Scope and content Correspondence, reports, speeches, articles, memoranda, departmental directives, and other papers dealing chiefly with matters of policy and administration in the Forestry Branch of the Indian Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Papers relate to Kinney's conservation work and his services as an attorney for the Lands Division of the Department of Justice, to the management and policies of the Society of American Foresters, to awards made by the American Forest Fire Medal Board, and to...

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Eliot family correspondence, souvenirs of Bloomington Illinois, and a collection of newspapers, speeches, pamphlets, handbills, maps, timetables, and miscellany having to do largely with railroads and land development in the Midwest and the sale of Indian lands in 1904.