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Catalog Number: DCLCMM7827011-A

Title: Papers of Harold L. Ickes, 1915 - 1969 (bulk 1933 - 1951).

Author: Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair), 1874 - 1952.

Quantity: 150,000 items. 490 containers plus 93 oversize. 21 microfilm reels. 221 linear feet.

Additional forms note: Microfilm edition of diaries (1933-1951) and index to diaries available, no. 16,142-12P. Diaries: no. 9,813 (8N; reel 1 missing) and no. 10,369 (1N); and Index to diaries: no. 10,211 (3N).

Microfilm edition of memoirs (conts. 432-444) available, no. 17,063.

Summary: Correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, family papers, legal and financial records, subject files, scrapbooks, and other papers documenting Ickes's service as U.S. secretary of the interior, Progressive Party politics, presidential elections (1916-1948), the Franklin D. Roosevelt cabinet, llinois state politics, municipal reform, Ickes's Chicago law practice, conservation, Indian affairs, Japanese-Americans during World War II, Puerto Rico, oil policy, and the Arabian-American Oil Company.

Individuals represented include Oscar L. Chapman, James M. Cox, Paul Howard Douglas, James Aloysius Farley, James Rudolph Garfield, Will H. Hays, Charles Evans Hughes, Samuel Insull, Hiram Johnson, Lyndon B. Johnson, Frank Knox, Henry Morgenthau, Gifford Pinchot, Donald R. Richberg, Raymond Robins, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Karl D. Vittum, Henry Agard Wallace, and William Allen White.

Other descriptions: Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.

Custodial History: Some maps transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.

Some photographs, cartoons, and posters transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Location of originals: Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, D.C.

Subject - Personal: Chapman, Oscar L. (Oscar Littleton), 1896-1978.

Cox, James M. (James Middleton), 1870-1957.

Douglas, Paul Howard, 1892-

Farley, James Aloysius, 1888-

Garfield, James Rudolph, 1865-1950.

Hays, Will H. (Will Harrison), 1879-1954.

Hughes, Charles Evans, 1862-1948.

Insull, Samuel, 1859-1938.

Johnson, Hiram, 1866-1945.

Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973.

Knox, Frank, 1874-1944.

Morgenthau, Henry, 1891-1967.

Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946.

Richberg, Donald R. (Donald Randall), 1881-1960.

Robins, Raymond, 1873-1954.

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972.

Vittum, Karl D.

Wallace, Henry Agard, 1888-1965.

White, William Allen, 1868-1944.

Subject: United States. Dept. of the Interior.

Arabian American Oil Company.

Progressive Party (1912).

Cabinet officers.

Conservation of natural resources.

Indians of North America -- Government relations.

Municipal government -- United States.

Petroleum industry and trade.

Practice of law -- Illinois -- Chicago.

Presidents -- United States -- Election.

Social problems -- United States.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans.

Illinois -- Politics and government.

Puerto Rico -- History.

United States -- History -- 1933-1945.

United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.

Cabinet officers. itoamc

Lawyers. itoamc

Index Term - Occupation: Lawyer and U.S. secretary of the interior.

 

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