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Scope and Content of Collection
Title: Ray Lyman Wilbur papers
Date (inclusive): 1906-1964
Collection Number: XX392
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
143 manuscript boxes, 5 oversize boxes, 6 envelopes, 4 photo albums, 3 framed photographs, 4 sound discs, memorabilia
(73.0 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, writings, memoranda, reports, pamphlets, other printed matter, and miscellanea relating to American and world
politics, the administrations of Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt, development of natural resources in the United
States, national health and other social problems, the Boy Scouts of America, and the death of President Warren G. Harding.
Includes papers accumulated by R. L. Wilbur as a member and officer of the Institute of Pacific Relations relating to the
study of political, social, and economic conditions in East Asia and of American foreign policy in East Asia.
Creator:
Wilbur, Ray L. (Ray Lyman), 1875-1949
Creator:
Kelley, Ralph S.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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Box 146 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.
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Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Ray Lyman Wilbur papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical Note
1875 April 13 |
Born, Boonesboro, Iowa |
1896-1897 |
Instructor, Physiology, Stanford University |
1900-1903 |
Assistant Professor, Physiology, Stanford University |
1909-1916 |
Professor of Medicine, Stanford University |
1911-1916 |
Dean, Medical School, Stanford University |
1912-1913 |
President, American Academy of Medicine |
1916-1943 |
President, Stanford University |
1917 |
Chief, Conservation Division, United States Food Administration |
1917, 1941-1946 |
California State Council of Defense |
1922-1924 |
Chairman, Survey of Race Relations on Pacific Coast |
1922-1925 |
Council of Social and Health Agencies, San Francisco |
1923-1924 |
President, American Medical Association |
1925-1929 |
Chairman, Institute of Pacific Relations |
1927-1939 |
San Francisco Community Chest |
1928 |
United States delegate to the Sixth Pan-American Conference, Havana |
1928-1929 |
California State Park Commission |
1929-1931 |
Chairman, White House Conference on Child Health and Protection |
1929-1933 |
Federal Oil Conservation Board |
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Author,
Annual Reports of the Secretary of the Interior
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Secretary, Department of the Interior |
1930-1931 |
Chairman, National Advisory Commission on Illiteracy |
1931 |
Author (with William Atherton DuPuy),
Conservation
|
1933 |
Author (with Elwood Mead),
Construction of Hoover Dam
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Author (with Northcutt Ely),
Hoover Dam Contracts
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1936 |
Author,
Stanford Horizons
|
1937 |
Author (with Arthur M. Hyde),
Hoover Policies
|
1938 |
Author,
March of Medicine
|
1939-1949 |
National Executive Board, Boy Scouts of America |
1940 |
Author,
Human Hopes
|
1940-1949 |
Health Commission, Boys Clubs of America |
1944-1946 |
California State War Problems Board |
1949 June 26 |
Died, Stanford, California |
Scope and Content of Collection
Correspondence, writings, memoranda, reports, pamphlets, other printed matter, and miscellanea relating to American and world
politics, the administrations of Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt, development of natural resources in the United
States, national health and other social problems, the Boy Scouts of America, and the death of President Warren G. Harding.
Includes papers accumulated by R. L. Wilbur as a member and officer of the Institute of Pacific Relations relating to the
study of political, social, and economic conditions in East Asia and of American foreign policy in East Asia.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Sound recordings
Statesmen -- United States
Education -- United States
Japanese Americans
United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945
World politics
United States -- Politics and government -- 1929-1933
East Asia -- Politics and government
Boy Scouts
Literacy -- United States
Indians of North America
National parks and reserves -- United States
Natural resources -- United States
Oil-shales -- United States
Pan-Pacific relations
Prohibition -- United States
Public health -- United States
Social problems
Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.)
China -- Foreign relations
East Asia -- Economic conditions
East Asia -- Foreign relations -- United States
East Asia -- Social conditions
United States -- Foreign relations -- East Asia
United States -- Social conditions
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
United States. Department of the Interior
Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
Institute of Pacific Relations