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Harold F. Gosnell papers
Clippings, correspondence, statistics, reports, ballots, brochures, and other research files of Harold Foote Gosnell, a political scientist working at the University of Chicago during his early career. In the 1920s and 1930s Gosnell applied experimental and statistical methods to the study of political behavior, particularly voter turnout, African-American politics, and Chicago's Democratic machine. Also included are files on politicians, such
Paul H. Douglas papers
Chiefly research files and constituent correspondence, recordings, scrapbooks, and other papers, from Douglas' career as U.S. Senator (Democrat, Illinois, 1949-1967), relating to Douglas' election campaigns, labor and unemployment issues, social security, the civil rights movement, preservation of natural resources and preservation of the Indiana Dunes, irrigation subsidies and the family farm, congressional ethics, government contracts, Truth in Lending bill, investigation
Project L.E.A.P. records
Press releases, correspondence, clippings, brochures, meeting minutes, calendars, checklists, publications, reports, financial information, canvas results, primary and election information, ward files, and other papers of the Chicago area Project L.E.A.P. (Legal Elections in All Precincts). Topics mostly relate to elections and voting, including election histories and voter fraud. Sheldon Gardner was a leader of Project LEAP.