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RG 30/172 - Ben Lewis (1900-1987)
Inventory
An asterisk (*) indicates restricted records.

Series I.  Correspondence, 1922-81, n.d.  1.4 l.f.

Subseries 1.  Professional Correspondence (Incoming), 1922-67  .8 l.f.

Box 1

Correspondence, A-O, 1922-67  (15f)

Box 2

Correspondence, P-W, 1922-67  (7f)

Correspondence, Unidentified, 1922-67

Subseries 2.  Professional Correspondence (Incoming and Outgoing), 1936-43, 1950-81, n.d.  .3 l.f.

Box 3

Correspondence, 1936-81, n.d.  (5f)

Subseries 3.  Personal Correspondence (Incoming and Outgoing), 1967-72  .3 l.f.

Box 4

Correspondence, 1967-72  (6f)

Series II.  General Files, 1926-80  7.6 l.f.

Subseries 1.  Files Relating to Oberlin College and Community, 1926-80  .8 l.f.

Box 5

Oberlin College

Administrative correspondence, 1926-65, 1967  (2f)

Correspondence with former students, 1974, 1979-80

Economics Department correspondence [Restricted], 1953-67

General Faculty Ad Hoc Committee on Retirement, 1954-64

Governance question, papers relating to, 1959-74

Loose papers (applications, certificates, and related documents), 1936-74

Newspaper clippings (photocopies) re: Lewis, 1932-67

Box 6

Oberlin Alumni Assoc. of Westchester Co., 1975

Trustee-Faculty Conference Committee, 1945-59  (2f)

Trustee-Faculty relations (corresp.), 1959-65

Box 7

Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association (miscellaneous papers), 1958-73  (2f)

Box 7A

Lewis Gallery

Article, n.d.

Correspondence, 1980-81

List of Prospects, n.d.

Panel 1, 1980-82 (2f)

Panel 2, 1982

Photographs (3f)

Box 8

Oberlin Community

City Council (misc. papers), 1947-56  (2f)

City Public Utilities Commission (misc. papers) 1952-60  (2f)

Subseries 2.  Files Relating to Government Service, 1933-44, 1967  .8 l.f.

Box 9

State of Ohio, service to

Ohio Public Utilities Commission: testimony on going value, 1933-40

Ohio Assoc. on Public Utility Questions: correspondence, 1934-35

United States government, service to

National Recovery Administration, 1934-35

Social Science Research Council fellowship in Great Britain, 1935-38  (3f)

Box 10

Dept. of the Interior; National Defense Advisory Commission, Consumers Division, 1939-42  (2f)

Office of Price Administration, 1941-43  (3f)

Foreign Economic Administration, 1943-44

Office of Alien Property Custodian, 1944

House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, 1967  (2f)

Box 10A

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, 1943

Committee Meetings, 1943 (6f)

Distribution, 1943 (4f)

Subseries 3.  Files Relating to the Ford Foundation, 1958-74  3.2 l.f.

Box 11

                        Letters of appointment, 1966-71

                        General correspondence, 1959-74  (7f)

Box 12

                        Chronological file, 1967-70  (6f)

Box 13

                        Conference materials, 1971, 1972

                                    Middle East and Africa Program Advisors Conference, (memoranda, program, related papers),                                     Sep. 1971

Box 14

                                    Middle East and North Africa Review Conference, (drafts of papers presented), June 1972  (6f)

Box 15

                        Country files

                                    Africa

                                                General, 1961-66  (2f)

                                                Africa Evaluation (1972), 1969-72  (2f)

Box 16

                                    Africa (cont.)

                                                East Africa (general), 1962, 1968-69  (2f)

                                                East Africa: wildlife, 1963-64

                                                Kenya (Univ. of Nairobi program), 1972-73

                                                Kenya and Tanzania, 1970-72  (2f)

                                                Tanzania, 1964-67

                                                West Africa (Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia), 1968-70  (4f)

Box 17

                                    Europe, 1964-69  (5f)

                                    India, 1968-69, 1971  (3f)

                                    Japan, 1970-71 

                                    Latin America (Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru), 1966-70  (5f)

Box 18

                                    Middle East (Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria) 1959-69  (8f)

Box 19

                                    Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan (Development Advisory Service Project), 1969-71  (4f)

                                    Nepal, 1970

                                    Philippines, 1970

                                    Singapore, 1969

                                    Thailand, 1970-71

                                    Turkey, 1969-73

Box 20

                        Miscellaneous Files, 1958-71

                                    Economic planning (notes on), 1968, n.d.

                                    Middle East and Africa Law and Development project, 1968-71

                                    Itineraries, 1966-71  (3f)

                                    Reports (U.S. gov't. and Ford Foundation), 1958-71

            Subseries 4.  Files Relating to Foreign Government Service, 1953, 1961-64, 1974-76  .8 l.f.

Box 21

                        East Africa and the European Economic Community, 1961-63  (5f)

Box 22

                        Saudi Arabia (Development Assistance Corp.), 1974-76  (2f)

                        Tanzania, 1964

                        Venezuela, 1953

            Subseries 5.  Files Relating to Professional Activities and Affiliations, 1954-67  .6 l.f.

Box 23

                        Appleton-Century Crofts (corresp. re: editorial work performed), 1958-68

                        Committee for Economic Development, 1956

                        National Task Force on Economic Education, 1954-68  (2f)

                        Resources for the Future, Inc., 1962-67

                        Speaking invitations, 1959-66

Box 24

                        Teachers Insurance and Annuity Assoc. of America, 1963-67

                        Twentieth-Century Fund (study in Britain), 1949, 1951

                        Various conferences (corresp. regarding)

                                    Bell System Executive conference, 1954-56

                                    Public Utility Executive Development Program, 1952-55

                                    Toledo Edison Executive Development series, 1955

                                    University of Oxford, Nuffield College [private conferences on economics], 1949-50

 

            Subseries 6.  Writings (Published and Unpublished), 1928-74  1.2 l.f.

Box 25

                        Bibliographies of writings, 1947-69

                        Articles (mss.)

                                    "Bureaucrats", 1945

                                    "Conservation, A Problem in Political Economy", 1957

                                    "Economics by Admonition", 1958-59, 1962  (3f)

                                    "The Great A. T. & T. Investigation", 1965-66

                                    "It's Political--Repeat, Political--Economy", 1959

                                    "A Retrospective Look at Undergraduate Economics", 1970-71

                                    "The Role of Government in the American Economy", n.d.

                                    "Search for an Economy", 1950-57

                                    "Public Utility Rate Regulations in Ohio", 1933

                                    "Commission Regulation and Home Rule in Ohio", May 1933

Box 26

                        Books

                                    British Planning and Nationalization (related correspondence), 1951-54

                                    Economics textbook, (mss. chapters), 1971-72

                                    English Economy (ms.), 1966-70

                                    Government and Our Economic System, 1966-68

                        Reprints, 1943-51

                        Response (unpublished) to conference paper, 1971-72

Box 27

                        Collected Writings of Others, 1928-29, 1936-39, n.d.

Box 28

                        Talks and lectures, 1928-75, n.d.  (13f)

Series III. Course Related Material

Box 29

                        Notebooks from University of Michigan Law School, 1929-30 (6 v.)

Box 30

                        Notebooks from University of Michigan Law School (cont.), 1929-30 (2 v.)

                        Notes, 1933-34

                        Property Notes, 1927-28 (2f)

 
 
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