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Archival Manuscript/Mixed Formats (Collection)Oscar S Straus papers, 1856-1955

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Description

• 37,000 items.
• 50 containers plus 1 oversize.
• 1 microfilm reel.
• 21 linear feet.

Access advisory

• Open to research.

Finding aids

• Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011238 opens in a new window

Local shelving no.

• 0535J
• Oversize 5:1
• Microfilm 8,924-1N-1P

Biography/History note

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

Organized/Arranged

• Arranged in five series. Series 1: Correspondence, 1856-1931; Series 2: Diaries and Notebooks, 1871-1923; Series 3: Scrapbooks, 1885-1926; Series 4: Miscellany, 1868-1955; and Series 5: Addition, 1927-1954.

Summary

• Correspondence, diaries, speeches, writings, notebooks, legal records, pamphlets, clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, memorabilia, and other papers relating chiefly to Straus's service as U.S. minister and ambassador to the Ottoman Empire (Turkey), U.S. secretary of commerce and labor, and member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, Hague, Netherlands. Also documents his activities with the National Civic Foundation, New York (State) Public Service Commission, League to Enforce Peace, and the Industrial Conference held in Washington, D.C., 1919-1920. Subjects include a visit to Egypt in 1888, railway wage negotiations, religious liberty in the Ottoman Empire, Romania, Russia, World War I, and Louis Lavanburg. 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 Jr., William McKinley, Adolph S. Ochs, George Foster Peabody, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Isidor Straus, Nathan Straus, William H. Taft, and Woodrow Wilson.

LC Subjects

• [Bacon, Robert, 1860-1919--Correspondence.](search?searchArg=Bacon, Robert, 1860-1919--Correspondence.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Barrett, John, 1866-1938--Correspondence.](search?searchArg=Barrett, John, 1866-1938--Correspondence.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Bayard, Thomas F. (Thomas Francis), 1828-1898--Correspondence.](search?searchArg=Bayard, Thomas F. %28Thomas Francis%29, 1828-1898--Correspondence.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947--Correspondence.](search?searchArg=Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947--Correspondence.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence.](search?searchArg=Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908--Correspondence.](search?searchArg=Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908--Correspondence.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933--Correspondence.](search?searchArg=Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933--Correspondence.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Easley, Ralph M. (Ralph Montgomery), 1858---Correspondence.](search?searchArg=Easley, Ralph M. %28Ralph Montgomery%29, 1858---Correspondence.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Garfield, James Rudolph, 1865-1950--Correspondence.](search?searchArg=Garfield, James Rudolph, 1865-1950--Correspondence.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Griscom, Lloyd Carpenter, 1872-1959--Correspondence.](search?searchArg=Griscom, Lloyd Carpenter, 1872-1959--Correspondence.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923--Correspondence.](search?searchArg=Harding, Warren G. %28Warren Gamaliel%29, 1865-1923--Correspondence.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901--Correspondence.](search?searchArg=Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901--Correspondence.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Hay, John, 1838-1905--Correspondence.](search?searchArg=Hay, John, 1838-1905--Correspondence.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Kohns, Lee, 1864-1927--Correspondence.](search?searchArg=Kohns, Lee, 1864-1927--Correspondence.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Lansing, Robert, 1864-1928--Correspondence.](search?searchArg=Lansing, Robert, 1864-1928--Correspondence.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Lavanburg, Louis.](search?searchArg=Lavanburg, Louis.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Loeb, William, Jr., 1866-1937--Correspondence.](search?searchArg=Loeb, William, Jr., 1866-1937--Correspondence.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [McKinley, William, 1843-1901--Correspondence.](search?searchArg=McKinley, William, 1843-1901--Correspondence.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Ochs, Adolph S. (Adolph Simon), 1858-1935--Correspondence.](search?searchArg=Ochs, Adolph S. %28Adolph Simon%29, 1858-1935--Correspondence.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Peabody, George Foster, 1852-1938--Correspondence.](search?searchArg=Peabody, George Foster, 1852-1938--Correspondence.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919--Correspondence.](search?searchArg=Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919--Correspondence.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Root, Elihu, 1845-1937--Correspondence.](search?searchArg=Root, Elihu, 1845-1937--Correspondence.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Straus, Isidor, 1845-1912.](search?searchArg=Straus, Isidor, 1845-1912.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Straus, Isidor, 1845-1912--Correspondence.](search?searchArg=Straus, Isidor, 1845-1912--Correspondence.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Straus, Nathan, 1848-1931--Correspondence.](search?searchArg=Straus, Nathan, 1848-1931--Correspondence.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930--Correspondence.](search?searchArg=Taft, William H. %28William Howard%29, 1857-1930--Correspondence.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924--Correspondence.](search?searchArg=Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924--Correspondence.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Strauss family.](search?searchArg=Strauss family.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [New York (State). Public Service Commission.](search?searchArg=New York %28State%29. Public Service Commission.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [United States. Department of Commerce and Labor.](search?searchArg=United States. Department of Commerce and Labor.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [League to Enforce Peace (U.S.)](search?searchArg=League to Enforce Peace %28U.S.%29&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [National Civic Federation.](search?searchArg=National Civic Federation.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Permanent Court of Arbitration.](search?searchArg=Permanent Court of Arbitration.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Industrial Conference (1919-1920 : Washington, D.C.)](search?searchArg=Industrial Conference %281919-1920 : Washington, D.C.%29&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Arbitration (International law)](search?searchArg=Arbitration %28International law%29&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Diplomatic and consular service, American--Turkey.](search?searchArg=Diplomatic and consular service, American--Turkey.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Industrial relations--United States.](search?searchArg=Industrial relations--United States.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Labor policy--United States.](search?searchArg=Labor policy--United States.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Freedom of religion--Turkey.](search?searchArg=Freedom of religion--Turkey.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Wages--Railroads--United States.](search?searchArg=Wages--Railroads--United States.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [World War, 1914-1918.](search?searchArg=World War, 1914-1918.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Egypt--Description and travel.](search?searchArg=Egypt--Description and travel.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• Romania.
• Russia.
• [Turkey--Foreign relations--United States.](search?searchArg=Turkey--Foreign relations--United States.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.](search?searchArg=Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [United States--Economic policy.](search?searchArg=United States--Economic policy.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• [United States--Foreign relations--Turkey.](search?searchArg=United States--Foreign relations--Turkey.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 "More Like This")
• Authors.
• Businessmen.
• Cabinet officers.
• Diplomats.
• Lawyers.

Notes

• Pamphlet transferred to Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division.
• Collection material in English.

Acquisition source

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

Cite as

• Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Oscar S. Straus Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Additional formats

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

Other standard no.

• MSS41749

Repository

• Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home opens in a new window

Type of material

• Archival Manuscript/Mixed Formats (Collection)

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