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Oscar S. Straus papers, 1856-1955

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BOX 1-21 Correspondence, 1856-1931
Letters sent and received, including photocopies of correspondence from other parts of the collection, along with clippings and other printed matter, drafts of documents, essays, notes, photographs, and speeches.
Arranged under general correspondence and letterbooks and therein chronologically.
BOX 1 General correspondence
BOX 1 1856-1888
(6 folders)
BOX 2 1889-1898
(6 folders)
BOX 3 1899, Jan.-1904, June
(5 folders)
BOX 4 1904, July 6-1906, Nov. 15
(6 folders)
BOX 5 1906, Nov. 16-1907, Feb. 14
(6 folders)
BOX 6 1907
BOX 6 Feb. 15-May 16
(6 folders)
BOX 7 May 17-Oct. 15
(8 folders)
BOX 8 1907, Oct. 16-1908, Jan. 31
(7 folders)
BOX 9 1908
BOX 9 Feb. 1-May 15
(7 folders)
BOX 10 May 16-Oct. 31
(9 folders)
BOX 11 1908, Nov.-1909, Jan.
(6 folders)
BOX 12 1909, Feb. 1-1912, Oct. 20
(9 folders)
BOX 13 1912, Oct. 21-1916, Dec. 27
(9 folders)
BOX 14 1917-1918
(9 folders)
BOX 15 1919-1925
(11 folders)
BOX 16 1926
(12 folders)
BOX 17 1928-1931
BOX 17 Undated
BOX 17 Letterbooks
BOX 17 1873-1889
(2 vols.)
BOX 18 1889-1897
(2 vols.)
BOX 19 1898-1903
(3 vols.)
BOX 20 1906-1908
(3 vols.)
BOX 21 1908-1909
(3 vols.)
BOX 21-24 Diaries and Notebooks, 1871-1923
Handwritten and typed diaries, with correspondence, clippings, photographs, and other material laid or pasted in, and miscellaneous notebooks. Correspondence tipped into the volumes has been photocopied and the photocopies inserted chronologically in the Correspondence series.
Arranged by type of material and therein chronologically. See Select Index of Theodore Roosevelt Correspondence and Related Items
BOX 21 Notebooks
BOX 21 1871, college lecture notes on metaphysics
BOX 21 1872, thoughts and quotations
BOX 21 1908, June 21, shorthand notes
BOX 21 Undated, stenographer's notebook of Theodore Linus Weed labeled "Weed's Notes, No. 2, Diary"
BOX 22 Diaries
BOX 22 1887-1888, 1898-1900, 1906-1907
(5 folders)
BOX 23 1908-1914
(6 folders)
BOX 24 1914-1923
(5 folders)
BOX 25-37 Scrapbooks, 1885-1926
Clippings, correspondence, photographs, calling cards, and printed matter. Correspondence tipped into the volumes has been photocopied and the photocopies inserted chronologically in the Correspondence series. Selected items are available on Microfilm shelf no. 8,924.
Arranged chronologically.
BOX 25 1885-1886
BOX 25 1887-1889
BOX 26 1887-1889
BOX 26 1894-1897
BOX 26 1898-1900
BOX 27 1898-1899
BOX 27 1901-1902
BOX 27 1901-1905
BOX 28 1901
BOX 28 1901-1904
BOX 29 1902-1905
BOX 30 1904
BOX 30 1906
BOX 31 1909
BOX 32 1907-1908
BOX 32 1908
BOX 33 1908
BOX 34 1908
BOX 35 1908
BOX 35 1909
BOX 36 1913
BOX 36 1918
BOX 36 1926
BOX 38-OV 43 Miscellany, 1868-1955
Speeches and writings, clippings, commemorative items, diplomas, memorials, minutes, photographs, printed matter, an autobiography of Isidor Straus, and other miscellaneous material.
Arranged by type of material.
BOX 38 Commemorative items from dinner given by citizens of New York for Straus, 1909
BOX 38 Memorials on death of Straus, 1926
(6 vols.)
BOX 39 Minutes of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1922-1925
(2 vols.)
BOX 39 Notes, 1922, undated
BOX 39 Speeches and writings by Straus
BOX 39 "The Origin of Republican Form of Government in the United States and the Hebrew Commonwealth," speech, 1884
BOX 39 The Origin of Republican Form of Government in the United States of America, draft, circa 1885
(2 folders)
BOX 39 Roger Williams, the Pioneer of Religious Liberty, draft, circa 1894
(3 folders)
BOX 40 The United States and Russia: Their Historical Relations, 1905
BOX 40 "Address of Hon. Oscar S. Straus, Secretary of Commerce and Labor, at the Banquet to General Kuroki," 1907
BOX 40 Under Four Administrations, from Cleveland to Taft; Reflections of Oscar S. Straus, draft, circa 1922
(2 folders)
BOX 40 Autobiography of Isidor Straus, 1955
BOX 40 Printed matter and clippings
BOX 40 1868-1871, 1889-1920
(4 folders)
BOX 41 1921-1925, undated
(2 folders)
BOX 41 Photographs, 1888-1889, 1897, 1909, 1915-1923, 1943, undated
(2 folders)
BOX 41 Unsorted newspaper clippings, circa 1898-circa 1912
(2 folders)
BOX 42 Commemorative book on dedication of Oscar S. Straus Memorial, Washington, D.C., 1947
BOX OV 43 Diplomas, circa 1871-circa 1873
BOX OV 43 Convocation program, Columbia University, New York, N.Y., 1904
BOX OV 43 Photograph of Nathan, Oscar, and Isidor Straus, undated
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