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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 Daniel Augustus Tompkins, engineer and manufacturer, were given to the Library of Congress by Tompkins’s sister, Mrs. G. N. Ennett, in 1929.
The papers of Daniel Augustus Tompkins were arranged and described in 1969. The finding aid was revised in 2012.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Daniel Augustus Tompkins is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The papers of Daniel Augustus Tompkins 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, Daniel Augustus Tompkins Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of Daniel Augustus Tompkins (1851-1914) span the years 1887-1920, with the bulk of the material concentrated in 1899-1914. The collection consists primarily of correspondence, speeches, and articles, supplemented by books, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous material. The collection is organized into General Correspondence ; Speech, Article, and Book File ; and Miscellany series.
The collection focuses on Tompkins’s views on the economic development of the South and on major public topics in the early twentieth century. There is a very limited amount of material on his personal life, although his business interests receive some attention in the General Correspondence series and in the newspaper clippings and printed matter portions of the Miscellany .
Tompkins, a Southern industrialist, spoke and wrote extensively on the theme that manufacturing must replace agriculture as the foundation of the Southern economy. The Speech, Article, and Book File documents his economic views and provides insights into the condition of the Southern economy in the late nineteenth-early twentieth century. The social concepts that underlay Tompkins’s economic views are also clearly developed, as are his views on such major economic and political issues as currency and tariff reform.
This collection is arranged in three series:
Letters received and copies of letters sent.
Arranged chronologically.
Primarily speeches, articles, papers, pamphlets, and books written by Tompkins, supplemented by numerous unsigned articles (probably by Tompkins) and a biography of him.
Arranged by type of material and chronologically therein wherever possible.
Reports, proceedings, minutes, bills, printed matter, bound and unbound newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous material.
Arranged by type of material and chronologically therein wherever possible.