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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:

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Stephen Bonsal Papers

Identifier: MSS13193
Abstract

Journalist and foreign correspondent. Correspondence, diaries, writings, and other material relating chiefly to Bonsal's career as a journalist and as foreign correspondent for the New York Herald and New York Times.

Dates 1890-1973; Majority of material found within 1900-1947
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Clarence Edwin Carter Papers

Identifier: MSS15271
Abstract

Editor, author, and professor of history. Correspondence, transcriptions, reports, financial papers, documents, book reviews, and clippings largely related to Carter’s editorial career.

Dates 1761-1961; Majority of material found within ( 1925-1956)
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Silas Casey Papers

Identifier: MSS51482
Abstract

Naval officer. Correspondence, journal, daybook, bills, receipts, commissions, and other papers relating to Casey’s naval service.

Dates 1771-1941; Majority of material found within 1862-1903
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Henry Clark Corbin Papers

Identifier: MSS16865
Abstract

Army officer. Correspondence, memoranda, reports, typescripts of speeches, autograph albums, scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers concerning Corbin's military career and his life in Washington, D.C., as an officer and prominent resident. Includes personal matter such as photograph albums, scrapbooks, and memorabilia relating to his wife, Edythe Agnes Patten Corbin, and the Patten family.

Dates 1864-1980; Majority of material found within 1898-1909
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George B. Cortelyou Papers

Identifier: MSS16949
Abstract

Public official and presidential secretary. Correspondence, letterbooks, diaries, memoranda, subject files, printed matter, and miscellany relating to Cortelyou's duties as secretary to William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, his service as secretary of commerce and labor, postmaster general, and secretary of the treasury, and his work as chairman of the Republican National Committee.

Dates 1871-1948; Majority of material found within ( 1897-1908)
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Denby Family Papers

Identifier: MSS84834
Abstract

Correspondence between members of the Denby family. Includes letters of Charles Denby (1830-1904), a lawyer and diplomat; Charles Denby (1861-1938), a diplomat; and Edwin Denby, a member of the United States Congress and secretary of the navy. Relates to the Civil War, diplomatic life in China, and the Spanish-American War.

Dates 1850-1911
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Henry Prather Fletcher Papers

Identifier: MSS20818
Abstract

Diplomat. Correspondence, diary, letterbook, speeches and articles, scrapbook, clippings, memorabilia, photographs, and other papers documenting Fletcher's career from his enlistment in the Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War through his service as a special adviser to the secretary of state on post-World War II problems and plans.

Dates 1898-1958
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Benjamin Delahauf Foulois Papers

Identifier: MSS21188
Abstract

Military officer and pioneer aviator. Correspondence, diaries, reports, official documents and personnel records, newspaper clippings, and other material relating to Foulois's military career and the development of air power in the United States military.

Dates 1898-1966; Majority of material found within ( 1908-1935)
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Albert Gleaves Papers

Identifier: MSS50104
Abstract

Naval officer and historian. Correspondence, diaries, journals, speeches, articles, books, scrapbooks, reports of the Asiatic Fleet, notebooks, photographs, newspaper clippings, biographical material, poetry, printed matter, and other papers relating to Gleaves's naval career and his writings.

Dates 1803-1946; Majority of material found within ( 1877-1937)
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John Hay Papers

Identifier: MSS25379
Abstract Statesman, diplomat, historian, journalist, and poet. Correspondence and letterbooks, speeches, diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks, and memoranda, mainly for the years 1897-1905 when Hay served as United States ambassador to Great Britain and United States secretary of state. Earlier papers deal with his legal, literary, and journalistic activities and with his service as assistant secretary to Abraham Lincoln. Includes correspondence of his wife, Clara Louise Stone Hay (1849-1914), for the...
Dates 1783-1999; Majority of material found within 1897-1905
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Roswell Randall Hoes Papers

Identifier: MSS26203
Abstract

Naval officer and chaplain. Correspondence, notebooks, ship records, clippings, and printed matter relating chiefly to the Spanish-American War and its aftermath.

Dates 1799-1912
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Frank Knox Papers

Identifier: MSS28845
Abstract

Newspaper editor and publisher, and U.S. secretary of the navy. Correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and miscellany relating to Knox's service in the Spanish-American War and World War I, his work as editor and publisher, 1936 campaign for vice president, and stint as secretary of the navy. Includes papers of his wife, Annie Reid Knox.

Dates 1898-1954
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William McKinley Papers

Identifier: MSS32268
Abstract

United States president, representative, and army officer, and governor of Ohio. Correspondence, speeches, will, messages, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other papers pertaining primarily to McKinley's presidential administration.

Dates circa 1847-1935; Majority of material found within 1897-1901
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Miles-Cameron Families Correspondence

Identifier: MSS32870
Abstract

Army officer. Correspondence addressed to Elizabeth Cameron, J. D. Cameron, Nelson Appleton Miles, and Sherman Miles.

Dates 1661-1956; Majority of material found within 1862-1944
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John Bassett Moore Papers

Identifier: MSS33332
Abstract

Judge, lawyer, educator, and author. Correspondence, letterbooks, autobiographical and biographical material, memoranda and notes, speeches, literary manuscripts, and printed matter principally concerning the subject of international law, which Moore taught, wrote about, and practiced.

Dates 1866-1949; Majority of material found within 1885-1938
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Charles O’Neil Papers

Identifier: MSS52449
Abstract

Naval officer. Correspondence, diaries, subject files, scrapbooks, financial records, genealogical data, and photographs relating primarily to O'Neil's service as chief of the Bureau of Ordnance in the navy.

Dates 1833-1927
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Mary Edith Powell Naval Historical Collection

Identifier: MSS52845
Abstract

Collector of naval history. Correspondence, biographical data on American and foreign naval officers, newspaper and magazine clippings, illustrations, photographs, commissions, autographs, pamphlets, and notes collected by Powel about naval history.

Dates 1747-1922; Majority of material found within 1890-1899
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Reid Family Papers

Identifier: MSS65491
Abstract

Journalists and newspaper publishers. Correspondence, financial records, office files, household and estate records, subject files, scrapbooks, printed matter, and miscellaneous papers related to newspaper publishing and public affairs.

Dates 1795-2003; Majority of material found within 1869-1970
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Charles Mason Remey Family Papers

Identifier: MSS37580
Abstract

Primarily the papers of Charles Mason Remey relating to his activities on behalf of the Baháï faith. Also includes papers of George Collier Remey (1841-1928) pertaining to his service with the U.S. Navy during the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrection, and the Boxer Rebellion; papers of Iowa jurist and temperance and women's rights advocate, Charles Mason (1804-1882); and papers of Mary Josephine Mason Remey (1845-1938)

Dates 1778-1949; Majority of material found within ( 1855-1932)
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Elijah Reynolds Papers

Identifier: MSS3963
Abstract

United States Army officer. Writings, certificates, photographs, correspondence, medals, and other papers related chiefly to Reynolds’s service in the Twenty-Fifth Infantry Regiment during the Spanish-American War and Philippine American War, and his position as the instructor of military science and tactics at Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C.

Dates 1897-1959; Majority of material found within 1940-1959
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Theodore Roosevelt Papers

Identifier: MSS38299
Abstract

President and vice president of the United States, United States civil service commissioner, governor of New York, author, and conservationist. Correspondence, diaries, speeches, articles, executive orders, family papers, press releases and proclamations, scrapbooks, and other material relating to the political, social, and cultural history of Roosevelt's life and presidency.

Dates 1759-1993; Majority of material found within 1878-1919
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Nathan Sargent Papers

Identifier: MSS52936
Abstract

Naval officer. Correspondence, diaries, journals, writings photographs, memorabilia, scrapbooks, and printed matter relating to Sargent's naval duties.

Dates 1866-1957; Majority of material found within ( 1880-1905)
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Hugh Lenox Scott Papers

Identifier: MSS39297
Abstract Army officer and public official. Correspondence, diaries, memoranda, memoirs, drafts of writings, speeches, reports, notes, biographical and genealogical material, account books, financial papers, lists, printed material, maps, photographs, drawings, prints, and others papers relating to Scott's career in the United States Army from 1876 to his retirement following World War I, his service as a member of the State Highway Commission for New Jersey (1919-1933) and as chairman of the State...
Dates 1582-1981; Majority of material found within 1845-1934
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Roger Welles Papers

Identifier: MSS52878
Abstract

Naval officer. Correspondence, journals, orders to duty, article and speech file, diary of Welles's wife, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and miscellaneous materials relating to Welles's duties as special representative for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, as director of naval intelligence, and as commander of the Asiatic and Atlantic Fleets and of the U.S. Naval Forces in Europe.

Dates 1884-1926; Majority of material found within ( 1891-1926)
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James Harrison Wilson Papers

Identifier: MSS45997
Abstract

Soldier, railroad builder, and author. Correspondence, journal, drafts of literary manuscripts, notes, typescripts, galley proofs of published works, speeches, articles, military orders, and memorabilia relating to Civil War campaigns, the postwar army, railway building in the Mississippi Valley, life in China in the 1880s and in 1900, and the interests of Wilson as a biographer.

Dates 1861-1923; Majority of material found within 1890-1915