Box 2
Container
Contains 4 Collections and/or Records:
Thank-you party for the campaign workers of Helen Gahagan Douglas following her first election to Congress, 1944
Item — Box: 2
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_9_2_0000_111
Scope and Contents
The Douglas Collection covers the former congresswoman's life from her early stage career until her death in 1980. Because the bulk of the materials document her years in Congress, the collection is especially rich in covering events and issues central to the immediate post-World War II era. Due to her service on the Foreign Affairs Committee, there is a large amount of material on the earliest years of the Cold War and the establishment of the new world order. Other topics of note include the...
Bottom row center: Helen Gahagan Douglas, bottom right: Jack Kroll. Tow row center: State Senator George Lucky, 1948
Item — Box: 2
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_9_2_0000_123
Scope and Contents
Others are Ohio C.I.O.-P.A.C. union men.
Helen Gahagan Douglas and Eleanor Roosevelt at a reception for ladies in Congress, 1945
Item — Box: 2
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_9_2_0000_131
Scope and Contents
Washington, D.C. 1945. Tenschert Photo Company photograph.
Helen Gahagan Douglas with Zeta Rimley on her right and a group of people in front of a Douglas for U.S. Senate headquarters, 1950
Item — Box: 2
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_9_2_0000_199
Scope and Contents
The Douglas Collection covers the former congresswoman's life from her early stage career until her death in 1980. Because the bulk of the materials document her years in Congress, the collection is especially rich in covering events and issues central to the immediate post-World War II era. Due to her service on the Foreign Affairs Committee, there is a large amount of material on the earliest years of the Cold War and the establishment of the new world order. Other topics of note include the...