05271cpcaa2200829 a 4500 mm 81026153 DLC 20260227111708.0 cr ||||||||||| 810317|||||||||||| eng mm 81026153 DLC DLC DLC dacs R lcmd Hobson, Richmond Pearson, 1870-1937. Richmond Pearson Hobson papers, 1889-1966 (bulk 1890-1937). 27,300 items. 78 containers plus 1 oversize. 31.6 linear feet. Arranged in 6 series. Series 1: Family Papers, 1898-1966; Series 2: Navy File, 1886-1942; Series 3: Congressional File, 1900-1938; Series 4: Organizations File, 1909-1939; Series 5: Miscellany, 1889-1944; and Series 6: Oversize, circa 1898-circa 1934. Open to research. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, lectures, articles, reports, notes, analyses, orders, press clippings, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Hobson's naval career and to his efforts on behalf of prohibition, restrictions on international drug trafficking, and opposition to the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration. Documents Hobson's service during the Spanish-American War primarily pertaining to operations in Cuba and the Philippines; survey of Chinese, and Japanese, and British colonial navy-yards; proficiency in naval design and construction; and years as student and educator at the United States Naval Academy. Subjects include his advocacy of the enlargement of the U.S. Navy, a permanent fleet in the Pacific, and increase in the number of battleships; opposition to Franklin D. Roosevelt's expansion of the Supreme Court; Hobson's predictions of global conflict prior to both world wars; women's suffrage; sinking of the Lusitania; and industrial recovery during the Depression. Organizations represented include the Alcohol Education Society of America, Anti-saloon League of America, Constitutional Democracy Association, International Narcotic Education Association, Public Welfare Association, Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and World Narcotic Defense Association. Correspondents include and Pascual Cervera y Topete, French Ensor Chadwick, Theodore Roosevelt, Nikola Tesla, and Hobson's wife, Grizelda Hull Hobson, and other family members. Some broadsides transferred to Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division. Naval officer and U.S. representative from Alabama. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011016. Cervera y Topete, Pascual, 1839-1909 Correspondence. Chadwick, French Ensor, 1844-1919 Correspondence. Hobson, Grizelda Hull Correspondence. Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945. Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 Correspondence. Tesla, Nikola, 1856-1943 Correspondence. Hobson family Correspondence. United States. National Prohibition Act. United States. Navy Equipment. United States. Navy. Pacific Fleet. United States. Supreme Court. Alcohol Education Society of America. American Public Welfare Association. Anti-saloon League of America. Constitutional Democracy Association. International Narcotic Education Association. Public Welfare Association. Lusitania (Steamship) United States Naval Academy. Woman's Christian Temperance Union. World Narcotic Defense Association. Battleships United States. Depressions 1929 United States. Drug traffic. Narcotics. Naval architecture. Navy-yards and naval stations China. Navy-yards and naval stations Great Britain. Navy-yards and naval stations Japan. Prohibition United States. Shipbuilding. Spanish-American War, 1898 Naval operations Cuba. Spanish-American War, 1898 Naval operations Philippines. Temperance United States Societies, etc. Women Suffrage United States. World War, 1914-1918 Prophecies. World War, 1939-1945 Prophecies. United States Economic conditions 1918-1945. United States History, Naval. United States Politics and government 1933-1945. Naval officers. itoamc Representatives, U.S. Congress Alabama. itoamc Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011016 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011016.3 43126 43126