Hidden Collections Registry - Dev

Massachusetts Men on the National Political Stage: The Papers of Richard Wigglesworth, Robert Valentine, C.P. Curtis, George Williams, & Richard Olney

The MHS seeks funding to arrange and describe (i.e. process) the papers of five Massachusetts men who served on the national and international political stage: Richard B. Wigglesworth (1891-1960), counsel and representative for organizations created under the Dawes Plan following the default of German reparation payments after World War I, member of Congress, 1928-1958, and Ambassador to Canada,1958-1960; Richard Olney (1835-1917), US Attorney General, 1893-1895, and Secretary of State during the boundary dispute between Great Britain and Venezuela over British Guiana,1895-1897; Robert G. Valentine (1872-1916), commissioner of Indian affairs, 1909-1912, founder of the field of industrial relations counseling; and owner of the "House of Truth," a Washington, DC location where intellectuals gathered to discuss issues of the early 20th century; Charles P. Curtis (1891-1959), Assistant to Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, 1941, creator of Massachusetts's Fair Employment Practice Act, and author of The Oppenheimer Case: The Trial of a Security System (1955) about the revocation of J. Robert Oppenheimer's government security clearance in 1954 during the red scare; and US Representative and civil service reformer George Fred Williams (1852-1932). All five collections are closed to researchers pending processing. The project will result in five searchable EAD-encoded finding aids at the MHS website and recommend changes in processing and reference services at the MHS.

Cataloging Hidden Collections

2009

1837 - 1962

The collections cover US national politics and American foreign relations with Germany and all of Europe after World War II, South America and Canada.

196 linear feet

Massachusetts Historical Society

542

Brenda Lawson

False