Register of the Daniel C. Roper Papers, 1860-1958
[top]Descriptive Summary
TitleDaniel C. Roper Papers
Creator
Roper, Daniel C. (Daniel Calhoun), 1867-1943.
Extent
Linear feet of shelf space occupied: 56
Number of items: 33,900
Repository
Number of items: 33,900
Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Durham, North Carolina 27708-0185
Language
English.
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Administrative Information
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Daniel C. Roper Papers,
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
Provenance
The papers of Daniel C. Roper (1860-1958) were donated to the Duke University Special
Collections Library in 1977, 1978 and 1980 by members of the Roper family.
Processing Information
Processed by Denise Dolan and Sharon Knapp
Date Completed: April 27, 1993
Encoded by Alvin Pollock
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.
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Biographical Note
| 1867, April 1 | Born Marlboro County, S.C. |
| 1888 | Received B.A. from Trinity College (became Duke University) |
| 1889, Dec. 25 | Married Lou McKenzie |
| 1892-1894 | Member of South Carolina House of Representatives |
| 1894-1897 | Clerk for U.S. Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce |
| 1897-1900 | Practiced law in Washington, D.C. |
| 1900-1910 | Expert special agent for U.S. Census Bureau |
| 1901 | Received LL.B. from National University (Washington, D.C.) |
| 1911-1913 | Statistician and Chief Clerk for Ways and Means Committee, U.S. House of Representatives |
| 1913-1916 | First Assistant Postmaster General of United States |
| 1916 | Chairman, Organization Bureau, Woodrow Wilson campaign |
| 1917, Mar.-Sept. | Vice-Chairman, U.S. Tariff Commission |
| 1917-1920 | Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
| 1920-1921 | President of Marlin Rockwell Corporation, New York City |
| 1921 | Returned to Washington, D.C. to practice law |
| 1929-1943 | Trustee of Duke University |
| 1932 | Worked on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's presidential campaign |
| 1933-1938 | U.S. Secretary of Commerce |
| 1939, May-Aug. | Minister to Canada |
| 1943, April 11 | Died |
Roper received the following academic degrees: LL.D. from Tusculum College (1927), LL.D from National University (1933), M.B.A. from Bryant and Stratton College in Providence, R.I. (1933), and L.H.D. from Rollins College in Winter Park, Fl.(1934). He was a member of the American Bar Association; the Board of Stewards; the Democratic Party; the Board of Directors for the Atlantic Coast Line Railway; the Board of Education in Washington, D.C. (1932); the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (1930); the 6th Ecumenical Conference (1931); Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Phi Beta Kappa; the Chevy Chase Club; the National Press Club; the University Club (Washington, D.C.); and the Masons. He was a trustee of Coker College and the American University. Roper was the author of The United States Post Office (1917) and Fifty Years in Public Life (1941).
[top]Collection Overview
The Daniel C. Roper Papers, 1860-1958 (bulk 1933-1938), consist
chiefly of professional and political correspondence, including telegrams and
memoranda, but also include speeches, financial papers, clippings, invitations,
legal papers, printed material, and pictures. The collection primarily
documents Roper's term as Secretary of Commerce during the first
administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In general the papers
provide an inside look at this Democratic administration during the early
depression years, as well as the relationships among business, government,
and politics. In particular, Roper had close ties to people in the business
community and was sympathetic to their concerns. In addition, the collection
tracks the course of the New Deal in the Department of Commerce and the
career of Roper not only as a United States government official in
Roosevelt's cabinet but also as a progressive Democrat. However, there are
some gaps in these professional files in that there is very little material
pertaining to Roper's career prior to his appointment to the cabinet post.
Also, files for 1931 are almost entirely missing, and cross-reference sheets in
the collection prepared by Roper's staff appear to refer to a separate set of
files missing from this collection. There is relatively little in the papers
concerning Roper's personal life, except for financial papers.
Roper's tenure as Secretary of Commerce is primarily documented in the
Alphabetical Series, which not only is the largest series but also forms the
heart of the collection. His support of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1932
presidential campaign probably helped him earn this cabinet appointment
along with Roper's representation of the old Woodrow Wilson element in the
Democratic Party. Roper set as a major task the development of mutual
confidence, cooperation, and a closer relationship between business and
government in order to bring about a recovery from the depression. Since he
had been a tax expert and business consultant prior to becoming Secretary,
this was a natural role for him. In fact in 1933 he had organized a Business
Advisory and Planning Council for the Department of Commerce to advise
the administration on the effect of the New Deal's proposals on business.
After serving in the administration for almost six years, Roper resigned to
return to private life.
The Alphabetical Series includes correspondence from a large number of
prominent senators and congressmen, men in government service,
businessmen, lawyers, judges, and New Deal figures. These include Bernard
Baruch, James Byrnes, Patrick Callahan, James Cannon, Thomas
Chadbourne, David Coker, Homer Cummings, Josephus Daniels, William
Dodd, Ernest Draper, Robert Elbert, James Farley, John Garner, and W.
Averell Harriman. Other correspondents are William Henry Harrison,
Edward House, Louis Howe Cordell Hull, Clarence Hurrey, Jesse Jones,
Hugh MacRae, William Gibbs McAdoo, George Milton, Robert Owen,
Hollins Randolph, Lawrence Robert, L.S. Rowe, and John Humphrey Small.
The Farley correspondence includes a run of first day covers, 1933-1938,
while he was Postmaster General. Roper's interest in the stamps was piqued
in part by the fact that he had been the First Assistant Postmaster General
appointed by Woodrow Wilson. There are smaller amounts of
correspondence with other New Deal figures, such as Harry Hopkins,
Frances Perkins, and Harold Ickes.
Information on organizations and topics is scattered throughout the
Alphabetical Series. They include aeronautics (in Aviation folder); American
University; the Board of Education of the District of Columbia; commerce
(in Foreign Trade folder); communication (radio and telegraph); financial
federations, specifically The Community Chest of Washington, D.C.; the
Democratic National Committee; the Democratic Party (in Politics folder);
Duke University; the Export-Import Bank of Washington; and the
Hindenburg accident. Others are the Freemasons (in Masons folder);
Japanese Economic Mission to the United States; the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South (also in Methodist Church and Mt. Vernon Place Church
folders); the National Benefit Life Assurance Company; the National
Recovery Administration; the Post Office Department; the presidential
election of 1932 (in Politics folder); prohibition; religion and politics;
Franklin D. Roosevelt; and temperance and liquor laws (in Liquor Control
folder). Roper supported prohibition and in fact had served during the
prohibition era as Commissioner of Internal Revenue in the Treasury
Department, charged with enforcing liquor laws. There is information about
agencies within or related to the Department of Commerce including the
Business Advisory Council, the Bureau of the Census (in Census folder), the
Bureau of Fisheries (in Fisheries folder), and the Bureau of Foreign and
Domestic Commerce (in Foreign and Domestic folder). Other topics
represented in the collection include the Boxing Bill; the Communications
Group; the Inter-departmental Communications Committee (in
Communications Committee folder), probably a precursor of the Federal
Communications Commission; and a proposed National Advisory
Council.
Roper's professional views are expressed in the Writings and Speeches
Series primarily while he served as Commissioner of Internal Revenue and as
Secretary of Commerce. The speeches address a number of domestic political
and economic issues, including the relationship of business and government,
government regulation, taxation, economic recovery from the depression, the
U.S. Postal Service, and the role of government in society.
There is scant evidence in these papers relating to Roper's career other
than that as Secretary of Commerce and his speeches as Commissioner of
Internal Revenue. His autobiography, Fifty Years of Public Life in the
Writings and Speeches Series, gives an overview of his career. There is some
information on his career as the First Assistant Postmaster General in the
Alphabetical Series in the Postmaster General file. In that series there is a
little information in Internal Revenue Service folders about his resignation as
Commissioner. In the Clippings Series there is documentation of his brief
service as U.S. Minister to Canada in the summer of 1939. There is a
scrapbook, "My Clippings of Their Majesties' Visit to Canada, 1939," and
loose clippings pertaining to the visit.
Roper's personal life is not well documented in the collection except for
his financial concerns as seen in the Financial Papers Series. The information
in that series relates not only to the investments and bank accounts of Roper
but to his wife Lou McKenzie Roper and their children. There is some
additional information on the Ropers in the various Roper folders and in
other scattered folders under various topics in the Alphabetical Series, and in
the Legal Papers and Pictures in the Miscellaneous Series.
A photograph album entitled, "Sugar: Story in Pictures," concerning
sugar growing in Santo Domingo appears in the Miscellaneous Series. In
addition this series contains photographs of prominent statesmen and others,
such as Bernard Baruch, the British Royal family, William Jennings Bryan,
Grover Cleveland, Josephus Daniels, Averell Harriman, Harold Ickes,
Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and
Woodrow Wilson. An oil portrait of Roper is in the custody of the Special
Collections Library. The Clippings Series includes scattered information on
farming in South Carolina, especially cotton, African Americans, racial
relations, tariffs, the presidential campaign of 1924 and William Gibbs
McAdoo, and Roosevelt's cabinet.
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Subject Headings
These are searchable subject entries for this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials.
- American University (Washington, D.C.)--History.
- Coker College--History.
- Duke University--History.
- United States. Department of Commerce--Officials and employees.
- Agriculture--United States.
- Commerce--United States.
- Depressions--1929--United States.
- New Deal, 1933-1939.
- Politicians--United States--Correspondence.
- Presidents--United States--Election--1932.
- Prohibition--United States.
- Railroads--United States.
- United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945.
- United States--Politics and government--1919-1933.
- United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
- Universities and colleges--United States.
Detailed Description of Collection
Alphabetical, 1927-1943, undated (bulk 1933-1938)
Chiefly typed, professional correspondence to and from Roper, including telegrams, memoranda and carbon copies of Roper's outgoing mail. The bulk was generated during Roper's tenure as Secretary of Commerce. A variety of other material scattered throughout the files includes printed material in the form of pamphlets, booklets, and serials; press releases from the Department of Commerce; reports; addresses by Roper and others; charts and graphs; organizational records from various groups including minutes, budgets, and agendas; clippings; and photographs. A series of folders contains first day covers given to Roper by Postmaster James A. Farley. There is a small amount of personal correspondence and financial information. Two volumes of correspondence are at the end of the series. They are a letterbook of congratulations upon Roper's appointment as Secretary of Commerce with copies of Roper's replies, and "Special Letters of Congratulation to Daniel C. Roper, March 4, 1933," with Roper's replies. Cross-reference sheets prepared by Roper's staff are found frequently throughout the series, many of which appear to refer to a separate set of files not in this collection.
Arranged alphabetically by names of individuals, organizations, or topics, with additional general alphabetical files for each letter of the alphabet. Arranged chronologically within folders.
Box 1
A,
1929-1933, undated
Abbot, Willis J.,
1927-1932, undated
Agriculture,
1927-1930
Allen, Frederick Hobbes,
1932
Allen, George G.,
1932
Allied Forces for Prohibition,
1932
Allotment Bill, Domestic,
1933
American Peace Society,
1930-1933, undated
American University:
1928-1943, undated
(2 folders)
Reorganization Committee,
1932, undated
American Voting Machine Company,
1932, undated
Amory, Copley,
1932-1933, undated
Anderson, Lloyd C.,
1920
Anti-Saloon League of America,
1929-1933
Applications for Government Positions,
1932-1933
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co.,
1943
Auchincloss, Gordon,
1933
Austin, William L.,
1932-1933
Aviation,
1937-1938
Aviation, Inter-Departmental Committee on Civil International Aviation, 1937-1938, undated
Ayres, W. A.,
1929-1931
Ba-Bf,
1918-1943
Baker, James M,
1928-1939
Baker, Newton D.,
1928-1932
Baker, Ray Stannard,
1929
Barkley, Alben W.,
1932-1941
Barristers Lodge No. 48, F.A.A.M.,
1929-1933
Barrol, L. Wethered,
1932
Baruch, Bernard M., 1920,
1928
Baruch, Herman B.,
1928-1933
Bassett, Richard,
1928
Battle, Edgar,
1929-1932
Beil, Fred C.,
1929-1932
Benners, Joseph N.,
1928-1930, undated
Bennett, James R., Jr.,
1928-1932
Bertron, S. R.,
1930-1933
Bg-Bl,
1928-1943
Binder, Julius J.,
1929-1932
Bingham, Robert W.,
1932-1934
Black Bill,
1933
Black, Eugene, 1932,
1943
Blair, David H.,
1928-1929
Blair, Emily Newell,
1929-1932
Blair, Gist,
1932
Bm-Br,
1919-1937
Board of Education (District of Columbia),
1931-1932
(2 folders)
Box 2
Boileau, Ralph E.,
1924-1930
Bolen, Hubert L.,
1928-1932
Bond, Henry Herrick,
1929
Bowen, W. C.,
1929-1930
Bowers, Claude G.,
1928-1937
Bowes, Walter H.,
1928
Boxing Bill,
1927-1930, undated
Bradford, Russell L.,
1930-1932
Bradley, Rolland,
1928-1932
Brandeis, Louis D.,
1932
Bride, Daniel,
1928-1933
Bright, Frank S.,
1928-1929
Brindley, A. R.,
1928-1933
Brookmire Economic Service, Inc.,
1928-1930
Brooks, Henry W., Jr.,
1932
Brown, Arlo Ayres,
1943
Brown, C. M.,
1929-1932
Brown, E. T.,
1927-1932
Brownlow, Louis,
1930-1932
Bryan, William Jennings, Memorial Association,
1930-1933
Bs-Bz,
1928-1936, undated
Buchler, William Paul,
1929
Buckingham, R. T.,
1943
Bulla, Charles D.,
1928-1930
Burkhead, L. L.,
1928-1932
Burleson, A. S.,
1922-1934
Busick, Adrien F.,
1927-1930
Business Advisory Council,
1933-1938
(2 folders)
Byrnes, James F.,
1930-1932
Ca-Cf,
1928-1938
(2 folders)
Cabinet anniversary dinners,
1934-1938
Cabinet meetings,
1933-1938
Caffrey, James Garret,
1933-1936
Caldwell, Rush,
1928-1936
Calhoun, C. C.,
1929-1938
Calhoun, Harry D.,
1935
California Pacific International Exposition,
1935
California Reimbursement Bill,
1932
Callahan, P. H.,
1928-1938
(2 folders)
Callan, Joseph H.,
1917-1933
Campbell, Carlyle,
1928-1943
Canada,
1925-1939
Canaday, Ward M.,
1934-1936
Candler, Warren A.,
1929-1936
Cannon, Bishop James,
1927-1930
Carden, George A,
1928-1938
(2 folders)
Box 3
Carroll, John,
1928-1930
Carroll, Robert P.,
1931-1938
Carter, Amon,
1933-1938
Carter, Boake,
1935-1937
Cary, Harry Francis,
1933-1938
Census:
1933-1938
(2 folders)
"Unemployment Census,"
1937,
1933-1938
Central Statistical Board,
1937
Century of Progress,
1933-1934
Cg-Cl,
1928-1938
(3 folders)
Chadbourne, Thomas L.,
1924-1938
Chadbourne, W. A.,
1932-1938
Chamber of Commerce of the United States,
1930-1934
Champion, Ira T.,
1928-1938
Chatterton, Edward W.,
1928-1934
Chevy Chase Club,
1928-1934
Chilton, W. E.,
1935-1937
China,
1935-1938
Christie, A. C.,
1930-1933
Christmas correspondence,
1938
Church and Welfare Recovery,
1934
Citizens Committee of One Thousand,
1929-1932
Civil Aeronautics Authority,
1938
Civil Service Commission,
1928-1936
Clagett, Brice,
1932-1938
Clark, Clifton,
1929-1933
Clark, Elmer T.,
1933-1937
Clark, M. M.,
1933-1935
Clarke, Bennett Champ,
1933-1937
Clayton, William L.,
1936-1938
Clergymen,
1938
Cloud, Wendell H.,
1929-1937
Club memberships, miscellaneous,
1933-1943
Box 4
Cm-Cr,
1928-1938
(4 folders)
Coal industry, legislation,
1933-1936
Cobb, Zach Lamar,
1929-1935
Cockayne, Selena,
1936-1937
Cohen, John S.,
1933-1935
Coker family,
1920-1944
Coker, D. R., Mr. and Mrs.,
1928-1938
(3 folders)
Coker, Samuel,
1928-1934
Coker College,
1929-1936
Collier, Barron G.,
1935-1937
Collier's magazine,
1936-1937
Collins, Linton M.,
1934-1943
Colquitt, O. B.,
1933-1937
Comer, Donald,
1934
Commerce, Department of,
1926-1942, undated
(2 folders)
Commercial Policy Committee,
1933-1934
Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, statements by Roper,
1933
Communications Committee,
1933-1934
(2 folders)
Communications Committee and Majority Report,
1933-1934
Box 5
Communications Committee:
The President,
1933-1934
Report,
1934, Jan. 23
Communications Group,
1932-1934, undated
(2 folders)
Community Chest of Washington,
1928-1938
Cone, J. Carroll,
1933-1937
Congressional Record,
1935-1936
Contributions, miscellaneous,
1933-1938
Cook, O. W. E.,
1934
Cooksey, George R.,
1931-1933
Coolidge, Marcus A.,
1929-1933
Cooper, Frank,
1929-1933
Cooper, Robert A.,
1928-1935
Copeland, Royal S.,
1935-1938
Costello, John F.,
1932-1938
Costigan, E. P.,
1928-1937
Cotton industry,
1933-1938
Cotton, Hamilton H.,
1933-1936
Covington, Ethel M.,
1933-1934
Cowles, John H.,
1928-1934
Cramer, W. Stuart,
1933
Creel, George,
1933-1938
Crosland, Dana,
1928
Crowell, John F.,
1928-1930
Cs-Cz,
1928-1943
Cuddihy, Robert J.,
1928-1934
Culbertson, William S.,
1929-1937
Cummings, Homer,
1930-1938
(2 folders)
Cummings, Walter J.,
1934-1937
Cupp, Walter R.,
1935-1936
Curley, James M.,
1933-1935
Currie, Daniel J.,
1928-1943
Da-Df,
1928-1943
(2 folders)
Dalrymple, A. V.,
1933-1935
D'Amico, John B.,
1930-1935
Daniel, Thomas H.,
1928-1935
Daniels, Jonathan,
1932-1938
Box 6
Daniels, Josephus,
1927-1943
Darby, W. L.,
1929-1937
Daughters of the American Revolution,
1934-1936
Davies, Joseph E.,
1933-1938
Davis, Ewin L,
1933-1937
Davis, Herbert L.,
1932-1938
Davis, John W.,
1928-1933
Davis, P. M.,
1929-1933
Davison, Philip N.,
1933
Decell, J. L.,
1934-1938
Deflation of government spending,
1932-1933
Degrees and other honors,
1933-1936
Delano, Frederic A.,
1928-1937
Democratic convention,
1928
Democratic League of D.C.,
1936-1938
Democratic National Committee,
1933-1938
Democratic organizations, clubs, etc.,
1933-1938
Denning, William I,
1932-1935
Denny, Collins,
1929-1934
Department of the Interior,
1926-1937
DePhillips, Madeline,
1938
Dern, George H.,
1933-1936
De Titta, Arthur,
1933-1937
De Witt, William C.,
1928-1938
Dg-Dl,
1928-1943
Dial, N.B.,
1928-1937
Diaper, Ernest G.,
1934-1938
Dick, Noble,
1934
Dickinson, John,
1928-1936
Dill, C. C.,
1928-1936
Discharge books, Department of Commerce, 1936-1937
Disney, Wesley E.,
1934-1936
Dix, Howard W,
1930-1937
Dixcy, T. B.,
1929-1933
Dm-Dr,
1928-1943
Dodd, William E.,
1922-1938
(2 folders)
Donovan, Edward,
1935-1938
Doran, J. M.,
1929-1933
Doughton, Robert L.,
1933-1938
Douglas, Charles A.,
1928-1936
Doyle, Michael Francis,
1933-1938
Ds-Dz,
1928-1943
Dudley, Claude W.,
1933-1938
Duke University,
1928-1933, Mar.
(2 folders)
Box 7
Duke University,
1933-1943, undated
(3 folders)
Durbin, W. W.,
1933-1937
Ea-Ef,
1924-1943
Early, Stephen,
1936-1942
Eastman, Joseph B.,
1934-1936
Eaton, Cyrus S.,
1934-1938
Ecumenical Conference,
1932-1936
Education,
1928-1938
Eg-El,
1924-1943
Eisner, Mark,
1933-1938
Elbert, Robert H,.
1934-1937
Election,
1936
Elliott, W. Y.,
1937-1938
Em-Er,
1924-1943
Emig, Clayton E.
1929-1934
Emory University,
1935
Engagements,
1937-1938, undated
Entertainment, Miscellaneous,
1933-1938
Es-Ez,
1924-1943
European trip,
1936-1938
(2 folders)
Evans, John Gary,
1930-1938
Evans, Kathleen,
1933-1938
Excerpts (miscellaneous),
1933-1937, undated
Executive Council,
1933
Executive Orders,
1933-1937
Export-Import Bank of Washington,
1934-1937
Fa-Ff,
1928-1938
Farley, James A.,
1932-1935
(2 folders)
Box 8
Farley, James A.,
1933-1943
(4 folders)
Federal Aviation Commission,
1934
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America,
1932-1938
Federal Emergency Relief Administration,
1933
Federal government reorganization,
1933
Federal Judgeship, Marion, S.C., 1934
Federal Home Loan Bank Board Home Owner's Loan Corporation,
1933-1935
Federal Housing Administration,
1934-1936
Feick, Fred L.,
1932-1936
Fertich, Roscoe,
1934-1938
Feuchtwanger, Joseph,
1928-1933
Few, William P.,
1928-1938
Fg-Fl,
1928-1938
Field, Robert M.,
1932-1937
Filene, Edward A.,
1933-1937
Filene, Lincoln,
1933-1938
Fisheries, Bureau of,
1934-1938
FitzHenry, Louis,
1933
Flax production,
1933-1936
Florida State Bar Association,
1934-1935
Florida vacations,
1934-1942
Flowers, R. L.,
1928-1938
Fm-Fr,
1928-1943
(2 folders)
Ford Motor Company,
1929
Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Bureau of,
1935-1938
(2 folders)
Foreign Service: Retirement Bill,
1938
Foreign Trade:
1933-1938
Reports (George N. Peek)
Foreign Trade Week, celebration of,
1936-1937
Foreign Trade Zones,
1934-1937
Fox, Marvin L.,
1928-1934
Francis, Clarence,
1937-1938
Fraternities,
undated
Frazier, Frank,
1928-1937
Frazier, Virgil H.,
1934-1938
Freed, Allie S.,
1935-1938
Freeman, James E.,
1933-1937
Frensdorf, Edward,
1933-1935
Friant, Julian N.,
1936-1938
Friday, David,
1928
Fs-Fz,
1928-1938
Fullilove, S.C.,
1933
Box 9
Ga-Gf,
1928-1943
(2 folders)
Gannon, Elizabeth,
1936-1937
Gans, Issac,
1933-1937
Gardiner, W. Gwynn,
1933-1938
Garner, John N.,
1930-1938
Gasque, Allard H.,
1928-1938
Garver, Harry H.,
1935-1937
Gell, Harry J.,
1934-1943
Genealogy,
1929-1935
Gentry, J. J.,
1929-1937
Gg-Gl,
1886-1943
Gideons, bibles,
1936
Gifts received by Roper,
1933-1938
Gm-Gr,
1928-1943
(3 folders)
Gonzales, W. E.,
1932-1937
Gore, Robert H.,
1933-1938
Government reorganization,
1933
Grain Futures Act,
1934-1935
Grayson, Cary T.,
1927-1938
Great Lakes Exposition,
1936-1937
Greensboro College,
1935-1937
Greenwood, Moses,
1932-1937
Gridiron Club,
1933-1938
Gs-Gz,
1928-1943
Guffey, Joseph F.,
1936-1938
Gundlach, E. T.,
1928-1938
Ha-Hf,
1928-1943
(4 folders)
Hackett, E. F.,
1936-1938
Hagner, Randall H. and Co.,
1931
Halsey, Edwin A.,
1932-1938
Haly, Percy,
1928-1937
Hamer, Tom M.,
1932-1938
(2 folders)
Hamer, William M.,
1933-1935
Box 10
Hamilton, Norman R.,
1934-1938
Hamlin, Frank, T.,
1928-1933
Haney, Bert E.,
1933
Hansbrough, H. C.,
1932
Hardison, Robert B.,
1934-1937
Harmon, Nolan B.,
1929-1935
Harriman, W. Averell,
1933-1943
Harris, Edwin S.,
1932-1936
Harris, Frederick Brown,
1929-1937
Harrison, William Henry,
1937-1938
Harvey, Richard,
1928-1933
Hathaway, Minnie,
1928-1933
Hawkins, Walter,
1934-1938
Hay, Charles M.,
1928-1943
Hecht, R. S.,
1936-1937
Heflin, J. Thomas,
1934-1938
Heimann, Henry H.,
1933-1943
Helium reserves,
1937
Hentz, Henry and Company,
1929-1938
Hereley, D. G. "Ted,"
1933-1938
Hereley, Hannah M.,
1932-1937
Herman, Raphael,
1928-1938
Hg-Hl,
1928-1943
High, Stanley,
1934-1937
Hildreth, Melvin D.,
1927-1943
Hill, John Wesley,
1933-1936
Hindenburg Accident,
1936-1937
Hm-Hr,
1928-1943
(2 folders)
Hobbs, Franklin W.,
1933-1943
Hodges, Edward P.,
1932-1933
Holt, Hamilton,
1928-1943
Hopkins, Harry,
1933-1938
Hotels,
1928-1938
House, E. M.,
1919-1938
Housing,
1933-1938
Houston, Herbert S.,
1933-1938
Howard, Clinton N.,
1929-1937
Howe, Louis McHenry,
1931-1936
Howell, Clark,
1933-1937
Hoyt, James A.,
1930-1933
Box 11
Hs-Hz,
1928-1943
Hull, Cordell,
1927-1943
Hurley, Edward N.,
1933
Hurrey, Clarence B.,
1932-1939
Hutchinson, Forney,
1932-1937
Hutchinson, J. E.,
1933-1936
I,
1928-1943
Ickes, Harold L.,
1932-1938
Inauguration,
1937
Insurance,
1932-1938
Internal Revenue Service, 1920(2 vols. and 1 folder)
Interstate Commerce Commission,
1933
Irey, Elmer L.,
1932-1938
Ja-Jl,
1928-1938
Jackson, Burris,
1936-1938
Jackson, Charles E.,
1932-1937
Jackson Day Dinner,
1936-1938
Jacobs, Harry L.,
1933-1937
Jamieson, W. D.,
1928-1938
Japanese Economic Mission,
1937, May 11-June 16
Jefferson Islands Club,
1934-1937
Jefferson Memorial,
1936-1938
Jenckes, Virginia E.,
1933-1936
Jennifer, William,
1933-1937
"Jewelers of the United States,"
volume, 1917(?)
Jm-Jz,
1928-1938
Johnson, Hugh S.,
1933-1935
Johnson, J. Monroe, Assistant Secretary of Commerce,
1935-1938
Box 12
Jones, Jessie H.,
1928-1938
Julian, W. A.,
1928-1938
Justice Department,
1933-1938
Ka-Kf,
1928-1943
Kaltenborn, H. V.,
1935-1936
Kempler, William T.,
1933-1938
Kendall, Henry P.,
1933-1938
Kennedy, Joseph P.,
1936-1938
Kern, Paul B.,
1938
Kernahan Campaign, evangelism,
1930
Kg-Kl,
1933-1938
King, W. L. MacKenzie,
1938-1943
Kip, Frederic E.,
1935-1936
Kiwanis Club,
1934-1936
Klien, Ernest L.,
1933-1943
Klinck, J. C.,
1935-1937
Km-Kz,
1928-1943
Knapp, Frank F.,
1929-1936
Knight, Peter O.,
1935-1936
Knoxville, Tenn., tariff controversy,
1931
Kraft, Herman F.,
1933-1938
Kroner, Hayes,
1928-1936
Kuhn, Oliver Owen,
1933-1937
La-Lf,
1928-1943
(3 folders)
Labor Department,
1933-1938
Lamar, Lucy,
1933-1937
Lambeth, William A.,
1928-1943
Lamport, Sam C.,
1933-1937
Landon, Alf M., 1936campaign
Lane, Alex M.,
1933-1938
Lane, Julius J.,
1928-1938
Latimer, J. Austin,
1936-1938
Lauck, W. Jett,
1932
Law, William A.,
1933-1936
Laws, Bolitha J.,
1928-1938
Box 13
Lawson, Martin E.,
1929-1936
Lawton, J. J.,
1932-1938
League of Nations Association,
1928-1938
Leete, Frederick D.,
1934-1938
Legge, Alexander,
1929-1936
Legislation, U.S. Congress,
1933-1938
L'Enfant, Pierre Charles, Memorial,
1928-1930
Letts, John C.,
1929-1936
Lewine, Jerome,
1929
Lewis, J. Hamilton,
1932-1936
Lg-Ll,
1928-1943
Lightfoot, M. D.,
1928-1929
Lightle, James F.,
1932
Liquor Control Committee,
1933
(3 folders)
Lm-Lr,
1928-1943
Long, Breckinridge,
1933-1937
Long, Richard Henry,
1928-1943
Loose, Ella,
1935-1943
Lord, J. A.,
1928-1938
Love, Thomas B.,
1928-1943
(2 folders)
Lowson, Frank,
1932
Ls-Lz,
1928-1943
Ludlow, Louis,
1928-1938
Ma-Mf,
1928-1943
(4 folders)
Box 14
Ma-Mf,
1928-1943
(2 folders)
MacFadden, Bernarr,
1934-1937
MacRae, Hugh,
1928-1936
Mahany, Rowland B.,
1928-1932
Mahoney, William V.,
1936
Malone, Paul B.,
1933-1937
Maloney, Thomas,
1933-1938
Marine Inspection and Navigation, Bureau of,
1937-1938
Maritime Commission, United States,
1936-1938
Marshall, Rowland S.,
1933-1936
Marshall, Stuart B.,
1932-1933
Martin, A. E.,
1932-1936
Martin, George,
1933-1935
Martin, Harry,
1902-1937
Martin, Rex,
1934-1937
Masons,
1929-1938
Mattern, James J.,
1937
Matthews, Ben C.,
1933-1937
Mattox, E. Tilden,
1935-1937
Maybank, Burnet,
1936-1943
McAdoo, William Gibbs,
1916-1939
(2 folders)
McArdle, Ruskin,
1932-1938
McArdle, Willett,
1934-1935
McCall, Chester H.,
1933-1938
McColl, Delle Roper,
1929-1937
McColl, Eulah,
1928-1938
McColl, J. B.,
1932-1935
McConihe, Malcolm S.,
1933-1937
McCormick Vance C.,
1928-1940
McCormick, Willoughby M.,
1931-1932
McCulloch, J. E.,
1928-1938
McDonald, Capt. J. J.,
1917-1932
McGrath, John J.,
1933-1938
McGurn, Arthur J.,
1936
McIntyre, Marvin H.,
1933-1943
McKee, William A.,
1933-1937
McKellar, Kenneth,
1934-1938
McKenzie, William N., Sr.,
1928-1938
McKenzie, William N., Jr.,
1932-1938
McLaurin, Sidney L.,
1932-1940
McLean, Angus W.,
1928-1937
McLendon and Hedrick, lawyers,
1928
McLeod, F. H.,
1933-1936
McMillan, E. J.,
1933-1938
McMillan, Thomas S.
1937-1938
McMorran, C. W.,
1935-1938
McNeal, George H.,
1929-1936
McNeil, Archibald,
1933-1936
McRae, A. C., Jr.,
1934-1938
McSwain, J. J.,
1932-1936
Mead, George H.,
1933-1938
Meekins, Lynn W.,
1936-1938
Mellon, Andrew W.,
1928
Box 15
Memberships, miscellaneous,
1933-1938
Memoranda, miscellaneous,
1932-1938
Merchant Marine,
1933-1938
Meredith, E. T.,
1920-1929
Merger of D.C. utilities,
1932
Messages,
1933-1938
(2 folders)
Methodist Church,
1929-1943, undated
(2 folders)
Methodist Episcopal Church, South:
Committee on Appeals,
1931-1932
General conference,
1930
Judicial Council,
1928-1929
Mg-Ml,
1928-1943
Michelson, Charles,
1932-1938
Middleton, Hugh Calhoun,
1933-1935
Miles, Vincent,
1933-1938
Millar, A. C.,
1933-1938
Miller, Douglas,
1936-1937
Miller, Hugh,
1933
Miller, Izetta Jewell,
1933-1937
Miller, Justin,
1932-1938
Miller, Milton A.
1932-1935
Milton, George Fort,
1928-1943
(2 folders)
Mitchell, Ewing Y.,
1928-1934
Mm-Mr,
1928-1943
(2 folders)
Moehlenpah, H. A.,
1929-1933
Moley, Raymond,
1933-1935
Monopolies,
1937-1938
Montgomery, Mabel,
1933-1937
Moody, Alvin,
1928-1932
Mooney, James D.,
1933-1937
Moore, Arthur J.,
1936-1938
Morgan, W. Forbes,
1932-1937
Morgenthau, Henry,
1933-1937
Morris, Ira Nelson,
1934-1938
Morrison, Charles C.,
1937
Morrison, R. W.,
1933-1938
Morro Castle, steamboat sinking,
1934
Morse, V. D.,
1928-1935
Box 16
Motion pictures,
1933-1938
Mott, John R.,
1932
Mount Vernon Place Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
1928-1938
(2 folders)
Moyer, J. S.,
1937-1938
Ms-Mz,
1928-1943
Murphy, Frederick E.,
1934-1937
Murphy, Louis J.,
1932-1937
Murrell, John M., Mr. and Mrs.,
1933-1938
Na-Nf,
1928-1943
(2 folders)
Narcotics,
1936-1937
National Advisory Council,
1931-1935
National Benefit Life Insurance Company,
1931-1938
(2 folders)
National Business Show,
1936-1937
National Conference of Jews and Christians,
1931-1933
National Emergency Council,
1933-1936
National Institute of Public Affairs,
1934-1938
National organizations, miscellaneous,
1930-1938
National Preaching Mission,
1936
National Recovery Administration,
1933-1937
(3 folders)
National Safety Council,
1934-1935
National University,
1935-1938
National Woman's Democratic Law Enforcement League,
1929
Neblett, William H.,
1934-1936
Negroes,
1933-1938
Nesbit, Scott,
1932-1935
Neutrality, United States,
1936-1937
New England Society of South Carolina,
1934
Box 17
Newspapers, magazines, etc.,
1933-1938
(2 folders)
Newton, Byron R.,
1928-1938
New York World's Fair,
1937-1939
Ng-Nz,
1928-1943
Niles, Frank B.,
1927-1932
Nippert, Alfred K.,
1932-1943
Noyes, Theodore W.,
1937-1938
Nunn, C. S.,
1928-1935
Nutt, L. G.,
1928-1935
Oa-Ol,
1926-1941
Obici, A.,
1934-1938
O'Connell, William L.,
1935-1936
O'Connor, J. F. T.,
1933-1938
Oleson, Anna Dickie,
1932-1937
Om-Oz,
1926-1941
Omicron Delta Kappa (Duke University),
1929-1936
Owen, Robert L.,
1932-1938
Owen, Ruth Bryan,
1929-1935
Oxford Group,
1934-1936
Pa-Pf,
1928-1943
(2 folders)
Palaver Club,
1931-1937
Palmer, A. Mitchell,
1932-1936
Parker, Walter,
1935-1938
Patent Centennial,
1936, Nov. 23
Patent Office and patents, miscellaneous,
1935-1938
Patterson, Jean Rushmore,
1932
Patterson, Richard C., Jr.,
1935-1938
Payer, Harry F.,
1933-1939
Peabody, George Foster,
1932-1937
Peacock, J. Craig,
1932-1937
Pearlstine, S.S.,
1934-1938
Penn Club,
1935
Perkins, Frances,
1933-1937
Perkins, W. R.,
1932-1933
Personnel (miscellaneous),
1933-1938
Peters, Andrew J.,
1917-1938
Box 18
Peters, James W. S.,
1933-1937
Pg-Pl,
1928-1943
Philadelphia Convention,
1936
Phillips, G. Z.,
1928-1936
Pickett, Deets,
1927-1937
Pinci, A. R.,
1932-1940
Pleasantaire Corporation,
1937
Pm-Pr,
1928-1943
(2 folders)
Poe, Clarence,
1933-1938
Poland Spring House, Maine,
1932-1937
Poling, Daniel A.,
1930-1937
Politics: 1932 Democratic National Campaign,
1932
(10 folders)
Politics:
1936 Democratic National Campaign,
1936
1938 Democratic National Campaign,
1938
Democratic Party,
1928-1938
(6 folders)
Pomerene, Atlee,
1928-1937
Portraits,
1934-1936
Box 19
Postmaster General:
Free Delivery Service,
1860-1911
Precedents and Practice,
1915
Box 20
Pratt, G. W.,
1928-1938
President's birthday ball,
1935-1938
President's Cup Regatta,
1934-1938
Press,
1936-1938
Press Club,
1932-1938
Press Conferences,
1934-1938
Press Releases (Department of Commerce),
1933-1938
(10 folders)
Press, miscellaneous,
undated
Price, Jesse D.,
1935
Price, John W.,
1927-1938
Price, Katherine Z.,
1935-1937
Price, Theodore H.
1928-1935
Prohibition,
1927-1936
(2 folders)
Prohibition, 1932 Campaign,
1932
Prohibition, (law enforcement),
1928-1929
Ps-Pz,
1928-1938
Public Works Administration,
1933-1938
Publicity Bureau, Department of Commerce
(H. R. Daniel),
1938
Purdy, E. A.,
1932-1937
Q,
1932-1938
Questionnaires, miscellaneous (Roper's responses),
1933-1938
Box 21
Quinn, Stanley J.,
1932-1935
Ra-Rf,
1928-1943
(2 folders)
Radio (addresses and miscellaneous),
1928-1938
Railroads,
1933-1938
Rainey, Henry T.,
1928-1935
Randolph, Hollis N.,
1928-1938
Rankin, William H.,
1933-1938
Raper, C. L.,
1932-1943
Rayburn, Sam,
1933-1938
Recommendations (miscellaneous),
1937-1938
Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
1932-1938
Reisner, Christian F.,
1930-1939
Religion and religious groups,
1932-1938
Religion and Welfare Recovery,
1934-1937
Reorganization of U.S. Government Departments,
1933-1937
Reports (cross-references),
1935-1938
Revere, C. T.,
1932-1939
Rg-Rl,
1928-1943
Richberg, Donald,
1935-1939
Rippy, J. Fred,
1932-1937
Rm-Rr,
1928-1943
(2 folders)
Robert, Lawrence Wood, Jr.,
1933-1939
Roberts, Coleman W.,
1934-1937
Roberts, George M.,
1933-1938
Robins, William L.,
1928-1939
Robinson, David,
1937
Robinson, Elsie,
1932-1934
Robinson, Joseph T.,
1933-1937
Rockefeller, John D.,
1934-1937
Rogers, Elmer E.,
1932-1939
Rogers, James Harvey,
1932-1939
Rogers, Sallie C.,
1933
Rogers Will,
1933-1938
Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida,
1928-1937
Roosevelt, Eleanor,
1933-1939
Roosevelt, Franklin D.:
1919-1943, undated
Miscellaneous memoranda,
1933-1938
(3 folders)
Secretary Louis McH. Howe,
1933-1934
Box 22
Roosevelt, James,
1933-1938
Root, Nelly Hall,
1928-1937
Roper, A. Kent,
1932-1933
Roper, Alvin W.,
1928
Roper, Daniel C.:
Biographical,
1913-1938, undated
Personal,
1928-1939
Roper, Daniel C. Jr.,
1920-1938
(2 folders)
Roper, Harry McK.,
1928-1938
Roper, Jack C.,
1928-1938
Roper, James Hunter,
1930-1938
Roper, John Wesley,
1929-1937
Roper, Lou McKenzie:
A-Z
(3 folders)
Miscellaneous
Roper, Richard Fred,
1928-1937
(3 folders)
Roper, T. W.,
1928-1932
Roper family,
1886-1943, undated
Roper genealogy, family history, etc.,
1933-1938
Roper residence, Washington, D.C., 1925-1938, undated
Roper, miscellaneous,
1933-1938
Rosser, C. M.,
1930-1937
Rothchild, Meyer D.,
1932-1936
Rowe, L. S.,
1928-1943
Box 23
Rs-Rz,
1928-1943
Rukeyser, Merryle S.,
1933-1938
Russell, Charles Edward,
1935-1937
Russell, William J.,
1928-1939
Russia, miscellaneous,
1933-1937
Rustin, John W.,
1937-1939
Sa-Sf,
1930-1939
(4 folders)
Sabella, Ricardo H.,
1936-1937
St. Clair, Labert,
1933-1939
Saltzman, Charles McK.,
1933-1938, undated
Salvation Army,
1933-1938
Sanders, Jared Y.,
1932-1933
Sanford, Fred L.,
1932-1943
Scarborough, J. H.,
1933-1938
Seagrave, Arthur E.,
1935-1938
Seeligson, Arthur A.,
1932-1929
Seibels, Edwin G.,
1935-1939
Sells, Cato,
1930-1939
Senatorial campaigns, contributions,
1932
Sg-Sl,
1930-1943, undated
(3 folders)
Shaver, C. L.,
1930-1936
Shaw, Albert,
1936-1939
Shaw, Alex C.,
1930-1933
Shepherd, Jesse L.,
1937-1939
Sheppard, Morris,
1933-1939
Sherwood, Carlton M.,
1933-1943
Shinn, Earl Whittier,
1938-1939
Shipping,
1934-1937
Shoemaker, Samuel M.,
1937-1938
Sholtz, David,
1934-1939
Showalter, William J.,
1930-1933
Shuff, John L.,
1930-1939
Shure, Ralph G.,
1931-1936, undated
Shutts, Frank B.,
1935-1939
Sibley, Harper,
1936-1939
Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity,
1932-1938
(3 folders)
Silverman, Samuel W.,
1932-1938, undated
Simmons, Furnifold M.,
1929-1938
Sinnot, John F.,
1934-1937
Slemp, C. Bascom,
1930-1937
Sloane, George A.,
1935-1938
Box 24
Sm-Sr,
1886-1939, undated
(3 folders)
Small, John H.,
1930-1937
Small Business Men's Conference,
1938
Smith, Arthur C.,
1933-1937
Smith, Elizabeth,
1932-1935
Smith, Ellison D.,
1932-1938
Smith, Frank,
1933-1938
Smith, Fred B.,
1933-1937
Smith, Rembert G.,
1935-1937
Smith, Tom K.,
1938-1943
Smith, W. Angie,
1934-1937
Smith, Willis,
1932-1937
Snell, Arthur V.,
1932-1933
Société Amonyme des Minerais,
1939
Sommers, H. A.,
1934-1936
Soong, T. V.,
1933-1940
South Carolina, miscellaneous,
1932-1939, undated
Southeastern Development Board,
1934
Southern Society of Washington,
1930-1937
Sowell, Ashley B.,
1934-1943
Spivey, Ludd M.,
1930-1937
Splawn, Walter M. W.,
1930-1937
SS President Hoover,
1938
Ss-Sz,
1930-1943, undated
(3 folders)
Stackhouse, M. Steed,
1932-1937, undated
Stackhouse, T. B.,
1926-1939, undated
Stackhouse, Texie,
1933, undated
Stackhouse, Wade,
1932-1938
Stackhouse, Walter F.,
1930-1939
Stackhouse, Will,
1930-1943
Standards, Bureau of,
1934
State Department,
1933-1938, undated
Stettinius, Edward R., Jr.,
1933-1943
Steuart, William M.,
1930-1933