Instructional memoranda from Camp Lee, Virginia and the Field Artillery Central Officers Training School (F.A.C.O.T.S.) at Camp Zachary Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky. Lecture topics include, in part: Artillery Tactics, Military Topography, and Protection of Guns and Ammunition.

Blank's personal notes from officer training classes held at Camp Zachary Taylor

Blank's personal notes from officer training classes held at Camp Zachary Taylor

Blank's reminiscences about training at the Tobyhanna Military Reservation while a member of the 1st New York Artillery Company in the early 1910s. Also included are letters from Blank to Alice Schreyer, former Assistant Director of Libraries at the University of Delaware, further explaining the Tobyhanna material that he donated to Special Collections.

Transcript of the case Warner Moore and Thomas L. Moore, co-partners, doing business under the firm name and style of Dunlop, Mills, Warner, Moore & Co., Proprieters vs. Steamship "Sif," her engines, etc., Aktieselskabet Jacob R. Olsen

Transcript of the case Frederic Blank, et. al. Against United States of America and the International Mercantile Marine Corporation . This case arose when a ship on which Blank was exporting codfish did not unload its cargo in Greece in a timely manner resulting in a loss in value of the fish. The shipping company was deemed not liable due to the Harter Act of 1893 that stipulated that vessels could alter their course during times of war. Blank appealed the case.

Materials related to the boycott of Salubra and Tekko undertaken by the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators, and Paperhangers of America due to the belief that the wall coverings were products of Germany. The products were accepted as being Swiss-made in 1935 and the boycott was rescinded.

Information on color theory. Includes a copy of Baumann's Color Guide by Paul Baumann.

Real estate listing for Blank's house, noting the fact that the rooms were decorated with Fabron and Salubra. Notes on an additional corporate project indicating product selection and highlighting potential problems for installing over existing wall coverings.

Contains two of Blank's passports (1913 and 1924) with multiple stamps from his journeys. Also includes Blank's letter to the Department of State indicating his intent to pursue citizenship, 1913.

Includes "issue mail" and political letters from Gov. Pierre S. du Pont IV, the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Senator John J. Williams, Eugene J. Keogh, Robert L. Donovan, Charles C. Lockwood, Cardinal Spellman, and Louis Kissling. Also contains a number of form letters from Presidents and political candidates that Blank supported, including Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

Material originally laid in Blank's copy of Unvarnished by Philip Zausner.

Philip Zausner, Unvarnished: The Autobiography of a Union Leader (New York: Brotherhood Publishers, 1941). Inscribed to Blank by the author. Dust jacket has been removed to oversized material. Zausner was the Secretary-Treasurer of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators, and Paperhangers of America, District No. 9 at the time of their boycott of Salubra and Tekko imported by Frederic Blank & Co.

Includes the Chamber of Commerce pamphlet "Communist Infiltration in the United States: Its Nature and How to Combat it," (Washington, D.C.: Chamber of Commerce, 1946). Also includes a letter from the Chamber of Commerce about the pamphlet.

Contains articles on trade and teachers' unions, labor, the Mafia in unions, and labor violence. Also contains Blank's membership card for and a pamphlet about the organization Americans Against Union Control of Government.

Clippings and material related to Thomas Dewey that were originally laid in a copy of Dewey's Twenty Against the Underworld. Blank's copy of the first edition was removed from this collection for cataloguing.

A variety of personal miscellany, including: a tear sheet from Godey's Lady's Book (1866); a hand-drawn sofa design; an 1889 reprint of The New York Daily Gazette of May 1, 1789; tear sheets from The New York Times, October 22, 1956; reprints of the Gettysburg Address, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence; and other material.