Preliminary Inventory to the Benjamin Shannon Allen papers
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Correspondence with Herbert Hoover, Lou Henry Hoover, and other Hoovers
Includes letter to President Wilson 1910-1919.
1920-1929
1930-1939
1940-1949
1950-1967
Food for Small Democracies. Mostly printed or mimeographed material
Hoover Institution - Dedication 1941
Comité National de Secours et d'Alimentation, 1914-1918, Séance solennelle du 5 juillet 1958 pour recevoir M. Herbert Hoover, Brussels, (illustrated) 1958
Correspondence - Miscellaneous (mostly political)
Includes C.R.B. and United States. Food Administration material 1910-1919.
1920-1929
1930-1939
1940-1949
. Includes Herbert Hoover Foundation, and Herbert Hoover Birthplace Foundation material 1950-
Correspondence - Frank Feltzer 1939-1940
Books
Myrop, Kr., The Imprisonment of the Ghent Professors, (Holder and Stoughton 1917)
Foundation for American Resource Management sponsored annotated bibliography, California Coast Redwood,San Francisco) (1957
Chapter from unidentified publication entitled "The Famine in Irish Oral Tradition" autographed on front by Roger McHugh to Ben and Vicki
Pamphlet by Haven A. Mason, A World Hegemony To Secure Peace on Earth and Promote Good Will Toward Men(Ben S. Allen wrote bibliography of author on back inside cover)
Printed or mimeographed material. Includes some Herbert Hoover and relief administrations material
Clippings on the Finnish Relief Fund 1939-1945
One postcard
Photographs of the complete set of United States. Food Administration posters
Photographs of Herbert Hoover (a few rare snapshots included); photographs of United States. Food Administration members, friends, and posters
Scrapbook of photographs of members of C.R.B., etc.
Flour sack
Photographs
3 prints of Herbert Hoover, 1938; 6 prints of Herbert Hoover; 1 print of Ray Lyman Wilbur; 3 prints of Gunnison, Colorado, 1939; 1 print of Herbert Hoover, Benjamin Allen and others, Colorado 1939; 1 print of Herbert Hoover, Colfax, California, 1939; 1 print of Herbert Hoover, Benjamin Allen and others, 1938; 1 print of John Hallowell; 1 print of Edward Chambers; 1 print of Lou D. Sweet; 1 print of Raymond Pearl; 1 print of Theodore Whitmarsh; 1 print of Julius Barnes; 1 print of George Rolph; 2 prints of Herbert Hoover and others, Grass Valley, California, 1935; 1 print of Herbert Hoover and Charles Hebberd, Spokane, Washington, 1938; 1 print of Herbert Hoover and Otto Swangson; 1 print Herbert Hoover and others; 1 print of Herbert Hoover and others, San Francisco World's Fair, 1939; 3 prints of Herbert Hoover and others, Eugene, Oregon, 1939; 1 print of Herbert Hoover and unidentified man; 1 print of Herbert Hoover and Mrs. George B. Simmons; 2 prints of Herbert Hoover and others, Cebolla, California, 1939; 1 print of Herbert Hoover and others; 1 print of Judge Lindsay; 1 print of Tom Ellis; 1 print of the Conference of United States Food Administration; 1 unidentified print
11 photographs of United States Food Administration posters
1 album of prints of Herbert Hoover, U.S. Food Administration officials, food conservation photographs, and photographs of U.S. Food Administration posters 1917-1919
1 album of photographs of U.S. Food Administration posters and press releases 1917-1919.
2019 Incremental Materials
Letter from Benjamin S. Allen to Charles P. Allen, written on behalf of the Finnish Relief Fund 10 January 1941