Roger William Riis papers, 1903-1990 (bulk 1921-1952).

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Riis, Roger William, b. 1894. Roger William Riis papers, 1903-1990 (bulk 1921-1952).

Roger William Riis papers, 1903-1990 (bulk 1921-1952).

Correspondence, diaries, journal, speeches, articles and other writings, subject files, scrapbooks, pamphlets and booklets, photographs, and other papers pertaining to Riis's work as an author writing under his own name and under the pseudonym, Niel Hunter, for Reader's Digest and other publications. Subjects include fraud in automobile repair and other repairs, cigarettes and tobacco smoking, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Sherman Act. Also includes material pertaining to his service in the U.S. Navy during World War I. Family correspondents include Elizabeth Hipple Riis Foster, Martha Riis Moore, J. Riis Owre, and Jacob August Riis. Other correspondents include Roger Nash Baldwin, William Benton, Robert Donner, Morris Leopold Ernst, Carlton Fredericks, Arthur Garfield Hayes, John Haynes Holmes, James Rorty, George Seldes, and DeWitt Wallace.

3,500 items.14 containers.5.6 linear feet.

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Rorty, James, 1890-1973

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Benton, William, 1900-1973

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Senator, publisher. From the description of Reminiscences of William Benton : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122481066 From the description of Reminiscences of William Benton : oral history, 1968. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309721364 Art collector, politician; Chicago, Ill. Publisher of ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, Vice-President of the University of...

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Ernst, Morris L. (Morris Leopold), 1888-1976

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Contains some correspondence to Dreiser from Ernst's wife, Margaret Ernst. From the description of Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1928-1937. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155898781 Lawyer. From the description of Papers, 1948-1950. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 162204529 From the description of Reminiscences of Morris Leopold Ernst : oral history, 1965. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat...

Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981

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American Civil Liberties Union

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Founded in 1920 in New York City by Roger Baldwin and others; the ACLU was an outgrowth of the American Union Against Militarism's National Civil Liberties Bureau, which in 1920 changed its name to the American Civil Liberties Union. From the description of Collection, 1917- (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 42740878 The Southern Women's Rights Project (SWRP) located in Richmond is affiliated with the American Civil Liberties Union. The project deal...

Reader's digest association

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Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964

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Donner, Robert, -1964

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Riis, Roger William, 1894-

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Author and editor. Died 1953. From the description of Roger William Riis papers, 1903-1990 (bulk 1921-1952). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70982089 Biographical Note 1894, Mar. 15 Born, Richmond Hills, N.Y. 1913 Attended the Hill School, Pottstown, Pa. ...

Wallace, DeWitt, 1889-1981

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Editor, The Reader's Digest. From the description of Correspondence to Maxwell Struthers Burt, 1948-1951. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122446115 ...

Fredericks, Carlton

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Moore, Martha Riis

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Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914

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Journalist, author, and humanitarian. From the description of Jacob A. Riis papers, 1870-1990 (bulk 1887-1913). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71060723 Reformer, journalist, author. From the description of Papers of Jacob A. Riis [manuscript], 1899-1914. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647814455 Jacob A. Riis, journalist and social reformer, was born in Denmark and moved to the United States at 21. He became a reporter for the New York trib...

Seldes, George, 1890-1995

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Foster, Elizabeth Hipple Riis

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Owre, J. Riis

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Hayes, Arthur Garfield

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United States. Navy

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Built and launched at New York Navy Yard; commissioned Nov. 12, 1944; scraped in 1993. Served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. From the description of USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) photograph collection 1944-1971. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 41657866 The federal government decided in 1941 to send Supply Corps personnel to Harvard Business School for training in the business of equipping the Navy. This was effected by a transfer...
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