MARC Record from Library of Congress

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100 1 $aLand, Emory Scott,$d1879-1971.
245 00 $aEmory Scott Land papers,$f1901-1972.
300 $a8,500$fitems.
300 $a31$fcontainers plus$a2$foversize.
300 $a13$flinear feet.
506 0 $aOpen to research.
520 8 $aCorrespondence, diary notes, speeches, copies of orders, photos (many inscribed), scrapbooks, clippings, and other papers chiefly relating to Land's forty-eight years of government service particularly as chief of the U.S. Navy Bureau of Construction and Repair (1932-1937), chairman of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1938-1946), and chief administrator of the U.S. War Shipping Administration (1942-1946). Includes material relating to shipbuilding (1932-1946), the need of ships during World War II, trade-unions, use of the U.S. Army to control labor disorders, the strikes of 1941-1942, Land's position as vice president and treasurer of the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, Inc., his role as advisor for Charles A. Lindbergh (his cousin) on his tours (1927-1928), and Land's testimony in the Lindbergh kidnapping case (1938).
520 8 $aCorrespondents include William Edward Boeing, Richard Evelyn Byrd, James F. Byrnes, Homer L. Ferguson, James Forrestal, Julius Augustus Furer, Jerome C. Hunsaker, Edgar E. Kaiser, Joseph P. Kennedy, William A. Moffett, William Veazie Pratt, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., William Sowden Sims, Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., Henry Lewis Stimson, D. W. Taylor and Fred M. Vinson.
541 $cGift,$aVice Admiral Land,$d1956-1958.
545 0 $aNaval officer and public official.
555 8 $aFinding aid published by the Library of Congress, 1958.
555 8 $aFinding aid to additions available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.
600 10 $aBoeing, William Edward,$d1881-1956$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aByrd, Richard Evelyn,$d1888-1957$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aByrnes, James F.$q(James Francis),$d1882-1972$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aFerguson, Homer L.$q(Homer Lenoir),$d1873-1953$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aForrestal, James,$d1892-1949$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aFurer, Julius Augustus,$d1880-1963$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aHunsaker, Jerome C.$q(Jerome Clarke),$d1886-1984$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aKaiser, Edgar F.$q(Edgar Fosburgh),$d1908-1972$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aKennedy, Joseph P.$q(Joseph Patrick),$d1888-1969$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aLindbergh, Charles A.$q(Charles Augustus),$d1902-1974.
600 10 $aLindbergh, Charles Augustus,$d1930-1932$xKidnapping, 1932.
600 10 $aMoffett, William A.$q(William Adger),$d1869-1933$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aPratt, William Veazie,$d1869-1957$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aRoosevelt, Theodore,$d1887-1944$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aSims, William Sowden,$d1858-1936$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aStettinius, Edward R.$q(Edward Reilly),$d1900-1949$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aStimson, Henry L.$q(Henry Lewis),$d1867-1950$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aTaylor, D. W.$q(David Watson),$d1864-1940$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aVinson, Fred M.,$d1890-1953$vCorrespondence.
610 10 $aUnited States.$bMaritime Commission.
610 10 $aUnited States.$bNavy$xHistory$yWorld War, 1939-1945.
610 10 $aUnited States.$bNavy Dept.$bBureau of Construction and Repair.
610 10 $aUnited States.$bWar Shipping Administration.
610 20 $aDaniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics.
650 0 $aLabor disputes.
650 0 $aShipbuilding.
650 0 $aLabor unions.
656 7 $aNaval officers.$2itoamc
656 7 $aPublic officials.$2itoamc
852 $aLibrary of Congress$bManuscript Division$eWashington, D.C. 20540 USA$ndcu$uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home