Collection Guide

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Box Contents List

HENRY A. WALLACE – COLLECTION OF NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS

Note: There was a copy of The League of Nations Chronicle, January 1931, Vol.4:No.1, the Chicago Convention Number, with this collection of clippings. Since it had fallen to pieces, it was discarded. Several libraries, including Augustana in South Dakota, have copies of this issue.

Series II: Box 1

PART 1: POLITICAL CAREER AND PUBLIC OFFICES

(Organized chronologically)

SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE (1933 – 1940)

1930s: Undated clippings

1933

1934

January -- May

June -- December

1935

1936

1937 -- 1939

1940s and Undated clippings

July 1940 -- August 1940 (Wallace is nominated for Vice-President)

VICE-PRESIDENCY (1941 – 1945)

See also oversized clippings in Box C4

September 1940 – December 1941

Rubber

Amazon Basin

1943 and 1956

Baruch Committee Report

September 1942

Bressman’s Testimory Before the Gillette Committee

June 1942

Congressional Record (Hearings, extension of remarks, etc.)

May 1942

Cryptostegia

June 1942

Guayule

December 1941 – February 1942

Jeffers

1942 – 1943

Jessie H. Jones

1942 – 1943

Rubber – Miscellaneous

1942

Natural product

1942

Russian dandelion

1942

Vice-President Wallace

1942

1943

January -- March (Claire Luce Controversy)

June -- December (Wallace – Jones Controversy)

1944

January – June (Far Eastern Mission)

July – December (Presidential Campaign). 2 folders

SECRETARY OF COMMERCE (1945 – 1946)

1945

1946

January -- August

September - December 1946 (“Infamous” speech and resigns from office)

EDITOR OF THE NEW REPUBLIC & PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDACY (1947 – 1948)

1947. 2 folders

1948 (Wallace runs for Presidency on Progressive Party Ticket)

Series II: Box 2   

SOUTH SALEM, N.Y. (1948 – 1965)

1949

1950

1951

January – July

August – December (Senate Committee Hearing on Asia Mission in 1944)

1952 (Senate Committee Hearing on Asia Mission in 1944, cont.)

1953 – 1954

1955

1956 (Wallace supports Eisenhower)

1957 –1959

1950s Undated

1960 and undated 1960s

1961 – 1962

Clippings – Miscellaneous undated. 2 folders

Part 2: AGRICULTURE, SCIENCE AND MISCELLANEOUS

(Organized by topics)

Book Reviews

Church

Diaries and Oral History

Farming and Agriculture

January 1920 – December 1923 [and 1920 – 1923 undated]

June 1924 and 1924 undated

July 1924

August 1924

September 1924

October 1924

November – December 1924

1925

1926 – 1929

1930 – 1932

1944

December 1949

1950 – 1959

1960 –

Undated clippings

Series II: Box 3

Genetics and Science

George Allen – “Conspiracy” (Includes written comment by Wallace)

Honorary degrees and awards

The Madisonian. Special issue from October 15, 1931

Manuscripts and writings. 2 folders

Miscellaneous

Series II: Box 4

Obituaries

Wallace in retirement

The Wallace Family

Undated clippings

Asian clippings

 

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