Gail and Stephen Rudin American presidential collection

Collection

Identifier: 6844

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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Historical letters, documents and ephemera relating to American presidential campaigns from Abraham Lincoln to Barack Obama. Newspapers include issues of the New York Times from Nov. 23-26, 1963, focusing on the assassination of President Kennedy and its aftermath.

Dates

1775-2009.

Creator

Rudin, Stephen (Collector, Person)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Extent

6 cubic feet. (6 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Abstract

Historical letters, documents and ephemera relating to American presidential campaigns from Abraham Lincoln to Barack Obama.

SERIES LIST

SEPARATED MATERIAL

Signed Books

Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President, by Jimmy Carter, 1982.
A Time to Heal, by Gerald Ford, 1979.
No More Vietnams, by Richard Nixon. 2 copies, one unsigned.
The Audacity of Hope, by Barack Obama.
Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the year 1849, Office of Printers to the Senate. Contains patent listing for Abraham Lincoln.

Physical Description

Correspondence, Memorabilia, Newspapers, Printed Materials

General

Contact Information:: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:: Donor
Date completed:: May 2009
EAD encoding:: RMC Staff, May 2009Evan Earle, October 2009
Date modified:: Marcie Farwell, August 2018

General

Other Presidential letters can be found in the Frank Thilly Papers, #14-21-623, Wilson, Taft; Johnson family papers, #4928, Adams; Jared Sparks Collection of Autographs, #4600 Bd. Ms. 548 ++, Washington.