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Title: Benjamin Shannon Allen papers
Date (inclusive): 1910-1967
Collection Number: 54001
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
4 manuscript boxes, 1 cu. ft. box, 1 oversize box, 2 album boxes, 2 envelopes
(5.0 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, press releases, clippings, other printed matter, and photographs, relating to activities of the Commission
for Relief in Belgium, U.S. Food Administration and U.S. Fuel Administration during World War I, and of the National Committee
on Food for the Small Democracies and Finnish Relief Fund during World War II, to political conditions in the U.S., and to
Herbert Hoover.
Creator:
Allen, Benjamin Shannon, 1883-1963
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1976.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Benjamin Shannon Allen Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief
Journalists
United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century
International relief
World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief
World War, 1914-1918 -- Belgium
World War, 1939-1945 -- Finland
Commission for Relief in Belgium (1914-1930)
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
United States Food Administration
National Committee on Food for the Small Democracies
Finnish Relief Fund
United States. Fuel Administration