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Augustus Loring Richards papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1701

Scope and content

Correspondence, drafts of speeches, articles, election studies, deeds, legal papers, clippings, and memorabilia pertaining to Richards' interest in national and international politics, particularly Roosevelt's "New Deal," and "court-packing" plan; also concerns the loyalty of German-Americans in New York State, postwar relations with the Soviet Union, Henry Wallace, Harry Truman, and American political parties. Other papers concern the management of farms in Steuben, New York, gifts of land to the state, local history, genealogy, the life of Baron von Steuben, the activities of Welsh families in Oneida County, and Richards' handling of the Felsenheld case in West Virginia. Also concerns Frank E. Gannett, John Foster Dulles, the Dairy Farmers' Union and the Dairymen's League.

Dates

  • 1872-1951.

Creator

Biographical / Historical

Lawyer and dairy farmer.

Extent

1.8 cubic feet.

1 volumes.

Language of Materials

English

Description rules
Appm
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

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