Oscar S. Straus papers
Contributors: Oscar S. Straus Memorial Association
Language: eng
Number of pages: 37000
Subjects: Correspondence; Economic policy; Industrial relations; United States. Dept. of Commerce and Labor; American Diplomatic and consular service; Labor policy; Permanent Court of Arbitration; United States; Arbitration (International law); Foreign relations
Description: Correspondence, diaries, speeches, literary manuscripts, articles, essays, notebooks, legal records, pamphlets, clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, memorabilia, and other papers relating chiefly to Straus's service as U.S. minister and ambassador to Turkey, U.S. secretary of commerce and labor, and member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, Hague, Netherlands.  Includes records (1927-1954) of the Oscar S. Straus Memorial Association, Straus (Strauss) family papers, and a privately printed autobiography of Straus's brother, Isidor Straus.  Correspondents include Robert Bacon, John Barrett, Thomas F. Bayard, Nicholas Murray Butler, Andrew Carnegie, Grover Cleveland, Calvin Coolidge, Ralph M. Easley, James Rudolph Garfield, Lloyd Carpenter Griscom, Warren G. Harding, Benjamin Harrison, John Hay, Lee Kohns, Robert Lansing, William Loeb, William McKinley, Adolph S. Ochs, George Foster Peabody, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, William H. Taft, and Woodrow Wilson.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm of scrapbook selections available, no. 8,924.

Gift, Oscar S. Straus Memorial Association, Inc., 1945-1956.

Attorney, businessman, public official, diplomat, U.S. secretary of commerce and labor, and author.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.