Mamie Frances King Hansen papers, 1938-1972.

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Mamie Frances King Hansen papers, 1938-1972.

Consist of lengthy letters to her family detailing a difficult relationship with her mother and financial concerns as well as letters regarding UDC. Also includes scrapbooks containing news clippings of social events, Democratic Party figures such as Mary A. Foy and Helen Gahagan Douglas, and Hansen's congressional campaign. Lecture notes from unidentified classes are recorded in notebooks.

1 cubic foot.

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