Breckinridge Long* (1881-1958), Papers of, 1486-1948, bulk: 1910-1948 (89/259).
Princeton University, 1904 and M.A. 1909; St. Louis Law, Washington University, 1905-06, and Missouri Bar; Secretary, 1914, Missouri Code Commission on Revision of Judicial Procedure; Third Assistant U.S. Secretary of State, 1917-1920, Chair, 1925-29, Democratic Party’s National Jefferson Centennial Commission; Ambassador, 1933-1936, Italy; Ambassador on Special Mission, 1938, Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay; Assistant Secretary of State, supervised Immigrant Visa Section, 1940-1944.
“Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, 1916-1946, writings, reports, notes, speeches, newspaper clippings, memorabilia, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Long's career in government and politics, 1908-44. Also documents Long's work as Trustee, 1937-41, Princeton University, and includes papers, 1740-1945, of the Blair, Breckinridge, Long, and Preston families as well as an autograph collection, 1486-1923.
Correspondents include Newton Diehl Baker, Ray Stannard Baker, Bernard M. Baruch, Desha Breckinridge, Jefferson Caffery, Wilbur J. Carr, Bainbridge Colby, Homer S. Cummings, Josephus Daniels, J. Lionberger Davis, James Aloysius Farley, Carter Glass, Harry Bartow Hawes, W. R. Hollister, Edward Mandell House, Andrieus Aristieus Jones, Michael Kinney, Robert Lansing, William Gibbs McAdoo, Vance Criswell McCormick, Wilbur W. Marsh, George S. Messersmith, George Fort Milton, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Alexander Mitchell Palmer, William Phillips, Key Pittman, Frank L. Polk, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Daniel C. Roper, Selden P. Spencer, William Stanley, Herbert Bayard Swope, Frank Abner Thompson, Guy Atwood Thompson, Joseph P. Tumulty, and Woodrow Wilson.”
Diaries, 1916-21 (2 boxes); general letters, 1903-20 (55 boxes); general subject files, 1904-20 (8 boxes); State Department, 1917-20 (9 boxes); scrapbooks, 1916-20 (2 boxes).
Clinton Joseph Davisson* (1882-1958), Papers of, 1916-1957, bulk: 1917-1946.
University of Chicago, 1908, Princeton, Ph. D., 1911; instructor, 1911-17, Carnegie Institute of Technology; physicist, Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1917-46; Nobel Prize in Physics, 1937.
“Primarily scientific papers pertaining to Davisson's major research areas while he was employed by Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., and Western Electric Company. Includes MSS. of articles accompanied by research notes and statistics; MSS. relating to his study of the secondary emission of electrons; materials relating to electron optics, the construction of instruments for election focusing, and crystal physics used to develop quartz crystal plates as circuit elements; lecture notes at the University of Virginia, 1947-1948; and correspondence concerning Davisson's confirmation of the wave properties of electrons. Includes some personal correspondence.”
Geraldine Farrar* (1882-1967), Papers of, 1895-1965 (30/90).
American soprano: Monte Carlo Opera, 1903-06; Metropolitan Opera, 1906-22; motion picture actress, 1915-19.
Music Division:
Letters, 1897-1920 (200 items); photos, programs, lecture material, music (MS. And printed), books, posters, early phonograph records of her voice; scrapbooks relating to her career.
Felix Frankfurter* (1882-1965), Papers of, 1846-1966, bulk: 1907-1966.
City College of New York, 1902; Harvard Law, New York Bar, 1905; Assistant U.S. Attorney, New York City, 1906-10; Law Officer, 1911-14; Bureau of Insular Affairs, U.S. War Department; faculty member, 1914-1939, Harvard Law School; War Department and President’s Mediation Commission, 1917-18; Chair, War Labor Policies Board, 1918-19; Paris Peace Conference, 1919-1920; Associate Justice, 1939-62, U.S. Supreme Court; member, Zionist Commission; helped found The New Republic and the American Civil Liberties Union.
“Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, oral history interviews, writings, speeches, notes, legal file, newspaper clippings, printed material, photographs, and other papers reflecting Frankfurter's involvement with significant political and social movements and events and his acquaintance with leaders in many segments of society. . . .
Subjects include the judicial process, law, development of legal and social institutions, the personalities and legal philosophies of members of the Supreme Court, the Sacco-Vanzetti case, and the relation between law and social action. Other topics include banking structure, a survey of crime and criminal justice in Boston conducted by Harvard Law School, foreign affairs, independent regulatory commissions, industrial relations, labor injunctions, . . . national politics in the United States and Great Britain, public utilities, railroad reorganization, and unemployment. Also includes material pertaining to various organizations including the American Civil Liberties Union, American Law Institute, Cleveland Foundation, National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement (U.S. Wickersham Commission), National Consumers' League, Social Science Research Council, and U.S. War Labor Policies Board.
Includes some papers, 1906-1910, of William Henry Moody and files containing materials by or about Oliver Wendell Holmes, including correspondence, 1929-1935, of his law clerks. Also includes Frank W. Buxton's memoir, Chum Felix Frankfurter: A Retired Journalist's Account of a Genius In His Off-duty Hours (1970).
Family correspondents include Frankfurter's wife, Marion Denman Frankfurter, and his sisters, Estelle S. Frankfurter and Ella Rogers.
Other correspondents include Dean Acheson, Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Emory R. Buckner, Charles C. Burlingham, Frank W. Buxton, Loring Christie, Alfred E. Cohn, Herbert David Croly, Albert Einstein, Herbert Feis, Jerome Frank, Albert M. Friedenberg, Henry J. Friendly, Francis Hackett, Learned Hand, Julian Huxley, Harold Joseph Laski, W. S. Lewis, Max Lowenthal, Archibald MacLeish, Reinhold Niebuhr, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Henry Lewis Stimson.”
Letters, 1878-1965, and subject files, 1911-65, arranged alphabetically.
Percy Aldridge Granger* (1882-1961), Papers of, 1899-1961 (15/84).
Pianist, composer; emigrated, 1914, Australia to United States; taught, 1919-31, summer sessions, Chicago Musical College.
Music Division:
Papers, 1899-1920 (15 boxes).
Hermann Hagedorn* (1882-1964), Papers of, 1912-1933.
Harvard, and Instructor, 1909-11; poet: The Silver Blade, a Play in Verse (1907), Poems and Ballads (1912), and others; helped found, 1917, The Vigilantes in opposition to Kaiser Wilhelm, and edited, 1917, a patriotic collection, Fifes and Drums; biographer of a general, That Human Being, Leonard Wood (1920), a banker, The Magnate: William Boyce Thompson and His Time, 1869-1930 (1935), a president, The Roosevelt Family of Sagamore Hill (1954), and others; editor, The Works of Theodore Roosevelt (1923-26); Executive Director, Theodore Roosevelt Association.
“Correspondence, subject files, research materials, and miscellany relating primarily to Hagedorn's research on and biographies of Wood and Thompson. Includes original materials relating to Thompson's role in relief work in Russia following the Revolution and in securing diplomatic recognition for the Soviets. Also includes material on Hagedorn's activities relating to World War I loyalty questions, especially the problems of his fellow German Americans and The Vigilantes, a militant group of patriotic writers.
Correspondents include Charles F. Ayer, Newton D. Baker, Bernard Baruch, Albert R. Brunker, Grenville Clark, George B. Cortelyou, Harvey Cushing, Johnson Hagood, James G. Harbord, Harry S. Howland, Cornelius Kelleher, Frank Ross McCoy, Arthur W. Page, Raymond Robins, Elihu Root, Frank Steinhart, Henry L. Stimson, Samuel M. Williams, and Louisa Wood.”
Biographical papers: Thompson (10 boxes), Wood (21 boxes); German-Americans and Vigilantes (4 boxes).
American Federation of Labor*, Records of, 1883-1925 (259/354).
AFL*: “Letterpress books containing correspondence of the presidents of the American Federation of Labor, Samuel Gompers, and William Green, and letters by other officials, James Duncan, Gabriel Edmonston, Frank K. Foster, and John McBride. Topics include the formation of local unions, conduct of meetings, charters, by-laws, ethics, publicity, arbitration, the political principles of the AFL, communism, socialism, anthracite coal strikes of 1897 and 1902, fund raising, boycotts, American Railway Union, International Association of Machinists, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, United Mine Workers of America, and The American Federationist, magazine of the AFL.
Correspondents include Susan B. Anthony, Grover Cleveland, William Hugh Johnston, John Llewellyn Lewis, L. J. McGruder, Peter J. McGuire, John Mitchell, John Morrison, Herman Robinson, Theodore Roosevelt, Daniel Joseph Tobin, Henry White, and Woodrow Wilson.”
Letterpress copybooks of Samuel Gompers*, 1850-1924, and William Green*, 1896-1920 (1896-1920, 259 v.). Each volume has a name index.
Albert Morris Cohen * (1883-1959), Papers of, 1904-1955.
Naval officer.
“Family and general correspondence, journals, reports, circulars, photographs, and scrapbooks relating to Cohen's service with the U.S. Naval Aviation Corps during World War I and to his duties aboard the U.S. transport ship George Washington and the U.S. battleship Louisiana.
Family correspondents include Cohen's father, Charles J. Cohen, his mother, Clotilda Florance Cohen, his brother, Henry Barnet Cohen, and his sister, Eleanor C. Hillman.”
Jo Davidson* (1883-1952), Papers of, 1906-1952 (3/18).
Joseph Davidson*: Sculptor.
“Correspondence, notes, speeches, articles, clippings, other papers, and photos. Includes material relating to Davidson's career as a sculptor. . . . Family correspondents include his first wife Yvonne, his second wife Florence, and his sons Jean and Jacques. Other correspondents include Helen Keller, Lincoln Steffens, and Frank Swinnerton. Includes individual files on many of Davidson's sculptures.
Letters, 1906-20 (1 box).
Dennett Family Papers, 1913-1925 (1/1).
Tyler Dennett* (1883-1949) letters.
“Correspondence, receipts, notes, a certificate, and printed material of various members of the Dennett and Fenner families, though consisting chiefly of letters between” Baptist minister “Rev. Wilbur E. Dennett* of Providence RI, and his second wife, Philena (i.e., Lena) Sweet (Fenner) Dennett, relating to personal and family affairs” and letters exchanged with his son, Tyler Wilbur Dennett*.
Tyler Dennett* (1883-1949), Papers of, 1861-1933 (3/8).
Tyler Wilbur Dennett*: Williams College, 1904, and succeeded Harry A. Garfield as President, 1934-37; Union Theological Seminary, 1908; Congregational minister briefly and journalist; lecturer, 1923-24 and Ph. D. in history, 1925, Johns Hopkins University; Chief, 1924-29, Division of Publications and advisor in history, 1929-31, U.S. Department of State; Princeton, 1931-34; author: Roosevelt and the Russo-Japanese War: A Critical Study of American Policy in Eastern Asia, 1902-05 (1925) and John Hay: From Poetry to Politics (1933), for which Dennett received the Pulitzer Prize in Biography.
“Correspondence, research notes and material, galley proofs, photos, and printed matter relating to Dennett's biography of John Hay and to his planned edition of the John Hay* letters. Includes original correspondence of Hay with Theodore Roosevelt and James Abram Garfield and copies of Hay's letters
Correspondents include Allan Nevins and Dodd, Mead & Company.”
Hay’s letters, 1897-1905 (3 boxes).
Carl Engel* (1883-1944), Papers of, 1896-1944 (4/5).
Editor, advisor, 1909-21, Boston Music Company.
Music Division:
Letters, mainly received, 1905-09 (1 box).
E. A. Goldenweiser* (1883-1953), Papers of, 1919-1952, bulk: 1930-1945 (1/9).
Emanuel Alexandrovich Goldenweiser*: Born Russia; economist; Director, 1930-45, Division of Research and Statistics, Federal Reserve Board; President, 1946, American Economic Association; author of studies for U.S. Government: Chinese and Japanese in the United States (1914); A Study of the Tenant Systems of Farming in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta (1916); A Survey of the Fertilizer Industry (1919); with Leon E. Truesdell, Farm Tenancy in the United States (Census Monograph No. IV, 1924).
“A subject file contains memoranda, reports, notes, speeches, Congressional testimony, etc., relating almost wholly to financial and economic affairs, with major emphasis on Federal Reserve Board matters.
Includes correspondence with Dean G. Acheson, Louis D. Brandeis, Paul H. Douglas, Marriner S. Eccles, Ralph A. Young, Carter Glass, John Maynard Keynes, Charles Rist, Fred M. Vinson, and others.”
Letters, 1919-20 (1 box).
Grand Army of the Republic, Records of the, 1883-1928 (7 items).
“Proceedings of the 1st-11th annual encampments of the Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Florida, 1884-1894, and of the 7th, 8th, and 10th annual encampments of the Department of Nebraska, 1883-1886; and Memorial Record of the Department of the Potomac, Burnside Post 8, Washington DC, presented to the Post by George Truesdell in 1889. Department of Florida proceedings contain printed general orders and printed reports of the 8th, 10th, and 11th meetings.
The Burnside Post record consists of a bound volume of printed forms filled in with biographical information and war records of the post's members, preceded by a foreword, June 25, 1928, by F. J. Young giving a brief history of the post” and includes a summation of each veteran’s activities from 1865 to his death, 1889-1919 (1 v.).
Leland Harrison* (1883-1951), Papers of, 1915-1947, bulk: 1918-1921 (70/125).
Diplomatic posts: Japan, 1907-08; Peking, 1909; London, 1910; Columbia, 1912; Diplomatic Secretary, 1918-19, American Commission to Negotiate Peace; Sweden, 1927-29; Uruguay, 1929-30; Switzerland, 1937-47.
“Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, minutes and resolutions of conferences, treaty documents, reports, notes, bulletins, clippings, maps, and memorabilia relating primarily to the Paris Peace Conference.
Correspondents include Dean G. Acheson, William F. Clayton, Joseph C. Grew, Warren G. Harding, Manley O. Hudson, Cordell Hull, Alexander Kirk, Robert Lansing, Henry Cabot Lodge, Frank R. McCoy, George S. Messersmith, Robert D. Murphy, William Phillips, Frank L. Polk, Eliot Wadsworth, Sumner Welles, and John G. Winant.”
Letters, 1911-20 (2 boxes); Paris Peace Conference, 1918-19 (67 boxes).
Charles F. Heartman* (1883-1953), Papers of, 1901-1910.
Charles Frederick Heartman*: Emigrated from Germany, and from 1913, an antiquarian book dealer successively in New York City, Vermont, New Jersey, Mississippi, Texas, and New Orleans; known for his catalogues, bibliographies of rare Americana; also collected material related to African and African-American history; Memoir: Twenty-five Years in the Auction Business and What Now? (1938).
“Manuscripts of articles, stories and poems, including his unpublished "Roman Fragment," written before Heartman came to America in 1910.”
W. L. McAtee* (1883-1962), Papers of, 1803-1963, bulk: 1900-1960.
Waldo Lee McAtee*: Indiana University, A.B., and Museum, 1901-04, Curator of Birds, and A.M, 1906; biologist, ornithologist, and editor, 1904-47, U.S. Biological Survey and its successor, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Curator of Hemiptera, Smithsonian Institution; founding editor, 1935-47, Wildlife Review and 1937-42, Journal of Wildlife Management; author: A Sketch of the Natural History of the District of Columbia (1918), and others.
“Correspondence, research and writings, field notes and notebooks, poetry, prose, reviews, and other avocational writings, calendars, diaries, memorabilia, scrapbook, wills, and printed matter chiefly documenting McAtee's scientific career. Includes material relating to his research on the food habits of birds; his observations of wildlife, insects, and flora for his book; his opposition to Darwin's theories of evolution and natural selection; his biographical files on prominent scientists; and his collection of handwriting samples of botanists, entomologists, mammologists, ornithologists, and others.
Correspondents include Arthur M. Banta, F. E. L. Beal, Donald Beaty Bloch, Lee L. Buchanan, Frank M. Chapman, Josiah Henry Combs, A. K. Fisher, Ira Noel Gabrielson, Ernest G. Holt, J. Douglas Hood, Alfred C. Kinsey, Hoyes Lloyd, Harry Malleis, John Russell Malloch, H. L. Mencken, Edward Alexander Preble, Henry W. Shoemaker, Herbert L. Stoddard, John K. Terres, Joseph Sanford Wade, Florence Warnick, and Casey A. Wood.
Family correspondents include his wife, Fannie E. McAtee, his brother, Morris McAtee, and his son, Robert B. McAtee.”
Letters, 1900-29, arranged alphabetically (14 boxes); “evolution notes” (5 boxes).
Frederick Vallette McNair* (1882-1962), Papers of, 1916-1922 (5/5).
Son of Rear Admiral Frederick Vallette McNair (1839-1900).
U.S. Naval Academy, 1903; Lieutenant and Medal of Honor, 1914, commanded ground forces at Vera Cruz, Mexico; retired, Captain.
“Naval signals regarding the sighting of enemy submarines or floating mines and their positions and printed materials concerning submarines, torpedoes, mines, and zeppelins, a type of airship. Relates chiefly to McNair's service on the U.S.S. Winslow” (DD-53) which patrolled, 1917-19, in British and French waters during World War I.
Florence Ellinwood Allen* (1884-1966), Papers of, 1907-65 (3/11).
Western Reserve University for Women, 1904, Political Science degree, 1908; studied music, Berlin; music critic, 1906-09, Cleveland Plain Dealer; studied law, University of Chicago and New York University; Ohio Bar, 1914; Assistant Prosecutor, 1919, Cuyahoga County OH; Judge, 1920-21, Court of Common Pleas; Associate Justice, Ohio Supreme Court, 1922-34; U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, 1934-59; feminist, author, lecturer.
“Correspondence, speeches, scrapbooks, honors and citations, clippings, photos, and other papers, relating to Judge Allen's career. . . and her activities in behalf of women's rights and peace through international law.
Correspondents include Nancy Witcher Langhorne (Viscountess Astor), Eleanor Roosevelt, Margaret Chase Smith, and members of the International Federation of Women Lawyers.”
Woman suffrage cartoons, pamphlets, and clippings, and some letters, 1915-20 (3 boxes).
American Historical Association*, Records of the, 1884-1985.
“Correspondence, notes, minutes of meetings, financial records, MSS. of published and unpublished articles, reports, membership cards and lists, resolutions, legal briefs, and printed materials reflecting the association's history and its development of programs stimulating scholarly historical research and activities. Includes subject files, files of the secretary and executive secretary, various committees, the Executive Council, the Historical Service Board, and the treasurer, and editorial files of the American Historical Review.
Subjects include the role of the association in the establishment of the Public Archives Commission, relations with various professional associations (American Council of Learned Societies, American Economic Association, American Political Science Association, Social Science Research Council, and Society of American Archivists), establishment of the American Historical Review and its relations with Macmillan Company, encouragement of various writing projects.
Persons represented include Thomas P. Abernathy, Herbert Baxter Adams, Charles M. Andrews, Paul M. Angle, Thomas A. Baily, Frederic Bancroft, George Bancroft, Charles and Mary Beard, Carl Becker, Samuel Flagg Bemis, Herbert P. Bolton, Solon J. Buck, A. L. Burt, Avery Craven, Merle Curti, William A. Dunning, John Fairbank, Sidney Fay, Guy Stanton Ford, Worthington C. Ford, Dixon Ryan Fox, Leo Gershoy, Louis Gottschalk, Albert Bushnell Hart, Carlton J. H. Hayes, J. Franklin Jameson, Waldo G. Leland, Arthur Link, Donald McCoy, Dumas Malone, Ernest May, Frederick Merk, Samuel Eliot Morison, Richard B. Morris, William A. Morris, Dana G. Munro, Frank Owsley, John Parry, Frederick L. Paxson, Louis Pelzer, Dexter Perkins, U. B. Phillips, Julius W. Pratt, Charles W. Ramsdell, James G. Randall, James Harvey Robinson, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Robert Schuyler, Charles Seymour, Boyd Shafer, H. Morse Stephens, Frederick Jackson Turner, and Arthur Whitaker.”
“Secretary File,” 1890-1920: letter books, 1890-1908 (1 box), letters, alphabetical within each year, 1896-1920 (41 boxes).
William Smith Culbertson* (1884-1966), Papers of, 1897-1965.
Member, Vice-Chair, 1917-25, U.S. Tariff Commission; Professor of Law, 1919-56, Georgetown University.
“Correspondence, diaries, public documents, lecture notes; manuscripts of Culbertson's books, articles, speeches, and his unpublished memoirs, "Ventures in Time and Space"; and scrapbooks and memoranda relating to all phases of his career: U.S. Tariff Commission and diplomat, 1925-1933. Includes records of his law practice, lecture notes at Georgetown University, and manuscripts relating to his church activities and work in helping to establish a national Presbyterian church center in Washington DC.
Correspondents include Calvin Coolidge, Henry C. Emery, John H. Finley, Warren G. Harding, Herbert Hoover, Charles Evans Hughes, Cordell Hull, Edward N. Hurley, Charles F. Kent, Robert M. La Follette, Theodore Roosevelt, H. G. Wells, and William Allen White.”
Diaries, 1897-1924 (4 boxes); letters, 1897-1924 (6 boxes) and 1915-20 (2 v.).
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