Overview of the Conrad Taeuber papers

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Title: Conrad Taeuber papers

Date (inclusive): 1929-1991

Collection Number: 91018

Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives

Language of Material: English

Physical Description: 27 manuscript boxes (10.8 Linear Feet)

Abstract: Writings, correspondence, memoranda, reports, studies, printed matter, and photographs, relating to demographic change in the United States, rural poverty and migration in the United States, world agricultural production, and the conduct of the United States censuses.

Creator: Taeuber, Conrad, 1906-1999

Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

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.

Use

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1991.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Conrad Taeuber papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical Note

1906	Born, Hosmer, South Dakota
1931	Ph.D. in sociology, University of Minnesota
1931-1933	Taught at Mount Holyoke College
1934-1935	Economic analyst, Federal Emergency Relief Administration
1935-1940	Economist, Department of Agriculture
1942-1943	Principal social scientist and acting head of farm population and rural welfare, Department of Agriculture
1943-1946	Head economist, Department of Agriculture
1937	Author, People of the Drought States
1939	Author, Rural Migration in the United States, with C. R. Lively
1946-1951	Statistician, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
1951-1968	Assistant director, United States Bureau of the Census
1958	Author, The Changing Population of the United States, with Irene B. Taeuber
1968-1973	Associate director, United States Bureau of the Census
1971	Author, People of the United States in the 20th Century, with Irene B. Taeuber
1973-1985	Senior professor of demography, Kennedy Institute, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
1999	Died

Scope and Content of Collection

Writings, correspondence, memoranda, reports, studies, printed matter, and photographs, relating to demographic change in the United States, rural poverty and migration in the United States, world agricultural production, and the conduct of the United States censuses.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

United States -- Social conditions

Agriculture

Agriculture -- United States

United States -- Population

Rural-urban migration -- United States

United States -- Rural conditions

United States -- Census

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

United States. Bureau of the Census

United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics