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    <title>Louis F. Post papers, 1864-1940 (bulk 1900-1922)</title>
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    <namePart>Post, Louis F. (Louis Freeland)</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1849-1928</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, diary, writings, articles, biographical material, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other papers relating to Post's career as an author, journalist, and public official.  Documents his support of Henry George and the single tax, Swedenborgian (New Jerusalem Church) religious beliefs, policies favoring the civil rights of radicals, and views on society and progress.  Documents the attempted impeachment of Post as U.S. assistant secretary of labor because of his policies relating to the deportation of political dissidents and radicals.  Subjects also include an alleged buried treasure in South Africa and Ku Klux Klan trials in South Carolina.  Includes manuscripts of Post's books, The Deportations Delirium of Nineteen-Twenty : A Personal Narrative of an Historic Official Experience (1923) and The Prophet of San Francisco : Personal Memories &amp; Interpretations of Henry George (1930), and of his unpublished autobiography, Living a Long Life Over Again.  Also includes papers of Post's wife, Alice Thacher Post.  Correspondents include William Jennings Bryan and the Hackettstown Gazette.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition of Living a Long Life Over Again (container 4) available, no. 16,981.</note>
  <note>Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1977.</note>
  <note>Journalist, lawyer, and public official.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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      <namePart>Bryan, William Jennings</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1860-1925</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>George, Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1839-1897</namePart>
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      <namePart>Department of Labor.</namePart>
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      <namePart>Ku Klux Klan (19th cent.)</namePart>
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    <topic>Trials, litigation, etc</topic>
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      <title>Hackettstown gazette</title>
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    <topic>Buried treasure</topic>
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    <topic>Civil rights</topic>
    <geographic>South Carolina</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Civil rights</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Deportation</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Dissenters</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Journalism</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>New Jerusalem Church</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Progress</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Radicals</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Radicalism</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)</topic>
    <geographic>South Carolina</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Single tax</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Social change</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
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    <geographic>South Africa</geographic>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>1865-1933</temporal>
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    <occupation>Public officials</occupation>
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