Rare Books and Special Collections
University of South Carolina Libraries
Flynn Harrell Papers, 1948 – 1981
(bulk 1949 - 1950)
Collection: MSS. 1981: 1
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Flynn Harrell Papers, 1948 – 1981
Collection Number: MSS. 1981: 1
Creator: Flynn Harrell
Extent: 3 cubic feet (2 archival boxes, 1 oversized folder)
Administrative Information
Provenance: Gift, 1981.
Processed by: Bruce Langley
Access Restrictions: None
Preferred Citation: Flynn Harrell Papers, Rare Books and Special Collections, University of South Carolina Libraries.
Publication Rights: All rights reside with the creator.
Scope and Content Note
Collection of
photographs and letters from political and other national figures
throughout the United States mainly during the Truman Administration:
includes cabinet members, senators, congressmen, state governors,
Supreme Court justices, and other miscellaneous leaders. Prominent
national figures include Dean Acheson, George C. Marshall, Margaret
Chase Smith, Hubert H. Humphrey, John Foster Dulles, Olin D. Johnston,
Lyndon B. Johnson, Omar N. Bradley, J. Edgar Hoover, Dwight D.
Eisenhower, Early Warren, Adlai Stevenson, Thomas E. Dewey, and J.
Strom Thurmond. The letters and photographs were sent in response to a
request of the donor. The vast majority of them are autographed and
many are also inscribed. Written donor notes are on the back of the
photographs. The collection also contains correspondence listing each
figure who responded to the donor’s request.
Contents
Box
Correspondence ............................................................................................................................................................. 1
Cabinet
Members ........................................................................................................................................................... 1
Miscellaneous Educational, Military, and
Political
Leaders .......................................................................................... 1
State
Governors .............................................................................................................................................................. 1
U.S.
Congressmen ........................................................................................................................................................... 1
U.S.
Senators ................................................................................................................................................................... 2
U. S. Supreme Court
Justices .......................................................................................................................................... 2
Oversized
photographs ................................................................................................................................................... O.
Folder
Container List
Box Folder
1 1 Correspondence,
26 Jan. 1981 – 23 Feb. 1981, no date
1 2 Cabinet
members, 1948 – 1949, Truman Administration
1 3 Miscellaneous
Educational, Military, and Political Leaders, 1949 – 1950
1 4 State
Governors, 1946 – 1975, Alabama – Wyoming
1 5 U.S.
Congressmen, 1949 – 1951
2 1 U.S.
Senators, 1949 – 1952, Alabama – Nevada
2 2 U.S.
Senators, 1949 – 1952, New Jersey – Wisconsin
2 3 U.S.
Supreme Court Justices, 1949 – 1950
Oversized Folder Oversized photographs
Secretary of Defense, Louis Johnson
United States Air Chief of Staff, Hoyt S. Vandenberg
John S. Battle
Raymond C. Baldwin
Herbert R. O’Conor
Edward J. Thye
Robert A. Taft
Estes Kefauver
A. Willis Robertson
John W. Bricker
Associate Justice, Harold H. Buton