Roy Dikeman Chapin papers, 1886-1937.

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Roy Dikeman Chapin papers, 1886-1937.

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Correspondence, speeches, articles, interviews, business papers, receipts, scrapbooks, photographs, and miscellaneous items of Chapin, his wife, and his biographer, John C. Long, concerning family matters, highway transportation, the automobile industry, general economic conditions, foreign trade, World War I, national defense, state and national politics, the Republican Party, and the University of Michigan; also extensive papers concerning the Hudson Motor Car Company, including information on management policies, production, and labor organizing. Correspondents include: Frederick M. Alger, Bernard Baruch, Henry M. Bates, Frederick O. Bezner, Wilber M. Brucker, William L. Clements, James J. Couzens, John D. Dingell, Woodbridge N. Ferris, Harvey S. Firestone, Carl G. Fisher, Arthur Fleming, Edsel B. Ford, Samuel Gompers, Warren G. Harding, Paul G. Hoffman, Herbert Hoover, Joseph L. Hudson, Cordell Hull, Harry B. Hutchins, Pyke Johnson, Henry B. Joy, Frank Knox, Albert D. Lasker, Henry M. Leland, Clarence C. Little, James O. Murfin, Truman H. Newberry, Chase S. Osborn, George P. Putnam, Alfred L. Reeves, Edward V. Rickenbacker, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., George W. Romney, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Alfred P. Sloan, Lewis L. Strauss, Julian L. Street, Arthur H. Vandenberg, Albert E. White, Leonard Wood, William H. Woodin, Fielding H. Yost.

32 linear ft. and 7 v. [outsize].

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