military units, mainly requests and acknowledgments “relating to Kerr's volunteer work in furnishing musical instruments to the U.S. Army and Navy during World War I.” Samuel McGowan* (1870-1934), Papers of, 1883-1943, bulk: 1900-1920. U.S. Navy: Assistant Paymaster, 1870-1914; Rear Admiral, 1914-20, Paymaster General and Chief of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. “General correspondence, orders to duty, subject file, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous material relating primarily to McGowan's official duties and to his interest in changing naval regulations he regarded as discriminatory. Correspondents include Philip Andrews, Bernard M. Baruch, Charles J. Bonaparte, Thomas J. Cowie, Josephus Daniels, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Benjamin R. Tillman, and Woodrow Wilson.” Letters, 1883-1943, arranged alphabetically (4 boxes); subject file, 1895-1920 (3 boxes). Newton Diehl Baker* (1871-1937), Papers of, 1898-1962, and Letterbooks of, 1903-15. Cleveland: City Solicitor, 1901-12 and Mayor, 1912-16; U.S. Secretary of War, 1916-21; author, attorney. “Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, speeches and articles, newspaper articles, and printed materials relating primarily to Baker's post-World War I activities as the head of several business firms and of a number of organizations devoted to education, law and jurisprudence, and philanthropy, relief, and other types of human services. . . . Includes material relating to Baker's post as U.S. secretary of war in Woodrow Wilson's cabinet during World War I. Correspondents include John H. Clarke, Josephus Daniels, Norman H. Davis, Thomas G. Frothingham, Norman Hapgood, Ralph Hayes, Institute of Pacific Relations, Thomas W. Lamont, Esther Everett Lape, Walter Lippmann, Charles A. Mooney, George Foster Peabody, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Louis B. Selzer, James T. Shotwell, Samuel Ungerleider, George W. Wickersham, Edith Bolling Wilson, and Howell Wright.” Letters, alphabetical by year, 1916-21 (16 boxes); plus microfilm, “copies of letters written by or signed, 1903-15, by Baker during his terms as City Solicitor and Mayor,” chronological (18 reels). Reginald Rowan Belknap* (1871-1959), Papers of, 1784-1929, bulk: 1900-29. U.S. Naval Academy, 1891; Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy; son of Rear Admiral George Eugene Belknap*, whose papers are also held by the Manuscript Division. “Correspondence, financial and legal records, photos, newspaper clippings, and printed matter. Primarily correspondence on personal and social matters between Belknap and his family.” Family and personal correspondence, 1900-20 (16 boxes). John P. Frey* (1871-1957), Papers of, 1891-1951 (7/33). John Philip Frey*: Leader, International Molders’ Union; editor, 1908-27, Molders Journal; from 1927, Metal Trades Department, A.F. of L. “Correspondence, diary, December 1936, articles, speeches, memoranda, notebooks, research notes, financial data, labor agreements, legal briefs, minutes, reports, pamphlets, periodicals, clippings, posters, and photographs. Includes a name and subject index to the International Molders Journal for the period of Frey's editorship, and five scrapbooks of clippings dealing with his activities in the American Federation of Labor.” Letters and other papers, 1903-51, arranged alphabetically by subject. Irwin Hood Hoover* (1871-1933), Papers of, 1909-1933 (3/7). Ike Hoover*: Chief Usher at the White House, 1891-1933; memoir: Forty-Two Years at the White House (1934). “Mainly diaries and diary notes kept concerning Presidents and life in the White House. Includes a few pieces of correspondence and a number of notes addressed to Hoover, many of which are from Woodrow Wilson, some relating to his wedding to Edith Bolling; an initialed "delivery copy" of Wilson's message to Congress, August 27, 1913; and a series of letters from Hoover to his family written during his trip to France with Wilson, 1918-1919.” Cordell Hull* (1871-1955), Papers of, 1908-1956, bulk: 1933-1944. Cumberland University Law, Lebanon TN, and Tennessee Bar, 1891; practiced Celina TN; Tennessee legislature, 1893-97; Captain, U.S. Army, 1898; Judge, 1903-07, Circuit Court; U.S. Congress, 1907-21 and 1923-31, and U.S. Senate, 1931-33, Democrat, Tennessee; Chair, 1921-24, Democratic National Executive Committee; U.S. Secretary of State, 1933-1944; Nobel Peace Prize, 1945; The Memoirs of Cordell Hull (2 v., 1948), and others. “Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, MS., speeches and statements, scrapbooks, and printed matter relating to Hull's career, chiefly in the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration. . . . Correspondents include Frederick H. Allen, Newton D. Baker, Emily Newell Blair, Bainbridge Colby, James M. Cox, Josephus Daniels, Norman H. Davis, Joseph F. Guffey, Charles Hamlin, Frank B. Kellogg, Robert Lansing, George Fort Milton, Gifford Pinchot, Key Pittman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Alfred E. Smith, Joseph P. Tumulty, and Woodrow Wilson.” Letters, 1910-20 (2 boxes); newspaper clippings, 1908-24 (1 box). William Dawson Johnston* (1871-1928), Papers of, 1900-1927 (12/13). Brown, 1893, University of Chicago, Harvard, MA, 1898; taught history, 1894-1900, University of Michigan and Brown; librarian, 1900-28: Library of Congress, 1900-1907, 1926-1928; U.S. Bureau of Education, 1907-09; Columbia University, 1909-1914; Saint Paul MN Public Library, 1914-1921; bibliographer: An International Catalogue of the Current Literature of the Social Sciences (1907); author: The Earliest Free Public Library Movement in Washington DC, 1849-1874 (1906), and others. “Correspondence, memoranda, reports, lists, notes, reprints of articles and papers read, notes for a projected second volume of Johnston's History of the Library of Congress, 1800-1860 (1904) and for his projected "College and University Libraries"; a clipping file and photographs. Includes material on libraries, their subject fields, services, statistics, and history;” and on Johnston's seminal role in the systematic organization of library collections. Correspondents include Melvil Dewey, Herbert Putnam, and many other prominent librarians.” Letters, 1900-20 (2 boxes); subject files, libraries, 1900-20 (3 boxes); MSS. file, library history (1 box); newspaper clippings, 1900-20 (6 boxes). Hendrik Christian Andersen* (1872-1940), Papers of, 1844-1940, bulk: 1890-1920. “Author and sculptor residing in Rome, Italy.” “Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, articles, books, poetry, lectures, Andersen (Anderson) family papers, drawings, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Andersen's interest in the arts and in the creation of a world capital. Also includes correspondence, diaries, notebooks, and writings of his sister-in-law, Olivia Cushing Andersen. Correspondents include Mary Berenson, Cass Gilbert, Ernest Hébrard, Hamilton Holt, Herbert Hoover, Henry James, Jeremiah Whipple Jenks, David Starr Jordan, Franklin K. Lane, Herbert Putnam, Sun Yat-Sen, and William H. Taft. (In part, typewritten transcripts.)” Letters and other papers, 1896-1920 (9 boxes). Diary of George Louis, 1918-19 (1/1). George Louis Beer* (1872-1920): Historian, economic aspects and development of British colonial policy in America; one of several experts, American staff, Paris Peace Conference. Details of Beer’s activities in Paris. Herbert Corey* (1872-1954), Papers of, 1847-1954 (10/24). Journalist: Cincinnati Inquirer, 1900; Europe, 1914-18, World War I; Associated Newspapers, 1912-30. “Correspondence, diaries, datebooks, literary MSS., notebooks, family Bible, clippings, printed material, and photographs, relating chiefly to Corey's activities as a writer and as a journalist in Europe during World War I. Correspondents include Simon Lake.” Diaries, letters, 1896-1920 (3 boxes); scrapbooks, notebooks, clippings, 1914-19 (5 boxes). James Couzens* (1872-1936), Papers of, 1903-1940. Clerk, 1897-1903, coal business; executive, 1903-19, Ford Motor Co.; president, Detroit and Highland Park State Bank; director, Detroit Trust Co.; director, U.S. Chamber of Commerce; member, National Civic Association; Detroit MI: commissioner of street railways 1913-15, police commissioner, 1916-18, campaign for and Mayor, 1918-22; U.S. Senate, 1922-36, Republican, Michigan. “Correspondence, articles, speeches, subject files, and scrapbooks, and other papers relating to Couzen's” commercial and industrial interests, public service, and “farm near Pontiac MI. Correspondents include James Francis Byrnes, Arthur Capper, John J. Carson, Roy D. Chapin, Charles E. Coughlin, Glenn Hammond Curtiss, Joseph Edward Davies, Horace E. Dodge, John F. Dodge, Henry Ford, William Green, Edgar A. Guest, Herbert Hoover, Cordell Hull, Jesse H. Jones, Charles Horace Mayo, Frank Murphy, Herbert Bayard Swope, Arthur H. Vandenberg, and William H. Woodin.” General letters, arranged chronologically, 1905-20 (9 boxes); Detroit charities, parolees, 1915-19 (1 box); Detroit Trust Co., 1919-20 (1 box); mayoral election, 1918 (3 boxes); scrapbooks, 1911-20 (35 boxes). Lloyd Carpenter Griscom* (1872-1959), Papers of, 1898-1951 (2/4). Lloyd C. Griscom*: U.S. Army, 1898; diplomatic posts: Constantinople, 1899-1901; Persia (Iran), 1901-1902; Japan, 1902-1906; Brazil, 1906-07; and Italy, 1907-1909; delegate with Elihu Root, Republican National Convention, 1912; practiced law, New York, 1911-20; member, 1918-19, General John J. Pershing’s Staff, AEF. “Diaries, 1901-1921; family and general letters, 1900-1951; memoranda, 1907-1940; . . . biographical materials, newspaper clippings, and broadsides, mainly related to Griscom's diplomatic career after 1900. Correspondents include Mabel T. Boardman, Arthur Meeker, John J. Pershing, Elihu Root, Francis Lynde Stetson, Wesley W. Stout, and William Howard Taft.” Learned Hand* (1872-1961), Papers of, 1909-1924 (5/7). Billings Learned Hand*: Harvard, B.A., M.A., philosophy, 1894 and Law, 1896; practiced Albany NY and New York City; Judge, Southern District of New York, 1909-24, and, 1924-51, senior Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. “Concise summaries of trials in civil, criminal, and admiralty courts presided over by Hand” through 1924 in U.S. District Court. Robert Hall Campbell Kelton* (1872-1922), Papers of, 1888-1923 (63 items). Son of Union Army Brigadier General John Cunningham Kelton (1828-1893), and Adjutant General, U.S. Army, Washington DC. Electrical engineer, 1895-98; U.S. Army, Coast Artillery Corps, 1898-1922, including AEF, 1917-18: Colonel, Chief-of-Staff, Third Division. Letters, reports, orders to duty, biographical sketch (1 box). Judson King* (1872-1958), Papers of, 1900-1958. Battle Creek MI College, University of Michigan; founder, editor, 1902-05, Dennison TX Morning Sun and editor, 1905-06, Toledo OH Independent Voter; Secretary, 1906-08, Toledo University; Field Secretary, 1908-10, Ohio Direct Legislation League; lecture circuit, 1910-13; founder and Director, 1913-58, National popular League; Consultant, 1935-44, U.S. Rural Electrification Administration; author: The Conservation Fight, from Theodore Roosevelt to the Tennessee Valley Authority (1959). “Correspondence, memoranda, writings, reports, press releases, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, printed material, charts, maps, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to the development of public power policy in the United States.” “Correspondents include George D. Aiken, John M. Carmody, Lister Hill, David Eli Lilienthal, George Fort Milton, George W. Norris, Gifford Pinchot, Louis F. Post family, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Slattery, Frank P. Walsh, and William Allen White. Letters, 1912-32 (2 boxes); National Popular Government League Bulletins, 1913-21, (1 box); initiative, referendum, and recall, arranged by state, 1900-20 (3 boxes); scrapbooks, 1907-20 (2 boxes). John McCrae* (1872-1918), Papers of, 1910-1938 (11 items). Lieutenant Colonel and physician, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-18; poet: In Flanders Fields and Other Poems (1919); co-author: A Textbook of Pathology for Students of Medicine (1912). Letters, 1910-15, concerning literary matters. Robert McNutt McElroy* (1872-1959), Papers of, ca. 1909-1924, bulk: 1913-1924 (9/29).
“Correspondence; MS. and notes for the book, a list of sources, and copies of Cleveland letters; lecture notes, speeches, memoranda, printed matter, and scrapbook of clippings relating chiefly to McElroy's career, the issue of loyalty during World War I, active support of General Leonard Wood for the Republican nomination for the Presidency in 1920, and later of Warren G. Harding; and especially to his work as the official biographer of Cleveland. Correspondence of 1922-1924 relates to the 90 collections of Cleveland letters that McElroy assembled and later presented to the Library of Congress. Correspondents include James Gibbons, Warren G. Harding, Arthur W. Page, Mrs. Thomas J. Preston, Jr. (formerly Mrs. Cleveland), George Haven Putnam, and Leonard Wood.” Letters, 1913-20 (6 boxes); notes, National Security League (1 box); election, 1920 (1 box). Lewis Nathaniel Chase* (1873-1937), Papers of, 1892-1941. Lewis N.Chase*: Shakespearean actor, 1895-96; Professor of English: Columbia University, 1899-1902, Indiana University, 1903-07, Louisville University, 1907-08, Bordeaux, France, 1909-10, Wisconsin University, 1916-17,Rochester University, 1917-19, Aligarh, India, Muslim University, 1919-22; literary critic: Poe and His Poetry, English Heroic Play, etc. “Diary, travel notes, and photographs, and miscellaneous papers of his wife, Emma Lester*, including copies of her poetry.” Letters, arranged alphabetically: poets, 1900-40 (14 boxes), authors, 1892-1940 (19 boxes); family letters: received, 1895-1928 (4 boxes), sent, 1893-1929 (5 boxes); other family letters (11 boxes); general file, arranged alphabetically, 1895-1941: general letters, lecture notes, brochures, student papers, examinations, reports (17 boxes); miscellany: biographical material, lecture notes, clippings, printed matter (17 boxes). Pearl Adele Chase*, Papers of, 1910-25. Author. Diary material, letters, scrapbooks, book MSS., photos (7 boxes) William W. Coblentz* (1873-1962), Papers of, 1884-1960 5/9. William Weber Coblentz*: physicist, National Bureau of Standards, Washington DC; pioneer who worked in the fields of infrared spectroscopy and the application of radiometry to astronomical problems; author. “Correspondence, 1893-1960, . . . biographical material, memorabilia, financial records, 1884-1905, scientific notebooks concerning stellar and planetary radiation, 1914-1926, and psychic phenomena, 1910-1915, photos, and printed copies of his articles and books, frequently annotated. . . . Correspondents include Cleveland Abbe, Charles G. Abbot, George E. Hale, Dayton C. Miller, August H. Pfund, and Willis Rodney Whitney.” Letters received, 1896-1920 (1 box). Lee De Forest* (1873-1961), Papers of, 1884-1955. Ph. D., 1899, Sheffield Scientific School, Yale; his dissertation, “Reflection of Hertzian Waves from the Ends of Parallel Wires,” examined the basic physics that culminated in the development of radio; researched the use of and improved the vacuum tube to detect radio waves, amplify telephone long distance calls, and transmit radio signals; invented, 1906, the Audion tube; involved in many patent and commercial disputes. An opera lover, De Forest broadcast live, 1910, Enrico Caruso and the Metropolitan Opera to a few reporters in order to demonstrate the possible use of wireless communication to disseminate entertainment, information, and religious services within major cities. “Correspondence, diaries, technical notes, MSS. of essays and poetry, biographical sketches, clippings, printed material, memorabilia, schematics, sketches, and photographs relating to De Forest's inventions in radio and electronics and their effect on sound recording and transmission, efforts to exploit his discoveries through various business ventures, and his competition with Guglielmo Marconi in the field of wireless communication. Also includes material concerning his activities as a student in preparatory school and at Yale University.” Diaries, 1891-1949 (23 v.). Henry Prather Fletcher* (1873-1959), Papers of, 1898-1958 (9/29). Rough Riders, 1898; U.S. Army, 1899-1901; U.S. diplomat, 1902-29: Havana, 1902-03; Peking, 1903-05; Lisbon, 1905-07; Santiago, Chile, 1909-16; Mexico City, 1916-20, Brussels, and Rome; U.S. Under Secretary of State, 1921-1922; attended fifth, 1923, and sixth, 1928, Pan-American Conferences. “Correspondence; diaries, 1915, 1925-1926; letter book, 1898-1899; speeches and articles, scrapbook, clippings, memorabilia, photographs, and other papers. . . . Later correspondence “deals chiefly with the Republican Party. Correspondents include Fletcher's wife, Beatrice Bend Fletcher, as well as William Jennings Bryan, Calvin Coolidge, Joseph C. Grew, Herbert Hoover, Edward M. House, Charles Evans Hughes, Frank B. Kellogg, Frank Knox, Alfred M. Landon, Robert Lansing, Henry Cabot Lodge, John Bassett Moore, Benito Mussolini, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Willard Straight, Robert A. Taft, and William Howard Taft.” Letters, 1898-1920 (7 boxes). Rudolph Forster* (1873-1943), Papers of, 1898-1943. Executive Clerk and Secretary, 1897-1943, to Presidents, White House. “Correspondence, memoranda, notes, invitations, clippings, telegrams, and other papers accumulated by Forster,” particularly, “the Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt administrations. Includes handwritten notes and memoranda from most of the presidents, a few drafts and signed printed copies of presidential proclamations, and social notes.” Ellen Newbold La Motte Collection on Opium Traffic, 1919-1933. Ellen Newbold La Motte* (1873-1961): Nurse; Superintendent, Tuberculosis Division, Baltimore MD Health Department; nurse with French Army in World War I; traveler and observer on conditions in the Far East; author: The Backwash of War: The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield As Witnessed By an American Hospital Nurse (1916), and others. “Mimeographed and printed papers originating mainly in the agenda and from the proceedings of the Advisory Committee of the League of Nations on the Traffic in Drugs, in committee reports to the Assembly of the League, and in the minutes of the Council of the League and the reports of League members.” Literary Society of Washington, Washington DC, Records of, 1873-1987 (3/17). “Correspondence, minutes of meetings, papers presented, poems, financial records, clippings, and printed matter, arranged according to the type of record and relating to the development and business of the organization, which included among its members many leading cultural and literary figures of Washington. Members represented include Albert W. Atwood, Alexander Graham Bell, Clifford K. Berryman, George F. Bowerman, Katherine Garrison Chapin, Tyler Dennett, Edward Miner Gallaudet, Frederick R. Goff, Gilbert H. Grosvenor, David Jayne Hill, Margaret Landon, Waldo G. Leland, Julia Ten Eyck McBlair, David C. Mearns, John C. Merriam, Charles Moore, Helen Nicolay, Theodore W. Noyes, Robert Lincoln O'Brien, William E. Safford, Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Florence P. Spofford, Henry White, Robert S. Woodward, and Robert Sterling Yard.” William Surrey Hart* (1874-1946), Papers of, 1914-55 (3/6). (now held by Los angeles natural history museum, seaves center?) Edith Benham Helm* (1874-1962), Papers of, 1918-1953 (6/32). Edith Benham*: Social secretary to Edith Bolling Wilson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Bess Truman during their years in the White House; memoir: The Captains and the Kings (1954). “Letters, notes, scrapbooks, photographs, and memorabilia; scrapbooks comprise the bulk of the collection.” Original notes and letters from Wilson’s trips to Paris and Peace Conference, 1918-19 (1 box) and typed transcripts (1 box); photos, 1918-19 (2 boxes); resignation, 1920, of Secretary of State Lansing (1 box). Harry Houdini Collection. Harry Houdini*, born Ehrich Weiss* (1874-1926): Magician and collector of materials relating to the history of magician’s performances and spiritualism: Miracle mongers and their methods; author: A Complete Exposé of the Modus Operandi of Fire Eaters, Heat Resisters, Poison Eaters, Venomous Reptile Defiers, Sword Swallowers, Human Ostriches, Strong Men, etc., by Houdini . . . (1920), and others. Rare Books and Special Collections: Letters received from those interested in magic and spiritualism; newspapers and periodicals, e.g., Chicago, later, Kansas City Sphinx, 1902-19; London Magic Circular, 1906-24; and New York Mahatma, 1895, 1898-1906; posters, programs, catalogs, and other ephemera dealing with magic and spiritualism. 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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