Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
The papers of Warren K. Billings, laborer and union organizer, were given to the Library of Congress by Gertrude Anderson in 1975. A small addition was received as a gift of Leon MacLean in 1980.
Processing History
The Warren K. Billings Papers were processed in 1976 and revised and expanded in 1984. The finding aid was revised in 2009 by Allan Teichroew and David Mathisen. The finding aid was updated in 2023 by Maria Farmer as part of a division-wide remediation project by the Inclusive Description Working Group.
Transfers
Photographs have been transferred to the Library's Prints and Photographs Division where they are identified as part of the Warren K. Billings Papers.
Related Material
Other collections in the Manuscript Division relating to Billings include the papers of Felix Frankfurter, who was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson in 1918 to head a commission to study the Mooney-Billings case, and the papers of Lewis Graham Hines, which includes a letter of April 1918 from Mooney to Hines describing and defending Billings's credentials as a laborer and union organizer.
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Warren K. Billings Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.