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U.S. Coast Guard. Historian's Office collection, 1746-1951 (bulk 1800-1900). - 350 items. 5 containers. 2 linear feet.

Open to research.

Autograph collection; account books of general merchant, Ebenezer Smith; draft, typescript, and galley proofs of Our Coast Guard Academy: A History and Guide by Riley Hughes, published in 1944; and miscellaneous papers. The autograph collection, compiled by William Ferguson Morgan, consists of the autographs of presidents James Buchanan, Grover A. Cleveland, Millard Fillmore, Ulysses S. Grant, Herbert Hoover, James Monroe, James K. Polk, and Martin Van Buren, and other leading figures in politics, business, the military, and the arts. Includes a letter dated 1846 from Henry Clay regarding the death of his son.


Posters
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
transferred to


Collection material in English and Japanese.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007029

LCCN: mm2004085112

Subjects--Personal Names:
Buchanan, James, 1791-1868 --Autographs.
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 --Correspondence.
Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908 --Autographs.
Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874 --Autographs.
Grant, Ulysses S. 1822-1885 --Autographs.
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 --Autographs.
Monroe, James, 1758-1831 --Autographs.
Polk, James K. 1795-1849 --Autographs.
Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862 --Autographs.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Arts.
Autographs.
Businesspeople--Autographs.
Politicians--United States--Autographs.
Presidents--United States--Autographs.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Armed Forces.