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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

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), n.d.

Radio broadcasts, 1925-1930

Reports, 1925-1927

Campaigns

General

General

1922

1923

1924

1925

1926-1927

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

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

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

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

Better Homes Week

Boston, 1931

Santa Barbara

1926

1926

1927

1928

1929

1930

1931

1931

America's Little House, 1934 October (2 scrapbooks)

Better Homes Week

General

1922

1923

1923

Greenville, South Carolina

1929

1930

Volume I

Volume II

Santa Barbara County

1925

1927

1928

1929

1930

1931

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