Finding aid for the Robert Johns Bulkley Papers
Title:
Robert Johns Bulkley Papers
Repository:
Western Reserve Historical Society
Phone: 216-721-5722
http://www.wrhs.org
Creator:
Bulkley, Robert Johns
Dates:
1886-1967
Quantity:
19.50 linear feet (44 containers, 4 oversize packages, and 1 oversize folder)
Abstract:
 Robert Johns Bulkley (1880-1965) was a Cleveland, Ohio, lawyer and businessman who served as a United States Congressman (1910-1914) and Senator (1930-1939). While in congress he was involved in legislation concerning Prohibition and currency reform. He was president of the Morris Plan Bank of Cleveland (1914-1952). The collection consists of correspondence, speeches, notes, reports, certificates, personal and miscellaneous printed items relating to Bulkley's personal, political and business activities.
Identification:
MS 3310
Location:
closed stacks
Language:
The records are in English

Biography of Robert Johns Bulkley

Robert Johns Bulkley (1880-1965) distinguished himself in the fields of law, business, politics, and public service. He was born on October 8, 1880, in Cleveland, Ohio, to Charles Henry and Roberta (Johns) Bulkley. His father, a prominent and wealthy businessman, was in large part responsible for the development of the Cleveland Metropolitan Park System. Robert Johns Bulkley attended Brooks Military Academy and graduated from University School, University Heights, Ohio, in 1898. He entered Harvard University in 1900 and was editor of the Crimson in his senior year. After graduation in 1902, Bulkley took a year-long trip around the world with Harry M. Ayres. He then returned to the Harvard Law School where he took a special two year program leading to a Master of the Arts degree. Upon his return to Cleveland, Bulkley joined the law firm of Henderson, Quail and Siddell. In 1909, he helped to establish the firm of Bulkley, Hauxhurst, Saeger and Jamison. Also in 1909, he married Katharine Pope.

In 1910, Bulkley ran for Congress as a Democrat and waged a successful campaign against Republican incumbent James H. Cassidy while concentrating on the tariff question. He was reelected in 1912 in a campaign against Frederick L. Taft. During his two terms in the House, he was an active member of the Banking and Currency Committee and of the Glass Subcommittee which drafted the Federal Reserve Act. He was also chairman of the House Subcommittee on Rural Credits which laid the groundwork for the Farm Loan Act passed by the next congress.

In 1914, Bulkley was defeated in the Democratic primary by Robert Crosser. He returned to Cleveland where, in 1916, he participated in the organization of The Morris Plan Bank of Cleveland, of which he served as president and chairman of the board during the next thirty-eight years.

When World War I began, Bulkley returned to Washington where, beginning in 1917, he served as the chief legal officer for the General Munitions Board. When this board was reorganized as the War Industries Board, Bulkley became its chief legal counsel. He also reorganized the legal department of the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation during this period.

After the war, Bulkley served as the president of the Bulkley Building Company which erected the four million dollar Bulkley Building on Cleveland's Euclid Avenue. In 1927 Bulkley helped to organize the Northern Ohio Opera Association which brought the city government and over 500 individual guarantors together in a partnership in order to underwrite the expenses of bringing the Metropolitan Opera to Cleveland. Bulkley was a principle figure behind the Opera Association until 1939.

Bulkley again became active in politics during the late 1920s when he became chairman of the Cuyahoga County Campaign Committee for Alfred E. Smith. In 1930 Bulkley ran for the United States Senate and was elected for a two year period, filling the position vacated when Theodore Burton died. The campaign of 1930 centered on the Prohibition issue with Bulkley leading the "wet" forces in a traditionally dry state. In 1932 Bulkley ran again and was elected to a full term. He remained in the Senate until 1939 when his seat was taken by Robert A. Taft. While in the Senate he was active on the Banking and Currency Committee, the Foreign Relations Committee, and the Commerce and Manufactures Committee. He helped formulate the Banking Acts of 1933 and 1935, and established a reputation as an ardent supporter of the New Deal.

After his defeat by Robert A. Taft in 1938, Bulkley returned to banking and to the practice of law. He formed the law firm of Bulkley, Butler, and Rini with offices in Cleveland and Washington, D. C. When the Second World War broke out, Bulkley served on the United States Board of Appeals in visa cases. In the post-war era, he was a director of the Pere Marquette Railway until it merged with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, and was a member of the Cuyahoga County Charter Commission from 1948-1950. In 1952, he was Ohio's favorite son candidate for the Democratic nomination for President.

Bulkley was a member of the Wilberforce Foundation, an honorary trustee of University School, a director of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, a member of the Cleveland and Ohio Bar Associations, and was active in numerous social clubs. He was a delegate to the Democratic Conventions of 1912, 1916, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944, 1948, 1952, and 1960.

Robert J. Bulkley died on July 21, 1965, at the age of 84. He was survived by his wife, the former Helen Graham Robbins, whom he married in 1934. His first wife, Katharine Pope Bulkley, died in 1932.


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Scope and Content

The Robert Johns Bulkley Papers, 1886-1967 and undated, consist of correspondence, speeches, notes, reports, certificates, personal memorabilia, and miscellaneous printed items.

This collection will be useful to researchers studying the history of Cleveland, Ohio, and legal and business issues there in the twentieth century. Those studying the history of World War I, the General Munitions Board, and the War Industries Board will find this collection useful. Those studying politics and government in the pre-World War I era in the United States, and the Congressional activities of Robert Johns Bulkley, will find this collection particularly useful. Topics such as the Federal Reserve Act, Prohibition, and the tariff question are documented in this collection. Bulkley's various business ventures in Cleveland and nationally are also documented here. Bulkley's service as a United States Senator in the 1930s and his personal, business, and political career from 1939-1965 are also documented.

Of special interest from the congressional period of Bulkley's life is the material related to the following: tariff reform, 1910-1913; the three cent coin, 1912; the La Follette Seamnan's Act, 1912-1915; the Federal Reserve Act, 1913; and to rural credits legislation, 1913-1915. Also included in this period are papers relating to the Oregon (Deschutes) Irrigation Project, 1910-1915 and 1928. The papers from the period 1916-1930 include material relating to the following: The Morris Plan Bank of Cleveland, 1916-1954; the War Industries Board, 1917-1918; the Northern Ohio Opera Association, 1927-1964; and the Positype Corporation, 1928-1931.

Of special interest in the years 1930-1939 are the papers relating to Prohibition, 1930-1933; to banking and currency reform including material from Leon Henderson, 1933-1936; to President Roosevelt's proposed court reforms, 1937-1938; and correspondence with the J. R. Edwards Company relating to business matters, 1933-1935. Correspondence from the 1939-1967 period contains some material relating to national, state, and local politics, especially the 1952 Democratic Convention, but in large part it relates to personal and business matters.

Statement of Arrangement

The collection is arranged in two series.
Series I: Correspondence is arranged chronologically, with biographical material and other material relating to Bulkely's early life preceeding the correspondence.
However, the correspondence in the Congressional Period, 1910-1915, is arranged by subject and then chronologically.
Correspondence relating to the J. R. Edwards Company and the Northern Ohio Opera Assocation are found at the end of this series and are arranged chronologically.
Series II: Non-Correspondence consists of material from the Congressional Period, 1910-1915, arranged by subject and then chronologically.
The bulk of the non-correspondence after 1915 is arranged in chronological order, followed by some items arranged by subject.

Restrictions on Access

None.

Related Material: Related Material

The researcher should also consult MS 4290 Robert Johns Bulkley Papers, Series II.


Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Subjects:

Bulkley, Robert Johns, 1880-1965.
Currency question -- United States.
Legislators -- United States -- Correspondence.
Prohibition -- United States.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1901-1953.

Preferred Citation

[Container ___, Folder ___ ] MS 3310 Robert Johns Bulkley Papers, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio

Acquisition Information

Gift of Mrs. Robert J. Bulkley in 1966 and 1967.

Processing Information

Processed by Dennis I. Harrison in 1968.


Other Finding Aid

A list of significant correspondents represented in this collection is available at the Reference Desk of the WRHS Research Library.

Detailed Description of The Collection



Series I: Correspondence, 1886-1967; undated

Box 1 / Folder 1
Biographical sketches and obituaries relating to Charles H. Bulkley and Robert Johns Bulkley, 1895-1965




Box 1 / Folder 2
Photographs of Bulkley and of his friends (removed to the Photograph and Print Collection), dates vary




Box 1 / Volume 1
Coloring book, 1886




Box 1 / Volume 2
Notebook from Bulkley's student days, undated




Box 1 / Volume 3
Notebook from Bulkley's student days, 1902




Box 1 / Volume 4
Scorebook for the baseball team coached by Bulkley, 1901




Box 1 / Volume 5
Collection of editorials which appeared in the Harvard Crimson when Bulkley was editor. Of special interest is an unpublished editorial relating to the issue of Negro athletes participating in contests with southern schools, dates vary




Box 2 / Folder 1
Correspondence, 1898-1909




Box 2 / Folder 2
Correspondence, political, relating largely to Bulkley's campaign for Congress and including material relating to his opponent James H. Cassidy, to the tariff question, and to the activities of the Democratic National Committee, January-October 1910




Box 2 / Folder 3
Correspondence, political, relating largely to his campaign for Congress and including congratulatory messages and requests for patronage, November-December 1910




Box 2 / Folder 4
Correspondence, political and patronage, including general communications from constituents, patronage requests, and correspondence relating to immigration programs, to the Federal Children's Bureau, and to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, 1911




Box 2 / Folder 5
Correspondence, constituent requests for seeds, public documents, and related material, 1911




Box 3 / Folder 1
Correspondence, including political, business, and personal, 1912




Box 3 / Folder 2
Correspondence, political, including material on safety legislation for the Great Lakes Steamers. Of special interest is correspondence with Newton D. Baker relating to state politics, January-June 1912




Box 3 / Folder 3
Correspondence, political, July-November 1912




Box 3 / Folder 4
Correspondence, political, including items relating to Prohibition, November-December 1912




Box 3 / Folder 5
Correspondence, business and personal, 1912




Box 4 / Folder 1
Correspondence, constituent requests for seeds, public documents, and related materials, 1912




Box 4 / Folder 2
Correspondence, three cent coin, including correspondence from Peter Witt, Winston Churchill, Woodrow Wilson, and Reed Smoot, 1912




Box 4 / Folder 3
Correspondence, political, including correspondence relating to the Parcel Post. Of special interest is a letter by Bulkley relating to government ownership, January 1913




Box 4 / Folder 4
Correspondence, political, including correspondence relating to a one cent postage and to the improvement of the Cuyahoga River, January 1913




Box 4 / Folder 5
Correspondence, political, including correspondence relating to immigration bills, February 1913




Box 5 / Folder 1
Correspondence, political, including correspondence relating to immigration bills, February 1913




Box 5 / Folder 2
Correspondence, political, including correspondence relating to Prohibition and a letter from Newton D. Baker relating to gerrymandering in Ohio, March 1913




Box 5 / Folder 3
Correspondence, political, including correspondence from the Peerless Motor Car Company regarding the exemption of unions from the Sherman Antitrust Act and correspondence concerning the tariff, April 1913




Box 5 / Folder 4
Correspondence, political, including correspondence relating to the tariff, postal rates, and immigration bills, May 1913




Box 5 / Folder 5-6
Correspondence, political, June-July 1913




Box 6 / Folder 1
Correspondence, political, August 1913




Box 6 / Folder 2
Correspondence, political, including correspondence from the NAACP relative to discrimination in the Post Office in Washington, D. C., and correspondence relative to the photographs of Hudson Boy's Farm, September-October 1913




Box 6 / Folder 3
Correspondence, political, including correspondence relating to South American trade and to the Colorado miners strike, October 1913




Box 6 / Folder 4
Correspondence, political, including correspondence relating to South American trade, November 1913




Box 6 / Folder 5
Correspondence, political, including correspondence relating to naval armament limitations, December 1913




Box 7 / Folder 1
Correspondence, political, including correspondence relating to immigration laws, January 1914




Box 7 / Folder 2
Correspondence, political, including correspondence relating to the anti-Catholic publication The Menace, to striking miners in Colorado, and to the exemption of labor unions from the Sherman anti-trust law, January 1914




Box 7 / Folder 3
Correspondence, political, including correspondence relating to Wilson's veto of the literacy test and to the proposed improvement of the Cuyahoga River, February 1914




Box 7 / Folder 4
Correspondence, political, including correspondence relating to immigration laws, February 1914




Box 7 / Folder 5
Correspondence, political, including correspondence relating to the Panama tolls controversy and to the Cleveland Immigration League, March 1914




Box 8 / Folder 1
Correspondence, political, March 1914




Box 8 / Folder 2
Correspondence, political, including correspondence relating to a Federal Children's Bureau and to proposed anti-miscegenation laws, April 1914




Box 8 / Folder 3
Correspondence, political, including correspondence relating to the Children's Bureau appropriation and to price standardization, April 1914




Box 8 / Folder 4
Correspondence, political, including correspondence relating to the Hobson Amendment (Prohibition), May 1914




Box 8 / Folder 5
Correspondence, political, including correspondence relating to the Hobson Amendment (Prohibition) and scattered items relating to the Kahn Law and the Oldfield Bill, May 1914




Box 9 / Folder 1
Correspondence, political, including correspondence relating to the Hobson Amendment (Prohibition), to the Clayton Anti-Trust Act, to the Kahn law, and to the Oldfield Bill (from Hayden Eames). Of special interest is a letter from John H. Clarke relative to his judicial appointment, June 1914




Box 9 / Folder 2
Correspondence, political, including correspondence relating to Bulkley's campaign for reelection, July 1914




Box 9 / Folder 3
Correspondence, political, including correspondence relating to Bulkley's campaign for reelection and to his defeat. Of special interest is a last minute attempt to obtain the intervention of Louis Brandeis on behalf of Bulkley, July-August 1914




Box 9 / Folder 4
Correspondence, political, including correspondence from Hayden Eames relative to patent legislation and correspondence relative to proposed war taxes, September 1914




Box 10 / Folder 1
Correspondence, political, including correspondence relating to special war taxes and to the Clayton Anti-Trust Bill. Of special interest are the reports of J. J. Adams concerning political conditions in Cleveland, Ohio, September-October 1914




Box 10 / Folder 2
Correspondence, political, including material relating to new taxes and to the reports of J. J. Adams, October-November 1914




Box 10 / Folder 3
Correspondence, political, including correspondence relating to the Kahn Law, to Prohibition, and to the anti-Catholic publication The Menace. All form letters relative to The Menace have been field under the date December 4, December 1914




Box 10 / Folder 4
Correspondence, political, including correspondence relating to House Resolution 377 (concerning the shipment of war materials to belligerents), December 1914




Box 10 / Folder 5
Correspondence, political, including correspondence relating to immigration laws and to the Oldfield Bill, January 1915




Box 10 / Folder 6
Correspondence, political, February-March 1915




Box 11 / Folder 1-2
Correspondence, business and personal, 1913




Box 11 / Folder 3-4
Correspondence, banking and currency, January-October 1913




Box 12 / Folder 1
Correspondence, banking and currency, November 1913-December 1914




Box 12 / Folder 2-3
Correspondence, Seaman's Bill, May 1912-November 1915




Box 12 / Folder 4
Correspondence, tariff, December 1912-April 1913




Box 13 / Folder 1
Correspondence, tariff, April-December 1913




Box 13 / Folder 2-3
Correspondence, patents, November 1912-April 1913




Box 13 / Folder 4-5
Correspondence, patronage requests, January-August 1913




Box 14 / Folder 1-5
Correspondence, patronage requests, May 1913-August 1914




Box 15 / Folder 1-2
Correspondence, patronage requests, September 1914-March 1915




Box 15 / Folder 3-5
Correspondence, rural credits, 1913-April 1914




Box 16 / Folder 1-3
Correspondence, rural credits, May 1914-1915




Box 16 / Folder 4-5
Correspondence and non-correspondence, pension cases, arranged in alphabetical order, A - James, 1910-1915




Box 17 / Folder 1-2
Correspondence and non-correspondence, pension cases, arranged in alphabetical order, Janoushek - Z, 1910-1915




Box 17 / Folder 3-4
Correspondence, Oregon (Deschutes) Irrigation Project, July 1910-December 1911




Box 18 / Folder 1-3
Correspondence, Oregon (Deschutes) Irrigation Project, 1912-1915




Box 18 / Folder 4-5
Correspondence relating to topics of a general nature, including the organization of The Morris Plan Bank in Cleveland, Ohio, the War Industries Board, and occasionally political matters, November 1916-December 1918




Box 19 / Folder 1
Correspondence, business and personal, including The Morris Plan Bank, 1919




Box 19 / Folder 2
Correspondence, personal through 1930, followed by the organization of Bulkley's campaign for Democratic nomination to the United States Senate, 1923-1930




Box 19 / Folder 3-4
Correspondence relating to Bulkley's campaign for the Democratic nomination to the United States Senate, including messages of congratulations on his victory, August-December 1930




Box 20 / Folder 1
Correspondence relating to business and personal matters, January-July 1931




Box 20 / Folder 2
Correspondence relating to business and personal matters, and also Prohibition and political topics. Of special interest re copies of letters from Frederick Hobbes Allen to Franklin Roosevelt relative to economic and political conditions in Germany, August-October 1931




Box 20 / Folder 3
Correspondence relating to business and personal matters, Prohibition, and political subjects. Of special interest is correspondence relating to political fights within the Akron, Ohio, Democratic party involving Martin L. Davey, October-December 1931




Box 20 / Folder 4
Correspondence relating to Prohibition and consisting of letters from constituents favoring or opposing national Prohibition and Bulkley's replies, January-February 1932




Box 20 / Folder 5
Correspondence consisting largely of letters from constituents relating to Prohibition but also including some correspondence relating to invitations, road construction, and the Glass Banking Bill, February-April 1932




Box 21 / Folder 1
Correspondence consisting largely of letters from constituents relating to Prohibition but also including correspondence relating to invitations, to Bulkley's stand on the Bonus Bill, and to the J. R. Edwards and Company, April-May 1932




Box 21 / Folder 2
Correspondence relating to Prohibition and modification of the Volstead Act, with occasional items pertaining to economic conditions, banking regulation, and tax law modification. Of special interest is correspondence relating to Bulkley's absence during a vote on Prohibition modification, May-June 1932




Box 21 / Folder 3
Correspondence relating to Prohibition, banking regulation, speeches, economic questions, and J. R. Edwards and Company, June 1932-May1933




Box 21 / Folder 4
Correspondence relating to Prohibition, liquor control, the Ohio state constitutional convention of 1933, the proposed Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, a motion picture code, and the Tugwell Food and Drug Bill, June-December 1933




Box 21 / Folder 5
Correspondence relating to the proposed Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Securities Exchange Act, Negro/African American patronage in the Democratic party, and Senator Simeon D. Fess, 1934




Box 22 / Folder 1
Correspondence relating to banking regulation, Works Progress Administration (WPA) labor and administrative problems in Cleveland, Ohio, and other topics, January 1935-February 1936




Box 22 / Folder 2
Correspondence relating to the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and to the Supreme Court controversy of 1937, March 1936-December 1937




Box 22 / Folder 3
Correspondence, including letters of condolence upon Bulkley's defeat, January 1938-February 1939




Box 22 / Folder 4-5
Correspondence, March-July 1939




Box 23 / Folder 1
Correspondence, including correspondence relating to securities regulation, August-November 1939




Box 23 / Folder 2
Correspondence, including correspondence relating to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and to the Positype Corporation, November 1939-February 1940




Box 23 / Folder 3
Correspondence, including suggestions that Bulkley run for the United States Senate and material relating to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, February-June 1940




Box 23 / Folder 4
Correspondence, including correspondence relating to the following: defense preparations, the Positype Corporation, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, and the 1940 Democratic Party Convention, June-August 1940




Box 23 / Folder 5
Correspondence, including correspondence relating to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation coverage for the Peoples Savings and Loan Company, August-November 1940




Box 24 / Folder 1
Correspondence, including correspondence relating to the following: national defense preparations; political conditions in Allen County, Ohio; the Sinking Fund and the Cleveland City School District; and the "Lee Concession" in Peru, November 1940-March 1941




Box 24 / Folder 2
Correspondence, including correspondence relating to the Cleveland City School District Sinking Fund, the "Lee Concession" in Peru, and to a patent case concerning an automatic coupler, April-October 1941




Box 24 / Folder 3
Correspondence, including correspondence relating to the Cleveland Board of Education Sinking Fund and to The United States Board of Immigration Appeals, October 1941-December 1942




Box 24 / Folder 4
Correspondence, including correspondence relating to the Cleveland City School District Sinking Fund and to competitive bidding on railroad bonds, 1943




Box 25 / Folder 1
Correspondence, including correspondence concerning an automatic coupler, January 1944-July 1945




Box 25 / Folder 2
Correspondence, including correspondence relating to visa cases. Of special interest is a letter from Lody Hummel to Ohio governor Frank J. Lausche concerning Lausche's reaction to a court decision declaring the Cleveland Transit System taxable, August 1945-December 1946




Box 25 / Folder 3
Correspondence, including a proposal for a "National Council" and correspondence relating to an automatic coupler and to the Sinking Fund of the Cleveland City School District, 1947-1948




Box 25 / Folder 4
Correspondence, including correspondence relating to the National Probation and parole Association, to the Sinking Fund of the Cleveland City School District, and to the Kaiser-Frazer Corporation, 1948-1949




Box 25 / Folder 5
Correspondence, including correspondence relating to the National Probation and Parole Association, to the Sinking Fund of the Cleveland City School District, and letters of Cyrus Eaton relating to the Kaiser-Frazer Corporation, 1850-1951




Box 26 / Folder 1-2
Correspondence, including correspondence relating to a commemorative postage stamp for the American Bar Association and to the 1952 Democratic Party Convention, 1952




Box 26 / Folder 3
Correspondence, including correspondence relating to the National Parole and Probation Association and letters of Cyrus Eaton relating to the Kaiser-Frazer Corporation, 1953-1954




Box 26 / Folder 4
Correspondence, including correspondence relating to the prohibition of racial discrimination by motels near the Ohio Turnpike and letters of congratulation on Bulkley's seventy-fifth birthday, January 1955-July 1956




Box 26 / Folder 5
Correspondence, including correspondence relating to the Pugwash Conferences, August 1956-December 1957




Box 27 / Folder 1
Correspondence, including correspondence relating to the Pugwash Conferences and to the Metropolitan Government, 1958




Box 27 / Folder 2
Correspondence, including correspondence relating to a dinner in honor of Dr. Milton D. Eisenhower and allegations by the Harvard "Veritas" association concerning Communist influences and Dr. Ralph Bunche, 1959




Box 27 / Folder 3
Correspondence, including correspondence relating to Cyrus Eaton and the reports of Raymond J. Saulnier, Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors, 1960-1961




Box 27 / Folder 4
Correspondence, including correspondence relating to Cyrus Eaton, 1962-1967




Box 27 / Folder 5-6
Correspondence relating to the Positype Corporation, 1928-1931




Box 28 / Folder 1
Correspondence between the J. R. Edwards and Company and Robert J. Bulkley, Joseph P. Kennedy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and others relating to financial matters and to stock market regulation, 1933-1935




Box 28 / Folder 2-4
Correspondence relating to the Northern Ohio Opera Association, 1930-1964





Series II: Non-Correspondence, 1893-1965; undated

Box 29 / Folder 1
Non-correspondence, business and personal, relating to clubs and corporations in which Bulkley had an interest and including material about the University Club (Cleveland), The National Mercantile Company, the steamer Francis Widlar, The Addressograph Multigraph Company, and 1909 hearings before the Ohio Public Utilities Commission regarding the telephone companies in Ohio, 1909-1915




Box 29 / Folder 2
Non-correspondence, manuscript or typescript, Oregon (Deschutes) Irrigation Company, including reports on special projects, financial statements, agreements, contracts, indentures, material relating to agreements between the state of Oregon and the company, and material relating to court cases involving the company, 1909-1912




Box 29 / Folder 3
Non-correspondence, manuscript or typescript, relating to the Oregon (Deschutes) Irrigation Project, including contracts, reports, financial data, a map of the project, pamphlets, and a newspaper, 1909-1915




Box 29 / Folder 4
Non-correspondence, political, including printed campaign material, voting records of Bulkley's opponents, and public communications directed at them. Much of this material also relates to the Payne-Aldrich tariff, 1909-1912




Box 29 / Folder 5
Non-correspondence, political, including material relating to postal questions and to the development of the Cleveland, Ohio harbor, 1910-1915




Box 30 / Folder 1
Non-correspondence, political, including material relating to parcel post legislation, immigration, and price standardization (fair trade laws); a petition relating to anti-trust proceedings against The Standard Oil Company; hearings relating to farm income; and miscellaneous printed materials, 1910-1915




Box 30 / Folder 2
Non-correspondence relating to banking and currency, 1911-1915




Box 30 / Folder 3
Non-correspondence relating to banking and currency, including memoranda, committee hearings, criticisms of the currency bill, bank deposit statements, and maps outlining proposed Federal Reserve districts, 1911-1915




Box 30 / Folder 4
Non-correspondence relating to banking and currency, including various proposals in pamphlet form for a Federal Reserve System and alternate proposals for the location of Federal Reserve Banks, 1911-1915




Box 30 / Folder 5
Non-correspondence relating to the three cent coin, 1912-1913




Box 31 / Folder 1
Non-correspondence relating to patents, committee bills, reports, and extensive briefs, undated




Box 31 / Folder 2
Non-correspondence relating to patents, the Kahn Law, and to the Oldfield Bill, 1913-1914




Box 31 / Folder 3
Non-correspondence relating to the Seaman's Bill, 1911-1913




Box 31 / Folder 4
Non-correspondence relating to the tariff question, including material relating to Senator Theodore Burton, 1909-1913




Box 31 / Folder 5
Non-correspondence relating to rural credits, including typescript copies of editorials, a typescript copy of a rural credits bill, a synopsis on rural credits by R. C. Milliken, and an analysis of the Fletcher Moses Bill, 1913-1915




Box 31 / Folder 6
Non-correspondence relating to rural credits, including typescript copies of hearings on the bill, a proposed system of rural credits by Herbert C. Myrick, and numerous printed items relating to the bill, 1913-1914




Box 32 / Folder 1
Printed items relating to Bulkley's congressional career, speeches, hearings, reports, and miscellaneous government documents relating to patent legislation, rural credits, the Panama tolls controversy, and other topics, 1908-1914




Box 32 / Folder 2
Printed items relating to Bulkley's congressional career, speeches, hearings, reports, and miscellaneous government documents relating to patent legislation, rural credits, and other topics, 1914-1915




Box 32 / Folder 3
Printed items relating to Bulkley's congressional career, bills, including committee prints, amended bills, House resolutions, and occasionally Senate bills relating to a wide variety of subjects, 1912-1913




Box 32 / Folder 4
Printed items relating to Bulkley's congressional career, bills, including committee prints, amended bills, House resolutions, and occasionally Senate bills relating to a variety of subjects, 1913-1914




Box 33 / Folder 1
Non-correspondence, bound report entitled "On the Development of the Deschutes River and the Utilization of the Power at an Industrial Site in Vancouver, Wash.", 1928




Box 33 / Folder 2
Non-correspondence relating to personal, business, and political matters, including material on Prohibition and banking legislation. Of special interest are speeches and public releases by Newton D. Baker before the City Club of Cleveland in 1931; William E. Borah in 1931; Cordell Hull in 1931; S. P. Bush in 1932; material relating to the candidacy of Gilbert Bettman for the United States Senate; and a copy of a debate between Bettman and Bulkley in 1932, 1917-1919




Box 33 / Folder 3
Non-correspondence relating to personal, business, and political matters, including banking legislation, devaluation of the dollar, and Prohibition. Of special interest is a bill introduced in the Ohio legislature regulating the sale of liquor in 1933; a typescript report relating to the relationship of state and federal banks to the Federal Government; material relating to the Home Owners Loan Act; and an 'Index to the Banking Act of 1933", 1933




Box 33 / Folder 4
Non-correspondence consisting of "The Sugar Monopoly Bill," the First Report of the National Recovery Review Board, and "Statistical Reports of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation", January-February 1934




Box 33 / Folder 5
Non-correspondence relating largely to political matters, including addresses or open letters of Homer Cummings, james A. Farley, Albert W. Russel, and James W. Hook; material relating to the construction of a Union Passenger Terminal in New York City; and to housing construction in the nation at large, February-December 1934




Box 34 / Folder 1-2
Galley proofs relating to investigations of the financial conditions of Cleveland, Ohio banks, 1934




Box 34 / Folder 3
Con-correspondence, including material relating to the tri-centennial celebration of Concord, Massachusetts, to banking legislation, and to monetary policy. Of special interest are the address of Marriner S. Eccles, A. C. Miller of the Federal Reserve, and Hugo L. Black, January-November 1935




Box 34 / Folder 4
Non-correspondence relating to political matters, including a report entitled "The Present Status of Competition" by Leon Henderson, and material relating to the Project Worker's Union in the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in Cleveland, Ohio, December 1935-February 1936




Box 34 / Folder 5
Non-correspondence relating to political matters, including material concerned with monetary policy, an interstate highway system, the tri-centennial anniversary of Harvard University, and Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1937 proposal for judicial reform. Of special interest are the speeches and public documents of Joseph T. Robinson, Marriner S. Eccles, Stanley Reed, John Dickenson, and Alexis Carrel, March 1936-March 1937




Box 35 / Folder 1
Non-correspondence, including items relating to the United States Supreme Court, to an interstate highway system, to The Morris Plan Corporation of America, and to the U. S. S. Helena, April 1937-December 1938




Box 35 / Folder 2
Non-correspondence, including material relating to a natural gas trust, to a patent application for a non-refillable bottle, to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, to The Morris Plan Bank, and to the Industrial Finance Corporation. Of special interest is a typescript copy of "The Truth About the New Deal" by H. A. Nickel and a brief relating to United States vs. The Pullman Company, 1939-1940




Box 35 / Folder 3
Non-correspondence, including material relating to the Cleveland Community Fund, to competitive bidding on railroad securities, to a patent for an automatic coupler device, and to the Pere Marquette Railway Company. Of special interest is the1942 "Report to the President: Board of Appeals on Visa Cases", 1941-1943




Box 35 / Folder 4
Non-correspondence, "Stenographers' Minutes before the Interstate Commerce Commission" relating to competitive bidding on railroad securities, 1943




Box 35 / Folder 5
Non-correspondence, including Otis vs. The Pennsylvania Railroad; Chesapeake vs. The United States; and "Report to the President: Board of Appeals on Visa Cases" correctly dated September 21, 1945, 1943-1947




Box 36 / Folder 1
Non-correspondence, including material relating to Wilberforce vs. College of Education; to the National Probation and Parole Association; to Homestake vs. The United States; and an address by Bernard M. Baruch, 1948-1951




Box 36 / Folder 2
Non-correspondence, material relating to the 1952 Democratic Party Convention, to a commemorative stamp for the American Bar Association, and including Idaho Maryland Mines vs. The United States; Hathaway and Carbutt vs. The United States; and a speech by William F. Buckley, Jr., 1952-1954




Box 36 / Folder 3
Non-correspondence relating to personal, business, and political matters, including material on the Cleveland Senior Council, 1955-1963




Box 36 / Folder 4
Non-correspondence, including the following: Bulkley's college days, Cleveland's politics during the Tom L. Johnson era, the Bulkley Building, monetary and stock market reform, the Fraunfelter China Company of Zanesville, Ohio and the RFC, the "Lee Concession" in Peru, and housing projects in Warren, Ohio, undated




Box 36 / Folder 5
Speeches, 1910-1930




Box 37 / Folder 1
Speeches relating to the Great Depression, Prohibition, unemployment relief, and similar political topics, January 1931-August 1932




Box 37 / Folder 2
Speeches relating to the Great Depression, Prohibition, unemployment relief, monetary policy, banking legislation, the Home Owners Loan Corporation, and similar political topics, September 1932-December 1934




Box 37 / Folder 3
Speeches relating to monetary policy, banking legislation, local politics, river and harbor improvement, Great Lakes Day, The Cleveland Centennial Exposition, Concord's Tri-centennial Exposition, Bishop Schrembs twenty-fifth anniversary, and the 1936 campaign, 1935-1936




Box 37 / Folder 4
Speeches relating to Franklin D. Roosevelt's attempt to reform the Federal Judiciary, river and harbor improvements, foreign trade, postal workers, Navy Day, banking legislation, the third term issue, and Bulkley's 1952 favorite son candidacy, 1937-1952




Box 38 / Folder 1
Non-correspondence relating to the War Industries Board, including items relating to the following: production of aircraft engines, rifles, Frank A. Scott, electric power services, and street railways, 1917-1918




Box 38 / Folder 2
Non-correspondence consisting of notes, memoranda, minutes of meetings, and financial statements of The Morris Plan Bank Association, 1917-1918




Box 38 / Folder 3-4
Non-correspondence consisting of forms, memoranda, schedules, repertoire, financial statements, and miscellaneous documents relating to the Northern Ohio Opera Association, 1927-1964




Box 38 / Folder 5
House and Senate Bills, resolutions, and miscellaneous documents, 1931-1941




Box 39 / Folder 1
Non-correspondence relating to Prohibition, including material relating to the liquor control board, the Ohio Constitutional Convention which ratified the Twenty-First Amendment, and similar conventions in Wyoming, Vermont, and Alabama, 1931-1933




Box 39 / Folder 2-3
Non-correspondence relating to Cyrus Eaton, including the Pugwash Conferences and various court cases including Otis vs. the Securities and Exchange Commission and Kaiser-Frazer vs. Otis, January 1943-December 1961




Box 39 / Folder 4
Miscellaneous notes. Of special interest are papers relating to the gift of a park to the City of Mansfield, Ohio, by Charles H. Bulkley in 1893, 1893-1964




Box 39 / Folder 5
Non-correspondence consisting of reports, memoranda, and financial statements relating to The Sinking Fund of the Cleveland City School District, 1938-1950




Box 40 / Folder 1-3
Non-correspondence consisting of certificates, programs, calling cards, and souvenirs, 1900-1957




Box 40 / Volume 1-2
Minutes, correspondence, reports, and proposals relating to the Cuyahoga County Charter Commission, 1950




Box 41 / Folder 1
Election material used in Bulkley's 1930 campaign for the United States Senate, 1930




Box 41 / Folder 2
Memoranda from Leon Henderson to Bulkley relating to a variety of topics, including economic policy and the federal government, 1935-1936




Box 41 / Folder 3
36 government documents relating to a variety of topics, including the War Department, the Securities and Exchange Commission, Prohibition, banking policy, harbor improvements, and the Home Owners Loan Corporation, 1910-1939




Box 42 / Folder 1
Enclosures of an oversize or bulky nature which were removed from correspondence, dated according to the letter from which they were removed, including material relating to the three cent coin, banking legislation, rural credits, and the tariff question, January 1912-March 1914




Box 42 / Folder 2
Enclosures of an oversize or bulky nature which were removed from correspondence, dated according to the letter from which they were removed, including material relating to banking legislation, rural credits, price standardization, the Seaman's Bill, and Prohibition, April 1914-December 1932




Box 42 / Folder 3
Enclosures of an oversize or bulky nature which were removed from correspondence, dated according to the letter from which they were removed, including material relating to the federal food and drug laws, the Saint Lawrence Seaway, Estes Kefauver, and metropolitan federation, 1933-1961




Box 42 / Folder 4
Bulkley's desk calendars, 1900




Box 43 / Folder 1-2
Newspaper clippings relating to political topics and the Oregon (Deschutes) Irrigation Company, 1909-1915




Box 43 / Folder 3
Newspaper clippings relating to rural credits legislation, 1914-1915




Box 43 / Folder 4
Newspaper clippings relating to banking and currency legislation, 1912-1915




Box 43 / Folder 5
Newspaper clippings relating to the one-half and three cent coin, 1912-1914




Box 43 / Folder 6-7
Newspaper clippings, 1916-1965




Box 44
Memorabilia, plaques, and medals of Robert J. Bulkley, dates vary




Box 45
Oversize Package 1: Scrapbooks of newspaper clippings relating to Cleveland politics, 1915-1916




Box 46
Oversize Package 2: Scrapbook of newspaper clippings relating to Cleveland politics, 1910




Box 47
Oversize Package 3: Scrapbook from Bulkley's congressional period including newspaper clippings and campaign material, dates vary




Box 48
Oversize Package 4: Scrapbook of newspaper clippings and other items relating to Prohibition, ca. 1930




Folder 1
Oversize Folder 1: Thirty-two items including diplomas, certificates, awards, negative photostats of New York Times, records, and photographs, dates vary