Scope and Content Note
The papers of Amos Pinchot (1873-1944) span the years 1856-1945, with the bulk of the collection dating from 1909 to 1942. The collection chiefly reflects Pinchot's career as a lawyer and reformer and consists of six series: Family Correspondence , General Correspondence , Subject File , Speeches and Writings , Printed Matter , and Oversize .
Topics of importance in the papers include civil liberties, labor problems, the Sherman Antitrust Act, opposition to militarism and war, the League of Nations, the Progressive Party, oil scandals, government ownership of railroads, the National Industrial Recovery Act and New Deal legislation, reorganization of the Supreme Court, cooperative housing, America First Committee, and presidential campaigns from 1916 to 1940. Prominent correspondents include William Edgar Borah, Louise Bryant, James Rudolph Garfield, Harold L. Ickes, William Kent, John Adams Kingsbury, Fiorello H. La Guardia, John L. Lewis, Gifford Pinchot, Ezra Pound, John Reed (1887-1920), Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), and Henry L. Stimson.