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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Roger William Riis papers, 1903-1990 (bulk 1921-1952)</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Riis, Roger William</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1894-</namePart>
    <role>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>3,500</extent>
    <extent>14</extent>
    <extent>5.6</extent>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, diaries, journal, speeches, articles and other writings, subject files, scrapbooks, pamphlets and booklets, photographs, and other papers pertaining to Riis's work as an author writing under his own name and under the pseudonym, Niel Hunter, for Reader's Digest and other publications.  Subjects include fraud in automobile repair and other repairs, cigarettes and tobacco smoking, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Sherman Act.  Also includes material pertaining to his service in the U.S. Navy during World War I.</abstract>
  <abstract>Family correspondents include Elizabeth Hipple Riis Foster, Martha Riis Moore, J. Riis Owre, and Jacob August Riis.  Other correspondents include Roger Nash Baldwin, William Benton, Robert Donner, Morris Leopold Ernst, Carlton Fredericks, Arthur Garfield Hayes, John Haynes Holmes, James Rorty, George Seldes, and DeWitt Wallace.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Some photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.</note>
  <note>Author and editor.  Died 1953.</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.ms007103">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007103</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1884-1981</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Benton, William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1900-1973</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Donner, Robert</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">-1964</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ernst, Morris Leopold</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1888-</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Foster, Elizabeth Hipple Riis</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Fredericks, Carlton</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hayes, Arthur Garfield</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Holmes, John Haynes</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1879-1964</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Moore, Martha Riis</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Owre, J. Riis</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1849-1914</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Rorty, James</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1890-1973</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Seldes, George</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1890-1995</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wallace, DeWitt</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1889-1981</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Navy</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>World War, 1914-1918</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>American Civil Liberties Union.</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Reader's Digest Association.</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Antitrust law</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Automobile repair fraud</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Cigarettes</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Fraud</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Smoking</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Tobacco</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>World War, 1914-1918</topic>
    <topic>Naval operations, American</topic>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Editors</occupation>
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