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Henry Mason Morfit papers, 1819-1858
4,000 items. 13 containers. 5.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Lawyer. Correspondence and financial and business papers relating to Morfit's Washington, D.C., practice as a claims lawyer and as a political figure in the administrations of Andrew Jackson.
National Urban League records, 1900-1988
616,000 items. 2,000 containers plus 2 oversize. 821 linear feet. 18 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Civil rights organization. Correspondence, minutes of meetings, speeches, reports, surveys, statistical data, financial and legal records, scrapbooks, printed material, and other records relating to the programs and policies of the league and its affiliates.
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William Holmes Walker papers, 1855-1982
10 items. 2 containers. .6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Early Mormon leader, pioneer settler of Utah, missionary to South Africa, and patriarch of the Mormon Church. Memoir, diary, and scrapbook reflecting the life of Walker and Mormon Church history.
Nathaniel Sisson papers, 1838-1932
1,100 items. 10 containers plus 4 oversize. 6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Union soldier and businessman. Correspondence, financial records, medals, printed matter, and writings pertaining to Sisson’s Civil War service, political activities, and business enterprises in Maryville, Missouri.
Polish declarations of admiration and friendship for the United States, 1926
200 items. 105 volumes plus 6 oversize volumes. 13.8 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Volumes compiled under the auspices of the American-Polish Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Poland and the Polish-American Society and presented to President Calvin Coolidge in recognition of the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and in acknowledgment of American participation and aid to Poland during World War I, containing over five million signatures of Polish citizens and embellished with illustrations rendered by prominent postwar Polish artists of buildings, coats of arms, monuments, rural and urban scenes, and historical figures.
Simon Cameron papers, 1738-1919
8,000 items. 28 containers plus 1 oversize. 12 linear feet. 22 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Financier, United States secretary of war, United States senator from Pennsylvania, and diplomat. Correspondence, diary, account books, notebooks, speeches, business and legal records, and printed material primarily relating to Pennsylvania and national politics and to Cameron's business enterprises.
W.G. McAdoo papers, 1786-1941
250,000 items. 702 containers plus 1 oversize. 263.2 linear feet. 7 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Lawyer, business executive, U.S. secretary of the treasury, and U.S. senator from California. Correspondence, memoranda, reports, scrapbooks, drafts and copies of speeches, articles, and books, bulletins, photographs, and printed matter, relating chiefly to McAdoo's activities in business and public life during the Woodrow Wilson presidential administration. Includes family correspondence of the Floyd, McAdoo, and Gibbs families.
Robert R. Hitt papers, 1830-1906
2,200 items. 40 containers. 16 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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U.S. Representative from Illinois. Personal, political, diplomatic, and business correspondence and other papers, including shorthand notes and material relating to Abraham Lincoln, the Lincoln Douglas Debates, and Civil War courts-martial. Other topics include his congressional service and the annexation of Hawaii.
Green-Driver collection, 1896-1969
2,000 items. 6 containers . 2.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Businesswoman and church worker. Financial papers, correspondence, photographs, printed matter, topical files and miscellaneous material generated mainly by Pattie Gresham and her three husbands, Baptist ministers William M. Driver and John Benjamin Green, and insurance executive William L. Busby.
Moton family papers, 1850-1991
8,700 items. 25 containers plus 1 classified. 11.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, printed material, and other papers relating primarily to efforts in the 1930s by the Moton Family to promote educational and economic opportunities for African Americans and to improve race relations.
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