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1. Clarence Darrow papers, 1894-1941

   15,000 items. 25 containers plus 3 oversize. 10 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Author, lecturer, lawyer, and reformer. Correspondence, legal records, and writings by Darrow as well as notes, correspondence, and printed matter collected by Irving Stone while writing a biography of Darrow.

2. American Federation of Labor records, 1883-1925

   172,300 items. 354 containers. 90.3 linear feet. 341 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Labor organization. Letterpress books containing correspondence of Samuel Gompers and William Green, presidents of the American Federation of Labor. Other letters are signed by James Duncan, Gabriel Edmonston, Frank K. Foster, and John McBride.

3. Franklin MacVeagh papers, 1799-1934

   19,000 items. 49 containers. 19.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Lawyer, businessman and U.S. secretary of the treasury. Correspondence, family papers, subject files, business, legal, and financial papers, speeches and writings, and miscellaneous material relating primarily to MacVeagh's service in the cabinet of William H. Taft and to the MacVeagh (McVey) and Eames families, Chicago social and civic affairs, the Franklin MacVeagh & Company wholesale grocery business, and other personal and business matters.

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4. Pierson, Rioch, and Layton families papers, 1777-2012

   11,500 items. 33 containers plus 1 oversize. 13.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Correspondence, articles, poetry, photographs, notes, financial and legal papers, a Bible, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other papers relating to the Pierson, Rioch, and Layton families residing chiefly in southeastern New York and Washington, D.C. The bulk of the collection is composed of the papers of Harriet Wheeler Pierson (Library of Congress cataloger), Frances Lupton Pierson Rioch (teacher, nurse, and homemaker), Katherine Frances Rioch Layton (teacher and homemaker), and Phebe Ann Dusinberre Pierson (homemaker).