President Benjamin Harrison Home manuscript collections, 1850-1997.

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President Benjamin Harrison Home manuscript collections, 1850-1997.

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Chiefly correspondence, financial records, diaries, ledgers, scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers, of the family of President Benjamin Harrison. Includes correspondence of Benjamin Harrison with family members, friends, law practice associates, and political contacts; papers of Harrison's first wife, Caroline Scott Harrison, including correspondence with family members discussing family news as well as her design for the Harrison White House china; and papers of Harrison's second wife, Mary Lord Harrison, relating to family events and to the establishment of the President Benjamin Harrison Memorial Home. Other family members represented include Russell B. Harrison and his wife, Mary Saunders Harrison, and Mary Scott Harrison McKee and her husband, James Robert McKee. The collections also include manuscript materials gathered and produced by Harry Sievers for his biography of Benjamin Harrison; archival records of the Arthur Jordan Foundation, the governing body of the President Benjamin Harrison Memorial Home; and records relating to the Home's establishment in 1938 and to its restoration and renovation which were completed in 1974.

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President Benjamin Harrison Memorial Home

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McKee, J. Robert (James Robert), 1857-1942

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Harrison, Mary Saunders, 1860-1944

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Harrison, Caroline Lavinia Scott, 1832-1892

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Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901

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