Special Files of Department Officials.

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Special Files of Department Officials.

These comprise records of Secretaries of the Interior Hubert Work, 1923-28, Harold Ickes, 1933-42, Oscar L. Chapman, 1933-53, and Douglas McKay, 1952-56; Under Secretaries Abe Fortas, 1942-46, Richard Searles, 1951-52, Clarence A. Davis, 1953-56, and Elmer F. Bennett, 1957-61; Assistant Secretaries Theodore A. Walters, 1933-39, Micheal W. Straus, 1943-45, C. Girard Davidson, 1946-50, Robert R. Rose, Jr.,1951-52, Felix E. Wormser, 1953-58, Fred G. Aandahl, 1953-60, and Ross L. Leffler, 1957-61; Special Assistant Herbert Kaufman, 1918-19; Ernest Walker Sawyer 1929-33, relating to matters in Alaska; the War Minerals Relief Commissioner, 1933-38; the special adviser on labor relations, 1936-47; other special files, including ones on conservation 1928-45, on labor relations, 1951-52, on electric power, 1951-52, and on expositions, 1926-28; and records of the Office of the Executive Assistant to the Secretary, including press releases, 1923-32, and policy statements of the Secretary, 1922-33.

165 linear ft.

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United States. Dept. of the Interior. Office of the Secretary.

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Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952

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