United States -- Politics and government
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:
Joseph Habersham letters
Collection — Folder S2136
Identifier: S2136
Scope and Contents
This collection includes typewritten transcriptions of eight letters written by Postmaster General Joseph Habersham regarding the establishment of a postal route from Louisville to Kaskaskia, via Vincennes. Ranging from 1797 to 1799, the letters were transcribed from volumes F-I of the letterbooks of the Postmaster General.
Dates:
1797-1799
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Joseph Habersham letters
Model Cities Program, Indianapolis, Indiana and Des Moines, Iowa financial records
Collection — Folder S2874
Identifier: S2874
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of financial records from the citizens’ councils of regions 4 and 5 of Model Cities Program in Des Moines, Iowa and Indianapolis, Indiana, ranging from 1969 to 1974, largely regarding expenditures for training activities.
Dates:
1969-1974
Paul V. McNutt for President in 1940 Club records
Collection
Identifier: L293
Scope and Contents
This collection includes meeting minutes, officers' correspondence, financial records, legal papers, and membership information from the Paul V. McNutt for President in 1940 Club ranging from 1933 to 1937.
Dates:
1933-1937
Robert H. Wyatt collection
Collection
Identifier: L484
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence, speeches, periodicals, pamphlets, other publications, reports, photographs, clippings, and other papers from Robert H. Wyatt in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1869 to 1972 (bulk 1948-1972) and undated regarding his career in education and work with professional organizations such as the Indiana State Teachers Association (ISTA), the National Education Association (NEA), and Future Teachers of America. There is also information about teachers' strikes...
Dates:
1869-1972, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Robert H. Wyatt collection
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
Tom Pfundstein, Ted Cruz and Carly Fiorina campaign poster
Collection — Folder OBC142
Identifier: OBC142
Dates:
2016
Virginia Ellis Jenckes papers
Collection
Identifier: L374
Scope and Contents
The collection consists primarily of correspondences, papers, speeches, clippings, pamphlets, ephemera, and photographs from Virginia Ellis Jenckes’s congressional and nonprofit work nonprofit work in Indiana, Washington, D.C., and France, ranging from 1930 to 1951, regarding her political career and work with the Red Cross, as well as the Agriculture Waste Recovery Project (1933–1943) and other efforts to help farmers during the Depression; flood control on the Wabash and White Rivers;...
Dates:
1918-1951
W. H. H. Terrell, "Governor Oliver P. Morton" essays
Collection — Folder S1913
Identifier: S1913
Scope and Contents
This collection includes handwritten drafts of essays by William H. H. Terrell regarding Governor Oliver P. Morton. Written in pencil and ink (circa 1870s), the topics covered include difficulties with a man named Watson (most likely Peter H. Watson) at the War Department who wouldn't give Terrell an audience and resulting in Governor Morton having to leave his meeting with President Lincoln to resolve the matter; Governor Morton's proposal to Lincoln to raise a force of men to open the...
Dates:
circa 1870s
Will H. Hays collection
Collection
Identifier: L560
Scope and Contents
The collection includes Will H. Hays' correspondence, speeches, scrapbooks, notebooks and photographs, principally from the period of 1914-1954. His political papers include correspondence and other papers regarding his work as Indiana and National Republican Party Chairman; his work with the State Council of Defense during World War I; his efforts to unite the liberal and conservative wings of the Republican Party for the 1920 election, including his correspondence with Theodore Roosevelt on...
Dates:
1857-1957
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Will H. Hays collection
William Henry Harrison Miller collection
Collection
Identifier: L108
Scope and Contents
The collection includes indentures, mortgages, abstracts of titles, and other legal documents from William Henry Harrison Miller regarding his property ownership in Indianapolis (1874-1906) as well as correspondence, reports, and financial papers regarding the construction and maintenance of said properties; letters of condolence to his wife and children at his death; several of Miller’s speeches; and a report to the U.S. Circuit Court on the case of James R. Jessup vs. the Wabash, St. Louis...
Dates:
1862-1919
