John Kenneth Caldwell papers, 1930-1978

Printable guide [HTML]

Request items

Creators:: Caldwell, John Kenneth, 1881-
Abstract:: Memoirs, printed matter, and photographs relating to American foreign relations and commerce with Japan, Russia, Australia, China, and Ethiopia, 1906-1945, and to American participation in international narcotics control agencies; and motion picture film depicting scenes of daily life in China, 1930-1942. Digital copies of select records also available at https://digitalcollections.hoover.org.
Extent:: 1 folder, 1 envelope, 12 motion picture film reels (0.3 Linear Feet)
Language:: English
Preferred citation:: [Identification of item], John Kenneth Caldwell papers, [Reel no.], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Scope and content:: Memoirs, printed matter, and photographs relating to American foreign relations and commerce with Japan, Russia, Australia, China, and Ethiopia, 1906-1945, and to American participation in international narcotics control agencies; and motion picture film depicting scenes of daily life in China, 1930-1942.
Biographical / historical:: American diplomat; consul, Vladivostok, Russia, 1914-1920; secretary of embassy to Japan, 1921-1924; chairman, United States delegation, Conference on the Limitation of the Manufacture of Narcotic Drugs, Geneva, 1931; consul general, Sydney, Australia, 1932-1935; consul general, Tientsin, China, 1935-1941; minister to Ethiopia, 1943-1945.
Acquisition information:: Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library Archives in 1976.
Physical location:: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Rules or conventions:: Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Subjects:: World War, 1939-1945 -- Diplomatic history
Drug control
Diplomats -- United States
Motion pictures
Names:: United States. Department of State
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
Places:: China -- Pictorial works
Soviet Union -- History -- Allied intervention, 1918-1920
United States -- Foreign relations

Access and use

Restrictions:: The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
Terms of access:: For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Preferred citation:: [Identification of item], John Kenneth Caldwell papers, [Reel no.], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Location of this collection:: Hoover Institution

Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University

Stanford, CA 94305-6003, US