Frank Gardiner Wisner papers [manuscript], 1931-1971.

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Frank Gardiner Wisner papers [manuscript], 1931-1971.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/694089775

The collection consists chiefly of photographs and copies of photographs of Wisner and the Eastman, Gardiner Lumber Company, including one at a conference on forest conservation also attended by Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover; copies of photographs of an event at Glen Welby the farm of Phil and kay Graham, 1955, that included Chip Bohlen, Llewelyn Thompson, Joseph Alsop, Graham and Wisner; copy of a photograph with Allen Dulles, in Berlin, 1945; and copy of a photograph as a commander in the OSS The collection also contains copies of clippings chiefly pertaining to Wisner as a student athlete at the University of Virginia; a pamphlet "Reforestation and timber conservation by Albert R. Israel; a letter from George B. Eager announcing Wisner's receipt of the Samuel Baker Woods, Jr., Memorial Award; a copy of a letter regarding Wisner as candidate for Board of Visitors; 1958, a memorial address by Richard Helms and photographs of the ceremony; and letters from Frances Farmer noting contributions to the law school library in Wisner's name. The collection also contains a citation, medal and letter appointing Wisner an honorary officer of the Military Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire; and a certificate announcing that Wisner has won the Army Commendation Ribbon. Of particular University of Virginia interest is a 1931 photograph by Holsinger of the IMP Society.

ca. 30 items.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7995198

University of Virginia. Library

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Eastman, Gardiner Lumber Company

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Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933

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Epithet: president of the United States British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000497.0x00001d Calvin Coolidge's son John married John Trumbull's daughter Florence. From the description of Letter, 1931 March 16, Northampton, Mass., to John H. Trumbull, Plainville, Conn. (Hartford Public Library). WorldCat record id: 25622017 For information on Pres. Coolidge, see an encyclopedia. No information is...

Helms, Richard

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Alsop, Joseph, 1910-1989

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Journalist. From the description of Reminiscences of Joseph Wright Alsop : oral history, 1972. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122308198 Authors and journalists. Full names: Joseph Wright Alsop and Stewart Johonnot Oliver Alsop (1914-1974). From the description of Papers of Joseph and Stewart Alsop, 1699-1989 (bulk 1937-1989). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71061964 ...

Bohlen, Charles E. (Charles Eustis), 1904-1974

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Charles "Chip" Eustis Bohlen (1904-1973), diplomat and Russian specialist, was born in Clayton, New York. After Bohlen took his B.A. at Harvard in 1927, he went on a world tour on a tramp ship. Although he had not intended to become a diplomat, his extensive world travels with his family as a child and his course work at Harvard caused him to enter the Foreign Service in Washington in 1929. He was assigned as vice-consul at Prague until 1931, when he became vice-consul at Paris. Here he began se...

Farmer, Frances, 1909-1993

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Holsinger's University Studio.

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Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964

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Herbert Clark Hoover (b. August 10, 1874, Iowa-d. October 20, 1964), thirty-first president of the United States, was born in Iowa, and was orphaned as a child. A Quaker known from his childhood as "Bert" to his friends, he began a career as a mining engineer soon after graduating from Stanford University in 1895. Within twenty years he had used his engineering knowledge and business acumen to make a fortune as an independent mining consultant. In 1914 Hoover administered the American Relief Com...

University of Virginia. I.M.P. Society

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Dulles, Allen, 1893-1969

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Allen W. Dulles, nephew of Robert Lansing, Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State, and brother of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, was a lawyer, foreign-service officer, and intelligence official. He served with the United States Office of Strategic Services in Bern, Switzerland during World War II, during which he penetrated the German Foreign Ministry Office and the "July 1944" anti-Hitler conspirators. In 1947 he helped draft the National Security Act, which created the Central Intelligenc...

Graham, Philip L., 1915-1963

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Thompson, Llewellyn, 1904-1972

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Diplomat, ambassador. From the description of Reminiscences of Llewellyn Thompson : oral history, [197-?]. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122481408 ...

Wisner, Frank Gardiner, 1909-1965.

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University of Virginia alumnus and president of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. From the description of Frank Gardiner Wisner papers [manuscript], 1931-1971. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 694089775 ...

University of Virginia

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University of Virginia student from Lexington, Ky.; afterwards a Presbyterian minister and missionary to Brazil. From the description of Diploma awarded to John Rockwell Smith [manuscript], 1866 June 29. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647905124 Lt., C.S.A.; teacher, Norwood School, Nelson County, Va.; principal Select School, New York, N.Y. From the description of Diplomas of Waller Holladay [manuscript], 1858-1872. (University of Virginia). WorldC...

Israel, Albert R.

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Eager, George Boardman, 1888-1942.

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