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Benjamin B. French family papers, 1778-1940
6,500 items. 38 containers plus 6 oversize. 17.2 linear feet. 16 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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New Hampshire politician, clerk of the United States House of Representatives, and Commissioner of Public Buildings in Washington, D.C. Journals, personal correspondence, writings, and miscellaneous papers chiefly relating to family matters and including commentary on political events and social life in Washington in the nineteenth century. Other prominent family members represented in the papers include Francis O. French, banker, and Amos Tuck, congressman.
Nannie Helen Burroughs papers, 1900-1963
110,000 items. 342 containers plus 19 oversize. 134.4 linear feet. 5 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Educator, religious leader, and advocate for African American rights. Correspondence, financial records, memoranda, notebooks, speeches and writings, subscription and literature orders, student records, and other papers relating primarily to Burroughs's founding and management of the National Training School for Women and Girls in Washington, D.C., and to her activities with the Woman's Auxiliary of the National Baptist Convention of the United States of America.
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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J. Skelly Wright papers, 1933-1987
85,100 items. 243 containers. 120.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Attorney, judge, and educator. Personal and professional correspondence, case files, opinions, memoranda, reports, speeches and writings, financial papers, teaching material, clippings, printed matter, and photographs relating primarily to Wright's legal and judicial career.
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Samuel Dash papers, 1748-2004
87,000 items. 253 containers plus 2 classified. 101 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Lawyer, educator, and author. Correspondence, memoranda, legal material and opinions, writings, speeches, engagement file, teaching file, organization and committee file, clippings, photographs, appointment calendars, and other papers relating primarily to Dash's legal career after 1964, and more particularly his role in governmental investigations.
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Robert H. Terrell papers, 1870-1954
2,750 items. 9 containers plus 1 oversize. 3.6 linear feet. 4 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Teacher, lawyer, and judge. Correspondence, speeches and writings, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and other papers relating to Terrell's interest in African American education and welfare, courts and schools in Washington, D.C., Republican politics, and the Washington Board of Trade.
Coolidge-Pollard families papers, 1818-2015
8,000 items. 34 containers plus 8 oversize. 20 linear feet. 2,981 digital files (5.00 GB). -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Correspondence, diaries, travel journals, photographs, postcards, scrapbooks, legal records, drawings, newspaper clippings, genealogical research notes, poetry and other writings, books, and other printed matter chronicling the lives of the Pollard family of Vermont who were maternal relatives of Calvin Coolidge. The collection includes correspondence between Coolidge and his relatives as well as photographs of the president during visits to Vermont.
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Joe Stephens papers, 1978-2013
47,000 items. 134 containers plus 2 classified and 2 oversize. 52 linear feet. 218 digital files (671.04 MB). -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Journalist. Research files, correspondence, writings, notes, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Stephens's career as a Washington Post investigative journalist.
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William Jones Rhees papers, 1856-1885
150 items. 1 container plus 7 oversize. 1.8 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Chief clerk of the Smithsonian Institution. Correspondence to Laura O. Clarke Rhees, his first wife, on his Christian beliefs, their marriage and family, life in Washington, D.C., his work at the Smithsonian Institution, T. S. C. Lowe and balloon ascensions on the National Mall, and the American Civil War. Seven scrapbooks with newspaper clippings pertaining to scientific discoveries, the history of the Smithsonian, education in public schools, cultural events, and social concerns in the United States.
Kenneth Bancroft Clark papers, 1897-2003
173,750 items. 494 containers plus 12 oversize. 215 linear feet. 1 microfilm reel. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Author, psychologist, and educator. Correspondence, memoranda, subject and project files, speeches and writings, transcripts of interviews and testimony, book drafts, minutes, reports, and administrative, academic, and financial records relating to Kenneth Bancroft Clark's career as a psychologist and professor at the City College, City University of New York, his contributions to the African-American civil rights movement and equal educational opportunities, and his various consulting firms, especially Metropolitan Applied Research Center, a group he organized in New York, N.Y., to advocate for the urban poor and disadvantaged.
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