Papers, 1917-1945.

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Papers, 1917-1945.

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Diaries for 1942 to 1945, largely concerning Tasker's work; correspondence, 1934-1936 and 1943, concerning political matters, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation, his search for a civil service position, and other business matters; scrapbook of clippings concerning Tasker and his position with the Home Owners' Loan Corporation, 1933-1935; and typescripts of his writings including a political speech, 1935, articles on New Deal politics, and a lecture from his trip to Japan and China in 1917-1918.

.4 cubic ft.

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Home Owner's Loan Corporation.

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Tasker, Lawrence H.

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Little is known about Lawrence H. Tasker, except that he owned land in Pompton, New Jersey, and that he ordered a detailed survey of this property in 1911. By August of the same year, Tasker sold his land to Heitaro Fujita. In 1918, the Honorary Shuh Tomi of the Japanese Consul General explored the possibility of turning Fujita's property into a residential park. In order to gain approval for this plan, the land first needed to be researched and surveyed, this time by Joseph P. Day. The decision...