Hugh Lenox Scott papers, 1582-1981

Collection Summary

Title	Hugh Lenox Scott papers, 1582-1981
Span Dates	1582-1981
Bulk Dates	(bulk 1845-1934)
ID No.	MSS39297
Creator	Scott, Hugh Lenox, 1853-1934
Extent	40,000 items
Extent	108 containers
Extent	43.2 linear feet
Extent	5 microfilm reels
Language	Collection material in English
Location	Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Finding Aid Permalink	Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003070
LCCN Permalink	LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm78039297
Summary	Army officer and public official. Correspondence, diaries, memoranda, memoirs, drafts of writings, speeches, reports, notes, biographical and genealogical material, account books, financial papers, lists, printed material, maps, photographs, drawings, prints, and others papers relating to Scott's career in the United States Army from 1876 to his retirement following World War I, his service as a member of the State Highway Commission for New Jersey (1919-1933) and as chairman of the State Highway Commission of New Jersey (1920s), and to his work on Indian languages at the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of Ethnology.
Online Content	Part of the papers of Hugh Lenox Scott relating to the Kiowa Indians is available on the Library of Congress website at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000108.