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Mexico -- Politics and government.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Laurence MacDaniels papers

 Collection
Identifier: 21-25-815
Abstract Papers include correspondence with other horticulturists, floriculturists, and pomologists mainly concerning the activities of the North American Lily Society, which he founded, the Northern Nut Growers Association, of which he was president, the American Society for Horticultural Science, and the American Horticultural Council; correspondence concerning the future of the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University and the bread standards (1957-1958) set by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration;...
Dates: [ca. 1915]-1986.

Lyman A. Spalding papers

 Collection
Identifier: 522
Abstract

Contains correspondence, manuscripts, records, and publications related to the career of Lyman A. Spalding, a nineteenth-century Quaker merchant and abolitionist who lived in upstate New York. He was co-editor of the newspaper Plain Truth and established the newspaper Priestcraft Exposed and Primitive Christianity Defended.

Dates: 1811-1864 (bulk)

Washington Kerr papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064916764]
Identifier: 1649
Scope and content

Chiefly correspondence, but also a passport, statements of account, and a few miscellaneous papers (some in Spanish), regarding a pending suit in the U.S. and a suit in Mexico; correspondence concerning family matters, including an inheritance; and letters from the U.S. Consul General in Mexico regarding the settlement of Kerr's estate. Papers contain comments on national and international political and economic matters in America and Mexico.

Dates: 1829-1884.