Register of the Anson Conger Goodyear papers

Finding aid prepared by Zbigniew L. Stanczyk
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Title: Anson Conger Goodyear papers
Date (inclusive): 1919-1922
Collection Number: 56024
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 3 manuscript boxes, 3 envelopes, 1 oversize folder (1.6 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, diary, speeches and writings, memoranda, reports, maps, clippings, printed matter, and photographs, relating to coal production and distribution in Silesia, Bohemia, Galicia, and Serbia, political and economic conditions in Poland, and the partition of Silesia.
Creator: Goodyear, A. Conger (Anson Conger), 1877-1964
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1975.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Anson Conger Goodyear papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical Note

1877, June 20 Born, Buffalo, New York
1899 Bachelor Degree, Yale University
1900-1911 President, Goodyear Lumber Company
  Director, Crown Zellerbach Corporation
  Chairman of the Executive Committee, Director, G.M. & O. Railroads
1911-1917 President, Norwich Lumber Company
1917 Captain, Field Artillery, U.S. Army
1918 Colonel; Commander, 307th Field Artillery
1918 Commander, 81st Field Artillery, France
1918 General Inspector, Transportation Corps, A.E.F.
1918, May 2 President, Coal Commission for Central Europe
1919, September 5 Member, Inter-Allied Commission on Upper Silesia
1919, October Discharged honorably from the two last posts
1919 Major General, 1st Division, New York National Guard
1929-1960 Trustee, President, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1944-1945 Deputy Commander, American Red Cross, Pacific Ocean Areas
1947 Personal Representative of Secretary of War, American Zone, Germany and Austria
1952 Master of Laws, Norwich University
1958 Doctor of Fine Arts, Adelphi College
1964, April 23 Died, Old Westbury, New York

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Poland -- History -- 1918-1945
Reconstruction (1914-1939)
Coal mines and mining -- Czech Republic -- Bohemia
Coal mines and mining -- Galicia (Poland and Ukraine)
Coal mines and mining -- Serbia
Coal mines and mining -- Silesia
Silesia -- Economic conditions
Silesia (Poland : Voivodeship) -- Economic conditions
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
Allied and Associated Powers (1914-1920). Supreme Economic Council. Coal Mission (Location of meeting: Central Europe)
Inter-Allied Commission in Upper Silesia

 

COAL COMMISSION FILE 1919

Scope and Contents

Reports, resolutions, agreements, lists, protocols, newsclippings, press releases, press translations, maps and other documents produced by the Coal Commission, arranged by physical form
box 1, folder 1

Founding documents, appointments, goals of the Commission

box 1, folder 2

List of the Commission members and their duties

box 1, folder 3

Chronological list of conferences held by Colonel Goodyear between May 4, 1919 and July 17, 1919

box 1, folder 4

Protocols, resolutions, agreements, appeals

box 1, folder 5

Newsclippings, press releases, press notes, translations

 

Memoranda

box 1, folder 6

Memorandum for Major Brand. Current Coal Supplies and the Directives for Further Actions in the Countries Involved: Czechoslovakia, Germany, Poland, Austria

box 1, folder 7

Memoranda for Captain Watterson Goodyear's description of his trips, their purposes and accomplishments; recommendations for the conduct of the commission's office

box 1, folder 8

Reports on the Commission's activities (in five chapters), written by Goodyear for his successor and describing Headquarters, personnel, political reality in Central Europe, reporting on negotiations, conferences and contracts

 

Reports relating to economic policy

box 1, folder 9

Report on Coal Mines in Ostrau-Karwin District June 1919

box 1, folder 10

Report on Coal Production and Food Requirements in Ostrau-Karwin District and Contiguous District June 1919

box 1, folder 11

Report on Coal Mines in Upper Silesia, Bohemia, Serbia June-July 1919

box 1, folder 12

Reports on Coal Mines in Hungary and Dumbrowa, Poland and Oil and Gas Fields in Galicia June-August 1919

box 1, folder 13

Report on the Coal Fields of Czechoslovakia July 1919

box 1, folder 14

Reports on Coal Mines in Galicia July 1919

box 1, folder 15

Reports on Coal Mines in German Austria and Trafail District August 1919

box 1, folder 16

Report of the Coal Commission for the Territory Included in the Former Empire of Austria-Hungary and Poland September 1919

box 1, folder 17

Memorandum. The Economic Future of Upper Silesia January 1922

box 1, folder 18

Distribution of Coal within the Territory of the Old Empire n.d.

 

Correspondence

box 1, folder 19

Allied Railway Mission to Poland

box 1, folder 20

American Relief Administration

box 1, folder 21

Czechoslovak government agencies

box 1, folder 22

German government agencies

box 1, folder 23

Ministry of Reconstruction, Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia

box 1, folder 24

Ministry of Trade and Industry, Warsaw, Poland

box 1, folder 25

Correspondence concluding Coal Commission activities

 

Maps

box 2, folder 1

Administrativ-Karte der Erzherz. Kammer Teschen in Oesterr. Schlesien

box 2, folder 2

Central Europe - Major coal mines

box 2, folder 3

Central Europe - Regions of pit coal and lignites

box 2, folder 4

European Coal Production and Distribution in 1913.

box 2, folder 5

General Industriekarte vom Oberschlesischen Rusischen und Maehrisch-Ostrauer Revier

box 2, folder 6

Handkarte des Oberschlesischen Industriebezirks

box 2, folder 7

Uebersichtskarte des Oberschlesischen Industriebezirkes

General Physical Description note: (7 charts)
box 2, folder 8

Uebersichtskarte des Ostrau-Karwiner Steinkohlrevieres

General Physical Description note: (6 charts)
 

CORRESPONDENCE 1920-1922

Scope and Contents

Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent
box 2, folder 9

Barber, A.B., Technical Adviser to the Ministry of Railways, Warsaw, Poland 1920-1921

box 2, folder 10

Causey, W.B., Colonel, Technical Adviser to Austria 1921-1922

box 2, folder 11

Stader, J.A., Captain, Coal Commission member 1920-1921

box 2, folder 12

General correspondence 1920

 

DIARY 1919.

box 2, folder 13

Goodyear's diary of his daily activities, between August 21 and September 23, 1919

 

SPEECHES AND WRITINGS ca. 1919-1920

Scope and Contents

Memoirs on political, social and economic conditions in Central Europe, and speeches delivered after Goodyear's return to the United States
box 2, folder 14

Memoirs. Goodyear's memoir on his involvement in Coal Commission and Inter-Allied Commission n.d.

box 2, folder 15

"Peace in Eastern Europe" n.d.

box 2, folder 16

Untitled writing related to insurrection in Upper Silesia n.d.

box 2, folder 17

Untitled speech to University Club on political developments in Central Europe November 29, 1919

 

MISCELLANY 1919

Scope and Contents

Calling cards, invitations, railway tickets, ID card, report, leaflet, materials connected with Goodyear's stay in Central Europe
box 2, folder 18

Calling cards, invitations, railway tickets, ID card

 

Printed matter

box 2, folder 19

Brochure, Report of European Technical Adviser's Mission to Poland, 1919-1922, by A.B. Barber, New York 1923

box 2, folder 20

Leaflet. An Open Letter to the English and the American Nation, by the Committee for National Defense of Poland, Lwow June 1919

 

Schoolbooks

box 2, folder 21

Nova Brana Jazyku. Bilingual reader in Czech and English, Holesou 1916

box 2, folder 21

Puopata, Czech elementary, Prag 1914

box 2, folder 21

Anglicky, Snadno a Rychle, Handbook on English, Prag n.d.

 

INTER-ALLIED COMMISSION FILE 1919-1920

Scope and Contents

Reports, correspondence, memoranda, clippings, leaflets, arranged by physical form
box 3, folder 1

Alleged German official documents inciting revolt

box 3, folder 2

German and Polish complaints

box 3, folder 3

German official papers

box 3, folder 4

Letters to Herbert Hoover and Hugh Gibson

box 3, folder 5

Memoranda of conferences

box 3, folder 6

Press comments

box 3, folder 7

Report of Colonel Goodyear on Upper Silesian Insurrection

box 3, folder 8

Reports of Inter-Allied Commission for Upper Silesia

 

Subject file

box 3, folder 9

Polish - Czechoslovak border conflict

box 3, folder 10

Political origins of Inter-Allied Commission

box 3, folder 11

Release of hostages

 

Upper Silesia

box 3, folder 12

Miscellaneous papers

box 3, folder 13

Pamphlets, newspapers, maps

drawer H19

Pamphlets, newspapers, maps (continued)

box 3, folder 14

Telegrams

 

PHOTOGRAPHS

envelope A

5 photos of other coal mines in Bohemia including one showing young women and child laborers circa 1919

envelope B

5 photos of other coal mines in Bohemia including one showing young women and child laborers circa 1919

envelope mC

4 photos from Bruex (Most) Coal Region, a photographed map of the region, a photographed watercolor of Alexander coal mine, views of 2 other coal mines circa 1919