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Found in 8 Collections and/or records:

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Edward Goodrich Acheson Papers

Identifier: MSS49684
Abstract

Electrochemist, engineer, and inventor. Correspondence, diaries, biographical material, financial papers, laboratory notebooks relating to experiments and inventions, newspaper clippings, and other materials pertaining to Acheson's scientific work.

Dates 1872-1968; Majority of material found within 1899-1930
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Edward Tracy Clark Papers

Identifier: MSS15966
Abstract

Presidential secretary, lawyer, and businessman of Washington, D.C. Correspondence relating primarily to Clark's work as a consultant on legislative, customs, and tariff matters for various business concerns, and letters from his service as secretary to President Calvin Coolidge.

Dates 1923-1935; Majority of material found within 1929-1935
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James J. Davis

Identifier: MSS17913
Abstract

U. S. secretary of labor and senator from Pennsylvania. Correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, investgation files, financial papers, scrapbooks, photographs, and printed matter relating to Davis's service as secretary of labor in three Republican presidential administrations, his tenure as senator from Pennsylvania, and as organizer and leader of the Loyal Order of Moose.

Dates 1895-1946; Majority of material found within ( 1921-1945)
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David E. Finley Papers

Identifier: MSS57414
Abstract

Museum director and lawyer. Correspondence, subject files, financial papers, drafts of speeches and writings, family material, printed matter, and scrapbooks relating chiefly to Finley's duties as special assistant to Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew W. Mellon, his role in the founding and his subsequent service as director of the National Gallery of Art, and his activities with numerous other artistic and cultural organizations.

Dates 1921-1977
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William Marion Jardine Papers

Identifier: MSS27698
Abstract

Educator, public official, and diplomat. Correspondence, articles, speeches, lectures, notes, and scrapbooks of clippings concerned mainly with the economic aspects of agriculture and rural life. The greatest concentration, 1925-1929, relates to Jardine's term as secretary of agriculture. Other papers cover the four years during which he was minister to Egypt. Additional files concern his tenure as president of the University of Wichita, 1934-1949.

Dates 1908-1955
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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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Grover Cleveland Loening Papers

Identifier: MSS30437
Abstract

Businessman, engineer, airplane manufacturer, and author. Correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, plans and drawings, notes, photographs, patents, legal documents, speeches and writings, scrapbooks, clippings, and printed matter documenting Loening's career in aviation.

Dates 1900-1975; Majority of material found within 1913-1962
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Thomas James Walsh and John Edward Erickson Papers

Identifier: MSS44503
Abstract

United States senators from Montana. Official correspondence, personal correspondence, speeches, legislative files, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and photographs relating chiefly to the senatorial career of Walsh and his successor, John Edward Erickson.

Dates 1910-1934