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Gail and Stephen Rudin American presidential collection

 Collection
Identifier: 6844

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

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Extent

6 cubic feet. (6 cubic feet.)

Abstract

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

SERIES LIST

SEPARATED MATERIAL

Signed Books

  1. Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President, by Jimmy Carter, 1982.
  2. A Time to Heal, by Gerald Ford, 1979.
  3. No More Vietnams, by Richard Nixon. 2 copies, one unsigned.
  4. The Audacity of Hope, by Barack Obama.
  5. 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.

Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by Donor
Date
May 2009
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)