Box 83
Container
Contains 3 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence
Item — Box: 83, Folder: 5
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_4.1_83_5_1
Scope and Contents
Automatic typing machines for members of Congress; H.R.7786; Subsidy Limitation in Omnibus Appropriation Bill; appropriations for heart research; funds for insect quarantine; H.R.7941, Whittington Bill; Forestry Budget.
P.L.81-146 (H.R.3997)
Item — Box: 83, Folder: 5
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_4.1_83_5_2
Scope and Contents
Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1950, and for other purposes.
Appropriations
File — Box: 83, Folder: 5
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_4.1_83_5_0000
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...