Papers of Lloyd C. Bird, 1940-1970.

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Papers of Lloyd C. Bird, 1940-1970.

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Bird's papers are divided between his business and political interests. Business papers contain correspondence, memoranda, financial statements and some legal papers documenting his actiavities as president of Phipps and Bird, a Richmond, Va., producer of scientific equipment and chemicals, and especially as president of Allied Scientific Corporation which produced chemical and laboratory suply catalogs and operated a communal warehouse for its member companies. With these are papers regarding the management of his Highland County, Va., farms, the Newcomen Society in America, the Kiwanis Club of Richmond, the Jamestown Foundation, Base Hospital #45 Veterans Association, and family genealogy. Among the few personal letters is an account of the 1918 great flu epidemic in Richmond, Va. Bird's interest in education bulks larage in his political papers. They contain correspondence, memoranda, reports, some background material and minutes for a variety of educational committees and commissions including the State Board of Education and its Advisory Committees on Social Studies, Science Education, and Higher Pay for Teachers; the Regional Education Laboratory for the Carolinas and Virginia; the Southern Regional Education Board and its Council on Higher Education for Adults; the Virginia Higher Education Sutdy Commission; the Virginia Advisory Committee on Community Colleges; the Senate Committee on Public Institutions and Education; and the Virginia Education Association. It should be noted that there are no political papers from the massive resistance era, and school integration is mentioned only sporadically in the post 1959 letters. The collection also contains constituent correspondence and papers from other Senate committees including Finances; Agriculture, mining and manufacturing; Nominations and confirmations; Roads and internal navigations; Privileges and elections; Auditing; and Steering; as well as the Advisoy Council on the Virginia Economy; the 1960 Commission of Voter Rgistration; and the National Plannng Association Committee of the South. There is campaign material for Byrd and other Virginians including Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., Harry Flood Byrd, Jr., and A. Willis Robertson. The collection also contains one audiotape of radio spots produced by the Bird For Senate Committee. Correspondents include both Byrds, J. Harvie Wilkinson, U.S. Representatives J. Vaughan Gary and David E. Sattefield, and Virginia governors John S. Battle, Albertis S. Harrison, Mills Godwin, and Linwood Holton.

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