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Wood, Waddy B. (Waddy Butler), 1869-1944. Papers, 1891-1941 (bulk 1913-1935).

Title: Papers, 1891-1941 (bulk 1913-1935).

Correspondence, writings, speeches, contracts, and other papers pertaining chiefly to Wood's career as architect and designer in Washington, D.C. Documents his work on the Department of the Interior Building and other projects; involvement in the American Institute of Architects; and affiliation with the Democratic Party. Correspondents include Frederic A. Delano, Cass Gilbert, Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, Harold L. Ickes, Andrew W. Mellon, John Russell Pope, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, Woodrow Wilson, and the firms of Carrère & Hastings and McKim, Mead & White.

ArchivalResource: 2.4 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34149567 View

League for Progress in Architecture records, 1937-1939.

Title: League for Progress in Architecture records, 1937-1939.

This collection contains correspondence, newspaper articles, a scrapbook, government documents, and a report, 1937-39. Most of the material in this collection consists correspondence of the League for Progress in Architecture as members protested the design, location, and lack of design competition of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial. Most of the correspondence is from or to Julian E. Berla, a local architect, and Henry S. Hill, a New York architect. Other correspondents are prominent architects William Lescaze and Ernest Grunsfeld; academics Joseph Hudnut and Leopold Arnaud ; and politicians Charles Moore, Chairman of the Fine Arts Commission, Hon. Otha Wearin, Representative J. J. Boylan, and Frederic A. Delano.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71229475 View

Harvard University Archives Photograph Collection: Portraits, ca. 1852-ca. 2004

Title: Harvard University Archives Photograph Collection: Portraits. ca.1852-ca.2004.

Photographs of individuals associated with Harvard University: faculty, students, administrators, staff, honorees, and habitués of Harvard Square. For those whose lives pre-date the era of photography, the contents of the folders are often photographic reproductions of other image types, such as etchings, paintings, or drawings. In a few cases, the images themselves may be original etchings or sketches.

ArchivalResource: 50 cubic ft.; 20,000 photographs; 10,000 folders.

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua04006/catalog View

G. Donald Kennedy Papers, 1928-1968

Title: G. Donald Kennedy Papers 1928-1968

Civil engineer, served as Michigan state highway commissioner, chairman of the Mackinac Straits Bridge Authority and president of Portland Cement Company. Papers primarily document work with highway commission and Mackinac Straits Bridge Authority.

ArchivalResource: 6 linear ft. (in 7 boxes) and 14 oversize volumes

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-851011?rgn=main;view=text View

Delano, Frederic Adrian, 1863-1953. Miscellaneous papers [manuscript], 1798-1923 (bulk 1903-1923).

Title: Miscellaneous papers [manuscript], 1798-1923 (bulk 1903-1923).

The collection consists of a letter from Richard Bland Lee to Edmund Jennings Lee; five letters from Jean Jules Jusserand to Frederic A. Delano; and a pamphlet, "Patronage National des Blesses." The Lee letter, 1798 December 13, concerns apparent confusion over the sale and expected emancipation of a slave, Caroline, and also refers to Edmund Lee's order for a riding horse. The Jusserand-Delano correspondence, 1903-1923, chiefly concerns a commemorative celebration for the late Lord James Bryce, for which Jusserand sent a testimonial letter (included).

ArchivalResource: 7 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647816470 View

Burrage, Mildred G. (Mildred Giddings), 1890-1983. Mildred Giddings Burrage collection, 1893-1978.

Title: Mildred Giddings Burrage collection, 1893-1978.

The collection consists of manuscript material, including correspondence and writings as well as collected ephemera, printed matter, photographs and original artwork related to the life of Mildred Giddings Burrage, her sister Madeleine, and the Maine art scene. The collection is organized by decade, preserving the original order of the materials as they arrived at Maine Historical Society. The collection was meticulously organized, by decade, by Mildred Burrage herself. The archivist chose to segregate specific topics (while preserving the original order) as seen in Series 3: Collected Materials. These topics include Colby College, Maine Coast Craftsmen, Lincoln County Cultural and Historical Association, as well as original Christmas cards by Maine artists. The collection also includes personal papers of Madeleine Burrage, Mildred's sister and their mother Ernestine. Correspondents include Margaret Deland and Frederic A. Delano.

ArchivalResource: 18 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/733061853 View

Papers donated by the children of Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt, [ca. 1686]-1959.

Title: Papers donated by the children of Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt, [ca. 1686]-1959.

The bulk of the collection consists of personal family correspondence, 1883-1945, exchanged among Franklin D. Roosevelt, his mother Sara D. Roosevelt, and his wife Eleanor Roosevelt; letters of the Roosevelt children Anna, James, Elliott, Franklin, Jr., and John to their parents and grandmother; and letters to the Roosevelts from their relatives including Catherine and Warren Delano II, Frederic A. Delano, James Roosevelt Roosevelt, Susan Ludlow Parish, Hall Roosevelt, and President Theodore Roosevelt. There are also some non-family letters concerning business, social engagements, political issues, get well messages following Franklin D. Roosevelt's polio attack, and condolences on the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt's half-brother, James Roosevelt Roosevelt. Correspondents include Nancy Cook, Isabella Greenway, Crown Princess Martha of Norway, Langdon P. Marvin, Endicott Peabody, Catherine Smith, Mlle. Marie Souvestre, Margaret "Daisy" Suckley, Edith B. Wilson, and Walter Winchell.

ArchivalResource: 19 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155525484 View

Vinton, Warren Jay, 1889-1969. Warren Jay Vinton papers, 1932-1969.

Title: Warren Jay Vinton papers, 1932-1969.

Consists primarily of correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, minutes, reports, pamphlets, programs, newsletters, membership lists, reprints, speeches, press releases, broadsides, clippings, photographs, and copies of legislative hearings and bills documenting Vinton's active role in designing and implementing federal housing policies from 1935 to 1957. Most are administrative records produced during his tenure as Chief of Research in the Suburban Resettlement Division of the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937), Chief Economist and Planning Officer of the U.S. Housing Authority (1937-1949), and First Assistant Commissioner of the Public Housing Administration (1949-1957). Also included are records of the Central Housing Committee (1935-1942), on which Vinton represented the Resettlement Administration and later the U.S. Housing Authority, and of the Advisory Committee of the Bureau of the Census for the 1940 Federal Census of Housing. Papers concern many aspects of governmental activity in the public housing area, including low-income housing, defense housing, housing for the elderly, racial policy in public housing, and particularly the development and passage of housing legislation and congressional investigations of federal housing practices. In addition to Vinton's own work, the papers document the work and opinions of many other planners, architects, housing experts, economists, federal administrators, and politicians, including Charles Abrams, Tracy B. Auger, Edmund N. Bacon, Catherine Bauer, Russell Van Nest Black, John B. Blandford, Jr., Lawrence N. Bloomberg, Walter H. Blucher, Ernest J. Bohn, Harry F. Byrd, Henry S. Churchill, Jacob L. Crane, Frank R. Creedon, Frederick A. Delano, Henry Ellenbogen, Herbert Emmerich, Raymond M. Foley, Philip M. Glick, Sergei N. Grimm, Justin Hartzog, Benjamin H. Higgins, John Ihlder, Leon H. Keyserling, Philip M. Klutznick, David L. Krooth, J.S. Lansill, Albert Mayer, Bleecker Marquette, Joseph R. McCarthy, Lewis Mumford, Dillon S. Myer, Charles F. Palmer, Horace W. Peaslee, Elbert Peets, Hugh R. Pomeroy, Don K. Price, Franklin D. Roosevelt, James W. Routh, Boris B. Shiskin, Charles E. Slusser, Clarence S. Stein, Nathan Straus, Rexford G. Tugwell, Sir Raymond Unwin, Robert F. Wagner, Jesse R. Wolcott, Edith E. Wood, Elizabeth Wood, Coleman Woodbury, and Wilson W. Wyatt. Also included are documents related to the work of municipal housing authorities, including those of Syracuse and New York, N.Y., Winston-Salem, N.C., Chicago, Ill., Washington, D.C.; activities of professional organizations, including the National Association of Housing Officials, National Housing Conference, and the American Society of Planning Officials; and Vinton's consulting work.

ArchivalResource: 28 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64072074 View

Leffingwell, R. C. (Russell Cornell), 1883-1960. Russell Cornell Leffingwell papers, 1883-1979 (inclusive).

Title: Russell Cornell Leffingwell papers, 1883-1979 (inclusive).

Chiefly correspondence (1917-1960) between Leffingwell and colleagues in banking and the legal profession, and with important American and British government officials on contemporary economic and political events.

ArchivalResource: 4 linear ft. (12 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702204547 View

United States. National Capital Park and Planning Commission. Correspondence with Paul Philippe Cret, 1931-1939.

Title: Correspondence with Paul Philippe Cret, 1931-1939.

Correspondence with U. S. Grant, 3rd, Frederic A. Delano, and John Nolen concerns the Folger Shakespeare Library, Work No. 226; the Pan American Union, Work No. 242; and the U.S. Naval Medical Center, Work No. 371.

ArchivalResource: 6 items (9 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63645720 View

Papers, 1922-1941.

Title: Papers, 1922-1941.

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, drafts, appointment books, copies of treaties and resolutions, and clippings relating to Dept. of State matters and Foreign Affairs. Subjects include arms and munitions control, aviation, Mexico, implications of neutrality, Russia, the Spanish Civil War, and the sale of American destroyers to Great Britain. Correspondents include Claude Bowers, William C. Bullitt, Josephus Daniels, Joseph E. Davies, Frederic A. Delano, William E. Dodd, Carter Glass, Cordell Hull, Arthur Krock, George Peek, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Francis B. Sayre. There are some materials concerning political affairs of Virginia, historical figures such as Thomas Jefferson, Robert E. Lee, and George Washington, the Mount Vernon Ladies Association, and other subjects concerning Virginia; and personal correspondence, 1922-1941.

ArchivalResource: 13 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155524243 View

Kennedy, G. Donald (George Donald), 1900-1988. G. Donald Kennedy papers, 1928-1968.

Title: G. Donald Kennedy papers, 1928-1968.

Correspondence, speeches, scrapbooks, photographs, and reports relating to his professional career; contain files relating to his work as municipal engineer in Pontiac, with the Mackinac Straits Bridge Authority, the American Association of State Highway Officials, the Automotive Safety Foundation, and the Huron-Clinton Metropolitan Authority; include papers relating to highway and airport construction, to economic mobilization during World War II, the Willow Run Bomber Plant, Democratic Party politics. And the campaign visit of Franklin Roosevelt to Michigan in 1936. Correspondents include: Prentiss M. Brown, Richard E. Byrd, Albert E. Cobo, Frederick Delano, James A. Farley, Edward Jefferies, Edward H. Litchfield, Thomas H. McDonald, Rodolfo Michelf, Frank Murphy, Chase Osborn, George Romney, Charles Sorenson, Murray D. Van Wagoner, Henry A. Wallace, and G. Mennen Williams.

ArchivalResource: 6 linear ft. (7 boxes) and 15 v. [outsize].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34418403 View

Russell Cornell Leffingwell papers, 1883-1979

Title: Russell Cornell Leffingwell papers 1883-1979

Chiefly correspondence (1917-1960) between Leffingwell and colleagues in banking and the legal profession, and with important American and British government officials on contemporary economic and political events. Following his service in the Department of the Treasury (1917) where he helped to float the Liberty Loan, Leffingwell continued to correspond with his colleagues, S. Parker Gilbert and Albert Rathbone, as well as Carter Glass, Secretary of the Treasury (1918-1920). As a partner in the firm of J.P. Morgan from 1923 on, he received reports on economic conditions from officers of the firm in London, Paris, and Mexico. There is also a voluminous correspondence (1935-1948) with Thomas W. Lamont, his chief at the bank. He was asked for advice by every president from Woodrow Wilson to Dwight D. Eisenhower, with the exception of Coolidge. Among these letters, his correspondence with Franklin Delano Roosevelt is the most extensive. He was also consulted by eight secretaries of the Treasury and other government officials. Important journalists with whom he corresponded regularly are Walter Layton, editor of the British Economist, Walter Lippmann, and Morris Ernst. The papers also contain memoranda and speeches (1919-1958), photographs, and memorabilia.

ArchivalResource: 4 linear feet (12 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1030 View

Charles Moore papers, 1901-1940

Title: Charles Moore papers 1901-1940

Chairman of the National Commission of Fine Arts. Reminiscences, 1889-1909, relating in part to his activities as clerk of the U.S. Senate Committee on the District of Columbia, and including his impressions of U.S. Senators and prominent architects and artists; scrapbook of postcards depicting European scenes and art work; scrapbooks of correspondence and clippings, 1921-1922, largely concerning his biography of architect, Daniel H. Burnham; correspondence with friends, artists, editors, learned societies; articles, addresses, miscellaneous papers, and photographs.

ArchivalResource: 1.3 linear feet

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-852264?rgn=main;view=text View

Glass, Carter, 1858-1946. Papers of Carter Glass [manuscript], 1858-1946, and n.d.

Title: Papers of Carter Glass [manuscript], 1858-1946, and n.d.

Papers of Glass consist of personal and professional papers including correspondence, speeches, notes and memoranda, documents, printed matter, photographs, clippings and miscellaneous material. Much of the collection centers on banking and currency legislation, in the enactment of which Glass was active while in both Houses of Congress and while serving as Secretary of the Treasury. Subjects include: the Federal Reserve Bank Act and Federal Reserve system; the Federal Farm Loan Act; branch banks; currency [reform] bill of 1913; Emergency Banking Act, 1933; the Banking Act of 1933 (Glass-Steagall Act) to establish the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; the Bank Bill of 1935; opposition to the National Industrial Recovery Act; the National Labor Relations Act; the Bank Holding Company Bill; and the Office of Price Administration; Additional topics include World Wars I and II, particularly their domestic economic aspects; the League of Nations; the World Court; Democratic Party platforms and policies; the presidential elections of 1912, 1920, 1924, 1928, and 1940; Senator Huey P. Long; Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal; the attempted packing of the Supreme Court , 1937; neutrality legislation; disarmament; regulation of the coal industry; child labor; anti-lynching law; immigration restriction (especially Chinese in Hawaii); Muscle Shoals; trade with Russia; diplomatic relations with the Vatican; Four-Power Treaty; soldiers' bonus bill; tariffs and protectionism; and national defense. Virginia topics of concern to Glass or his constituents include poll tax elimination; Negro suffrage; highways; the University of Virginia Board of Visitors; patronage requests from Lynchburg, Roanoke, and Bedford, Campbell, Floyd, Montgomery, and Roanoke Counties, Va.; the Woodrow Wilson Foundation; a national Patrick Henry shrine at "Red Hill"; the gubernatorial election of 1924; Bishop James Cannon, prohibition and the Anti-saloon League; the Skyline Drive; Spotsylvania Battlefield Park; the Woodrow Wilson Foundation; the Virginia Fight For Freedom Committee; and operation of the Lynchburg News and Advance. Miscellaneous items of interest include a letter describing the early life of Booker T. Washingrton, election tickets for 1848, a 1906 recipe book, and letters concerning Glass' belief in the Baconian theory of Shakespeare authorship. In addition to speeches by Glass there are speeches by Edwin A. Alderman, Harry Byrd, Sr., George M. Coffin, Gilbert M. Hitchcock, Henry Cabot Lodge, Francis Pickens Miller, Al Smith, and Henry St. George Tucker. Among the many correspondents are : Edwin A. Alderman, Newton Baker, Ray Stannard Baker, Alben Barkley, Bernard Baruch, William E. Borah, Chester Bowles, John Stewart Bryan, William Jennings Bryan, Harry F. Byrd, Richard E. Byrd, Calvin Coolidge, John W. Daniel, Josephus Daniels, Colgate W. Darden, Westmoreland Davis, F. A. Delano, the Democratic National Committee, Marriner S. Eccles, James A. Farley, Douglas Southall Freeman, James A. Garfield, Samuel Gompers, Cary Grayson, Charles S. Hamlin, W. P. G. Harding, Warren G. Harding, J. Edgar Hoover, Herbert Hoover, Edwin M. House, Cordell Hull, Harold Ickes, Hugh S. Johnson, Jesse Jones, Joseph P. Kennedy, Walter Lippmann, Huey Long, William G. McAdoo, G. Walter Mapp, Andrew Mellon, Eugene Meyer, Andrew J. Montague, R. Walton Moore, Henry Morgenthau, Robert L. Owen, George C. Peery, John G. Pollard, A. Willis Robertson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dave E. Satterfield, C. Bascom Slemp, Rixey Smith, Billy Sunday, Claude A. Swanson, Harry S. Truman, Joseph P. Tumulty, Oscar W. Underwood, Samuel Untermeyer, Arthur H. Vandenberg, Robert F. Wagner, Henry A. Wallace, Paul Moritz Warburg, Richard S. Whaley, William Allen White, John Skelton Williams, H. Parker Willis, Edith Bolling Wilson, Woodrow Wilson, Clifton A. Woodrum, and Walter Wyatt.

ArchivalResource: 215,000(ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647902109 View

Papers as Governor of New York, 1929-1932.

Title: Papers as Governor of New York, 1929-1932.

Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, appointment books, invitations and replies, requests for interviews and replies, and clippings relating to non-official aspects of Roosevelt's two terms as Governor. Subjects include campaigns, Roosevelt's relation with the press, Democratic Party matters, the management of New York City government, the national political temper, comments from the electorate on issues, international affairs, Roosevelt's trip to Europe in 1931, Roosevelt's legal and business affairs, the Warm Springs Foundation, Harvard alumni affairs, Roosevelt's community interest in New York City and Hyde Park, and Roosevelt family matters. Correspondents include Josiah Bailey, Howard Cullum, Norman H. Davis, James A. Farley, Caroline O'Day, Frederic A. Delano, Claude G. Bowers, Samuel I. Rosenman, Hall Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Bernard Baruch, John Davis, and Eleanor Roosevelt. Also, minutes of hearings on the "Charges Against Thomas M. Farley, Sheriff of New York County," held before Governor Roosevelt, 1932, and a copy of Mayor James J. Walker's answers to Governor Roosevelt's charges, 1932.

ArchivalResource: 50 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155525274 View

William Roscoe Thayer papers, 1762-1927 (inclusive), 1872-1921 (bulk)

Title: William Roscoe Thayer papers, 1762-1927 (inclusive), 1872-1921 (bulk)

Correspondence (chiefly letters received), articles, poems, speeches, book reviews, diaries and journals, miscellaneous notebooks, scrapbooks, clippings, and other printed material. Correspondence concerns Thayer's writings, particularly in the area of Italian history, and his connections with Harvard as editor of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine and later as an overseer. Also included are some miscellaneous papers of William Warland Clapp, a Boston journalist; and some papers of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, chiefly from a European trip made by Higginson in 1872.

ArchivalResource: 48 linear feet (96 boxes)

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00563/catalog View

Burnham, Daniel Hudson, 1846-1912. Daniel H. Burnham Collection, 1836-1946.

Title: Daniel H. Burnham Collection, 1836-1946.

The Daniel H. Burnham Collection contains business and personal correspondence, project and personal photographs, scrapbooks, diaries and memorabilia. The World's Columbian Exposition and the report, Plan of Chicago, are particularly well documented in correspondence and manuscripts. The collection also includes the two volume set, The World's Parliament of Religions, edited by John Henry Barrows.

ArchivalResource: 15 oversize portfolios and flatfile materials.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84483251 View

Papers, 1833-1894.

Title: Papers, 1833-1894.

Family correspondence, 1838-1888, includes letters from Delano and Astor family members; letters from Delano's brothers, Warren, Frederic, and Edward concern financial affairs and mutual shipping ventures; many of the letters from Warren's family were written during their residence in Hong Kong in the 1860s. General correspondence, 1839-1890, consists of letters received and two letter books kept by Delano concerning rental properties in New York City, investments, the New York stock market, shipping ventures in the 1840s, and construction of the Laura Franklin Hospital in New York City. Correspondents include Philip Kissam, Robert Bennet Forbes, John Murray Forbes, Francis S. Hathaway, and many European friends. Other items include diaries, financial papers mainly relating to shipping in the 1840s, trade circulars, rent rolls, estimates and specifications, legal papers, household accounts of Laura A. Delano, monthly accounts, and a record of rainfall at the family home. Also, records of the Mt. Savage Iron Company, Mt. Savage, Md., 1858-1863, including letters from employees to John Graham describing company operations with some description of Civil War activities in the area, receipted bills, and cancelled checks.

ArchivalResource: 12.4 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155522430 View

Warren Jay Vinton papers, 1932-1969

Title: Warren Jay Vinton papers, 1932-1969

Consists primarily of correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, minutes, reports, pamphlets, programs, newsletters, membership lists, reprints, speeches, press releases, broadsides, clippings, photographs, and copies of legislative hearings and bills documenting Vinton's active role in designing and implementing federal housing policies from 1935 to 1957. Papers concern many aspects of governmental activity in the public housing area, including low-income housing, defense housing, housing for the elderly, racial policy in public housing, and particularly the development and passage of housing legislation and congressional investigations of federal housing practices. In addition to Vinton's own work, the papers document the work and opinions of many other planners, architects, housing experts, economists, federal administrators, and politicians.

ArchivalResource:

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/RMM02946.xml View

Papers, 1812-1959.

Title: Papers, 1812-1959.

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, maps, blueprints, memorabilia, clippings, and scrapbooks relating to city planning in Washington, D.C. and Newburgh, N.Y., railroads and transportation, monetary policy, Delano family affairs, and various civic organizations he worked with, 1904-1950. Correspondence, Supreme Court documents, and photographs from a boundary dispute between Oklahoma and Texas (the Red River Boundary Case) for which Delano served as the receiver, and a typewritten history of the receivership, 1920-1928. Papers of the League of Nations Commission of Enquiry into the Production of Opium in Persia, 1925-1927, for which Delano served as President, including letters, agenda, minutes, reports, memoranda, drafts, scrapbooks, and diaries from a 1926 visit kept by Delano and his secretary Archibald MacLeish. Delano's speeches, articles, and letters to newspapers on railroads, urban planning, monetary policy, and other subjects, 1887-1940s. Correspondence, clippings, articles, and financial papers relating to the death of Delano and the settlement of his estate, 1953-1962. Family papers include correspondence of several Delano family members, 1812-1891, including Sara Delano Roosevelt; diaries and journals of Delano's parents Catherine and Warren Delano, and others, kept at the family home "Algonac," 1869-ca. 1925; logs of the whaling ship PHILIPPE DE LA NOYE owned by the family, 1848-1855; and scrapbooks.

ArchivalResource: 12 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155522454 View

Delano, Frederic Adrian, 1863-1953. Letter to J.N. Darling. Washington, DC. 1935 Nov. 15.

Title: Letter to J.N. Darling. Washington, DC. 1935 Nov. 15.

Concerning Darling's resignation as chief of the Biological Survey.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122517993 View

Papers, 1866-1953, 1933-1953 (bulk)

Title: Papers, 1866-1953, 1933-1953 (bulk)

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, statistical data, transcripts of press conferences, diplomatic cables, speeches, articles, press releases, scrapbooks, and clippings relating to his position as Under Secretary and Secretary of the Treasury, 1933-1945; and over 800 volumes of his "Diaries," 1933-1953, containing transcripts of interviews, conversations, and conferences, departmental correspondence, drafts of proposed legislation, and his notes on subjects and situations; eight volumes focus on exchanges and conversations with the President, 1939-1953. Correspondents include Bernard M. Baruch, Frederic A. Delano, Marriner S. Eccles, James A. Farley, Herbert Feis, John N. Garner, Carter Glass, William Hassett, Harry Hopkins, Louis McHenry Howe, Robert H. Jackson, Jesse Jones, Fiorello La Guardia, Herbert Lehman, Douglas MacArthur, Marvin H. McIntyre, William H. McReynolds, John E. Mack, George Peek, Frances Perkins, Donald Richberg, Josephine Roche, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Samuel I. Rosenman, Nathan Straus, Arthur Sulzberger, Harry S. Truman, Frank C. Walker, and Henry A. Wallace.

ArchivalResource: 510 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155524268 View

Waddy B. Wood Papers, 1885-1941, (bulk 1913-1935)

Title: Waddy B. Wood Papers 1885-1941 (bulk 1913-1935)

Architect of Washington, D.C. Correspondence, writings, speeches, contracts, and other papers relating chiefly to Waddy B. Wood's career as an architect and designer in Washington, D.C. Also documented in the collection is Wood's involvement with the American Institute of Architects and the Democratic Party.

ArchivalResource: 2,400 items; 6 containers; 2.4 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007106 View

Records of the National Capital Planning Commission. 1900 - 2000. Office Files of Chairman Frederic A. Delano

Title: Records of the National Capital Planning Commission. 1900 - 2000. Office Files of Chairman Frederic A. Delano

ArchivalResource:

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/17364188 View

Moore, Charles, 1855-1942. Charles Moore papers, 1889-1940.

Title: Charles Moore papers, 1889-1940.

Reminiscences, 1889-1909, of activities as clerk of the U.S. Senate Committee on the District of Columbia, and his impressions of U.S. Senators and prominent architects and artists; scrapbook of postcards depicting European scenes and art work; scrapbooks of correspondence and clippings, 1921-1922, largely concerning biography of architect, Daniel H. Burnham; correspondence with friends, artists, editors, learned societies; articles, addresses, miscellaneous papers, and photographs.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft. and 2 v. [outsize].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34419096 View

Roper, Daniel C. (Daniel Calhoun), 1867-1943. Papers, 1860-1985

Title: Daniel C. Roper papers 1860-1985

The Daniel C. Roper Papers, 1860-1958 (bulk 1933-1938), consist chiefly of professional and political correspondence, including telegrams and memoranda, but also include speeches, financial papers, clippings, invitations, legal papers, printed material, and pictures. The collection primarily documents Roper's term as Secretary of Commerce during the first administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In general the papers provide an inside look at this Democratic administration during the early depression years, as well as the relationships among business, government, and politics. In particular, Roper had close ties to people in the business community and was sympathetic to their concerns. In addition, the collection tracks the course of the New Deal in the Department of Commerce and the career of Roper not only as a United States government official in Roosevelt's cabinet but also as a progressive Democrat.

ArchivalResource: 56 Linear Feet, circa 33,900 items

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/roper/ View

Records of the Commission of Fine Arts. 1787 - 1997. Correspondence and Other Records Relating to Projects, Public Buildings, and Grounds in the District of Columbia

Title: Records of the Commission of Fine Arts. 1787 - 1997. Correspondence and Other Records Relating to Projects, Public Buildings, and Grounds in the District of Columbia

ArchivalResource:

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/1633628 View

Robert Grant papers

Title: Robert Grant papers

Papers of Robert Grant (Harvard AB 1873), an American novelist and lawyer.

ArchivalResource: 18 boxes and 7 volumes (7 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00080/catalog View

Delano, Frederic Adrian, 1863-1953. Frederic Adrian Delano papers, 1917-1919.

Title: Frederic Adrian Delano papers, 1917-1919.

Correspondence, writings, and other papers of Frederic Adrian Delano, deputy director general of transportation for the American Expeditionary Forces in France, relating to chiefly to the transportation of troops. Also includes material reflecting Delano's interest in the metric system.

ArchivalResource: 78 items.1 container.0.2 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70982936 View

Chapman, John Jay, 1862-1933. Additional papers, 1841-1940

Title: John Jay Chapman additional papers, 1841-1940.

Chiefly correspondence between American essayist John Jay Chapman and family, friends, and associates.

ArchivalResource: 37 boxes (18.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00718/catalog View

W. Cameron (William Cameron) Forbes papers, 1900-1946.

Title: W. Cameron (William Cameron) Forbes papers, 1900-1946.

Papers of American businessman and government executive William Cameron Forbes.

ArchivalResource: 35 boxes, 122 volumes, and 2 card file cabinets (37.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01099/catalog View

Eliot, Charles W. (Charles William), 1899-. Papers of Charles William Eliot, 1933-1943 (bulk).

Title: Papers of Charles William Eliot, 1933-1943 (bulk).

Consists of Eliot's papers pertaining to the National Resources Planning Board, and predecessor agencies, the National Planning Board, the National Resources Board, and the National Resources Committee. Includes ten series: Minutes, 1933-1943; Circulars, 1933-1943; Bulletins, 1934-1943; Status of Work Reports, 1936-1943; Orders, 1934-1943; News Releases, 1934-1943; Staff Memoranda, 1937-1939; Speeches, 1932-1936; Newspaper Clippings, 1934-1942; and Miscellaneous Material, 1932-1943. Notable correspondents are Franklin Delano Roosevelt, NRPB members Harold L. Ickes, Frederick A. Delano and Charles E. Merriam. Also includes 199 reports issued by the NRPB.

ArchivalResource: 40 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/188581117 View

American Planning and Civic Association. Committee of 100 on the Federal City. Committee of 100 on the Federal City records (part I), 1932-1997 (bulk 1950-1987).

Title: Committee of 100 on the Federal City records (part I), 1932-1997 (bulk 1950-1987).

Includes organization documents: correspondence, reports, minutes, publications, clippings, memoranda, maps, blueprints. Majority of records are in the Subject/issues files series and concern city planning, zoning, and transportation issues such as parking, building height limitations, the Three Sisters Bridge controversy, Metrorail, the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation, Interstates planning, Federal Triangle project, the Old Post Office complex, etc.

ArchivalResource: 27 linear feet (56 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45672548 View