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Found in 8 Collections and/or records:

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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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John Spalding Flannery Papers

Identifier: MSS83668
Abstract

Lawyer. Chiefly records from McKenney, Flannery & Craighill, the Washington, D.C. law firm in which Flannery was a principal partner.

Dates 1902-1953; Majority of material found within 1902-1929
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Charles Evans Hughes Papers

Identifier: MSS26708
Abstract

Governor of New York, secretary of state, and chief justice of the United States. Family papers, correspondence, speeches and biographical writings, subject files, notes, scrapbooks, clippings, and other printed and miscellaneous matter relating principally to Hughes's political and judicial career and his service on various international bodies and commissions.

Dates 1836-1950; Majority of material found within 1905-1940
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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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Courtney Letts de Espil Papers

Identifier: MSS56200
Abstract

Writer and wife of the Argentine ambassador to the United States (1933-1943). Correspondence, diaries, writings, clippings, photographs, and other papers concerning social affairs in Washington and including references to many prominent individuals of the New Deal era. Also includes material on a cruise to the Arctic in 1927, the Espils’s return to Argentina in 1943, and life in Argentina under Juan Perón.

Dates 1925-1994; Majority of material found within ( 1930-1949)
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Henry F. Pringle Papers

Identifier: MSS36921
Abstract

Journalist, historian, and government official. Personal and official correspondence, subject files consisting of correspondence, reports, minutes, lists, research data, and print and near-print material, and other papers relating principally to Pringle's biography of William H. Taft and to his work in the Office of Facts and Figures (later the Office of War Information).

Dates 1932-1957; Majority of material found within 1939-1946
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Republican Campaign Collection

Identifier: MSS81973
Abstract

Correspondence, financial papers, notes, reports, charts, lists and rosters, printed material, photographs, and other papers relating mainly to the presidential campaigns of William H. Taft and Charles Evans Hughes and the congressional campaigns of William Brown McKinley, a United States representative from Illinois.

Dates 1902-1926
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Rodgers Family Papers

Identifier: MSS52811
Abstract Rodgers (Rogers) family. Correspondence, journals, drafts of writings and speeches, transcripts of radio broadcasts, book reviews, notes and notebooks, biographical material, and other papers relating chiefly to the naval careers of John Rodgers (1773-1838), John Rodgers (1812-1882), William Ledyard Rodgers (1860-1944), John Augustus Rodgers (1848-1933), and John Rodgers (1881-1926). Includes correspondence of the Hodge family, Matthew Calbraith Perry, Oliver Hazard Perry (1785-1819), and...
Dates 1788-1944; Majority of material found within 1820-1930