Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Collection Summary
Title | Elisha Hunt Allen papers, 1849-1934 |
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Span Dates | 1849-1934 |
Bulk Dates | (bulk 1867-1882) |
ID No. | MSS10447 |
Creator | Allen, Elisha Hunt, 1804-1883 |
Extent | 2,000 items |
Extent | 6 containers plus 1 oversize |
Extent | 3 linear feet |
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.ms010271 |
LCCN Permalink | LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm73010447 |
Summary | Diplomat, jurist, lawyer, and United States representative from Maine. Correspondence, speeches and writings, notes, photographs, printed matter, and miscellaneous material largely concerning Hawaiian economic and political conditions, sugar plantations and trade, Chinese labor, the Hawaiian supreme court, of which Allen was chief justice, and the United States-Hawaiian Reciprocity Treaty of 1876. |