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Olmsted Associates records, 1863-1971
170,000 items. 637 containers plus 24 oversize. 255 linear feet. 531 microfilm reels. 1,297 digital files (1.3 GB). -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
Landscape architectural firm. The records include correspondence, letterbooks, memoranda, reports, plans, specifications, newspaper clippings, photographs, drawings, journals, account books, ledgers, lists, diagrams, blueprints, deeds, and printed matter constituting the business files of the firm and reflecting the breadth of the projects undertaken by its staff. A small group of Olmsted family papers is also contained in the collection.
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Herndon-Weik collection of Lincolniana, circa 1824-1933
4,600 items. 36 containers. 10 linear feet. 15 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
Collection composed of the papers of Abraham Lincoln, United States president, United States representative from Illinois, and lawyer; William Henry Herndon, Lincoln's law partner, collector, and biographer from Springfield, Illinois; and Jesse William Weik, lawyer of Greencastle, Indiana, and coauthor of Herndon's Lincoln. Includes records (1933) of the Weik Manuscript Corporation and miscellaneous material collected chiefly by Herndon and Weik for use in writing Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life (1889).
Charles H. Rogers family papers, 1858-1930
60 items. 1 container. 0.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Financier. Correspondence, military orders and passes, notes, calling cards, and a photograph, and also including letters from Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) and his family.
Calvin Coolidge papers, 1915-1932
179,000 items. 294 containers. 43 linear feet. 190 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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United States president and businessman. White House office files from Coolidge's presidency consisting of incoming correspondence, draft replies, carbon copies of outgoing letters from Coolidge or one of his secretaries, incoming telegraph messages, appointment books, and names and addresses of White House guests. Includes telegraph messages from the first months of the Herbert Hoover administration. Additional material includes personal correspondence and writings.
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Lucian Barbour papers, 1838-1977
700 items. 6 containers. 2.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Lawyer and United States representative from Indiana. Correspondence, diaries, financial records, photographs, printed matter, and miscellany consisting primarily of family correspondence relating to domestic affairs and life in Indianapolis, Indiana, and Barbour’s service in the 34th Congress.
Charles Follen McKim papers, 1838-1929
4,200 items. 14 containers. 5.6 linear feet. 14 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Architect. Correspondence, letterbooks, memoranda, diary, notes, legal and financial records, sketches, drawings, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to the architectural firm of McKim, Mead, & White, New York, N.Y.
Edith Benham Helm papers, 1915-1961
10,000 items. 28 containers plus 4 oversize. 14 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Social secretary at the White House. Letters, notes, scrapbooks, and photographs documenting Helm's career as social secretary at the White House during the Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Harry S. Truman administrations.
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Irwin Hood Hoover papers, 1909-1933
650 items. 7 containers. 2.8 linear feet. 9 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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White House usher. Chiefly diaries and diary notes kept by Hoover as White House usher concerning presidents from Benjamin Harrison to Franklin D. Roosevelt and life in the White House
Bess Furman papers, 1728-1967
47,000 items. 155 containers plus 4 oversize. 70 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
Author and journalist. Correspondence, diaries, family papers, subject files, speeches and writings, financial records, scrapbooks, and miscellany relating primarily to Furman's family, personal life, and career as a journalist and author.
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Theo. A. Bingham papers, 1897-1903
3,000 items. 25 containers. 10 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Army officer. Papers, newspaper clippings, photographs, and miscellaneous material relating to official functions at the White House, the assassination of William McKinley, and the unveiling of a statue of Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau in Washington, D.C.
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