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Charles P. Taft papers, 1816-1983
189,000 items. 492 containers plus 3 oversize. 197.8 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Lawyer, Protestant lay leader, and mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio. Son of President William H. Taft. Family and general correspondence, diaries, memoranda, reports, subject files, drafts of speeches and writings, financial papers, newspaper clippings, printed material, scrapbooks, and other papers relating chiefly to Taft's role in Cincinnati politics, municipal reform, law practice, and business interests, church activities, and state and national Republican Party politics.
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Feamster family papers, 1794-1967
3,000 items. 5 containers. 2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Members of the Feamster (Feemster) family. Diaries, notebooks, correspondence, financial and legal papers, writings, and miscellaneous material illustrating the activities of four interrelated families from 1794 to 1967 whose members were engaged in farming, the law, medicine, the military, politics, religion, and other pursuits in Virginia, West Virginia, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Kansas, Iowa, and Maryland. The collection also contains genealogical information about the Cary (Carey), Mathews (Mathews), Alderson, and Feamster families.
Francis Bowes Sayre papers, 1861-1967
8,100 items. 27 containers. 10.8 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Diplomat and statesman. Correspondence, official reports and communications, writings, printed matter, and miscellaneous material relating to Sayre's diplomatic career and his role as a spokesman for Christianity and the Episcopal Church. Includes a reading copy of Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points message to Congress, telegrams, election returns, and other papers pertaining to Wilson.
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Robert Ellsworth Gross papers, 1903-1961
8,500 items. 19 containers. 7.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Airplane manufacturer. Correspondence, speeches, citations, obituary, memorial tributes, clippings, photographs, and other papers chiefly relating to Gross's interest in and development of Lockheed Aircraft Corporation.
Piccard family papers, circa 1470-1983
73,000 items. 204 containers plus 1 oversize. 82 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Family members represented include Jean Felix Piccard (1884-1963), his wife, Jeannette Ridlon Piccard (1895-1981), and their son, Don Piccard (1926- ). Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, journals, logbooks, drafts of writings and speeches, reports, notes, financial papers, biographical and genealogical material, scrapbooks, blueprints, patent specifications and other papers documenting the careers of Piccard family members in the fields of aeronautics, ballooning, bathyscaphe exploration, chemistry, education, the Episcopal church, and stratospheric exploration.
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Carter Godwin Woodson papers, 1736-1974
18,000 items. 54 containers plus 19 oversize. 21.2 linear feet. 46 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Historian, author, and collector. Papers of prominent African Americans, research files, business records, writings, correspondence, and other material relating to Woodson's leadership of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History and to scholarship and publishing in the field of African and African-American history.
Charles Henry Brent papers, 1860-1991
14,740 items. 72 containers. 32 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Clergyman and missionary. Correspondence, diaries, sermon notes, speeches and articles, reports, memoranda, family and personal correspondence, obituaries, Bibles, printed matter, memorabilia, scrapbooks, and photographs documenting Brent's career as a clergyman and missionary.
Ward family papers, 1831-1904
2,600 items. 11 containers. 3.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Family from Richmond County, Virginia. Correspondence, broadsides, songs, financial records, printed matter, and other papers of William Norvell Ward, Episcopal clergyman and Confederate soldier, and members of his family including material relating to the Civil War, Reconstruction, and social life and customs in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Maryland, and northern Virginia.
James Dodson Barbee and David Rankin Barbee papers, 1784-1953
5,000 items. 17 containers plus 1 oversize. 7.2 linear feet. 2 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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James Dodson Barbee, Methodist clergyman in Tennessee and Alabama and publishing agent, and son David Rankin Barbee, journalist. Correspondence, including family letters, notebooks, account books, printed matter, notes, and sermons chiefly relating to the Methodist Publishing House, Nashville, Tennessee, and to claims of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, growing out of Civil War property confiscations, and to the writings and research of David Rankin Barbee.
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Mercer Green Johnston papers, 1860-1954
40,000 items. 112 containers plus 3 oversize. 45.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Educator, Episcopal clergyman, and author. Correspondence, diaries, sermons, notebooks, autobiographical papers, poems, prayers, financial papers, pamphlets, periodicals, photographs, clippings, scrapbooks, and memorabilia relating to Johnston's career as an Episcopal clergyman in the United States and the Philippines, worker for the Young Men's Christian Association during World War I, director of the People's Legislative Service, director of the National Citizens Committee on Relations with Latin America, and assistant to the administrator of the United States Rural Electrification Administration.
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