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Research Center Manuscript Reading Room

Offsite Collections

Researchers interested in consulting any of the division's collections are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room before visiting. Many processed and nearly all unprocessed collections are stored off-site, and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.

Processed collections stored off-site are listed below. Please contact the Manuscript Reading Room several business days before your visit to request containers from off-site collections to be delivered to the Manuscript Reading Room in advance of your arrival. It is strongly recommended to contact the Manuscript Reading Room in advance of your visit, even if the collection you wish to use does not appear on this list.

A

  • Abelson, Philip Hauge
  • Ace, Goodman
  • Adams, Arthur S.
  • Aldrich, Nelson W.
  • Allen, Florence Ellinwood
  • Allen, Fred
  • Allen, Charles Julius and Grace Elizabeth
  • American Association of University Women
  • American Council of Learned Societies
  • American Gold Star Mothers
  • American Historical Association
  • American Lands Alliance records
  • American Medical Center for Burma
  • American Psychological Association
  • American Scholar
  • American Society of Landscape Architects
  • American Studies Association
  • Amos 'n' Andy (Radio program)
  • Anderson, Clinton Presba
  • Anderson, Frank Maloy
  • Andrews, Frank Maxwell
  • Arendt, Hannah
  • Arnold, Henry Harley
  • Associated Press
  • Association of Research Libraries
  • Astin, Allen Varley
  • Atlantic Union Committee

B

  • Baker, Ray Stannard
  • Balchen, Bernt
  • Bancroft-Bliss family
  • Barbee, James D. and Davis R.
  • Barnes, James Martin
  • Baroody, William J.
  • Barrett, John
  • Bartlett family
  • Barth, John
  • Bassett, John Spencer
  • Beach, Joseph W.
  • Beale family
  • Beard, Daniel Carter
  • Becker, Florence Deakins
  • Becton, Julius W.
  • Beecher, Henry Ward
  • Beers, Henry Putney
  • Benjamin, Harold Raymond Wayne
  • Bennett, William Ralph
  • Benson, William Shepherd
  • Berge, Wendell
  • Berkner, Lloyd V.
  • Berry, Faith
  • Beyer, Otto Sternoff
  • Bingham, Theodore A.
  • Black, Ruby A.
  • Blackburn, Elizabeth H.
  • Blair family
  • Block, Herbert
  • Block, Ralph
  • Boggs, Samuel Whittemore
  • Bollingen Foundation Records
  • Bonaparte, Charles J.
  • Book of the Month Club
  • Boone, Joel Thompson
  • Boorstin, Daniel J.
  • Borah, William Edgar
  • Borglum, Gutzon
  • Bouton, Jim
  • Bowen, Catherine Drinker
  • Bowles, Edward Lindley
  • Brandon, Henry
  • Brasol, Boris Leo
  • Brennan, Francis Edwin
  • Brode, Wallace R.
  • Broder, David S.
  • Brooke, Edward W.
  • Brown, Ray Eber
  • Browne, Malcolm W.
  • Brundage, Percival Flack
  • Bryson, Lyman
  • Buchwald, Art
  • Buck, Solon J.
  • Bunau-Varilla, Philippe
  • Burnett, Edmund C.
  • Bush, Vannevar
  • Butterfield, Kenyon L.

C

  • Caesar, Sid
  • Cain, James
  • Cairns, Huntington
  • Campbell, Francis Joseph
  • Canal Zone Library-Museum
  • Carson, Johnny
  • Carter, Clarence Edwin
  • Carter, Thomas Henry
  • Caton, John Dean
  • Cattell, James McKeen
  • Cecil, Robert Edgar
  • Celler, Emanuel
  • Center for National Policy Review
  • Chamberlain, Eugene Tyler
  • Chase, Lewis Nathaniel
  • Cheney, John Vance
  • Childs, James Bennett
  • Ciardi, John
  • Clapp family
  • Clapper, Raymond
  • Clark, Kenneth Bancroft
  • Cleland, T. M. (Thomas Maitland)
  • Cline, Howard Francis
  • Cline, Ray S.
  • Coan, Titus
  • Cockburn, George
  • Collins, Ross A.
  • Columbia Broadcasting System
  • Colwell, Rita
  • Commoner, Barry
  • Congressional Staff Club
  • Connaly, Tom
  • Cook, Robert C.
  • Corey, Herbert
  • Council on Library and Information Resources
  • Croffut, W. A. (William Augustus)
  • Cronyn, Hume and Tandy, Jessica
  • Crowe, William

D

  • Dahlgren, John Adolphus Bernard
  • Daniels, Josephus
  • Dash, Samuel
  • Davenport, Marcia
  • Davenport, Russell Wheeler
  • Davies, Joseph Edward
  • Davis, James J.
  • Davisson, Clinton Joseph
  • Dawes, Henry L.
  • Dearstyne, Howard
  • Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell
  • Deming, W. Edwards (William Edwards)
  • Democratic Study Group
  • Denker, Henry
  • Dennett, Tyler
  • Denny, George Vernon
  • Dickerson, Nancy
  • Dike, Samuel Warren
  • Dodd, William Edward
  • Doysie, Abel
  • Du Pont, Marcella Miller
  • Dumont, Henry
  • DuPree African American Pentecostal Collection

E

  • Eames, Charles and Ray
  • Eastham, Melville
  • Eckart, Carl
  • Edwards, Harry
  • Eisner, Thomas
  • Eizenstat, Stuart
  • Elections Research Center records
  • Eliot, George Fielding
  • Ellsberg, Edward
  • ERAmerica
  • Ericsson, John
  • Etzioni, Amitai
  • Evans, Rowland
  • Everts, Lillian
  • Ewing family (Charles Ewing)

F

  • Fadiman, Clifton
  • Fairchild, Sherman M.
  • Fedoroff, Nina
  • Feis, Herbert
  • Feulner, Edwin J.
  • Finley, David Edward
  • Finley, David Edward
  • Fiske, Minnie Maddern
  • Fitzpatrick, John Clement
  • Fleming, Harold C.
  • Flood, Henry D.
  • Ford, John Thompson
  • Ford, Worthington Chauncey
  • Foulke, William Dudley
  • Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association
  • Friis, Harald Trap
  • Fuller, Melville Weston
  • Furman, Bess

G

  • Garfield, Harry Augustus
  • Garfield, James Rudolph
  • Garfield, Lucretia Rudolph
  • Geleerd, Elisabeth R.
  • German Captured Documents
  • Gerson, N. C.
  • Gertz, Elmer
  • Gesell, Arnold
  • Gesell, Gerhard Alden
  • Getler, Michael
  • Ghent, William James
  • Gibbons, John H.
  • Gilchrist, Huntington
  • Ginsburg, David
  • Ginsburg, Ina
  • Gitelson, Maxwell
  • Gleason, Arthur Huntington
  • Goebel, Julius
  • Goldman, Eric Frederick
  • Goldsmith, Thomas T.
  • Golovin, Nicholas E.
  • Goodman, Leo
  • Graham, Fred P.
  • Granik, Theodore
  • Gray, L. Patrick
  • Green, Theodore Francis
  • Greene, Frank L.
  • Greene, Lorenzo Johnston
  • Greenfield, Meg
  • Greenspan, Alan
  • Grey, Zane
  • Grosvenor Family Papers
  • Gruen, Victor
  • Gruenberg, Benjamin Charles and Sidonie
  • Grunwald, Henry
  • Guggenheim, Harry Frank

H

  • Hagedorn, Hermann
  • Hall, Herbert J.
  • Halsey, Edwin Alexander
  • Hamilton, Florence
  • Hamilton, Virginia
  • Hammond, John Hays
  • Hapgood, Norman
  • Harlan, John Marshall
  • Harper's Magazine
  • Harriman, Florence
  • Harriman, Pamela
  • Harris, Patricia (Roberts)
  • Harris, William Torrey
  • Harshaw, Ruth Hetzel
  • Haworth, Leland John
  • Hayden, Edward Everett
  • Haydn, Hiram Collins
  • Haynsworth, Clement F.
  • Helm, Edith Benham
  • Hensley, Stewart
  • Hess, Stephen
  • Hildebrandt, A.
  • Hill, Henry Aaron
  • Hillcrest Children's Center
  • Hoffman, Daniel
  • Hollerith, Herman
  • Holmes, John Haynes
  • Homburger, Freddy
  • Hoppen, William
  • Hornaday, William Temple
  • Horner, Frederick Cecil
  • Howard, Roy Wilson
  • Howard-von Recum family
  • Hubbard family
  • Huebsch, Benjamin W.
  • Hutchinson, Ralph Cooper
  • Hyde, Dorsey William
  • Hyman, Stanley Edgar

I

  • Ince, Thomas Harper
  • Indian Languages Collection
  • International Brotherhood of Teamsters
  • International Psycho-Analytical Association
  • Ireland. Parliament. House of Commons (debates)
  • Iturbide, Augustin de

J

  • Jaffe, Jerome
  • James, Marquis
  • Jameson, J. Franklin
  • Jenckes, Thomas Allen
  • Joelson, Charles Samuel
  • Joint Committee on Materials for Research records
  • Johnson, Frank M. (Frank Minis)
  • Johnston, Mercer Green

K

  • Kalmus, Herbert Thomas
  • Kantor, MacKinley
  • Karle, Isabella and Jerome
  • Karsten, Karl G.
  • Kaufman, Irving R.
  • Keene, Frances Bowler
  • Kelsey, Frances Oldham
  • Kessler, Milton
  • Kilby, Jack S.
  • King, Alexander
  • Kingsbury, John Adams
  • Kingsbury-Smith, Joseph
  • Kissinger, Henry
  • Kleine, George
  • Kline, Burton
  • Kluge, John
  • Klyce, Scudder
  • Kowalski, Frank
  • Kroll, Lucy
  • Krug, Julius A.

L

  • Lakhman, Gizella
  • Landis, James McCauley
  • Lardner, George
  • Latimer, John
  • Lattimore, Owen
  • Lawrie, Lee
  • Leadership Conference on Civil Rights records
  • League of Women Voters (U.S.)
  • LeJeune, John Archer
  • Leland, Waldo Gifford
  • Leventhal, Harold
  • Levine, Irving R.
  • Lewin, Bertram David
  • Lewis, Anthony
  • Lewis, Nolan Don Carpenter
  • Library of Congress. Records
  • Liebengood, Howard S.
  • Linowitz, Sol M.
  • Lipset, Seymour
  • Literary Society of Washington D.C.
  • Louchheim, Katie
  • Loewenstein, Rudolph Maurice
  • Loewy, Raymond
  • Loeb, Benjamin S.
  • Logan, Joshua
  • LOOK Magazine Records
  • Luce, Henry Robinson

M

  • MacDowell Colony Records
  • Machen, Lewis H.
  • MacVeagh, Franklin
  • Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
  • Maldarelli, Oronzio
  • Malik, Charles Habib
  • Malina, Frank J.
  • Mann, Arthur William
  • Marburg, Theodore
  • March, Peyton Conway
  • Marshall, Charles Clinton
  • Marshall, Peter
  • Martin, Glenn L.
  • Martin, John Bartlow
  • Mathews, Virginia
  • Mauldin, William H.
  • McAtee, Waldo Lee
  • McCormick, Lynde Dupuy
  • McCrumb, Fred R.
  • McGee, Anita Newcomb
  • McGee, W. J.
  • McGowan, Carl
  • McGranery, James P., and Regina Clark McGranery
  • McGrory, Mary
  • McGuire, William
  • McLean, Evalyn Walsh
  • Mearns, Edgar Alexander
  • Mercy-Argenteau family
  • Metraux, Rhoda
  • Meyer, Cord
  • Michener, James A
  • Middleton, George
  • Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
  • Miller, Adolph Caspar
  • Miller, David Hunter
  • Milton, George F.
  • Mink, Patsy T.
  • Mitchell, Samuel Chiles
  • Moore, Merrill
  • Moral Re-Armament
  • Morris, Arthur J.
  • Morris, Roland Sletor
  • Moton family
  • Moynihan, Daniel P. (Daniel Patrick)
  • Mueller, G. E. (George Edwin)
  • Munroe, Kirk
  • Murdock, Victor
  • Murray, John M. (John Milne)

N

  • National Association for Universal Military Training
  • National Committee on Atomic Information
  • National Consumers' League
  • National Council of Jewish Women
  • National Council of Jewish Women, Washington, D.C., Office
  • National Urban League
  • National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education
  • National Woman's Party
  • Neuharth, Allen
  • Newell, Frederick Haynes
  • Newman, Winn
  • Nichols, William Ichabod
  • Niederland, William G.
  • Norris, George W.

O

  • Oberholser, Harry Church
  • Odom, William E.
  • Ogilvy, David
  • O'Laughlin, John Callan
  • Osborn, Fairfield
  • Osborne, John
  • Oxnam, G. Bromley (Garfield Branley)

P

  • Paine, Thomas O.
  • Palmer, Theodore Sherman
  • Patri, Angelo
  • Patterson, Frederick D. (Frederick Douglass)
  • Patterson, Jefferson
  • Patterson, Mary Marvin Breckinridge
  • Patterson, Richard Sharpe
  • Patterson-Winslow family
  • Payne, Ethel L.
  • Payton, John
  • Pei, I. M.
  • Penn, John Garrett
  • People for the American Way and People for the American
  • Way Foundation Records
  • Pertschuk, Michael
  • Peterson, Russell W.
  • Phi Beta Kappa Records
  • Phillips, Samuel C.
  • Piccard Family Papers
  • Pickerill, Elmo N. (Elmo Neale)
  • Pike-McConnell-Donaldson family
  • Pinchot, Amos
  • Pinchot, Cornelia Bryce
  • Pinchot, Gifford
  • Pincus, Gregory
  • Podhoretz, Norman
  • Poor, Alfred Easton
  • Prettyman, Elijah Barrett
  • Price, Vincent
  • Progressive National Committee Supporting FDR for President
  • Pulitzer, Joseph

Q

  • Quay, Matthew Stanley
  • Quinn, David B.

R

  • Ralph Edwards Productions radio and television scripts
  • Rash, Bryson B.
  • Rawleigh, William Thomas
  • Regan, Donald T.
  • Reichelderfer, Francis W. (Francis Wilton)
  • Ribicoff, Abraham
  • Rich, Giles S.
  • Richards, Grant
  • Richardson, Elliot L.
  • Rickenbacker, Eddie
  • Riis, Roger William
  • Ristow, Walter W.
  • Rivlin, Alice
  • Roberts, Benjamin Titus
  • Roberts, Elizabeth Madox
  • Robertson, James Alexander
  • Robson, May
  • Rodman, Peter
  • Rogers, Carl
  • Rogovin, Milton
  • Roosevelt, Kermit, and Belle Roosevelt
  • Rubey, William Walden
  • Rubin, Vera C.
  • Rukeyser, Muriel
  • Russell Sage Foundation
  • Rustin, Bayard

S

  • Safire, William
  • Sagan, Carl
  • Sayre, Francis Bowes
  • Schmitt, Bernadotte Everly
  • Schorr, Daniel
  • Schriever, Bernard A.
  • Schur, Max
  • Schwellenbach, Lewis B. (Lewis Baxter)
  • Seaborg, Glenn Theodore
  • See, Thomas J. J.
  • Sevareid, Eric
  • Sewall, Joseph
  • Shackford, Roland Herbert
  • Shapiro, Henry
  • Shapley, Alan H
  • Sherwin, Martin J.
  • Sifton, Paul Field and Claire Ginsburg
  • Simmons, James Fowler
  • Simpson, Louis
  • Simpson, Matthew
  • Singer, Maxine
  • Sioussat, St. George L.
  • Smith, Charles Perley
  • Smith, Hedrick
  • Smythe, Hugh H.
  • Sobeloff, Simon Ernest
  • Society of Woman Geographers
  • Solberg, Thorvald
  • South Carolina. Vice-Admiralty Court at Charles Town
  • Spencer, Lyman Potter
  • Sperry, Charles S. (Charles Stillman)
  • Spira, Henry
  • Steele, Fletcher
  • Stephens, Harold Montelle
  • Stephens, Joe
  • Stephenson, John Aldrich (Hand, Fiske, and Aldrich families)
  • Stevenson, Burton Egbert
  • Stimson, Ralph H.
  • Stinson, Marjorie Claire
  • Stout, Juanita Kidd
  • Strasberg, Lee
  • Streit, Clarence K.
  • Sullivan, Walter
  • Summerall, Charles Pelot
  • Sweetser, Arthur
  • Swidler, Joseph C. (Joseph Charles)

T

  • Taft, Charles P. (Charles Phelps)
  • Taft, Robert, Jr.
  • Taft, Robert A. (1889-1953)
  • Taft, William Howard IV
  • Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)
  • Tatel, David
  • Teichmann, Howard
  • Terhune, Albert Payson
  • Toland, John
  • Townes, Charles H.
  • Tracy, Benjamin Franklin
  • Trager, Brahna
  • Train, Russell E.
  • Tumulty, Joseph P.
  • Turpeau, Anne B. (Anne Brock)
  • Tuve, Merle Antony

U

  • United States. American Commission to Negotiate Peace
  • United States Presidents' Research Committee on Social Trends

V

  • Von Bekesy, Georg
  • Von Braun, Werhner

W

  • Wallace, Henry A.
  • Walsh, Thomas James and John Edward Erickson
  • Ward, Lester Frank
  • Washington Post Historical Collection
  • Wayman, Dorothy G. (Dorothy Godfrey)
  • Wechsberg, Joseph
  • Wertham, Frederic
  • Wexler, Harry
  • White, Byron
  • White, Wallace H.
  • Whitlock, Brand
  • Wilcox, Walter
  • Wiley, Anna Kelton
  • Williams, Edward Bennett
  • Williams, Robert Ramapatnam
  • Wilson, Donald
  • Wilson, E. O.
  • Wilson, Robert E.
  • Wolman, Abel
  • Wolman, Leo
  • Woman's National Democratic Club Records
  • Women's Joint Congressional Committee
  • Woolsey, Lester Hood
  • World Calendar Association
  • Wouk, Herman
  • Wright, J. Skelly
  • Wright, Nathaniel Family Papers
  • Writers' War Board

Z

  • Ziegler, Ronald L.
  • Zwemer, Raymund L. (Raymund Lull)

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