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Finding Aid for the Thomas Nixon Carver papers, 1910-1961, bulk 1932-1961
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Carver, Thomas Nixon, 1865-1961. Papers. v.p. ca. 1910-1961.

Physical Description: 12 boxes and 3 volumes (oversize package).
Physical Description: Manuscripts, photographs, and printed material.

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Correspondence and memoranda; manuscripts and galleys of articles, books, and speeches; photographs; and printed articles of Thomas Nixon Carver, Professor of Economics, Harvard University, 1900-1932; UCLA, 1934-1935, 1938-1939; Occidental College, 1939-1940; Director, Rural Organization Service, 1913-1914, and Adviser, Agriculture Economics, 1913-1915, U.S. Department of Agriculture; and Adviser, Editorial and Research Division, National Republican Party, 1936.
Among the correspondents in the papers are the following:
  • Henry J. Haskell
  • Charles C. Teague
  • Mark Sullivan
  • Franklin W. Ryan
  • Robert A. Millikin
  • Kathryn McHale
  • Dugald C. Jackson
  • Herbert C. Hoover
  • Irénée DuPont
  • Albert B. Hart
  • Norman E. Himes
  • Paul G. Hoffman
  • Max Farrand
  • Harrison Chandler
  • James B. Conant
  • Harold H. Burbank
  • Henry B. Ward
  • William A. White
  • Leonard E. Read
  • William B. Munro
  • Arthur G. Coons
  • Robert G. Sproul
  • Boxes 1-2: Correspondence
  • Boxes 3-10: Manuscripts of articles, speeches, etc.
  • Boxes 11-12: Printed writings
  • Oversize Box 13: Three scrapbooks containing clippings of Carver's articles in the Los Angeles Times, 1954-1959.