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"The Trumpeter" : The official publication of the Young Republican division of the Republican national committee, and the Young Republican national federation

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    Republican National Committee

    Manuscripts

    Includes news releases of the Republican National Committee, letters, anti-Adlai Stevenson items, one copy of Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report (July 25, 1952), several pages from U.S. News & World Report (August 22, 1952), Nixon speeches, items issued by the Nixon for Vice President Headquarters, Many items cast Stevenson, Harry Truman and Dean Acheson in a bad light.

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    Republican National Committee contributions

    Manuscripts

    8 items; receipt slip for Harry Chandler's 1928 contribution of $8,500 to RNC ; letter, 11/4/1932, signed "For Harry Chandler, to James Page, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, which accompanied a $7,250 check to RNC ; more forms (& envelopes) related to RNC contributions ; letter, 11/1/1938, from H.E. Downing to Harry Chandler

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    Republican Party National Committee to Hiram Barney

    Manuscripts

    Hiram Barney's political, business, legal, and family papers concern a wide variety of subjects including real estate, primarily in Iowa, and New York; court cases (often pertaining to debt collection) and other legal services; politics generally, but especially patronage distribution; family affairs, business transactions concerning the Erie and other canals; small railroads (largely in the Lake Plains region); Mexico and Mexican-American relations; the Civil War; U.S. Customs Service. Barney's correspondence contains numerous references to the anti-enslavement movement in the North, the Civil War, Republican Party politics, and Barney's friendship with Abraham Lincoln. Also found throughout this portion of the collection are transportation papers dealing with Barney's interest in connection with the opening up of waterways, the railroad, and the telegraph from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River. Among the correspondents are William C. Bryant, William A. Butler, Salmon P. Chase, Charles P. Clinch, Erastus Corning, Edward C. Delavan, William P. Fessenden, John Jay, David W. Kilbourne, Eugene Kozlay, Abraham Lincoln, Edward L. Pierce, Matias Romero, Horatio Seymour, William T. Sherman, Edward D. Smith, Breese J. Stevens, Lewis Tappan, William D. Waterman. Real estate papers concern mostly the Half-Breed Tract between the Mississippi and Des Moines rivers. Which includes signed documents of land indentures by specific Indigenous tribal members of the Sak and Fox (Meskwaki) Nation with papers pertaining to the first Anglo proprietors and settlers. Related to Barney's real estate documents are Francis Scott Key's papers. Legal papers extend from 1825 to 1888 and includes articles of partnership, court cases, powers of attorney, and notes for collection. New York Custom House papers cover the general operations, patronage, and personnel of the Custom House, as well as records of the fraud investigations conducted by the U.S. Treasury Department.

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    Charles E. Graham letters to Republican National Committee

    Manuscripts

    Subjects: Henry E. Huntington's contributions.

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