Creator:
Flanders, Ralph E. (Ralph Edward),1880-1970.
Inclusive Dates:
1903- 1958
Abstract:
Papers of the American engineer, businessman, legislator (U.S. Senator from Vermont, 1946-1959). General correspondence (1923-1940); business correspondence (1930-1934); correspondence on screw threads and gear cutting standardization (1930-1938); correspondence relative to the Vermont Planning Board (1937-1939); senatorial correspondence (1946-1958); personal papers including articles, correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, speeches, and a genealogy. Correspondents include George D. Aiken, Charles A. Beard, James F. Byrnes, Norman Cousins, Thomas E. Dewey, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Alvin H. Hansen, W. Averell Harriman, Herbert Hoover, Harry Hopkins, Harold Ickes, Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Charles F. Kettering, Henry Cabot Lodge, Joseph McCarthy, Richard M. Nixon, Frances Perkins, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Edward R. Stettinius, Gerard Swope, Myron C. Taylor, Dorothy Thompson, Harry S. Truman, Henry Wallace, and Wendell Willkie.
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Articles.
Correspondence.
Genealogies (histories)
Negatives (photographs)
Photographs.
Scripts (documents)
Scrapbooks.
Speeches (documents)
Subject:
United States -- Politics and government -- 1901-1953.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1953-1961.
Vermont -- Politics and government.
Businessmen.
Engineers.
Business and Industry
Politics, government and public administration
Legislators -- United States.
Businessmen -- Political activity.
Machine-tool industry -- United States.
Mechanical engineering.
Screw-threads, Standard.
Standards, Engineering.
Creator:
Shecter, Louis E.
Inclusive Dates:
1919- 1972
Abstract:
American advertising executive, involved in civic committees and American Jewish Congress.
Collection includes correspondence, printed material, photographs, audiorecording, speeches, newspapers and clippings.
Type of Material:
Advertisements.
Audio reel tape.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Film stills.
Newsletters.
Photographs.
Manuscripts for publication.
Minutes (administrative records)
Press releases.
Programs (documents).
Resolutions (administrative records)
Speeches (documents)
Scripts (documents)
Sound recordings.
Subject:
Baltimore (M.D.)
Ten commandments (Motion picture : 1956)
Advertisers.
Business and Industry
Politics, government and public administration
Popular culture
Advertising--Clothing and dress.
Advertising agencies -- United States.
Jews -- Israel.
Jews -- United States.
Genocide--Government policy--United States.
Genocide.
Genocide (International law)
Genocide--Law and legislation--United States.
Genocide--United States--Public opinion.
Creator:
Weston, Harold, 1894-1972.
Inclusive Dates:
1897- 1971
Abstract:
Papers of the American painter,
humanitarian. The collection includes artwork reproductions, correspondence subject
files, memorabilia and writings, much of which deal with Weston's work in various
organizations, including the Adirondack Trail Improvement Society, the American
Federation of Arts, the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors, Food for
Freedom, the International Association of the Plastic Arts of Plastic Arts, the
National Council on the Arts and Government and the United Nations. The collection
provides a detailed look at the lobbying efforts to create the National Endowment
for the Arts as well as development of post-World War Two international cooperation
in the arts.
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Manuscripts for publication.
Drafts (documents)
Black-and-white negatives.
Correspondence.
Exhibition catalogs.
Minutes (administrative records)
Photographs.
Reports.
Subject:
Artists.
Painters.
Art -- Painters
Painting,American -- 20th century.
Art and state.
Federal aid to the arts.
Humanitarianism.