Microfilm Reel Content Guide
General
Announcement of the President's Conference Biographies. See Lists
Correspondence
General
General
Board of Directors
Ford, James (Executive Director)
Gries, John (Executive Secretary)
Lamont, Robert (Co-chairman)
Wilbur, Ray Lyman (President)
Governors
Mayors
Bailey, Theodora C.
Blanche, Halbert
Bremer, Pond W.
Chase, Pearle
Ihlder, John
Melvin, Bruce L.
Richardson, Inez G.
Saginaw, Michigan
Taylor, James S.
Financial records
General
Bids
Budgets
Correspondence with ARA Children's Fund
Expenditures
Expense voucher
Internal Revenue Service return form
Monthly audits of publications and postage
Payroll
Printing bills
Statements
Summaries
Summaries
Unsigned checks and statements
Unsigned checks and statements
Unsigned checks and statements
Unsigned checks and statements
Unsigned checks and statements
Unsigned checks and statements
Unsigned checks and statements
Unsigned checks and statements
Form letters
Index to filing cases
Insurance file
Inventory of supplies and equipment
Lists
General. Includes biographies of all members of the President's Conference
Appointees
Attendees
Colored people invited
Committee chairmen
Committee members
General
General
Regional representatives
Accepted
Appointed by governors and mayors
Suggested participants
Committee personnel
General
Directories
Committees
Local leaders interested in home improvement
Names for conference
Registered participants (Total number, by state)
Suggested participants
Material for delegates
Memoranda
General
Committee members
Personnel
Secretaries
Staff
Connor, Julia
Ellington, John
Ford, James. Includes memoranda of James S. Taylor
Gries, John M.
Liston, Mr.
Ricker, George A.
Taylor, James
Wilbur, Ray Lyman
Minutes of personnel meetings, 1931
May 13
May 27
June 19
July 23
Preliminary outline of conference
Registration forms
Remarks
Opening - Herbert Hoover (Honorary President)
Closing
Hoover, Herbert
Rippin, Deeter
Wilbur, Ray Lyman
Statements
General
General
Re copyright permission
Hoover, Herbert, 1930
August 1
September 24
Subject file
Tickets
Transportation
Miscellaneous
Committees File 1927-1933.
General
Planning Committee. Correspondence, letters, lists of committee members, memoranda, press release, minutes of meetings
General
Members
Personnel
Executive Committee. Stenographer's report of General session, 1931 December 2
Follow-Up Committee
General. Includes material relating to states sub-committees
Extension program
Fund raising file
Letters
Appreciation
Gries, John M., to all committee members, 1931 December 26
Lamont, R. P., to all committee chairmen
Replies to form letter of April 29, 1933, to all who attended the conference
Resolution presented by the Puerto Rico Delegation
Miscellaneous
Fact finding committees
Blighted Areas and Slums Committee
General
Correspondence - Abram Garfield, Chairman
Financial records
Minutes of meetings, 1931
June 16
July 13
September 24
October 26-27
Business and Housing Committee
Correspondence
Drafts of resolution for presentation to the Committee
Kohler, Walter J.
Wetherill, Samuel P.
Lists of committee members
Suggested
Final
Minutes of meetings, 1931
September 18
September 29
Reports
First draft of report for the committee (Ely, Richard)
Final report of the committee
City Planning and Zoning Committee
General
Clippings
Correspondence
Financial records
Lists of committee members
Memoranda
Regional planning notes
Reports
1931 December 2-5
1932 January 20 (MacDougall, Edward A.)
Construction Committee
Correspondence - Gries, John M.
Financial records
Memoranda
Stenographer's report of the committee of construction, 1931 December 2-5
Design Committee
Correspondence - Parker, William Stanley
Financial records
Lists of committee members
Stenographer's report, 1931 December 2-5
Farm and Village Housing Committee
General
Circular letters
Correspondence
General. Regarding approvals of publications
Ford, James
Mann, Albert R.
Melvin, Bruce
Financial records
Lists of committee members
Memoranda
Proposals
Cooperative farm colony
Housing of Mexicans and Indians
Indian housing improvement
Organization of an agricultural service corporation
Publicity file
Radio interview with Bruce L. Melvin, Research Secretary of the committee
Reports
Stenographer's report, 1931 December 2-5
Work of the committee
Scale for rating living room equipment
Score cards
Dwelling house
Home grounds
Finance Committee
General
Address made by Frederick Ecker, Vice-President, 1919 December 4-5
Correspondence. Mostly of Frederick H. Ecker
Division mortgage structure
Editorial file
Invoices
Lists
Attendees of the conference
Possible members
Members (final list)
Memoranda
Reports, 1931
November 14 (related to foreclosure laws and foreclosure provisions)
November 15 (report and recommendations)
1931 December 2-5 (stenographer's)
1931 December 4 (tentative report)
Statement by Herbert Hoover, 1931 November 13
Statistics
Suggestions for program of the committee
Fundamental Equipment Committee
General
Agenda of meeting, 1931 July 17
Article on talk given by George N. Thompson, 1932 April 30
Correspondence. Mostly of Collins P. Bliss, Chairman
Endorsement of report, 1932 February
Invoices
Lists
Committee members
Subdivisions
Memoranda
Statement by Dr. James Ford regarding the scope of work, 1931
Stenographer's report of meetings, 1931 December 2-5
Home Furnishing and Decoration Committee
Endorsement of report, 1931 November
Invoices
Stenographer's report of meetings, 1931 December 2-5
Home Information Centers Committee
General
Brief summary of procedure
Correspondence
Chase, Pearl. Includes excerpts of a letter from Henry Wright, Research Secretary, Committee on Design, to Pearl Chase
Ford, James
Frampton, Merle E.
Gries, John, M.
Hall, Marion
Kelley, Roy H.
Merrill, Julia Wright
Miscellany
Editorial file
Invoices
Letters
Lists
Agencies (commercial, educational, and social) to receive Miss Atwater's questionnaire
Committee's findings as to the how, why, who, and what of the Home Information Services
Existing agencies in Boston involved in homemaking
Members of the committee. Includes correspondence
Officers in departments of education in charge of adult education
Plan service organizations
Memoranda. Includes regulations and by-laws of American Home Information Service
Mimeographed material
Mimeographed material
Minutes of meetings, 1931
June 9-10
September 24-26
Notes
Meeting of section B of the Committee, 1931 August 29
Parker, Mr.
Plans re possible organization
Program
Publicity files. Include illustrative material
Questionnaires
Agencies giving public information
Home building clinic
Local organizations
Recommendations
For the committee
Of the committee
Reports
General
Undated
1931
General
September 25 (supplementary)
September 30 (summarized)
December 2-5 (stenographer's)
On Home Information Centers directed by or affiliated with American Homemakers, Inc.
On publicity program
Scope sheet
Studies
Building material exhibits, 1931 September
Providence, RI, by Ida S. Harrington, 1931 September
Twenty-four selected cities
Subject file
General
Exhibits
Salt Lake City
Santa Barbara
Suggestions
General
For a National Institute of Housing and Civic Affairs, 1931 September 23
From Bleeker Marquette, 1931 September 18
Home Ownership and Leasing Committee
General
Correspondence
General
Gries, John M.
Trigg, Ernest T.
List of committee members
Memoranda
Program
Regional survey of New York and its environs
Reports
Preliminary draft of a report of the Committee, 1931 October 12
Stenographic, 1931 December 4
Homemaking Committee
General
Correspondence
General
Van Rensselaer, Martha
Miscellaneous
Editorial file
Invoices
Lists
Agencies in Boston related to homemaking
Members
Committee
Sub-committee
Memoranda
Minutes of meeting, 1931 August 1
Press release, 1931 December 5
Questionnaire replies
Reports
General
Brief (on the Alabama study)
Main. Includes endorsements
Stenographer's, 1931 December 2-5
Tentative
Sub-committees on city housing and family development
General
1931 September 29
1931 December 5
Preliminary on special problems of city living
Research
Supplementary, 1931 December 5
Household Management Committee
General
Correspondence
Ford, James
Gries, John
Raitt, Effie I.
Miscellaneous
List of committee members
Memoranda
Preliminary notes on meeting, 1931 July 1
Stenographer's report, 1931 December 2-5
Housing and the Community Committee
General
Correspondence
Cabot, Richard Clarke
Ford, James
Gries, John
Pratt, Joseph H.
Miscellaneous
List of committee members
Memoranda
Minutes of meetings, 1931
October 3
October 31
Regional survey of New York and its environs
Reports
On effect of housing conditions upon the efficiency of industrial workers, 1931 November 16
Stenographic, 1931 December 2-5
Industrial Decentralization and Housing Committee
General
Correspondence
Cramer, Stuart W.
Gries, John M.
Haig, Robert Murray
Leukhardt, J. C.
Miscellaneous
Lists
Acceptances and declinations
Invitations sent
Members
Suggested members
Memoranda
Minutes of meeting, 1931 August 24-25
Questionnaire
Statement on industrial decentralization in appointment of Rural Aid Board, 1931 August 20
Stenographer's report, 1931 December 4
Kitchens and Other Work Centers Committee
General
Checklist to assist in determining need for reconstructioning or modernizing
Correspondence
General
Halbert, Blanche
Marlatt, Abby L.
Stanley, Louise
Wichers, H. E.
Invoices
Memoranda
Reports
Progress
Stenographic
Landscape Planning and Planting Committee
General
Agenda for the first meeting, 1931 June 5-6. Includes list of committee members
Correspondence
Morgan, Junius S.
Miscellaneous
Lists
Books
Possible members
Subcommittees
Memoranda
Mimeographed material
Regional planning notes (County of Los Angeles)
Restrictions by subcommittee on streets, parkways, highways, and byways
Stenographer's report, 1931 December 2-5
Summary of activities
Large Scale Operations Committee
General
Acknowledgments
Correspondence. Mostly of Alfred K. Stern, Chairman
Financial records
Lists of committee members
Memoranda
Minutes of meetings
Undated. Includes general correspondence
1931 September 23 (Chicago)
1931 September 30 (joint)
1931 October 12 (Cleveland)
Regional survey of New York and its environs
Reports
General. Endorsements, 1931 November
Final
Stenographic, 1931 December 3
Statement of Alfred Stern, Chairman and Director of the Julius Rosenwald Fund
Suggestions for committee agenda
Negro Housing Committee
General
Correspondence
Burroughs, Nannie H., Chairman
Committee members
Editorial file
Invoices
Lists
Members
Negro newspapers, magazines, trade journals, and press services in the United States, 1931 October
Material regarding copyright
Memoranda
Messages
Sent by President Herbert Hoover to the Committee, 1931 April 24
Suggested by Dr. James Ford to the National Negro Insurance Association, 1931 April 21
Publicity file
Questionnaire
Reports
General
1931 December 2-5 (stenographic)
1932
Negro housing, 1931. Includes also endorsement and extracts of the report
Rural, 1931
Statements to the committee
By Herbert Hoover, 1931 April 24
By Robert Lamont
Studies
Comparative study of houses occupied by whites and Negroes in parallel areas, 1931
Short study of housing and ownership in Boley Community
Reconditioning, Remodeling, Modernizing Committee
General
Correspondence. Mostly of Frederick Feiker, Chairman
Editorial file. Includes letters, memoranda, printed report
Invoices
List of committee members
Memoranda. Includes press memoranda
Minutes of meeting, 1931 May 25
Program of business cooperation
Reports
General
1931
General
December 2-5 (stenographer's)
1932
June 10
July 26
Activities, 1932
Upkeep and improvement of the home
Suggestions for remodeling and home modernizing, 1931
Tentative operating manual for conducting a local modernizing campaign, 1932 September
Relationship of Income and the Home Committee
General
Chart on cost of living
Correspondence
General
Carpenter, Niles, Chairman
Committee members
Data regarding rental and sale costs of houses (Richmond, Va), 1931
Descriptive leaflet
Invoices
Letter of instructions to collecting agents
List of committee members
Memoranda
Minutes of meeting, 1931 July 6
Press release, 1931 December 4
Primary research project
Questionnaire
Relationship of Income and the Home Committee
Reports
General
1931 December 3 (tentative)
1931 December 4
Stenographic, 1931 December 2-5
Studies
Buffalo, NY
General
Ten home purchasing families
Relationship of income and home
Two hundred families of small wage earners, Newark, NJ, 1931
Tentative outline of subject-matter of committee on relationship of income and home
Subdivision Layout Committee
Correspondence
Invoices
List of committee members
Memorandum
Minutes of meeting, 1931
April 30
June 1
References of possible interest to committee
Stenographer's report, 1931 December 2-5
General
Endorsement
Preliminary draft
Taxation Committee
General
Correspondence
Financial records
General, regarding Bill H.R. 7620
Invoices
Lists of committee members
Memoranda
Minutes of meetings, 1931
July 15
October 5
News release
Reports
Preliminary report (by Marion McKay), 1931
First draft of report for the committee (by Richard Ely), 1931
Draft of report of the committee (submitted by H. L. Lutz), 1931
Draft of the final report, 1931. Includes endorsement of report
Stenographer's, 1931 December 2-5
Types of Dwellings Committee
General
General
Scope sheets
Correspondence. Mostly of John Ihlder
Invoices
Lists of committee members
Memoranda
Minutes of meetings, 1931
May 4
June 3
July 17
September 21
October 17
Reports
General. Written by Robert Whitten as chapter II of the report "Neighborhoods of Small Homes: Economic Density of Low-Cost Housing in America and England," 1931 May 27
Stenographic, 1931 December 2-5. Includes endorsements of report
Tentative, 1931 August 4
Utilities for HousesCommittee
General
Correspondence
Invoices
Lists of committee members
Memoranda. Includes memoranda of meetings
Notes on certain topics assigned for preliminary discussion to T. H. Wiggin
Preliminary draft of a discussion on housing in unincorporated areas adjustment to cities, 1931 September 21
Reports
Draft report of the Committee, 1931 September 8
Forstall, Walton 1931
February 25
March 3
March 11
Stenographer's, 1931 December 2-5. Includes endorsements of report
Correlating committees
Education and Service Committee
Correspondence
Ford, James M.
Gries, John
Hart, Joseph
Lamont, R. P.
Shaw, Albert
Financial records
Lists
Committee members
Subcommittees
Memoranda
Reports
On order of business
Stenographer's, 1931 December 2-5
Legislation and Administration Committee
General
Financial records
Correspondence. Mostly of Bernard J. Newman, Chairman
List of committee members
Memoranda
Minutes of meetings of the committee's correlation group C, 1931
August 12
October 15
November 2
Stenographer's report, 1931 December 2-5
Organization Programs, Local and National Committee
General
Correspondence. Mostly of Harlean James, Chairman
Invoices
List of committee members
Memoranda
Minutes of meeting, 1932 August 14
Reports of the committee
Research Committee
General
Bibliographies
Building and housing, 1931 May 1
Crime and housing, 1931 June
Housing and health, 1931 June
Miscellany
Correspondence
General
Ford, James, Chairman
Editorial file
Invoices
Lists
Committee members
Suggestions for research
Memoranda
Minutes of meetings, 1931
September 11
October 9
Press release, 1931 December 5
Real estate activity chart, 1932
Reports
General, 1931
October-November. Includes preliminary draft of report
December 5
Committee secretaries, 1931 September 9
Stenographer, 1931 December 2-5. Includes endorsement of report
Research projects
General. Includes research memorandum outline, 1931 October 9
Home economics, 1931-1932
Post conference
Reviews of the work by other committees
Design Committee, 1931 November 3
Reconditioning, Remodeling and Modernizing Committee, 1931 November 1
Study in home ownership and leasing
Standards and Objectives Committee
General
Correspondence
Issue of Housing, 1931 October
Lists
Committee members
Personnel
Memoranda
Minutes of meetings, 1931
September 25
October 12-13
October 28-29
Statement of Wilson Compton, 1932
Stenographer's report, 1931 December 2-5
General
Endorsement of report
Index to the report
Proposed changes
Technological Development Committee
General
Appendices and bibliographies
Correspondence
Invoices
List of committee members
Memoranda
Minutes of meetings, 1931
July 31
September 18
Reports
Stenographic, 1931 December 2-5
Tentative
Draft. Includes comments on report, 1931 October-November
Review of tentative report, 1931 December
Tentative program, 1931 July 30
General. Includes correspondence, memoranda, typescripts of introductions, galleys
Vol. 1 and 5
Vol. 7
Vol. 9
Vol. 11
Commendatory remarks
Correspondence
Committee reports
General
Committee secretaries
Complimentary copies
General
Index
Reprints
Volume 1. Planning for Residential Districts
Volume 2. Home Finance and Taxation
Volume 3. Slums, Large-Scale Housing and Decentralization
Volume 4. Home Ownership, Income and Types of Dwellings
Volume 5. House design, Construction and Equipment
Volume 6. Negro Housing
Volume 7. Farm and Village Housing
Volume 8. Housing and the Community; Home Repair and Remodeling
Volume 9. Household Management and Kitchens
Volume 10. Homemaking, Home Furnishing and Information Services
Vol. 11. Housing Objectives and Programs
Planning Committee set
Forewords
Lamont, Robert (vol. 4)
Wilbur, Ray Lyman (vol. 7)
List of possible titles. Includes correspondence
Memoranda re distribution of Conference volumes
Requests for complimentary copies of volumes
Reviews
General
General
Vol. 1-11
Vol. 7
Index of reviews
By magazine
By magazine
By volume
Subject file
Circularizationa of the volumes
Sales of conference volumes
General. Includes pre-conference material
Articles
Bricklayer, Mason and Plasterer, 1930 September
United States Daily (on the President's Conference), 1932-1933
Washington Herald, 1930 September 9
Broadcasts
Clippings
General
Scrapbook of reviews on all conference volumes
Supplement to scrapbook of reviews
Correspondence regarding copyright issues
Editorial file
General
Bibliography
Correspondence
General
General
Vol. 1
Vol. 2
Vol. 3
Vol. 4
Vol. 5
Vol. 6
Vol. 7
Vol. 8
Vol. 9
Vol. 10
Vol. 11
Correlative volume
Vol. 2, second edition
Vol. 8, second edition
Publications
Index
Press releases
By committee
By date
By volume
Press releases (duplicate set)
Programs of conferences, conventions and sessions, 1930-1931
Miscellaneous
General. Mostly national organizations
Ac-B
Al-Am
Am
Ar-As
B
C
D-L
E
G
F
H
I
L
M
M-Z
Ne-z
O
P
S
T
U
W
Committee for Economic and Social Progress
Committee for Economic Recovery
Home Loan Bank
National Bureau of Economic Research
National Conference of Business and Industrial Committees
National Conference on Construction
National Conference on Street and Highway Safety
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Renovize Philadelphia Campaign
United States. Department of Commerce
Miscellaneous
Oversize Material
Oversize Material