Contents
Collection Overview
Biographical Note
Scope and Contents of the Collection
Organization of the Collection
Search Terms
Series 1: Correspondence
ca. 1970-1983
Series 2: School Days,
1927-1933
Series 3: Writings,
1934-1981
Series 4: Scrapbook Folders,
1939-1983
Series 5: Subject Files,
n.d.
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Alfred Friendly (AC 1933) Papers, 1911-1983 (Bulk 1927-1982)
Finding Aid
Finding aid prepared by Jess Mynes, Peter A. Nelson.
Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
© 2007
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Creator:
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Friendly, Alfred (1911-1983) |
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Title:
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Alfred Friendly (AC 1933) Papers |
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Dates:
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1911-1983 |
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Dates:
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1927-1982 |
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Abstract:
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and longtime managing editor of the Washington Post. Collection consists of correspondence and writings by Friendly, including columns written for the Washington Post or for other publications, manuscripts, and various other endeavors. |
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Extent:
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5 records storage boxes, 10 flat boxes, 1 half archives box(8 linear ft.) |
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Language:
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English and
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Alfred Friendly, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and longtime managing editor of the Washington Post, was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, the son of Edward Rosenbaum and Harriet Friendly. Friendly graduated from Amherst College in 1933 with high honors in German. Shortly after graduation, Willard Thorp, one of Friendly's former economics professors, helped him to secure a position at the U. S. Department of Commerce in Washington. Friendly later worked for Thorp in New York City on the reorganization of Associated Gas & Electric. From 1935 to 1936, Friendly and his friend Chalmers M. Roberts traveled around the United States; this experience, which the two men chronicled in an account entitled "The Trek: or, Adventures in Depression America," reportedly had a profound impact on Friendly.
Friendly worked for the Washington Daily News, the precursor to the Washington Post, which he joined as a reporter in 1939. During World War II he served in the Army Air Corps, Military Intelligence Service, earning the rank of Major. After the war he worked for a year in Paris as press chief for W. Averell Harriman. He became managing editor of The Washington Post in 1955 and helped to transform the newspaper into a national publication of great renown during a crucial formative period in its history. Friendly retired as managing editor in 1965 and moved to London to become a roving correspondent for the Post. In this capacity Friendly won a Pulitzer Prize in journalism for coverage of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. Friendly retired from journalism in 1971 but continued to write columns on many occasions.
Friendly served as an Amherst College trustee from 1961 to 1967. His diverse personal interests included archaeology, mathematics, naval history and atomic energy. His interest in archaeology prompted him to take a house in Turkey in 1971. Alfred Friendly was the author of several books, including "The Guys on the Ground" (1944); "Crime and Publicity: the Impact of News on the Administration of Justice" (with Ronald L. Goldfarb, 1967); "Israel's Oriental Immigrants and Druzes" (1972); "Beaufort of the Admiralty: the Life of Sir Francis Beaufort, 1774-1857" (1977); and "The Dreadful Day: the Battle of Manzikert, 1071" (1981).
Friendly was married with five children. Suffering from terminal throat and lung cancer near the end of his life, Friendly committed suicide in his Georgetown apartment on November 7, 1983 at the age of 71.
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The collection consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence, and writings by Friendly: columns written for the Washington Post (or its precursor, the Washington Daily News), or for other publications; manuscripts; and various other endeavors. The majority of the collection is housed in scrapbooks compiled by Friendly himself.
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This collection is organized into five series:
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Series 1: Correspondence
ca. 1970-1983
Series 1, Correspondence, ca. 1970-1983, includes letters with intimates as well as more formal letters.
Folders are arranged alphabetically by correspondent name, with unidentified correspondence at the end.
Box
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Folder
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Correspondence - A
ca. 1970-1983
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Correspondence - B
ca. 1970-1983
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Correspondence - C
ca. 1970-1983
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Correspondence - D
ca. 1970-1983
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Correspondence - E
ca. 1970-1983
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Correspondence - F
ca. 1970-1983
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Correspondence - G
ca. 1970-1983
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Correspondence - H
ca. 1970-1983
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Correspondence - I
ca. 1970-1983
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Correspondence - J
ca. 1970-1983
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Correspondence - K
ca. 1970-1983
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Correspondence - L
ca. 1970-1983
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Correspondence - Mc
ca. 1970-1983
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Correspondence - M
ca. 1970-1983
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Correspondence - N
ca. 1970-1983
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Correspondence - O
ca. 1970-1983
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Correspondence - P
ca. 1970-1983
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Correspondence - Q-R
ca. 1970-1983
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Correspondence - Random House
1977-1981
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Correspondence - S
ca. 1970-1983
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Correspondence - S
ca. 1970-1983
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Correspondence - T
ca. 1970-1983
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Correspondence - U
ca. 1970-1983
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Correspondence - V
ca. 1970-1983
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Correspondence - W
ca. 1970-1983
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Correspondence - X-Z
ca. 1970-1983
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27 |
Correspondence - unidentified
ca. 1970-1983
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Series 2: School Days,
1927-1933
Series 2, School Days, 1927-1933, contains high school and college materials, including yearbooks and school publications of original work.
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Folder
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27a |
Autograph album
1925-1926
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28 |
"Eastonia" (high school yearbook)
1927
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29 |
"Eastonia" (high school yearbook)
1929
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30 |
"Amherst Student"
1930-31
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31 |
Amherst essays and plays
1929-1933
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34 |
Amherst memorabilia
1929-1933
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Series 3: Writings,
1934-1981
Series 3, Writings, 1934-1981, comprise the newspaper columns, articles, books and
other pieces written by Alfred Friendly, in manuscript or published form. For
Friendly's post-1938 writings in the Washington Daily News, see Series 4, Scrapbook Folders.
Material is arranged alphabetically by subject or title.
Box
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Folder
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36 |
Africa
1959-1962
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37 |
"Beaufort of the Admiralty"
1977
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"Beaufort of the Admiralty"
1977
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Folder
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"Beaufort of the Admiralty"
1977-1982
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Children's Stories - miscellaneous
1978-1988
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Children's Stories - "The Billwitz"
n.d.
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Children's Stories - "Dragomir"
n.d.
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Children's Stories - "Dragomir"
n.d.
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Children's Stories - "Dragomir" - 2 copies of book
1988
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Children's Stories - "The Great Battle Between the /s and the &s"
n.d.
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Children's Stories - "The Great Somersault Epidemic"
n.d.
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Children's Stories - "Mr. Grabbem and the Space Business"
n.d.
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Children's Stories - "Stanislaus"
n.d.
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Children's Stories - "Stanislaus"
n.d.
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Children's Stories - "Strange Affair at De Poopcy Castle"
n.d.
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Children's Stories - "Stroganoff"
n.d.
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Children's Stories - "The Strong Weak Finish"
n.d.
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Children's Stories - "Whitman the Whale"
n.d.
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Children's Stories - "Windswept House" - correspondence
1987
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Children's Stories - manuscripts and correspondence
n.d.
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Children's Stories - "Editor's Ink" - correspondence
1987-1988
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Christmas Verses
1948-1965
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21 |
Christmas Verses
1953-1954
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Commonplace Books - research
n.d.
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Commonplace Books - correspondence
1982
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Commonplace Books - manuscripts
n.d.
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"Conquest of Goat Mountain"
1953
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25 |
Diary of Visit to Europe w/ Eugene Mayer
1947
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26 |
"The Dreadful Day" - reviews and correspondence
1977-1982
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27 |
"The Economist"
1951-1952
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28 |
"Expedition: the Magazine of Archaeology and Anthropology" - articles
1971-1975
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29 |
"The Guys on the Ground" & related pieces - reviews and correspondence
1943-1946
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"The Guys on the Ground"
1943-1946
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"Israel's Oriental Immigrants and Druzes"
1972
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Japanese Newspapers
n.d.
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Lilienthal, David F.
1947
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Memoirs: Associated Gas & Electric
n.d.
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Box
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Folder
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Memoirs: Childhood
n.d.
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Memoirs: Marshall Plan
1948-1982
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Memoirs: Philip Graham
n.d.
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Memoirs: Miscellaneous
n.d.
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Poems and Limericks
n.d.
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Poems and Limericks
n.d.
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Poems and Limericks
n.d.
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Side (Turkey)
1970 and n.d.
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13a |
Speech at American University, Washington College of Law
1973
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14 |
Spoofs
1977-1981 and n.d.
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15 |
"Stylus" (a bulletin on style and usage at the Washington Post)
1977-1980
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"The Trek: or, Adventures in Depression America" - letters to family
n.d.
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"The Trek: or, Adventures in Depression America" - mementos
n.d.
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"The Trek: or, Adventures in Depression America" - mementos
n.d.
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"The Trek: or, Adventures in Depression America" - manuscripts
n.d.
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"The Trek: or, Adventures in Depression America" - manuscripts
n.d.
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"The Trek" - original typescript, pp.1-110
n.d.
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"The Trek: or, Adventures in Depression America" - original typescript, pp. 111-229
n.d.
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"The Trek: or, Adventures in Depression America" - original typescript, pp.230-308
n.d.
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23 |
"The Trek: or, Adventures in Depression America" - photocopy of typescript
n.d.
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"The Trek: or, Adventures in Depression America" - photocopy of typescript
n.d.
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Turkey
1977-1980 and n.d.
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29 |
Washington Daily News, 1st Important Job
1936-1937
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Box
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Washington Post reprints
1941-1959
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Washington Daily News "9-4:30" column #1
1937 Sep-1938 May
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Washington Daily News "9-4:30" column #2
1938 May-1938 Oct
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Washington Daily News "9-4:30" column #3
1938 Feb-Apr and n.d.
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Washington Daily News "9-4:30" column
1938
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Washington Daily News - Greenbelt (low-rent housing project near Berwyn, Maryland) 1937; and Post article, 1981
1937, 1981
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Washington Daily News - "The Story of Ferdinand
1938
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Washington Daily News column - "The Federal Diary"
1939-1940
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Series 4: Scrapbook Folders,
1939-1983
Series 4, Scrapbook Folders, 1939-1983, contains newspaper clippings or articles written by Friendly, or concerning Friendly's writings.
This series is arranged chronologically with an occasional subject specification.
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9 |
Scrapbook folder
1939-1940
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Scrapbook folder
1941 Dec-1942 Sep
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Folder
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Scrapbook folder
1946 Jan-Apr
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Box
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Folder
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12 |
Scrapbook folder
1946 May-Dec
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13 |
Scrapbook folder
1947 Jan-Jun
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14 |
Scrapbook folder
1947 Jul-Dec
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15 |
Scrapbook folder
1948 Jan-May
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Box
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Folder
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1 |
"Condon" Scrapbook folder
1948
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Box
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Folder
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1 |
Scrapbook folder
1949 Sep-1950 Apr
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Box
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Folder
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1 |
Scrapbook folder
1950 May-1951 Mar
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Box
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Folder
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2 |
Scrapbook folder
1950 Mar-1950 Apr
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Box
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Folder
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1 |
Scrapbook folder
1950 May-1951 Mar
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Box
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Folder
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3 |
Philip C. Jessup Scrapbook Folder
1951
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Scrapbook folder
1951 May-1967 Jun
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Folder
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1 |
Goat Mountain Scrapbook folder
1953
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Box
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Folder
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1 |
Scrapbook folder
1966-1969
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Box
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Folder
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1 |
Israel Scrapbook Folder
1967 May-1968 May
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Box
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Folder
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1 |
Pulitzer Prize Scrapbook Folder
1967 Jun-1968 Jun
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Box
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Folder
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1 |
Scrapbook folder
1970 Jan-1971 Sep
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Box
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Folder
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5 |
Clippings
1970-1971
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Box
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Folder
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1 |
Scrapbook folder
1971-1982
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Box
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Folder
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6 |
Clippings
1972-1983
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Series 5: Subject Files,
n.d.
Series 5, Subject Files, n.d., includes various topical biographical files relating to Friendly's life activities and interests.
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FBI-Freedom of Information-Privacy Acts requests
1939-1982
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FBI-Freedom of Information-Privacy Acts requests
1939-1982
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9 |
FBI-Freedom of Information-Privacy Acts requests
1939-1982
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10 |
FBI-Freedom of Information-Privacy Acts requests
1939-1982
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11 |
International Friends of Side [Turkey]
1973
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12 |
World War II military papers and orders
1943-1944
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13 |
Turkey miscellaneous maps, tour guides, etc.
n.d.
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Folder
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Turkey snapshot photographs
ca. 1969-1978
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Box
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Folder
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1 |
Atomic energy
1947
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Box
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Folder
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Biographical and genealogical material
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"Beaufort of the Admiralty" - correspondence, press clippings, etc.
1977
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Newspaper article, "Al Friendly Defects From Post"
1971
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70th Birthday Party (Invitation and photographs)
1981
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Lyrics to Friendly's Libretto "La Sterlina Dollarosa"
ca. 1949
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Condolence letters, A-G
1983
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Condolence letters, H-L
1983
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Condolence letters, M-R
1983
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Condolence letters, S-Z
1983
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Audiocassette of operetta spoof "La Sterlina Dollarosa" with printed copy of lyrics
1949
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Videocassettes (2) of television programs on the subject of economics from 1952
1952
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Photograph album of Mr. and Mrs. Friendly's travels in southern Turkey
ca. 1965-1966
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