Chairman's File 1939-1941.
Cables
Clippings
Correspondence. Includes memoranda, reports of meetings and telephone conversations
General
Coulter J. L., Falconer J. I., Hobson A., McCollum E. V.
Galpin, Perrin
Hartigan, John
Krueger, Colonel
McCormick, Chauncey
Parke, Norman
Pate, Maurice
Richard, Edgar
Richmond, Richard
Sikorski, Wladyslaw
Tuck, Hallam
Tucker, Robert Leonard
Speeches and writings
General
Correspondence and memoranda regarding CPR activity and food relief. Holograph and typescript
Drafts of by-laws, membership lists
Address, Polish mass meeting in the Chicago stadium, 1940 February 10. Typescript
Address, Polish National Council of New York, New York City, New York, 1940 March 12. Typescript
Speech, Finnish Pavilion, New York World's Fair, New York City, New York, 1940 May 16. Typescript
Speech, Opening of Belgian Pavilion at New York World's Fair, New York City, New York, 1940 May 18. Typescript
"We as Americans...," 1940 September. Statement. Typescript
"America and the Famine in the Five Little Democracies," address, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1940 November 15. Press release
"Feed Hungry Europe!" Collier's, 1940 November 23. Clipping
"When Winter Comes to Europe," 1940 November 23. Typescript
"The March of Hunger in Europe," address, Chicago, Illinois, 1941 February 16. Typescript
"The Question of Peace," broadcast, National Broadcasting Company, New Haven, Connecticut, 1941 March 28. Press release
"The Food Situation in Belgium as of July 1941." Typescript written by E. J. Bigwood with foreword by Herbert Hoover
Office File 1939-1947.
General. Bound volume of various documents relating to operations of the CPR
By-laws
Certificate of incorporation
Correspondence regarding fund-raising needs
Filing papers
History of the organization. Includes some material about chronology of events in Poland
Inquiries from Poles abroad regarding aid from CPR, fate of relatives in Poland, etc.
Lease
Letterheads and envelopes of CPR
License
Liquidation papers
Lists
Directors and officers
Donations
1939-1940
1941
Mailing
Personnel records
Applications
General
1940
1941
Female
Secretary-Steno
Miscellaneous
Male
Foreign personnel
1940
1941
Fund raising
Miscellaneous
Correspondence between members of CPR and officers of various organizations, regarding recommendations
Decorations
Lists
Volunteer files
Policy toward Poland
Publicity material
General
Clippings
Pamphlets and programs
Press releases
Publications
General
News Bulletins
Radio broadcasts
Reports
1940. Interim report of CPR
1945-1947. "Report on Organization and Operation of Mission in Poland"
Subscriptions
Miscellaneous
General
Brown, Lei and Paul Super (Bucharest)
Exportkhleb (Soviet Union)
Friar, Millard Shaler and Hallam Tuck (Brussels)
Hansen C. K. (Denmark)
Hartigan, John
1940
General
April-May
June
July
August-September
1941
October-December
January
February
March-April
Heyl, Ernst
Hynes, John
Ilmetson (Norway)
MacDonald, William C.
Poni and Paul Super (Budapest)
Redfern, Gilbert
1940
January-July
August-December
1941
Shaler, Millard
Stephens, Dorsey [Zora]
1940
Stephens, Dorsey [Zora] (Contd.)
1941
January-April
May-December
Wilson, Randolph C.
Correspondence 1939-1947.
General, 1940-1945
A-C
D-G
H-L
M-P
Q-S
T-Z
Individuals, 1940-1943
Adams, Stacy, 1940-1941
Agar, William M.
Allen, Richard F., 1942
Beckelman, M. W., 1941
Biddle, Anthony D., 1940
Brener, Mina, 1942-1943
Brown, James W.
1940
1941
Brown, Milton, 1941
Cassel, Barry W., 1941
Castle, William R.
1940
1941
Cevey, Paul Ernest, 1941
Ciechanowska, Marie, 1941
Churchill, Winston, 1941
Cudahy, John, 1940
Darnall, John P.
1940
1941
De Stoop, John, 1941-1942
Donovan, William J.
1940
1941
DuBois, Arthur Wood, 1940-1941
Frese, Herman B.
General
1940
1941
Reports
Individuals (Contd.)
Frisse, Hans, 1941
Gamble, Arthur, 1940
Goldstein, Isidor, 1942-1943, 1947
Goudvis, Theodore L., 1941, 1944
Gregg, John P., 1940-1941
Grove, William R., 1940-1941
Hartigan, John
Broadcasts, 1940
Correspondence
General
1940
January-June
July-December
1941
Personal
Report on trip to Poland, 1940 October 29-November 3
Heyl, Ernst, 1940
Horner, Charles F., 1941
Humphrey, Grace, 1941
Hynes, John, 1940
January
February-March
April-August
September-December
Kwapiszewski, Michael, 1941-1942
Lehman, M. C., 1941-1943
MacAlarney, Robert E., 1941
MacDonald, William C.
General
1940
1941
Majewski, Tomasz, 1941
Moen, Lara, 1941
Paderewski, Ignacy, 1940-1941
Rajchman, Ludwik, 1940-1941
Redfern, Gilbert
1940
January-April
May-September
October-December
1941
Richmond, Raymond, S., 1941
Rieber, Torkild, Captain, 1940
Ronikier, Adam, Count, 1945
Ropp, Stephan, 1941
Individuals (Contd.)
Segal, Simon
Shaler, Millard, 1940-1942
Smith, James V., 1940-1944
Shattuck, Edwin P., 1940
Sparrow, Edward, 1941
Spielrein, Jan
Stephens, Dorsey
Correspondence
1940
1941
1942
Personal papers
Super, Paul
Correspondence, 1939-1941
Publications. Pamphlets about history of Poland
Reports of the Polish Y.M.C.A. on its activities in Europe, 1941
First report, February
Second report, March
Third report, May
Szoszkies, Henry, 1941
Topping, Tom, 1941
Tresidder, Donald B.
Wilson, Randolph C.
Correspondence
1940
1941
Report of relief activities in Europe, 1940 October 31
Zbudowski, Helen
Local Committees, 1940
Belmont, Massachusetts
Boston, Massachusetts. Includes Massachusetts mailing list
Chicago, Illinois
Cleveland, Ohio
Hartford, Connecticut
Hollywood, California
Houston, Texas
Idaho State Committee
New Haven, Connecticut
New Jersey State Committee
New York Committee. Contains partial list of Committee members
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Poughkeepsie, New York
Princeton, New Jersey. Includes statement of receipts and disbursements
San Fernandino, California
San Francisco, California
South Amboy, New Jersey
Syracuse, New York
List of persons present at meeting on 1940 January 17 for the purpose of forming a Committee for Polish Relief
Report regarding the Formation of a Local Committee in Syracuse, New York, 1940 January 19
Utica, New York. Report regarding the formation of a Local Committee in Utica, New York, 1940 January 19
Washington, D.C.
Organizations, consulates, and embassies, 1939-1947
Allied Relief Fund
American Express Company. Foreign Remittance Department
American Friends of Polish Democracy
American Friends Service Committee
1939
1940
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
1941
1940
1941
American Red Cross
1940
1941-1942
Amtorg Trading Corporation, 1940
Bermuda. Imperial Censor, 1941
Brazilian Committee for Polish Relief
Central Bureau for Registered Addresses
Committee of Mercy
Finnish Relief Fund
German Red Cross
Germany. Auswartiges Amt
Germany. Botschaft (United States)
1940
1941
Germany. Konsulat (New York)
Great Britain. Consulate (New York)
1940
1941
Great Britain. Embassy (United States)
1940
1941
Huisking and Company, re codliver oil purchases
Industrial Mercantile Corporation
International Red Cross
Kosciuszko Foundation
1940
1941
Mennonite Central Committee (American Mennonite Agency for Foreign Relief)
National Catholic Welfare Conference
National Committee on Food for Five Democracies
General
Press release, 1941 March
National Industrial Conference Board. Reports, 1941
National Information Bureau
Paderewski Fund for Polish Relief
Paderewski Testimonial Fund
General
Correspondence re fundraising needs
Polish Central Relief Committee
Polish Relief Fund, London
Polish Women's Relief Committee
Rada Polonii Amerykanskiej (Polish-American Council)
1940
January-July
August-December
1941
Scottish Relief for Polish Prisoners
Shuttuck, Bangs and Davis Corporation Company, 1941-1947
United States. Department of Agriculture
General
Reports
United States. Department of State
General. List of registrants
1939
1940
1941
United States. Department of Treasury
United States. Embassy (Germany)
Polish societies, 1940-1941
Y.M.C.A.
American
California
Connecticut
Iowa
Illinois
New Jersey
New York
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Washington
Wisconsin
Foreign
General
Correspondence
Form letters
Letters of thanks
Membership lists. See OFFICE FILE/Lists/Directors and officers
Minutes of meeting
1939
1940
1941
1942-1947
Abel, Theodore, 1940-1941. Correspondence
Cooper, Merian C., 1940. Correspondence
Galpin, Perrin. Correspondence
1940
1941
Gibson, Hugh
Cables
1940
April-May
June-August
September-December
1941
January-February
March-April
May-December
Correspondence
1940
1941
Kellogg, Vernon, 1939-1940. Correspondence
Krueger, J. W., Colonel, 1941. Correspondence
McCormick, Chauncey. Correspondence
1940
January-March
April-December
1941
McCracken, Henry Noble, 1940. Correspondence
Murray, Columba
Cables, 1941 April - 1942 July
Chronological record of CPR activities
Correspondence
1940
1941
January-May
June-August
September-December
1942
1943-1947
Reports on trips to Poland
1940 August
1941
January
September
Miscellaneous
Pate, Maurice
Cables, 1939-1941
Correspondence
1939-1940
1941
1942
1943-1944
Letters against and for relief. Includes letters of thanks
Report to the Polish American Council, 1941
Rickard, Edgar, 1940-1941
Satterlee, Herbert. Correspondence, 1940
Sawtelle, Raymond. Correspondence, 1940-1943
Strauss, Lewis. Correspondence, 1940-1941
Tuck, Hallam
Cables, 1940
Correspondence, 1941
Walcott, Frederic C. Correspondence, 1940
General
General
Agents
Export control schedule
General
Control bulletins, 1942 (incomplete)
Export license
Export subsidy
Food shipments
General. Genoa shipments
General
SS Guilia
SS Manhattan
SS Washington
Protocols
Lublin
Distribution plan
Primary receipts
Secondary receipts
Radom
Distribution plan
Primary receipts
Warsaw
Distribution plan
Primary receipts
Summary of food shipments to Poland
Oil
General
Cod liver oil
General
SS Canis
SS Jalderen
SS Vesta Herring
Receiving warehouses
Krakow
SS Canis
General
Financial documents
SS Vesta Herring
Warsaw
SS Canis
SS Vesta Herring
Insurance
International transport
Medical shipments
Shipping companies
General
American Bureau of Shipping. Bulletins, 1940-1941
American Export Lines
American Express Company
Italian Lines
Leggett and Company
Moore-McCormack Lines
Trans-Atlantic Associated Freight Conferences
United States Lines
Miscellaneous
Bulgaria
General
Receiving warehouses
Krakow
Warsaw
Lithuania
General
Letters
Telegrams
First shipment
General
Insurance
Receiving warehouses
Krakow
Lublin
Radom
Warsaw
Second shipment
General
Receiving warehouses
Krakow
Warsaw
Soviet Union
General
Receiving warehouses
Krakow
General
Receipts. Includes cover letters
Warsaw
General
Protocols
Receipts
United States
Car arrivals. List
Clothing
General
SS Rex Shipment
SS Vasaholm Shipment
Accounts
Poland
1940
1941-1943
Portugal (Lisbon)
Audits
General
Deloitte, Plender, Griffiths and Company
General
1940
1941-1942
Deloitte, Plender, Griffiths and Company (Contd.)
Reports
1941
1942
Miscellaneous
Haskins and Sells
Report, 1940
Insurance documents
General, 1939-1943
Johnson and Higgins Marine Insurance, 1940-1943
Marsh and McLennan insurance
Payments
Rates
Receipts and disbursements
General
General
Lisbon
Madrid
Statements
General
General
1940
1941
Audited
Deloitte, Plender, Griffins and Co., 1944
Cities
Budapest
Miscellaneous
Local Committees
Statistics
1939-1940
1941-1942
Subject file
Chase National Bank
General, 1939
Correspondence
1940
1941
Receipts and statements
1940
1941
Treasury bonds, 1942-1944
Paris Branch
Deutsche Bank
General
Pending
Federal Reserve Bank
General, 1940-1942
Regulations
Irving Trust Company, 1940
Public National Bank
United States. Department of the Treasury. Internal Revenue Service
General, 1941-1948
Coupon interests on Treasury bonds
Tax exemptions, 1939-1949
Subject File 1939-1945.
Belgian-American Educational Foundation
General
1940
1941
Cables
Belgian Relief Survey. Minutes of meetings, 1941 January 19-23
Czechoslovakia. Issues of News Flashes from Czechoslovakia Under Nazi Domination, New York, 1941
Food
General
Articles, memoranda and statements pertaining to the approaching famine in European countries. Includes press release from the Commission for Relief in Belgium, 1940 July 24
Balance sheet of food in continental Europe, 1941
Clippings
Estimates of foreign food supplies needed in Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway and Central Poland (estimates of the proportion of such supplies to German consumption requirements)
Data
European self-sufficiency ratings, 1939-1941
Map of food districts
Question and answer sets
Radio broadcasts pertaining to the Hoover's Feeding Plan
1940
1941
Report by Herman Frese, "The European Food Problem and the Hoover Proposals," 1941
Summary of the net trade in food stuffs and feedstuffs of 23 continental European countries (yearly averages for the 1934-1938 period)
Trade agreement between continental European countries
Miscellaneous
The Balkans
Belgium
General
Chronological record of visit to Belgium of the Commission for Relief in Belgium, 1941 January 19-24
Diet of the Belgian population at the end of 1940 and forecast for 1941 by E. J. Bigwood
Food conditions
Articles
Broadcast, 1941 February
Memorandum
Press release, 1941 February 1. Draft
Reports
Food rations
Estimate of calories in the daily food diet that can be offered to Belgian consumers out of Belgian native produce
Printed matter
Bread grain crops of continental Europe, 1941
Condensed milk and cod liver oil
Denmark
Diets
Exports and imports of European countries
Famine
Finland
General
Vitamins and drugs
Flour, Dark rye
Foodstuffs
Food ministry
France
Germany
General
Fat resources
Food rations
General
Changes
Food reserves
Self-sufficiency
Great Britain
General. Bulletins from Britain, 1941 January 22. (Supplement Number 21)
Reports
"Britain and the Famine Situation," n.d.
"British Blockade Loopholes," by H. B. Frese, 1941 January 16
Greece
Italy
Netherlands
Norway
General
Relief, 1940-1941
Occupied countries
Reserves of food
Supplies needed
Packages
Poland
General. Food packages
Central Poland
Western Poland
Rations of food
Romania
Soviet Union
General
Report on factors affecting food supplies
Spain
Switzerland
Hoover, Herbert. Report by William Agar, "Why Hoover Is Wrong," 1941
Hungary, 1940-1941
National Committee on Food for the Small Democracies. Statement regarding the continental food problem, 1941 February 28
Norway
Orlemanski, Stanislaw, Reverend, 1944
Paderewski Fund for Polish Relief
General
Bulletins
General, 1941 January-April (#1-3)
Campaign bulletins, 1940 April-August (#1-27)
Clippings
List of members
Mimeograph. Information and instructions for the formation of Committees, n.d.
Press releases, 1940
January-May
June-December
Printed matter
Paderewski Testimonial Fund
Bulletins, 1941 May - 1942 January (#1-5)
List of members
Poland
General
Publications
Nowy Swiat
1940
1941
PM
Polish Rewiew
Reports
General
1940
1941
CPR - Trips to Poland
First trip, 1940 July 4-15
General
Krakow
Warsaw
Second trip, 1940 October 29-November 3
Third trip, 1941 March 16-22
Statistics
Textbooks
Kurs Jezyka Angielskiego
Kurs Jezyka Francuskiego
Kurs Jezyka Niemieckiego
Kurs Jezyka Wegierskiego
Miscellaneous
Consulates, 1939-1942
Chicago
New York
Ottawa
Pittsburg
Embassies
Great Britain
United States
New York
Washington
1940
Washington
1941
Gold. Case against the Romanian National Bank
Account
Audit, Final
Brief of Court of Appeals
Correspondence
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Fidelity and Deposit Company
Irving Trust Company
Shattuck, Bangs and Davis Attornies
History
Legal decision
Settlement documents
Statements
Termination papers
Government in exile
General
Relations with CPR
History - Occupation, 1939-1945
German invasion of Poland
Russian occupation of Poland
Medical aid to Poland
General
1941
March-September
October-December
1942
1943-1944
Insurance claim
Medical supplies. Includes report on distribution
Prisoners of war
Refugees
General
General
Hungarian Polish Committee for Refugees
Italy
Outside of enemy territories
Romania. Map of refugee relief centers
Children
Relief agencies. Includes registration forms
Poland (Territory under German Occupation, 1939-1945)
Private welfare. "The Structure of Private Welfare," 1940. Typescript report
Public welfare. Includes reports on Jewish welfare, 1940
Polish Chief Relief Committee
Krakow
Lublin
Warsaw. Includes memorandum entitled "Food in Central Poland" by H. B. Frese, 1941 March 12
Polish Self-Help Committee
General
Forms
List of participants, 1940
Memorandum on the activities of the Committee in Warsaw, n.d.
Reports on activities
Radom
Warsaw
1940
1941
Polish Information Bureau
General
Facts and Figures
A News Bulletin on Eastern European Affairs, 1941 March-December
Polish Institute of Arts and Science in America
Polish National Council of New York
Correspondence
General. Includes some documents relating to the PNC of America
1940
1941
Clothing
Polish Red Cross
General
Protocols
Statistics on stocks in warehouse
Polish Relief Council in Warsaw
General
List of members and main officers
Rada Polonii Amerykanska (Polish-American Council)
Bulletins
1940
1941
Reports, 1941
Romania, 1940-1941
Secours d'Hiver
Slavic countries. Issues of Slavonic Bulletin, New York, 1941
Soviet Union
Spat, Emil - Jewelry
Stanford Food Research Institute
Memoranda and reports
Printed matter
General
Publications pertaining to the food situation
General
Wheat Studies, 1939-1941
United States. Congress
Congressional bills regarding financial relief to Poland and other countries
Congressional matters, 1940
Excerpts from Congressional Record on food situation in Europe
World War, 1939-1945
Foreign Correspondence
1940
1941
Jewish Telegraphic Agency Bulletins, 1940
January-February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September-December
Overseas News Agency, New York, 1940
General
45 prints depicting CPR representatives Arthur Gamble and Columba Murray, Jr., during their first inspection trip to Poland (Garwolin, Krakow, Lublin, Radom, and Warsaw), 1940 July 6-12, accompanied by members of the American Joint Distribution Committee, the Central Relief Committee for Occupied-Poland, Polish Red Cross, Polish Self-Help Committee; local relief committee officials; German Red Cross representatives and other German officials; Catholic priests; Jewish Self-Help Committee, Jewish Senior Committee, Jewish Gemeinde and Judischer Ober Altestenrat representatives. Includes description of photographs
3 prints depicting CPR representatives Arthur Gamble, John Hartigan, and Columba Murray giving an interview to the National Broadcasting Company, 1940 August
25 prints depicting CPR representatives John Hartigan and Columba Murray, Jr., on their second inspection trip to Krakow and Warsaw, 1940 October 29-November 4, accompanied by members of the Polish Chief Committee, Polish Self-Help Committee, Rada Glowna Opiekuncza, St. Vincent de Paul Society; Jewish Gemeinde officials; representatives of the German Red Cross and other German officials. Includes description of photographs
48 prints depicting Wm. C. McDonald on the third CPR inspection trip to Poland, 1941 March-April. Group includes members of Polish Central Relief Committee, Polish Self-Help Committee, Polish Chief Relief Committee and other Polish and German officials. Includes description of photographs
29 prints depicting CPR representative Columba Murray and M. C. Lehman of the American Mennonite Committee, and scenes of relief activity in various places in Warsaw, 1941 September 25-30. Group includes Polish and German officials. Includes description of photographs
84 prints taken by the Polish Chief Relief Committee and Self-Help Committee, depicting the distribution of relief supplies in Poland received from CPR
1 print depicting Colonel William J. Donovan, President of the Paderewski Fund for Polish Relief, and Mrs. Lawrence Tibbett, Assistant General Chairman of the New York Campaign
Polish provincial cities
Biala Podlaska, 2 prints
Chelm, 1 print
Hrubieszow, 1 print
Jaroslaw, 6 prints
Konskie, 2 prints
Lublin, 17 prints
Okocim Gorny, 3 prints
Ostrowiec, 6 prints
Ostrow Mazowiecki, 2 prints
Piotrkow, 19 prints
Przeworsk, 1 print
Siedlce, 1 print
Siedlce, 1 print
Skierniewice, 3 prints
Starachowice, 2 prints
Zakopane, 1 print
Zamosc, 3 prints
Polish refugees
7 prints depicting Polish soldiers arriving in Budapest
15 prints depicting the Bucharest Branch of the Commission for Polish Relief
1 print depicting the Health Unit in Pernio, Finland
4 prints depicting Polish refugees in Portugal
5 prints depicting refugees in Vilna
Warsaw Ghetto, 16 prints
Miscellaneous
Negatives
12 negatives depicting the Warsaw Ghetto
7 negatives (4 plates) depicting the Jewish Isolation Center in the city of Radom
1 album of 30 prints depicting the city of Lublin