Armand Hammer papers, circa 1508-1989.
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Mixed materialsDescription: 45 items; 1 container plus 1 oversize; 1.2 linear feetSubject(s): - Andropov, I͡U. V. (I͡Uriĭ Vladimirovich), 1914-1984 -- Correspondence
- Begin, Menachem, 1913-1992 -- Correspondence
- Brezhnev, Leonid Ilʹich, 1906-1982 -- Correspondence
- Carter, Jimmy, 1924- -- Correspondence
- Chernenko, K. U. (Konstantin Ustinovich), 1911-1985 -- Correspondence
- Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 -- Correspondence
- Getty, J. Paul (Jean Paul), 1892-1976 -- Correspondence
- Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931- -- Correspondence
- Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007 -- Correspondence
- Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 -- Correspondence
- Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924 -- Correspondence
- Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519
- Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 -- Correspondence
- Reagan, Ronald -- Correspondence
- Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 -- Correspondence
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 -- Correspondence
- Sadat, Anwar, 1918-1981 -- Correspondence
- Salk, Jonas, 1914- -- Correspondence
- Thatcher, Margaret -- Correspondence
- Codex Hammer
- Art -- Collectors and collecting
- Diplomacy
- Exhibitions -- Washington (D.C.)
- Humanitarianism
- Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union
- Art collectors
- Entrepreneurs
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Chiefly correspondence documenting Hammer's career as a citizen diplomat (particularly to the Soviet Union), humanitarian, and art collector gathered for an exhibition honoring him at the Library of Congress in 1989. Includes letters from I͡U.V. Andropov, Menachem Begin, Leonid Ilʹich Brezhnev, Jimmy Carter, K.U. Chernenko, Dwight D. Eisenhower, J. Paul Getty, Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, Lady Bird Johnson, Lyndon B. Johnson, Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin, Richard M. Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Anwar Sadat, Jonas Salk, and Margaret Thatcher. Also included are a facsimile edition of the Codex Hammer (a notebook of Leonardo da Vinci) and a photograph album.
Some photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Business executive and art collector.
Collection material in English.
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