Memorabilia and photographs collection, 1919-1970.

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Memorabilia and photographs collection, 1919-1970.

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Memorabilia concerning New York Governor and Democratic presidential candidate Alfred E. Smith, including photographs of Smith receiving honorary degree at Manhattan College, 1919, and at investiture as Papal Chamberlain, 1938. Also, photograph of Archbishop Francis Spellman; awards and degrees granted Smith by Manhattan College, 1919, Columbia University, 1926, Harvard, 1933, University of the State of New York, 1933, National University of Ireland, 1930, Fordham University; proclamation, invitations, and programs for investiture as Papal Chamberlain, 1938, and Knight of the Holy Sepulcher, 1940; publications, "The Happy Warrior: Al Smith," by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1928, and "Campaign Addresses," 1928; correspondence concerning donation of memorabilia to Manhattan College, 1945-1947; brochure for Smith memorial in Al Smith Houses on Lower East Side, 1945; and catalog and correspondence, including exchange with Nelson Rockefeller, concerning exhibit about Smith, 1970.

4.5 cubic ft.

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