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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Ross A. Collins papers, 1906-1967 (bulk 1920-1963)</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Collins, Ross A. (Ross Alexander)</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1880-1968</namePart>
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  <language>
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  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>11,240</extent>
    <extent>25 20</extent>
    <extent>18.4</extent>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, speeches, writings, reports, notes, clippings, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other papers relating to Collins's service in the U.S. Congress, especially to his introduction of the bill authorizing the Library of Congress acquisition of the Otto Vollbehr Collection of incunabula.  Also documents Collins's work pertaining to the mechanization of the U.S. Army and the development of the B-17 bomber, Mississippi government and politics, the career of Mississippi politician Theodore Gilmore Bilbo, and citizenship in the Choctaw Indian tribe.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>U.S. congressman, public official, and lawyer from Mississippi.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bilbo, Theodore Gilmore</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1877-1947</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Vollbehr, Otto H. F. (Otto Heinrich Friederich)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1869-</namePart>
    </name>
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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>Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress)</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>B-17 bomber</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Bombers</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Choctaw Indians</topic>
    <topic>Tribal citizenship</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Incunabula</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Mechanization, Military</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Mississippi</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>1933-1953</temporal>
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    <occupation>Lawyers</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Public officials</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Representatives, U.S. Congress</occupation>
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