Eleanor M. Bumgardner papers, 1919-1967.

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Eleanor M. Bumgardner papers, 1919-1967.

Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and printed miscellanea concerning the life and career of Frank Murphy; also scrapbooks, 1919-1943, 1948 and 1957, concerning trips taken to Europe and the Far East; and photographs. Correspondents include: Hugo L. Black, Claude G. Bowers, Prentiss M. Brown, Clarence S. Darrow, William O. Douglas, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Edsel B. Ford, Henry Ford, Felix Frankfurter, John N. Garner, Eugene Gressman, Joseph P. Kennedy, Walter Lippmann, George C. Marshall, Frank Murphy. George Murphy, Chase S. Osborn, Stella B. Osborn, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Henry L. Stimson, Harlan F. Stone, Henry A. Wallace, and G. Mennen Williams.

8.2 linear ft. and 9 v. [outsize].Photographs .2 linear ft.

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