Pol. Politics
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Identifier: Pol
This topic covers politicians from the local to the national level as well as political action organizations.
Found in 64 Collections and/or Records:
Oliver Wolcott letters
Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-921
Abstract
Thirteen letters, Mar. 11, 1795- Dec. 11, 1800, written by Oliver Wolcott, secretary of the treasury, to David Henley, general agent for the War Dept. in the Territory of the United States, South of the River Ohio, regarding public contracts for military and Indian supplies in what is now Tennessee.,The letters contain rules and regulations regarding the administration of contracts, as well as numerous directives regarding the choice of contractors to supply both the region and the Tellico...
Dates:
1795-1800
Orville E. Babcock Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Babcock
Abstract
Orville E. Babcock was American brevet Brigadier General, Aide-de-Camp to Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War, and Private Secretary to Grant during his presidency, 1869-1877. Collection is primarily correspondence relating to Babcock’s military career, service as private secretary to Ulysses S. Grant during his presidency, role in the Whiskey Ring trials of 1875-1876, and private life. Collection also contains newspaper clippings, photographs, military service records and miscellaneous items.
Dates:
1849-1947; Majority of material found within 1884 - 1898
Paul Randall Wright Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Wright
Abstract
Writings and correspondence of Chicago journalist and foreign correspondent Paul Randall Wright, particularly newspaper stories reported from Siberia in 1918-1919, and Manchuria, China, Japan, and the Philippines from 1926-1930. The collection also includes diaries and a number of photographs relating to the periods in which Wright was stationed abroad.
Dates:
1899-1965
Ralph L. Graham Yalta Conference Photographs and Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Graham
Abstract
Material related to the activities of the United States Department of State during the months of January-March, 1945 with a particular focus on the Malta Conference, the Yalta Conference, the Inter-American Conference on Problems of War and Peace, and the travels of Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius in Northern Africa and Central America. The collection is composed of a State Department-created scrapbook with an assortment of photographs taken by the US Army Signal Corps and relevant...
Dates:
1945
Richard Schaller papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Schaller
Abstract
Government reports, photographs, protest newspapers, speech transcripts, posters, and newspaper clippings assembled by Richard Schaller, Head of the Sabotage, Espionage, and Countersubversion Department of the Naval Investigative Service Office in Chicago, related to his surveillance of individuals and organizations demonstrating at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Schaller’s transcribed organizer speeches were used as evidence in the Chicago Seven trial, where he also...
Dates:
1967-1973
Robert Gruenberg Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Gruenberg
Abstract
Correspondence, clippings, and personal materials of Chicago journalist Robert Gruenberg.
Dates:
1947-1990
Roswell T. Spencer Typescript
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-192
Abstract
Corrected typescript draft of an unpublished two-volume biography of United States President Theodore Roosevelt titled "Roosevelt and Chicago" highlighting his connections to Chicago. The final chapter of volume 2, "Rhymes about Theodore Roosevelt", consists of poems collected from various sources.
Dates:
1920
Spencer Napoleonica collection
Collection
Identifier: Modern-MS-Spencer
Abstract
A collection of materials, chiefly autographs, relating to the Napoleonic Era. Military orders, political and personal correspondence, legal documents, receipts, portraits, and images are included.
Dates:
1756-1975
Stephen A. Douglas Letters
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-208
Abstract
Two autographed letters and one 1913 program. The material includes two items of correspondence from Stephen A. Douglas. The first is a letter from Douglas dated 10 July 1856. Although the writing is somewhat illegible, the dealer description notes that the autographed letter is addressed to P.G. Warrington(?) as a letter of introduction for F.Y. Wellose(?). The second letter is from Douglas to Ninan W. Edwards in Genesee, Illinois, dated 11 August 1859. Also included is a program for the...
Dates:
1856-1913
Stockbridge and Munsee Tribe of Indians records
Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-836
Abstract
Tribal documents, 1789-1858, including petitions, memorials, arguments, powers of attorney, appointments, agreements, correspondence, financial reports, promissory notes, and requests for payment.,Petitions, memorials, and arguments concern the tribe's negotiations with the U.S. government and the state of New York re land sale profits and their distribution, relocation, citizenship, annuities, and other matters. There are appointments and powers of attorney authorizing John W. Quinney and...
Dates:
1789-1858
Timothy Pickering letters
Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-926
Abstract
Correspondence, dating mainly from 1795, of the secretary of war, Timothy Pickering, primarily with David Henley, War Dept. agent in the Territory of the United States, South of the River Ohio, but also with David Campbell, William Blount, and John McNairy, regarding Indian and militia affairs in what is now Tennessee.,Much of the 1795 correspondence, including an extract of a letter to Gov. Blount and an Aug. 28, 1795, letter to Judge David Campbell, concerns the U.S. refusal to support the...
Dates:
1795-1798; Majority of material found in 1795 - 1795
Walter Loomis Newberry Letters
Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Case-MS-E5.N422
Abstract
Eighteen letters from businessman Walter L. Newberry to Lucius Lyon, the Michigan Territory's Delegate to Congress (and later, Michigan's Senator), regarding local and national politics, property values in Chicago and Detroit, the prospects of Michigan statehood, and other issues. Collection also includes a $20 check on the Bank of Michigan, Detroit, dated Oct. 15, 1827, from Lyon to Newberry.
Dates:
1833-1838
William Blount Papers
Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-74
Abstract
Letters, orders and receipts written by William Blount, pertaining to his administration of Indian and military affairs in the Territory of the United States, South of the River Ohio, 1794-1796. Correspondence directed to David Henley (as agent of the War Department), John Pitchlynn (U.S. interpreter to the Choctaw), and several other military officers.
Dates:
1794-1796
William Voorhees Judson papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Judson
Abstract
Correspondence, manuscript works, documents, drafts, reprints, maps, charts and photographs relating to William Voorhees Judson, military officer, army engineer, political writer and speaker, and military attaché in Russia in 1917. Collection contains much material concerning the Russian Revolution, most of which has been published in Russia in War and Revolution; General William V. Judson's Accounts from Petrograd, 1917-1918, edited by Neil V. Salzman, Kent...
Dates:
1888-1947