Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Collection Summary
Title | Benjamin Helm Bristow papers, 1839-1932 |
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Span Dates | 1839-1932 |
Bulk Dates | (bulk 1874-1896) |
ID No. | MSS13862 |
Creator | Bristow, Benjamin Helm, 1832-1896 |
Extent | 16,000 items |
Extent | 20 containers |
Extent | 7.2 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.ms010310 |
LCCN Permalink | LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm79013862 |
Summary | Army officer, lawyer, United States secretary of the treasury, and solicitor general. Correspondence, speeches, biographical material, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, other printed material, and photographs relating primarily to Bristow's service as solicitor general and secretary of the treasury in the administrations of Ulysses S. Grant and to his New York City law firm. Includes a letterpress book of incoming and outgoing correspondence of the commissioner of internal revenue concerning the whiskey frauds of 1875. |