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Social Science Research Council,
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US National Agricultural Library:
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Wisconsin Historical Society:
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Papers of the Institute for Public Utilities and Land Economics,
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Personal Papers of Henry C. Taylor,
– “US BAE-European Tour-1924”, Madison, Wisconsin, 1924;
– “Correspondence-Carnegie Inst-1905-1920-Land Tenure Research”, Madison, Wisconsin;
– “International Institute of Agriculture”, Madison, Wisconsin, 1934;
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