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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

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Samuel W. Dike Papers

Identifier: MSS18499
Abstract Congregational minister and social reformer. Correspondence, speeches, articles, book drafts, an unfinished autobiography, lecture notes, family papers, reports, newspaper clippings, and printed matter relating chiefly to Dike's correspondence with members of the National Divorce Reform League (later known as the National League for the Protection of the Family) and others pertaining mainly to business matters and social and family problems. Also included are reports, published material, and...
Dates 1870-1913; Majority of material found within ( 1890-1913)
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Eugene Gano Hay Papers

Identifier: MSS25353
Abstract

Lawyer. Correspondence, diaries, financial papers, speeches, writings, and printed materials documenting Hay's career as a prosecuting attorney in Indiana, temporary secretary to Benjamin Harrison, U.S. district attorney in Minnesota, U.S. general appraiser, and Republican Party member.

Dates circa 1770-1933; Majority of material found within 1877-1933
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Alexander Jeffrey McKelway Papers

Identifier: MSS32235
Abstract

Clergyman, reformer, and Southern secretary of the National Child Labor Committee. Correspondence, telegrams, speeches, articles, notes and drafts of a biography of St. Clair McKelway, longtime editor of the Brooklyn Eagle and uncle of Alexander, family papers, financial material, printed matter, a scrapbook, and other papers relating mainly to child labor legislation and to the McKelway family.

Dates 1814-1942; Majority of material found within 1900-1918
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Richard Olney Papers

Identifier: MSS35139
Abstract

Lawyer, attorney general, and secretary of state. Correspondence, letterbooks, drafts of speeches and articles, subject files, memoranda, reports, legal records, newspaper clippings, and printed material relating primarily to Olney's activities as attorney general and secretary of state, and to his Boston, Massachusetts, law practice.

Dates 1830-1928; Majority of material found within 1893-1917
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Carl Schurz Papers

Identifier: MSS39156
Abstract

United States cabinet officer, diplomat, senator from Missouri, Union army officer, journalist, and reformer. Correspondence, speeches, articles, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and scrapbooks pertaining to Liberal Republicanism, tariff reduction, civil service reform, anti-imperialism, election campaigns, and the administration of Rutherford B. Hayes in which Schurz served as secretary of the interior.

Dates 1837-1983; Majority of material found within 1860-1906
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William H. Taft Papers

Identifier: MSS42234
Abstract

President of the United States and chief justice of the Supreme Court. Correspondence including letterpress books, speeches and addresses, presidential and judicial files, legal files and notebooks, family papers and letters, business and estate papers, engagement calendars, guest lists, scrapbooks, clippings, printed matter, memorabilia, and photographs documenting Taft's career.

Dates 1784-1973; Majority of material found within 1880-1930
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Booker T. Washington Papers

Identifier: MSS44669
Abstract African-American leader, educator, and author. Correspondence, memoranda, book drafts and notes, articles, speeches, reports, minutes, financial papers, scrapbooks, and other papers relating chiefly to the early history and administration of Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala., founded by Booker T. Washington in 1881, as well as to the National Negro Business League which he organized in 1900, the General Education Board, New York, N.Y., Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va., other African-American...
Dates 1853-1946; Majority of material found within 1900-1915