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1. Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund records, 1965-1994

   43,700 items. 125 containers plus 8 oversize. 53 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Organization founded for the purpose of erecting a national memorial honoring American veterans of the Vietnam conflict. Administrative files document the operations and technical resources required for the erection of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial as well as the surrounding political controversy.

2. Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association records, 1900-1990

   6,500 items. 20 containers. 5.8 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Association dedicated to preserving Douglass's home and to disseminating knowledge of African-American history. Correspondence, minutes of meetings, reports, and other records relating to the preservation of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Home, Cedar Hill, and to African-American history. Also includes official files and personal papers of past president Mary E. C. Gregory.

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3. Daniel Chester French papers, circa 1848-1968

   23,000 items. 94 containers. 37.6 linear feet. 44 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Sculptor and artist. Correspondence, writings, financial records, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other papers of French, his daughter, Margaret French Cresson, and other members of the French family relating primarily to French's career as a sculptor and artist and to the French family.

4. Vietnam Women's Memorial Foundation records, 1966-2020

   18,200 items. 52 containers plus 4 oversize. 22.6 linear feet. 572 digital files (102.79 GB). -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Nonprofit organization that established a Washington, D.C., memorial to women who served in the Vietnam War. Clippings, correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, architectural and design drawings, reference materials, official publications, speeches, testimony, photographs, printed matter, and other records chiefly documenting the organization's activities in physical format; video interviews and news clips are in digital formats.

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5. Latrobe architectural drawing archive (Library of Congress)

   211 items (chiefly architectural and engineering drawings). 2 v., 41 leaves (30 architectural drawings). -- Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Primarily architectural and engineering drawings by Benjamin Henry Latrobe for residential buildings, government buildings, canals, monuments, bank buildings, military buildings, health care facilities, engines, and waterworks in Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Among the designs represented in the archive are the U.S. Capitol, the White House, and Decatur House. Materials document various phases of the design process, from competition and presentation drawings to working drawings. The archive also includes landscape architecture drawings, interior design drawings, and naval architecture drawings, as well as architectural drawings formerly attributed to Latrobe.

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