A Guide to the Bushnell Miller Papers 1930, 1941 Miller, Bushnell Papers, 1930, 1941 11198

A Guide to the Bushnell Miller Papers 1930, 1941

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Accession Number 11198

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Repository

Special Collections, University of Virginia Library

Accession number

11198

Title

Bushnell Miller Papers 1930, 1941

Physical Characteristics

This collection contains 7 items.

Language

English

Abstract

Letters pertain chiefly to a picture of Robert E. Lee distributed by the Detroit and Security Trust Company through its president

McPherson Browning.

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

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Preferred Citation

Bushnell Miller Papers, 1930, 1941, Accession #11198, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This material was given to the Library by the Newberry Library of Chicago, Illinois, on June 30, 1995.

Scope and Content Information

There are items, 1930-1941, chiefly correspondence, of Bushnell Miller, Cadillac Motor Car Company, Cadillac Building, Detroit, Michigan, and others concerning the picture of Robert E. Lee distributed by the Detroit and Security Trust Company, Detroit, Michigan. Correspondents include J. Sinclair Brown, Speaker of the Commonwealth House of Delegates, Richmond, Virginia and McPherson Browning, President , Detroit and Security Trust Company, Detroit, Michigan. There is also a related brochure entitled "A Talk Given on the Ford Sunday Evening Hour/Robert E. Lee/by W. J. Cameron/January 19, 1941." There is a letter, September 16, 1941, from Murray D. Van Wagoner, Governor, State of Michigan, Lansing, Michigan to Mrs. John E. Bushnell, Highland Park, Michigan, extending an invitation to the ceremonies planned for September 20 in Lansing to return to their prospective states the Confederate flags and swords preserved by the State of Michigan since the Civil War.