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Herman Hollerith papers, 1850-1982

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BOX 1-9 Personal Correspondence, 1882-1929
Letters sent and received.
Arranged chronologically therein.
BOX 1 Letters received
Jan. 1882-Apr. 1906
(6 folders)
BOX 2 May 1906-Dec. 1908
(6 folders)
BOX 3 Jan. 1909-Mar. 1918
(6 folders)
BOX 4 Apr. 1918-May 1920
(6 folders)
BOX 5 June 1920-Dec. 1922
(8 folders)
BOX 6 Jan. 1923-June 1926
(9 folders)
BOX 7 July 1926-Sept. 1929, undated
(9 folders)
BOX 8 Letters sent
Jan. 1894-Sept. 1920
(9 folders)
BOX 9 Jan. 1921-Nov. 1927
(10 folders)
BOX 10-12 Business Correspondence, 1894-1929
Letters sent and received, including a small amount of printed matter.
Arranged chronologically. Correspondence concerning the financial arrangement of the merger of the Tabulating Machine Co. into the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. is filed separately at the end.
BOX 10 Feb. 1894-July 1914
(9 folders)
BOX 11 Aug. 1914-Apr. 1929, undated
(11 folders)
BOX 12 Correspondence relating to merger, 1911
(4 folders)
BOX 13-20 Special Correspondence, 1905-1929
Correspondence relating to Hollerith's farm in Mathews County, Va., dated 1911-1928, and his patents, dated 1905-1923.
The farm correspondence is organized into letters sent and received and arranged chronologically therein. The patent correspondence is arranged by name of correspondent and therein chronologically.
BOX 13 Re farm, Mathews Co., Va.
Letters sent
Nov. 1917-June 1921
(9 folders)
BOX 14 July 1921-June 1928
(11 folders)
Letters received
BOX 15 Oct. 1911-Sept. 1919
(8 folders)
BOX 16 Oct. 1919-Sept. 1921
(7 folders)
BOX 17 Oct. 1921-Dec. 1924
(9 folders)
BOX 18 Jan. 1925-Sept. 1927
(7 folders)
BOX 19 Oct. 1927-Nov. 1929, undated
(4 folders)
Re patents
J. Nota McGill, 1905-1915
(3 folders)
BOX 20 McGill and Maguire, 1915-1921
(6 folders)
McGill and Maguire; Francis S. Maguire; and Cooper, Kerr, and Dunham, 1922-1927
S. G. Metcalf, 1911-1927
BOX 21-29 Miscellany, 1871-1929
Patents by Hollerith and others, printed matter, business papers, blueprints and drawings, one Hollerith machine punch plate, newspaper clippings, and two scrapbooks.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material. The patents are further arranged chronologically.
BOX 21 Award, 1905
Blueprints and drawings, 1905-1922, undated
(2 folders)
Business papers, 1880-1927, undated
(4 folders)
Card case and cards, 1910-1928, undated
Hollerith machine punch plate, 1889, 1895
BOX 22 Patents
By Hollerith, 1886-1917
(7 folders)
BOX 23 By others
Jan. 1911-Apr. 1924
(8 folders)
BOX 24 June 1914-Mar. 1915
(6 folders)
BOX 25 May 1915-Mar. 1924
(4 folders)
Related material, 1916, undated
BOX 26 Printed matter
1871-1929
(7 folders)
BOX 27 1880-1914, undated
(5 folders)
BOX 28 1885-1927, undated
(7 folders)
BOX 29 Scrapbooks, 1889-1908
(2 folders)
Tabulating machine drawings, undated
BOX 30 Addition I, 1913-1929
Correspondence between Hollerith and his son, Herman Hollerith, Jr., concerning family affairs and Hollerith's inventions.
Arranged chronologically.
BOX 30 Correspondence between Hollerith and his son, Herman Hollerith, Jr.
Oct. 1913-Nov. 1916
Mar. 1917-Dec. 1918
Feb. 1919-Dec. 1921
Jan. 1922-Dec. 1923
Jan. 1924-Sept. 1929, undated
BOX 31-34 Addition II, 1850-1984
Letters among members of the Talcott and Hollerith families arranged chronologically, drafts and printed versions of writings about Hollerith arranged alphabetically by author, and biographical material, a diary, miscellaneous material, and newspaper and magazine clippings arranged alphabetically by type of material.
BOX 31 Family correspondence
Talcott family
1865-1880
(10 folders)
BOX 32 1881-1885
(8 folders)
BOX 33 1886-1891, undated (with enclosure from 1850)
(5 folders)
Hollerith family, 1906-1963
Writings about Hollerith
By author
Austrian, Geoffrey D., 1964-1984
Blodgett, John H., 1968
Dicksee, Lawrence R., 1916, undated
Greene, C. A. Everard, undated
Hollerith, Virginia, 1945, 1970, undated
(2 folders)
Mark, Mary Louise, 1945-1958, undated
BOX 34 Martin, T. C., 1891
Newcomb, H. T., 1912
Rex, Frederick J., 1960-1963
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1930-1973
Miscellany
Bible owned by Flora Ferguson, Hollerith's fiancé, inscribed 5 Feb. 1881
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