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Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964.

 Person

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Civil Service Reform Association records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 549
Scope and content Files of the New York State Civil Service Reform Association and the National Civil Service Reform League relate to the organization, development, history, and activities of these associations. They include correspondence, briefs, extracts, reports, clippings, pamphlets, and other material relating to appointments, examinations, investigations, prosecutions, and removals, finances and membership campaigns, Civil Service laws, assembly and senate bills, congressional activities, the views on...
Dates: 1880-1947.

Cornellian Council records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 41-3-2052
Scope and content Correspondence and publicity materials of the Cornellian Council, including bylaws and cover letter from Robert James Eidlitz to Jacob Gould Schurman, April 17, 1909. Also correspondence of the council's War Memorial Committee, which consists of letters to Robert E. Treman from Ferdinand Foch (in French), Charles E. Hughes, John J. Pershing, Alfred E. Smith, and a typescript radio address by Herbert Hoover concerning the dedication of the War Memorial at Cornell University, May 23,...
Dates: 1909-1931.

Doris B. Foster and Jenifer M. Hoyt papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6804
Scope and content

Letters, photographs, clippings, pamphlets, and books relating to the Rockefeller Foundation; photographs inscribed to Doris Foster or Jenifer Hoyt; family photographs and albums; correspondence between Jennie Hoyt and Doris Foster; Jennie Hoyt family correspondence from England and Sweden; files on painting. Includes letter from John D. Rockefeller to Herbert Hoover and letter from Hoover to Rockefeller.

Dates: 1916-1997.

Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3725
Abstract

Includes both sides of Dorothy's correspondence with Willard D. Straight; letters from friends and relatives. Also materials on civic activities, correspondence on Willard Straight Hall, and correspondence on The New Republic and Asia magazines.

Dates: 1887 - 1978; Majority of material found within 1887 - 1926

Frank E. Gannett correspondence

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065224697]
Identifier: 4328
Scope and content

Photocopies of correspondence of Frank E. Gannett, President of the Gannett Newspapers (and occasionally his assistant Leroy E. Snyder) with New York State Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, and with President Herbert Hoover.

Dates: 1929-1933.

Frank Ernest Gannett papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1900
Abstract

Papers include correspondence, news releases, speeches, scrapbooks, articles, and pamphlets concerning FEG's youth, his student days at Cornell, editorial policies of the Gannett Newspapers and the establishment of the Frank E. Gannett Newspaper Foundation in 1935, temperance and liquor advertising, and newspaper and professional organizations in which FEG was active.

Dates: [ca. 1859]-1958.

Herbert Hoover for President posters

 Collection — Mapcase folder 1: [Barcode: 31924070595735]
Identifier: 2247
Scope and content

Posters consisting of a pencil portrait of Herbert Hoover by John Doctoroff, with the caption "Herbert Hoover for President."

Dates: 1928.

Jefferson Cleveland Grinnalds papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2617
Abstract Collection includes correspondence (1920-1966) with planners, clients, and professional groups; zoning ordinances and plans for Baltimore, Frederick, Salisbury, Annapolis, and Bel Air, Maryland; Raleigh and Burlington, North Carolina; and Martinsburg, West Virginia; monographs and reports by Grinnalds and other planners including Edward M. Bassett and Robert Whitten; selected magazine articles on zoning (1922-1934); plans and maps for towns and cities particularly in Maryland; and newspaper...
Dates: 1908 - 1966

Solomon Cady Hollister papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 16-2-2077
Abstract

The papers of Solomon Cady Hollister include correspondence, typescripts, reports, drafts, publications, engineering studies, specifications and computations, blueprints, photographs, tape recordings, slides, and movie films concerning Hollister's work as a civil engineer prior to his academic career.

Dates: 1904 - 1982; Majority of material found within 1915 - 1982

William Henry Hill papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2398
Abstract

Papers of William Henry Hill, who was a New York State and United States congressman, National Convention delegate, member of the New York State Republican Party executive committee, chairman of the Broome County Republicans, publisher of the Binghamton Sun, and Central New York State Parks Commissioner.

Dates: 1878-1964,-1918-1964 (bulk)

Additional filters:

Subject
Photographs 3
United States -- Politics and government. 3
Maps. 2
Newspaper publishing. 2
World War, 1914-1918 2
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World War, 1939-1945 2
Advertising, Newspaper 1
Agricultural administration. 1
Agriculture -- Economic aspects. 1
Alcoholism -- Press coverage. 1
Annapolis (Md.) -- City planning. 1
Asia. 1
Autographs (manuscripts). 1
Banks and banking 1
Bel Air (Md.) -- City planning. 1
Burlington (N.C.) -- City planning. 1
Charities. 1
City planners. 1
City planning 1
Civil engineering. 1
Civil service 1
Civil service -- Minnesota. 1
Civil service -- New York (N.Y.) 1
Civil service -- New York (State) 1
Civil service -- Philippines. 1
Civil service -- Veterans' preference. 1
Civil service -- Virginia. 1
Civil service -- Washington (State) 1
Civil service -- Wisconsin. 1
Civil service -- Wyoming. 1
Civil service reform. 1
College administrators 1
Community newspapers. 1
Concrete -- Research. 1
Concrete. 1
Constitutions -- United States. 1
Depressions -- 1929 -- United States. 1
Diaries 1
Endicott (N.Y.) -- Maps. 1
Engineering -- Study and teaching. 1
Frederick (Md.) -- City planning. 1
Freedom of the press. 1
Genealogies. 1
Germany -- History -- 1933-1945. 1
Governors -- New York (State) 1
Johnson City (N.Y.) -- Maps. 1
Journalism -- Political aspects. 1
Journalism, Educational. 1
Journalistic ethics. 1
Journalists. 1
Martinsburg (W. Va.) -- City planning. 1
New Deal, 1933-1939. 1
New York (State) -- Politics and government. 1
New republic. 1
Newspapers -- Ownership. 1
Paleontology. 1
Parks -- New York. 1
Patronage, Political. 1
Payrolls. 1
Philippines -- Description and travel. 1
Philippines -- Politics and government. 1
Plans (drawings). 1
Political campaigns. 1
Political cartoons 1
Political posters. 1
Politicians. 1
Politics, Practical 1
Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1928. 1
Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1936. 1
Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1940 1
Presidents -- United States. 1
Press and politics. 1
Publishers. 1
Raleigh (N.C.) -- City planning. 1
Salisbury (Md.) -- City planning. 1
Ships, Concrete. 1
Social reformers. 1
Spanish-American War, 1898. 1
United States -- Politics and government -- Caricatures and cartoons. 1
Women social reformers. 1
Zoning. 1
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