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1. Reid family papers, 1795-2003

   261,000 items. 932 containers plus 2 oversize. 372.8 linear feet. 239 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Journalists and newspaper publishers. Correspondence, financial records, office files, household and estate records, subject files, scrapbooks, printed matter, and miscellaneous papers related to newspaper publishing and public affairs.

2. Mexican Revolution newspaper clippings archive, 1911-1913

   472 clippings in one box. 1 container. 1 linear foot. -- Hispanic Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   A selection of English language news clippings from the early years of the Mexican Revolution. The articles, donated from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, capture many of the important events that spurred the revolution including the rise of the revolutionaries and the fall of dictator Porfirio Díaz.

3. Edgar Ansel Mowrer and Lilian T. Mowrer papers, 1898-1978

   52,500 items. 141 containers plus 13 oversize. 60.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Edgar Ansel Mowrer, journalist, and Lilian Thomson, author, married 1916. Correspondence, manuscripts of speeches and writings, lectures, subject files, and other papers documenting the Mowrers' careers as authors and lecturers on foreign affairs, particularly on the diplomacy of France, Germany, Italy, and the United States.

4. Frederick Dixon papers, 1897-1923

   500 items. 2 containers. 0.8 linear feet. 1 microfilm reel. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Newspaper editor. Correspondence, memoranda, and printed material relating primarily to Dixon's work as editor of the Christian Science Monitor. Chiefly correspondence between Dixon and Charles D. Warner, head of the Monitor's Washington bureau, relating to such topics as the use of submarines and the English blockade during World War I, establishment of a home for Jews in Palestine, Mary Baker Eddy, and various controversies between Dixon and the Christian Science Church.

5. Peter A. Demens papers, 1880-2000

   45 items. 5 containers plus 1 oversize. 3.0 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Author, businessman, railroad promoter, and entrepreneur. Notebooks, scrapbooks, correspondence, and articles mostly relating to Demens's authorship of articles for the Russian journal Viestnik Evropy and Russian and American newspapers on events in America and his life.

6. Roland Herbert Shackford papers, 1925-1981

   7,000 items. 22 containers. 9.5 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Journalist and author. Correspondence, memoranda, notes, notebooks, invitations, printed matter, photographs, and other papers documenting primarily Shackford's career as a journalist with the Scripps-Howard news agency and other newspapers.

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7. William Orton Tewson papers, 1923-1926

   120 items. 1 container. .2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Editor and literary critic. Primarily a list of contributors and responses from authors, poets, and journalists to Tewson's query, "Do you care what the critics say about you?" posed in the Literary Review of the New York Evening Post in 1926.

8. Alice Roosevelt Longworth papers, 1888-1942

   3,000 items. 8 containers plus 1 oversize. 3.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Journalist. Family and general correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks relating to Washington, D.C., social life, Longworth's world travels, her engagement and marriage to Nicholas Longworth, and her writings, especially her newspaper column and her reminiscences for Ladies' Home Journal.

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9. Joseph Arthur Moore papers, 1910-1927

   50 items. 15 containers. 3 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Publisher and newspaperman. Correspondence between Moore and William Randolph Hearst concerning newspaper operations and policy, local and national politics, and Hearst’s magazine and motion picture interests. Also includes printed matter and correspondence with Arthur Brisbane, Robert W. Chambers, Millicent Wilson Hearst, and Ray Long.

10. Roy Wilson Howard papers, 1911-1966

    115,000 items. 351 containers. 140.4 linear feet. 3 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Newspaperman. Correspondence, family papers, reports, clippings, photographs, printed matter, and other papers relating to Howard's career in the newspaper business, especially with United Press Associations (later United Press International) and with the Scripps-Howard newspapers, particularly the New York World-Telegram.

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