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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Thaddeus Shaw Page Papers, #3848, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Gift 1974

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• Archives--United States--History--20th century.
• Congressional secretaries--History--20th century.
• Patronage, Political--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Bailey, Josiah William, 1873-1946.
• Connor, R. D. W. (Robert Digges Wimberly), 1878-1950.
• Page, Thaddeus Shaw, 1890-1973.
• Democratic Party (N.C.)--History--20th century.
• National Archives (U.S.)--History.
• National Archives (U.S.)--Officials and employees--History.
• United States. Congress. Senate--Officials and employees--History--20th century.

• R. D. W. (Robert Digges Wimberly) Connor Papers (#2427), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• Josiah William Bailey Papers, Duke University Library, Durham, N.C.

Papers of Thaddeus Shaw Page, including correspondence documenting Page's career as secretary to North Carolina Senator Josiah W. Bailey, 1930-1935; assistant to Archivist of the United States R. D. W. Connor, 1935-1943; administrator at the National Archives, 1943-1960; and his service with the North Carolina Democratic Party. Topics of correspondence include organization, administration, and programs of the National Archives and North Carolinians seeking jobs in federal agencies. Also included are Page's daily work logs, 1936-1951; minutes of the Archives Advisory Council, Administrative Conference, and General Staff meetings, 1935-1936; a journal, 1935-1936, describing the development of the National Archives; and pictures, clippings, and other materials about the Victory Loan train of 1945.