Flanders, Ralph E. (Ralph Edward),1880-1970.

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.

Foster Grant (Firm)

Foster Grant was an American plastics molding and manufacturing firm specializing in eyewear. Originally founded in 1919 by Sam Foster to produce ladies hair accessories, the first piece of eyewear sold in 1929 at the Woolworth in Atlantic City. Collection contains company publications and sales materials including a training binder from the 1970s containing photographs and handwritten directions on how to create an epoxy mold; and photographs of die molds, Foster Grant products from World War II and sales displays.

Francisco, Don, 1891-1973.

Don Francisco was advertising manager for the California Fruit Growers Exchange, worked with the Los Angeles advertising agency Lord & Thomas, and from 1945-1956 with the J. Walter Thompson Agency in New York. From 1940-1945, he worked with the radio division of the Office of Inter-American Affairs in the U.S. State Department. Collection includes correspondence; material on the Office of Inter-American Affairs and advertising agencies; articles, reports, speeches, promotional materials, photographs, and scrapbooks.

Furholmen, Erik.

Patent information, technical reports, publicity, company data, product data; bulk relates to Chicago Molded Plastics Corporation and some of its products.