Microfilm Reel Content Guide
General. One bound volume containing correspondence, minutes of meetings, and other documents relating to the creation and dissolution of Better Homes in America, Inc. 1923-1935
Certificate of incorporation 1923
Constitution and by-laws 1930
Endorsement by Warren Harding 1923 February 5
Minutes of meetings of the Executive Committee 1923
Statements
General 1923
Hoover, Herbert C. 1924-1928
General
Undated
1924
1925
1926
1927-1929
1930-1931
1932
1933-1934
Correspondence
Ford, James 1925-1932
Gilbreth, Lillian M. 1930-1934
Halbert, Blanche 1932
Hoffman, Helen Duey
1932
1932-1933
Meloney, Marie M. 1926
Taylor, James S.
1927-1930
1930-1935
List of Board of Directors members
Speeches and writings
Ford, James 1925-1931
Halbert, Blanche 1924-1932
Subject file
Finance Committee 1931
Office of the Treasurer 1933
Rockefeller Foundation 1930
Correspondence
Abbott, Grace 1929
American Civic Association 1933-1935
Arnold, Sarah Louise 1925-1928
Barnes, Julius H. 1924-1929
Brown, Edwin H. 1923-1930
Davis, James J. 1929
Delano, Frederick 1925-1931
Farrand, Livingston 1924-1929
Gries, John M. 1923-1934
Harriman, Oliver, Mrs. 1928-1929
Herter, Christian 1924-1935
Hoover, Herbert C.
1923-1926
1927-1932
Ihlder, John 1924-1932
International Federation of Home and School 1929
J. Horace McFarland Company 1929-1932
Jardine, William 1925-1928
Kelly, Edgar Stillman, Mrs. 1925-1929
King, Francis, Mrs. 1929
Lake, Elise A. 1933-1935
Meloney, Marie M.
1924-1930
1931-1934
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company 1923-1929
National Housing Association 1929-1932
Parker, William Stanley 1930-1935
Payne, John Barton 1923-1929
Pratt, Harriett B. 1924-1935
Prichard, Adelia 1924-1929
Redford, W. C., Mrs. 1925-1928
Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1925-1929
Roosevelt, Theodore 1924-1933
Storrow, Helen 1930-1935
Tigert, John James 1924-1929
United States. Department of Agriculture. Bureau of Home Economics 1929
United States. Public Health Service 1924-1932
Wilder, George W. 1924-1931
Winter, Thomas G., Mrs. 1924-1929
Work, Hubert 1924-1929
Form letters sent to members 1924-1927
Lists
Advisory Council members 1929
States, cities, and counties represented by Better Homes chairmen 1931 July
Speeches and writings
Abbott, Grace 1924
Gries, John M. 1923
Hoover, Herbert C. 1921-1927
Ihlder, John n.d.
Correspondence
General
1920-1928
1929-1935 1929-1935
1933
1934
1935
1935-1945
Cheney, Charles H. 1931
Ford, James
1925-1932
1932-1933
Speeches and writings 1927-1933
Subject file
Board of Directors 1929-1934
Campaigns
1928-1929
1929-1930
1930-1931
1931-1933
Housing - United States 1929-1938
Presentation to Rockefeller Foundation 1930 January
Reorganization planning for Better Homes in America 1929
Better Homes chairmen at President's Conference on Home Building and Home Ownership 1931 December 2-5
Salaries 1933
Staff
General
General
Connor, Julia
General
Correspondence with James Ford
1924-1930
1931
Speeches and writings 1925
Lewton, Blanche
Liston, Katherine
Surette, Thomas
General
Foreign letters
1924-1926
1927-1928
1929-1933
Topical file
African-American issues 1929-1930
Architectural information 1925-1932
Conventions 1932
Housing 1924-1932
New York Low-Cost Housing Exhibit 1934
Politics 1928
Adams, Thompson and Fry 1933
Agricultural Commission of the American Bankers Association 1927
Alabama Power Company 1926
American Art Bureau
1924-1928
1929-1931
American Automobile Association 1925-1928
American Child Health Association
1929-1931
1932-1934
American Civil Association (James Harlean)
1924-1928
1929-1933
American Face Brick Association 1924-1926
American Federation of Arts 1933-34
American Home Bureau 1922-1927
American Institute of Architects 1923-1932
American Library Association 1929-1933
American Optical Company 1926
American Radiator Company 1926-1930
American Red Cross 1934
American Relief Administration
General 1927-1929
Children's Fund
1929-1932
1932-1935
American Society of Agricultural Engineers 1924-1929
American Stove Company 1923-1927
American War Mothers 1925-1926
Americana Corporation 1924-1930
Apatow, J. J. 1926
Architects Small House Service Bureau
General 1925-1932
Holden, Arthur C. 1925-1931
Jones, Robert T. 1929-1932
Lake Division architects 1928
Mountain Division architects 1928-1930
New England Division architects 1927-1930
North Central Division architects 1928-29
North Pacific Division architects 1928-1931
Potomac Division architects 1928
Shearer, Alan 1931-1932
South Central Division architects 1928-1929
Subscriptions 1930
Armstrong Cork Company 1924-1925
Associated General Contractors of America 1930
Associated Metal Lath Manufacturers 1923-1930
Barton, Durstine and Osborne, Inc. 1924-1926
Benedict, P. F. 1933
Better Homes and Property Service 1924-1925
Better Housing Institute 1934-1935
Bing Company 1927
Bowser Service Corporation 1927
Boy Scouts of America 1933
Building Age and National Builder Company 1924-1928
Building Developer 1927-1929
Camp Fire Girls, Inc. 1924-1933
Capper's magazine 1924-1930
Carnegie Foundation 1925-1933
Celotex Company 1927
Central Advertising Company 1925
Certified Building Registry 1929-1930
Chamber of Commerce of the United States 1928-1932
Champion Hardware Company 1926
Character Education Institute 1922-1928
Child Study Association 1925-1927
The Children's Foundation 1925
Common Brick Manufacturers' Association 1923-1925
Concrete Lumber Corporation 1926
Contractors and Builders Exchange 1933
Coolidge, Calvin 1922-1928
Crane Company 1930
Doubleday, Doran and Company 1924-1931
Dow Chemical Company 1926
E. P. Dutton and Company 1925
Equitable Life Insurance Society 1925
Esmond Mills 1926-1929
Falk Foundation 1930-1931
Farrar Lumber Company 1926
Federal Board for Vocational Education 1927-1931
First Savings Bank, Greenville, South Carolina 1924
Flagg, Maurice I. 1926-1928
Garden Club of America 1925-1930
General Education Board, New York City 1929-1930
General Electric Company 1925-1926
General Federation of Women's Clubs
1924-1931
1925-1930
Girl Scouts
1925-1929
1929-1930
1929-1930
1930-1934
Gladding Dry Goods Company 1924
The Glidden Companies 1926
The Grade Teacher 1930
Greyhound Vans 1933
Hardie, R. W. 1925
Hearst's International 1924-1925
Holland's magazine 1925-1930
Home Designer 1927-1928
Home Economic News 1930-1932
Home Furnishers Digest 1924
Home Information Centers 1930-1931
The Homemaker 1929
Homes Harmonious 1924
Hoover, Herbert C., Mrs. 1924-1930
Household Searchlight 1928
Howard Associates 1933
The Independent 1925-1926
Indiana Farmer's Guide 1925
Institute for Economic Research 1930-1933
International Education Board 1926
The Jewish Tribune 1925
Journal of Social Forces 1924-1925
Kiwanis Magazine 1924
Ladies' Home Journal 1924-1930
Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial 1924-1929
Lawrence, John D. 1927-1928
Le Matin (Paris) 1924
League for Accountancy in Government 1926
Lions International 1925-1927
Lippincott Company, Publishers 1924-1931
McCray Refrigerator Sales Corporation 1926
McDougall Domestic Science Kitchen Units 1930
McFarland, J. Horace 1929-1935
Maffitt and Gilpin Company 1926
The Man on the Floor 1924
Mandel Brothers 1925
Mann, Clyde 1922-1931
Mason City Brick and Tile Company 1925
Masonic Service Association 1924
Massachusetts Housing Association 1931-1932
Massey Concrete Products Corporation 1926
Maxwelch Company 1924
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company 1924-1929
Mid-Week Pictorial 1926-1929
Mississippi Woman's Magazine 1928-1929
Mizner Industries Incorporated 1927
Modern Woodmen of America 1925
Monarch Home Service 1926
Montgomery Ward and Company 1925
Morgan Company 1926
Morgan Sash and Door Company 1925
Morgan Woodwork Organization 1930
Mother's Day International Association 1924-1926
Murphy Door Bed Company 1924
Murphy Varnish Company 1924
Murray, Daniel, Mrs. 1930
Mutual Building and Loan Association 1933
The Nation 1925
The Nation's Health 1925
National Association of Colored Women 1929-1930
National Association of Home Founders 1932
National Association of Ice Industries 1925-1928
National Association of Real Estate Boards 1923-1932
National Association of the Industries 1924
National Builder 1924
National Builders Supply Association 1925
National Conference on the Renewal of Home Building 1933
National Congress of Parents and Teachers 1924-1934
National Council of '76 1933
National Council of Jewish Women 1931
National Education Association 1923-1931
National Electric Light Association 1927
The National Gleaner Forum 1925
National Home Retirement League 1926
National Information Bureau 1927-1935
National Motion Picture Bureau 1925-1926
National Municipal Review 1932
National Real Estate Journal 1929
National Retail Furniture Association 1925-1929
National Retail Lumber Dealer 1924
National Safety Council 1927-1931
National Urban League 1926-1927
The Nebraska Farmer 1929-1930
Needlework 1924
New York (State). Banking Department 1924
New York Foundation 1933-1934
New York State Teachers Association 1926
Nolen, John 1926-1931
Northeastern Retail Lumbermens Association 1924
Oklahoma Farmer-Stockman 1928-1930
Operative Builders Association of the District of Columbia 1924
Opportunity 1931
Outdoor Advertising Association 1932-1934
The Outlook 1924
Own Your Own Home 1925-1927
Pacific Ready Cut Homes, Incorporated 1926
Palmolive Company 1924
Peaslee, Horace W. 1925-1928
Pennsylvania Farmer 1925
Philadelphia Housing Association 1926-1931
The Phonograph and Talking Machine Weekly 1924
Political Science Quarterly 1927
Prentice, Cornelia E. 1926-1927
Promoter and Defender of Christian Homes 1924
Quaker Lace Company 1924
Renshaw School of Speech 1933
Retail Publishers, Incorporated 1926
Richardson, Inez 1934-1935
Richardson-Briggs Company 1924-1928
Richey, Lawrence (secretary to Herbert C. Hoover) 1929-1932
Rickard, Edgar 1929-1933
Rockefeller Foundation 1929-1930
Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1926-1933
Rosenwald, Julius 1925-1930
Russell Sage Foundation 1924-1934
Russia Cement Company 1926
Saint Nicholas Magazine 1929-1930
The Scholastic 1927-1930
The Scientific Monthly 1928-1929
Scranton Electric Company 1926
Scranton Lace Company 1924
Shatts, W. Philip 1924-1935
Sierra Educational News 1927-1928
Silotco Products, Ltd. 1930-1931
Sloane, Thomas M. 1927-1930
South Bend Lumber Company 1924
Southern Agriculturalist 1924-1931
Southern Pine Association 1927-1930
The Sovereign Citizen 1925-1928
The Spectator (London) 1926
The Spur 1925
Stuck and Sons 1926
Successful Farming 1928
The Survey (New York) 1926-1927
Tax Facts 1924
Teal, Marion 1927-1928
Tee Stone Corporation 1927-1928
Tennessee Good Roads Association 1924
Thermolator Corporation 1927
Thompson, J. Walter Company 1927
United Electric Company 1924
United States. Department of Agriculture 1934
United States. Department of Commerce 1924-1933
United States. Department of Labor 1930-1932
United States. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Education 1930-1932
United States Gypsum Company 1926
United States Radium Corporation 1924
Universal Gypsum and Lime Company 1926
Universal Portland Cement Company 1924
Universal Sanitary Manufacturing Company 1926
Van Guilder System Concrete Building, Inc. 1926
Van Loan, Anna 1932-1933
The Warren Latch Key 1930
Washington Committee on Housing 1934
The Weekly Retrospect 1924
The Welfare Council of New York 1933-1935
Western Horticulture Gardens and Homes 1928
The Woman Citizen 1925-1926
Audits 1924-1932
Cancelled checks
1931 December - 1932 April
1932
May-September
October-December
Check stubs
1929-1931
1932-1933
1932-1933
Correspondence 1928-1935
Office summaries 1924-1932
Proposed budgets to cover financial needs of Better Homes in America 1925-1929
General
General
1922-1924
1925
1927-1930
Correspondence
General
1924-1927
1928-1929
1929-1933
Christian Science Monitor 1924-1929
New York Herald Tribune 1928-1931
New York Times 1924-1928
Radio station WMAL 1927-1930
Radio station WRC 1927
Washington Post 1924
Western Newspaper Union 1925
Wilkinson, Lupton A.
1924
1925
The Woman's Home Companion 1924-1932
Press releases (syndicated series) undated
Radio broadcasts 1925-1930
Reports 1925-1927
Campaigns
General
General
1922
1923
1924-1924
1925
1926-1927
1928-1928
1929
1930
1931
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
Endorsements and statements of cooperation
1925
1926
1927
1928
Form letters
Form letters
Home improvement summaries 1932-1933
Press releases 1924-1931
Questionnaires
Report summaries of local chairmen 1929
Reports
General ("special reports")
1923
1924
White Country, Arkansas 1931
Better Homes Week, Pulaski County, Arkansas
1929
1930
Chairmen
General 1928
Appointments 1933
Delaware Better Homes Committee 1925-1933
District of Columbia 1928-1930
Eastern States Exposition 1932
Home management specialists 1933
Periodicals participating in campaign efforts 1924-1932
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
Prize awards
1923-1932
1932
1933-1933
Roadside marketing (Wayside Stand)
Exhibits
General 1923-1933
Planning 1924-1930
Exhibits and fairs 1924-1930
National planning - United States 1925-1932
Purpose of Better Homes in America n.d.
Radio broadcasting 1923-1933
General
Radio stations
WEAF
WBAL
WJZ
Miscellany 1926-1932
Articles by the Better Homes in America staff published in various publications 1926-1932
General
Home Improvement 1937
Home Information Service 1936
Correspondence with publishers of articles by the Better Homes in America staff 1924-1934
Books
Better Homes Manual 1931-1934
Care and Repair of the Home 1930-1932
Home and Community Song Book
1927-1929
1930-1931
1931-1932
Periodicals
American Building Association News
1925-1928
1928-1929
1930-1931
1931-1933
The American City 1923-1932
Better Homes and Gardens 1927-1930
Child Welfare
1925-1930
1930
1931-1932
1932-1934
Children, A Magazine for Parents 1926-1930
The Community Builder 1925-1928
The Country Gentleman 1924-1932
Country Life 1925-1929
The Farm Journal 1924-1932
The Farmer's Wife 1925-1934
The Forecast 1925-1929
Good Housekeeping 1924-1930
High School Teacher 1927-1931
Home Building 1924-1928
House and Garden 1925-1927
House Beautiful 1924-1932
Household Magazine 1925-1933
Independent Woman 1925-1926
Industrial Arts Magazine 1927-1928
Journal of Home Economics 1924-1932
McCalls Magazine 1924-1930
The Modern Priscilla 1926-1928
Outdoors Pictorial 1924-1925
Pictorial Review 1933
Progressive Farmer 1925-1932
The Red Cross Courier 1926-1927
Save the Surface 1924-1926
The Small Home 1930-32
The Southern Planter 1927-1931
Southern Ruralist 1925-1930
The Southern Workman 1924-1932
Inventories of publications on hand 1929-1932
Publications issued by Better Homes in America
America's Little House 1934
Guidebook for Better Homes Campaigns 1925-1932
How to Furnish the Small Home 1924 April
Subject file
Copyright issues 1923-1933
Garden pamphlet publication planning 1924-1930
Miscellany 1924-1930
American Homemakers, Inc. 1926-1932
Approved Wayside Stations, Inc. 1926-1933
Architectural Merit Prizes 1925
Commercialism - United States 1925-1933
Crane, Ross 1930
Delaware - Report of the Housing Commission of the State of Delaware 1932
Girl Scout Little House 1925
Home Loan Bank Bill 1932 July
General
Clippings
Clippings
Housing and recreation - Bibliographies n.d.
Log cabins 1927-1929
National Conference on Outdoor Recreation 1925
National Public Housing Conference 1933 November 25
National Recreation Association 1931-1932
Playground and Recreation Association of America 1930-1932
Purdue Research Foundation - Proceedings of the Homes Conference 1935 June 1
Real estate - United States 1929-1932
Recreation - United States
Regional Plan Association 1932-1934
Rockefeller Foundation - Review for 1928
Miscellany 1925-1933
General
1921-1923
1922-1923
1923
1923-1924
1923-1924
1923-1930
1924
1924
1925-1926
1926
1926-1927
1927
1927-1927
1928-1928
1933
Building costs
General 1920-1933
Cost of a six-room frame house 1923-1933
City planning
General 1923-1931
Washington, D.C. 1826-1933
Conferences 1922
Home building
1921-1924
1924-1925
1925-1927
1927-1929
1929-1930
1931-1933
Home financing
1922-1925
1926-1929
1930-1932
1932
Home ownership
1926-1929
1930-1933
Hoover, Herbert C.
1922-1932
1932
1932-1933
Housing - United States
General
1920-1922
1923-1925
1925-1927
1927-1930
1930-1933
Government workers
1925-1926
1926
Labor - United States 1920-1932
Master Builder 1926
Materials used in construction
1924
1927
1927-1933
Mechanics lien law 1926
National Conference of Banking and Industrial Committees 1932
President's Conference on Home Building and Home Ownership 1931-1932
President's Conference on Home Building and Home Ownership 1931-1932
Public health - United States 1931-1932
Real estate - United States 1923-1933
Standardization - United States 1922-1932
Wages 1926
White House Conference on Child Health and Protection 1931-1932
Zoning
1921-1922
1922-1924
1924
1927-1929
1929-1933
Adobe construction 1927-1928
America's Little House, (2 scrapbooks) 1934 October
America's Little House, (2 scrapbooks) 1934 October
America's Little House, (2 scrapbooks) 1934 October
America's Little House, (2 scrapbooks) 1934 October
America's Little House, (2 scrapbooks) 1934 October
America's Little House, (2 scrapbooks) 1934 October
America's Little House, (2 scrapbooks) 1934 October
America's Little House, (2 scrapbooks) 1934 October
America's Little House, (2 scrapbooks) 1934 October
America's Little House, (2 scrapbooks) 1934 October
Better Homes Week
General
1922
1923
1923
Boston 1931
Greenville, South Carolina 1929
Greenville, South Carolina, Volume I 1930
Greenville, South Carolina, Volume II 1930
Santa Barbara County 1925
Santa Barbara 1926 April-May
Santa Barbara 1926
Santa Barbara 1927
Santa Barbara 1928
Santa Barbara 1929
Santa Barbara 1930
Santa Barbara 1931
Santa Barbara 1931
Santa Barbara 1931
Santa Barbara County 1927
Santa Barbara County 1928
Santa Barbara County 1929
Santa Barbara County 1930
Santa Barbara County 1931
Santa Barbara County 1931
Campaign in Washington, D.C. 1924
11 prints depicting interiors and exteriors of model homes, mothers with infants, a doctor examining an infant, a group of teenagers playing with puppets on strings and examining a painting exhibit 1929-1934
One album containing 140 prints depicting interiors and exteriors of model homes and various groups of individuals 1929