Records Relating to Commissions.

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Records Relating to Commissions.

Included are correspondence and other records of the U.S. Commission for the Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of John Marshall, 1955-57, the Jamestown-Williamsburg-Yorktown Celebration Commission, 1954-60, the Battle of New Orleans Sesquicentennial Celebration Commission, 1963-66, the Jefferson Memorial Commission, 1935-42, and the Civil War Centennial Commission, 1957-65.

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