Straus, Oscar S. (Oscar Solomon) 1850-1926 creator mixed material monographic eng 37,000 50 1 1 21 Correspondence, diaries, speeches, writings, notebooks, legal records, pamphlets, clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, memorabilia, and other papers relating chiefly to Straus's service as U.S. minister and ambassador to the Ottoman Empire (Turkey), U.S. secretary of commerce and labor, and member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, Hague, Netherlands. Also documents his activities with the National Civic Foundation, New York (State) Public Service Commission, League to Enforce Peace, and the Industrial Conference held in Washington, D.C., 1919-1920. Subjects include a visit to Egypt in 1888, railway wage negotiations, religious liberty in the Ottoman Empire, Romania, Russia, World War I, and Louis Lavanburg. Includes records (1927-1954) of the Oscar S. Straus Memorial Association, Straus (Strauss) family papers, and a privately printed autobiography of Straus's brother, Isidor Straus. Correspondents include Robert Bacon, John Barrett, Thomas F. Bayard, Nicholas Murray Butler, Andrew Carnegie, Grover Cleveland, Calvin Coolidge, Ralph M. Easley, James Rudolph Garfield, Lloyd Carpenter Griscom, Warren G. Harding, Benjamin Harrison, John Hay, Lee Kohns, Robert Lansing, William Loeb, William McKinley, Adolph S. Ochs, George Foster Peabody, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Isidor Straus, Nathan Straus, William H. Taft, and Woodrow Wilson. Open to research. Microfilm of scrapbook selections available, no. 8,924. Pamphlet transferred to Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division. Attorney, businessman, public official, diplomat, U.S. secretary of commerce and labor, and author. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011238 Bacon, Robert 1860-1919 Correspondence Barrett, John 1866-1938 Correspondence Bayard, Thomas F. (Thomas Francis) 1828-1898 Correspondence Butler, Nicholas Murray 1862-1947 Correspondence Carnegie, Andrew 1835-1919 Correspondence Cleveland, Grover 1837-1908 Correspondence Coolidge, Calvin 1872-1933 Correspondence Easley, Ralph M. (Ralph Montgomery) 1858- Correspondence Garfield, James Rudolph 1865-1950 Correspondence Griscom, Lloyd Carpenter 1872-1959 Correspondence Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel) 1865-1923 Correspondence Harrison, Benjamin 1833-1901 Correspondence Hay, John 1838-1905 Correspondence Kohns, Lee 1864-1927 Correspondence Lansing, Robert 1864-1928 Correspondence Lavanburg, Louis Loeb, William 1866-1937 Correspondence McKinley, William 1843-1901 Correspondence Ochs, Adolph S. (Adolph Simon) 1858-1935 Correspondence Peabody, George Foster 1852-1938 Correspondence Roosevelt, Theodore 1858-1919 Correspondence Root, Elihu 1845-1937 Correspondence Straus, Isidor 1845-1912 Straus, Isidor 1845-1912 Correspondence Straus, Nathan 1848-1931 Correspondence Taft, William H. (William Howard) 1857-1930 Correspondence Wilson, Woodrow 1856-1924 Correspondence Strauss family New York (State). Public Service Commission. United States. Department of Commerce and Labor. League to Enforce Peace (U.S.) National Civic Federation. Permanent Court of Arbitration. Industrial Conference (1919-1920 : Washington, D.C.) Arbitration (International law) Diplomatic and consular service, American Turkey Industrial relations United States Labor policy United States Freedom of religion Turkey Wages Railroads United States World War, 1914-1918 Egypt Description and travel Romania Russia Turkey Foreign relations United States Turkey History Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 United States Economic policy United States Foreign relations Turkey Authors Businessmen Cabinet officers Diplomats Lawyers Oscar S. Straus Memorial Association. mm 78041749 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms011238 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms011238.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011238 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011238.3 Open to research. DLC 781213 20260227111626.0 mm 78041749