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Title: Payson Dennis Carter papers
Date (inclusive): 1902-1996
Collection Number: 2015C30
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1 manuscript, 1 oversize box, memorabilia
(2 Linear Feet)
Abstract: The papers of the American civil engineer in the Soviet Union include a diary, letters, printed matter, personal documents,
and photographs relating to telephone and telegraph line construction in the Soviet Union.
Creator:
Carter, Payson Dennis, 1902-1990
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Box OCM4 may not be used without permission of the Archivist. The remainder of 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.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2015.
[Identification of item], Payson Dennis Carter papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Payson Dennis Carter was an American engineer who worked in the USSR as a communications engineer between 1933 and 1937, helping
lay telegraph and telephone lines between Moscow and Leningrad. As a member of the Friends of the Soviet Union in the mid-1930s,
"Comrade Carter" was active in speaking to church groups in the United States, which caused him some difficulties during the
McCarthy era.
Carter was married while in the Soviet Union and divorced after leaving in 1939. After returning to the United States, he
continued to work as an engineer, spending several years with the FCC and a Washington, D.C. area firm. Carter served in
World War II, was a member of the President's Soviet Protocol Committee, and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains one audio tape, presumably of reminiscences by Carter; clippings, including an interview with him,
identity papers; numerous photographs and postcards; and an address book and notebook kept while Carter was in the USSR relating
to his experience in telephone and telegraph line construction in the Soviet Union.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Americans -- Soviet Union
Soviet Union -- Economic conditions -- 1917-1945
Engineers