Preliminary Inventory to the George Barr Baker papers

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Title: George Barr Baker papers
Date (inclusive): 1919-1932
Collection Number: 24000
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 14 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box (6.8 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, photographs, and printed matter, relating to the American Relief Administration; Commission for Relief in Belgium; Paris Peace Conference; American presidential politics and the 1924, 1928, and 1932 presidential campaigns; Calvin Coolidge; Herbert Hoover; the Republican Party; and the foreign language press.
Creator: Paris Peace Conference (Date of meeting or treaty signing: 1919-1920)
Creator: Baker, George Barr, 1870-1948
Creator: National Committee of the United States for the Restoration of the Université of Louvain
Creator: C.R.B. Educational Foundation
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Geoge Barr Baker Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biography

American journalist; a director of the American Relief Administration.

Scope and Content of Collection

Correspondence, photographs, and printed matter, relating to the American Relief Administration; Commission for Relief in Belgium; Paris Peace Conference; American presidential politics and the 1924, 1928, and 1932 presidential campaigns; Calvin Coolidge; Herbert Hoover; the Republican Party; and the foreign language press.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief
United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Journalism -- United States
World War, 1914-1918 -- Peace
International relief
World War, 1914-1918 -- Belgium
Censorship
Oil industries -- Mexico
Presidents -- United States -- Election
Commission for Relief in Belgium (1914-1930)
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
American Relief Administration
American Relief Administration. European Children's Fund
Allied and Associated Powers (1914-1920). Supreme Economic Council
Université catholique de Louvain (1835-1969)
Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933
Sims, William Sowden, 1858-1936

box 1

Akerson, George

 

Baker, George B.

box 1

Geneology

box 1

Diary 1940 February-July

box 1

Baker, Laura (Mrs. G. Baker)

box 1

Barbour, William T.

box 1

Butler, Nicholas Murray and Sarah

box 1

Butler, Philippi H. (Lou Henry Hoover's Secretary, 1931-1933)

box 1

Buxton, Dorothy F.

box 1

Cahan, Abraham

 

Cartier, E. de, Baron (Belgian Ambassador to the United States)

box 1

1919-1923

box 1

1924-1925

box 2

Chapin, Roy D.

box 2

Childs, J. Rives

box 2

Coolidge, Calvin - Campaign correspondence (Baker was Publicity Chairman for Coolidge Campaign, 1924). Includes a letter to Baker 1926 January

box 2

Cosgraves, J. O'Hara

box 2

Crocker, Templeton

 

Egan, Martin and Eleanor

box 2

1918-1926

box 2

1927-1935

box 2

Emerson, Edwin (author of Hoover And His Times)

box 2

Eppley, Marion

box 2

Fertig, August J.

box 2

Fesler, Ruth (Mrs. Robert Lipman, Lou Henry Hoover's Secretary)

box 3

Field, Charles K.

box 3

Flesh, Edward M.

box 3

Fletcher, Henry P.

box 3

Foreman, Evan Howell - A.R.A. articles 1919

box 3

Fox, Alan - Campaign speeches for Herbert Hoover 1931

box 3

Fuller, Parmer and Adeline

box 3

Furubotn, Konrad

box 3

Gest, Morris

box 3

Gibson, Hugh

box 3

Gilchrist, Harry L.

box 3

Goethals, George W., General

box 3

Goode, William A.

box 3

Gutherie, Connop, Sir and Lady Gutherie

box 3

Gutterson, Herbert, "Memorandum On Hoover Strength Among Foreign Nationals," 1928 March 1

box 3

Hall, Mildred

box 3

Hamill, John

box 3

Hard, William N.

box 3

Haskell, William N.

box 3

Hastings, George A.

box 3

Heinecke, G. E.

box 3

Heinz, Howard

box 3

Herter, Christian A. 1922-1932

 

Hoover, Herbert C. (and family)

box 3

Includes some genealogy 1916-1928.

box 3

1929-1933

box 3

Joslin, Theodore G.

box 4

Kaufman, S. Jay

box 4

Keena, Leo

box 4

Kellogg, Vernon

box 4

Keppell, F. D.

box 4

Kernochan, Frederic

box 4

Kilgour, B. L., Jr.

box 4

Klauber, Charles

box 4

Klein, John C.

box 4

Klein, Julius (Assistant Secretary of Commerce, 1932)

box 4

Kleindienst, R. A.

box 4

Kohl, Tracy

box 4

La Guardia, Fiorello H.

box 4

Lancaster, C. B.

box 4

Lane, Gertrude B.

box 4

Leach, Henry Goddard

box 4

Leahy, Lamar P.

box 4

Lee, Ivy L.

box 4

Leicht, Emil

box 4

Leon, Maurice

box 4

Levenson, Melvin

box 4

Lewis, John David

box 4

Lewis, John L.

box 4

Liggett, Walter W.

box 4

Lindbergh, Charles A.

box 4

Lindley, D. Howell

box 4

Logan, James A., Jr. (U.S. Food Administration)

box 4

Lucas, Robert H.

box 4

Lucey, John F.

box 5

Mac Arthur, Mable

box 5

Mc Curdy, Allen

box 5

Mc Mullin, Dare

box 5

Maier, David

box 5

Marcosson, Isaac F.

box 5

Marks, Diamond, Mrs. (nee Ponsoby)

box 5

Meloney, William Brown, Mrs.

box 5

Mercier, Cardinal

box 5

Merrill, A. Stanton

box 5

Merritt, Ralph P.

box 5

Miller, John Barnes

box 5

Miller, Nathan L.

box 5

Miscellaneous correspondence

box 5

Mundelein, George, Cardinal

box 5

Murphy, Framer and Goodrich (re Eiduk)

box 5

Orlowski, Joseph

box 5

Paderewski, Ignacy

box 5

Page, Frank C.

box 5

Patchin, Robert H.

box 5

Pate, Maurice

box 5

Percy, Eustace, Lord

box 5

Pike, Mary (niece of George Barr Baker)

box 5

Pike, Roy M.

box 5

Poland, W. B.

box 6

Post, Emily Price

box 6

Pulitzer, Joseph

box 6

Pyne, Percy R.

box 6

Requa, Mark L.

box 6

Richey, Lawrence

box 6

Rick, James J.

box 6

Rickard, Edgar

box 6

Ridgeway, Erman J.

box 6

Robinson, Henry M.

box 6

Rodd, Francis

box 6

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

box 6

Roosevelt, Theodore (son of President Theodore Roosevelt)

box 6

Sawtelle, Raymond H.

box 6

Skinner, Otis

box 6

Sokoloff, Boris

box 6

Stephens, Alice King

box 6

Stettinius, Edward R.

box 6

Stokes, Harold Phelps

box 6

Strothers, French

box 6

Taylor, Lark

box 6

Timberlake, William

box 6

Tuthill, Marshall

box 6

Walden, Dulcie W.

box 6

Walsh, Edmund S. J., Rev.

box 6

White, John Brown

box 6

Wilder, Charles J.

box 6

Wilson, Woodrow. Includes letter to George Creel 1918 August 20

box 7

Photographs of Lou Henry Hoover's South American trip 1928

box 7

Miscellaneous other photographs

 

Two autographed portrait photographs

box 15

Calvin Coolidge to Baker n.d.

box 15

Herbert Hoover to Baker n.d.

box 8

Miscellaneous pamphlets, posters, and other printed matter re Herbert Hoover 1932

box 9

American Friends of Poland, Inc.

 

American Relief Administration

box 9

European Children's Fund (documents on organization)

box 9

Russian relief papers

box 9

Miscellany. Includes U.S. Food Administration telegrams

box 9

Associated Negro Press

box 9

Campaign issues

 

Censorship

box 9

1917-1918

box 9

1919 January-February

box 9

1919 March

box 9

1919 April-May

box 10

1919 June-November

box 10

Central Press Association

box 10

Chase collection of portraits

box 10

Dutch Treat Club 1924-1934

box 10

Engineer's National Hoover Committee for Re-Election 1932

box 10

Fortune (article on Hoover's fortune)

box 10

Friends of Belgium

box 10

Friends Service Committee

box 11

Fuel Administration Of New York 1922-1923

box 11

Germany 1916

box 11

"The Great Fat Fight" by George Barr Baker, The Saturday Evening Post 1928

box 11

Inside Stuff

box 11

League of Nations

 

Louvain University Library

box 11

1922-23

box 11

1924

box 11

1925-1929

box 11

Mexican documents 1924-1930

box 11

Mexico - Oil 1920-1927

box 12

Motion pictures 1919-1929

box 12

National Civic Federation 1923-1932

box 12

National Consumer League 1926

box 12

Press, Foreign 1918-1932

box 12

Prohibition 1932

 

Republican clubs

box 12

1924-1932

box 12

1933-1934

 

Sims, William S., Admiral

box 12

General 1909-1923

box 13

Memoirs (partial galley)

box 13

Sims-Daniels controversy

 

South American trip

 

General

box 13

1928

box 13

1929

 

Press dispatches

box 13

A

box 13

B

box 13

Speeches

box 14

Hoover War library at Stanford

 

Supreme Economic Council

box 14

1919 January-June

box 14

1919 July-August

box 14

"The Road to Rome." Includes correspondence with Cardinal Gibbons

box 14

The Iron Circle

box 14

War debts 1922-1932

box 14

White House conference 1930

box 14

Yosemite, U.S.S. (Gilbert Wilkes camp #17)