Papers-Oxmoor Collection additional papers, 1920-1968

Graham, Martha, 1894-1991

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Martha Graham, a pioneer in the establishment of American modern dance, was one of the principal choreographers of the twentieth century. Her work, which spanned more than seven decades, resulted in the development of a movement technique and a body of 180 choreographic works. Known also for her innovative collaborations, Graham worked with sculptor Isamu Noguchi, who created over thirty-five designs for Graham works; lighting designer Jean Rosenthal; costume designer Halston; and many composers...

Crowninshield, Louise du Pont, 1877-1958

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Louise Evelina du Pont (1877-1958) was the daughter of Henry A. du Pont (1838-1926) and Pauline Foster du Pont (1849-1902). She was born, raised, and educated at the family estate, Winterthur, north of Wilmington, Delaware. A debutante whose coming-out party was held in New York in 1896, she socialized with members of the city's most exclusive families. During the late 1890s, she spent the winter months in the city, enjoying shopping and social life during the heyday of high society. Louise du ...

Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926-2022

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Elizabeth II (April 21, 1926, London, England - September 8, 2022, Balmoral Castle, Scotland) was Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand since February 1952. Additionally, she is Head of the Commonwealth and queen of 12 countries that have become independent since her accession: Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. Eliza...

Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971

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Dean Acheson, U.S. Secretary of State, born Dean Gooderham Acheso, in Middletown, Connecticut, on April 11, 1893. After being educated at Yale University (1912-1915) and Harvard Law School (1915-18) he became private secretary to the Supreme Court Justice, Louis Brandeis from 1919 to 1921. A supporter of the Democratic Party, Acheson worked for a law firm in Washington, D.C., before President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him Under Secretary of the Treasury in 1933. During World War II (1941),...

Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994

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Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, Nixon previously served as the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961, having risen to national prominence as a representative and senator from California. After five years in the White House that saw the conclusion to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, and the establishment of the Environm...

Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973

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Lyndon Baines Johnson, also known as LBJ, was born on August 27, 1908 at Stonewall, Texas. He was the first child of Sam Ealy Johnson, Jr., and Rebekah Baines Johnson, and had three sisters and a brother: Rebekah, Josefa, Sam Houston, and Lucia. In 1913, the Johnson family moved to nearby Johnson City, named for Lyndon''s forebears, and Lyndon entered first grade. On May 24, 1924 he graduated from Johnson City High School. He decided to forego higher education and moved to California with a few ...

Dewey, Thomas E. (Thomas Edmund), 1902-1971

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Thomas Edmund Dewey (March 24, 1902 – March 16, 1971) was an American lawyer, prosecutor, and politician. Raised in Owosso, Michigan, Dewey was a member of the Republican Party. He served as the 47th governor of New York from 1943 to 1954. In 1944, he was the Republican Party's nominee for president, but lost the election to incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt in the closest of Roosevelt's four presidential elections. He was again the Republican presidential nominee in 1948, but lost to President Ha...

Willkie, Wendell L. (Wendell Lewis), 1892-1944

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Wendell Lewis Willkie (born Lewis Wendell Willkie; February 18, 1892 – October 8, 1944) was an American lawyer, corporate executive and the 1940 Republican nominee for President. Willkie appealed to many convention delegates as the Republican field's only interventionist: although the U.S. remained neutral prior to Pearl Harbor, he favored greater U.S. involvement in World War II to support Britain and other Allies. His Democratic opponent, incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt, won the 1940...

Watkins, Marshall Bullitt, 1955-1996.

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Atherton, Cornelia Anderson, 1886-

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Grabisch, Agatha Bullitt, 1875-1948.

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Leake, Eugene, 1911-2005

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Apthorp, Octavia Iasigi, 1857-1944.

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Miller, Neville, 1894-1977

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Neville Miller (1894-1977) was the son of Shackelford Miller, Chief Justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, and his wife Mary. He attended Louisville Male High School before he earned his bachelor's degree at Princeton in 1916 and his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1920. He became first dean of the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville in 1930. He was mayor of Louisville from 1933 to 1937. In 1945, Miller opened a private law practice in Washington, D.C. ...

Bingham, Robert Worth, 1871-1937

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Lawyer, politician, mayor of Louisville (Ky.), owner of the Courier-Journal, Ambassador to the Court of St. James, 1933-1937. From the description of Added papers, 1894-1944 1895-1913. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 46726230 Lawyer, mayor of Louisville, judge, newspaper publisher, and ambassador. From the description of Robert Worth Bingham : papers, 1876-1982 (bulk 1899-1910). (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 46726232 ...

Hindenburg (Airship)

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Frontier Nursing Service, inc

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Mary Breckinridge founded the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS), originally known as the Kentucky Committee for Mothers and Babies, in rural Leslie County, Ky., in 1925. A member of a distinguished Kentucky family, Breckinridge began her nursing career in 1907. Following the deaths of her two small children, Breckinridge became a spokeswoman for the Children's Bureau in 1918. After the First World War she affiliated with the American Committee for Devastated France and bega...

Morton, Rogers Clark Ballard, 1914-1979.

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Bullitt, A. Scott (Alexander Scott), 1878?-1932

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Bullitt, Wm. Marshall (William Marshall), 1873-

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Wyatt, Wilson W. (Wilson Watkins), 1905-1996

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Lawyer. From the description of Reminiscences of Wilson W. Wyatt : oral history, 1969. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122440831 ...

Watkins, Lowry Rush, ca. 1897-1981.

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Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, 1856-1941

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Louis Brandeis (b. November 13, 1856, Louisville, Kentucky – d. October 5, 1941, Washington D.C.) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from 1916 until 1939. Brandeis was the Court’s 67th justice and its first Jewish-American justice. He was the son of immigrants from Bohemia, who came to Kentucky from Prague, then part of the Austrian Empire. He received his LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1877, and before becoming a judge, served as a lawyer at Warren & B...

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. He was the son of James (lawyer, financier) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt. He married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on March 17, 1905, and had six children: Anna, James, Franklin, Elliott, Franklin Jr., John. He received his B.A. from Harvard in 1904 and later attended Columbia University Law School. Roosevelt was admitted to the Bar in 1907 and worked for the Carter, Ledyard, and Milburn firm in New York City from 1907 to 19...

Bullitt, Nora Iasigi, 1881-1976.

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Goldwater, Barry, 1938-....

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Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, to Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy of Brookline, Massachusetts. John Kennedy, the second of nine children, attended Choate Academy (1932-1935), Princeton University (1935-36), Harvard College (1936-40), and Stanford Business School (1941). In 1940, he published a book based on his senior thesis entitled "Why England Slept." The book criticized British policy of Appeasement. In 1941, Kennedy enlisted in the Navy. In August 1943, Kenn...

Richardson, Nina Leake, 1944-

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Loving, Emma, 1874-1952.

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Bullitt, Thomas Walker, 1914-1991.

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Leake, Nora Bullitt, 1916-1980.

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Vallely, Barbara Porter Watkins, 1943-

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Oxmoor Steeplechase.

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Watkins, Lowry Rush, 1946-

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Varè, Daniele (1880-1956).

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Daniele Varè, Italian Minister to the Imperial Court in China, and diplomat, was the uncle of Maxwell Foster, a Yale alumnus and attorney, who married Elizabeth Vincent in 1927. From the guide to the Daniele Varè / Elizabeth Vincent Foster collection, 1918-1954, (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library) Daniele Varè, Italian diplomat. From the description of Daniele Varè / Elizabeth Vincent Foster collection 1918-1954. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82501675...

Bingham, Mary Caperton, 1904-

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Newspaper executive Bingham (A.B. Radcliffe, 1928) was born in Louisville, Ky. She pursued postgraduate studies at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, 1929. She was vice president and director of the Courier-Journal, Louisville Times, and WHAS, Inc. From the description of Essays, 1928-1929 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007482 Wife of Louisville Courier-Journal publisher, Barry Bingham, Sr., activist, philanthropist, and patron of ...

Breckinridge, Mary, 1881-1965

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In 1925, Mary Breckinridge founded the Frontier Nursing Service to provide infant and maternal care in the mountains of southeastern Kentucky. She was the granddaughter of Kentucky statesman and former vice-president of the United States, John Cabell Breckinridge. From the description of Letter, 1960, July 12. (Kentucky Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 38488930 ...

Stoll, Alice Speed, 1906-1996.

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Christian, Barbara Bullitt Watkins, 1919-2000.

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Bullitt, Priscilla Keator Pillsbury, 1915-

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Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., 1902-1985

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U.S. representative to the United Nations. From the description of Correspondence 1957. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 50307057 United States Senator and ambassador. From the description of Henry Cabot Lodge letter to Harriet L. White [manuscript], 1960 August 8. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 466876849 Henry Cabot Lodge (1902-1985) was a journalist, U.S. Senator, and diplomat, and the grandson of statesman Henry Cabot Lodge,...

Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965

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Felix Frankfurter (November 15, 1882 – February 22, 1965) was an American lawyer, professor, and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Frankfurter served on the Supreme Court from 1939 to 1962 and was a noted advocate of judicial restraint in the judgments of the Court. Frankfurter was born in Vienna, Austria, and immigrated to New York City at the age of 12. After graduating from Harvard Law School, Frankfurter worked for Secretary of War Henry ...

Bullitt, James Bell, 1874-1964

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Bullitt family.

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Bullitt, William C. (William Christian), 1891-1967

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William Christian Bullitt (b. Jan. 25, 1891, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-d. Feb. 1967), was Ambassador to the U.S.S.R. from 1933 to 1936, and to France from 1936 to 1941. He was ambassador at large in 1941 and 1942, and special assistant to the Secretary of the Navy in 1942 and 1943. He began his career at the State Department in 1917 where he also served as an attaché to the American Commission to Negotiate Peace at the end of World War I. In 1944 he joined the French Army and was a major in the...

Dow, Joy Wheeler, b. ca. 1909.

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Radcliffe College

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Vocational short courses and institutes were initiated by the Radcliffe Appointment Bureau to train students for careers after graduation. Among these courses were: the Institute on Historical and Archival Management, 1954-1960; Communications for the Volunteer, 1965-1968; Summer Secretarial Course, 1935-1955, and the Radcliffe Publishing Course (formerly Publishing Procedures Course), 1947-, which continues to offer a six-week summer course in publishing. From the description of Rad...

Cameron, Nora Leake, 1942-

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