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Bankhead, William Brockman, 1874-1940. Papers, 1875-1952 and n.d.

Title: Papers, 1875-1952 and n.d.

Papers, 1875-1952 and n.d., consisting of genealogical materials, correspondence, letters, telegrams, cards, invitations, clippings, reports, speeches, campaign records, bills and resolutions proposed by the U.S. Congress, subject files, pamphlets, diagrams, scrapbooks, and other materials. This collection documents the life of Bankhead, particularly his career as a U.S. Representative, with extensive coverage of his tenure as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Included in his records as a U.S. Representative is a great amount of information on U.S. and Ala. politics, agriculture, military conscription, unemployment, roads and highways, prohibition, drainage and reclamation, vocational education, and Tallulah Bankhead. Clippings and scrapbooks also contain information on the lives and careers of John H. Bankhead, Sr., John H. Bankhead, Jr., and Tallulah Bankhead (1902-1968). Photographs include numerous members of Congress, officials in the administrations of Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt, and foreign heads of state. Of significant interest is correspondence between Bankhead and Democratic party and Congressional leaders concerning political campaigns, Democratic organization of the House of Representatives, and New Deal legislation.

ArchivalResource: 33 cubic ft. (41 archives containers, 2 records center containers, 4 oversized containers, and 27 oversized scrapbooks).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122498578 View

Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943. Alabama pamphlets collection, 1821-1961.

Title: Alabama pamphlets collection, 1821-1961.

Pamphlets, 1821-1961, that were collected by employees of the Alabama Dept. of Archives and History. The pamphlets were collected because either they were written by an Alabamian or cover an Alabama-related subject. Topics covered in the collection include education, medicine, religion, politics, U.S. foreign and domestic policies, agriculture, racial issues, history, economics, and slavery. Some of the pamphlet authors include George Washington Carver, Walter L. Fleming, William T. Hamilton, Roland M. Harper, J. Thomas Heflin, Richmond P. Hobson, Ernest G. Holt, George Huddleston, Thomas G. Jones, John B. Knox, John T. Morgan, William C. Oates, Eugene A. Smith, William H. Thomas, Oscar W. Underwood, Booker T. Washington, Ariosto A. Wiley, Richard H. Wilmer, Justin Winsor, and William L. Yancey.

ArchivalResource: 13 cubic ft. (13 records center cartons).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122498782 View

Books from the library of Amos Bronson Alcott, 1579-1893.

Title: Books from the library of Amos Bronson Alcott, 1579-1893.

Library of Amos Bronson Alcott, the American philosopher of the NewEngland Transcendentalist group.

ArchivalResource: 599 v.

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01478/catalog View

Learned Hand papers

Title: Learned Hand papers

Materials relating to Hand's private and public life, his activities as an alumnus of Harvard University, his friendship with Felix Frankfurter, and to the Hand family. Includes material on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, New York City; information on the Progressive movement (1909-1914) and the beginnings of the New Republic and its early staff; and transcripts of oral-history interviews conducted by Gerald Gunther of Stanford Law School and others, of Judge Hand, his family and associates.

ArchivalResource: 116 linear feet linear feet (in 235 boxes and 18 paige boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/law00059/catalog View

Oswald Garrison Villard papers

Title: Oswald Garrison Villard papers

Papers of American author, journalist, editor, and social reformer Oswald Garrison Villard. Includes materials that are unsorted and uncataloged.

ArchivalResource: 37 linear feet (169 boxes and 9 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00082/catalog View