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  • Title: Edward Eyre Hunt papers
    Date (inclusive): 1902-1953
    Collection Number: 56008
    Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
    Language of Material: English
    Physical Description: 105 manuscript boxes, 2 oversize boxes, 1 envelope, 3 maps (44.5 Linear Feet)
    Abstract: Reports, memoranda, correspondence, diaries, writings, printed matter, and photographs, relating to relief and reconstruction in Europe during and after World Wars I and II (especially in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, and Poland), the Commission for Relief in Belgium, the American Red Cross, Herbert Hoover and the presidential campaign of 1920, and American economic conditions between the two world wars.
    Creator: United States. Department of Commerce
    Creator: Hunt, Edward E. (Edward Eyre), 1885-1953
    Creator: United States. Department of Labor
    Creator: United States. War Production Board
    Creator: Conference on Unemployment (Location of meeting: Washington, D.C. Date of meeting or treaty signing: 1921.)
    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 1975.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], Edward Eyre Hunt Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    Biographical Notes

    1885, August 1 Born, Bellwood, Nebraska
    1910 A.B., Harvard
    1910 Author, Sir Orfeo
    1910-1912 Secretary for appointments and assistant in English Department, Harvard
    1912-1914 Editorial staff, American Magazine, New York
    1914 War Correspondent, Europe
    1914-1916 American delegate, Commission for Relief in Belgium in charge of Province of Antwerp
    1916 Author, War Bread: A Personal Narrative of the War and Relief in Belgium
    1916 Author, Haj
    1917 Director of Publications, American Red Cross, Washington, D.C.
    1917-1918 Head of Economic Rehabilitation work of Red Cross in France
    1917 Director General of Civilian Relief, Red Cross, Italy
    1918 Author, Tales from a Famished Land
    1918 Author, The Red Cross on the Front Line in the Great Battle of 1918
    1920 Labor Manager, Clothing Industry, New York
    1920 Appointed by Herbert Hoover as member of the Committee on Elimination of Waste in Industry, Federated American Engineering Societies
    1921 Secretary of Conference on Unemployment called by President Warren Harding
    1921 Co-author, Waste in Industry
    1922-1923 Secretary, U.S. Coal Commission
    1923 Co-author, Business Cycles and Unemployment
    1924 Co-author, Seasonal Operation in the Construction Industries
    1924 Editor, Scientific Management Since Taylor
    1925 Author, Conferences, Committees, Conventions, and How to Run Them
    1925 Editor, What the Coal Commission Found
    1927 American Expert on Scientific Management, League of Nations, World Economic Conference
    1928 Member, Committee on Recent Economic Changes
    1929 Editor, Recent Economic Changes in the United States
    1930 Author, An Audit of America
    1930-1931 Secretary, President's Emergency Committee for Employment
    1930-1933 Member, President's Research Committee on Social Trends
    1931 American member of World Economic Depression Inquiry
    1937 Author, Greathouse
    1939-1940 Engaged in economic and social surveys, Venezuela
    1942-1943 Chief Industrial Economist, War Production Board
    1943 Associate Director, Field Operations, Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation, U.S. Department of State
    1944 Chief of Italian Division, Foreign Economic Administration
    1944 Editor, The Power Industry and the Public Interest
    1945-1946 Director, Italian Division, U.S. Department of State

    Scope and Contents

    This collection contains reports, memoranda, correspondence, diaries, writings, printed matter, and photographs, relating to relief and reconstruction in Europe during and after World Wars I and II (especially in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, and Poland), the Commission for Relief in Belgium, the American Red Cross, Herbert Hoover and the presidential campaign of 1920, and American economic conditions between the two world wars. Includes handwritten and typewritten manuscripts and drafts of books, speeches and articles by Edward E. Hunt. Includes photographs.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief
    International relief
    World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief
    World War, 1914-1918 -- Belgium
    Economists
    United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945
    World War, 1939-1945 -- Economic aspects
    Reconstruction (1939-1951)
    Reconstruction (1914-1939)
    Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1920
    Unemployed -- United States
    Commission for Relief in Belgium (1914-1930)
    Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
    American National Red Cross
    United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
    United States. President's Emergency Committee for Employment