Silberling Financial Reports, 1919-1942

Summary

Extent:

1.5 Linear Feet (2 manuscript boxes and 1 flat box)

Language:

English .

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item] Silberling Financial Reports, JL021, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection includes copies of Silberling's reports (1926-1936); copies of his "Confidential Weekly Letters" (1937-1942); "Graphic Surveys of Industry and Finance" (1936-1942); and "Corporation Analyses" of leading corporations (1919-1933). Also included is a short report written by Silberling in 1938 on economic developments in the United states from 1927 to 1938.

Biographical / historical:

Norman John Silberling, a faculty member at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business (1935-1944), published weekly reports on the economy. In 1929 he organized Silberling Research Corporation, Ltd., which concentrated on financial counseling and forecasting.

Missing Title

Date	Event
1892	Year of birth
1914	Graduated with A.B. from Harvard
1915	Received A.M. from Harvard
1919	Received Ph.D. from Harvard
1920	Instructor of Economics at Harvard
1920-1921	Assistant Professor of Economics at Dartmouth
1922-1929	Associate Professor of Economics at University of California
1926 May	Begins Publishing the weekly Silberling Reports
1929-1930	Professor of Economics at University of California
Late 1929	Starts Silberling Research Corporation, Ltd.
1930-1932	Lecturer of Economics at University of California
1931	Becomes President of Silberling Research Corporation, Ltd.
1935	Lecturer in Business Economics at Stanford University
1936-1938	Acting Professor of Business Research at Stanford University
1938-1944	Professor of Business Research at Stanford University
1944	Year of Death

Custodial history:

Gift of Norman J. Silberling to the Jackson Library of Business, 1945. Transferred to Special Collections in 1979.

Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Economic forecasting -- United States.
Reports.

Places:

United States -- Economic conditions -- 20th century

Restrictions:

Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use. Audiovisual & born-digital materials are not available in original format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.

Terms of access:

Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item] Silberling Financial Reports, JL021, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Location of this collection:

Stanford University, Manuscripts Division

Department of Special Collections, Green Library

557 Escondido Mall

Stanford, CA 94305-6004, US

Contact:

(650) 725-1022

specialcollections@stanford.edu

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