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Cook, Lyle Edwards, 1918-2002. Lyle Edwards Cook papers, 1938-1956.

Title: Lyle Edwards Cook papers, 1938-1956.

Papers relating to his state assembly campaign in Alameda County, 1938, with relevant letter from Gardiner Johnson, and work on behalf of Senator Estes Kefauver presidential campaigns in 1952 and 1956. Includes correspondence with Kefauver, 1951-1956, discussing political views, election strategy, etc., and with other members of Kefauver campaign committees, including Clara Shirpser, Langdon W. Post, and George P. Miller, and copies of letters from Alan Cranston. Speeches, budgets, press releases, campaign and Democratic convention material, and clippings also included.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (0.4 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26786466 View

New York City Housing Authority. Records 1923-1986 1934-1977.

Title: Records 1923-1986 1934-1977.

The records of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) date from 1923 to 1995, with the material ranging from 1934 to 1977. They consist of correspondence, memos, surveys, and reports dealing with the establishment of the Housing Authority in 1934 and its mandate to provide low-cost housing for working class families. The records detail construction, design policy, legal issues, management, public relations, community services, real estate valuation, relationship of NYCHA to state and federal agencies, slum clearance, and tenant eligibility, admission and relocation.

ArchivalResource: 800 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33184126 View

Charles Abrams papers, 1923-1970.

Title: Charles Abrams papers, 1923-1970.

Papers include biographical materials, speeches, course materials, lectures, newspaper clippings, press releases, and correspondence with Max Bloom, John Clarke, Aryeh Cooperstock, Jacob Crane, Alexander L. Crosby, Earle S. Draper, Julius Edelstein, Felix Frankfurter, Josephine Gomon, William L. Halford, Averell Harriman, Hubert H. Humphrey, Jacob K. Javits, J. Marshall Kaplan, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Blanche Mahler Koeffler, Otto Koenigsberger, Louis J. Lefkowitz, Herbert Lehman, Max Lerner, John V. Lindsay, Lewis Lorwin, Bleecker Marquette, Albert Mayer, Morris Miller, Constance Baker Motley, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Kevin Nowlan, William S. Paley, Charles H. Percy, Langdon Post, Perry Prentice, A. Philip Randolph, Lloyd Rodwin, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Nathan Straus, Walter Thabit, Jacqueline Tyrwhitt, Warren Jay Vinton, Robert F. Wagner, Jr., William English Walling, Harrison A. Williams, Herman Wouk, and Catherine Bauer Wurster pertaining to organizations and agencies in which Abrams was actively involved, including the Agency for International Development, American Federation of Housing Authorities, American Institute of Architects, American Institute of Planners, American Jewish Congress, Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Ekistico-Delos, Federal Public Housing Authority, Ford Foundation, and the Housing and Home Finance Agency. Correspondence also concerns the International Federation for Housing and Town Planning, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing, National Committee on the Housing Emergency, National Public Housing Conference, New York State Commission Against Discrimination, Southeast Asia Development Advisory Group; Abrams' affiliations with Columbia University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New School for Social Research, Princeton University, United Nations International School, and the University of Pennsylvania. There are studies pertaining to Abrams' principal work in planning domestic and foreign housing, prepared while on United Nations missions to Kenya, Pakistan, India, the Philippines, Ireland, Japan, Jamaica, Singapore, and other places. Also available are published and unpublished articles on housing and a list of articles written by Abrams while affiliated with the New York Post; drafts, galley notes, and reviews of "Housing Programs for America," and "Squatter Settlements"; a manuscript for "The City is the Frontier"; and unfinished manuscripts for "Democracy in Crisis," and "Housing for the People." Also, family correspondence and personal financial materials. Twelve phonograph records of lectures and other talks by Abrams.

ArchivalResource: 128 cubic ft., 54 reels positive microfilm.

https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMM03086.html View

New York (N.Y.). Tenament House Dept. Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1917-1934.

Title: Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1917-1934.

Contains one item from an unidentified correspondent and one item from Theodore Dreiser to Langdon W. Post, Tenement House Commissioner, New York, N.Y.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (3 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155892738 View

Dwight D. Eisenhower Library Oral History Collection. 1962 - 1998. Oral History Transcripts. 1962 - 1998. Oral History Interview with Langdon Post

Title: Dwight D. Eisenhower Library Oral History Collection. 1962 - 1998. Oral History Transcripts. 1962 - 1998. Oral History Interview with Langdon Post

This is the transcript of an oral history interview with Langdon W. Post. In the interview Post discussed his family background and childhood; running for Congress as an anti-Tammany Hall candidate; his appointment as tenement house commissioner by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia; work for the Federal Emergency Relief Administration; his personal observations on Harry Hopkins; housing improvements and changes in building codes; disagreements with LaGuardia; his job as western regional director for the Federal Housing Authority; the need for more housing in places with strong industrial pressure; public housing in California; housing following World War II; Earl Warren's opposition to state guarantees of housing authority bonds; his interest in home building after the war; James Roosevelt's decision to run for governor; Post's position as campaign manager in Northern California; the organization of campaign publicity; Earl Warren's avoidance of personal attacks against his opponent; support for Warren among some Democrats; endorsement by labor; financial support for Roosevelt's campaign; differences in support in the northern and southern parts of the state; campaign expenses and issues; the lack of Roosevelt support among some Democrats; Post's 1952 article on Earl Warren; Warren's caution and avoidance of controversy; George Outland; additional Roosevelt supporters; Helen Gahagan Douglas and Richard Nixon; and running a labor newspaper.

ArchivalResource: 57 pages

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/5756404 View

Post, Langdon W. (Langdon Ward), 1899-. Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1935-1938.

Title: Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1935-1938.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (2 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155893313 View