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    <title>Henry Putney Beers papers, 1910-1992 (bulk 1930-1970)</title>
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    <namePart>Beers, Henry Putney</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1907-</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, memoranda, writings, book reviews, reports, and other papers relating primarily to Beers's work as a bibliographer in American history.  Also includes material pertaining to his career at the National Archives including his work with federal record surveys and an editorial project, Beers's life during the Great Depression, his naval service in World War II, and his doctoral advisor, St. George L. Sioussat.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Historian, bibliographer, and archivist with the National Archives.  Died 1996.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Sioussat, St. George L. (St. George Leakin)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1878-1960</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>National Archives and Records Service.</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Navy</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Military life</topic>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Works Progress Administration.</namePart>
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    <topic>Archival surveys</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Depressions</topic>
    <temporal>1929</temporal>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Public records</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>World War, 1939-1945</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <topic>Bibliography</topic>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Social life and customs</topic>
    <temporal>1918-1945</temporal>
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    <occupation>Archivists</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Bibliographers</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Historians</occupation>
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