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REEL 143-145 Series 14, Miscellaneous Manuscripts, 1814-1901
Includes records of the 70th Indiana Volunteers, Republican Party Code book and lists, Western trip file, 1891, and papers related to the Chilean crisis, 1891. Undated material contains Presidential office cross-reference memoranda.
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REEL 143 1814-1890
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REEL 144 1890-1901, undated
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REEL 145 1890-1901, undated (cont.)
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REEL 145 Series 15, Volwiler Collection of Harrisoniana, 1864-1938
Copies and photostats of letters pertaining to Benjamin Harrison preceding, during, and following his administration. Also extracts from Elijah W. Halford's diary and letters from E. Frank Tibbott and members of the Harrison family. The remainder consists of notes and reference tools made by Albert T. Volwiler.
Arranged chronologically.
REEL 145 1864-1938, undated
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REEL 145-151 Series 16, Scrapbooks, 1853-1908
Newspaper clippings. Mostly in the presidential years 1889-1893 but concern every major event in Harrison's mature years.
Arranged by subjects: personal, social, political, speeches, etc. Roughly chronological within volumes.
REEL 145 Scrapbooks
REEL 145 1-9
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REEL 146 10-15
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REEL 147 15-21
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REEL 148 21-27
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REEL 149 27-33
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REEL 150 34-39
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REEL 151 40-55
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BOX 17:1-5 Series 17, Certificates, Memorials, and Printed Invitations, 1882-1904
BOX 17:1 Certificates, 1882-1896 See also Oversize
Columbia Club of Terre Haute, Ind., 1889, Jan.
Memorials, 1889, Mar. 4 See Oversize
Merchant Exchange of St. Louis, Mo., 1889, Sept.
E. O. Standard to Benjamin Harrison, 1889, Oct.
Veterans of the Seventh Regiment, Uniformed Battalion, National Guard, State of New York, 1890, Feb. 3
BOX 17:2 Iowa Coal Palace and Industrial Exhibit, 1890, Sept.
Bancroft Historical Library, San Francisco, Calif., 1891
German American Singing Societies of New York, 1892, Oct. 11
Board of Managers of the League of Philadelphia, Pa., 1904, Mar. 14
Memorial of Union League of Philadelphia, Pa., 1901, Mar. 14
Union League Club of Chicago, Ill., 1901, Mar. 16
New Board of Trade and Transportation, 1901, Mar.
Marquette Club, Chicago, Ill., 1901, Apr. 22
BOX 17:3 Board of Trustees of Purdue University Resolutions, 1901
Union League Club of New York, 1901, Apr. 11
Board of Managers of the National League for the Protection of American Institutions, undated
Memorial of the American Forestry Association, undated
Memorial Meeting of the Bar of Indiana, undated
Memorial, undated
Ohio Society of New York resolutions, undated
Invitations and Announcements
1 of 3
2 of 3
3 of 3
BOX 17:4 Rochester, N.Y., Common Council to Benjamin Harrison, 1892, May 30
BOX 17:5 Invitations and Announcements
1 of 3
2 of 3
3 of 3
BOX 18:1-6 Series 18, Pamphlets, 1840-1916
Political including campaign publications, Mississippi River Commission and Senate documents, background material for messages, and miscellaneous items from enclosures.
BOX 18:1 “Similarity of Washington and Harrison,” 1840
“Death of President Harrison,” by Heman Humphrey, 1841, Apr. 8
A Sermon on the Death of President Harrison, by Joseph R. Page, 1841
Reports in Reference to the Inundations of the Mississippi River, 1852, Jan.
“Our Foreign Commerce since 1861"
Pacific Railroad Legislation, 1862-1885
Journal of the Senate, 1865, Mar. 4
Senate Ex. Doc. No. 8, 1866, June
Record of the Disloyal Democracy, 1866
Letter from the Secretary of War, 1869, Mar. 15
Treaty between the United States of America and Her Britannic Majesty, 1871, May 8
Letters on the Political Situation, by R. S. Tharin, Charleston, S.C., 1871
“Levees of the Mississippi River,” 1872, Apr. 12
“Mississippi River Levees,” 1876, May 8
Improvement of the Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas, White, and Saint Francis Rivers, 1876
“Repeal of the Resumption Law,” by James A. Garfield, 1877, Nov. 16
Communistic Inflammatory and Treasonable Documents Circulated by the National Greenback Party, extracts, 1878
Bill of the House Entitled “A Bill to Prohibit Military Interference at Elections,” by George F. Edmunds, 1878, May 9
Improvement of the Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas, and White Rivers; and Surveys on Missouri River, 1878
Improvement of the Navigation of the Lower Mississippi River, 1879, Jan. 28
“Improvement of the Mississippi River,” speech of Randall L. Gibson, 1879, Feb. 5
Vetoes by the President of the United States, 1879
Report of the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of the Election Returns of 1879, Sept. 8
Application of Lieutenant S. A. Cherry, 1879, Dec. 20
Speech of James A. Garfield, 1879, June 27
“What Protection Has Done for the United States,” by Thomas H. Dudley, 1880, Jan. 20
Speech of Thomas Francis Bayard, 1880, Jan. 27
“Short Essays on Protection,” by David H. Mason, 1880, June
Committee on Levees and Outlets, 1880, Nov.
“The Barbarism of Protection,” 1880
“Free Trade and Protection,” by John Welsh, 1880
“A Tariff is Not a Tax,” by Giles B. Stebbins, 1880
“Who is Augustus Mongredien?”, 1880
Report of Mississippi River Commission, 1881, Mar. 2
International Monetary Conference at Paris, 1881, July 2
Relief of U.S. Supreme Court, report, 1881, Aug.
Edward J. Reed to Rear Admiral Ammen on Ships, Railways, and Canals on the American Isthmus, 1881, Sept.
Letters from the Secretary of War, 1881, Nov. 25
Proceedings of the Missouri River Improvement Convention, 1881, Nov.
Report of the Special Committee on Railroad Transportation, 1881, Dec. 1
Annual Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the State of the Finances, 1881
“Cost of Transportation, Railroad Confederations or Pooling Arrangements,” by Joseph Nimmo, Jr., 1881
“International Bimetallism and the Battle of the Standard,” by Emile DeLaveleye, 1881
BOX 18:2 “Interstate Railroads and the Regulation by Congress,” by Robert P. Harlow, 1881
“Presidential Succession,” 1881
Reports of the Mississippi River Commission, 1881
“Interstate Commerce and Its Regulation by Congress,” by Theophilus French, 1882, Mar. 27
Letter from the Secretary of War, 1882, Apr. 12
Speech of George Q. Cannon, of Utah, 1882, Apr. 19
“Interstate Commerce,” by J. W. McDill, 1882, Apr. 20
“National Banking System,” by Nelson Dingley, Jr., 1882, May 17
“The Protection of the Mississippi Valley,” speech of Edward W. Robertson, 1882, May 18
“Silver Certificates and Coinage,” 1882, June 6
“Silver Coinage,” by N. P. Hill, 1882, June 20
Senate Report No. 780, 1882, July 3
Congressional Record, 1882, July 27
Handbook on Mormonism, 1882
A Letter to Massachusetts Members of Congress on Plural Marriage, 1882
“National Banks: What Shall be Substituted for Them?” by Thomas Kinsella, 1882
“National Jetties,” Charleston, S.C., 1882
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