Better Homes in America records, 1923-1935.

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Better Homes in America records, 1923-1935.

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Correspondence, press releases, expense statements, clippings, pamphlets, and photographs, relating to home ownership in the United States. Includes correspondence of Herbert Hoover as president, and Marie M. Meloney as organizer, of the association. Also available on microfilm (64 reels).

60 ms. boxes, 13 oversize boxes.

Stanford University, Hoover Institution Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8132275

Stanford University, Hoover Institution Library

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Meloney, Marie Mattingly

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Epithet: of the 'New York Herald Tribune' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001185.0x0000c2 Magazine editor including "Women's Magazinre," the "Delineator," the Sunday magazine of the "New York Herald Tribune" and "This week." From the description of Marie Meloney letter to Carty Ranck [manuscript], 1930 Sep 6. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 318063959 Editor, write...

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...

Better Homes in America

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Private organization to encourage individual and community efforts at home improvement in the United States. From the description of Better Homes in America records, 1923-1935. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754867221 Historical Note Private organization to encourage individual and community efforts at home improvement in the United States. From the guide to the Better Homes in America records, 1923-1935, (Hoo...