Papers, 1922-1968.

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Papers, 1922-1968.

Correspondence, photos, articles, circulars, diagrams, and other papers, relating to Atwater Kent (Philadelphia, Pa.) radios and radio equipment, meetings and training sessions on radio maintenance and service, an early home-built radio set, the 1931 radio market, radio sales, completion of Ingold's home on the San Francisco peninsula, economic conditions in the radio industry in 1929-1930, automobile business matters, California political affairs, and San Francisco area work for Boys Clubs of America. Includes scrapbook of press clippings pertaining to Ingold's gifts of Shakespearean folios to University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (earlier name: University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus)) Library, and the exhibiting of this material. Correspondents include Harlow Curtice, Robert B. Downs, Herbert Hoover, Douglas McKay, Frank Merriam, Richard M. Nixon, Nelson Rockefeller, Alfred P. Sloan, and Earl Warren.

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Ingold, Ernest, 1885-

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Business executive and author. From the description of Papers, 1922-1968. (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign). WorldCat record id: 28415068 ...

Sloan, Alfred P. (Alfred Pritchard), 1875-1966

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University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus). Library

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Warren, Earl, 1891-1974

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Merriam, Frank Finley, 1865-1955

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Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964

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Downs, Robert B. (Robert Bingham), 1903-1991

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Professor of library science, and director of libraries and Library School, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus) (later names: Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus) and Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); d. 1991. From the description of Papers, 1937-1983. (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign). WorldCat record id: 28416848 ...