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1. Waldo Gifford Leland papers, 1844-1966

   55,000 items. 178 containers plus 5 oversize. 45 linear feet. 3 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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   Archivist and historian. Honorary consultant in international relations, Library of Congress. Correspondence, diaries, articles, reports, memoranda, notes, and miscellaneous papers relating to Leland's career as archivist, historian, and consultant in international relations.

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2. J. Franklin Jameson papers, 1604-1994

   61,000 items. 206 containers plus 2 oversize. 40.7 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Historian and librarian. Correspondence, diaries, writings, lecture notes, biographical material, family papers, reports, photographs, printed matter, and other papers relating primarily to Jameson's work as an historian, his role in the founding and early history of the American Historical Association and the American Historical Review, the movement for the establishment of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, the Dictionary of American Biography, and his work as director of the Department of Historical Research of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

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3. Joint Committee on Materials for Research records, 1925-1940

   25,000 items. 83 containers. 33.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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   Joint Committee of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council established in November 1929 for the purpose of fostering the acquisition, identification, and preservation of source materials. Correspondence, minutes and agenda of meetings, and papers relating to the committee's surveys of materials for research. Includes information on library and archives projects, permanence of paper stock, union catalogs, offset reproductions, microreproductions, other duplicating techniques, sound reproduction, and copyright.

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4. American Historical Association records, 1884-1986

   364,000 items. 1,155 containers plus 1 oversize. 464.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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   National professional association for historians. Correspondence, minutes of meetings, manuscripts of published and unpublished articles, reports, notes, resolutions, legal briefs, membership cards and lists, administrative files, subject files, financial records, printed matter, and other records reflecting the association's history and its development of programs stimulating scholarly historical research and activities. Includes files of the secretary and executive secretary, treasurer, executive director, Executive Council, Historical Service Board, and various divisions and committees, as well as editorial files of the American Historical Review.

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5. International Research and Exchanges Board records, 1947-1991

   331,000 items. 331 containers. 397.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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   American service organization sponsoring scholarly exchange programs with the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Cold War era. Correspondence, case files, subject files, reports, financial records, printed matter, and other records documenting participants' personal experiences and research projects as well as the administrative operations, selection process, and collaborative projects of one of America's principal academic exchange programs.

6. American Council of Learned Societies records, 1910-2019

   867,650 items. 2,717 containers plus 47 oversize. 1,109 linear feet. 13 microfilm reels. 497 digital files (544.13 MB). -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Federation of scholarly organizations specializing in fellowships and grants to promote the study of the humanities and social sciences. Correspondence, meeting minutes and agendas, financial material, fellowship and grant files, project files, committee files, manuscripts, reports, notes, applications, announcements and publicity, memoranda, speeches and lectures, articles, surveys and questionnaires, administrative files, trip files, fundraising files, and future plans in both physical and digital formats.

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