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  • Title: Gelasio Benedetto Anatolio Caetani papers
    Date (inclusive): 1906-1934
    Collection Number: 44004
    Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
    Language of Material: English
    Physical Description: 4 manuscript boxes, 1 envelope, 1 oversize folder (1.3 Linear Feet)
    Abstract: Correspondence, speeches and writings, reports, photographs, and clippings, relating to Italy in World War I, Italian-American relations, and Herbert Hoover.
    Creator: Caetani, Gelasio, 1877-1934
    Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

    Access

    The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

    Use

    For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    Acquisition Information

    Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1974.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], Gelasio Benedetto Anatolio Caetani Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    Biography

    Italian mining engineer and diplomat; ambassador to the United States, 1922-1925.

    Scope and Contents note

    Copies of a small group of letters exchanged between Herbert Hoover and Gelasio Caetani, 1912-1913;
    Letters to and copies of letters from Gelasio Caetani, mostly pertaining to his career as Italian Ambassador to the United States,1922-1925;
    Letters from Gelasio Caetani to Albert Burch, many pertaining to Gelasio Caetani's World War I experiences; and copies of letters from Albert Burch to Gelasio Caetani,1914-1934;
    Letters from Gelasio Caetani to James Batcheller, 1916, 1932-1934;
    Manuscripts, speeches, magazines articles by or concerning Gelasio Caetani,1923-1925;
    Five volumes containing clippings, pictures, etc., pertaining mostly to Gelasio Gaetani's post as Italian Ambassador to the United States, 1923-1925;
    Reports of mines in Arizona, Nicaragua, Mexico, Idaho, Colorado, with some correspondence, 1906-1914;
    A report on the mines of the Austin-Manhattan consolidated Co., by Gelasio Caetani, 1910;
    Miscellaneous clippings, photographs, and memorabilia pertaining to Gelasio Caetani;
    Memorial testament, to Gelasio Caetani from the San Francisco section of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, 1934;

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Engineers
    Diplomats -- Italy
    World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Italy
    World War, 1914-1918 -- Italy
    Italy -- History -- 1922-1945
    Italy -- Foreign relations -- United States
    United States -- Foreign relations -- Italy
    Col di Lana, Battle of, Italy, 1916
    Mines and mineral resources
    Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964