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Microfilm Collection

United States: Presidents

 

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Title Description Call Number Separate Records Available?
 Abraham Lincoln papers The collection includes correspondence and other papers, mostly letters, addressed to Lincoln during his Presidency. Included are two drafts of the Gettysburg Address, and a small amount of material about Lincoln written between 1895-1916. Guide available. MICFILM 1099 No
Andrew Jackson papers   The papers include correspondence (1775-1885), military papers (1781-lS32), a letterbook (1829-l831), orders, messages and speeches (1829-1836), and related materials. The collection consists of papers relating primarily to Jackson's Presidency. Guide available. MICFILM 1098 No
 Benjamin Harrison papers This collection covers every aspect of Harrison's life and career, and includes correspondence (1787-1912); legal papers (1855-1900), financial records including ledgers and account books (1836-1900), notebooks in shorthand, speeches (1878-1901), articles, scrapbooks, memorials, printed materials, pamphlets, and memorabilia. It includes material related to the Civil War, Indiana politics, Harrison's Presidency, his legal practice and the Venezuela boundary dispute. Guide available. MICFILM 1186 No
       
James K. Polk papers   This collection includes correspondence (1775-1891), a diaries (1845-1849), messages and speeches (1833-1849), letter press copy books (1845-1849), and additional material relating primarily to Polk's administration. Guide available. MICFILM 1100 No
The Lyndon B. Johnson national security files, 1963-1969. Agency file

The Agency File highlights the activities and White House interaction between various foreign policy and related agencies and departments, the National Security Council, and various foreign/international policy-related White House committees. Digital guide.

MICFILM 3709 No
The Lyndon B. Johnson national security files, 1963-1969. Committee file

This micropublication comprises the working papers, correspondence, memoranda, and final reports of several foreign policy and international affairs committees. Digital guide.

MICFILM 3710 No
The Lyndon B. Johnson national security files, 1963-1969. Name and speech files

The Name File is composed primarily of correspondence, memoranda, and reports highlighting the activities of members of the National Security staff during the Johnson administration. The Speech File consists of the major foreign policy and international affairs-related speeches, remarks, and addresses of President Johnson. Digital guide.

MICFILM 3712 No
 Microfilms of the Adams papers This family archive covers the lives and contributions of President John Adams (1735-1826), Abigail Adams (1744-1818), President John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), Charles Francis Adams (1807-1866), and their wives and children. Included are diaries, letter books, autobiographical writings, legal papers, political essays and speeches, legislative papers, family letters, and other items. Guide available. MICFILM 110 No
Minutes and documents of the cabinet meetings of President Eisenhower, 1953-1961 Throughout his presidency Dwight D. Eisenhower relied on his cabinet as a vital component of his policy-making machinery. This collection includes minutes of cabinet meetings, official correspondence and memoranda, discussion papers, department reports, action status reports (analyses of the implementation of cabinet decisions), records of actions (summaries of decisions approved by Eisenhower at each meeting), and related papers. Guide available. MICFILM 1694 No
Minutes and documents of the cabinet meetings of President Johnson, 1963-1969 Collection of minutes of cabinet meetings, official reports, memoranda to the president, information passed to the cabinet by the president, and special briefings by the Department of State and Defense, the joint chiefs of staff, the CIA, and others. In addition, this collection includes weekly reports from such departments of the Johnson administration as the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, which was responsible for the programs of the Great Society. Guide available. MICFILM 1601 No
Minutes of telephone conversations of John Foster Dulles and of Christian Herter, 1953-1961 This collection contains the minutes of most of the telephone conversations of Dulles, who served as the U.S. Secretary of State (1953-1959), and those of his successor, Christian Herter (1959-1961). It includes extensive coverage of communications with the President, conversations with fellow cabinet members, and friends from within and outside of the government. Guide available. MICFILM 1605 No
 Papers, 1674-1859 (James Madison) This collection includes Madison's correspondence (1723-1859), his autobiography (1751-1829), and material relating to the debates of the Continental Congress (1776-1788). Guide available. MICFILM 1541 No
Papers, 1758-1839 (James Monroe)  James Monroe was the last American President of the “Virginia Dynasty” -- of the first five men who held that position, four hailed from Virginia. Monroe also had a long and distinguished public career as a soldier, diplomat, governor, senator, and cabinet official. One of his lasting achievements was the Monroe Doctrine, which became a major tenet of U.S. foreign policy in the Western Hemisphere. Guide available. MICFILM 668 No
 Papers, 1841-1900 (Andrew Johnson) These papers include letters received, copies of presidential replies, messages and speeches, courtmartial and amnesty records, diaries of William G. Moore, business records and records of Johnson's activities as the Military Governor of Tennessee. Guide available. MICFILM 1274 No
Papers 1961 (William McKinley, 1843-1901) Included in the collection are correspondence (1847-1902); letter press copy books (1894-1901); speeches (1878-1901); messages (1897-1900); scrapbooks (1897-1901); photographs; and some records kept at the time of McKinley's assassination (1901). The majority of the material is from 1897-1901. Guide available. MICFILM 1746 No
 Papers / Martin van Buren The papers of Martin Van Buren (1782-1862), United States Senator, Governor of New York, Secretary of State, Vice-President and President of the United States, were presented to the Library of Congress by Mrs. Smith Thompson Van Buren and by Dr. Stuyvesant Fisk Morris in 1904 and 1905. Other materials have been added from time to time. Guide available.  MICFILM 798 No
 The papers of Andrew Jackson: a microfilm supplement This publication supplements the Library of Congress's Andrew Jackson Papers (1967). Guide available. MICFILM 1702 No
 The press conference of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945 21 multi-page transcripts have been digitized from this series. This series is part of the President's Personal File collection which was set up to contain correspondence concerning matters in which the president took a personal interest. Guide available. MICFILM 831 No
 Theodore Roosevelt papers The Roosevelt Papers include correspondence (1759-1919), letter press copy books (1897-1916), speeches, executive orders (1899-1918), press releases and proclamations (1901-1909), personal diaries (1878-1884), desk diaries (1901-1909), reception books (1901-1909), letter record books (1901-1909), and scrapbooks (1895-1909). Guide available. MICFILM 1164 No
 Thomas Jefferson papers Library of Congress collection. The largest portion of the papers is general correspondence (1651-1826). 0ther papers include copies of letters made by Jefferson from General HoratioGates' Revolutionary War Letterbook (1730-1731), Jefferson's correspondence with the District of Columbia Commissioners (1790-1808), account books (1767-1782), Randolph Family Manuscripts (1790-1889); and writings on weather, Virginia history, law, and plantation matters. Guide available. MICFILM 1343 No
The Thomas Jefferson papers, a microfilm edition of the Thomas Jefferson Coolidge collection of manuscripts at the Massachusetts Historical Society In 1898, Jefferson's great-grandson, Thomas Jefferson Coolidge (1831-1920) of Boston, presented a large number of Jefferson papers to the Massachusetts Historical Society. This material included correspondence (nearly 8,800 pages of both incoming correspondence and Jefferson's retained copies of outgoing correspondence), manuscript volumes including Garden Book, Farm Book, almanacs, accounts, law treatises, and the manuscript volume listing the books in Jefferson's personal library. Digital guide. MICFILM 1423 No
The Thomas Jefferson papers, University of Virginia Library  Most are original documents or contemporary transcripts made by secretaries and family members, but some are more recent transcripts and photographic or electrostatic copies of documents which remain in private hands or in less readily accessible institutional repositories. Of the total, 1610 are written by Jefferson, the rest of the correspondence is to Jefferson or bears a direct relationship to him. There are approximately 80 architectural drawings by Jefferson, most of them relating to the building of the University of Virginia. Digital archive. MICFILM 1342 No
 Ulysses S. Grant papers Grant's papers include general correspondence (1884-1922), the Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant (1884-1885), headquarters records (1861-1869), military correspondence, letterbooks (1869-1877), and a wide variety of additional materials. Guide available. MICFILM 1187 No
U.S. President proclamations, numbers 1-2160, 1789-1936 These proclamations were filmed from the files of the National Archives of the United States, for the period of 1789-1936. In 1935, an attempt was made to collect all the proclamations, assigning them sequential numbers from the one usually considered the first proclamation issued by George Washington declaring November 26, 1789 as a Day of Thanksgiving. Some documents were overlooked in compiling this collection and a few have been added to this film which were not numbered. Guide available. MICFILM 1658 No
Woodrow Wilson papers  This collection includes all important letters, speeches, interviews, press conferences, and public papers on Woodrow Wilson. It makes available as the materials essential to understanding Wilson's personality, his intellectual, religious, and political development, and his careers as educator, writer, orator, and statesman. Guide available. MICFILM 1275 No

 

 

 

 


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