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Politics, Practical

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 52 Collections and/or Records:

Deane Waldo Malott papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3-9-983
Scope and content Personal and professional correspondence, diary, journals, speeches, reports, printed material, clippings, and photographs documenting Malott's career as a professor at Harvard Business School, chancellor of the University of Kansas, and papers pertaining to his activities after retiring from the Cornell University presidency. Relates to the various corporations and organizations with which Malott was associated; travel writings; and political writings, including his support for Barry M....
Dates: 1894-1996.

Edith Anna Ellis scrapbooks

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 498
Scope and content

Two scrapbooks of correspondence, clippings, and miscellany relating to Edith A. Ellis' activities in the Democratic State Committee, the Democratic Union, New York Federation of Women's Clubs, and other organizations. Included are letters from James A. Farley, Eleanor Roosevelt, Helen Keller, Herbert Lehman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Caroline (Mrs. David) O'Day, and others.

Dates: 1924-1933.

Edward M. Bassett papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2708
Abstract Correspondence, books, articles, reports, legal briefs transcripts, and scrapbooks dealing with Bassett's tenure as a U.S. Congressman, 1902-1905, and his membership on committees and boards including the Public Service Commission of New York, the Brooklyn Committee on City Plan, the Zoning Committee of the City of New York, and the Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs Committee. Papers deal primarily with zoning and city planning in New York City. Also includes many articles, reports...
Dates: 1892-1948.

F. Clifton White papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2006
Abstract

Personal papers of F. Clifton White relating to political campaigns from 1960-1970, mainly Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign.

Dates: 1952-1970.

Frank Norton Decker papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 335
Scope and content Correspondence, accounts, labor records, deeds, farm leases, articles, speeches, pamphlets, photographs, memoranda, briefs and other legal papers relating to Decker's dairy farm and cattle breeding, and to the New York State dairy industry generally, and specifically the Albany movement, the fight in the New York milkshed against the Dairymen's League, and other dairy issues of the 1920s and 1930s. Political materials include correpondence about Decker's managing the campaign of former...
Dates: 1832-1961,-1920-1961 (bulk)

Glenn Washington Herrick papers

 Collection
Identifier: 21-23-844
Abstract Scientific addresses; lecture notes on spiders; articles and bulletins; page proofs and original drawings and illustrations for Insect Enemies of Shade Trees; bibliographies; lists of students and alumni; scientific drawings and photographs; diaries; correspondence concerning the Cornell Department of Entomology; travel papers; personal accounts; newspaper clippings; outline talks and short manuscript writings on politics, education, the Cornell campus, and the Cornell Entomology Department;...
Dates: 1872-1963.

Gustav Jaeger Requardt papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2548
Abstract

Printed and photocopied items, mainly concerning Requardt's student years at Cornell University, his participation in alumni activities, his career in sanitary engineering, and his interest in national politics and public affairs.

Dates: 1905-1966.

Henry Israel papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2159
Abstract

Material relating to civic leaders of Hastings and Westchester County concerning recreational, educational programs, and community service.

Dates: 1899-1958.

Howard Robison papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3394
Abstract Personal papers and clippings from years in office as a member of the House of Representatives. Papers include files relating to campaigns and elections, constituent requests, general files, files relating to bills, invitations, files relating to military and social security cases, military academies, veterans, gun control, the Vietnam War and the draft, aging and senior citizens, and files relating to local issues such as post offices, local airports, floods, interns, federally-funded...
Dates: [ca. 1956-1974]

Hyde family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1670
Abstract

Largely correspondence and other papers of Florence Elise Hyde of Ithaca, New York, relating to her literary activities, her support of the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, and her interest in national politics and American foreign policy.

Dates: 1863-1957.