Casimir Funk* (1884-1967), Papers of, 1944-1963.
Born Warsaw, Poland; studied biochemistry, Berne Switzerland; pioneer research, in vitamin deficiency as a cause of disease.
“Correspondence (1954-63), clipping, photograph, and typescript of autobiography, ‘Life of C. F.: A Retrospect at the Age of Sixty,’" an unpublished account, 1884-1944, of his professional education in Europe, early experiments with vitamins, and his emigration and work, 1915-23, in the United States: 1896-1920 (100 pp.).
Stanford Caldwell Hooper* (1884-1955), Papers of, 1899-1955.
U.S. Naval Academy, 1905 and instructor, 1910-11: electricity, physics, chemistry; Fleet Radio Officer, 1912-14, 1923-25; commanded, World War I, a destroyer, U.S.S. Fairfax; Chief, 1914-28, Radio Division, Bureau of Engineering, Navy Department; Rear Admiral and Director of Naval Communications, 1928-43; delegate, 1920s and 1930s, to national and international radio conferences.
“Correspondence, diaries, speeches, articles, transcripts of tape recordings, research notes, notebooks, financial and legal papers, bibliographical file, and newspaper clippings relating to Hooper's part in the planning and growth of radio communications in government service, his work in building the shore-detection radio finder system for the Navy, his design and construction of many of the Navy's high-power radio stations, and his role in persuading the U.S. government to help establish the Radio Corporation of America. Other subjects include long-life receiving and transmitting tubes, high-power vacuum-tubes, simultaneous multi-wave communications systems, remote control radio operational techniques, depth finders, sound-oscillated radio systems, the application of long distance radio techniques to aircraft, submarine sound detection systems, and radio-controlled target practice experiments.
Correspondents include William S. Benson, Mark L. Bristol, Richard E. Byrd, Jr., Royal S. Copeland, Josephus Daniels, John Hays Hammond, Jr., James G. Harbord, Hiram W. Johnson, Emory S. Land, Thomas A. Marshall, Elihu Root, Daniel C. Roper, David Sarnoff, and Owen D. Young.”
Letters, 1899-21 (3 boxes); tape recordings of an oral history of naval radio, undated notes: typescript text of tapes (1 box).
John McCormack* (1884-1945), Papers of, 1914-40 (86 items).
Music Division:
Opera and song programs; Irish songs; recordings; letters, 1914-20, exchanged between McCormack, his manager, and his accompanist (30 items).
1885+
George Nathan Caylor* (1885- ), Papers of.
“Born George Nathan Cohen*: businessman, labor arbitrator, and Socialist, of New York City.”
“Typescript of an unpublished autobiography entitled "If My Memory Serves Me Right," and eight short sketches or stories. Includes references to and discussions of persons and activities connected with the Socialist Party.”
His autobiography (1896-1920, 275 pp.) also includes descriptions of the author’s attempt to escape his Russian-Jewish heritage.
Bronson M. Cutting* (1885-1935), Papers of, 1899-1950, bulk: 1910-1935 (10/116).
Bronson Murray Cutting*: Harvard, 1910; newspaper publisher, 1910-35, Santa Fe, New Mexico; appointed, 1917, Captain, U.S. Army; Assistant Military Attache, 1917-18, American Embassy, London; U.S. Senate, 1927-1935, Republican, New Mexico.
Correspondence, essays, articles, speeches, detective reports, biographical information, legal papers, clippings, scrapbooks, printed material, and photographs. . . . His files as a publisher relate to political affairs in New Mexico and his investigations into political corruption in the state. . . .
Correspondents include Harold L. Ickes, Ezra Pound, and Theodore Roosevelt.
Letters, 1899-1920 (5 boxes); subject files, New Mexico, 1910-20 (5 boxes).
Everett Strait Hughes* (1885-1957), Papers of, 1903-1975, bulk: 1903-1929 and 1942-
1945.
U.S. Military Academy, 1908; ordnance officer from 1911; Major General and Chief of Ordnance Department, 1946-49, U.S. Army.
“Correspondence, diaries, and orders concerning Hughes's army career in ordnance and general staff work.” Documents the training and many aspects of cadet life at West Point NY and “his service during the Mexican Punitive Expedition, World War I including time with the AEF in France, and in World War II.
Correspondents include Levin Hicks Campbell, Mark W. Clark, Jack W. Coffee, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Curtis Franklin, Charles Barry Goodspeed, C. Ralph Huebner, Bob P. Hughes, Bob W. Hughes, William F. Hughes, Geoffrey Keyes, H. R. Kutz, Robert McGowan Littlejohn, John Porter Lucas, Frank McCullough, George Van Horn Mosely, Beatrice Banning Ayer Patton, George S. Patton, Virgil L. Peterson, George Rogers, Woodrow Wilson Storey, and the Hughes family.”
Diaries, 1904, 1906, 1918-19 (1 box); letters, 1903-20, (2 boxes).
Douglas Southall Freeman* (1886-1953), Papers of, 1900-1954, bulk: 1934-1954 (8/245).
Editor, 1915-49, Richmond VA News Leader; Pulitzer Prizes, Biography, 1935 and 1958: R. E. Lee: A Biography (1934-1935); and George Washington: A Biography (1948-1957).
“Correspondence, diaries, manuscripts and proofs of books and other works, articles, speeches, notebooks, source materials largely relating to the American Revolution and Civil War, bibliographical material, clippings, printed material, memorabilia, maps, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Freeman's biographical and historical research and writing; complete or partial manuscripts and proofs of Freeman's works. . . .
Correspondents include Frederic W. Boatwright, Harry F. Byrd, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Dumas Malone, George C. Marshall, Allan Nevins, and A. Willis Robertson.”
General letters, 1900-26, arranged alphabetically (5 boxes).
Henry Harley Arnold* (1886-1950), Papers of, 1903-1989, bulk: 1940-1946.
Hap Arnold*: U.S. Army-Air Force, 1907-46: learned (1911) to fly with Orville Wright; Army Air Force, 1916-20; five-star General, U.S. Air Force (1947).
“Correspondence, memoranda, journals, notebooks, drafts and proofs of Arnold's memoirs, Global Mission (1949), articles, speeches, reports, orders, printed material, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to the development of military aeronautics in the United States and to aeronautical policies and events of World War II. . . . Also documents Arnold's early career as an aviator including his training by the Wright brothers aviation company; his role in the development of commercial aeronautics including his air mail charter from the U.S. postmaster general and organization of Pan American Airways together with Carl Spaatz, Jack Jouett, and John J. Montgomery.
Correspondents include Hans Christian Adamson, Frank Maxwell Andrews, Bernard M. Baruch, Eugene H. Beebe, Lawrence Dale Bell, Follet Bradley, Malin Craig, James Harold Doolittle, Donald W. Douglas, Ira Eaker, Robert L. Eichelberger, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Joseph E. Elliott, Barney McKinney Giles, Millard Fillmore Harmon, Sir Arthur Travers Harris, Charles (Portal) Hungerford, James Howard Kindelberger, Ernest Joseph King, Laurence Sherman Kuter, Charles A. Lindbergh, Robert A. Lovett, James M. Magee, George C. Marshall, Glenn L. Martin, Louis Marx, Robert Andrews Millikan, John Knudsen Northrop, Edwin Pederson, Eddie Rickenbacker, Horace Weeks Shelmire, Carl Spaatz, Edward R. Stettinius, Guy W. Vaughn, Theodore von Kármán, Jack Warner, Burdette S. Wright, Orville Wright, and Wilbur Wright.”
Letters, 1907-38 (1 box); “Air Service,” 1918 (1 box); photographs, early aviation, 1908-19 (1 box).
John Lansing Callan* (1886-1958), Papers of, 1907-1956.
Graduate, 1911, Curtiss Flying School; Curtiss Aeroplane Company: Instructor, 1911-14 and 1916-17, representative, 1914-16, in Italy and England; commissioned, 1917, Lieutenant, U.S. Naval Reserve Flying Corps; constructed and later headed, as Lieutenant Commander, U.S. Naval Air Stations in France and negotiations for the training of U.S. Naval aviators in Italy; awarded, as Commander, Navy Cross "for distinguished and heroic service as Pilot of Seaplanes engaged in patrolling the waters of the war zone, in escorting and protecting troops, cargo ships, operating against enemy submarines and bombing the enemy coast. . . .”
“Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, orders to duty, subject file, awards, biographical file, speeches, articles, newspaper clippings, and printed matter, relating to Callan's personal and business interests in aviation, service with the Navy in World War I in France and Italy. . . .
Correspondents include Nicholas Alexeyef, Richard E. Byrd, Jr., Benedict Crowell, James Doolittle, Beckwith Havens, J. C. Hunsaker, Rudolph E. Schoenfelt, Clara Studer, Juan Trippe, Peter Paul Vucetic, and Jay White.”
Diaries and letters, 1909-20 (4 boxes).
Abel Doysie* (1886-1973), 1910-1967, bulk: 1920-1962.
Abel Doysié*: Researcher, translator from French to English: Carnegie Institution, 1907-08, 1910-13 and Library of Congress, 1913, 1919-36.
“Correspondence, research notes, printed matter, and miscellaneous family material. Primarily letters received from scholars and others at universities, libraries, and institutions for whom Doysié did historical and genealogical research in various French archives in the years following 1936.
Includes many letters from Waldo G. Leland reflecting Doysié's life and work. Other correspondents include James Truslow Adams, Henry P. Beers, Whitfield J. Bell, Jr., Samuel F. Bemis, Julian P. Boyd, William L. Clements, Worthington C. Ford, J. Franklin Jameson, Charles Coleman Sellers, Lothrop Stoddard, James B. Wilbur, Carter G. Woodson, the Eleutherian Mills Historical Library, the Illinois Historical Survey of the University of Illinois, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Universities of Michigan and Pennsylvania.”
Alphabetically arranged by correspondent and subject.
Alcott Farrar Elwell Collection, 1908 (75 items).
Alcott Farrar Elwell (* (1886-1962): Harvard undergraduate and camp cook, summer 1908, U.S. Geodetic Survey; Harvard, 1910, M.A. 1921; Ph. D., Education, 1925; U.S. Army instructional officer, World Wars I & II; longtime teacher, Director: Mowglis School-of-the-Open, Hebron NH, a summer program for boys founded 1903.
“Typewritten copy of a journal,” July 2 – October 21, 1908, “kept by Elwell while serving as camp cook for the . . . Theodore Roosevelt Lignite (Coal) Conservation Study in Wyoming, with a map, photographs, and pages from a holograph notebook of recipes. Includes the October 1966 issue of Annals of Wyoming, containing excerpts from the journal.” The diary provides details about outdoor life in the Badlands.
Evalyn Walsh McLean* (1886-1947), Papers of, 1874-1948.
Daughter of Thomas F. Walsh; married and divorced Edward Beale “Ned” McLean.
Studied, Paris, France, “music French, and other parlor tricks of ladies” (her words); social leader, ca. 1910-47, of Washington DC; memoir: Father Struck It Rich (1936).
“Correspondence that reflects McLean's role in society; business, family, political, and legal papers and memoranda. The business papers relate mainly to the Colorado mining interests of the Walsh family and publishing interests of the McLean family, especially the Cincinnati Enquirer and the Washington Post. While the family correspondence spans the years 1887-1947, many letters are undated. Legal papers include divorce proceedings, probates, and libel suits. Other papers relate to her ownership, from 1911, of the Hope diamond, the Teapot Dome scandal, involvement in the Lindbergh kidnapping case, and the MS. of her book.”
Family letters, 1887-1923 (1 box); special letters, alphabetically arranged (4 boxes); general letters, 1874-1903 (1 box) and, 1904-20 (14 boxes); business letters, 1887-1903 (1 box) and 1904-21 (9 boxes), including ownership of mines, real estate, and newspapers; subject file, alphabetically arranged (9 boxes); financial-legal papers, 1894-1924 (3 boxes); scrapbooks (4 boxes); photographs (1 box).
Fred A. Carlson* (1887-1952), Papers of, 1918-1952 (1/2).
Stenographic reporter; U.S. Commission to Negotiate Peace, 1919-20, Paris Peace Conference and postwar treaty with Germany.
“Shorthand notebooks, stenographic reports, notes, bulletins, analytical tables, copy of armistice terms, biographical information on conference delegates, maps, and other materials pertaining primarily to Carlson's service at Paris. Includes Carlson's obituary and some materials relating to his career as a court and congressional reporter.”
Mimeographed transcriptions of Conference sessions, 1919.
Raoul Heilbronner, *, Papers of, 1887-1914 (9/9).
“German-born antique dealer, of Paris, France, who specialized in Gothic and Renaissance art, furniture, tapestries, and statues, and supplied many 19th and early 20th century American collectors;” he hastily returned to Germany, 1914.
His inventory was confiscated by the French, sold to Antoine W. M. Mensingmuch, and in part was auctioned, 1921-24: Catalogue des Objets D'Art et de Haute CuriositŽ du Moyen-Age et de la Renaissance: Faiences… Terres Emaillees des Robbia. Emaux Champleves et Peints de Limoges… Tapisseries Gothiques Composant les Collections de M. Raoul Helibronner. Sale June 22-23, 1921 (Paris: Georges Petit Imprimerie, 1921), at Hotel Drouot, 1922 and 1923, and Séquestre Raoul Heilbronner, Monuments, Sculptures, Grilles; Paris 8 October 1924.
“Correspondence, letter books, business records (invoices, inventories, notebooks, address book, records of purchases and sales, deposits, consignments, and some historical notes and clippings relating to particular objects.
Individuals represented in the collection include George Grey Barnard, Samuel R. Bertron, Mrs. Chauncey J. Blair, Edson Bradley, Charles T. Crocker, Mrs. Edward H. Harriman, William Randolph Hearst, Mrs. William H. Klapp, Mrs. Potter Palmer, Thomas Fortune Ryan, Mr. and Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, and Henry Walters.”
Nelson T. Johnson* (1887-1954), Papers of, 1916-1950.
Nelson Trusler Johnson*: U.S. Consular Service, 1907-18, China; Far East Affairs, U.S. State Department, 1918-21; U.S. Minister, 1929-35, China.
“Primarily personal correspondence, 1916-1937. Also includes memoranda of conversations and twelve engagement books, 1927-1935, articles, speeches, and other material relating to the State Department and the Far East, 1920-1930,” and thereafter.
Correspondents include Stanley Hornbeck, Owen Lattimore, and Henry Morgenthau, Jr.”
Letters, 1916-20 (1 box).
Holmes CHECK ALPHABETICAL FILE FOR EACH
Benjamin Clarke Marsh* (1887-1952), Papers of, 1910-1950 (1/5).
Grinnell College IA, Universities of Chicago and Pennsylvania; advocated Henry George’s single tax; Secretary, until 1907, Pennsylvania Society to Protect Children from Cruelty; Secretary, 1907-11, New York City Committee on Congestion; activist in New York, 1917, National Emergency Peace Committee; Manager-Director, 1918-25, Farmers National Council and Executive Secretary, Peoples Lobby; author: An Introduction to City Planning: Democracy's Challenge to the American City (1909), Taxation of Land Values in American Cities: The Next Step in Exterminating Poverty (1911); memoir: Lobbyist for the People: A Record of Fifty Years.
“Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, articles, extracts, legislative documents, press releases, reports, speeches, pamphlets, scrapbooks, and clippings primarily concerning Marsh's service with the People's Lobby. Legislative issues of interest to the lobby included agriculture, cartels, commerce, conservation of natural resources, disarmament, housing, postwar planning and reconstruction, railroads, taxation, and unemployment.
Correspondents include John Dewey, James Couzens, Harold L. Ickes, and Henry Cantwell Wallace.”
Letters and clippings, 1910-20 (1 box).
Holmes CHECK ALPHABETICAL FILE FOR EACH
Heywood Broun* (1888-1939), papers, 1912-38, 12 items.
Journalist.
Six letters, 1912, regarding his trip to the Orient; one autobiographical, typed manuscript, with corrections.
Lyman Bryson* (1888-1959), Papers of, 1893-1977, bulk: 1917-1959.
Lyman Lloyd Bryson*: Publicist, 1917-18, American Red Cross; Director, 1920-22, Junior Division, American Red Cross; author, educator, radio and TV broadcaster.
“Correspondence, diaries, memoranda, articles, lectures, writings, transcripts of broadcasts, subject files, business and financial records, biographical material, appointment books, newspaper clippings, and other papers documenting Bryson's public relations work for the American National Red Cross and the League of Red Cross Societies following World War I; subsequent work in adult education through his association with Columbia University; and his role in developing educational radio and television programs for the Columbia Broadcasting System. . . . Includes an account of Bryson's interview with H. G. Wells in 1920; drafts of novels, short stories, books, plays, and poems; and material relating to public communication, philosophy, and his travels in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Correspondents include Bower Aly, Edmund de Schweinitz Brunner, George T. Bye, Morse A. Cartwright, James Mitchell Clarke, Mary L. Ely, Louis Finkelstein, Claude E. Hill, Anne E. M. Jackson, Robert E. Olds, William S. Paley, and David Riesman.
Letters and other material, 1908-20 (4 boxes)
Stuart Chase* (1888-1985), Papers of, 1907-1978, bulk: 1931-1955.
Economist, author; Federal Trade Commission, 1917-22, while investigating the meat and packing industry.
“Correspondence, drafts and MSS. of books and writings, notes, reports, book reviews, contracts, subject files, printed material, and other papers pertaining primarily to Chase's contributions to economics and social policy. . . . Also includes correspondence relating to Chase's books and his relationship with Sinclair Lewis.
Correspondents include Dean Acheson, Ernest Angell, Roger Nash Baldwin, William Benton, Hugo LaFayette Black, Chester Bowles, Hadley Cantril, Malcolm Cowley, Jonathan Daniels, Theodore Dreiser, Marriner S. Eccles, Albert Einstein, Clifton Fadiman, John Kenneth Galbraith, John Gunther, William D. Hassett, Leon Henderson, Harold L. Ickes, Robert Houghwout Jackson, Helen Keller, Philip Fox La Follette, David E. Lilienthal, John P. Marquand, Lewis Mumford, Milo Perkins, Nathan Marsh Pusey, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Elmo Roper, Upton Sinclair, Harlan Fiske Stone, Harry S. Truman, Henry Wallace, and Charles Yost.”
Sundry papers, 1911-20 (1 box).
John Hays Hammond* (1888-1965), Papers of, 1908-1965, bulk: 1912-1953 (15/20).
Son of John Hays Hammond, Sr. (1855-1936), a San Francisco mining engineer who studied at Yale; managed, before 1900, diamond mines in Africa; and later developed gold mining and other business interests in the United States.
John Hays Hammond, Jr* or Jack Hammond*: Mentored by Thomas A. Edison and Alexander Graham Bell; clerk, U.S. Patent Office; Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University, 1910; founded, 1911, Hammond Radio Research Laboratory; experimented with radio-controlled remote guidance, including, 1914, a ship on a 120 mile voyage with no crew; developed, by 1918, radio-controlled torpedo for U.S. Navy; eventually awarded more than 400 patents.
“Correspondence, notebooks, sketches, technical papers, legal briefs, printed matter, chronologies, and annotated photos, chiefly 1912-1953. Subjects include Hammond's basic experiments in radio control, intermediate frequency, frequency modulation, the triode electron tube, and the Elmer A. Sperry dispute on inertial guidance patents.
Correspondents include Ernst F. W. Alexanderson, Alexander Graham Bell, Lee De Forest, Irving Langmuir, and Nikola Tesla.”
Technical notebooks, 1912-18 (4 boxes); subject files and related correspondence, 1908-59 (16 boxes).
Dorsey William Hyde* (1888-1955), Papers of, 1905-1955.
Dorsey W. Hyde, Jr.*: Sorbonne, 1910-13; President, 1920-22, Special Libraries Association; Secretary-Treasurer, 1926-28, Washington DC Statistical Society; Director, 1934-42, Archival Service, National Archives, Washington DC; author, “Reorganizing the Library Personnel of the Federal Government,” Public Libraries (June 1923), The National Archives of the United States (1935).
“Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, articles and speeches, genealogical and biographical material, miscellaneous typed and holograph MSS., and photographs relating primarily to the National Archives, with a smaller group of papers dating from his college years. Includes MSS. of Hyde's unpublished poetry written under the pseudonym Edward Ramos*, and about 400 pieces of correspondence and about 600 MSS. of unpublished poetry” of Curtis Hidden Page* (1870-1948): poet and translator; Professor of French and English in Harvard, Dartmouth, and Columbia Universities; President, Poetry Society of America.
Dorsey W. Hyde, Jr.: Diaries and journals, 1909-35 (1 box); family letters, 1905-55 (4 boxes); general letters, 1910-55 (13 boxes); college notes, France (3 boxes); poetry (4 boxes).
Library of Congress Archives, Records, 1888-1963.
Book orders, 1901-30 (137 v.); receipts for valuable acquisitions, 1903-42 (1 v.); letters, re: book orders, 1898-1920 (22 v and 767 boxes); Chief Clerk’s memoranda, 1898-1907 (18 boxes); Periodical Division letters, 1911-24 (45 boxes); Annual Reports, 1914-57; “Instructions to Librarian,” 1899-1910 (1 box); financial records, 1888-1900; building construction, 1894-97; ledgers: Smithsonian letters (1 v.); Chief Clerk letters, book acquisitions, 1903-09 (1v.); copyright books received, 1915-21 (3 v.); accessions (13 v.); photo-duplication orders, 1911-30 (17 v.); miscellaneous letters (12 v.); vouchers, 1906-36 (11 v.); monthly service reports, 1913-40 (180 v.); Secretary’s letters sent, 1900-19 (234 v.); memoranda, 1899-40 (17 v.); letters to Librarian of Congress during his absence, 1899-1940 (6 v.); “Instructions of Librarian,” 1911-16 (2 v.); memoranda from Secretary, 1901-40 (5 v.); service slips, 1907-40 (9 v.); memoranda, 1902 (3 v.); circulation letters, 1912-17 (17 v.); inter-library loan letters, 1906-35 (67 v.); general letters, 1916-30 (26 v.); memorand a and letters, 1912-40 (42 v.).
Grover Cleveland Loening* (1888-1976), Papers of, 1900-1975, bulk: 1913-1962.
Columbia University, M.A., Aeronautical Engineering, 1910; Queen Aeroplane Company, New York City, 1911-12; Chief Engineer, 1913-1914, Wright Aeronautical Corporation, Dayton OH; Aviation Section, 1914-15, U.S. Army Signal Corps; Sturtevant Aeroplane Company, Boston MA, 1916-17; established and President, 1917-28, Loening Aeronautical Engineering Corporation, New York City; author: Military Aeroplanes (1915).
Correspondence; MSS. for books, articles, and speeches; subject files, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, drawings, blueprints, and printed material documenting Loening's career in aviation. Other papers relate to his extensive activities as an aviation consultant to the federal government and to private industry. . . .
Correspondents include Winthrop W. Aldrich, Vincent Astor, Richard Evelyn Byrd, Ira Eaker, Harry Hopkins, Joseph P. Kennedy, Andrew W. Mellon, William Mitchell, Eddie Rickenbacker, Winthrop Rockefeller, Igor Ivan Sikorsky, Harold S. Vanderbilt, Orville and Wilbur Wright.”
Letters, 1900-20 (4 boxes); subject file, 1910-42 (6 boxes); clippings, 1910-42, arranged alphabetically (14 boxes).
Samuel Whittemore Boggs* (1889-1954), Papers of, 1912-54.
Geographer; editor, 1916-24, American Book Co.; executive, 1914-1919, International Committee of YMCA.
Subject file, alphabetical, 1914-54 (15 boxes).
1890+
Harry Frank Guggenheim* (1890-1971), Papers of, 1900-1972, bulk: 1937-1972.
Grandson of Meyer Guggenheim (1828-1905) and son of Daniel Guggenheim (1856-1930), who was President of American Smelting and Refining Company.
Scheffield Scientific School, Yale University; American Smelting and Refining Company in Mexico, 1907-10; Pembroke College, Cambridge, England, B.A. 1913 and M.A., 1918; Lieutenant, U.S. Navy and aviator, 1917-18 in France, England, and Italy; Anglo-American Naval Conference, 1918; member, 1916-23, Guggenheim Brothers; President, 1926-1930, Daniel Guggenheim Fund for Aeronautics; U.S. Ambassador to Cuba, 1929-1933; founded, 1940, Long Island NY Newsday.
“Correspondence, 1916-1970, and subject files documenting Guggenheim's career in business and publishing, philanthropic and civic activities, and special interests in aviation. . . .
Correspondents include Joseph Albright, Victor C. Barringer, Bernard M. Baruch, Harry F. Byrd, Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Thomas B. Byrd, James H. Doolittle, Thomas B. Dorsey, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Mark F. Ethridge, Horace R. Graham, Leonard W. Hall, Herbert Hoover, Croil Hunter, Jacob K. Javits, Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert F. Kennedy, Peter O. Lawson-Johnston, Ernest Levy, Charles A. Lindbergh, Milton Lomask, Robert Moses, Bill D. Moyers, Richard M. Nixon, George Oppenheimer, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Samuel I. Rosenman, John Steinbeck, J. Albert Woods, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Manuel Ycaza.”
Marquis James* (1891-1955), Papers of, 1914-1955, bulk: 1930-1949 (3/48).
Bessie R. James* (b. 1895): newspaper reporter, New York City, editor, author: For God, For Country, for Home, the National League for Woman's Service . . . (1920), and biographies for juveniles; co-author with her husband:
Marquis James: Oklahoma Christian (later, Phillips) University; newspaper reporter, 1909-17: Oklahoma, Kansas City, Chicago, New Orleans, and New York City, and author of pulp fiction, mainly detective; Captain, U.S. Army, AEF, France; national publicity director, 1919-23, American Legion; author, A History of the American Legion (1923), and with his first wife, Bessie Rowland* (b. 1895): The Story of Bank of America: Biography of a Bank (1954), and others; biographer, Pulitzer Prizes: 1930, The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston, and 1938, Andrew Jackson (2 v.).
“Correspondence, literary and biographical articles, radio scripts and plays, legal and financial papers, clippings, printed material, photographs, and other papers including articles for the American Legion Monthly, the New Yorker, and Scoop; MSS. prepared for the Writers' War Board; memoirs of Bernard Baruch and related correspondence; and material on John Nance Garner, William R. Grace, Sam Houston, Andrew Jackson, the Cherokee Outlet (Cherokee Strip) in Oklahoma and Kansas, and Texas and Oklahoma history.
Correspondents include Cynthia James and Harold Wallace Ross.”
Newspaper clippings, 1915-17, Chicago Ledger (1 box); miscellaneous, undated (2 boxes).
Karl G. Karsten* (1891-1968), Papers of, 1909-1966.
Rhodes Scholar, Oxford University; economist, statistician, and businessman; pacifist, World War I; Business Reading Service, New York City, 1920-24; Author: Charts and Graphs: An Introduction to Graphic Methods in the Control and Analysis of Statistics (textbook, 1923); “The Theory of Quadrature in Economics” (1924) and “The Harvard Business Indexes: A New Interpretation,” (1926), Journal of the American Statistical Association.
Letters, “anti-militarism,” 1915-16 (1 box); printed matter, notes prior to 1920, “pacifism” (2 boxes); Oxford University notebooks (1 box); printed matter prior to 1920 (1 box); letters, 1915 “Ford Peace ship” (1 box); printed matter, peace movement, 1915 (2 boxes).
John B. Lynch* (b. 1891), Letters of, 1917-1919, microfilm (43 items).
U.S. Army, AEF, 1917-19.
“Typewritten copies of letters from Lynch to Edward L. Lowman and others” that convey impressions of France and Americans in combat during World War I.
Helen Taft Manning* (1891-1987), Papers of, 1908-1956, bulk: 1917-1929.
Daughter of William Howard Taft (1857-1930); married, 1920, Frederick Johnson Manning (1894-1956).
Helen Taft*: Yale, Ph. D. History; Dean and History Professor, 1916-56, Bryn Mawr College; President, 1903-04, Board of Lady Managers, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis MO; author: British Colonial Government after the American Revolution, 1782-1820 (1933), and others.
“Correspondence, chiefly letters, 1917-1929, from her father concerning family matters, events in Washington, politics, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Also included are a few letters from her mother, Helen Herron Taft (1861-1943), and her brother, Robert A. Taft (1889-1953), and a photocopy of a letter from John F. Kennedy.”
Letters, 1889-1921 (1 v.); Receipts, 1905-07, for Final Report, Board of Lady Managers (2 v.).
Raymond Clapper* (1892-1944), Papers of, 1908-1960, bulk: 1913-1944 (15/256).
University of Kansas, journalism; Kansas City Star, 1916; United Press Association, 1916-33; beginning 1923, Washington DC Bureau; columnist, beginning 1934.
“Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, speeches, manuscripts of articles and books, notebooks, dispatches, releases, radio scripts, reports, reference files, pamphlets, promotional material, scrapbooks, clippings, memorabilia, and photographs. Chiefly reference material pertaining to the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration and World War II. Subjects include Clapper's book, Racketeering in Washington (1933), censorship, Clapper family, defense, elections, Germany, Great Britain, Gridiron Club, Warren G. Harding, Herbert Hoover, inaugurations, Japan, journalism, labor, Alfred M. Landon, U.S. National Recovery Administration, neutrality, politics, prohibition, U.S. Supreme Court, taxes, Tennessee Valley Authority, foreign policy and affairs, Washington, D.C., and Wendell Willkie.
Correspondents include Edward W. Barrett, Arthur Capper, George A. Carlin, Herbert David Croly, Charles H. Getts, Roy Wilson Howard, Alfred M. Landon, H. L. Mencken, William Allen White, and Wendell L. Willkie.”
Diaries, 1913-20 (6 boxes); letters, 1913-23 (4 boxes).
Carrington-McDowell Family Papers, 1780-1897 (1/3).
James McDowell* (1795-1851): Princeton, 1817; Governor, 1843-46, Virginia; U.S. Congress, 1846-1851, Democrat, Virginia. Grandfather of:
James McDowell Carrington* (d. 1923): U.S. Consul, 1894-1900, China.
“Correspondence, maps, printed speeches, newspaper clippings, etc., of the Carrington and McDowell families.”
Papers, 1894-97 (1 v.)
Bess Furman* (1894-1969), Papers of, 1728-1967, bulk: 1900-1966.
Worked from age ten on father’s newspaper, Danbury NE News; Kearney NE State Teacher's College, 1918; reporter, 1919-28, Omaha NE Daily Bee-News; Associated Press, 1928, Washington DC and White House correspondent, 1932-36, covering Eleanor Roosevelt.
“Correspondence, diaries, 1924-1962, family papers, subject files, speeches and writings, financial records, scrapbooks, and miscellany relating to Furman's personal and professional life including her work for Omaha Bee-News, Associated Press, and New York Times; her work with the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; her and her sister Lucile's work with Furman Features for organizations including American Association of University Women, Children's Bureau, Democratic National Committee's Women's Division, and League of Women Voters; and her research and writings on such topics as education, health, political and social history of Washington, D.C., the White House, and women in public life. Also includes early papers of the Winslow family of New Hampshire and papers of Furman's husband,” photographer and reporter “Robert B. Armstrong, her sister, Lucile, and other family members.
Correspondents include Bess Streeter Aldrich, Ella Auerbach, Elisabeth Shirley Enochs, Edith Helm, Genevieve Forbes Herrick, Frances Parkinson Keyes, Murtle Mason, Dorothy McAllister, Mary Margaret McBride, Iantha McCloskey, Anthony Netboy, Herbert and Mae Rogers, Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde, Eleanor Roosevelt, Malvina Thompson, and Bess Wallace Truman.”
1895+
Arthur Crew Inman* (1895-1963), Papers of, 1909-1943, microfilm (8 reels).
Originals in private hands.
Grandson of Samuel Martin Inman: cotton magnate, philanthropist, part owner, Atlanta Constitution.
Haverford College PA; moved to Boston MA; unpublished poet; married, 1923, Evelyn Yates*; Inman, a recluse, interviewed visiting strangers about their lives and many, along with Evelyn, appeared in his holograph diary, 155 v.; committed suicide, 1963; Daniel Aaron, ed., [Selections from] The Inman Diary: A Public and Private Confession ( 2 v., 1985).
“Diaries, 1918-41, recording daily events and opinions relating to current events such as the Depression, the stock market, Franklin D. Roosevelt's pre-war relations with Japan, the rise of Hitler, and World War II. Also includes correspondence, musical scores, plays, poetry, and an autobiography.”
An introduction to the diaries covers the years 1894-1918, especially his early life in Atlanta GA.
Brooklyn Republican Club, Brooklyn NY, Records of the, 1896-1903 (1/1).
“Handwritten minutes of the club with typewritten and printed material inserted into the volume.” Entries mainly concern internal affairs of the organization.
Minute book, January 30,1896-February 25, 1903 (1 item).
Cuban Educational Association of the United States of America, Records of the, 1897-1954, bulk: 1898-1901.
“Educational association founded in 1898 to assist” students” from Cuba* and Puerto Rico* in securing “an education in the United States and dissolved in 1903.”
“Correspondence, application forms, rosters, scrapbooks, financial records, photographs of students, and other records pertaining to the work of the association and to the students aided by the association. Correspondence is primarily that of Gilbert K. Harroun, secretary-treasurer, and following his death in 1901, that of his assistant, Laura D. Conger.
Harroun corresponded with representatives of schools, colleges, and universities throughout the country, e.g., Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College, with individuals including John Jacob Astor, Nicholas Murray Butler, Seth Low, Theodore Roosevelt, Albert Shaw, Joseph Wheeler, and Leonard Wood, and with students seeking assistance.”
Letters, 1898-1915 (3 boxes).
Philip C. Jessup* (1897-1986), 1574-1983, bulk 1925-1983.
Philip Caryl Jessup*: Hamilton College, Clinton NY, A.B. 1919; Yale, LLB., 1924; Assistant Solicitor, 1924-25, U.S. State Department; Lecturer and Professor, International Law, 1926-61, Columbia University; author: Elihu Root (2 v., 1938).
“Family and general correspondence, reports and memoranda, speeches and writings, subject files, legal papers, newspaper clippings and other papers pertaining chiefly to Jessup's work with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Institute of Pacific Relations, U.S. Department of State . . .”
Includes research for Jessup’s biography of Elihu Root* (1845-1937), a fellow alumnus of Hamilton College and whom Jessup assisted in 1929 at the Conference of Jurists on the Permanent Court of International Justice, Geneva, Switzerland.
“Includes material relating to his World War I service in Spartanburg, S.C., and in France; teaching at Columbia University; . . . the Democratic Party and national politics; and to diplomacy, foreign affairs, human rights, and international law in general.
Includes papers of his wife, Lois Walcott Kellogg*, relating to her work for the American Friends Service Committee, U.S. Children's Bureau, and United Nations, her travels to Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East, and to her writings.
Correspondents include Dean Acheson, Richard Baxter, Jonathan B. Bingham, William W. Bishop, Edwin Montefiore Borchard, Chester Bowles, Jasper Yeates Brinton, William P. Bundy, Nicholas Murray Butler, Everett Needham Case, Frede Castberg, Chirakaikaran Joseph Chacko, Andrew W. Cordier, Frederic René Coudert, Alan MacGregor Cranston, Francis Deák, Hardy Cross Dillard, Allen Welsh Dulles, Robert H. Estabrook, George Augustus Finch, Sir Gerald Fitzmaurice, Wolfgang Gaston Friedman, Richard N. Gardner, André Gros, Leo Gross, Paul Guggenheim, Green Haywood Hackworth, Edvard Isak Hambro, W. Averell Harriman, Edwin C. Hoyt, Manley Ottmer Hudson, James Nevins Hyde, George Frost Kennan, Sir Muhammed Zafrulla Khan, Eelco Nicholaas van Kleffens, Warren F. Kuehl, Sir Hersch Lauterpacht, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Carl Milton Marcy, Sir Louis Mbanefo, Lord Arnold Duncan McNair, John Bassett Moore, Louis H. Pollak, Charles S. Rhyne, Elliot L. Richardson, Lindsay Rogers, Elihu Root, Dean Rusk, Stephen M. Schwebel, James T. Shotwell, Blaine Sloane, Frederic C. Smedley, Harry S. Truman, Earl Warren, Bethuel Matthew Webster, Henry Merritt Wriston, and Charles Woodruff Yost.”
Finding aid online: Elihu Root Material, mainly 1899-1937 (34 boxes).
Indians and Negroes, 1899-
1900+
Journal of Sarah J. Churchill, 1900 (1/1).
Sarah J. Churchill*.
“Journal, March 28, 1900-November 21, 1900, kept during Churchill's travels through Japan and China during the Boxer Rebellion,” an attempted purge China of all foreigners, especially Christians like Sarah J.Churchill*.
Holograph narrative, cards, photographs (1 box).
American Association of Landscape Architects, Records of the, 1900-60 (5/32).
“Correspondence, letterbooks, subject files, reports from chapters and committees, printed material, and other records.”
General letters, 1906-20 (1 box); subject file, alphabetical, 1909-60 (19 boxes); books, 1909-21 (2 boxes); letter books, 1900-06, 1907-08, 1908-09 (1 box).
T. Emerson Collection, 1900
T. Emerson*: Newspaperman?
“A compilation of biographical references concerning various westerners involved in the siege of Peking, 1900, during the Boxer uprising in China, gathered by Emerson.”
Typescript verbatim excerpts from several sources, arranged alphabetically by surname (6 v.).
Richard H. Griffiths*, Papers of, 1902-1910 (1/1).
U.S. Army officer, Philippine Constabulary, 1901-10.
Letters, orders, circulars, payroll records, 1902-10, relating to the Constabulary, including steps taken to quell insurrections.
Petition by the Citizens of Nome, Alaska to the U.S. Senate, 1903, 20 pp.
Describes the needs, according to its citizens, of Nome, Alaska.
1905+
Religious Manuscript of Wilhelm Hansen, 1905 (1 item).
Wilhelm Hansen*: Pastor, 1875-1885, Zion (First) Reformed Church, Detroit MI, which had been founded in 1849 to serve the growing German population and, after 1893, was called Evangelish Reformirten Bethania Gemeinde; organized, 1879, the Zoar Society to care for German orphans, which became, years later, the Evangelical Homes of Michigan for the elderly.
MS. copy in German of: “Upon the Pioneer Days of the Evangelical Reformed Church in the Northwestern United States and Canada” (144 pp.).
Elmer Gertz* (1906-2000), Papers of, 1789-1997, bulk: 1926-1988.
University of Chicago, Ph. B., 1928 and Law, 1930; practiced to 1973, Chicago IL; author: with A. I. Tobin, Frank Harris: A Study in Black and White (1931); an autobiography, To Life: The Story of a Chicago Lawyer (1974); editor, The Short Stories of Frank Harris: A Selection; Odyssey of a Barbarian: The Biography of George Sylvester Viereck (1979); and others.
“Personal, family, and professional correspondence; memoranda, opinions, orders, briefs, writs, motions, petitions, exhibits, transcripts, and other legal papers; speeches, writings, and research material; and subject files, family papers, printed matter, and MSS. collected by Gertz. Most relates to Gertz's career as a lawyer in cases involving censorship, housing, libel, obscenity, capital punishment, copyright issues, and the death penalty,” his books, and “Gertz's interest in such literary and historical figures as James Baldwin, Clarence Darrow, Frank Harris, John F. Kennedy, Henry Miller, Carl Sandburg, Bernard Shaw, and Harry S. Truman.”
“Gertz corresponded with both Frank Harris (1856-1931) and George Sylvester Viereck (1884-1962).” Viereck edited, beginning 1914, the American Monthly (The Fatherland Corp., etc., 1914-33). Gertz “accumulated a large amount of research material pertaining to each author, including some of their original manuscripts, numerous autograph letters, and notes from prominent literary figures.” Besides papers relating to German-Americans during World War I, the “Viereck research material includes one reel of microfilm of original material that is not in the collection; it contains letters and messages of Sigmund Freud to Viereck.”
“Correspondents include Louis Adamic, George Anastaplo, Allen Crandall, Paul Crump, Richard J. Daley, Richard M. Daley, Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas, Paul Howard Douglas, Albert Einstein, Otto Eisenschiml, Eli E. Fink, Sigmund Freud, Theodore G. Gertz, Wayne B. Giampietro, Arthur J. Goldberg, Frank Harris, Margery A. Hechtman, Samuel G. Herman, John F. Kennedy, Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Gene Lovitz, Carey McWilliams, Russ Meyer, Henry Miller, Hesketh Pearson, Muriel Peters, Peter Pollack, Leo Calvin Rosten, Jack Ruby, William F. Ryan, Carl Sandburg, Edward P. Schwartz, Upton Sinclair, Kate Stephens, A. I. Tobin, George Sylvester Viereck, Peter Robert Edwin Viereck, and William W. Witherspoon.”
1910+
Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission, Records of the, 1911-1918 (4/4).
Ida Husted Harper* (1851-1931): Ida Husted* married and divorced Thomas W. Harper, Indiana attorney and friend of socialist Eugene Debs.
Helped organize, 1887, Indiana’s woman suffrage organization; attended, 1893-97, Stanford University and thereafter active at the national level; Chair, 1916-18, Department of Editorial Correspondence, Leslie Bureau of Suffrage Education, National American Woman Suffrage Association; columnist and editor specializing in women’s issues: Terre Haute IN Saturday Evening Mail, Locomotive Fireman’s Magazine, New York Sunday Sun, and Harper’s Bazaar; official biographer: Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (3 v., 1898 and 1908); co-author: History of Woman Suffrage (v. 5-6, 1922).
“Correspondence, typewritten copies of circular letters, press releases, articles, and reports written by Harper. The bulk consists of copies of letters sent, 1916-18,” that presented arguments in favor of women’s suffrage for “Letters to the Editor” columns of newspapers.
Maurice F. Lyons*, Papers of, 1911-1944 (1/1).
Harlem Shorthand School; Georgetown University, LL.B, 1916; secretary, 1904-05, to an American correspondent during Japanese-Russo War; freelance reporter, 1906-11; secretary, 1911-12, to W.F. McCombs at Woodrow Wilson Headquarters; author: William F. McCombs: The President Maker (1922).
Mainly “correspondence, notes, telegrams, a card, and printed material,” relating to the activities of Woodrow Wilson, William G. McAdoo, Josephus Daniels, and other Democrats as described in his account of the presidential election campaign, as well as letters exchanged with Wilson’s biographers.
Harmon Foundation, Inc., 1913-1967, Records of, bulk: 1925-1933 (1/121).
William Elmer Harmon* (1862-1928): From 1887, partnered with relatives in real estate development, especially subdivisions; formed Wood, Harmon & Co., with offices in New York City and thirty other U.S. cities; founded, 1921, Harmon Foundation for Philanthropic Purposes, with the intent of providing, especially through playgrounds and athletic fields, “inspirational and tangible help for the young”; was revealed, upon his death, to be “Jedediah Tingle*,” the name “under which for many years a mysterious philanthropist played the role of fairy godmother to struggling writers and obscure poets, unsung heroes and good children” (obituary). After the Harmon Foundation, Inc. ceased operations, 1967, part of “The Harmon Collection of Negro Art” was first transferred to Fisk University, Nashville TN, and later, as the “Aaron Douglas Collection,” to the Amistad Research Center, Tulane University, New Orleans LA.
“Correspondence, biographical notes, catalogs, scrapbooks, and other material divided into six series: general office files including material on the founder, William Elmer Harmon, and early history of the foundation; records of the foundation's award programs; biographical notes on African American artists; biographical notes on African artists; correspondence between the foundation and African art centers; and miscellaneous material.
Correspondents include Harmon, Will Winton Alexander, Caroline Alston, Ulli Beier, Blanche Byerley, Katherine Gardner, George E. Haynes, Walter G. Holmes, A. W. Mitchum, C. C. Spaulding, Laura Warine, and Hale Woodruff,” and George E. Haynes.
Letters, 1911-20, to and from Survey Associates (1 box).
House Democratic Caucus, Records of the, 1913-1999, bulk: 1969-1994.
“Organization of Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives.”
“Correspondence, minutes of meetings, transcripts of meetings, caucus and House rules, reports, office files, handbooks, printed material, and other records pertaining to the proceedings of the caucus from the 67th through the 106th Congresses. Records relate primarily to such caucus business as the selection of the speaker of the House, committee chairmen, and members of House committees.”
Lewis Automatic Arms Company, Records of, 1913-1939 (1/1).
“Correspondence, transcriptions of testimony concerning the history of five years of litigation in behalf of American citizens, large shareholders in the Armes Automatiques Lewis, against Great Britain, resulting from the taking over of the Lewis Gun Works during World War I, the promise to pay compensation therefor, and the subsequent seizure of that compensation in the guise of war taxes.
Correspondents include Henry L. Stimson, Herbert Hoover, Robert L. Owen, and J. P. Cotton. Also includes transcription of testimony of Colonel Isaac Newton Lewis, inventor of the Lewis gun, at the trial of the Petition of Right in 1921.”
1915+
American Volunteer Motor-Ambulance Corps, Records of the, 1915-18, microfilm (1 reel).
Originals held by Harvard College Library.
Descriptions by members of their experiences in France* (18 items).
Ford Peace Plan, 1915-1918, Papers relating to (14/14).
“Correspondence, conference proceedings, bulletins, reports, clippings, news summaries, lists, speeches, biographical sketches, memoranda, and other items relating to the Henry Ford Peace Expedition, the Neutral Conference for Continuous Mediation, and the short-lived Ford International Commission.
Correspondents include Jane Addams, William Jennings Bryan, David Starr Jordan, Ben B. Lindsey, and Samuel S. McClure.”
General letters, 1915-17 (7 boxes); subject files (7 boxes); Military Intelligence investigation, 1918, of a member of the Peace Expedition (2 folders).
French Orphans of World War I, 1916-1927, Records of
Eugene Tyler Chamberlain* (1856-1929): Head, Bureau of Navigation, U.S. Commerce and Labor Department; philanthropist.
“Files on thirty-eight French families,” arranged alphabetically by surname, who were “aided by Eugene T. Chamberlain* and other philanthropic Americans. Chiefly correspondence concerning rehabilitation of the families and the education and placement of the children in productive employment. Files contain photographs and memorandum providing family background” in France.
Curtiss Aeroplane Co., Records of, 1917 (2 items).
Photostat of first schedule of aerial fares and optimistic letter of transmittal from company president.
Diary of Ralph M. Brown, 1917-19, 1 item.
Ralph M. Brown*: Chief Librarian and Archivist, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey; enlisted May 13, 1917, Private, U.S. Army; served on the western front for fourteen months, with only two weeks away from the battle lines.
Typescript copy of “Diary of the Great War, December 26, 1917-April 23, 1919” Brown kept while serving in France (164 pages).
Liberty Loan, 1917-19.
Letters, documents, newspaper clippings, and leaflets in nine volumes that detail propaganda in behalf of the five Liberty Loans and evidently collected and bound by the U.S. Treasury Department.
Charles Oscar Maas*, Papers of, 1917-1925.
Lieutenant Commander, Assistant Naval Attache, 1917-19, American Embassy, Paris, France.
“Correspondence, including letters, 1917-1919, from Maas to his wife and diaries, ca. 1917-1919, concerning his duties in Paris. Among his papers are reports on Josephus Daniels, Roald Amundsen, Bainbridge Colby, and Franklin D. Roosevelt and an account of the arrival of President Woodrow Wilson in Paris in 1918.”
John F. Callahan*, Papers of, 1918-1919.
Corporal, U.S. Army, AEF, 1918-19.
Chatty “letters (25 items) to Clara Morehouse describing his experiences in the American Expeditionary Forces” that mainly describe life in the Third Division in France and the reactions of one American enlisted man to the people of France and Germany.
Henry Brown Dillard*, Papers of, 1918-1947, bulk: 1918-19 (1/1).
“Miscellaneous papers,” including personal letters, “of Lieutenant H. B. Dillard*, platoon commander, 105th Combat Engineers, 30th Division, U.S. Army, with the Second British Army in Flanders and the fourth British Army in France during the battles of Ypres (Ieper) and the Somme. Includes correspondence, certificates, special and general orders, rosters, field messages, citations, poems, extracts from the letters of soldiers, photographs, and clippings.”
American Council of Learned Societies, Records of the, 1919-89.
“Correspondence, reports, general office files, files from the offices of the president, the vice president, and the executive associate, financial papers, records of the Dictionary of American Biography, unpublished and published MSS. of writings, many from the council's translation programs, and other records containing extensive material on programs of international intellectual cooperation, especially with Latin America and the Far East, and material relating to Slavic and East European studies, scholarship programs in the humanities funded by the council, and the activities of the Union Académique Internationale. Includes personal papers of Waldo G. Leland, one of the founders of the council, who served as permanent secretary, 1927-1946.”
Formative period, 1919-20 (3 boxes).
Ko´sciuszko Air Squadron, Records of the, 1919-1921 (1/1).
A volunteer unit of American pilots, that took their name from Thaddeus Kosciuszko*: Polish engineer, who in 1776 helped design and oversaw the building of American defenses at Saratoga and West Point NY.
“Logbooks, Oct 16, 1919-May 11, 1921 (2 v.), of the Ko´sciuszko Air Squadron describe the formation of this unit, its service with Polish armed forces, its training and practice flights, and combat sorties against Bolshevik forces.”
League of Women Voters of the United States, Papers of, 1918-1974, microfilm (98
reels).
“Advisory editor: Susan Ware.
Part 1. Meetings of the board of directors and the executive committees, 1918-1974 (14 reels); Part 2, Series A. Transcripts & records of national conventions, 1919-44 and of general councils, 1927-43 (20 reels); Part 2, Series B. Transcripts and records of national conventions, 1946-74 and of general councils, 1945-73 (30 reels); Part 3, Series A. National office subject files, 1920-32 (34 reels).”
1920+
Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, Records of the, 1920-33.
“Chiefly printed material (pamphlets and clippings), together with a copy of the group's certificate of foundation, bibliographical material, and a mailing list” relating to prohibition.
Pamphlets and clippings, 1920.
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