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    <title>La Follette family papers</title>
    <subTitle>(primary record), 1781-1988 (bulk 1910-1953)</subTitle>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, diaries, speeches, writings, legal files, office files, campaign files, legislative files, subject files, financial records, biographical material, newspaper clippings, printed material, and other papers principally documenting the careers of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., governor of Wisconsin and U.S. representative and senator, and his son Robert M. La Follette, Jr., U.S. senator.</abstract>
  <abstract>Includes papers of Robert M. La Follette, Sr.; papers of Robert M. La Follette, Jr.; papers of Belle Case La Follette, lawyer, journalist, editor, and suffragist; papers of Fola La Follette, actress and educator; papers of Philip Fox La Follette, lawyer and governor of Wisconsin; and papers of Mary Josephine La Follette, art consultant, social science research analyst, and editor.  Also includes papers of Grace C. Lynch, secretary to Robert M. La Follette, Sr., and to Robert M. La Follette, Jr.; papers of Gilbert E. Roe, New York lawyer and adviser to Robert M. La Follette, Sr.; papers of Alfred Thomas Rogers, law partner of Robert M. La Follette, Sr.; records of the National Progressive Republican League; and extensive files relating to La Follette's Magazine and to its successor, The Progressive.</abstract>
  <abstract>Subjects include American Indian affairs, child labor laws, civil rights, conservation, disarmament, education, espionage, foreign relations especially with Latin America and Asia, freedom of assembly, freedom of the press, hygiene, immigration, isolationism, judicial reform, New Deal, peace movement, political primaries, presidential elections of 1912 and 1924, public lands, railroad regulation, reform lobbies, regulatory commissions, tariffs, taxation, the Teapot Dome scandal, U.S. political affairs, veteran's claims, Wisconsin politics, women's rights and suffrage, World Wars I and II, and outlawry of war.  Also includes material concerning American handicrafts, Wisconsin attorney general Bronson C. La Follette, and family biographer Sherry Zabriskie.</abstract>
  <abstract>Includes material pertaining to the Conference for Progressive Political Action, Emily Bishop League, League of Nations, National Conservation Association, National Consumers' League, National Council for Prevention of War, National League of Women Voters, National Municipal League, People's Legislative Service, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and other progressive and reform movements.</abstract>
  <abstract>In addition to family members, correspondents include Jane Addams, Peter A. Arntson, Ray Stannard Baker, Charles Austin Beard, Mary Ritter Beard, Joseph D. Beck, Emily Montague Mulkin Bishop, Alice Stone Blackwell, John J. Blaine, W. Wade Boardman, Alice Goldmark Brandeis, Louis Dembitz Brandeis, William Jennings Bryan, Austin F. Cansler, James H. Causey, John Rogers Commons, Calvin Coolidge, Charles Richard Crane, Charles Henry Crownhart, Bronson M. Cutting, Jo Davidson, Thomas F. Davlin, Eugene V. Debs, Charles M. Dow, Theodore Dreiser, Herman Lewis Ekern, Elizabeth Glendower Evans, William Theodore Evjue, John D. Fackler, Lorena King Fairbank, Felix Frankfurter, Zona Gale, A.C. Grimm, John J. Hannan, Norman Hapgood, Frank A. Harrison, Herbert Hoover, Walter L. Houser, B. W. Huebsch, Ralph M. Immell, Helen Keller, William Kirsch, Walter Jodok Kohler, Irvine Luther Lenroot, Katharine F. Lenroot, David Eli Lilienthal, Edward G. Little, Henry Cabot Lodge, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Grace C. Lynch, Joseph McCarthy, Medill McCormick, Thomas M. McCusker, Nellie Dunn MacKenzie, Basil Maxwell Manly, Wayne L. Morse, Sylvester W. Muldowny, Richard L. Neuberger, Richard M. Nixon, Cornelia Bryce Pinchot, Gifford Pinchot, William Thomas Rawleigh, Vinnie Ream, R.O. Richards, Glenn D. Roberts, Gilbert R. Roe, Gwyneth K. Roe, John Ernest Roe, Alfred Thomas Rogers, Walter S. Rogers, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Morris H. Rubin, Upton Sinclair, Gordon Sinykin, Rudolph Spreckels, Lincoln Steffens, Isaac Stephenson, Bela Tokaji, Harry S. Truman, Arthur H. Vandenberg, Frank P. Walsh, William Allen White, Woodrow Wilson, Emma Wold, and A.W. Zeratsky.</abstract>
  <note>Primary record for La Follette family papers.  Continuation record mm2009085509 consists of the correspondents represented in the collection.</note>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.</note>
  <note>Photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.</note>
  <note>Prominent Wisconsin family in late nineteenth and twentieth century national politics.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006038">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006038</note>
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      <namePart>La Follette, Bronson C. (Bronson Cutting)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1936-</namePart>
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      <namePart>White, William Allen</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1868-1944</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wilson, Woodrow</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1856-1924</namePart>
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      <namePart>Wold, Emma</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1871-1950</namePart>
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      <namePart>Zabriskie, Sherry</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>La Follette family</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Emily Bishop League.</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>League of Nations.</namePart>
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      <namePart>National Conservation Association (U.S.)</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>National Consumers' League.</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>National Council for Prevention of War (U.S.)</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>National League of Women Voters (U.S.)</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>National Municipal League.</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>People's Legislative Service.</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.</namePart>
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    <name type="conference">
      <namePart>Conference for Progressive Political Action.</namePart>
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    <titleInfo>
      <title>La Follette's magazine</title>
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      <title>Progressive</title>
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    <topic>Assembly, Right of</topic>
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    <topic>Child labor</topic>
    <topic>Law and legislation</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <topic>Civil rights</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Conservation of natural resources</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Courts</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <topic>Disarmament</topic>
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    <topic>Education</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <topic>Espionage</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Freedom of the press</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <topic>Handicraft</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Hygiene</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Independent regulatory commissions</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Indians of North America</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Isolationism</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Lobbying</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Neutrality</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>New Deal, 1933-1939</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Peace movements</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Presidents</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Election</topic>
    <temporal>1912</temporal>
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    <topic>Presidents</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Election</topic>
    <temporal>1924</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Primaries</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <topic>Progressivism (United States politics)</topic>
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    <topic>Public lands</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <topic>Railroads and state</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Tariff</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Taxation</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Teapot Dome Scandal, 1921-1924</topic>
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    <topic>War</topic>
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    <topic>Women</topic>
    <topic>Suffrage</topic>
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    <topic>Women's rights</topic>
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    <topic>Veterans</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>World War, 1914-1918</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>World War, 1939-1945</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Asia</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <geographic>Latin America</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Economic policy</topic>
    <temporal>1933-1945</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Emigration and immigration</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <temporal>20th century</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>Asia</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>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>1901-1953</temporal>
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    <geographic>Wisconsin</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
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  <relatedItem>
    <titleInfo>
      <title>Belle Case La Follette papers. 1879-1931</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>La Follette, Belle Case,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1859-1931</namePart>
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      <title>Fola La Follette papers. 1879-1970</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>La Follette, Fola,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1882-1970</namePart>
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  <relatedItem>
    <titleInfo>
      <title>Mary Josephine La Follette papers. 1925-1988</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>La Follette, Mary Josephine,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1899-1988</namePart>
    </name>
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    <titleInfo>
      <title>Philip Fox La Follette papers. 1911-1971</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>La Follette, Philip Fox,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1897-1965</namePart>
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  <relatedItem>
    <titleInfo>
      <title>Robert M. La Follette papers. 1844-1925</title>
    </titleInfo>
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion),</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1855-1925</namePart>
    </name>
  </relatedItem>
  <relatedItem>
    <titleInfo>
      <title>Robert M. La Follette papers. 1895-1960</title>
    </titleInfo>
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion),</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1895-1953</namePart>
    </name>
  </relatedItem>
  <relatedItem>
    <titleInfo>
      <title>Grace C. Lynch papers. 1905-1965</title>
    </titleInfo>
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lynch, Grace C.,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">approximately 1892-1970</namePart>
    </name>
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    <titleInfo>
      <title>Gilbert E. Roe papers. 1887-1961</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Roe, Gilbert E. (Gilbert Ernstein),</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1865-1929</namePart>
    </name>
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  <relatedItem>
    <titleInfo>
      <title>Alfred Thomas Rogers papers. 1900-1928</title>
    </titleInfo>
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Rogers, Alfred Thomas,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1873-1948</namePart>
    </name>
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  <relatedItem>
    <titleInfo>
      <title>National Progressive Republican League records. 1911-1912</title>
    </titleInfo>
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>National Progressive Republican League.</namePart>
    </name>
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