22 finding aid(s) found containing the word(s) Depressions.

  1. Richard Olney papers, 1830-1928

    28,000 items. 159 containers plus 1 oversize. 33 linear feet. 62 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Lawyer, attorney general, and secretary of state. Correspondence, letterbooks, drafts of speeches and articles, subject files, memoranda, reports, legal records, newspaper clippings, and printed material relating primarily to Olney's activities as attorney general and secretary of state, and to his Boston, Massachusetts, law practice.

  2. Andrew Jackson papers, 1775-1874

    26,000 items . 198 containers plus 5 oversize. 47.4 linear feet. 78 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    United States president, senator, representative, and army officer from Tennessee. Correspondence, military papers, and other papers reflecting most phases of Jackson's career.

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  3. Herbert Benjamin papers, 1915-2004

    3,000 items plus one oversize . 14 containers. 5.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Communist Party official. Correspondence, memoranda, memoirs and additional writings, notes, printed matter, and other papers primarily relating to Benjamin’s life and his work in the Communist Party, particularly his activities as a leader in the organized unemployed movement during the 1930s.

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  4. Richmond Pearson Hobson papers, 1889-1966

    27,300 items. 78 containers plus 1 oversize. 31.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Naval officer and United States representative from Alabama. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, lectures, articles, reports, notes, analyses, naval orders, press clippings, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Hobson's naval career and to his efforts on behalf of prohibition, restrictions on international drug trafficking, and opposition to the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration.

  5. Charl Ormond Williams papers, 1924-1959

    3,200 items. 9 containers. 4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Educator. Correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, reports, newspaper clippings, and printed material relating to Williams’s association with the National Education Association of the United States and her work in the field of education and educational reform, including her participation in the 1944 White House Conference on Rural Education.

  6. Jesse H. Jones papers, 1916-1960

    78,000 items. 360 containers plus 39 oversize. 128 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    U.S. secretary of commerce and financier. Correspondence, speeches, reports, congressional releases, subject file, newspaper clippings, and other printed matter documenting Jones's career, including as director of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. and secretary of commerce.

  7. Paul Field Sifton and Claire Sifton papers, 1912-1980

    25,500 items. 78 containers plus 2 oversize. 32.3 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Paul Field Sifton, playwright, government official, and Claire Sifton, editor and author. Correspondence, diaries, writings, subject files, family papers, printed matter, and miscellany relating to the Siftons' literary, labor, and governmental careers.

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  8. Henry Mason Morfit papers, 1819-1858

    4,000 items. 13 containers. 5.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    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.

  9. Florence Owens Thompson papers, 1977-1995

    475 items. 2 containers. 0.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Migrant worker and subject of "The Migrant Mother" photograph by Dorothea Lange. Correspondence, clippings, and printed material related to Thompson's illness and death in 1983.

  10. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Subject/Geographical File

    ca. 250,000 items. -- Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    This photo morgue covers subjects typical of a large, mid-1900s city newspaper, including African American civil rights, world wars, crime, health care, business, and sports. The biographical series, 75% of the collection, has portraits and activities of local, national, and international newsmakers, including U.S. presidents, authors, entertainers, and labor leaders. New York City events and people are heavily represented.

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