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Collection material in English
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
The papers of Emory Scott Land, naval officer and public official, were given to the Library of Congress by Land, 1956-1970. Additional material was given by Charles G. DeKay and Mrs. Emory DeKay in 1972, and by Charles G. DeKay in 1973.
The papers of Emory Scott Land were arranged and described in 1958. The finding aid was revised and expanded in 1970, 1973, and 2012.
Some photographs have been transferred to the Library's Prints and Photographs Division where they are identified as part of these papers.
In 1958 the Library published
Copyright in the unpublished writings of Emory Scott Land in these papers and in other collections of papers in the custody of the Library of Congress has been dedicated to the public.
The papers of Emory Scott Land are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Emory Scott Land Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of Emory Scott Land (1879-1971) consist of correspondence, speeches, copies of orders, diary notes, scrapbooks, photographs, and clippings relating primarily to his forty-eight years in government service. The collection spans the years 1900-1972, with the bulk of the material from the period 1932-1946 when he served as chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair (1932-1937), as chairman of the United States Maritime Commission (1938-1946), and as chief administrator of the War Shipping Administration (1942-1946). Although Land was on the staff of Admiral William Sowden Sims during World War I, the collection contains very little for that period. The speeches, correspondence, photographs, and clippings deal largely with shipbuilding. Included are technical papers concerning costs, audits, shipbuilding programs, and documents regarding the need for ships during World War II. As chief administrator of the War Shipping Administration, Land conflicted with labor unions and advocated the use of the army to control labor disorders. Many newspaper clippings and some correspondence deal with labor strikes in 1941 and 1942. A few items deal with the services of Admiral Land as naval attaché in London; as vice president and treasurer of the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics; as adviser for his cousin, Charles A. Lindbergh, on his tours in 1927 and 1928; and Land’s testimony in the Lindbergh kidnapping case in 1938. Speeches by Josephus Daniels, Julius Augustus Furer, James G. Harbord, T. M. Girdler, William A. Moffett, Henry L. Roosevelt, William Harrison Standley, and Clark H. Woodward are among the papers.
The Land Papers are organized into nine series: Diaries, General Correspondence, Personal Correspondence, Subject File, Speeches, Scrapbooks, Photographs, Addition I, and Addition II. The addition series complement the main part of the papers chronologically and in type of material, with Addition II especially substantive relating to special correspondence and speeches and writings. Included in the Photographs series are early photographs of Charles A. Lindbergh at the time of his epochal flight.
Correspondents include Admirals Richard Evelyn Byrd, William Sowden Sims, William Veazie Pratt, Julius Augustus Furer, William A. Moffett, and D. W. Taylor; shipbuilders Homer L. Ferguson and Edgar F. Kaiser; aeronautical engineer Jerome C. Hunsaker; aircraft manufacturer William Edward Boeing; and government officials Joseph P. Kennedy, Theodore Roosevelt (1887-1944), Edward R. Stettinius, James Forrestal, Henry L. Stimson, Fred M. Vinson, and James F. Byrnes.
This collection is arranged in nine series:
Diary notes.
Arranged chronologically.
Letters sent and received.
Arranged chronologically.
Family letters and congratulatory letters.
Arranged by type of correspondence and therein alphabetically by name of correspondent.
Audits, blue prints, programs, memorabilia, pamphlets, other printed matter, and some related correspondence.
Arranged by subject.
Handwritten, typewritten, mimeographed, and printed copies or drafts of speeches by Land and others.
Arranged in two sets. An index for 127 of Land’s speeches is enclosed; approximately 90 of this number are in the collection and are in chronological order. Other speeches are not indexed.
Clippings from newspapers and magazines relating to Land.
Arranged chronologically.
Photographs, many of them inscribed and in albums commemorating ship launchings.
Unorganized. A group described as early photographs is arranged separately.
Correspondence, speeches, photographs, printed matter, and miscellaneous personal matter.
Arranged by type of material.
Diaries; family, general, and special correspondence; financial records; speeches and writings; and miscellaneous personal matter.
Arranged by type of material.