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  • 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

    Access

    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.

    Use

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

    Acquisition Information

    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
      Author, Annual Reports of the Secretary of the Interior
      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
      Author (with Northcutt Ely), Hoover Dam Contracts
    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