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Edward Mandell House papers, 1885-2007, 1885-1938

Title: Edward Mandell House papers 1885-2007 1885-1938

The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, memoirs, writings, photographs, memorabilia, and other papers documenting Edward M. House's personal life and political career. The diary details his childhood experiences and also notes political observations (1912-1924). Materials relating to the Paris Peace Conference include minutes of meetings of the Supreme Council and memoranda from various countries presenting claims. Writings include essays, reviews, novels, and other works. Correspondence includes letters to and from Woodrow Wilson, Charles Seymour, American and foreign politicians, and newspaper and political journalists. Also includes DVDs of Godfrey Hodgson's lectures and an interveiw regarding his biography of House.

ArchivalResource: 205.5 linear feet

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0466 View

William Kent family papers, 1768-1961

Title: William Kent family papers 1768-1961

The papers consist of correspondence, writings, topical files, biographical files, scrapbooks, and other material relating to William Kent's businesses, political activities, and family. The papers document his activities as a municipal reformer in Chicago and Northern California; his interests in conservation, recreation, and public control of water power; his campaigns for election to Congress; his service in the U.S. House of Representatives and on the U.S. Tariff Commission; and his business interests in cattle ranches in Nebraska and Nevada. The papers also include materials relating to the activities of Kent's wife, Elizabeth Thacher Kent, Mrs. Kent's family, and the Kent children and grandchildren. Papers of Elizabeth Thacher Kent document her interests in women's suffrage, the Equal Rights Amendment, and international peace and her participation in the National Woman's Party and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

ArchivalResource: 35 linear feet (85 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0309 View

Sconset Moors. Letter, 1925, to Lewis Mumford.

Title: Letter, 1925, to Lewis Mumford.

Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from F. C. Howe, Director, the Sconset Moors School of Opinion.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 l.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155875823 View

People's Institute records, 1883-1933, 1897-1927

Title: People's Institute records 1883-1933 1897-1927

The People's Institute was founded in 1897 by Charles Sprague Smith to teach the theory and practice of government and social philosophy to workers and recent immigrants in New York City. The People's Institute records consist of minutes, correspondence, memoranda, reports, photographs, programs, fliers, pamphlets, legal documents, financial records, clippings, class rosters, press releases, and printed matter that document the founding and operations of the Institute.

ArchivalResource: 38 linear feet; 80 boxes, 35 volumes, 1 map folder

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/2380 View

Richard T. Ely papers, 1812-1963 (bulk 1882-1939)

Title: Richard T. Ely papers, 1812-1963 (bulk 1882-1939)

Papers, dating mainly 1882-1939, of Richard Ely, an economist, educator, reformer, and faculty member at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Wisconsin, and Northwestern University. Also included are genealogical information and records of several academic, patriotic, and reform organizations which Ely helped found, including the American Association for Agricultural Legislation, American Bureau of Industrial Research, Christian Social Union, Ely Economic Foundation, Institute for Economic Research, Institute for Research in Land Economics and Public Utilities, League to Enforce Peace-Wisconsin Branch, and Wisconsin Loyalty Legion. During his long career Ely made numerous contributions to American life and also had significant contacts in Europe and in Japan. As a social scientist and an educator he was greatly influenced by the German higher education system. In this country he pioneered the seminar method of graduate education, was a founder of the American Economic Association, a frequent lecturer at Chautauqua, and a symbol of academic freedom. He established the areas of labor economics, labor history, agricultural economics, conservation, real estate, and land economics as fields of academic interest. Ely corresponded with hundreds of individuals including many prominent in the social sciences and education, in the field of business, and in Wisconsin political, educational, and business circles. A prolific author and editor, Ely had frequent contacts with publishers and editors, especially those at the Macmillan Company. Ely is also widely recognized as a key figure in the development of the reform ideology which characterized the Progressive Era. He had many contacts with prominent political, reform, religious, labor, and socialist leaders. Ely received and wrote thousands of letters during his career; selected correspondents are noted in the subject headings below and a correspondent index was compiled for inclusion in the microfilm edition. Additions received in 1991 consist primarily of family correspondence and miscellaneous professional papers.

ArchivalResource: 81.8 c.f. (198 archives boxes, 3 cartons, 2 card file boxes, and 1 oversize folder) and191 reels of microfilm (35 mm); plusadditions of 0.6 c.f. and42 photographs.

https://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/999465099702121 View

Jerome New Frank papers, 1918-1972 (bulk 1929-1957)

Title: Jerome New Frank papers

The papers consist of correspondence, legal material (including opinions, decisions, calendars, memoranda, and other papers), writings, speeches, Yale course materials, and family and personal papers of Jerome N. Frank, lawyer, government official during the New Deal, author, legal philosopher, teacher, and federal judge. The papers reflect Frank's wide range of activities, interests, and associations, and include important correspondence with many well known government officials, lawyers, philosophers, educators, authors, and judges. The papers and correspondence reflecting Frank's interest in and advocacy of "legal realism," the papers dealing with the politics and programs of the New Deal, and the papers relating to "Learned Hand's Court," the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals are arranged in this collection.

ArchivalResource: 105.25 linear feet

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0222 View

William Kent family papers, 1768–1961

Title: William Kent family papers, 1768–1961

The papers consist of correspondence, writings, topical files, biographical files, scrapbooks, and other material relating to William Kent's businesses, political activities, and family. The papers document his activities as a municipal reformer in Chicago and Northern California; his interests in conservation, recreation, and public control of water power; his campaigns for election to Congress; his service in the U.S. House of Representatives and on the U.S. Tariff Commission; and his business interests in cattle ranches in Nebraska and Nevada. The papers also include materials relating to the activities of Kent's wife, Elizabeth Thacher Kent, Mrs. Kent's family, and the Kent children and grandchildren. Papers of Elizabeth Thacher Kent document her interests in women's suffrage, the Equal Rights Amendment, and international peace and her participation in the National Woman's Party and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

ArchivalResource: 35 Linear Feet (85 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0309 View

Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940. Letter 1928 Sept. 27, Staten Island [to] Fred C. Howe, Unknown / [Edwin Markham].

Title: Letter 1928 Sept. 27, Staten Island [to] Fred C. Howe, Unknown / [Edwin Markham]. 1928.

Markham ends fred poems to look at and discusses social and political decencies.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. 1 leaf ; 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45399378 View

Howe, Frederic Clemson, 1867-1940. Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1910.

Title: Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1910.

ArchivalResource: 5 items (5 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155891034 View

Haines, Lynn, 1876-1929. Lynn Haines papers, 1909-1931.

Title: Lynn Haines papers

Material collected by and about Haines while he was editor of the Searchlight on Congress, a publication of the National Voters' League.

ArchivalResource: 24.0 cu. ft. (61 boxes, incl. 4 v.; 1 v. shelved loose).

https://mnpals-mhs.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01MNPALS_MHS/ge68j0/alma990017324170104294 View

Howe, Frederic Clemson, 1867-1940. Correspondence file, 1928-1929, from Horace Liveright, Inc.

Title: Correspondence file, 1928-1929, from Horace Liveright, Inc.

File includes one letter to Frederic and one from his wife Marie Jenny Howe.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (2 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122446847 View

James Rudolph Garfield Papers, 1879-1950, (bulk 1890-1932)

Title: James Rudolph Garfield Papers 1879-1950 (bulk 1890-1932)

Attorney and secretary of the interior. Diaries, correspondence, family papers, legal documents, and business and political records relating primarily to Garfield's business concerns and public service.

ArchivalResource: 70,000 items; 245 containers; 98 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003043 View

People's Institute (New York, N.Y.). People's Institute records, 1883-1933, bulk (1897-1927).

Title: People's Institute records, 1883-1933, bulk (1897-1927).

Collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, financial records, minutes, reports, photographs, printed matter, and other records related to the People's Institute.

ArchivalResource: 38 linear feet (80 boxes, 35 v., 1 map folder)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122534458 View

People's Institute (New York, N.Y.). Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1912.

Title: Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1912.

Correspondence to Theodore Dreiser from Frederic C. Howe, Managing Director, the People's Institute.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155893174 View

The Nation, records, 1879-1974 (inclusive), 1920-1955 (bulk).

Title: The Nation records, 1879-1974 (inclusive), 1920-1955 (bulk).

Records of the weekly magazine, The Nation, primarily during the editorship of Freda Kirchwey.

ArchivalResource: 34 boxes (42.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00189/catalog View

Du Pont, A. B. (Antoine Bidermann), 1865-1919. Antoine Bidermann du Pont : papers, 1900-1960.

Title: Antoine Bidermann du Pont : papers, 1900-1960.

The papers are concentrated in the years 1900-1915, years he spent in Cleveland, Ohio. The papers contain newspaper clippings concerning his career, arbitration negotiations, and Thomas Loftin Johnson, 1900-1960; periodicals (primarily Cleveland political and city news) and pamphlets of a business, biographical and technical nature; photographs; blueprints regarding research and inventions du Pont worked on; patents for his inventions; legal material; business correspondence, 1907-1915; arbitration negotiation material involving Cleveland and Cleveland street railway companies; and utilities research. The collection contains abundant information on the political and transportation systems of early 20th century Cleveland.

ArchivalResource: 0.66 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49217812 View

Kent, William, 1864-1928. William Kent family papers, 1768-1961.

Title: William Kent family papers

The papers consist of correspondence, writings, topical files, biographical files, scrapbooks, and other material relating to William Kent's businesses, political activities, and family. The papers document his activities as a municipal reformer in Chicago and Northern California; his interests in conservation, recreation, and public control of water power; his campaigns for election to Congress; his service in the U.S. House of Representatives and on the U.S. Tariff Commission; and his business interests in cattle ranches in Nebraska and Nevada. The papers also include materials relating to the activities of Kent's wife, Elizabeth Thacher Kent, Mrs. Kent's family, and the Kent children and grandchildren. Papers of Elizabeth Thacher Kent document her interests in women's suffrage, the Equal Rights Amendment, and international peace and her participation in the National Woman's Party and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

ArchivalResource: 35 linear ft. (85 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0309 View

Victor Murdock Papers, 1824-1971, (bulk 1909-1940)

Title: Victor Murdock Papers 1824-1971 (bulk 1909-1940)

U.S. representative from Kansas and newspaper editor. Diary, family papers, general correspondence, Federal Trade Commission files, writings, and miscellany documenting Murdock's political career as a congressman from Kansas and leadership of the Republican insurgents who contested the power of House Speaker Joseph Cannon in 1910. Includes material concerning Murdock's activities on behalf of the Progressive Party and as a member of the Federal Trade Commission. Also contains family papers relating especially to his father, Marshall M. Murdock, and brother, Marcellus M. Murdock, and their association with the Wichita Daily Eagle.

ArchivalResource: 38,300 items; 129 containers plus 1 oversize; 51.6 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012144 View

Herbert F. Baker Papers, 1904-1926

Title: Herbert F. Baker Papers 1904-1926

Republican state representative, 1907-1912, speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives, 1911, state senator, 1919-1922, and official of the Farmers' National Council, the National Gleaner Federation, the Michigan State Grange and other farm and insurance organizations; includes correspondence, clippings, photographs and scrapbooks, concerning his political and business activities.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear ft. and 1 outsize volume

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-855?rgn=main;view=text View

MacKenzie, Frederick William, 1883-1928. Frederick William and Nellie Dunn MacKenzie papers, 1901-1928.

Title: Frederick William and Nellie Dunn MacKenzie papers, 1901-1928.

Papers of Frederick MacKenzie, an editor for "La Follette's Magazine," 1909-1917, and later director of publicity for the American Association for Labor Legislation and associate editor of "American Labor Legislation Review." Born in Black Earth, Wisconsin, MacKenzie was also an editor at the University of Wisconsin, 1908, and an editorial assistant in the office of the Secretary of Labor, 1918-1919. Papers include personal and professional correspondence, his M.A. thesis (U.W., 1906), his "La Follette's Magazine" editorials (unsigned), his college scrapbook, as well as "Frederick MacKenzie, An Appreciation" by Suzanne La Follette (privately printed by Nellie MacKenzie, 1928) and photographs of MacKenzie and his wife Nellie. Correspondents include Robert M. La Follette (one letter), William Evjue, Gilbet Roe, John B. Andrews, George R. Gove, Herbert Quick, and Paul Watrous.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 c.f. and8 photographs.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173700282 View

Jerome New Frank papers, 1918-1972 (bulk 1929-1957)

Title: Jerome New Frank papers

The papers consist of correspondence, legal material (including opinions, decisions, calendars, memoranda, and other papers), writings, speeches, Yale course materials, and family and personal papers of Jerome N. Frank, lawyer, government official during the New Deal, author, legal philosopher, teacher, and federal judge. The papers reflect Frank's wide range of activities, interests, and associations, and include important correspondence with many well known government officials, lawyers, philosophers, educators, authors, and judges. The papers and correspondence reflecting Frank's interest in and advocacy of "legal realism," the papers dealing with the politics and programs of the New Deal, and the papers relating to "Learned Hand's Court," the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals are arranged in this collection.

ArchivalResource: 105.25 linear feet

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0222 View