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NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund records, 1915-1968
80,000 items. 264 containers plus 55 restricted plus 12 oversize. 132 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Records documenting the NAACP's legal program through the mid-1960s and its coordinated attack on legal segregation and racial discrimination waged in state, federal and supreme courts. Includes administrative records, conference agenda, reports, committee files, correspondence and memoranda, notes, printed material, and legal case files.
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William Hoppen papers, 1831-1998
150,000 items. 431 containers plus 6 oversize. 182 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Lawyer and environmental activist. Correspondence, memoranda, a collection inventory, litigation files, legal research, legislative bills, meeting agenda and minutes, reports, proposals, hearing transcripts, organizational mailings, newsletters, fact sheets, handbooks, flyers, brochures, pamphlets, press releases, posters, lists, notes, petitions, speeches, statements, financial records, maps, photographs, drawings, news clippings, and other printed matter relating to Hoppen's involvement in the environmental movement as a lawyer engaged in environmental litigation, an advisor on environmental legislation, and an activist who participated in and helped to coordinate citizen-based environmental groups, largely in the state of New York.
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U.S. News & World Report magazine photograph collection (Library of Congress)
whole collection ca. 1,228,000 items. ca. 45,500 contact sheets (1,182,500 images) : b&w and some color ; 9 x 12 in. or smaller.. ca. 1,182,400 negatives : film, b&w and some color ; 35 mm., 2 1/4 in., 5 x 7 in., and 8 x 10 in.. ca. 100 transparencies : film, color ; 35 mm., 4 x 5 in., and 8 x 10 in.. -- Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Chronological pictorial representation of local, national, and international news topics, with particular emphasis on Washington, D.C., and the United States. Photojournalistic coverage of politics, government, economics, industry, education, domestic life, transportation, communication, health care, and housing. Documents political campaigns and conventions, congressional hearings, press conferences, foreign affairs, as well as space flight, consumer products, gas rationing, and campaigns for African American civil rights. Images related to protests and the aftermath of riots and material related to such issues of the period as civil rights. Covers events including the Vietnam War, Watergate, and statesmen's visits (for example, Richard Nixon's 1958 trip to the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev's 1959 visit to the United States, and Fidel Castro's 1959 trip to the United States). Also includes Washington, D.C., sites, particularly federal government buildings and monuments. Portrayal of national political, religious, and cultural leaders and personalities. U.S. and international leaders include presidents, Martin Luther King, Jr., Fidel Castro, Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, Anwar Sadat, and Menachem Begin.
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New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Subject/Geographical File
ca. 250,000 items. -- Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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This photo morgue covers subjects typical of a large, mid-1900s city newspaper, including African American civil rights, world wars, crime, health care, business, and sports. The biographical series, 75% of the collection, has portraits and activities of local, national, and international newsmakers, including U.S. presidents, authors, entertainers, and labor leaders. New York City events and people are heavily represented.
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New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Biographical File, A to L
ca. 375,000 items. -- Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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This photo morgue covers subjects typical of a large, mid-1900s city newspaper, including African American civil rights, world wars, crime, health care, business, and sports. The biographical series, 75% of the collection, has portraits and activities of local, national, and international newsmakers, including U.S. presidents, authors, entertainers, and labor leaders. New York City events and people are heavily represented.
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New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Biographical File, M to Z
ca. 375,000 items. -- Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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This photo morgue covers subjects typical of a large, mid-1900s city newspaper, including African American civil rights, world wars, crime, health care, business, and sports. The biographical series, 75% of the collection, has portraits and activities of local, national, and international newsmakers, including U.S. presidents, authors, entertainers, and labor leaders. New York City events and people are heavily represented.
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Ara Mesrobian papers, 1876-2011
2,800 items. 8 containers plus 1 oversize. 5 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Photographer and railroad enthusiast (railfan). Correspondence, railroad and trolley tickets and ticket books, railroad dining car menus, ephemera, and other material documenting mid-twentieth century rail travel, the operations of railway historical societies, and railfan subculture in the United States.
Michael Pertschuk papers, 1949-2002
49,400 items. 149 containers. 59.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Lawyer, federal trade commissioner, and lobbyist. Correspondence, memoranda, email, speeches, statements, book files, subject files, and other papers primarily concerning Pertschuk's career as chairman and commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission and consumer and tobacco control issues.
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Robert Lansing papers, 1831-1935
6,000 items. 77 containers plus 6 oversize. 17 linear feet. 3 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Lawyer, diplomat, secretary of state during the Wilson administration, and member of the American mission to negotiate a peace treaty following World War I. Correspondence, memoranda, reports, resolutions, desk diaries, book manuscripts, speeches, scrapbooks, clippings, printed material, memorabilia, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Lansing's years (1914-1920) as counsel to the Department of State and as secretary of state and particularly to American foreign relations during World War I, the Paris Peace Conference, and Lansing's relations with President Woodrow Wilson and with various foreign diplomats and statesmen.
Henry Thomas Rainey papers, 1904-1934
6,000 items. 20 containers. 8 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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U.S. representative from Illinois and speaker of the U.S. Congress House of Representatives. Primarily constituent correspondence from 1934 and correspondence relating to the McNary-Haugen Farm Relief Bill of 1924.