Guide to the Bureau of Public Administration archives, 1921-1962
Guide to the Bureau of Public Administration Archives, 1921-1962
Collection number: CU-46
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Box 9-10: The files express the Bureau's relationship with the Administration of the University of California, Berkeley.
Box 11-12: Personal papers of Samuel S. May, including correspondence and teaching material; his students' notebooks and research papers; and miscellaneous Bureau-directed research.
Correspondence, Minutes, and Other Material
Scope and Content Note
UC Berkeley Administration
Scope and Content Note
Personal papers of Samuel C. May
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, Minutes, and Other Material
Adult Probation Board
Alameda Committee Juvenile Court Survey (League of Women Voters)
American Committee for International Municipal Cooperation
American Political Science Association--Committee on Public Administration, 1951-1952; Subcommittee on Teaching of Public Administration, 1952-1953
American Society for Public Administration, San Francisco Bay Chapter
Anderson, Dr. H. Dewey [Congressman], 1938
Barnes, T.N., Term Paper, Political Science 181, 1927
Greater San Francisco Committee on Bay Area Governmental Coordination
Berkeley Citizens' Postwar Advisory Committee, 1944-1946
Berkeley Civil Service Movement, 1939
Berkeley Civic Center and Planning
Berkeley Personnel Board (of the City of Berkeley)
Berkeley Servicemen Plan for Their Future
Bond Issues, Election Returns, State of California, November, 1935
Bureau Of Public Administration
Bureau as an Independent Unit, 1922-1931
BPA History, 1928-1930: Campbell, President W.W.
BPA History, 1929-1936: Sproul, President
BPA Proposals: Training and Research in Public Administration, 1928
BPA Proposals re. School of Public Administration, University of California, 1937-1946
Facts about Bureau of Public Administration
BPA Concise statement, by S.C. May, 4/18/1945
Committee on Graduate Training for Public Administrative Service, University of California, 1927-1929
Council and Executive Committee for Bureau of Public Administration, 1929-1933
Committee on School of Public Administration, 1937
Council of the Bureau of Public Administration, 1940
The Bureau of Public Administration as an Answer to Special Needs [speech], by S.C. May, March 1946
Types of Government Research [speech], by S.C. May. American Political Science Association, New Orleans, 1929
Bureau Library (General), 1932-1943
Bureau Library--Donations, 1932-1943
BPA Newsletter
[BPA] File Index “A”
BPA Charts, 1955-1956 [Graphs illustrating enrollments of political science students at U.C.B. and others schools)
BPA Proposals, 1942 and 1946
BPA Staff Meetings
Bureaus of Public Administration--General
BPA Miscellaneous Papers and Correspondance, 1920s
Rockefeller Foundation (S. Walker), 1928-1935
Proposal to Rockefeller Foundation, 1929
Annual Financial Report to Rockefeller Foundation from University Comptroller, 1936-1933
BPA Research Personnel: Recommendations Concerning Leaves of Absence and Personnel Records
BPA Librarian's Reports, 1933-1946
Training for the Public Service: Symposium at the Association of Land Grant Colleges and Universities Conference, Chicago, 1938
Survey of Training for Public Administration, Social Service Research Council Committee on Public Administration
BPA Quarters, 1929
BPA Library and Bureau Quarters, 1938
BPA Exhibit at Golden Gate International Exhibition, 1939
California
State Bar of California
California Conference of Social Work
California State Conservation Committee, 1939-1940
California Constitution Rewritten by Aitkin's Class
California Constitutional Commission, 1930-1931
Constitutional Convention--California--Social Science Research Conference of the Pacific Coast, 1935
California State Council of Defense, 1941
California State Chamber of Commerce
California State Chamber of Commerce, Statewide Travel and Recreation Committee and Statewide War Committee
California Crime Problem Advisory Committee
Interim Committee in Economic Planning
California Department of Education
California State Department of Finance
Office of the Governor
California Housing Association and San Francisco Housing Association, 1940
Institutions, Department of
Judicial Council of California
Bureau of Juvenile Research
California Labor School, Oakland/San Francisco
Legislative Budget Committee
Legislative Counsel Bureau
Office of Legislative Counsel
Legislative Information Service
Legislative Information Service
Legislative Information Service, general, 1939
Legislative Problems Series
Legislative Problems Service, Lists of Special Requests, 1939
Legislative Problems Studies, Lists of Special Subjects, 1937
Legislative Service Correspondance, 1937
Legislative Service, general, 1936-1937
California Legislators, Correspondence
California Merit System League
State Department of Penology
California Personnel Management Association
California State Personnel Board
California State Planning Board
California Population Commission
State Board of Prison Directors
State Department of Public Health
California Public Service Salaries, 1954
California Recreation, Intergovernmental Committee on
California State Relief Commission
California School Employees Association (Civil Service Bill), 1938-1939
State Department of Social Welfare
California State Parks Commission
California Taxpayers' Association
State Unemployment Commission
California Unemployment and Welfare Investigation Proposals
California War Council, 1943
Whittier State School
Census Enumeration Areas
[San Francisco] Chronicle Forum, Sept. 1945
Clippings about the Bureau of Public Administration from the Clip Sheet, 1931-1949
City and County Government
City and County Management, 1930-1931
City Government Inquiries and Answers, 1935-1938
City Manager Government, 1924-
Reading List on the City Manager Form of Government, 1939
City Managers in California Cities
Civil Service
Civil Service Inquiries
Civil Service Assembly
Civil Service Assembly, Western Regional Conference, Achievement Award Committee
Civil Service Association--San Francisco, Alameda County and Oakland, et al., 1934
Civil Service--Commission Inquiring on Public Service Personnel, Northern California Program
Special Senate Committee on Civil Service
U.S. Civil Service Commission (Leonard D. White), 1934
Commonwealth Club
Commonwealth Club Research Council
Commonwealth Club Research Service
Conference Programs
Conference, Princeton, June 22-24, 1935
Conference on Farm Labor, 1939
Conference on Research Function of the University Bureaus, 1959
Contra Costa County
Cost of Living in Selected Cities of the United States, 1922- 1934, and Wages in the Printing Industry in Same Cities and Same Period
Coro Foundation (U.C. Political Science Dept.), 1946
Election of Councilmen
County Archive Inventory Project--Sponsors' Contributions, 1939
Commission on County Government
County Government Newsletter, 1938
County Home Rule
County Home Rule Commission
California Commission on County Home Rule--Meetings
Council of State Governments
Study of Inferior Courts of California
Criminal Court Statistics
Committee on Criminology
Criminology Institute Proposals
Excerpts from an Economic Analysis of California State Land Settlements at Durham and Delhi
Delinquency--Report, Commonwealth Club
Foreign Visitors
Fresno
Papers Of A.E. Garey (Pacific Coast Field Representative, Civil Service Assembly of the U.S. and Canada. Headquartered at UCB)
Bureau of Public Administration--U.C.
California Municipalities
California Municipalities, 1937
California Personnel Agencies, 1937
Canadian Civil Service Commissions
Civil Service Assembly, 1937
League of California Municipalities
State of Maine
Public Administration Service, Pacific Coast Program
Stockton, California
Western States Outside of California (including Hawaii)
Speaking Engagements, 1937
Governmental Research Association
Former Graduate Student Surveys
Replies of Respondants to Questionaire Sent to Former Graduate Students, December, 1947
Quotations, Statistics, of December 1947 Questionaire
Expanded Summary Report of Questionaire Sent to Former Graduate Students, February 20, 1946
Salary and status Tabulaitons for 237 Respondants 1948-1949 (187 men and women): Questionaire Addressed to Former Students of Public Administration, University of California, 1949
Salaries and Status in 1947 and 1949 of Former Graduate Students Enrolled in Public Administration Seminars, University of California, Berkeley from 1924-1946 and Their Evaluation of Their Graduate Academic Training for Public Service
Hayward
Health Insurance
Confidential [about compulsory health insurance]
California Medical Economic Survey
Carrier Bill [to disability clauses in Calif. Unemployment Insurance Act]
Health Insurance: Committee for the Nation's Health, Inc.
Buern, Dr. Harold
California Medical-Economic Survey and Legislative Proposals, 1934-1935
Health Insurance Interim Committee, California Legislature (51st session), 1935
Survey Associates, Inc., 1935
Amendments to Senate Bill 454 (Health Insurance), 1935
Bill (Committee of One), [California Medical Association], 1934-1935
Mutual Hospitals, Alameda County (Roy W. Kelly, Acting Secretary), 1934
Housing Meetings
Institute of International Relations, Mills College, June-July, 1936
Interracial Problems
Interracial Problems
International Institute of the Administrative Sciences, 1938-1958
International Institute of the Administrative Sciences, 1952-1957
Institute of International Education
International Institute of Local Authorities
Commissions on Interstate Cooperation of the Western States, Conference
Israel
Japan
Japan--Institute of International Education Project, Reorientation Branch of the Army, Under Exchange of Persons Program for Japan
Japanese Publications
Japanese Visitors, 1950
Japanese Visitors, 1950: Project #127
Japanese Visitors, 1950
Japanese Visitors and Correspondance, 1951
Japanese Visitors, 1951: Project #203, Educators
Japanese Visitors, 1951
Japanese Visitors, 1951--Course of Study
Project #186, Japanese Local Government. Department of State, 1951
Japanese Visitors, 1951-1952, Project 1R-52
Project #200, University Education for Public Administration, May 6-14, 1951
Japanese Visitors, 1952
Japanese Visitors, 1953
Japanese Visitors, 1955
Text of “Current Note” on Judicial Statistics Project, prepared for the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 1934
Journey to Work Project, 1951
National Labor Relations board
League of California Cities
League of California Municipalities
League of Women Voters of California
Legal Aid Project
Librarians in State Colleges: Their Classification and Salary Ranges, 1938
Comprehensive Libraries: Special Libraries
Liquor Control in California, 1934
(Liquor) Prohibition
(Liquor) Prohibition--Advisory Research Council
Local Government in U.S.
Documentation in Support of Project Proposal 0803-1758, Local Government Study. University of California BPA, Oct. 31, 1938
Local Government Units, Survey, U.C., 1937
Los Angeles City Bureau of Budget and Efficiency
Los Angeles City-County Committee on Governmental Simplification
Bureau of Administrative Research, County of Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Department of Budget and Research
Los Angeles County Exam for Librarians
Los Angeles Student Research Investigatorships
History of Marin County
Marin Conservation League
Mayors' and Councilmen's Association of Northern California
Mayor's Conference of Central California
Medical Care, Rural, California
Metropolitan Government
Moratory Legislation: A Comparative Study
Motor Vehicles, Department of
Municipal Corps
Natural Resources
Northern California Political Science Association
Oakland City Charter
Oakland Public Health Survey, 1938
Oroville Meeting, 1957
Pacific Coast Board of Intergovernmental Relations
Pacific Coast Institute of Law
[Pacific] Northwest Regional Council
Pacific Northwest Regional Planning Commission
Pacific Southwest Regional Planning Commission
Penal Affairs, Governor Warren's Committee on
Perspective in the Public Service. Conference, 1955
Picketing--Proposition 1, 1938
Philadelphia Charter Commission, 1938
Placements [of Public Administration Students]
Placements of Students: Recommendation, Reports of Employment, etc., 1939-1941
Committee on Training of Planning Consultants, Dean Woods, Chairman
Police and Police Administration--Japan
Department of Political Science
Political Science Cirriculum
Political Science Committees: U.C. and U.C.L.A.
Postwar Planning--general
Postwar Planning (California)
Prison Association of California
Prison Riots and Disorders, Committee for Study of, R.B. Resnick Chairman, California Conference of Social Work
Prosecution
Public Health Organization: Senate Bill 1054
Publications
Permissions to Quote, 1939
“Fan Letters” for BPA Publications, 1947-1950
BPA Publications: General Correspondance
Publications [1950s]
BPA Publications Series
BPA Publications, Lists
IGS Publications Reports, 1955-1962
BPA Manuscripts: 1932-1935
BPA Publications: Mailing Lists
H.W. Wilson Co., 1937
Recreation (California)
Relief and Unemployment--Interim Assembly Committee on
Retirement Systems
Revenue (State Collected) and Higher Education
Sacramento School of Government
San Francisco
San Francisco Community Chest
Study of Statistical and Social Data form Records of 1000 San Quentin Prisoners
San Rafael Charter
Save the Redwoods League
Social Science Research Council Committee on Public Administration--Studies of City Manager and County Manager
Social Science Research Council of the Pacific Coast
Social Science Research Council of the Pacific Coast
Social Science Research Council, Hall Correspondence
Social Science Research Council, March Meeting
Social Service Cirriculum, Committee of the Graduate Council, University of California, 1933
Social Welfare, Directors of [statistical study], 1937
School and City Taxes
Severance Taxation
State Tax Commission, 1936
Taxation [1940s]
Taxes “In Lieu of Tax Problem” [1950s]
Teacher's Colleges
Tree Spraying
Unemployment Insurance Administration in California
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation--Administration
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation--Regional Interviewing Panel for Personnel Selection, San Francisco Section
Urban Rehabilitation [1940s]
Urban Renewal, 1958
United States
U.S. Department of Agriculture
U.S. Bureau of the Budget
U.S. Bureau of Census
Civil Service Assembly of the U.S. and Canada
U.S. Civil Service Commission
U.S. Civil Service Recruitment
U.S. Committee on Economic Security
Federal Emergency Relief Administration, WPA and NYA
National Emergency Council and NRA
Office for Emergency Management/War Management Commission
Farm Credit Administration
Federal Housing Administration
U.S. Forest Service
Home Owners' Loan Association
U.S. Housing Authority
U.S. Office of Indian Affairs
President's Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (Reports by S.C. May to Clark Kerr), 1954
U.S. Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (Manion Commission), 1953-1954
Intergovernmental Relations, 1953-1954
U.S. Library of Congress
U.S. Department of Labor
San Francisco Regional Labor Board
U.S. Office of Naval Research
National Park Service
National Planning Board
U.S. Bureau of Prisons
Resettlement Administration
National Resources Committee
National Resources Planning Baord
National School Finance Survey
National Security Resources Board
U.S. Senate Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program (Mead Committee)
Social Security Board
Social Trends, President's Committee on
Spokane School for Agricultural Workers
Tenessee Valley Authority
U.S. Tax Revision Council
U.S. Treasury
Works Progress Administration
Wage and Hour Legislation
War Administration Bibliography
Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion--Veterans' Education
Committee on Educational Facilities--Human and Physical--for Veterans and Non-Veterans
War Mobilization and Reconversion: G.I. Budget and Requisitions of the BPA, 1946
Water Resources
Water Systems
Western Consumer's Union
Western Government
Western Government Research Association
Western Conference On Government
Attendance, Delegates, Speaker Lists
(I) American Legislators' Association
(II) American Municipal Welfare Association
(III) American Public Welfare Association
(IV) Government Research Organization
Government Research Tabulations
(V) International City Managers Association
(VI) Municipal Finance Officers Association
(VII) National Association of Housing Officials
(VIII) National Muncipal League
(IX) Public Administration Clearinghouse
(X) United States Conference of Mayors
(XI) Western Regional Conference/Civil Service Assembly
(XII) General
(XIII) Accomodations
(XIV) Publicity
(XV) Open Meetings
Programs
Requisitions
Post-Conference Letters
Letters of Thanks
UC Berkeley Administration
University Of California
Academic Senate
Accounting Department
Alumni Association
Budget
Certificate in Public Administration
Chancellor's Office
Chancellor Kerr
Department of City and Regional Planning
Department of City and Regional Planning
Faculty Group in City and Regional Planning
U.C. Comptroller
Disaster Preparedness Plan
Faculty Committee on University-Municipal Bargaining on Tax Exemption
Fellowships
Ford Foundation Grants and Proposed Projects: Indonesia
Graduate Association in Political Science
T.C. Holy, Consultant in Higher Education, Liason Committee, Regents and State Board of Education
School Housing Exploratory Committee
Human Relations in Urban Development, Interdepartmental Committee
Interdepartmental Urban Research Group
Library
Loyalty Oath
Metropolitan Studies Committee
School of Military Government
Occupations of Former Students
Personnel Office
Pi Sigma Alpha Fraternity: Iota Chapter
Committee on Placement
Department of Political Science, Minutes, 1934-1946
Department of Political Science, [1939-1944]
Department of Political Science, [1946-1957]
Office of the President, 1930-1936
Office of the President, 1936-
Office of the President, 1939-
President's Office, 1945-1956
University Press--S.T. Farquar, Manager, 1934
University Press, 1938
Povost M.E. Deutsch, 1939
Public Administration Association of the University of California
Public Administration Course for Forest Rangers and District Managers
Public Administration, Proposed Group Major
Public Administration Theses
Cirricula in Public Health
School of Public Health
Public Information
Office of the Regents
Registrar's Office
U.C. Radio Program, 1932-1933
Radio Service
Rosenberg Lectureship in Social Services Committee
Social Science Colloquium, 1953-1954
[School of] Social Welfare
University Committee on State Tax Planning, M.M. Davisson, Chariman
Committee on Training for Public Administration, Wartime
Training for the Public Service
Report to the Special Committee on Training for the Public Service
Committee on Training for the Public Service
University Extension
University Students' Model Committee
War and Post-War Reserch Committee, 1941-1944
University War Council, 1941-1943
U.C. Conference on Development of the West, 1953
U.C. Conference on Western Developments
Chancellor's Committee on Education, Training, and Research in Problems of Western Developments
Bureau Of Public Administration Advisory Committees, Annual And Biennial Reports, And Budgets
BPA Advisory Committee, 1953-1954
BPA Advisory Acommittee, 1955-1957
First Annual Report, 1930-1931
Third Annual Report, 1932-1933
Fourth Annual Report, 1933-1934
Report to the President, Biennium 1934-1936
Biennial Report, 1936-1938
Biennial Report, 1938-1940
Annual Reports for 1939-1940
Report to the President, Biennium 1940-1942
Biennial Report, 1942-1944
Biennial Report, 1944-1946
Biennial Report, 1955-1957
BPA Budget
Budget, Biennium 1933-1935
Budget, 1930-1931
Budget, 1931-1932
Budget, 1932-1933
Budget, 1933-1934
Budget, 1934-1935
Budget, 1935-1936
Budget, 1936-1937
Budget, 1937-1938 and Recommendation for Biennium 1937-1939
Budget, 1938-1939
Personal Papers of Samuel C. May
Papers Of Samuel C. May
Certificates acknowledging May's appointments to commissions by California Governor Culbert L. Olson
--Chairman, State Planning Board, 1939
--Member, State Planning Board, 1940
--Member, State Conservation Committee, 1940
Biographical Sketches
Conference in Honor of Samuel May
Clippings and Articles
Newspaper Clippings, Sept.-Oct., 1955
Notebook
Notebook
Notebook (Japan)
Political Science 255B, 1947
Political Science 261B
Political Science 155
Political Science 176
Political Science 180
Political Science 200: Bibliography and Research Methods, Excerpts from Seminar Notebooks, Fall 1950
Political Science 200
Political Science 255A
Municipal Administration Seminars
Seminar, 1951
Seminar, 1953
[Teaching notes] 1942
[Teaching notes] 1944
[Teaching notes] 1948
[Teaching notes] 1949
Manuscript of Speech notes
Notes for Speech
W.G.R.A. Address, Oct. 20, 1947
Requests for Articles, Reviews, Questionaire Replies
Correspondance
1932
1936
1937
1938-1939
1940
1945
1946
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
ECA Appointment, 1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
Personnel File
Speaking Engagements
1945
1946
1947
1948
1949
1950-1951
Conference and Speaking Engagements, 1954-1955
Material Received from Kenneth O. May [Samuel May's son], June, 1975
Course Notebook, Political Science 252, August, 1938
Course Notebook, Political Science 273A
Student Notebooks And Research Papers
Russell Barthell, [Political Science Course Notebook].
W.E. Parker, “Postwar Planning,” Political Science Notebook
Elizabeth Ferina, Political Science 255A Notebook, 1948
Thomas E. Jenkins, Political Science 255A Notebook, 1948
Douglas M. Frame, “Publicity Work in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (A Speaking Outline and Bibliography),” Political Science 255A, 1947
Harry Wolf, Notebook for Political Science 255A, 1947
Rose M. Nonini, Notebook for Political Science 255A, 1948
Jack Birtwhistle, “The Activities of the Federal Government in Regards to Maps,” Political Science 255A, Fall Semester, 1947-1948
A.J. Misner, Notebook for Political Science 261, Seminar in Municipal Administration
A. Elliott Castello, Notebook for Political Science 261, 1948
Robert B. Richert, Notebook for Political Science 261, 1948
Miscellaneous Manuscripts
Ralph W. Gaines, “Federal, State, and Local Planning Relationships Since 1933, with Special Reference to California,” Thesis for Doctorate, [1954?]
Hugh G. Hansen, “The Central Valley Project--Federal or State.”
Hugh G. Hansen, “The Roles of Federal and State Governments in Central Valley Water Resources Development.”