Final Report of the Committee on the Acquisition Policy of the Library of Congress, December 19, 1939

Memorandum from Leicester Bodine Holland, December 29, 1939

Timeline - Freedoms Fortress

--> May 3, 1939 President Franklin D. Roosevelt sends a letter to Felix Frankfurter, newly appointed associate justice of the Supreme Court, asking Frankfurter if he believes that Archibald MacLeish would be ...

Memorandum from Franklin D. Roosevelt to the United States Senate, June 7, 1939

Letter from Archibald MacLeish to Felix Frankfurter, May 15, 1939

"Deposit of the Magna Carta," by Archibald MacLeish, November 28, 1939

Letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Archibald MacLeish, November 4, 1939

Photograph of Archibald MacLeish, the Marquess of Lothian, and the Magna Carta, November 28, 1939

Letter from Archibald MacLeish to Franklin D. Roosevelt, May 28, 1939

Letter from Archibald MacLeish to Franklin D. Roosevelt, June 1, 1939

Letter from Felix Frankfurter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, May 11, 1939

"Libraries in the Contemporary Crisis," by Archibald MacLeish, October 19, 1939

Letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Felix Frankfurter, May 3, 1939

General Order No. 921 from Archibald MacLeish to the Chiefs of Division and the Consultants, Library of Congress, October 19, 1939

Overview - Freedoms Fortress

Freedom's Fortress: The Library of Congress, 1939-1953, contains a selection of 209 letters, memoranda, photographs, and publications (1,176 images) documenting a momentous period in the history of the Library of Congress when ...

Letter from Martin Arnold Roberts to José Meyer, September 7, 1939