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David Ames Wells papers, 1795-1898
9,000 items. 24 containers. 6 linear feet. 9 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Economist, author, and public official. Correspondence, printed material, writings, and other papers concerning economics, with particular emphasis on taxation, the tariff, and free trade.
Harry Payne Whitney collection of letters of William Collins Whitney, 1757-1942
20,000 items. 148 containers plus 10 oversize. 41.8 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Secretary of the navy, financier, and sportsman. Correspondence, legal and financial records, scrapbooks, photographs, genealogies, and printed matter relating chiefly to William C. Whitney's business and political career in New York, and as secretary of the navy in the first Grover Cleveland presidential administration.
Daniel Augustus Tompkins papers, 1887-1920
2,000 items. 10 containers. 3.8 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Engineer and manufacturer. Correspondence, speeches, articles, books, newspaper clippings, and other papers reflecting Tompkins's views on the economic development of the South and relating to public issues of the early twentieth century.
William Smith Culbertson papers, 1897-1965
55,000 items. 194 containers plus 2 classified. 78 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Diplomat, lawyer and professor of law. Correspondence, diaries, lecture notes, government documents, writings, memoranda, and scrapbooks relating to Culbertson's career as vice chairman of the U.S. Tariff Commission, minister to Romania, ambassador to Chile, chief of the military intelligence service in the War Department, member of the Planning Group of the Office of Strategic Services, and other duties during World War II. Includes papers relating to his law career, lecturer as professor at Georgetown University, and church activities as a Presbyterian.
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J. Laurence Laughlin papers, 1902-1931
2,500 items. 13 containers. 5.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Economist, professor, and editor. Correspondence, lectures, writings, articles, notes, financial papers, printed matter, clippings, and other papers relating to Laughlin's career at the University of Chicago and to his activities as editor of the Journal of Political Economy and as a member, delegate, or chairman of groups concerned with money and banking, credit, and related economic matters.
Moreton Frewen papers, 1823-1934
16,500 items. 47 containers. 18.8 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Anglo-Irish reformer, economist, author, and inventor. Correspondence and other material documenting Frewen's activities in business ventures or government service in England, the American West, Hyderabad, Kenya, Ireland, Mexico, China, Canada, and Australia.
William McKinley papers, circa 1847-1935
131,000 items. 425 containers plus 3 oversize. 56 linear feet. 98 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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United States president, representative, and army officer, and governor of Ohio. Correspondence, speeches, will, messages, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other papers pertaining primarily to McKinley's presidential administration.
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Charles Schuveldt Dewey papers, 1924-1933
1,500 items. 6 containers. 2.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Banker, public official, and United States representative from Illinois. Subject files, reports, memoranda, statistical studies, charts, correspondence, clippings, and other printed matter relating to Dewey's service from 1927 to 1930 as a financial advisor to Poland and director of the Narodowy Bank Polski (National Bank of Poland).
Hugo LaFayette Black papers, 1883-1976
130,000 items. 513 containers plus 19 oversize. 216 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, United States senator from Alabama, and lawyer. Family and general correspondence, memoranda, reports, notebooks, research materials, case files, legal and subject files, speeches and writings, printed and near-print materials, clippings, scrapbooks, and miscellany relating primarily to Black's service in the Senate (1927-1937) and on the Supreme Court (1937-1971).
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Martin Van Buren papers, 1787-1910
6,000 items. 72 containers plus 1 oversize. 18 linear feet. 37 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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United States president, vice president, secretary of state, and senator from New York. Correspondence, drafts of writings, speeches, and messages to Congress, autobiographical material, notes, certificate, legal record book, estate record book, and other papers pertaining to slavery and the antislavery movement, banking and the Second Bank of the United States, party politics in New York State and at the national level relating to the Federalist, National Republican, Whig, and Democratic parties, particularly during the Jackson and Van Buren administrations.
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