Register of the Ellery W. Stone papers
Finding aid prepared by Beth Goder
Hoover Institution Library and Archives
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Title: Ellery W. Stone papers
Date (inclusive): 1911-1981
Collection Number: 87008
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
11 manuscript boxes, 2 oversize boxes
(6.71 Linear Feet)
Abstract: The Ellery W. Stone papers contain correspondence, speeches and writings, reminiscences, orders, memoranda, reports, personnel
records, printed matter, and photographs relating to Allied occupation policy in Italy during and after World War II and to
the development of radio and other telecommunication systems.
Creator:
Stone, Ellery W. (Ellery Wheeler), 1894-
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 1987.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Ellery W. Stone papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical Note
| 1894 January 14 |
Born, Oakland, California |
| 1913-1914 |
Majored in electrical and radio engineering, University of California |
| 1914-1917 |
Assistant U.S. Radio Inspector, Department of Commerce, San Francisco |
| 1917-1919 |
District Communications Superintendent, 12th Naval District, U.S. Naval Radio Station, San Diego |
| 1919 |
General Manager, Moorhead Laboratories and Lee de Forest, Inc. |
| 1919 |
Author,
Elements of Radiotelegraphy
|
| 1922 |
Manager, Radio Department of the Pacific States |
| 1924-1931 |
President, Federal Telegraph Company of California, which was acquired by International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation
(ITT) in 1931
|
| 1931-1968 |
Joined ITT after merger and held various executive positions |
| 1943 |
Vice President of Communications, Allied Control Commission for Italy |
| 1944 |
Promoted to Rear Admiral |
| 1944-1947 |
Chief Commissioner, Allied Control Commission in Italy and Chief Civil Affairs Officer, Allied Military Government in Italy |
| 1946-1948 |
Regional Vice President for Middle East and Cairo, ITT |
| 1948-1949 |
President, Federal Telephone & Radio Corporation |
| 1948-1968 |
Director, ITT |
| 1950-1958 |
President, American Cable & Radio Corporation and subsidiaries |
| 1958 |
Retired from the Navy |
| 1961-1965 |
President, ITT Europe |
| 1969 |
Retired from ITT |
| 1981 September 18 |
Died, Montclair, New Jersey |
Scope and Content of Collection
The papers of Ellery W. Stone contain correspondence, speeches and writings, reminiscences, orders, memoranda, reports, personnel
records, printed matter, and photographs relating to Allied occupation policy in Italy during and after World War II and to
the development of radio and other telecommunication systems.
Throughout his life, Stone was involved in the radio and communications field. His interest in electronics was sparked by
the gift of a battery-powered motor on his 14th birthday, and during his career he held several executive positions at the
International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation (ITT). The
Biographical and Personal File contains interviews documenting Stone's career in the communications field, as well as his work with the Allied Commission
in Italy. This file also includes correspondence related to a book written by two reporters for
Tempo called
Finally the Allies Speak and citations for various awards that Stone received. The
Radio and Communications File includes materials concerning organizations where Stone was a member, such as the Society of Wireless Pioneers and the De
Forest Pioneers, as well as printed material, including publications with biographical articles on Stone. An article detailing
Stone's career can be found in the
Oversize Materials series.
The majority of the material in the
Allied Commission and United States Navy File, which documents Stone's Navy career, relates to the Allied Commission in Italy. Several folders in this series, such as
the cable and wireless service file, contain an index with a summary of included documents. Also included is the typescript
Secret Story of One Month of Reign, which examines the reign of Umberto II, the abdication of Victor Emmanuel III, and Stone's role in these events as the Chief
Commissioner of the Allied Commission. The
Photographs and
Oversize Materials series contain photographs from Stone's military service.
The
Speeches and Writings series includes bound blueprint sheets of Stone's book
Elements of Radiotelegraphy, which started as a series of lectures, as well as his speeches on communication and farewell address after completing his
service with the Allied Commission.
Source: Oral-History: Ellery W. Stone. IEEE Global History Network. http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Oral-History:Ellery_W._Stone
Related Materials
Henry F. (Henry Francis) Grady typescript: Adventures in diplomacy, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Subjects and Indexing Terms
World War, 1939-1945 -- Italy
Officers
Italy -- History -- Allied occupation, 1943-1947
Military government
Telecommunication
Radio
United States. Navy
Allied Commission
Biographical and Personal File
1911-1981
Scope and Contents note
Includes correspondence, clippings, interviews, and curriculum vitae, arranged alphabetically by format.
box 1, folder 1
Arlington National Cemetery file
1965-circa 1967
Scope and Contents note
Includes map to grave of Behn.
box 1, folder 4
Distinguished Service Medal
undated
box 1, folder 6
Légion d'Honneur
1963
1971
Scope and Contents note
Includes speeches by Stone and photographs.
box 1, folder 7
Bancroft Library and Plate of Brass artifact
1977
box 1, folder 8
Biographical information
1945
box 1, folder 9
Citations and commendations
1945-1947, undated
Scope and Contents note
Includes message from Harry Truman.
box 1, folder 10
Biographical articles
undated
Scope and Contents note
See also: Oversize Materials.
box 1, folder 11
Death of Flora Pickering Stone
undated
box 1, folder 12
Marriage and religious conversion
1947
box 1, folder 14
Promotions
1943-1944
Scope and Contents note
See also: Allied Commission and United States Navy File, clippings.
box 2, folder 7
Congratulations
1944-1945
box 2, folder 8
Curriculum vitae
1940-1981
box 2, folder 9
Drawing depicting Ellery Stone
1945
Finally the Allies Speak by Luigi Romersa and Bonaventura Caloro
box 2, folder 14
Interview of Stone as told to A. J. Schmitt (ITT Corporate History Interviews)
1978
Scope and Contents note
Includes typescript and notes.
box 2, folder 15
Interview of Stone by Arthur L. Norberg
1978
box 2, folder 16
Invitations
1946, undated
box 2, folder 18
Moon landing stamps
1969
Scope and Contents note
Includes Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong signatures.
box 2, folder 19
Navy identification card photocopy
1959
box 2, folder 20
Radio operator licenses
1912-1913
box 2, folder 21
Society for French American Cultural Services and Educational Aid
1979
box 2, folder 22
Tax correspondence
1967-1968
box 2, folder 23
Wedding announcement list
undated
box 2, folder 24
"The Wizards of Electricity" playbill
undated
box 2, folder 25
Miscellany
1967-1977, undated
Allied Commission and United States Navy File
1942-1969
Scope and Contents note
Includes correspondence, clippings, printed matter, memoranda, and personnel records, arranged alphabetically by subject or
format. See also: Declassified U.S. Government Records.
box 3, folder 1
Accounts of supplies furnished to Italy by Allies
1946
box 3, folder 2
Advances to Allied Forces (Lire advances)
1946
box 3, folder 3
Anti-inflation file
1944-1946, undated
box 3, folder 4
Bonomi, Ivanoe speech excerpt
1944
box 3, folder 5-7
Cable and wireless service file
1945-1947
Scope and Contents note
Includes index.
box 3, folder 8-10
Clippings
1944-1947
Scope and Contents note
Includes clippings about Stone.
box 3, folder 11
Clippings, miscellaneous
1944-1976, undated
box 3, folder 12
Commissions certificates
1925-1949
box 4, folder 9
Directive for Armistice Control Commission
1943
box 4, folder 10
Directory of veterans of Allied Control Commission and Allied Military Government
1954
box 4, folder 11
Forrestal Diaries, correspondence and reports
1951-1953
box 4, folder 12
Forrestal, James, speech
1949
box 4, folder 13
Index of miscellaneous Allied Control Commission papers
undated
box 4, folder 14
Future policy toward Italy
1945
box 4, folder 15
Memorandum for President Truman
1946
Scope and Contents note
See also: memoranda and correspondence file.
box 4, folder 16
Military situation
undated
box 4, folder 17
Memoranda and correspondence file
1944-1946
Scope and Contents note
Includes memorandum for President Truman.
box 4, folder 18
Moscow communiqué
1943-1944
box 4, folder 19
Naval Reserve file
1953-1961
box 4, folder 22
Notes from interview with King Victor Emmanuel III
1944 February 5
box 4, folder 23
Notes on conversation between Stone and Prime Minister Parri
1945 June 19
box 4, folder 24
Official Navy file of Admiral Stone
1945-1959
box 5, folder 1
Official Navy file of Admiral Stone (cont'd.)
1945-1959
box 5, folder 2-3
Organization and reorganization of Allied Commission file
1944-1946
Scope and Contents note
Includes index.
box 5, folder 4
Organization chart
1945-1946
box 5, folder 6
Personnel file, completion of service and relief
1944-1947, undated
box 5, folder 7
Press headlines and radio bulletins
1947
box 5, folder 8
"The Allied Armies in Italy From 3rd September, 1943 to 12th December, 1944,"
Supplement to the London Gazette
1950
box 5, folder 9
"Allied Military Government of Rome Under the Fifth Army," report by Edgar E. Hume
1944
box 5, folder 10
The Renaissance of Religion in Science - An Inroad into Communism by Roland T. E. Bowler, typescript
1958
box 5, folder 11
Review of Allied Military Government and of the Allied Commission in Italy,
undated
box 5, folder 12
"Salerno-Naples. February-March 1944," by T. G. Bergin
1947
box 6, folder 2
Summary of Regulations Governing the Issuance and Wearing of Decorations, Medals and Ribbons Now Designated for Naval Personnel,
1943
Weekly Bulletin of the Allied Commission
Scope and Contents note
For Volume 1, see: Declassified U.S. Government Records.
box 6, folder 6
United States Naval Institute Proceedings,
1934
box 6, folder 7
1944-1945
Scope and Contents note
Includes index.
box 6, folder 8
Promotions and appointments
1943-1945, undated
box 6, folder 9
Review of Allied Commission achievements and communications work
1945
Secret Story of One Month of Reign, Italia-Nuova series, annotated typescript
box 7, folder 2
"Senate Committee Investigating the National Defense Program," draft notes
1945
box 7, folder 3
Speech (broadcast) "Allied Military Government in Italy,"
undated
box 7, folder 4
United States Naval Institute certificate of membership
1944
Radio and Communications File
1937-1980
Scope and Contents note
Includes printed matter and correspondence, arranged alphabetically by subject or format.
box 7, folder 8
De Forest Pioneers file
1975-1978, undated
box 7, folder 9
Electronics in the West: The First Fifty Years by Jane Morgan, correspondence
1968
box 7, folder 10
ITT Europe file
1965, undated
Scope and Contents note
Includes photographs.
box 7, folder 11
Bell Laboratories Record,
1950
box 7, folder 12
"Brief History of Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company" by Thorn Mayes
undated
box 7, folder 13
"Brief History of the United Wireless Telegraph Company" by Thorn Mayes
undated
box 7, folder 14
International System News,
1933
Scope and Contents note
Includes article about Stone.
box 7, folder 15
"The Origins of the Electronics Industry on the Pacific Coast" by Arthur L. Norberg
1976
box 7, folder 16
"Radio Ancestors - An Autobiography" by Robert H. Marriott
1968
box 7, folder 17
The Story of Kolster Radio,
1928
Scope and Contents note
Includes biography of Stone.
box 7, folder 18
When Telecom and ITT Were Young by Maurice Deloraine
1976
box 8, folder 1
Sarnoff, David file
1937-1953
Society of Wireless Pioneers
box 8, folder 2
Honorary membership
1979-1980
box 8, folder 3
Life membership
1980, undated
box 8, folder 5
Sparks: Tales of the Wireless Pioneers, Volume 3
1974
box 8, folder 6
Yearbook and directory
1976
Speeches and Writings
1918-1967
Scope and Contents note
Includes speeches, articles, and correspondence, arranged chronologically. See also: Biographical and Personal File, Awards,
Légion d'Honneur.
box 9, folder 1
Assignments for correspondence course in elementary radio
undated
box 9, folder 2-3
Elements of Radiotelegraphy, bound volumes
1918
box 9, folder 4
"Communication System for the Italian Squadron Transatlantic Flight,"
Electrical Communication
1934
box 9, folder 5
"Communications for Italian Transatlantic Flight,"
1934 August
box 9, folder 6
"Communications for Byrd Antarctic Expedition II,"
1936 February
box 9, folder 7
Speech on President Roosevelt's death for Radio Roma
1945 April 13
Scope and Contents note
Includes Italian text.
box 9, folder 8
Statement on the death of President Roosevelt
1945 April 13
box 9, folder 9
Farewell address, Allied Commission
1947 March 14
"Communications -- Lifeline of World Peace, Trade and Economy," New York Trade Week World Trade Luncheon
1952 May 21
box 9, folder 11
Program and report
1952-1953
"International Communications: Past and Future," New York Chapter of Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association
1960 November 30
box 9, folder 15
"Policy of ITT Towards Europe," conference commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the Marshall Plan
1967 June 7
Photographs
1944-1946
Scope and Contents note
Consists of prints and negatives, arranged alphabetically by subject or format.
box 10, folder 1
Art prints (Giranello and Manacero)
undated
box 10, folder 2
Stone presents awards
1945, undated
box 10, folder 3
Stone receives a medal
undated
box 10, folder 4
Boca Raton, Florida
undated
box 10, folder 5
Caserma Carabinieri (Stone with W. D. Morgan, Sac, Mtousa)
1945
box 10, folder 6
Civilian relief with Colonel O. J. Bizzozero and Stone examining supplies
1944
box 10, folder 9
House Military Affairs Committee
1945
box 10, folder 11-13
Navy photographs
1945, undated
box 10, folder 14
Personal photographs and holiday cards
undated
box 10, folder 15
Photos from book
undated
Scope and Contents note
Includes negatives.
box 10, folder 16
Portrait of Stone
undated
box 10, folder 17
Princess Marie José of Savoy with children
undated
box 10, folder 18
Stone and Prime Minister Ivanoe Bonomi examine civilian relief supplies, Rome
1944
box 10, folder 19
Stone welcomes Mathew B. Ridgway
1945
box 10, folder 20
Stone with Bruno Romani
undated
box 10, folder 21
Stone with Field Marshall Harold Alexander
1945, undated
box 10, folder 22
Stone with Herbert Hoover and others
1946
box 10, folder 23
Stone with H. M. Ziroli, Brigadier Lush and others
1946
Oversize Materials
1943-1979
Scope and Contents note
Includes photo albums, mounted stars, article on Stone, and cartoon of Stone.
box 12
Sparks Journal with article "The Unique Career of Ellery W. Stone,"
circa 1979
Photo albums of General Command of the Carabinieri Reali (Royal Carabiniers)
box 12
Marshal H. R. Alexander
1945
Declassified U.S. Government Records
1942-1945
Scope and Contents note
Formerly security-classified records of the U.S. government, released in full or in part. Includes some interfiled, unclassified
government records. Arranged chronologically by date of release by Hoover, thereunder chronologically by date of creation.
box 13, folder 1-5
2016 March release of records
1942-1945
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, printed matter, and photographs relating to Stone's work with the Allied Commission and United States Navy.
Includes Volume 1 of
Weekly Bulletin of the Allied Commission and a draft of
Allied Military Administration of Italy, 1943-1945 by C. R. S. Harris.
