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Series 1: Correspondence

Box 1

Folder 1: Correspondence [Digitized], 1922-June 1923

Including information on the Paris Library School Summer Courses in American Librarianship.

Folder 2: Budget [Digitized], 1922-1924

Including reports to the Board of Trustees

Folder 3: Correspondence, July-August 1923

Folder 4: Correspondence, September-October 1923

Subjects include International Reference service, children’s service, and summer library school courses by Sarah Bogle.

Folder 5: Correspondence, November-December 1923

Folder 6: Correspondence, Henry Noble MacCracken, 1923-1924

Folder 7: Correspondence, Earle B. Babcock, 1924

Folder 8: Correspondence, 1925

Folder 9: Correspondence, Burton Stevenson, January-June 1926

Folder 10: Correspondence, Accession Lists, Reports, July-December 1926

Folder 11: Budget, Rockefeller Grant, 1925-1927

Folder 12: Memorandum Covering Three-Year Financing Program, 1926

Folder 13: Correspondence, 1927

Including praise by Association of French Librarians, transcript of a radio talk by Burton Stevenson, and letters from patrons.

Folder 14: American Committee for the American Library in Paris, 1927

Folder 15: Correspondence, 1928

Subjects include book exhibit, periodical lists, English translation of L'Heure Joyeuse talk at children's library by Burton Stevenson

Folder 16: Budget and Reports, 1928

Folder 17: American Committee for the American Library in Paris, 1928

Folder 18: Correspondence, 1929

Subjects include membership dues, science bibliographies

Folder 19: American Committee for the American Library in Paris, 1929

Folder 20: Correspondence and Reports, 1930

Subjects include Report to the Illinois Association of High School Librarians at the University of Illinois by Genevieve Darlington, Board of Trustees' election, Stevenson's resignation and letters of support regarding the candidacy of Robert Davis as Director.

Folder 21: International Library Cooperation, 1930

Including memo of winter activities at the American Library in Paris and staff directory

Folder 22: Correspondence [Folder 1], 1931

Subjects include financial hardship, library exhibit at the International Colonial Exposition

Folder 23: Correspondence [Folder 2], 1931

Subjects include Board of Trustees elections, American libraries in Europe, reopening the library school

Folder 24: Correspondence, 1932

Subjects include financial hardship, Project for Expansion of the American Library in Paris report, list of ALA Publications, deaths of Sarah Bogle and Colonel Olds

Folder 25: Board of Trustees, 1933

Folder 26: Correspondence, 1934

Folder 27: Correspondence [Digitized], 1935

Including correspondence and newspaper clippings from Clara Longworth de Chambrun and accounts of ALP activity; subjects include death of Earle Babcock, resignation of Robert Davis

Folder 28: Correspondence [Digitized], 1936

Including "American Library in Paris" report by Mlle. Odon and contains information on financial hardship, new building, Carnegie Corporation funds, Dorothy Reeder, Clara de Chambrun

Folder 29: Budget [Digitized], 1936-1937

Subjects include American Pavilion exhibit, new building, fund drive

Folder 30

Folder 31: International Library Cooperation [Digitized], 1937

Including letters of praise for American Library in Paris, budgets, Board of Trustee elections; subjects include ALA conference

Folder 32: International Library Cooperation [Digitized], 1938

Subjects include Carnegie Corporation, reports, news clippings, budgets, report of library school by Mlle. Montel

Folder 33: Finances [Digitized], 1938

Subjects include Carnegie Corporation, budgets, list of book and periodical purchases, activity during war scare

Folder 34: International Library Cooperation [Digitized], 1939

Subjects include ALP activity during war, Soldiers Service and service to hospitals, Life Magazine article (not printed), Carnegie Corporation reports, donations and subscriptions, Edward Sumner, Clara de Chambrun, Rockefeller Corporation, Edmund Gros; includes Executive Committee of International Relations minutes, Annual Meeting reports by Dorothy Reeder, "Things You Must Know About the American Library in Paris" pamphlet, book acquisition list

Folder 35: Extension Service and Patron Letters [Digitized], 1935-1939

Subjects include ALP activity and publicity during war, Soldiers' Service and service to hospitals, Clara de Chambrun, fund-raising, Books for Europe project

Folder 36: Finances [Digitized], 1939

Subjects include ALP publicity and fund-raising during war, safety preparation of staff, Rockefeller and Carnegie Corporation funding, includes newspaper clipping of Chambrun and the ALP, Reports to Trustees, and budgets

Box 2

Folder 1: International Library Cooperation, ALA Publications Gifts [Digitized], 1939-1940

Folder 2: Dorothy M. Reeder [Digitized], 1940

Subjects include ALP during the war, ALA Bulletin article, newspaper clippings, broadcasts on Paris-Mondial regarding Library and Soldiers' Service, Clara de Chambrun; including Report to Dr. Gros, and a periodical list

Folder 3

Folder 4: Finances [Digitized], 1940

Subjects: ALP activities during war and German occupation, Carnegie Corporation and Rockefeller Foundation, debates of turning the library book collection to Bibliotheque Nationale, Soldiers' Service, reports and budgets, "Books for Europe" grant

Folder 5

Folder 6: International Library Cooperation [Digitized], 1940

Including potential donor lists, fund-raising letters and activities

Folder 7

Folder 8: Edward A. Sumner, Correspondence [Digitized], 1940

Subjects: role of libraries in society, democracy, conditions of ALP in war and occupation, ALP staff evacuation, Mara Andrews, fund-raising, Red Cross; including articles "How are Libraries Facing a Social Crisis" by Ralph Ulveling, "Democracy: 1938-1939 Pamphlets" bibliography, "Our American Democracy" ALA pamphlet, ALA Bulletin Vol. 34, No. 1 "Democracy: A Reading List" January 1940, "The Library - 1940 statement of policy adopted by the Council of the ALA," list of sponsors

Folder 9

Folder 10: Carnegie Corporation Funds [Digitized], 1941

Including Reeder letter to Helen Fickweiler (January 29, 1941), also contains budgets and correspondence from Reeder, Sumner, Milam, Lydenberg

Folder 11: International Library Cooperation [Digitized], 1941

Subjects including Dorothy Reeder's evacuation and resignation, reopening of ALP in 1940, Clara de Chambrun, funding, Board of Trustees elections, debates on whether to allow the ALP to operate under the Bibliotheque National, German pamphlets within returned ALP books, contains "President's Report to the Board of Trustees at its meeting on June 3rd, 1941," Treasurer's Reports, 1921 Memorandum of Agreement of American Library Association gift of $25,000 in war funds to ALP

Folder 12: Correspondence [Digitized], 1942

Subjects include American Library in Paris reorganization plans, new director candidates, American libraries in Europe, including reports by William W. Bishop: "The American Library in Paris and Post-War Activities of the A.L.A." and "The American Library in Paris: A Report to the Home Committee by its Request; September 3, 1924."

Folder 13: Finances [Digitized], 1942

Box 3

Folder 1: Correspondence [Digitized], 1943

Subjects include Books for Latin America Project, Benjamin Franklin Library, Dorothy Reeder, Milton E. Lord, including quarterly Treasurer's Reports, and correspondence from Burton Stevenson

Folder 2: Correspondence [Digitized], 1943-1944

Folder 3: Library School [Digitized], 1944

Including Paris Library School ledger (1924-31) and correspondence regarding restarting the Paris Library School.

Folder 4: Correspondence [Digitized], August-October 1944

Folder 5: Correspondence [Digitized], November-December 1944

Folder 6: Correspondence [Digitized], January-July 1945

Folder 7: Correspondence [Digitized], August-December 1945

Folder 8: Finances and Plans [Digitized], 1945