Preliminary Inventory to the Benjamin Shannon Allen papers

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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

Access

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Use

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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

 

Correspondence with Herbert Hoover, Lou Henry Hoover, and other Hoovers

box 1, folder 1

Includes letter to President Wilson 1910-1919.

box 1, folder 2

1920-1929

box 1, folder 3

1930-1939

box 1, folder 4

1940-1949

box 1, folder 5

1950-1967

box 1, folder 6

Food for Small Democracies. Mostly printed or mimeographed material

box 1, folder 7

Hoover Institution - Dedication 1941

box 1

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)

box 2, folder 1

Includes C.R.B. and United States. Food Administration material 1910-1919.

box 2, folder 2

1920-1929

box 2, folder 3

1930-1939

box 2, folder 4

1940-1949

box 2, folder 5

. Includes Herbert Hoover Foundation, and Herbert Hoover Birthplace Foundation material 1950-

box 2, folder 6

Correspondence - Frank Feltzer 1939-1940

 

Books

box 3

Myrop, Kr., The Imprisonment of the Ghent Professors, (Holder and Stoughton 1917)

box 3

Foundation for American Resource Management sponsored annotated bibliography, California Coast Redwood,San Francisco) (1957

box 3

Chapter from unidentified publication entitled "The Famine in Irish Oral Tradition" autographed on front by Roger McHugh to Ben and Vicki

box 3

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)

box 3

Printed or mimeographed material. Includes some Herbert Hoover and relief administrations material

box 4

Clippings on the Finnish Relief Fund 1939-1945

box 5

One postcard

box 5

Photographs of the complete set of United States. Food Administration posters

box 5

Photographs of Herbert Hoover (a few rare snapshots included); photographs of United States. Food Administration members, friends, and posters

box 5

Scrapbook of photographs of members of C.R.B., etc.

box 5, folder 6

Flour sack

 

Photographs

envelope A

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

box 5, envelope B

11 photographs of United States Food Administration posters

box 5, envelope fC

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

box 5, envelope fD

1 album of photographs of U.S. Food Administration posters and press releases 1917-1919.

 

2019 Incremental Materials

box 6

Letter from Benjamin S. Allen to Charles P. Allen, written on behalf of the Finnish Relief Fund 10 January 1941