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Yousef Waffa papers, 1932-1934
10 items. 8 containers. 3 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Landscape design student. Ten scrapbooks consisting of photographs, maps, blue prints, and notes detailing the urban and park planning of different cities and subdivisions across the United States at the outset of the New Deal.
Arthur J. Goldberg papers, 1793-1995
78,000 items. 296 containers plus 14 oversize and 2 classified. 120.7 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, lawyer, secretary of labor, and diplomat. Correspondence, case files, certiorari memoranda, legal files, speeches and writings, subject files, reports, printed matter, and scrapbooks relating to Goldberg's career as a lawyer, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, secretary of labor, and United States representative to the United Nations.
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Laura Wood Roper map collection
4 items. 1 folder. -- Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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The collection consists of four maps that depict locations in Chicago, San Francisco, Staten Island, and Hartford, Connecticut. Frederick Law Olmsted helped create each of the maps.
Gifford Pinchot map collection
7 items. 1 folder. -- Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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The collection consists of 7 maps from the nineteenth century. Five maps depict locations in Europe and two maps depict loctions in the United States. Eleven other items are cataloged separately. Consult the finding aid for more information.
Palmer-Loper family papers, 1667-1994
10,000 items. 34 containers plus 3 oversize. 13.6 linear feet. 11 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Seafaring and merchant families. Correspondence, logbooks and journals, ships' papers, financial and business records, and printed matter documenting the voyages and business activities of Nathaniel Brown Palmer, Alexander Smith Palmer, Richard Fanning Loper, and other members of these maritime families of Stonington, Connecticut.
Harold L. Ickes papers, 1815-1969
150,000 items. 490 containers plus 93 oversize. 221 linear feet. 21 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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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.
Melville Weston Fuller papers, 1794-1949
5,000 items. 16 containers plus 1 oversize. 6.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Lawyer and jurist; chief justice of the United States Supreme Court. Chiefly correspondence, 1849-1910, between Fuller and members of his family, friends, and professional associates. Also includes printed matter, notes, scrapbooks, speeches and writings, and memorabilia. The papers relate to personal and family affairs; Fuller's student life at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine; his activities in Chicago, including his law practice, Democratic politics, and his real estate holdings; his term on the Supreme Court; and his work on behalf of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, negotiations for shipping rights of Muscat dhows, 1905, the Venezuelan boundary dispute, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Peabody Education Fund.
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William Edward Dodd papers, 1895-1955
22,000 items. 64 containers plus 1 oversize. 25.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Historian and diplomat. Correspondence, diaries, speeches, writings, autobiographical notes, printed matter, photographs, and other papers relating to Dodd's work as an author, professor of history at the University of Chicago, and ambassador to Germany.
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James R. Mann papers, 1887-1922
8,000 items. 15 containers plus 5 oversize. 5.8 linear feet. 8 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Lawyer and U.S. representative from Illinois. Mounted newspaper clippings, correspondence, telegrams, invitations, memorabilia, and miscellaneous printed matter relating to Mann's career in Chicago politics and as a Republican representative from Illinois.
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.