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Correspondence with Herbert Hoover, Lou Henry Hoover, and other Hoovers

box 1, folder 1

Includes letter to President Wilson 1910-1919.

box 1, folder 2

1920-1929

box 1, folder 3

1930-1939

box 1, folder 4

1940-1949

box 1, folder 5

1950-1967

box 1, folder 6

Food for Small Democracies. Mostly printed or mimeographed material

box 1, folder 7

Hoover Institution - Dedication 1941

box 1

Comité National de Secours et d'Alimentation, 1914-1918, Séance solennelle du 5 juillet 1958 pour recevoir M. Herbert Hoover, Brussels, (illustrated) 1958

 

Correspondence - Miscellaneous (mostly political)

box 2, folder 1

Includes C.R.B. and United States. Food Administration material 1910-1919.

box 2, folder 2

1920-1929

box 2, folder 3

1930-1939

box 2, folder 4

1940-1949

box 2, folder 5

. Includes Herbert Hoover Foundation, and Herbert Hoover Birthplace Foundation material 1950-

box 2, folder 6

Correspondence - Frank Feltzer 1939-1940

 

Books

box 3

Myrop, Kr., The Imprisonment of the Ghent Professors, (Holder and Stoughton 1917)

box 3

Foundation for American Resource Management sponsored annotated bibliography, California Coast Redwood,San Francisco) (1957

box 3

Chapter from unidentified publication entitled "The Famine in Irish Oral Tradition" autographed on front by Roger McHugh to Ben and Vicki

box 3

Pamphlet by Haven A. Mason, A World Hegemony To Secure Peace on Earth and Promote Good Will Toward Men(Ben S. Allen wrote bibliography of author on back inside cover)

box 3

Printed or mimeographed material. Includes some Herbert Hoover and relief administrations material

box 4

Clippings on the Finnish Relief Fund 1939-1945

box 5

One postcard

box 5

Photographs of the complete set of United States. Food Administration posters

box 5

Photographs of Herbert Hoover (a few rare snapshots included); photographs of United States. Food Administration members, friends, and posters

box 5

Scrapbook of photographs of members of C.R.B., etc.

box 5, folder 6

Flour sack

 

Photographs

envelope A

3 prints of Herbert Hoover, 1938; 6 prints of Herbert Hoover; 1 print of Ray Lyman Wilbur; 3 prints of Gunnison, Colorado, 1939; 1 print of Herbert Hoover, Benjamin Allen and others, Colorado 1939; 1 print of Herbert Hoover, Colfax, California, 1939; 1 print of Herbert Hoover, Benjamin Allen and others, 1938; 1 print of John Hallowell; 1 print of Edward Chambers; 1 print of Lou D. Sweet; 1 print of Raymond Pearl; 1 print of Theodore Whitmarsh; 1 print of Julius Barnes; 1 print of George Rolph; 2 prints of Herbert Hoover and others, Grass Valley, California, 1935; 1 print of Herbert Hoover and Charles Hebberd, Spokane, Washington, 1938; 1 print of Herbert Hoover and Otto Swangson; 1 print Herbert Hoover and others; 1 print of Herbert Hoover and others, San Francisco World's Fair, 1939; 3 prints of Herbert Hoover and others, Eugene, Oregon, 1939; 1 print of Herbert Hoover and unidentified man; 1 print of Herbert Hoover and Mrs. George B. Simmons; 2 prints of Herbert Hoover and others, Cebolla, California, 1939; 1 print of Herbert Hoover and others; 1 print of Judge Lindsay; 1 print of Tom Ellis; 1 print of the Conference of United States Food Administration; 1 unidentified print

box 5, envelope B

11 photographs of United States Food Administration posters

box 5, envelope fC

1 album of prints of Herbert Hoover, U.S. Food Administration officials, food conservation photographs, and photographs of U.S. Food Administration posters 1917-1919

box 5, envelope fD

1 album of photographs of U.S. Food Administration posters and press releases 1917-1919.

 

2019 Incremental Materials

box 6

Letter from Benjamin S. Allen to Charles P. Allen, written on behalf of the Finnish Relief Fund 10 January 1941