Memorabilia scrapbook, 1900-1972.

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Memorabilia scrapbook, 1900-1972.

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"Memorabilia scrapbook" with photocopies of "famous letters," consisting of correspondence, speeches, telegrams, photographs, and published articles by or about James "Jimmy" F. Byrnes; materials document his career during World War II, in the U.S. Senate, the U.S. Supreme Court, as Secretary of State, as Governor of South Carolina, and as a member of the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations General Assembly. In addition to biographical information and images from childhood to retirement, this volume includes photographs and text re dedication, 26 Nov. 1966, of the James F. Byrnes Room room in the new Clemson University Library (now known as Robert Muldrow Cooper Library); includes exterior shoots of the new library and views of the interior exhibition space of the James F. Byrnes Room. "One of three copies prepared at the direction of the Time Capsule Committee of the [James F.] Byrnes Foundation" (from accession card).

1 v. : ill. ; 42 cm.

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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