Frank Altschul papers, 1900-1981.

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Frank Altschul papers, 1900-1981.

Personal papers of Frank Altschul consisting of correspondence, manuscripts, documents, memoranda, reports, printed material, and photographs and containing no business or financial records. Among the major correspondents are Almer Adler, Hamilton Fish Armstrong, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Thomas M. Cleland, Margaret Bourke-White, Alf Landon, Herbert H. Lehman, Clare Boothe and Henry R. Luce, Dean Rusk, Wendell Willkie, and U.S. Presidents Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and John F. Kennedy.

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