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  <titleInfo>
    <title>William Allen White papers, 1859-1944 (bulk 1899-1944)</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>White, William Allen</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1868-1944</namePart>
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      <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm>
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  <typeOfResource collection="yes" manuscript="yes">mixed material</typeOfResource>
  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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    <extent>136,800</extent>
    <extent>537</extent>
    <extent>198</extent>
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  <abstract>Chiefly corrrespondence relating to White's career as a newspaper editor, politician, and author; and to his personal life.  Documents his work as editor of the Emporia Gazette, Emporia, Kansas; judge with the Book-of-the-Month Club; and regent of Kansas State University.  Also documents his activities with the American Society of Newspaper Editors.  Subjects include Kansas state and national politics, Theodore Roosevelt's campaign as Progressive Party nominee in the 1912 presidential campaign, White's campaign for governor of Kansas in 1924, and the Ku Klux Klan.</abstract>
  <abstract>Family correspondents included White's wife, Sallie White, and their son, William Lindsay White.  Other correspondents include Jane Addams, Henry Justin Allen, Roy F. Bailey, William Rose Benét, Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, William Edgar Borah, Joseph Little Bristow, Henry Seidel Canby, Arthur Capper, Frank Carlson, Calvin Coolidge, Edward Prentiss Costigan, William Smith Culbertson, Josephus Daniels, Jay N. Darling, Oscar K. Davis, J.N. Dolley, Clifton Fadiman, Edna Ferber, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, James Rudolph Garfield, Hamlin Garland, Robert K. Haas, Warren G. Harding, Henry Joseph Haskell, Will H. Hays, Edward Wallis Hoch, George H. Hodges, Hamilton Holt, Herbert Hoover, Harold L. Ickes, David Starr Jordan, Harry Kemp, Alfred M. Landon, Robert Lansing, Walter Lippmann, William Loeb, George Horace Lorimer, Amy Loveman, Medill McCormick, H.L. Mencken, Karl A. Menninger, Christopher Morley, Victor Murdock, George William Norris, Benjamin Sanford Paulen, Drew Pearson, Amos Pinchot, Gifford Pinchot, Payne Harry Ratner, Clyde Martin Reed, Edward H. Rees, Roy A. Roberts, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Carl Sandburg, Harry Scherman, Upton Sinclair, Walter Roscoe Stubbs, Mark Sullivan, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, William H. Taft, Ida M. Tarbell, Joseph P. Tumulty, Oswald Garrison Villard, Henry A. Wallace, Walter Francis White, Roy Wilkins, Woodrow Wilson, Stephen S. Wise, Meredith Wood, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Associated Press.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Newspaper editor.</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.ms011067">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011067</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/f-aids/ms011067.appx.pdf">Index to the General Correspondence series available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/f-aids/ms011067.appx.pdf</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Addams, Jane</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1860-1935</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Allen, Henry Justin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1868-1950</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bailey, Roy F</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1883-1971</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Benét, William Rose</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1886-1950</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1862-1927</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Borah, William Edgar</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1865-1940</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bristow, Joseph Little</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1861-1944</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Canby, Henry Seidel</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1878-1961</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Capper, Arthur</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1865-1951</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Carlson, Frank</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1893-1987</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Coolidge, Calvin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1872-1933</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Costigan, Edward Prentiss</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1874-1939</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Culbertson, William Smith</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1884-1966</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Daniels, Josephus</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1862-1948</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Darling, Jay N. (Jay Norwood)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1876-1962</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Davis, Oscar K. (Oscar King)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1866-1932</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Dolley, J. N</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Fadiman, Clifton</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1904-1999</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ferber, Edna</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1887-1968</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Fisher, Dorothy Canfield</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1879-1958</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Garfield, James Rudolph</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1865-1950</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Garland, Hamlin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1860-1940</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Haas, Robert K</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1890-1964</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1865-1923</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Haskell, Henry Joseph</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1874-1952</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hays, Will H. (Will Harrison)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1879-1954</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hoch, Edward Wallis</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1849-1925</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hodges, George H. (George Hartshorn)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1866-1947</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Holt, Hamilton</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1872-1951</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hoover, Herbert</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1874-1964</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1874-1952</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Jordan, David Starr</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1851-1931</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Kemp, Harry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1883-1960</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Landon, Alfred M. (Alfred Mossman)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1887-1987</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lansing, Robert</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1864-1928</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lippmann, Walter</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1889-1974</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Loeb, William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1866-1937</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lorimer, George Horace</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1868-1937</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Loveman, Amy</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>McCormick, Medill</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1877-1925</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1880-1956</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Menninger, Karl A. (Karl Augustus)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1893-1990</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Morley, Christopher</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1890-1957</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Murdock, Victor</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Norris, George William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1861-1944</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Paulen, Benjamin Sanford</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1869-1961</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Pearson, Drew</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1897-1969</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Pinchot, Amos</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1873-1944</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Pinchot, Gifford</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1865-1946</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ratner, Payne Harry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1896-1974</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Reed, Clyde Martin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1871-1949</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Rees, Edward H. (Edward Herbert)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1886-1969</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Roberts, Roy A. (Roy Allison)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1887-1967</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1882-1945</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Roosevelt, Theodore</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1858-1919</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Roosevelt, Theodore</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1858-1919</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Sandburg, Carl</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1878-1967</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Scherman, Harry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1887-</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Sinclair, Upton</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1878-1968</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Stubbs, Walter Roscoe</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1858-1929</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Sullivan, Mark</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1874-1952</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Sulzberger, Arthur Hays</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1891-1968</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Taft, William H. (William Howard)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1857-1930</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1857-1944</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Tumulty, Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1879-1954</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Villard, Oswald Garrison</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1872-1949</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wallace, Henry A. (Henry Agard)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1888-1965</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>White, Sallie</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1869-1950</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>White, Walter Francis</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1893-1955</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>White, William Lindsay</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1900-1973</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wilkins, Roy</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1901-1981</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="personal">
      <namePart>Wise, Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1874-1949</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wood, Meredith</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1895-1974</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wright, Frank Lloyd</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1867-1959</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>American Society of Newspaper Editors.</namePart>
    </name>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Associated Press</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Book-of-the-Month Club.</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Kansas State University.</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Ku Klux Klan (1915- )</namePart>
    </name>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Progressive Party (1912)</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Republican Party (Kan.)</namePart>
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      <title>Emporia gazette</title>
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    <topic>American literature</topic>
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    <topic>American newspapers</topic>
    <geographic>Kansas</geographic>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Reviews</topic>
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    <geographic>Kansas</geographic>
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    <topic>Election</topic>
    <temporal>1912</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Universities and colleges</topic>
    <geographic>Kansas</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Kansas</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>1865-1950</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>1865-1933</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>1933-1945</temporal>
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