James A. Garfield papers, 1775-1889

Collection Summary

Title	James A. Garfield papers, 1775-1889
Inclusive Dates	1775-1889
Bulk Dates	1850-1881
ID No.	MSS291956
Creator	Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881
Extent	80,000 items
Extent	462 containers plus 26 oversize
Extent	117.6 linear feet
Extent	177 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.ms008147
LCCN Permalink	LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm75021956
Summary	United States president, army officer, lawyer, and educator. Family, personal, and official correspondence including records of Garfield's Civil War military service, diary (1848-1881), speeches and other public statements, legal papers, genealogical material, college notebooks, tributes, printed matter, scrapbooks, and other material relating primarily to Garfield's career and death.
Online Content	The James A. Garfield Papers are available on the Library of Congress website at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000082. To promote preservation of the originals, researchers are required to consult the online edition as available. A transcription dataset from the James A. Garfield Papers is available online at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcdatasets.2023527890.