Preliminary Inventory of the Henry Bancroft Smith papers
Finding aid prepared by The Hoover Institution Library and Archives staff
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Title: Henry Bancroft Smith papers
Date (inclusive): 1919-1928
Collection Number: 57006
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
28 manuscript boxes, 1 cubic foot box
(12.7 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Diaries, correspondence, reports, memoranda, financial records, printed matter, and photographs, relating to American food
relief in Europe, economic reconstruction in Poland, and agricultural market conditions in Europe.
Creator:
Smith, Henry Bancroft, 1884-
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
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1957.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Henry Bancroft Smith Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Scope and Contents
This collection contains diaries, correspondence, reports, memoranda, financial records, printed matter, and photographs,
relating to American food relief in Europe, economic reconstruction in Poland, and agricultural market conditions in Europe.
Includes a report to President Coolidge by Herbert Hoover regarding U.S. St. Lawrence Commission.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief
Reconstruction (1914-1939) -- Poland
United States -- Commerce
Poland -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945
Agriculture -- Europe
Technical assistance, American -- Poland
Commercial attachés
United States. Department of Commerce
United States Grain Corporation
box 1
Henry Bancroft Smith, Special Representative, London, U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
1922-1925
box 2
Henry Bancroft Smith, Special Representative, also personal correspondence, military papers
1923-1927
Correspondence (incoming and outgoing)
box 3
Food Administration , correspondence, - Department of Commerce
1919 1921
box 4
Henry Bancroft Smith as acting Commercial Attaché, Poland, also Special Representative, Department of Commerce
1922-1923
1923
box 5
Personal, also re European Crop yields, statistics, etc., London
1924
box 6
With Julius H. Barnes, Julius Klein, and many others, London
1925-1926
box 8
Agricultural Markets Section
box 12
Miscellaneous correspondence; report to President Coolidge by Herbert Hoover re U.S. St. Lawrence Commission (Commerce period);
Smith - miscellaneous manuscripts; Taylor - articles; books (Russian orange book, Austrian red book, British documents)
box 13
Letters to Bureau (Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Warsaw, Poland, London, Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C.)
re accounts
1922, 1922-1929, 1926-1927,
box 14
Letters to Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
box 15
Miscellany: photographs, currency, diary, etc.
box 25
Books, pamphlets, articles -
A.R.A. Review;
C.R.B. Bulletin; agriculture food needs; economic problems
box 26
Pamphlets and articles, etc., relating to food
box 27
New clippings - Relief Europe - Rubber Report - Misc.
box 28
Material not yet described
box 29
Material not yet described
