Presidential Libraries and Special Collections

With this timeline, I have attempted to create a comprehensive chronological history of the Presidential Library system and of individual special collections of presidential papers.

This multimedia timeline was created by Sami Norling as the final project for the online course, History of Libraries, taught by Annette Lamb through IUPUI in the summer of 2012.

1782-10-23 00:00:00

Washington on His Papers

1797-04-03 00:00:00

Washington Plans His Library

1817-01-01 00:00:00

James Madison and His Papers

1834-06-30 00:00:00

Congress Purchases the Washington Papers

1848-01-01 00:00:00

The Purchase of Thomas Jefferson's Papers

1880-03-01 00:00:00

Grover Cleveland on Presidential Papers

1895-01-01 00:00:00

Papers of James Buchanan Donated to Pennsylvania Historical Society

1903-01-01 00:00:00

First Collection of Presidential Papers at the Library of Congress - Andrew Jackson Papers

1903-03-09 00:00:00

Presidential Papers Tranferred to Library of Congress

1903-12-01 02:51:15

James K. Polk Papers Purchased by Library of Congress

1904-01-01 00:00:00

Martin Van Buren Papers

1904-01-01 00:00:00

Papers of Andrew Johnson

1904-01-01 00:00:00

Papers of Ulysses S. Grant

1906-01-01 00:00:00

Zachary Taylor Papers

1909-01-01 00:00:00

Millard Fillmore Papers Discovered

1916-01-01 00:00:00

Establishment of the Rutherford B. Hayes Library

1916-01-01 00:00:00

William Howard Taft on Presidential Papers

1916-12-01 00:00:00

Theodore Roosevelt Donates His Papers to the Library of Congress

1919-01-01 02:51:15

John Tyler's Papers

1919-09-01 00:00:00

Papers of William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison Donated to Library of Congress

1923-01-23 00:00:00

Papers of Abraham Lincoln Gifted to Library of Congress

1929-01-01 00:00:00

The Papers of Calvin Coolidge

1940-07-04 00:00:00

FDR Turns Library Over to National Archives

1955-01-01 00:00:00

Presidential Libraries Act

1956-01-01 00:00:00

John Adams and John Quincy Adams Papers

1957-07-06 00:00:00

Dedication of the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library

1957-08-16 00:00:00

Public Law 85-147

1958-01-01 00:00:00

Papers of Chester A. Arthur

1960-01-01 00:00:00

Filming of the Franklin Pierce Papers

1962-05-01 00:00:00

Dedication of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library

1962-08-10 00:00:00

Dedication of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library

1964-04-25 00:00:00

Papers of Warren G. Harding Open at the Ohio Historical Society

1971-05-22 00:00:00

Dedication of the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library

1974-01-01 00:00:00

Presidential Recordings and Materials Preservation Act

1978-01-01 00:00:00

Presidential Records Act

1979-10-20 00:00:00

Dedication of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library

1981-04-27 00:00:00

Dedication of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library

1986-01-01 00:00:00

Presidential Libraries Act

1986-10-01 00:00:00

Dedication of the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library

1990-07-19 00:00:00

Dedication of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library

1991-12-04 00:00:00

Dedication of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library

1997-11-07 00:00:00

Dedication of the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library

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2001-11-01 00:00:00

Executive Order 13233

2004-11-18 00:00:00

Dedication of William J. Clinton Presidential Library

2010-11-16 00:00:00

Groundbreaking of the George W. Bush Presidential Library

Presidential Libraries and Special Collections

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