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  <titleInfo>
    <title>John Barrett papers, 1861-1943 (bulk 1907-1933)</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Barrett, John</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1866-1938</namePart>
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    <extent>50,000</extent>
    <extent>171 2</extent>
    <extent>68.4</extent>
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  <abstract>Family and general correspondence, diaries, journals, speeches, writings, reports, notebooks, subject files, biographical material, financial records, scrapbooks, clippings, and other papers relating principally to Barrett's career as a journalist in California, Washington, and Oregon; his appointments as U.S. minister to Argentina, Colombia, Panama, and Thailand; his duties as director general of the Pan American Union; and his work as a counselor and arbiter in the area of Pan American commercial relations.  Other topics include Barrett's travels in East Asia, his duties as special adviser to Admiral George Dewey during the Philippine Insurrection, the Venezuelan boundary dispute, the Panama Canal, and the general area of relations between the U.S. and Latin America.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Maps transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Maps Division.</note>
  <note>Photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.</note>
  <note>Journalist and diplomat.</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.ms011111">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011111</note>
  <note>Card index to correspondents available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Dewey, George</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1837-1917</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Pan American Union</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>American newspapers</topic>
    <geographic>California</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>American newspapers</topic>
    <geographic>Oregon</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>American newspapers</topic>
    <geographic>Washington (State)</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Diplomatic and consular service, American</topic>
    <geographic>Argentina</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Diplomatic and consular service, American</topic>
    <geographic>Colombia</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Diplomatic and consular service, American</topic>
    <geographic>Panama</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Diplomatic and consular service, American</topic>
    <geographic>Thailand</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Argentina</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Colombia</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>East Asia</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Latin America</geographic>
    <topic>Commerce</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Latin America</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Panama</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Panama Canal (Panama)</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Philippines</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Philippine American War, 1899-1902</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Thailand</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Commerce</topic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>20th century</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Commerce</topic>
    <geographic>Latin America</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>Argentina</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>Colombia</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>Latin America</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>Panama</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>Thailand</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Venezuela</geographic>
    <topic>Boundaries</topic>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Diplomats</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Journalists</occupation>
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