Legislative reference and correspondence files, general correspondence files, speeches, reports, press releases, photographs, films, and memorabilia. Please note: This collection is currently unprocessed.
The collection contains correspondence, speeches, press releases, tapes, phonograph records, picture files, films, memorabilia, scrapbooks, and printed material.
The collection contains correspondence, speeches, press releases, tapes, phonograph records, picture files, films, memorabilia, scrapbooks, and printed material.
The Louise McIntosh Slaughter congressional papers, 1974-2018, comprise her entire career, reflecting committee and legislative work, including her interactions with staff members, other politicians, business executives, other stakeholders, and New York constituents. From 1971 to 2018 she participated in several efforts to improve communities through advocacy and leadership; the collection contains the documents produced during those years, including newspapers clippings, campaign materials, correspondence, press releases, state and federal reports, staff briefs, and the reference and research files. As much as this material might be gleaned to reproduce Slaughter's work and politics, this collection also documents the varied resources and research materials compiled by her staff members (chief of staff, legislative aides, etc.) to inform her about the issues and events of the day. The staffers' files are revealed mostly in the briefing books—generally include correspondence between Slaughter and her colleagues, newspaper clippings on closely linked topics and events, printed materials accessed from online sources like LexisNexis, fact sheets, copies and drafts of bills, and handwritten notes and peer reviewed journal articles.
The Richard Fenno Papers include materials gathered from interviews Professor Fenno conducted with members of Congress beginning in the 1960s through the early 2000s. The boxes contain research notes, biographical materials and correspondence between Professor Fenno and his interview subject. Boxes 1-25 contain interview notes dating from the 1950s through the 1980s. Also included in the collection are research notes about Congress more generally, and drafts of book chapters. The collection also include lectures and talks that Professor Fenno gave during his career, both at the University of Rochester and as a speaker at other universities.
The collection consists of letters from constituents on such matters as postmasterships and other political appointments, topics related to the Civil War, requests for government documents, political party matters, etc. This is not his total incoming correspondence and it is not known how representative it is. There is a small amount of family correspondence to Pomeroy and a small amount of correspondence not to Pomeroy which came with the Papers. Its original relationship, if any, to the Pomeroy Papers is not known.
