Register of the Norman C. Stines papers

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Title: Norman C. Stines papers

Date (inclusive): 1911-1968

Collection Number: 81097

Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives

Language of Material: English

Physical Description: 4 manuscript boxes, 14 envelopes (3.1 Linear Feet)

Abstract: Letters, printed matter, and photographs, relating to social conditions in Bolivia, Guatemala, Yugoslavia, and the Soviet Union, and to United States Department of State loyalty investigations. Includes letters of the parents of N. C. Stines, Americans in Russia during the Russian Revolution

Creator: Stines, Norman Caswell, 1914-1980

Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

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Use

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1981.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Norman C. Stines Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical Note

Norman Caswell Stines

1914, August 6	Born, Stockholm, Sweden
1935	A.B., Stanford University
1936-38	Journalist, Redwood City Tribune
1938-39	Purchasing Agent for mining corporation in La Paz, Bolivia
1939-1942	Assistant Manager of electric company in La Paz, Bolivia
1942	Junior Economic Analyst in Foreign Service Auxiliary, La Paz, Bolivia
1943	Senior Economic Analyst in Foreign Service Auxiliary, La Paz, Bolivia
1944	Attache at the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala
1945-46	Vice Consul, Foreign Service Office, and secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala
1947-49	2nd Secretary and Vice Consul at the U.S. Embassy, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
1949	Foreign Service training at Columbia University, Russian language and area study
1950	2nd Secretary and Consul at the U.S. Embassy, Moscow USSR
1950-52	1st Secretary and Consul at the U.S. Embassy, Moscow, USSR
1953	Left the U.S. State Department service because of security investigations
1980	Died, Cuernavaca, Mexico

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921

United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union

Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States

Diplomats -- United States

Soviet Union -- Social conditions

Internal security -- United States

Yugoslavia -- Social conditions

Bolivia -- Social conditions

Guatemala -- Social conditions

United States. Department of State

Biographical File 1917-1968

Scope and Contents

Identification cards, certificates, clippings, government records, and printed matter pertaining to the life and career of N.C. Stines, Jr.

box 1, folder 1

Announcements, brochures, printed matter

box 1, folder 2

Clippings

box 1, folder 3

Department of State records 1947-1952

box 1, folder 4

Identification cards, certificates, etc.

Correspondence 1911-1959

Scope and Contents

Correspondence arranged chronologically and alphabetically by name of correspondent.

box 1, folder 5

Carroll, Vi M. 1947-1951

box 1, folder 6

Hopkins, Frank S. 1950

box 1, folder 7

McConaughy, Walter P. n.d.

box 1, folder 8

Marie 1939

box 1, folder 9

Oliver and Ann 1941

box 1, folder 10

Preble, C. S. 1939

box 1, folder 11

Reynaldo 1941

box 1, folder 12

Smith, Robert T. 1938, 1952

Stines, Hazel Preble

box 1, folder 13

Letter to Norman C. Stines, Jr. 1936

Letters from Norman C. Stines, Jr.

box 1, folder 14

1936

1938

box 1, folder 15

January-March

box 1, folder 16

April-December

1939

box 1, folder 17

January-July

box 1, folder 18

August-December

1940

box 2, folder 1

January-July

box 2, folder 2

August-December

1941

box 2, folder 3

January-August

box 2, folder 4

September-December

box 2, folder 5

1942

box 2, folder 6

1943-44

box 2, folder 7

1945

box 2, folder 8

1946

box 2, folder 9

1947

box 2, folder 10

1948-49

box 3, folder 1

1950

box 3, folder 2

1951

box 3, folder 3

1952

box 3, folder 4

1955

box 3, folder 5

1959

box 3, folder 5A

Undated

Letters to Mr. & Mrs. C. S. Preble

box 3, folder 6

1911-12

box 3, folder 7

1914-16

box 3, folder 8

1917-19

Stines, Norman C., Senior

box 4, folder 1

1935 1940-41 1953

Letters from Norman C. Stines, Jr.

box 4, folder 2

1933, 1935

box 4, folder 3

1936-1942

box 4, folder 4

1946--48, 1950-51, 1953-54

box 4, folder 5

Teresa 1946

box 4, folder 6

Travers, Howard K.

Speeches and Writings 1941, 1963

box 4, folder 7

This is La Paz, January 1941.

General Physical Description note: Radio broadcast transcript.

box 4, folder 8

Trip from Caracas West, November 1964.

General Physical Description note: Typescript.

Subject File

box 4, folder 9

Bolivia

box 4, folder 10

Miscellany

Photographs

envelope A

13 prints depicting N.C. Stines Jr. and Senior and other individuals.

envelope B

62 prints depicting scenes and individuals in Russia. 1917

envelope C

49 prints depicting scenes and individuals in Finland and Russia. 1917-18

envelope D

72 prints depicting scenes and individuals in Finland. 1918

envelope E

16 prints depicting scenes and individuals in Serbia. 1920

envelope F

15 prints depicting scenes and individuals in Guatemala. 1940s

envelope F, folder G-J

150 prints depicting scenes and individuals in Bolivia.

envelope F, folder K-L

52 prints depicting scenes and individuals in La Paz, Bolivia.

envelope M

33 prints depicting scenes and individuals in Potosi, Bolivia.

envelope N

28 prints depicting scenes and individuals in Cochabamba, Bolivia.