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United States -- Politics and government

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:

Abert Family Letters

 Collection
Identifier: A0003
Scope and Contents The letters consist of thirteen letters, eleven written by George W. Featherstonhaugh to Col. John J. Abert and two written by Thomas Fitzpatrick to Lt. James W. Abert. The letters relate to geological findings, land explorations, and dealings with Native Americans. The letters written by George W. Featherstonhaugh from various locales (such as Detroit, Green Bay, Prairie du Chien, North Carolina, and Quebec) for the most part detail his explorations; geological reports; descriptions of...
Dates: 1835-1846

Thomas Hart Benton Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A0115
Scope and Contents The Thomas Hart Benton Collection consists of political correspondence, family letters, family papers, newspaper articles, circulars, photographs, and genealogy and research notes. The collection contains original documents, typescripts, and photostats. The material in Box 1 relates primarily to Benton's career in the newspaper business in St. Louis and the beginning of his political career. Among the items are letters relating to Benton's involvement...
Dates: 1790-1958

Jean Ingram Brookes Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A0182
Scope and Contents The collection consists of letters, newspaper clippings, and ephemera. The correspondence consists primarily of letters received by Jean Ingram Brookes from her immediate family, friends, and academic associates. The letters contain family news, discussions of international affairs, and some discussions of current affairs such as the Great Depression, World War II, and the assassination of Robert Kennedy. The letters give insight into the family's...
Dates: 1928-1975

Aaron Burr Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A0210
Scope and Contents Many of the documents in the Aaron Burr Papers are neither signed nor dated. The Legal Papers Series (1787-1825) consists primarily of documents relating to Burr’s legal practice in New York following his return from Europe. Many of these documents are likely contemporary copies. Addressees include John Greenwood, Thomas H. Flandrau, and Gurdon W. Lathrop, all of whom were clerks in Burr’s law practice. The...
Dates: 1776-1825

Circulars Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A0281
Scope and Contents

The Circulars Collection is an artificial, or subject-based, collection. The documents have been placed in this collection over the years due to their common document type (i.e., circulars). The collection contains a variety of circulars, mostly relating to businesses, politics, events, crime, publishing, military, and the theater. Most of these circulars relate to the St. Louis area.

Dates: 1801-1973

Couzins Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A0335
Scope and Contents The Couzins Family Papers contain papers relating to John E.D. Couzins’s efforts to hold Missouri in the Union during the Civil War, including letters, commissions, and a loyalty oath; papers relating to Mrs. Adaline Couzins’s work as a volunteer nurse during the Civil War, including printed memorials to the U.S. Senate, dated March 27, 1888, praising her work; papers relating to Phoebe Couzins, including articles and addresses by her; correspondence and articles regarding Couzins family...
Dates: 1825-1950

David Patterson Dyer Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A0423
Scope and Contents

Papers include scrapbook, congressional autograph book, and photographs and letters relating to Dyer's political and judicial career.

Dates: 1860-1920

Rufus Easton Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A0429
Scope and Contents The collection consists of legal documents, correspondence, manuscripts, land grants, commissions, and genealogical information relating to the lives of Rufus Easton, his son Alton Easton (1807-1893), and daughter Mary Easton Sibley (1800-1878). The collection contains correspondence of the Easton family with many prominent men of the nineteenth century, including Moses Austin, David Barton, Israel Dodge, Ulysses S. Grant, Thomas Jefferson, Charles Lucas, and William Tecumseh...
Dates: 1796-1897; 1949-1956

Fenian Brotherhood Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A0481
Scope and Contents

The Fenian Brotherhood Papers contain several speeches of John O’Keefe; a couple of publications of the Brotherhood; and a scrapbook that consists primarily of circulars, orders and correspondence of the Fenian Brotherhood.

Dates: 1869-1922

Edmund Flagg Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A0499
Scope and Contents The collection consists of correspondence, account books, daybooks, travel journals, receipts, land descriptions, business cards, calling cards, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, photographs, and lecture notes. The Autobiography Series consists of volumes I and II of Edmund Flagg’s handwritten autobiography. The manuscript was written around 1879, but was never published. The manuscript contains a genealogy of the Flagg...
Dates: 1825-1925