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1. Joseph C. Swidler papers, 1930-1997

   32,200 items. 93 containers. 37.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Attorney and public power industry official. Articles, correspondence, legal papers, memoranda, newspaper clippings, printed matter, reports, and speeches relating primarily to Joseph C. Swidler's career as an attorney and government official.

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2. Edmund Cody Burnett papers, 1765-1967

   21,550 items. 63 containers. 25.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Historian, editor, and educator. Correspondence, memoranda, drafts of writings, speeches, notes, research material, financial records, legal papers, and a project file from Burnett's work as editor of Letters of Members of the Continental Congress, published from 1921 to 1936; including also material on the Burnett family and farm in Tennessee, original and edited Civil War correspondence of the Burnett, Cody, Lightfoot, and McGarity families; and a translation of a cipher used by the Lee family of Virginia.

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3. Michael Wolf Straus papers, 1879-1968

   2,100 items. 29 containers. 14 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Journalist and public official. Correspondence, speeches and statements by Straus and other Department of the Interior officials, and printed material relating chiefly to Straus's service as commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Includes material concerning Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes.

4. George W. Norris papers, 1864-1954

   256,000 items. 545 containers plus 26 oversize. 230 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   United States representative and senator from Nebraska. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, notebooks, subject files, printed matter, scrapbooks, maps, charts, photographs, and memorabilia pertaining to Nebraska and national politics. Includes material on conservation, development of river valleys, Norris's political campaigns, his role in the creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority, his stand on both world wars, and his services as chair of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and the Senate Committee on the Judiciary.

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