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Found in 35 Collections and/or records:

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Nelson W. Aldrich Papers

Identifier: MSS10389
Abstract

United States representative and senator from Rhode Island, financier, and philanthropist. Correspondence, journal, appointment books, drafts of speeches, memoranda, financial records, reports, legislative matter, scrapbooks, serial publications, and other printed material relating chiefly to Aldrich's career in Congress.

Dates 1777-1930; Majority of material found within 1879-1915
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John Davis Batchelder Collection of Manuscripts

Identifier: MSS12021
Abstract

Educator and collector. Autographs, letters, official documents, writings, printed material, photographs, and other papers of prominent historical figures in the arts, science, and politics of the Western world collected by Batchelder.

Dates 1537-1944; Majority of material found within 1800-1910
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Clifford Kennedy Berryman Papers

Identifier: MSS12559
Abstract

Cartoonist. Correspondence, drawings, printed matter, invitations, photographs, and a speech relating primarily to Berryman's career as a political cartoonist for the Washington Post and the Washington Star.

Dates 1814-1965; Majority of material found within ( 1890-1949)
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Charles J. Bonaparte Papers

Identifier: MSS13151
Abstract

Lawyer, municipal and civil service reformer, and U.S. attorney general and secretary of the navy. Correspondence, articles, speeches, memoranda, notes, personal miscellany, legal records, biographical material, clippings, printed matter, and other papers relating mainly to Bonaparte's public service and political career.

Dates 1760-1921; Majority of material found within 1874-1921
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Willard H. Brownson Papers

Identifier: MSS57455
Abstract

United States naval officer. Correspondence, letterpress books, diaries, cruise book, night order books, scrapbooks, and watch, quarter, and station bill documenting Brownson's naval career, including his official and personal dealings with President Theodore Roosevelt.

Dates 1859-1932; Majority of material found within ( 1867-1932)
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Andrew Carnegie Papers

Identifier: MSS15107
Abstract

Industrialist and philanthropist. Correspondence, reports, memoranda, speeches, articles, book files, financial papers, printed materials, and other papers relating to Carnegie's steel manufacturing and other business and philanthropic activities.

Dates 1803-1935; Majority of material found within 1890-1919
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Marian S. Carson collection of manuscripts

Identifier: MSS84367
Abstract

Collector. A collection of Americana including historical letters and documents, family and personal papers, broadsides, financial and legal papers, illustrated and printed ephemera, government and legislative documents, military records, journals, and printed matter relating primarily to the expansion and development of the United States from the colonial period through the 1876 centennial.

Dates 1656-1995; Majority of material found within 1700-1876
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Bainbridge Colby Papers

Identifier: MSS16360
Abstract

United States secretary of state, statesman, and lawyer. Correspondence, letterbooks, speeches, notebooks, scrapbooks, printed matter, photographs, and other papers primarily relating to Colby's career as a politician and statesman after 1912, including his service as Woodrow Wilson's secretary of state.

Dates 1863-1950; Majority of material found within 1912-1950
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George B. Cortelyou Papers

Identifier: MSS16949
Abstract

Public official and presidential secretary. Correspondence, letterbooks, diaries, memoranda, subject files, printed matter, and miscellany relating to Cortelyou's duties as secretary to William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, his service as secretary of commerce and labor, postmaster general, and secretary of the treasury, and his work as chairman of the Republican National Committee.

Dates 1871-1948; Majority of material found within ( 1897-1908)
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Tyler Dennett Collection Relating to John Hay

Identifier: MSS51383
Abstract

Historian, editor, and biographer. Correspondence, research notes, galley proofs, photographs, and printed matter relating to Dennett's books John Hay: From Poetry to Politics and Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay.

Dates 1861-1937; Majority of material found within ( 1899-1937)
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Rudolph Forster Papers

Identifier: MSS21121
Abstract

Secretary to United States presidents William McKinley through Franklin D. Roosevelt (1897-1943). Correspondence, memoranda, invitations, clippings, telegrams, notes, and other papers predominantly from 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 copies of public proclamations, and social notes.

Dates 1898-1943
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Lyman J. Gage Papers

Identifier: MSS21774
Abstract

Banker and public official. Correspondence chiefly documenting Gage's service as secretary of the treasury in the William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt administrations and subsequently as president of the United States Trust Company of New York.

Dates 1897-1906
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Albert Gleaves Papers

Identifier: MSS50104
Abstract

Naval officer and historian. Correspondence, diaries, journals, speeches, articles, books, scrapbooks, reports of the Asiatic Fleet, notebooks, photographs, newspaper clippings, biographical material, poetry, printed matter, and other papers relating to Gleaves's naval career and his writings.

Dates 1803-1946; Majority of material found within ( 1877-1937)
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Lloyd Carpenter Griscom Papers

Identifier: MSS24208
Abstract

Author, diplomat, lawyer, politician, and soldier. Diaries, family and general correspondence, memoranda, speeches, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous personal and official items relating to Griscom’s career as a diplomat between 1901 and 1909 and military service during World War I.

Dates 1898-1951; Majority of material found within ( 1898-1919)
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Grosvenor Family Papers

Identifier: MSS57240
Abstract

Correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, subject material, financial papers, printed matter, and personal miscellany, chiefly 1872-1964, of various members of the Grosvenor family, principally of Amherst and Millbury, Mass., and Washington, D.C.

Dates 1827-1981; Majority of material found within 1872-1964
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John Hay Papers

Identifier: MSS25379
Abstract Statesman, diplomat, historian, journalist, and poet. Correspondence and letterbooks, speeches, diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks, and memoranda, mainly for the years 1897-1905 when Hay served as United States ambassador to Great Britain and United States secretary of state. Earlier papers deal with his legal, literary, and journalistic activities and with his service as assistant secretary to Abraham Lincoln. Includes correspondence of his wife, Clara Louise Stone Hay (1849-1914), for the...
Dates 1783-1999; Majority of material found within 1897-1905
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Irwin Hood Hoover Papers

Identifier: MSS26450
Abstract

White House usher. Chiefly diaries and diary notes kept by Hoover as White House usher concerning presidents from Benjamin Harrison to Franklin D. Roosevelt and life in the White House

Dates 1909-1933
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William E. Humphrey Papers

Identifier: MSS26815
Abstract

Lawyer, United States congressman, and member of the Federal Trade Commission. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches and other papers relating primarily to Humphrey's service in the United States House of Representatives (1903-1917) and on the Federal Trade Commission (1925-1933).

Dates 1903-1936
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Harold L. Ickes Papers

Identifier: MSS27011
Abstract

Lawyer and secretary of the interior. Correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, family papers, legal and financial records, subject files, scrapbooks, and other papers documenting all aspects of Ickes's career, especially his service as secretary of the interior.

Dates 1815-1969; Majority of material found within 1933-1951
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Philander C. Knox Papers

Identifier: MSS28852
Abstract

U.S. secretary of state, U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, and lawyer. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, writings, reports, articles, notebooks, bills and resolutions, legal records, biographical sketches, library catalog, clippings, printed matter, scrapbooks, cartoons, and other papers relating chiefly to Knox's service as U.S. attorney general, secretary of state, and senator from Pennsylvania.

Dates 1796-1922; Majority of material found within 1901-1921
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A T. Mahan Papers

Identifier: MSS31062
Abstract

Naval officer and historian. Correspondence, family papers, subject files, speeches and writings, scrapbooks, biographical file, printed matter, and other papers relating to Mahan’s naval career, writings, and personal and family life.

Dates 1779-1970; Majority of material found within ( 1890-1914)
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Edgar Alexander Mearns Papers

Identifier: MSS32490
Abstract

Naturalist and U.S. Army surgeon. Correspondence, reports, printed matter, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous material chiefly relating to Mearns's activities as a collector of data on animal and plant life, on his participation in the Smithsonian African Expedition of 1909, and his duties and assignments as an army surgeon.

Dates 1864-1918; Majority of material found within 1876-1916
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George von Lengerke Meyer Papers

Identifier: MSS32789
Abstract

Ambassador to Italy and to Russia, postmaster general, and secretary of the navy. Diaries, family correspondence, and memorabilia recording Meyer’s social and family life and national and international events of which he was a part.

Dates 1900-1917
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William H. Moody Papers

Identifier: MSS33274
Abstract

U.S. Supreme Court justice, attorney general, secretary of the navy, and representative from Massachusetts. Correspondence and related material mainly from Moody’s service as secretary of the navy and attorney general in the administration of Theodore Roosevelt.

Dates 1879-1916; Majority of material found within ( 1902-1906)
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Victor Murdock Papers

Identifier: MSS22384
Abstract U.S. representative from Kansas and newspaper editor. Diary, family papers, general correspondence, Federal Trade Commission files, writings, and miscellany documenting Murdock's political career as a congressman from Kansas and leadership of the Republican insurgents who contested the power of House Speaker Joseph Cannon in 1910. Includes material concerning Murdock's activities on behalf of the Progressive Party and as a member of the Federal Trade Commission. Also contains family papers...
Dates 1824-1971; Majority of material found within 1909-1940