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Found in 113 Collections and/or records:

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Henry T. Allen Papers

Identifier: MSS10504
Abstract

Army officer. Correspondence, diaries, writings, reports, military documents, photographs, printed matter, scrapbooks, and miscellaneous material relating mainly to Allen's military career.

Dates 1806-1933; Majority of material found within ( 1883-1933)
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American Federation of Labor Records

Identifier: MSS51185
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Labor organization. Letterpress books containing correspondence of Samuel Gompers and William Green, presidents of the American Federation of Labor. Other letters are signed by James Duncan, Gabriel Edmonston, Frank K. Foster, and John McBride.

Dates 1883-1925
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Ray Stannard Baker Papers

Identifier: MSS11593
Abstract Journalist and author. Correspondence, diaries, journals, notebooks, drafts of books and articles, family papers, scrapbooks, clippings, and printed matter concerning Baker's career in newspaper and magazine writing, his books, and his role in the Paris Peace Conference. Included is a large group of papers collected by Baker for his biography of Woodrow Wilson. Also includes portions of an autobiography of Robert M. La Follette (1855-1925) and material relating to Baker's study of African...
Dates 1836-1947; Majority of material found within 1907-1944
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Wharton Barker Papers

Identifier: MSS11783
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Financier, publicist, and politician. Correspondence, letterbooks, photographs, pamphlets, printed matter, and scrapbooks reflecting Barker’s broad interests in American and foreign business matters especially in Russia and China, bimetallism, and politics.

Dates 1864-1921; Majority of material found within ( 1887-1896)
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Daniel Carter Beard Papers

Identifier: MSS12161
Abstract

Artist, author, editor, and cofounder of the Boy Scouts of America. Correspondence, diaries, family papers, speeches, articles, collected source material for writings and speeches, school composition books, address books, sketch books, illustrations, photographs, memorabilia, and printed matter relating chiefly to Beard's activities at the Culver Military Academy, Dan Beard Outdoor School, and with the Boy Scouts of America.

Dates 1798-1941; Majority of material found within 1931-1935
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George F. Becker Papers

Identifier: MSS12229
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Geologist, mathematician, engineer, and physicist. Correspondence, diaries, letterbooks, notebooks, notes, memoranda, maps, charts, tables, landscape sketches, and printed matter primarily relating to Becker's service at the United States Geological Survey, Carnegie Institution of Washington, and as president of the Geological Society of America.

Dates 1814-1928; Majority of material found within 1870-1919
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Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers

Identifier: MSS51268
Abstract Inventor and educator. Correspondence, diaries, journals, laboratory notebooks, patent records, speeches, writings, subject files, genealogical records, printed material, and other papers pertaining primarily to Bell's invention of the telephone in 1876, his contributions to the education of the deaf, and his interests in a wide range of scientific and technological fields, including aviation, eugenics, and marine engineering. The collection includes the papers of other members of the Bell,...
Dates 1834-1970; Majority of material found within 1855-1922
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Albert J. Beveridge Papers

Identifier: MSS12591
Abstract United States senator from Indiana, lawyer, historian, and biographer. Correspondence, diary notes, addresses, drafts of writings, research material, records of interviews, printed matter, photographs, and miscellaneous material documenting Beveridge's career from his early law practice in Indiana to his career in the Senate, espousal of the Progressive Party, experience as a war correspondent in Europe, and his later work as historian and biographer. Includes source material used in writing...
Dates 1788-1943; Majority of material found within 1886-1927
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Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers

Identifier: MSS19224
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Nurse, agent for the United States Sanitary Commission, and pension attorney. Correspondence, lists, draft memoirs, printed matter, and other papers relating to Bickerdyke's family, her work as a Civil War nurse and agent for the United States Sanitary Commission, and her activities on behalf of Civil War veterans in the years following the war.

Dates 1847-1905
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Charles J. Bonaparte Papers

Identifier: MSS13151
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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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Gutzon Borglum Papers

Identifier: MSS13284
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Sculptor, artist, and author. Correspondence, diaries, family papers, subject files, speeches and writings, and other papers relating primarily to Borglum's artistic works, especially the Mount Rushmore National Memorial and plans for a Confederate memorial at Stone Mountain, Georgia. Also includes records of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission and of its officials.

Dates 1881-2019; Majority of material found within 1912-1941
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Solon Hannibal Borglum Papers

Identifier: MSS13292
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Sculptor. Correspondence, commission files, subject files, articles, certificates and awards, photographs, printed matter, a scrapbook, and microfilm mostly relating to Borglum's career as a sculptor, his works of art, and his activities with the American Expeditionary Forces Art Training Center in Bellevue, France, Silvermine Group of Artists in New Canaan, Connecticut, and the School of American Sculpture in New York.

Dates 1886-1969; Majority of material found within ( 1900-1922)
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Breckinridge Family Papers

Identifier: MSS13698
Abstract Family prominent in Kentucky and national politics and government. Correspondence, diaries, speeches and articles, subject files, financial and legal papers, scrapbooks, and other papers of various members of the Breckinridge family. The bulk of the collection is composed of the papers of John Breckinridge, Robert J. Breckinridge, John C. Breckinridge, William Campbell Preston Breckinridge, Joseph Cabell Breckinridge, Mary Desha, Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge, Madeline McDowell...
Dates 1752-1980
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Charles Henry Brent Papers

Identifier: MSS23564
Abstract

Clergyman and missionary. Correspondence, diaries, sermon notes, speeches and articles, reports, memoranda, family and personal correspondence, obituaries, Bibles, printed matter, memorabilia, scrapbooks, and photographs documenting Brent's career as a clergyman and missionary.

Dates 1860-1991; Majority of material found within ( 1901-1929)
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Philippe Bunau-Varilla Papers

Identifier: MSS14316
Abstract

Panamanian diplomat and engineer. Correspondence, speeches, writings, legal records, newspaper clippings, and other papers concerning Bunau-Varilla’s activities in the United States, his efforts to gain support for completion of the Panama Canal, and his role in the Panamanian revolution and as minister plenipotentiary for the new government.

Dates 1877-1955; Majority of material found within ( 1900-1907)
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Albert Sidney Burleson Papers

Identifier: MSS14365
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United States representative from Texas, postmaster general in Woodrow Wilson's cabinet, and Democratic Party leader. Correspondence, memoranda, printed matter, scrapbooks, and articles relating chiefly to Burleson’s career in politics and government, including letters to and from Woodrow Wilson.

Dates 1845-1943; Majority of material found within 1902-1943
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Thomas Henry Carter Papers

Identifier: MSS15305
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Lawyer and United States representative and senator from Montana. Correspondence, writings, memoranda, clippings, notes, invitations, photographs, and financial records relating primarily to Montana, Republican Party politics, and Carter’s career in Congress.

Dates 1833-1917; Majority of material found within 1888-1917
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Joseph Hodges Choate Papers

Identifier: MSS15768
Abstract

Lawyer, author, and diplomat. Correspondence, letterbooks, addresses, lectures, legal memoranda, memorabilia, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other papers relating primarily to Choate's student days at Harvard University, his law practice in New York, his charitable work, and his diplomatic career.

Dates 1745-1929; Majority of material found within ( 1852-1917)
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Grover Cleveland Papers

Identifier: MSS16188
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President of the United States, governor of New York, and lawyer. Correspondence, diaries, messages to Congress, speeches, writings, printed matter, and other papers primarily relating to the Cleveland presidency and presidential campaigns.

Dates 1743-1945; Majority of material found within 1885-1908
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Bainbridge Colby Papers

Identifier: MSS16360
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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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Henry Clark Corbin Papers

Identifier: MSS16865
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Army officer. Correspondence, memoranda, reports, typescripts of speeches, autograph albums, scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers concerning Corbin's military career and his life in Washington, D.C., as an officer and prominent resident. Includes personal matter such as photograph albums, scrapbooks, and memorabilia relating to his wife, Edythe Agnes Patten Corbin, and the Patten family.

Dates 1864-1980; Majority of material found within 1898-1909
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George B. Cortelyou Papers

Identifier: MSS16949
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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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Cuban Educational Association of the United States of America Records

Identifier: MSS17384
Abstract

Educational association founded in 1898 to assist Cuban and Puerto Rican students securing an education in the United States. Correspondence, application forms, rosters, scrapbooks, financial records, photographs of students, and other records concerning the activities of the association and, after its dissolution in 1903, the Cuban and Puerto Rican students it had aided.

Dates 1897-1954; Majority of material found within ( 1898-1901)
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William Smith Culbertson Papers

Identifier: MSS17392
Abstract Diplomat, lawyer and professor of law. Correspondence, diaries, lecture notes, government documents, writings, memoranda, and scrapbooks relating to Culbertson's career as vice chairman of the U.S. Tariff Commission, minister to Romania, ambassador to Chile, chief of the military intelligence service in the War Department, member of the Planning Group of the Office of Strategic Services, and other duties during World War II. Includes papers relating to his law career, lecturer as professor...
Dates 1897-1965
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Bronson M. Cutting Papers

Identifier: MSS17566
Abstract

Publisher and United States senator from New Mexico. Correspondence, essays, articles, speeches, detective reports, biographical information, legal papers, clippings, scrapbooks, printed material, and photographs relating to Cutting's career as a publisher and senator.

Dates 1890-1950; Majority of material found within 1910-1935