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{"value"=>"1673", "type"=>"local_mss"}
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{"value"=>"1918-1945", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1918/1945"}
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1918
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1945
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1918
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1918
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1945
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{"value"=>"Fiorello H. La Guardia papers"}
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.</span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">Stephen A. Schwarzman Building</span> <span class=\"addressline\">Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788</span></div>"}
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{"value"=>"Fiorello H. La Guardia (1882-1947) began his political career as deputy attorney of the state of New York in 1915. He was a representative in the U.S. Congress from 1917 to 1932 except for service in World War I and a term as president of New York's Board of Aldermen from 1919 to 1921. La Guardia ran for mayor of New York City in 1933 and served in that office for twelve years. He became director of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation program in 1945 after leaving the mayor's office. Papers document La Guardia's career as a congressman, president of the Board of Aldermen and three-term mayor of New York. The two largest portions of the collection are the congressional and mayoral correspondence files. Congressional correspondence, ca. 1918-1933, includes letters received and carbons of responses written either by La Guardia or by his secretary on his behalf, clippings, greeting cards, printed House bills, invitations, photographs, memoranda, notes, press releases, printed matter, and telegrams. Letters from constituents concern topics such as employment and naturalization and letters from citizens around the country relate to La Guardia's stand on issues before Congress, including social issues and prohibition. Mayoral correspondence files, 1933-1945, consist largely of correspondence with members of the public who wrote requesting help with education, employment, immigration, prison terms, and other problems; suggesting appointments for various city offices; and offering ideas, opinions and appreciation. Very little appears to document the daily operations of city business. Also included is a small group of press releases; typescript and printed speeches, articles, and other writings; printed matter; flight logbook, 1917-1919, kept by La Guardia on the Italian front; scrapbooks of clippings; and miscellaneous papers on a variety of topics (of note among these are photographs, printed matter and correspondence."}
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{"value"=>"Materials in English"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Fiorello H. La Guardia papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}
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{"value"=>"La Guardia, Fiorello H. (Fiorello Henry), 1882-1947", "type"=>"persname"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Fiorello H. La Guardia was born in New York City on December 11, 1882, to Italian immigrant parents. When his father, a musician by profession, joined the U. S. Army as a bandmaster in 1885, the family left New York and moved west. After moving several times to various army posts, the La Guardia family finally arrived at Whipple Barracks, Arizona Territory in 1892. Here, Fiorello spent the longest period of his childhood.</p> <p>In 1898 when Fiorello's father was discharged from the army because of ill health, the family moved to Italy and settled in Trieste. However, in 1900 the young Fiorello left home for Budapest, Hungary, where he became employed as a clerk at the U. S. consulate. In 1904 he moved to Fiume to become the U. S. consular agent.</p> <p>A young man with ambition, La Guardia resigned his post in Fiume in 1906 and returned to the United States. The next year he took a job as an Ellis Island interpreter, while he attended New York University Law School as an evening student. When he received his law degree in 1910, La Guardia resigned his position with the Immigration Service and became a practicing attorney.</p> <p>La Guardia was appointed deputy attorney of the state of New York in 1915. The next year he ran for Congress and became the first Republican since the Civil War to be elected from the Lower East Side. In 1917, La Guardia took a leave of absence from the House of Representatives to serve as a pilot bombardier in World War I. Upon his return, he was reelected to Congress but resigned to run for president of the New York City Board of Alderman. In 1921 he returned to Congress to represent an East Harlem district that was to send him to Washington for five consecutive terms until 1932.</p> <p>Although nominally a Republican, La Guardia was one of the nation's most progressive congressmen. He campaigned for a graduated income tax, enlisted in the crusade against monopoly, and was consistently pro-labor in outlook. Nevertheless, in 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt's Democratic landslide swept La Guardia out of office.</p> <p>Undaunted, in 1933, La Guardia ran for mayor of New York City and was elected on an anti-Tammany fusion slate. During the next twelve years of the Depression and war, La Guardia labored tirelessly to raise the quality of urban life. Although he was not a Democrat, he worked closely with President Roosevelt. He convinced Washington to finance many ambitious employment and public works programs in New York City. Under La Guardia's leadership, the New York City subway system was unified and brought under public ownership, and public housing programs were begun. During the depths of the Depression, with the city's treasury stretched to the breaking point, he managed to reform the welfare system and make it one of the nation's most progressive. In addition, La Guardia opened New York's first major airport in northern Queens (later named La Guardia Airport), and in 1942 ground was broken for Idlewild in southern Queens (later JFK International Airport).</p> <p>In 1945, Fiorello La Guardia, sixty-two years old and exhausted, left City Hall. Still, he was unwilling to retire and became director of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation program. La Guardia died on September 20, 1947.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>This microfilm collection documents La Guardia's career as a congressman from New York City, 1917-1921 and 1921-1933; president of New York's Board of Aldermen, 1919-1921; and three-term mayor of New York, 1933-1945. The two largest portions of the papers are the congressional and mayoral correspondence files. Included are letters received and carbon copies of responses written either by La Guardia, or by his secretary on his behalf. Clippings, greeting cards, printed House bills, invitations, photographs, memorandums, notes, press releases, printed material, and telegrams are included among the correspondence.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Fiorello H. La Guardia papers are arranged in six series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1673#c1323947'>I. Congressional Correspondence</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series is divided into two parts. First, the General Correspondence is organized chronologically, with the letters filed alphabetically within each year. Correspondence from La Guardia's period as president of the Board of Aldermen is included on roll 1. Second, the Subjects Correspondence is filed alphabetically by subject, and chronologically within each subject. These files consist primarily of letters received from constituents requesting help with employment, naturalization, and other problems, and from citizens around the country offering their opinions on La Guardia's stands on issues before Congress. Prohibition is a major topic.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1673#c1324193'>II. Mayoral Correspondence</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series consists largely of correspondence with members of the public who wrote requesting help with education, employment, immigration, prison terms, and other problems; suggesting appointments for various city offices; and offering appreciation, birthday greetings, congratulations, get well messages, ideas, and opinions. Very little appears to document the daily operations of city business.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1673#c1324236'>III. Press Releases, Speeches, and Writings</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1673#c1324237'>IV. Miscellaneous Papers</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1673#c1324256'>V. Printed Material</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1673#c1324290'>VI. Scrapbooks</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Socialist assemblymen, transit, schools, political news, markets and food, women, police, miscellaneous (1920).</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Seven series: Congressional Correspondence; Mayoral Correspondence; Press Releases, Speeches and Writings; Miscellaneous Papers; Printed Material; Scrapbooks; Addenda</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
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{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Scholarly Resources Inc. Wilmington, Delaware</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Scholarly Resources does not claim copyright to this guide or to the microfilm collection it describes. Proprietary rights belong entirely to the Rare Books and Manuscripts Division, Center for the Humanities, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Collection available on microfilm; New York Public Library</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>also located at Municipal Archives of New York City</p>"}
- extent_statement
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62 linear feet (76 boxes and 2 scrapbooks); 54 microfilm reels