Emory Scott Land papers, 1901-1972.
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Mixed materialsDescription: 8,500 items; 31 containers plus 2 oversize; 13 linear feetSubject(s): - Boeing, William Edward, 1881-1956 -- Correspondence
- Byrd, Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957 -- Correspondence
- Byrnes, James F. (James Francis), 1882-1972 -- Correspondence
- Ferguson, Homer L. (Homer Lenoir), 1873-1953 -- Correspondence
- Forrestal, James, 1892-1949 -- Correspondence
- Furer, Julius Augustus, 1880-1963 -- Correspondence
- Hunsaker, Jerome C. (Jerome Clarke), 1886-1984 -- Correspondence
- Kaiser, Edgar F. (Edgar Fosburgh), 1908-1972 -- Correspondence
- Kennedy, Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick), 1888-1969 -- Correspondence
- Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974
- Lindbergh, Charles Augustus, 1930-1932 -- Kidnapping, 1932
- Moffett, William A. (William Adger), 1869-1933 -- Correspondence
- Pratt, William Veazie, 1869-1957 -- Correspondence
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1887-1944 -- Correspondence
- Sims, William Sowden, 1858-1936 -- Correspondence
- Stettinius, Edward R. (Edward Reilly), 1900-1949 -- Correspondence
- Stimson, Henry L. (Henry Lewis), 1867-1950 -- Correspondence
- Taylor, D. W. (David Watson), 1864-1940 -- Correspondence
- Vinson, Fred M., 1890-1953 -- Correspondence
- United States. Maritime Commission
- United States. Navy -- History -- World War, 1939-1945
- United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Construction and Repair
- United States. War Shipping Administration
- Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics
- Aeronautics -- Societies, etc
- Labor disputes -- United States
- Labor unions -- United States
- Military attachés -- England -- London
- Shipbuilding -- United States
- Strikes and lockouts -- Shipbuilding industry -- United States
- World War, 1939-1945
- Naval officers
- Public officials
Open to research.
Correspondence, diary notes, speeches, copies of orders, scrapbooks, clippings, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Land's service as chief of the U.S. Navy Department 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. Also documents his service as naval attaché in London, Eng., 1919-1921; position as vice president and treasurer of the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, Inc.; role as advisor for Charles A. Lindbergh, on his tours, 1927-1928; and Land's testimony in the Lindbergh kidnapping case (1938). Subjects include shipbuilding, the need for ships during World War II, labor unions, use of the U.S. Army to control labor disorders, and the strikes of 1941-1942.
Correspondents 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 (1887-1944), William Sowden Sims, Edward R. Stettinius, Henry L. Stimson, D.W. Taylor and Fred M. Vinson.
Some photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Naval officer and public official.
Collection material in English.
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