Wallace H. White papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24000
Subjects: Hydroelectric power plants; Politics and government; Commerce; Tidal power; Interstate commerce; Merchant marine; Maritime concerns; Bays; Emigration and immigration; Military readiness; Veterans; Correspondence; United States; Fisheries; Communication; Taxation; Defenses; Waterways; Military policy; Neutrality; Conservation of natural resources; United States. Congress. House; Tariff
Description: Correspondence, speeches, reports, articles, legislation file, scrapbooks, printed matter, sound recording, and other papers relating chiefly to White's service as a U.S. representative (1917-1931) from Maine.  Subjects include commerce, communications, conservation, fisheries, immigration, interstate commerce, maritime issues, merchant marine, military policy, national defense, neutrality, the Passamaquoddy Tidal Project, the Saint Lawrence Seaway, taxes, tariffs, and veterans' affairs.  Correspondents include Newton Diehl Baker, Owen Brewster, Carrie Chapman Catt, Bainbridge Colby, Josephus Daniels, Warren G. Harding, Herbert Hoover, Charles Evans Hughes, Cordell Hull, Franklin K. Lane, Robert Lansing, and Medill McCormick.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Nina Lunn White, 1953.

transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.

U.S. representative and senator from Maine.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and on Internet.

Finding aid published by the Library of Congress, 1959.