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Title: Ray Lyman Wilbur Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1906-1964
Collection number: XX392
Creator:
Wilbur, Ray Lyman, 1875-1949
Collection Size: 142 manuscript boxes, 3 oversize boxes, 6 envelopes, 4 photo albums, 3 framed photographs, 4 phonorecords, memorabilia (70 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, writings, memoranda, reports, pamphlets, other printed matter, and miscellanea, relating to American and world
politics, the administrations of Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt, development of natural resources in the United
States, national health and other social problems, the Boy Scouts of America, and the death of President Warren G. Harding.
Includes papers accumulated by R. L. Wilbur as a member and officer of the Institute of Pacific Relations, relating to the
study of political, social, and economic conditions in East Asia and of American foreign policy in East Asia.
Language:
English.
Collection open for research.
The Hoover Institution Archives only allows access to
copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives
at least two working days before your arrival. We will then advise you of the accessibility of the material you wish to see
or hear. Please note that not all audiovisual material is immediately accessible.
For copyright status, please contact
the Hoover Institution Archives.
[Identification of item], Ray Lyman Wilbur Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution
Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923.
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964.
Boy Scouts.
United States. Dept. of the Interior.
Institute of Pacific Relations.
Education.
Health.
Hoover Dam.
Illiteracy--United States.
Indians of North America.
Japanese Americans.
National parks and reserves--United States.
Natural resources--United States.
Oil-shales--United States.
Pan-Pacific relations.
Prohibition--United States.
Public health--United States.
Social problems.
World politics.
China.
East Asia.
East Asia--Economic conditions.
East Asia--Foreign relations--United States.
East Asia--Politics and government.
East Asia--Social conditions.
United States--Politics and government.
United States--Foreign relations.
United States--Foreign relations--East Asia.
United States--Politics and government--1929-1933.
United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
United States--Social conditions.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
Conservatism.
Statesmen--United States.
Kelley, Ralph S.
| 1875 April 13 | Born, Boonesboro, Iowa |
| 1896-1897 | Instructor, Physiology, Stanford University |
| 1900-1903 | Assistant Professor, Physiology, Stanford University |
| 1909-1916 | Professor of Medicine, Stanford University |
| 1911-1916 | Dean, Medical School, Stanford University |
| 1912-1913 | President, American Academy of Medicine |
| 1916-1943 | President, Stanford University |
| 1917 | Chief, Conservation Division, United States Food Administration |
| 1917, 1941-1946 | California State Council of Defense |
| 1922-1924 | Chairman, Survey of Race Relations on Pacific Coast |
| 1922-1925 | Council of Social and Health Agencies, San Francisco |
| 1923-1924 | President, American Medical Association |
| 1925-1929 | Chairman, Institute of Pacific Relations |
| 1927-1939 | San Francisco Community Chest |
| 1928 | United States delegate to the Sixth Pan-American Conference, Havana |
| 1928-1929 | California State Park Commission |
| 1929-1933 | Secretary, Department of the Interior
Author, Annual Reports of the Secretary of the Interior |
| 1929-1933 | Federal Oil Conservation Board |
| 1929-1931 | Chairman, White House Conference on Child Health and Protection |
| 1930-1931 | Chairman, National Advisory Commission on Illiteracy |
| 1931 | Author (with William Atherton DuPuy), Conservation |
| 1933 | Author (with Northcutt Ely),
Hoover Dam Contracts
Author (with Elwood Mead), Construction of Hoover Dam |
| 1936 | Author, Stanford Horizons |
| 1937 | Author (with Arthur M. Hyde), Hoover Policies |
| 1938 | Author, March of Medicine |
| 1939-1949 | National Executive Board, Boy Scouts of America |
| 1940 | Author, Human Hopes |
| 1940-1949 | Health Commission, Boys Clubs of America |
| 1944-1946 | California State War Problems Board |
| 1949 June 26 | Died, Stanford, California |