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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

    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

    For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    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.

    Alternate Forms Available

    Digital copies of select records also available at https://digitalcollections.hoover.org. 

    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