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Smith Simpson papers, 1833-1993
5,000 items. 16 containers. 6.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Diplomat. Correspondence, family papers, topical files, photographs, scrapbooks, printed matter, and miscellaneous material relating to Simpson's career as a diplomat and industrial relations specialist.
Elizabeth J. Harper papers, 1943-1984
80 items. 1 container plus 1 oversize. 0.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Foreign service officer and member of Women's Army Corps. Correspondence, memoranda, oral history transcript, writings, maps, prints, certificates, newspaper clippings, and other material relating primarily to Harper's service in the Women's Army Corps and as a foreign service officer in the Department of State.
William H. Littlewood papers, 1904-2007
2,000 items. 14 containers plus 1 oversize. 5.5 linear feet. 3,637 digital files (2.24 GB). -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Civilian oceanographer with the United States Navy and science attaché with the United States Foreign Service. Correspondence, cables, dispatches, memoranda, reports, journals, clippings, writings, newsletters, photographs, maps, ephemera, planning files, and reference materials primarily related to Operation Deep Freeze between 1955 and 1959.
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Charles Russell Train papers, 1898-1967
23 items. 4 containers. 1.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Naval officer. Photocopies of Train's daily journals, biographical sketch and obituary, scrapbook, article on resignation of Admiral Willard H. Brownson, and other papers relating chiefly to Train's naval career and personal life including his participation in the Great White Fleet; command of the Utah (battleship); service as naval aide to President Herbert Hoover, naval attaché to United States embassies in Italy and Austria, and president of the Naval Reserve Inspection Board; and post-retirement involvement with Children's Hospital and St. John's Church in Washington, D.C.
Herman Hollerith papers, 1850-1982
11,700 items. 34 containers plus 1 oversize. 13.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Inventor and businessman. Correspondence, diary, financial and business papers, patents by Hollerith and others, blueprints, drawings, a Hollerith machine punch plate, writings about Hollerith by Geoffrey Austrian and others, biographical material, and other papers relating to Hollerith tabulating machines and their use in census taking (1890-1910), operation of Tabulating Machine Company and its merger with two other companies forming Computer-Tabulating-Recording Company (1911), and Hollerith's association with this company and its successor, International Business Machines Corporation.
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George Van Horn Moseley papers, 1855-1960
4,250 items. 49 containers plus 2 oversize. 19.8 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Army officer. Correspondence, diary, military reports, statements, notes, speeches, scrapbooks, clippings, printed matter, and memorabilia covering Moseley's military career in the Philippines, on the Mexican border, with the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, during the Bonus March on Washington, and extending into the period of his retirement.
Thomas O. Paine papers, 1931-1992
64,000 items. 183 containers. 73 linear feet. 1 microfilm reel. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Engineer, corporate executive, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration official. Correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes of meetings, appointment books, family and genealogical papers, and printed matter chiefly relating to Paine's engineering career with General Electric Company and Northrop Corporation and as deputy and acting administrator at NASA, where he directed seven Apollo missions, including the first to the moon.
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Loy W. Henderson papers, 1918-1984
8,250 items. 29 containers plus 1 oversize. 12 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Diplomat; later professor of international relations, American University, Washington, D.C. Correspondence, memoir, speeches and writings, academic and subject files, engagement books, scrapbook, photographs, and miscellany pertaining primarily to Henderson's diplomatic career.
David D. Porter family papers, 1799-1899
7,000 items. 33 containers plus 1 oversize. 10 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Naval officer. Correspondence, journals, logbooks, orders, reports, memoranda, family papers, drafts of articles, memoirs, poems, short stories, and other literary writings, sketches, photographs, and printed matter documenting David D. Porter's naval career. Includes material on his years as a midshipman, his service in the Mexican War, trips to the Mediterranean to secure camels for use by the United States Army, Civil War service, superintendency of the United States Naval Academy, mission to Santo Domingo concerning the lease of Samaná Bay in the Dominican Republic, and his career as an advisor to the Navy Department (1870-1891) and chairman of the United States Navy Board of Inspection and Survey (1877-1891).
Roscoe Robinson, Jr., papers, 1945-1993
10,500 items. 31 containers plus 5 classified. 120.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Army officer. Correspondence, speeches, interview transcripts, office files, thesis and term papers, photographs, scrapbooks, personnel records, awards and certificates, reports, and miscellaneous papers related to Robinson's military career.
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