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Jackie Robinson papers, 1934-2012
7,000 items. 17 containers. 6.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Baseball player, civil rights leader, and corporate executive. Correspondence, fan mail, financial and legal records, drafts of speeches and writings, printed matter, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous items relating to Robinson as the first African American to play major league baseball in the twentieth century and to various business and civic activities following his baseball career, including his service as a corporate executive and his participation in the civil rights movement, religious and humanitarian organizations, broadcast and media affairs, and politics.
G.E. Mueller papers, 1876-2012
116,400 items. 327 containers plus 2 oversize and 1 classified. 130.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Engineer, administrator of the United States manned space flight program, and corporate executive. Correspondence, speeches, writings, subject files, printed matter, and other papers relating principally to Mueller's studies in electrical engineering at the University of Missouri--St. Louis and Purdue University and his career at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Ohio State University, Space Technology Laboratories, United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration, General Dynamics Corporation, System Development Corporation, Burroughs Corporation, George E. Mueller Corporation, and Kistler Aerospace Corporation.
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Ira Eaker papers, 1917-1989
77,300 items. 218 containers plus 16 oversize and 2 classified. 89.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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United States Army air corps officer, aviation pioneer, aircraft industry executive, and newspaper columnist. Part I consists of correspondence, memoranda, diaries, reports, meetings minutes, printed material, and other papers documenting Eaker's military career in the aeronautical section of the United States Army, particularly his experiences in World War II. Part II consists of correspondence, memoranda, diaries speeches, writings, and scheduling and subject files pertaining to Eaker's activities after leaving the military.
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Samuel C. Phillips papers, 1929-1990
67,200 items. 174 containers plus 1 oversize and 1 classified. 49.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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United States Air Force officer, space agency official, intelligence agency director, and defense industry executive. Correspondence, diaries, memoranda, reports, family and personal papers, and photographs documenting Phillips's career in the United States Air Force where he specialized in ballistics and weapons research; as director of Project Apollo (U.S.), the lunar landing program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; and as an executive with TRW Inc. and other defense contracting firms. Includes material on the Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile system, atomic weapons tests, Saturn Project (U.S.) (rocket development), the Superconducting Super Collider, the Strategic Defense Initiative, and other defense and aeronautical projects.
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Leighton W. Rogers papers, 1912-1982
26 items. 4 containers plus 1 oversize. 1.5 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Aeronautical executive, army officer, and public official. Correspondence, diary and journal, biographical information, scrapbooks, map, and writings focusing on Rogers’s experiences as an employee of National City Bank of New York during the Russian revolution in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and his return to the Soviet Union in 1943-1944 as an aeronautical consultant for the United States Army Air Corps.
Truman K. Gibson papers, circa 1900-1994
900 items. 3 containers. 1.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Lawyer, business executive, and boxing promoter. Correspondence, memoranda, newspaper clippings, printed matter, photographs, and other papers reflecting the social life of the Gibson family in Chicago, Illinois. Also included in the papers is Gibson's correspondence with his wife, Isabelle Carson Gibson, written while he served as an adviser on African-American affairs to the United States War Department in Washington, D.C., during World War II.
William J. Baroody papers, 1943-1983
35,350 items. 102 containers. 43.5 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Organization executive. Correspondence, writings, speeches, reports, minutes of meetings, financial papers, biographical material, and family papers relating chiefly to Baroody's work as an executive of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research.
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George Vernon Denny papers, 1930-1959
9,275 items. 39 containers plus 1 oversize. 17.3 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Educator, radio personality, and organization executive. Correspondence, memoranda, reports, speeches, writings, financial records, research notes, awards, printed matter, and photographs documenting Denny's career especially his activities with International Seminars and Town Meetings, Inc., and as moderator of the radio broadcasts of America's Town Meeting of the Air.
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Ronald L. Ziegler papers, 1956-1999
51,000 items. 173 containers plus 2 classified. 69 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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White House press secretary, assistant to President Richard M. Nixon, and trade association administrator. Correspondence, memoranda, political files, subject files, legal material, notes, transcripts of press briefings and press conferences, press releases, briefing material, photographs, family papers, biographical material, calendars and schedules, speeches, writings, telephone logs, printed material, clippings, and other papers documenting chiefly Ziegler's activities in the administration of President Richard M. Nixon.
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Charles E. Bohlen papers, 1862-1978
9,350 items. 36 containers plus 2 classified and 2 oversize. 14.8 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Diplomat, executive, and author. Correspondence, speeches and lectures, writings, drafts, notes, research material, appointment books, interviews, subject files, photographs and photograph albums, and other papers largely relating to Bohlen's diplomatic career and his book Witness to History, 1929-1969.
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