04631cpcaa2200745 a 4500 mm 78013037 DLC 20260227111622.0 cr ||||||||||| 781002|||||||||||| eng mm 78013037 ms 59000259 DLC dacs DLC DLC R lcmd Bliss, Tasker Howard, 1853-1930. Tasker Howard Bliss papers, 1864-1933 (bulk 1917-1930). 80,000 items. 393 containers plus 1 oversize. 104 linear feet. Part I: General File, 1870-1919. Part II arranged in 6 series. Series 1: Personal File, 1917-1920; Series 2: Office File-Supreme War Council, 1917-1930; Series 3: Family Correspondence, 1864-1933; Series 4: General Correspondence, 1892-1927; Series 5: Speech and Article File, 1909-1927; and Series 6: Miscellany, 1907-1929. Open to research. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, minutes of meetings, speeches, lectures, reports, articles, printed matter, scrapbooks, and other papers relating chiefly to Bliss's military career and participation in peace negotiations following World War I. Documents his service with the U.S. American Commission to Negotiate Peace following the war, participation in the Allied and Associated Powers Supreme War Council, term as chief of staff of the U.S. War Dept. General Staff in 1917, and association with the Army War College. Also documents his service in Cuba during and after the Spanish-American War of 1898; in the Philippines, 1905-1909; and on the Mexican border during the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920. Subjects include freedom of the seas and postwar economic and political issues in Europe. Correspondents include Henry T. Allen, Newton Diehl Baker, Oscar Terry Crosby, Joseph C. Grew, Leland Harrison, Herbert Hoover, Edward Mandell House, Robert Lansing, Frank L. Polk, Henry White, and Woodrow Wilson. Maps transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division. Broadsides transferred to Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division. Army officer, diplomat, and scholar. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013058 Allen, Henry T. (Henry Tureman), 1859-1930 Correspondence. Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937 Correspondence. Crosby, Oscar Terry, 1861-1947 Correspondence. Grew, Joseph C. (Joseph Clark), 1880-1965 Correspondence. Harrison, Leland, 1883-1951 Correspondence. Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 Correspondence. House, Edward Mandell, 1858-1938 Correspondence. Lansing, Robert, 1864-1928 Correspondence. Polk, Frank L. (Frank Lyon), 1871-1943 Correspondence. White, Henry, 1850-1927 Correspondence. Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 Correspondence. United States. American Commission to Negotiate Peace. United States. Army. United States. Army Foreign service Cuba. United States. Army Foreign service Philippines. United States. War Department. General Staff. Allied and Associated Powers (1914-1920). Supreme War Council. Army War College (U.S.) Freedom of the seas. Cuba History 1895- Europe Economic conditions 1918-1945. Europe Politics and government 1918-1945. Mexico History Revolution, 1910-1920. Philippines History 1898-1946. Spanish-American War, 1898 Cuba. World War, 1914-1918. World War, 1914-1918 Peace. Army officers. itoamc Diplomats. itoamc Scholars. itoamc Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013058 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013058.3 39751 39751