Papers, 1896-1970.

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Papers, 1896-1970.

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Correspondence, personal, political, and business; including school records, programs, and maps; diaries and appointment books of Keen Johnson (chiefly 1950-1969) and Eunice Johnson (chiefly 1939-1943); executive orders and proclamations (1939-1943); financial records including statement from the Richmond Register; awards, scrapbooks, notes and typescripts from the edited volume of Johnson's public papers by Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Ogden; photographs; publications including articles by Johnson (1910-1969); speeches (1925-1964); World War I materials; papers pertaining to the settlement of Johnson's father's estate and Mrs. Johnson's observations on the Lindbergh kidnapping trial.

75 : boxes (45 linear ft.)

Eastern Kentucky University, Crabbe Library

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Eastern Kentucky University, Crabbe Library

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