05168cpcaa2200829 i 4500 mm 78020669 DLC 20260227111623.0 cr ||||||||||| 781213|||||||||||| eng mm 78020669 ms 61001509 DLC eng dacs DLC DLC R lcmd Fisher, Walter L. (Walter Lowrie), 1862-1935. Walter L. Fisher papers, 1871-1963 (bulk 1909-1920). 14,000 items. 41 containers plus 6 oversize. 18.8 linear feet. Arranged in 9 series. Series 1: General Correspondence, 1889-1935; Series 2: Letterbooks, 1896-1923; Series 3: Secretary's Private Files, 1911-1913; Series 4: Subject File, 1871-1936; Series 5: Speech and Article File, 1880-circa 1932; Series 6: Miscellany, 1883-1963; Series 7: Photograph Album and Scrapbooks, 1879-1911; Series 8: Clippings, 1888-1935; and Series 9: Printed Matter, 1883-circa 1930. Open to research. Correspondence, memoranda, letterbooks, minutes, speeches, articles, notes, subject files, Fisher family genealogical material, newspaper clippings, printed matter, scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Fisher's service as U.S. secretary of the interior in the William H. Taft administration and to his interest in the municipal affairs of Chicago, Ill. Also documents his work as a member of the U.S. Railroad Securities Commission. Subjects include the American National Live Stock Association; conservation; the Indians of Oklahoma; Sigma Chi fraternity; the League to Enforce Peace (U.S.); the traction ordinances dispute, Chicago, Ill.; Fisher's travels to Alaska, Hawaii, and Idaho; and personal matters. Correspondents include Richard Achilles Ballinger, Kate Barnard, Louis Dembitz Brandeis, James Rudolph Garfield, William Kent, Robert M. La Follette, Franklin K. Lane, Franklin MacVeagh, Frank B. Noyes, Gifford Pinchot, Julius Rosenwald, Harry Slattery, William H. Taft, Ida M. Tarbell, Henry Cantwell Wallace, George W. Wickersham, and Clinton Rogers Woodruff. Lawyer, municipal reformer, and U.S. secretary of the interior. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012073 Ballinger, Richard Achilles, 1858-1922 Correspondence. Barnard, Kate, 1875-1930 Correspondence. Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, 1856-1941 Correspondence. Garfield, James Rudolph, 1865-1950 Correspondence. Kent, William, 1864-1928 Correspondence. La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion), 1855-1925 Correspondence. Lane, Franklin K. Correspondence. MacVeagh, Franklin, 1837-1934 Correspondence. Noyes, Frank B. (Frank Brett), 1863-1948 Correspondence. Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946 Correspondence. Rosenwald, Julius, 1862-1932 Correspondence. Slattery, Harry, 1887-1949 Correspondence. Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930. Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930 Correspondence. Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva), 1857-1944 Correspondence. Wallace, Henry Cantwell, 1866-1924 Correspondence. Wickersham, George W. (George Woodward), 1858-1936 Correspondence. Woodruff, Clinton Rogers, 1868-1948 Correspondence. Fisher family. United States. Department of the Interior. United States. Railroad Securities Commission. American National Live Stock Association. League to Enforce Peace (U.S.) Sigma Chi Fraternity. Conservation of natural resources. Environmental policy United States. Genealogy. Greek letter societies. Indians of North America Oklahoma. International cooperation. Land use United States. Livestock United States Societies, etc. Local transit Illinois Chicago. Natural resources United States. Peace Societies, etc. Railroads United States. Alaska Description and travel. Chicago (Ill.) Politics and government To 1950. Hawaii Description and travel. Idaho Description and travel. Cabinet officers. itoamc Lawyers. itoamc Reformers. itoamc Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012073 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012073.3 39856 39856