34 finding aid(s) found containing the word(s) Transportation.

  1. Charles Butler papers, 1819-1929

    2,172 items. 5 containers. 3 linear feet. 4 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Entrepreneur, lawyer, and philanthropist. Correspondence, travel diaries, legal, financial, and business papers, and maps, newspaper clippings, and other papers documenting Butler's involvement in New York politics and his interest in such matters as anti-Masonry, public debts in Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan, loans to farmers by the New York Life Insurance and Trust Company, legal cases (particularly the William Morgan kidnapping), and improvements in transportation, especially in roads, canals, and railroads.

  2. Herbert Hill papers, 1869-2004

    87,500 items. 250 containers plus 1 oversize. 100 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Civil rights activist, educator, author, and NAACP labor secretary. Correspondence, legal case files, articles, draft books, speeches, news clippings, trade union records, governmental records, writings, speeches, photographs, printed matter, and other material relating to Hill's labor, social, and civil rights activism; writing and editing; and his academic career.

  3. Frederick Cecil Horner papers, 1917-1960

    26,600 items. 75 containers plus 5 oversize. 30.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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    Transportation engineer and executive with General Motors Corporation. Correspondence, diaries, memoir, memoranda, reports, speeches, printed matter, newspaper clippings, and photographs documenting Horner's career in transportation, chiefly as an executive with General Motors Corporation.

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  4. Leighton W. Rogers papers, 1912-1982

    26 items. 4 containers plus 1 oversize. 1.5 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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    Aeronautical executive, army officer, and public official. Correspondence, diary and journal, biographical information, scrapbooks, map, and writings focusing on Rogers’s experiences as an employee of National City Bank of New York during the Russian revolution in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and his return to the Soviet Union in 1943-1944 as an aeronautical consultant for the United States Army Air Corps.

  5. Reuben Cleary book manuscripts, 1886

    2 items. 6 containers. 1.2 linear feet. 2 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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    Confederate expatriate and physician. Manuscripts entitled, Brazil Under the Monarchy: A Record of Facts and Observations, from Notes Taken in Brazil during a Period of More Than Twenty Years, and another version of the same entitled, Chronicas Lageanas. Includes observations on history, manners, customs, and society made by Cleary while practicing medicine in Brazil between 1865 and 1885 as a Confederate expatriate from Virginia.

  6. Charles Schuveldt Dewey papers, 1924-1933

    1,500 items. 6 containers. 2.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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    Banker, public official, and United States representative from Illinois. Subject files, reports, memoranda, statistical studies, charts, correspondence, clippings, and other printed matter relating to Dewey's service from 1927 to 1930 as a financial advisor to Poland and director of the Narodowy Bank Polski (National Bank of Poland).

  7. Ambrose W. Thompson papers, 1847-1960

    12,000 items. 53 containers plus 2 oversize. 26 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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    Businessman. Business and family correspondence, letterbooks, memoranda, reports, statistical tables, patent papers, stocks and bonds, drawings, maps, and printed matter and miscellaneous material relating to Thompson's career as a businessman.

  8. Jonathan D. Meredith papers, 1795-1859

    9,000 items. 15 containers plus 1 oversize. 6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Lawyer, army officer, and businessman of Baltimore, Md. Family and general correspondence, legal files, financial papers, and other material relating chiefly to Meredith's associations with the Savings Bank of Baltimore and the Bank of the United States; the War of 1812; impeachment proceedings against James Hawkins Peck; shipping and trade with Europe and South America; and settlement of the estates of Charles Carroll and Robert Oliver.

  9. Robert R. Nathan Associates records, 1950-1966

    7,600 items. 36 containers. 14.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    International economic consulting firm. Correspondence, memoranda, journals, travel diaries, reports, statistical materials, technical and legal documents, speeches, writings, printed matter, and miscellaneous subject files documenting Robert R. Nathan Associates’s administration of an economic development plan for the government of Burma from 1951 to 1957.

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  10. Nancy Pelosi papers, 1930-2012

    260,000 items. 724 containers plus 2 classified and 6 oversize . 295 linear feet. 11,588 digital files (66.37 GB). -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Speaker of the House of Representatives, House Minority Leader, and Democratic congresswoman from San Francisco, California, and the Bay area. Correspondence, legislative material, speeches, calendars, photographs, press and communications material, staff files, fundraising files, and administrative material relating primarily to Pelosi's work in the United States House of Representatives and her work on behalf of the Democratic Party and Democratic candidates for office.

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