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William Ernest Hocking papers

Title: William Ernest Hocking papers

Correspondence of Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking, his wife, Agnes Hocking, the Hocking family, and others.

ArchivalResource: 144 linear feet (110 boxes)

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou01777 View

Horner, Frederick Cecil, 1887-1974. Papers, 1917-1960 (bulk 1922-1940).

Title: Papers, 1917-1960 (bulk 1922-1940).

Personal and business files consisting of correspondence, diaries, memoir, memoranda, reports, speeches, printed matter, newspaper clippings, and photographs, relating to Horner's career in transportation, chiefly as an executive with General Motors Corporation. The collection reflects the development of motor truck and bus transportation in the U.S. and abroad and efforts to coordinate these modes with railroad transport. Includes material on Horner's involvement with General Managers' Association of New York, Joint Committee of Railroads and Highway Users, National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, National Transportation Committee (headed by Calvin Coolidge), National Transportation Conference (1923), Society of Automotive Engineers, and World Engineering Congress in Tokyo (1929). Topics include transportation legislation, regulation, safety, and taxation. Also includes material relating to Horner's involvement with various New York City civic organizations such as the Charity Organization Society's tenement housing committee and the Regional Plan Association's transportation committee. Correspondents include William Wallace Atterbury, Bruce Barton, Ralph Budd, William James Cunningham, Pierre S. Du Pont, Herbert Hoover, Pyke Johnson, Charles Franklin Kettering, Thomas H. MacDonald, James David Mooney, John J. Raskob, Eddie Rickenbacker, Alfred P. Sloan, Edward R. Stettinius, and Alfred H. Swayne.

ArchivalResource: 30.4 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31816491 View

Cunningham, William James, 1875-1962. William J. Cunningham papers, 1916-1941.

Title: William J. Cunningham papers, 1916-1941.

The collection consists of the papers of Professor William J. Cunningham, an authority on railroad operations and transportation, The collection includes material on railway magnate James J. Hill concerning establishment of a professorship in railway studies at Harvard; material on the Great Northern Railroad; Cunningham's journal kept during a 1916 railroad trip; correspondence regarding Chinese railroads and the purchase of railroad management books; correspondence concerning a summer school course on transportation; and other material on courses at the Graduate School of Business Administration. The collection also contains case files kept with George P. Baker consisting of correspondence with railroad and airline executives, notes and drafts of cases, typescripts of cases, and blueprints and maps of railroad systems.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear feet (4 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/75958150 View

Frederick Cecil Horner Papers, 1917-1960, (bulk 1922-1940)

Title: Frederick Cecil Horner Papers 1917-1960 (bulk 1922-1940)

Transportation engineer and executive with General Motors Corporation. Correspondence, diaries, memoir, memoranda, reports, speeches, printed matter, newspaper clippings, and photographs documenting Horner's career in transportation, chiefly as an executive with General Motors Corporation.

ArchivalResource: 26,600 items; 75 containers plus 5 oversize; 30.4 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms004015 View