Preliminary Inventory to the Alonzo Bland Calder papers
| 1892 | Born, Iowa |
| 1915 | Secretary to Jeremiah Smith, Jr. on relief mission to Turkey, Rockefeller Foundation |
| 1916 | Clerk, American Legation, Berne, and American Embassy, Petrograd |
| 1917-1920 | Petrograd, New York City and Shanghai in various capacities for W.R. Grace & Co. |
| 1920-1922 | Department of Commerce clerk, Peking; later, Trade Commissioner and Assistant Commercial Attache under Julean Arnold |
| 1923-1926 | Assistant Trade Commissioner, Tokyo |
| 1926-1928 | Trade Commissioner, Shanghai |
| 1928-1930 | Assistant Commercial Attache, Peking |
| 1930-1939 | Assistant Commercial Attache, Shanghai |
| 1939-1941 | Consul, Shanghai |
| 1940 (?) | Held in diplomatic custody by the Japanese until June 1942 |
| 1942 | Repatriated and assigned to Moscow as First Secretary in charge of economic studies |
| 1942-1943 | Second Secretary and Consul, American Embassy, Moscow |
| 1943-1945 | First Secretary and Consul, Moscow |
| 1945 | First Secretary, American Embassy, Cairo |
| 1945 | First Secretary, American Embassy, Chungking |
| 1945-1949 | Commercial Attache, Shanghai |
| 1952 | Retired |
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Correspondence, family 1930-1940
Biography
Shanghai Rotary Club handbook
Pamphlets and reports on China
Correspondence, family 1940's
The Shanghai Times, issues and clippings
Pamphlet by J. Stalin, Moscow 1943
bank statements 1940's
Issues of Monthly Trade Report-China 1939
Correspondence, family 1930's
"A Study of China's Financial Situation," submitted by Calder, Assistant Commercial Attache, and approved by Julean Arnold, Commercial Attache
Private file, scrap and clipping book, Japan. Binder
Correspondence 1940-1950
Clippings
Storijec case
Memoranda 1940
Foreign Service Journal (article about John S. Service) January 1952
Items for scrapbook
Material for scrapbook
Correspondence 1940-1950
Clippings
Rotary Club of Shanghai talks
Formosa, reports
Calder's weekly reports as Assistant Commercial Attache 1920's
Reports on railways and aviation 1920's
Mantell's General Report and Recommendation on Chinese Railways 1930
Speeches
Correspondence 1945-1954
Calder's personnel files 1943-
Foreign Service Office Class 4 certificates
USSR identification card 1945
Family photographs
Clippings 1948-1955
Correspondence, family and professional 1944-1954
Moscow apartment rent receipts 1943-1944
Intelligence Digest, produced by Kenneth de Courcy. Also December 1948, June 1951 and July 1953
Bulletins, Diplomatic and Consular Officers Retired, Inc. (DACOR)
Clippings 1951
Articles, bulletins, memoranda on China and commerce
U.S. Department of Commerce Bulletins 1925
Monthly trade and economic reports on Japan 1924, 1925
American Chamber of Commerce reports and bulletins 1927
1925, incident propaganda May 30,
Correspondence 1925-1929
Issues: The Shanghai Evening Post, 1930; Shanghai News, ; others 1951
Textile Procurement in the Military Services, USGPO 1955,
Charges and Countercharges Involving...Senator Jose McCarthy...USGPO
Salient Facts About China, by Julean Arnold, Pamphlet 1926.
Speeches 1926
Correspondence, personal and business, , Includes Julean Arnold 1918-1951
The Botanic Garden, The Sun Yat-sen Tomb and Memorial Park, Nanking, China.
Address book. Pamphlet with diagram of garden and description
Booklet of information, The American Company, Shanghai Volunteer Corps 1917
Calder family photographs
Album of pictures of factories in China
Correspondence 1932-1948
Calder family photographs and pictures of the Calders in China
Correspondence 1928-1957
Speeches 1926, 1928
Pamphlets
Unbreakable China; Coalition Government (Original copy from Yenan), by Mao Tse-tung, (?) 1947
Clippings: Washington Post, New York Times, Singapore Standard, others
Correspondence and memoranda 1930-1955
Speech material
Weekly reports of activities 1934-1937
Clippings 1932-1952
The scrapbook of life for Rowland
Diary May 6-8, 1946
Contacts, Chinese and foreign
Chinese American Trade
Congressional hearings: Security-Government Printing Office; Subversive Influence in the Educational Process; Transfer of Occupation Currency Plates-Espionage Phase
Correspondence and memoranda 1925-1955
American Chamber of Commerce, Shanghai, correspondence and bulletins 1927
China in Chaos, North China Herald, April 1927; Bolshevik Activities in China; Some Documents Seized in the Soviet Military Attache's Office in Peking on April 6, 1927, American Chamber of Commerce Memorandum No. 13; two pamphlets by Chiang Kai-shek, April 1927; Manifesto to the People and Declaration to Kuomingtang Members
Weekly Reports 1927-1928
Tariff reports
Activities/Diary 1926-1929
Clippings on China-Japan controversy 1931
Sino-Japanese conflict clippings, map; Official Documents Relating to Japan's Undeclared War in Shanghai, Lowe Chuan-hua, compiler and editor, published by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Shanghai 1932
Soviet Russia bibliography; Sino-Soviet relations
Speeches 1928, 1931, 1936
Weekly Economic Reports, Special Report No. S-52 1937; February 15, 1940
Weekly Reports May-July 1935
Maps of China, Japan, others
Correspondence, memoranda, pamphlets 1927-1941
Correspondence 1940-1956
Correspondence with R. J. Phillips 1926
Institute of Pacific Relations hearings in U.S. Senate 1952
A Study of China's Financial Situation, by Calder 1937
Clippings 1949-1952
Correspondence 1928-1951
Pamphlets include: Mutual Security Agency, The Economic cooperation Administration (The Marshal Plan), China's Fate and America's Future, by Julean Arnold Why Not Recognize Red China Now? by Ernest K. Moy, Report of the China-United States Agricultural Mission, Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations, U.S.D.A. 1950-1952; 1940; 1952; May 1947
Clippings 1950-1954
Congressional hearings: Communist Infiltration Among Army Civilian Workers; Communist Infiltration in the Army
Correspondence 1935-1954
Correspondence 1937-1952
Pension data
Tobacco (trade)
Pamphlets include American Business With East Asia, by Gunther Stein, Institute of Pacific Relations, Intelligence Digest September 1947; January 1951
Soviets: Issues of Novosty Dnia, Novaya Zhizn 1945, 1946;
Clippings 1945-1951
Correspondence 1948-1952
Road maps
United Business Service Reports 1953
Log book October 23, 1945-September 1947
Letters from Nelle and Rowland, (wife and son) 1951
U.S. Senate Hearing, Special Senate Investigation on Charles and Countercharges Involving: Secretary of the Army Robert T. Stevens, John G. Adams, H. Struve Hensel and Senator Joe McCarthy, Roy M. Cohn, and Francis P. Carr, Par 40-Park 64
Arnold, Mrs. Julean, letter about Arnold's suicide
Miscellany
Correspondence and miscellaneous 1947-1953
Father's letters
Pamphlets
Clippings 1948-1951
Calder's Desk File, a binder with photographs, issues of China Trade Bulletin, correspondence about products, trade, customs 1918,
Address books
desk calendar 1935
Statements of account and correspondence with T. Bone 1951
Soviets. Includes Institute for the Study of the History and Culture of the U.S.S.R., Munich 1953
Correspondence 1945-1952
Pamphlets and miscellaneous
U.S. Senate Hearing, Special Senate Investigation on Charges and Countercharges Involving: Secretary of the Army Robert T. Stevens, John G. Adams, H. Struve Hensel and Senator Joe McCarthy, Roy M. Cohn, and Francis P. Carr, Part 13-Part 20; Part 21-Part 39
Study Group, U.S.S.R.
Alonzo Bland Carter August-October 1954
Correspondence 1918-1938
Biography
Miscellaneous notes, addressed, etc.
U.S. Department of Commerce, Foreign Commerce Service, China Monthly Trade Report January 1, 1932
U.S. Department of Commerce, American Commercial Attache, China Monthly Trade Report January 1927-January 1928; November 15, 1938; March 15, 1939
Correspondence
Clippings
American Chamber of Commerce Bulletins, Shanghai 1928
Soviet Union
Pamphlets and reports, including China Through the American Window, by Julean Arnold 1932
Private file of A. Bland Calder. Letters of commendation
Speeches and writings
China Lobby
Visitor's (business) cards, Two binders 1927.
Personal file of Alonzo Bland Calder Speeches and special articles on China situation
Congressional hearings on National and International Movements; Harold E. Talbott, Secretary of the Air Force;
Subversion and Espionage in Defense Establishments and Industry; Joe McCarthy
Diary 1933
Correspondence 1940-1955
Clippings and pamphlets
Study Group, U.S.S.R.
Egypt 1944, 1945
Miscellany
Correspondence 1942-1953
Miscellany
Clippings
Speeches and writings
Telephone directory of Singapore and Johore Bahru 1950
China Annual Economic Report for 1937
Monthly Trade Report, China November 15, 1938
Correspondence
1919-1930
1923-1954
Miscellany
Clippings
Pamphlets include Travel Diary of a Shanghai Editor: 1948, by Randall Gould
Correspondence 1919-1930
Correspondence - Ethel 1919-1923
Speeches
Lecture on the economy of the Soviet Union
Speech, Kiwanis Club, Carmel, California July 8, 1954
Kohlberg, Alfred
McConaughy, Walter
Letters to reference people
World Affairs Council, study group on U.S.S.R.
Calder, personal 1945-1948
Miscellany 1946-1947
China and other briefings (commerce) 1946-1947
Russian individuals and suspects 1945-1949
Letters to and from Nelle 1945-1949
Economic information on the U.S.S.R.
Moscow papers (correspondence 1943-1944)
Clippings and pamphlets
Miscellany
Correspondence 1925-1952
Egypt
World affairs
Schwarz, Ernest, Dr. and Dr. Bruce L. Canaga
Matters to take up in the U.S.
Storojev, S.
Correspondence 1932-1948
Digaut, M.
Miscellany
House at 593 Amherst Avenue, Shanghai. House No. 11, 1945-1947
campaign to ungoof goofs (Chinese communism) 1950
M.W. Hudson's affairs (fund in trust)
Stamps
Meigs & Co.
Christopher's affairs (James Christopher)
Packing list
Florida
Formosa
European tour papers
Representation allowance
Rationing, food, consumer goods
Scrapbook
U.S.S.R. reports, clippings and pamphlet, XXV Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution by J. Stalin, Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow 1942
Clippings 1951
Personal 1942, 1951
Schrifrin, G. 2 House, 366 Tunsin Road, Shanghai
Letters to be answered on vessel
Pamphlet, clippings 1945-1946
Hong Kong, Calcutta, London
Motor car documents
Scroll (retirement 1952)
Correspondence with Nelle 1922-1923
Department of State appointments, leaves, etc.
Status - Bureau authorizations, salary, pay-cuts, etc.
Inventory of household goods, insurance
Accounts
Assets and liabilities
Correspondence
General
B
Blanche
Bureau
C
Calder, A.B. (father)
Calder, Wilhelmina (mother)
Calder, Willard (brother)
H
Hall, Joseph
Kilham, George
M
S
Miscellany
Peking Work
Slogan, mottoes, etc.
Souvenir documents
Switzerland
Taxes, income
Rugs
Family photographs
Retirement
Diet
Correspondence 1950-1955
Carmel (California) 1952-1954
Railways, Chinese
Photographs
News release material
Pertinent sayings
Status and salary
Private papers
Correspondence, Personal and miscellaneous 1922-1950
Lawrence's letters (Lawrence Tsang) 1950
ECAFE (Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East) 1948
Speeches and writings
Alonzo Bland Calder's salary, etc.
Appointment certificates
Travel
Travel orders for family
Miscellany
Grace Rowland correspondence 1950
Alaska
Servants
Coke file (Coca Cola)
Singapore 1948
Travel to Tokyo
Home leave 1948
Inspector's report, Commercial Section 1948
List of reports and dispatches 1946-1947
Russian data
Clippings 1945
Congressional committee hearings
Reciprocal trade agreements
Briefing of VIPs. Includes Albert C. Wedemeyer
Wedemeyer, Albert C.
Annual report on Soviet Union 1944
Correspondence 1918
Speeches and writings
Railways
Hong Kong 1947-1948
Lawrence Tsang correspondence 1950-1952
Scrapbook
Travel vouchers
Miscellany
Shanghai
Soviet Union; Albert C. Wedemeyer
China trade and industry
Household accounts 1929-1948
Invitations
Singapore
Shanghai; scrapbook
Miscellany
Special reports, Japan 1935
Notes for reports
Monthly trade and economic reports, Japan 1926
Personal
Advertising matter to be dealt with
Moore, Letters to
Newspaper issues
China Courier July 13, 1927
China Mail November 1, 1948
China Press
July 2, 1932
July 18, 1941
July 20, 1946
Malaya Tribune
May 27, 1949
June 30, 1950
Moscow News May 1, 1943
The Municipal Gazette July 1, 1932
The New Leader March 8, 1947
Our Life. Nasha zhizn: Natsional'nyi nezavisimyi demokratich. Organ evr. (eiskoi) mysli May 1946
Shanghai Evening Post
January 31, 1930
July 2, 1932
March 21, 1941
April 27, 1949
April 28, 1949
Shanghai News July 17-22, 1951
Siberian newspaper, "purchased at a station by me en route from Petrograd to Vladiskvostok by 'get away' express. Trip took 33 days and nights." 1918
South China Morning Post November 1, 1948