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Title: John Kenneth Caldwell papers
Date (inclusive): 1930-1978
Collection Number: 76009
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1 folder, 1 envelope, 12 motion picture film reels
(0.3 Linear Feet)
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.
Creator:
Caldwell, John Kenneth, 1881-
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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Acquisition Information
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1976.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], John Kenneth Caldwell papers, [Reel no.], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
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Biographical Note
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.
Scope and Content of Collection
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.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
China -- Pictorial works
Soviet Union -- History -- Allied intervention, 1918-1920
Motion pictures
United States -- Foreign relations
World War, 1939-1945 -- Diplomatic history
Diplomats -- United States
Drug control
United States. Department of State
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964