Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Collection Summary
| Title | Emory Scott Land papers, 1901-1972 |
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| Span Dates | 1900-1972 |
| ID No. | MSS29314 |
| Creator | Land, Emory Scott, 1879-1971 |
| Extent | 8,500 items |
| Extent | 31 containers plus 2 oversize |
| Extent | 13 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.ms013126 |
| LCCN Permalink | LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm79029314 |
| Summary | Naval officer and public official. Correspondence, diary notes, speeches, copies of orders, scrapbooks, clippings, photographs, and other papers chiefly relating to Land's government service as head of the U.S. Navy Bureau of Construction and Repair, chairman of the U.S. Maritime Commission, and chief administrator of the U.S. War Shipping Administration. Includes material relating to his cousin, Charles A. Lindbergh, and Land's testimony in the Lindbergh kidnapping case. |