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Saunders, Allen, 1899-1986.
Original cartoons, photostats and proofs from the newspaper comic strips Kerry Drake, Steve Roper, and Mary Worth; correspondence, subject files and published material such as articles, clippings, and pamphlets about Saunders and others.
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Forbes, B. C. (Bertie Charles), 1880-1954.
Papers of the American journalist, founder and editor of Forbes. Collection includes business and family correspondence (1897-1964); manuscript and/or published articles, biographical sketches, books and pamphlets, magazine and newspaper columns, novels, stories, speeches; and memorabilia, including clippings, photographs, and scrapbooks. Notable correspondents include Bruce Barton, Calvin Coolidge, Robert Dollar, George Eastman, Thomas Edison, Benjamin F. Fairless, James A. Farley, William Randolph Hearst, Herbert Hoover, Eddie Rickenbacker, John D. Rockefeller, Charles M. Schwab, Wendell Willkie, Owen D. Young, and others.
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Center for the Study of Liberal Education for Adults
Established by a grant from the Fund for Adult Education in 1951, the Center for the Study of Liberal Education for Adults (CSLEA) worked with universities seeking to initiate or to improve adult education programs. Its purpose was to help American higher education develop greater effectiveness and a deeper sense of responsibility for the liberal education of adults. During its tenure the Center had three directors; John S. Diekhoff (1952-1953), John B. Schwertman (1953-1956), and A.A. Liveright (1956-1968). The records include correspondence, organizational files, publication files, writings, and miscellany. Key correspondents, mostly from the Center, are James T. Carey, Alexander N. Charters, Roger DeCrow, John S. Diekhoff, C. Scott Fletcher, Freda H. Goldman, Morton Gordon, Kenneth Haygood, Cyril Orvin Houle, A. A. Liveright, Harry L. Miller, John B. Schwertman, Peter E. Siegle, Marilyn M. Vaughan, and James B. Whipple.
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Francisco, Don, 1891-1973.
Don Francisco was advertising manager for the California Fruit Growers Exchange, worked with the Los Angeles advertising agency Lord & Thomas, and from 1945-1956 with the J. Walter Thompson Agency in New York. From 1940-1945, he worked with the radio division of the Office of Inter-American Affairs in the U.S. State Department. Collection includes correspondence; material on the Office of Inter-American Affairs and advertising agencies; articles, reports, speeches, promotional materials, photographs, and scrapbooks.
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Johnson, George F., 1857-1948.
Papers of the American industrialist, business executive. President of Endicott-Johnson Corporation. Finding aid includes a personal recollection from his daughter, Lillian Johnson Sweet. Correspondence, incoming and outgoing (1900-1945); financial records (1892-1938); articles and speeches (1920-1967); pamphlets, broadsides and posters (1910-1953); blueprints, scrapbooks, photographs, and other material relating to Endicott-Johnson Corporation and Johnson's philosophy of industrial democracy and labor-management relations.
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Myers, James, 1882-
Papers of the American Presbyterian minister, author, and labor relations activist. Collection includes correspondence (1926-1964); articles, books manuscripts and drafts, pamphlets, speeches; photographs and scrapbooks (1894-1913).
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Bachrach, Louis Fabian, 1881-1963.
Papers of the American portrait photographer. Correspondence, holograph and typescript articles, interviews, speeches, and notes; published materials, including articles by and about Bachrach, clippings, pamphlets, and press releases; and photographs taken by Bachrach, his son Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr., and his father David Bachrach. Correspondence includes that of Sherman Adams, Joseph Alsop, Stewart Alsop, Joseph S. Clark, John F. Collins, Walter Cronkite, Ralph E. Flanders, J. William Fulbright, Barry M. Goldwater, Conrad Hilton, Luther Hodges, Herbert Hoover, Walter Lippmann, Maurine Brown Neuberger, Jacqueline Onassis, Norman Vincent Peale, James Reston, George W. Romney, and Leverett Saltonstall.
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Knowles, Malcolm S. (Malcolm Shepherd), 1913-1997.
Contains Knowles's personal and professional papers: biographical data, correspondence, photographs, printed and published material, scrapbooks, speeches, meeting and workshop documentation, cassette and video tapes, films, and graphics. Includes papers generated by Knowles as professor (Boston University and North Carolina State University); as member of a number of adult education organizations; as educator (workshops and seminars); and as consultant to various organizations.
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Barker, Will.
American author, native of Troy, New York, who wrote a number of books about animals, some for young adults. Collection contains correspondence (1852-1970), business, personal, and family; book manscripts and galleys; genealogical material relating to the Barker family; scrapbooks; memorabilia, including calendars and photographs; and published material, including articles and pamphlets.