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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Tasker Howard Bliss papers, 1864-1933 (bulk 1917-1930)</title>
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    <namePart>Bliss, Tasker Howard</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1853-1930</namePart>
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    <extent>393 1</extent>
    <extent>104</extent>
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  <abstract>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.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Maps transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.</note>
  <note>Broadsides transferred to Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division.</note>
  <note>Army officer, diplomat, and scholar.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013058">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013058</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Allen, Henry T. (Henry Tureman)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1859-1930</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Baker, Newton Diehl</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1871-1937</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Crosby, Oscar Terry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1861-1947</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Grew, Joseph C. (Joseph Clark)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1880-1965</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Harrison, Leland</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1883-1951</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hoover, Herbert</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1874-1964</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>House, Edward Mandell</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1858-1938</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lansing, Robert</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1864-1928</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Polk, Frank L. (Frank Lyon)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1871-1943</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>White, Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1850-1927</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wilson, Woodrow</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1856-1924</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>American Commission to Negotiate Peace.</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Army.</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Army</namePart>
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    <topic>Foreign service</topic>
    <geographic>Cuba</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Army</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Foreign service</topic>
    <geographic>Philippines</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>War Department.</namePart>
      <namePart>General Staff.</namePart>
    </name>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Allied and Associated Powers (1914-1920).</namePart>
      <namePart>Supreme War Council.</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Army War College (U.S.)</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Freedom of the seas</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Cuba</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>1895-</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Europe</geographic>
    <topic>Economic conditions</topic>
    <temporal>1918-1945</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Europe</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>1918-1945</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Mexico</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Revolution, 1910-1920</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Philippines</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>1898-1946</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Spanish-American War, 1898</topic>
    <geographic>Cuba</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>World War, 1914-1918</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>World War, 1914-1918</topic>
    <topic>Peace</topic>
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    <occupation>Army officers</occupation>
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    <occupation>Diplomats</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Scholars</occupation>
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