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Politicians -- United States -- 20th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 44 Collections and/or Records:

"President Taft's Party and the Reception Committee" panoramic photograph

 Collection — Object OBF008
Identifier: OBF008
Scope and Contents This collection comprises a black-and-white panoramic photograph taken by N. H. Losey at the house of Charles W. Fairbanks in Indianapolis, Indiana on July 4, 1911, depicting the members of President William Howard Taft's party and the local reception committee during his visit to the city. Most of the people in the photograph are male and wearling badges. Indiana Governor Thomas Riley Marshall, Charles W. Fairbanks, and Cornelia Cole Fairbanks sit to the left of the president at the front of...
Dates: 1911/07/04

Ralph F. Gates collection

 Collection
Identifier: L634
Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence, speeches, reports, and legislation from Ralph F. Gates'life and term as governor, ranging from 1917 to 1978, including papers relating to the Alcoholic Beverage Commission, the Indiana State Highway Commission, the Tax Study Commission, flood control, veterans' affairs, and labor and the Standard Oil Strike in Whiting in 1945. Also included are papers relating to the Republican National Committee and the Republican Party in Indiana; papers relating to...
Dates: 1917-1978

Resolution tendering Independence Hall to Schuyler Colfax

 Collection — Folder OBC016
Identifier: OBC016
Scope and Contents This collection consists of a resolution from the Select and Common Councils of the city of Philadelphia in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 12, 1870 to Vice President Schuyler Colfax for a public reception during his visit to the city.
Dates: 1870/03/12

Richard Nixon in Indiana photographs

 Collection — Folder SP087
Identifier: SP087
Scope and Contents This collection includes photographs of Richard Nixon's visit to Indianapolis, Indiana, several from Indianapolis Star photographers, on September 12, 1968 during his presidential campaign. There are also a few undated photographs of Nixon shaking hands with several people, including Betty Marr, Clark Springer, and Ed Mitchell.
Dates: 1968/09/12, undated

Shepard J. Crumpacker, Jr. collection

 Collection
Identifier: L565
Scope and Contents This collection contains senate bills and house resolutions from Shepard J. Crumpacker’s term in the U.S. House of Representatives ranging from 1940 to 1957. There is also material from events in which he participated. There are six folders from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (U.N.E.S.C.O.) convention of 1952. Throughout the collection, there are opinion polls from Crumpacker’s constituents about U.S. policy issues and listings and records of his telegraph...
Dates: 1940-1957

Theodore Roosevelt in Indiana photograph collection

 Collection — Folder SP151
Identifier: SP151
Scope and Contents This collection includes black-and-white photographs taken during the Henry W. Lawton statue dedication in Indianapolis, Indiana. The photographs show the dedication ceremony in front of the courthouse and President Roosevelt addressing the crowd, as well as the parade and procession to or from Vice President Fairbanks' house. The images also include snapshots from the gathering at the house earlier in the day. There are also 3 clippings from newspapers showing scenes from Roosevelt's 1907,...
Dates: 1907/05/30; 1957-1971

Thomas Riley Marshall papers

 Collection
Identifier: L100
Scope and Contents The collection includes materials from Thomas Riley Marhsall ranging from 1863 to 1934, although the bulk of the materials date from 1868 to 1925. Materials include Marshall's speeches on Democratic politics and state and national affairs (1880s-1925); speeches to Masons and other fraternal organizations; speeches on law, schools, and history; and a manuscript draft of his Recollections. The correspondence covers his political affairs (1908-1925); letters of...
Dates: 1863-1934

Thomas Riley Marshall photograph collection

 Collection — Folder SP153
Identifier: SP153
Scope and Contents This collection includes black-and-white photographs and clippings featuring Thomas Riley Marshall in Indiana, California, Washington, D.C., and other places in the the United States, as well as Geneva, Switzerland, ranging from circa 1860 to 1916 and undated, regarding Riley's daily life and political career, including several photographs from an unidentified ceremony at the construction of a large structure such as a building or bridge. There are also portrait photographs of the Marshall...
Dates: circa 1860-1916, undated

Virginia Ellis Jenckes collection

 Collection
Identifier: L374
Scope and Contents The collection consists primarily of Virginia Ellis Jenckes’s congressional papers. Also included are correspondence, reports, and other papers relating to the Agriculture Waste Recovery Project (1933–1943) and other efforts to help farmers during the Depression; flood control on the Wabash and White Rivers; railroads; women’s rights; education; and Communists in America, as well as her opposition to Communist radio broadcasts. The collection also contains papers relating to her political...
Dates: 1918-1951

Walter D. Myers photographs

 Collection — Folder SP084
Identifier: SP084
Scope and Contents This collection includes photographs of Walter D. Myers in California; New Orleans, Louisiana; Claremore, Oklahoma; Chicago, Illinois; and other unidentified locations in the United States ranging from 1948 to 1952 and undated, depicting him with various people at social and political events, probably as part of his fourth assistant postmaster general duties.
Dates: 1948-1952, undated