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James J. Davis, 1895-1946, (bulk 1921-1945)

Title: James J. Davis 1895-1946 (bulk 1921-1945)

U. S. secretary of labor and senator from Pennsylvania. Correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, investgation files, financial papers, scrapbooks, photographs, and printed matter relating to Davis's service as secretary of labor in three Republican presidential administrations, his tenure as senator from Pennsylvania, and as organizer and leader of the Loyal Order of Moose.

ArchivalResource: 13,000 items; 56 containers plus 3 oversize; 22.4 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011201 View

Willis, Edward J. (Edward Jones), 1866-1941. Papers of Edward Jones Willis [manuscript] 1919-64.

Title: Papers of Edward Jones Willis [manuscript] 1919-64.

Consulting engineer and inventor. Chiefly correspondence to Willis concerning his inventions, the Willis Planimeter and the Willis Navigation instrument; and his interest in and writings on navigation, including his books, "Methods of modern navigation," and "Lind of azimuth." Persons and groups represented are: American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Frederick Balll, Brown, Son and Ferguson, Homer Lenoir Ferguson, Frank Jansen, George Washington Littlehales Alexander Macdonald, William McEntee, C.L. Parker, Robertson (James L.) and Sons, Graham Scott.

ArchivalResource: ca. 1,150 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647970624 View

Newport News (Va.). Papers, ca. 1911-1950.

Title: Papers, ca. 1911-1950.

Papers, ca. 1911-1950, relating to Newport News, Va. Includes typescript, 1911, of a historical sketch by George B. West titled, "To the Pioneers of Newport News, Va"; a pamphlet by Homer L. Ferguson titled "The Mariners Museum; and advertisements of businesses.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26297312 View

Brewington, M. V. (Marion Vernon), 1902-1974. Trade catalogs of boats, 1884-1953.

Title: Trade catalogs of boats, 1884-1953.

Brochures, clippings, advertisements on boats and the shipbuilding industry, including information on shipping, shipping lines, cruises, and boat racing. Also included are drawings and plans of ships, 1 packet of shipping receipts dated October 1903 from the Sydney Baxter Shipping Co., photographs of sailing yachts and other ephemera relating to the boating industry.

ArchivalResource: 119 items (1 box) : ill.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122381064 View

Land, Emory Scott, 1879-1971. Emory Scott Land papers, 1901-1972.

Title: Emory Scott Land papers, 1901-1972.

Correspondence, diary notes, speeches, copies of orders, photos (many inscribed), scrapbooks, clippings, and other papers chiefly relating to Land's forty-eight years of government service particularly as chief of the U.S. Navy Bureau of Construction and Repair (1932-1937), chairman of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1938-1946), and chief administrator of the U.S. War Shipping Administration (1942-1946). Includes material relating to shipbuilding (1932-1946), the need of ships during World War II, trade-unions, use of the U.S. Army to control labor disorders, the strikes of 1941-1942, Land's position as vice president and treasurer of the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, Inc., his role as advisor for Charles A. Lindbergh (his cousin) on his tours (1927-1928), and Land's testimony in the Lindbergh kidnapping case (1938). Correspondents include William Edward Boeing, Richard Evelyn Byrd, James F. Byrnes, Homer L. Ferguson, James Forrestal, Julius Augustus Furer, Jerome C. Hunsaker, Edgar E. Kaiser, Joseph P. Kennedy, William A. Moffett, William Veazie Pratt, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., William Sowden Sims, Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., Henry Lewis Stimson, D. W. Taylor and Fred M. Vinson.

ArchivalResource: 8,500 items.31 containers plus 2 oversize.13 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70981170 View

Willis, Edward J. (Edward Jones), 1866-1941. Papers of Edward Jones Willis [manuscript] 1895-1964.

Title: Papers of Edward Jones Willis [manuscript] 1895-1964.

The collection contains correspondence relating to Willis' work as an engineer and as chairman of the Virginia Board of Mechanical Survey, the Willis navigation instrument, the Willis planimeter, other inventions and their manufacture and sale, engineering, and navigation. The collection also contains a scrapbook of clippings compiled by Edward J. Willis, 1895, and printed items. Names represented include his sons, Francis Thomas Willis and Edward Fauntleroy Willis, Homer Lenoir Ferguson, George Washington Littlehales, Philip Van Horn Weems, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the United States Naval Institute, and the United States Navy.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647933220 View