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Council on Books in Wartime Records, 1942-1947: Finding Aid
MC038
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Summary Information
- Creator:
- Council on Books in Wartime.
- Title and dates:
- Council on Books in Wartime Records, 1942-1947
- Abstract:
- The Council on Books in Wartime Records (1942-1947), an organization of publishers and other literary professionals focusing on the promotion of books and reading to further the war effort, consists of records from the preliminary foundation meetings at Times Hall, New York, through the cessation of formal operations in 1946. The major activities of the organization were focused on its two subsidiary publishing ventures, the Armed Services Editions (1943-1947) and the Overseas Editions, Inc. (1944-1945). The Records consist primarily of correspondence of council members, publishers, printers, booksellers, librarians, and the general public. Also present are meeting minutes, press releases, bulletins, radio scripts, contracts, financial records, letters from servicemen, a few photographs of authors and council members, newspaper clippings, and posters. At its last annual meeting in January 1946 the Council's Board of Directors determined that at the end of operations “such records of the Council as merit preservation shall be deposited in an appropriate public institution such as Princeton University Library.” The Records were subsequently acquired by Princeton University Library and then librarian Julian P. Boyd.
- Size:
- 22.0 cubic feet (42 boxes, 1 oversize box, 1 oversize folder)
- Call number:
- MC038
- Location:
- Princeton University Library. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.
Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library.
Public Policy Papers.
Princeton, New Jersey 08540 USA - Language(s) of material:
- English.
- Storage note:
- This collection is stored onsite at the Mudd Manuscript Library.
History of the Council on Books in Wartime
The Council on Books in Wartime was a non-profit organization founded by booksellers, publishers, librarians, authors, and others, in the spring of 1942 to channel the use of books as “weapons in the war of ideas,” the Council's motto. Its primary aim was the promotion of books to influence the thinking of the American people regarding the war, to build and maintain the will to win, to expose the true nature of the enemy, to disseminate technical information, to provide relaxation and inspiration, and to clarify war aims and problems of peace.
The Council consisted of a Board of Directors, with Archibald Ogden as Executive Director (1943-1945), and an Executive Committee, with W. W. Norton as Chairman (1943-1945), succeeded by Richard L. Simon, and various other members including John Farrar, S. Spencer Scott, Henry Hoyns, Bennett Cerf, Joseph Lippincott, Clarence Boutell, William Sloan and Datus C. Smith. Various committees worked under the Executive Committee, including the Radio Committee, Forum and Fairs Committee, Motion-Picture Committee, Library Committee, Recommended War Books Committee, Childrens Book Committee, Imperative Book Committee, Promotion and Press Committees, and the Washington Committee. The Council co-operated with the Office of War Information (OWI) and other Government agencies, but was itself a voluntary, unpaid, non-Governmental organization.
The Council attempted to achieve its goals by acting as a clearinghouse for book-related ideas, by being an intermediary between the book-trade industry and government agencies, by offering advice to publishers, and by handling all forms of public relations including distribution of reading lists and pamphlets, lectures, radio programs, newsreels, and book promotion and publication.
Two subsidiary organizations sprang from the Council on Books in Wartime, the Armed Services Editions (ASE) and Overseas Editions, Inc. (OEI). Armed Services Editions founded in February 1943 sought to alleviate the shortage of reading matter for men in the Services by publishing inexpensive paperbound books in pocket size to sell to the United States Government, at cost, and then distributing these to servicemen overseas. The books were primarily current publications, recreational in nature, including popular novels, some classics, books on the war, other non-fiction, humor and anthologies. In 1944 ASE incorporated as Editions for the Armed Services, Inc. to protect its funds in the event of lawsuits. Personnel and management however, remained the same.
ASE selected books to be reprinted from publishers' lists through a committee including John Farrar, Jennie Flexner, Mark Van Doren and Amy Loveman. These selections were subsequently approved for publication by representatives from the Army (Ray L. Trautman), and the Navy (Isabel Du Bois). Philip Van Doren Stern was manager of the ASE. From its beginning in the fall of 1943 to its post-war end in the fall of 1947 ASE printed 1,324 titles and delivered 122,951,031 books to the U. S. Government.
Overseas Editions, Inc. intended to publish translations of American books to distribute to civilians in overseas countries liberated by Allied troops in order to inform the people of Europe about America, democracy, and current events. Its management committee members were Stanley Rinehart, William Sloane and Marshall A. Best, who served under the direction of Archibald Ogden. The choice of books for OEI was made by the Office of War Information and approved by the same advisory committee serving the ASE. The books were printed in pocket book format and sold at prevailing retail prices. Between February and November, 1945 OEI published 72 titles (22 in English, 22 in French, 23 in German, and 5 in Italian) and shipped 3,636,074 volumes overseas.
With the end of the war the Council on Books in Wartime ceased active operations on Jan. 31, 1946, but maintained its corporate entities to deal with the dispersal of remaining funds and the safekeeping of records.
Description
Consists of the records of the Council on Books in Wartime. Included are records from the preliminary foundation meetings at Times Hall, New York City, through the cessation of formal operations in 1946. There are administrative files containing minutes of the Board of Directors, headed by Archibald Ogden, the Executive Committee, chaired by W. W. Norton, and annual meeting proceeedings; subject files of correspondence on various other committees, book publishing projects with the Army, Navy, and Office of War Information, and book list plans (Imperatives and Recommended Books); radio program scripts for book dramatizations on “Words at War” and author interviews on “Fighting Words” and “Books are Bullets”; and financial statements.
Arrangement
The Records are divided into six series with relevant subseries as follows:
- Series I: General Files
- Subseries A: Administrative File
- Subseries B: Works
- Subseries C: Subject File
- Subseries D: Radio Programs
- Subseries E: Financial Records
- Series II: Armed Services Editions
- Subseries A: Subject File
- Subseries B: Army and Navy Contracts
- Subseries C: Financial Records
- Subseries D: Letters from Servicemen
- Series III: Overseas Editions, Inc.
- Subseries A: Subject File
- Subseries B: Book Subject File
- Subseries C: Production File
- Series IV: Photographs
- Series V: Printed Matter
- Series VI: Posters
Access and Use
Access
Collection is open for research use.
Restrictions on Use and Copyright Information
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Curator of the Public Policy Papers. Researchers are responsible for determining any copyright questions.
Related Materials
Related Archival Material
Princeton University Library manuscript collections include the Selected Papers of William M. Sloane (C0236) and the Publishers' Weekly Collection (C0690). Also of interest may be the book History of the Council on Books in Wartime, 1942-1946 by R. Ballou, and I. Rakowsky published in 1946 (PUL call #14101.5.271).
In addition, Princeton University Library's Rare Books Department holds a collection of sample copies of “Editions for the Armed Services” (Armed Services Editions) contained in 12 archival boxes and cataloged as a unit, call # (Ex) PN861.E34 (an annotated list is in process). From the Records two groups of books have been transferred to Firestone Library; a complete set of copies of Overseas Editions books in English and foreign languages (see separate list), and 11 books published by the Council in conjunction with the Office of War Information, the Navy Department, and the War Department (see separate list).
Separated Material
OVERSEAS EDITIONS, INC. (complete set of books from the collection transferred to Firestone Library, Jan. 1992)
- Basso, Hamilton, Mainstream, 2 Engl
- Becker, Carl, How New Will the Better World Be?, 2 Engl, 2 Fren, 2 Germ
- Benet, Stephen V., America, 2 Engl, 2 Germ, 2 Ital
- Bowen, Catherine, Yankee from Olympus, Engl 1, Fren 2, Germ 2
- Brogan, Denis W., A Free State, Germ 1
- Brown, Harry, A Walk in the Sun, Engl 2, Fren 2, Germ 2
- Burns, Eugene, Then There Was One, Fren 2
- Chinard, Gilbert, Thomas Jefferson, Fren 2
- Commager & Nevins, Pocket History of the United States, Engl 2, Fren 2, Germ 2
- Dulles, F. R., The Road to Tehran, Engl 2, Fren 2, Germ 2
- Fast, Howard, Citizen Tom Paine, Engl 2, Fren 3, Ital 2
- Fortune Editors, Japan, Engl 2, Fren 2, Germ 2
- Furnas, J. C., How America Lives, Engl 2, Fren 2
- Grew, Joseph, Report From Tokyo, Fren 2, Germ 2
- Hemingway, Ernest, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Engl 1
- Hersey, John, Into the Valley, Ital 2
- Holt, Rackham, George Washington Carver, Engl 2, Fren 2, Germ 2
- Hough, Donald, Captain Retread, Engl 2, Fren 2, Germ 2
- Jaffe, Bernard, Men of Science in America, Engl 2, Fren 2, Germ 2
- Kazin, Alfred, On Native Grounds, Engl 2, Germ 1
- Lilienthal, David, TVA, Democracy on the March, Engl 2, Germ 2
- Lippmann, Walter, U.S. Foreign Policy & U.S. War Aims, Engl 2, Fren 2
- Marshall, George C., American High Command Report, Fren 2, Germ 2, Ital 2
- Miller, Max, Daybreak for Our Carrier, Engl 2
- Pratt, Fletcher, The Navy's War, Germ 2
- Pyle, Ernest, G. I. Joe, Engl 2, Fren 2
- Ratcliff, John, Science Yearbook of 1944, Germ 2
- Rourke, Constance, Audubon, Fren 2
- Saroyan, William, The Human Comedy, Engl 2, Ital 2
- Sherrod, Robert, Tarawa, Fren 2, Germ 2
- Steffens, Lincoln, Boy on Horseback, Fren 2, Germ 3
- Steinbeck, John, Bombs Away, Fren 2
- Stimson, Henry, Prelude to Invasion, Germ 2
- Trumbull, Robert, The Raft, Engl 2, Fren 2, Germ 2
- Van Doren, Carl, Benjamin Franklin, Engl 2, Germ 2
- White, E. B., One Man's Meat, Germ 2
Books published in conjunction with the Office of War Information, the Navy Department or the War Department (transferred to Firestone Library, Jan. 1992).
Publications Citing These Papers
Books published in conjunction with the Office of War Information, the Navy Department or the War Department (transferred to Firestone Library, Jan. 1992).
Henri, Raymond. The U. S. Marines on Iwo Jima. New York, New York: Dial Press, 1945.
Hough, Donald & Arnold, Elliot. Big Distance. New York, New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1945.
Karig, Walter & Kelly, Welbourn. Battle Report: Pearl Harbor to Coral Sea. New York, New York: Farrar & Reinhart, 1944.
Miller, Max. Daybreak for Our Carrier. New York, New York: McGraw- Hill, 1945.
Miller, Max. The Far Shore. New York, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1945.
Thruelson, Richard & Arnold, Elliot. Mediterranean Sweep. New York, New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1944.
United States. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. Our Flying Navy. New York, New York: Macmillan, 1944.
United States. Office of War Information. War Atlas for Americans. New York, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1944.
United States. War Dept. General Staff. General Marshall's Report; The Winning of the War in Europe and the Pacific. Simon and Schuster, 1945.
United States. War Dept. Our Army at War. New York, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1944.
Yank, editors of. The Best from Yank, the Army Weekly. New York, New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1945.
Processing and Other Information
Works Cited
Council on Books in Wartime. Editions for the Armed Services, Inc.; A History, Together with the Complete List of 1324 Books Published for American Armed Forces Overseas. New York, 1948. (7 copies)
Council on Books in Wartime. A List of the First 774 Books Published for the American Armed Forces Overseas. New York, Editions for the Armed Services, Inc., n.d. (1 pamphlet)
Processing Information
This collection was processed by Barbara Volz in January 1992. Finding aid written by Barbara Volz in January 1992.
Descriptive Rules Used
Finding aid content adheres to that prescribed by Describing Archives: A Content Standard.
Encoding
Machine-readable finding aid encoded in EAD 2002 by Techbooks and Cristela García-Spitz on November 03, 2006.
Finding aid written in English.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Council on Books in Wartime Records; Box and Folder Number; Public Policy Papers, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
Subject Headings
These materials have been indexed in the Princeton University Library online catalog using the following terms. Those seeking related materials should search under these terms.
- Armed Services Editions, Inc.
- Council on Books in Wartime.
- Overseas Editions, Inc.
- Book industries and trade -- United States -- 20th century.
- Publishers and publishing -- United States -- 20th century.
- Soldiers -- United States -- Books and reading -- 20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Libraries.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Literature and the war.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Propaganda.
- Correspondence.
- Posters.
- Radio scripts.
- Records.
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Contents List
Series I. General Files, (1942-1947)
Subseries A: Administrative File
Subseries Description
Subseries A: Administrative File, arranged chronologically and alphabetically, includes correspondence and program material concerning the organization of the Council, its aims, by-laws, certificate of incorporation, personnel data, correspondence and minutes for its annual meetings and the meetings of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee.
Aims, 1942
Box 1 New York Times Hall Meetings
Box 1 May 12-13, Correspondence and Invitations, 1942
Box 1 Program, 1942
Box 1 Speakers, 1942
Box 1 Sponsors, 1942
Box 1 New York Times Hall Meeting
Box 1 June 14, Speakers & Program, 1942
Box 1 Luncheon Meeting, N.Y., June 18, 1942
Box 1 Annual Meeting, 1943
Box 1 Correspondence
Box 1 Reports, etc.
Box 1 Luncheon Meeting Proceedings
Box 1 Annual Meeting, 1944
Box 1 Correspondence & Agenda
Box 1 Proceedings
Box 1 Reservations
Box 1 Annual Meeting, 1945
Box 1 Correspondence
Box 1 Proceedings
Box 1 Reservations
Box 1 Annual Meeting, 1946
Box 1 Corresp. & Reservations
Box 1 Proceedings
Box 1 Annual Meeting (A.S.E.), 1947
Box 1 Board of Directors, 1942
Box 2 Reorganization Committee
Box 2 Correspondence
Box 2 Meeting Minutes
Box 2 Board of Directors, 1943
Box 2 Correspondence
Box 2 Meeting Minutes
Box 2 Board of Directors, 1944
Box 2 Correspondence
Box 2 Meeting Minutes
Box 2 Miscellaneous
Box 2 Board of Directors, 1945
Box 2 Correspondence
Box 2 Meeting Minutes
Box 2 By-Laws, 1942-1943
Box 2 Certificate of Change of Number of Directors, 1942
Box 2 Certificate of Incorporation, 1942
Box 2 Chairman of Committees
Box 2 Meeting Minutes, 1943
Box 2 Executive Committee, 1942
Box 3 Correspondence
Box 3 Meeting Minutes
Box 3 Executive Committee, 1943
Box 3 Correspondence
Box 3 Meeting Minutes
(2 folders)
Box 3 Executive Committee, 1944
Box 3 Correspondence
Box 3 Meeting Minutes
(2 folders)
Box 3 Executive Committee, 1945
Box 3 Correspondence
Box 3 Meeting Minutes
Box 3 Personnel
Box 4 General, 1942-1945
Box 4 Volunteers, 1942-1943
Box 4 Positions Wanted, 1943-1945
Box 4 Subseries B: Works
Subseries Description
Subseries B: Works consists of drafts and notes by Irene Rakowsky, executive secretary, for A History of the Council on Books in Wartime 1942-1946 (N.Y., 1946).
A History of the Council on Books in Wartime, 1942-1946 (by R. Ballou from a working draft by I. Rakowsky), 1946
Box 4 Subseries C: Subject File
Subseries Description
Subseries C: Subject File includes correspondence arranged by topic primarily relating to the business of the Council as a whole, but may include material on the Armed Services Editions (ASE) or the Overseas Editions, Inc. (OEI). Correspondents include Archibald Ogden, W. W. Norton, John Farrar, Richard L. Simon, Irene Rakowsky, and many other Council members and members of associated organizations. Included are files for various committees (Forum and Fairs, Library, Promotion, Radio, Washington, etc.), for book projects in conjunction with the Army Air Forces, Navy Department, Office of War Information, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and War Department, and correspondence and lists for their Imperative and Recommended Book Plans which compiled lists of books representing outstanding contributions to the country's war effort.
Adamic, Louis (1899-1951), 1943
Box 4 Advance Mailing, 1942-1944
Box 4 Advance Readers (Imperative Books), 1942-1943
Box 4 Advertising Mats, 1943
Box 4 American Booksellers Association, 1942-1944
Box 4 American Library Association
Box 4 Correspondence, 1942-1944
(3 folders)
Box 4 Lists & Releases, 1942-1944
Box 4 American Merchant Marine Library Association, 1943-1945
Box 5 American Red Cross, 1944-1945
Box 5 Americans All, 1945
Box 5 Armed Forces Radio Service, 1944-1945
Box 5 Army Air Forces Book Projects, 1944-1946
Box 5 Army War College Library, 1943
Box 5 Artists, 1943
Box 5 Bessie Beatty Radio Program, 1944
Box 5 Bombshells from Books, 1942-1943
Box 5 Book Lists, Correspondence re, 1942-1943
Box 5 Book Publishers Bureau, 1942-1945
Box 5 Book Mobilization Committee, 1942
Box 5 Books Across the Sea, 1942-1943
Box 5 Books and the War (speech), n.d.
Box 5 Booksellers Committee, 1942-1943
Box 5 Bookstores & Libraries (addresses), n.d.
Box 5 Bowen, Catherine Drinker, 1944
Box 5 Bowker Company, 1942-1945
(2 folders)
Box 5 Bridge of Books, n.d.
Box 5 British-American Prize Award, 1943
Box 5 Bulletins, 1942-1944
(3 folders)
Box 6 Burning of the Books, 1943
Box 6 Correspondence & Lists
Box 6 Library requests
Box 6 Script by Stephen Vincent Benet
Box 6 Canadian Books, 1945
Box 6 Charles, Margaret Bramwell, 1945
Box 6 Children's Book Committee, 1943-1945
Box 6 Correspondence
Box 6 Minutes, Lists, Etc.
Box 6 Orders for Lists
Box 6 China Book List, 1942-1943
Box 7 Correspondence
Box 7 Orders for Lists, Misc.
Box 7 China Book Week, March 25-31, 1944
Box 7 Coast Guard Book Projects, 1944-1946
Box 7 Colophon, 1942-1944
Box 7 Community Book Associates, 1942-1943
Box 7 Contests (literary), 1944-1945
Box 7 Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, 1942
Box 7 Council on Books on Wartime
Box 7 Misc. Correspondence, 1941-1943
(3 folders)
Box 7 Council on Books in Wartime
Box 7 Correspondence (Misc.), 1941-1943
(3 folders)
Box 7 Correspondence (Misc.), 1944-1947
(4 folders)
Box 8 Papers (Misc.), 1943-1945
Box 8 Davis, Elmer, 1943
Box 8 Dodgers (book advertisements), 1943-1944
Box 8 Educational Committee, 1942
Box 8 Ehrmann, Max, 1943
Box 8 Erie Book Fair, 1942
Box 8 Food (book lists), 1943
Box 8 Forest Fire Prevention Bookmarks, 1944-1945
Box 8 Form Letters, 1942-1943
Box 8 Forum and Fairs Committee, 1942
Box 9 Correspondence
Box 9 Meeting Minutes
Box 9 Forum and Fairs Committee, 1943
Box 9 Correspondence
(3 folders)
Box 9 Meeting Minutes
Box 9 Forum and Fairs Committee, 1944
Box 9 Correspondence
(2 folders)
Box 9 Forum and Fairs Committee, 1945
Box 9 Correspondence
Box 9 Government Publication
Box 10 Distribution, 1943
Box 10 Impact, 1945
Box 10 Imperative Book Plan, 1942-1945
Box 10 Correspondence
Box 10 War Book Panel
Box 10 Lists, Printed Matter, Etc.
Box 10 Imperative Book #1, 1942
Box 10 They Were Expendable by W. L. White
Box 10 Imperative Book #2, 1943
Box 10 Into the Valley by John Hersey
Box 10 Imperative Book #3, 1943
Box 10 One World by Wendell L. Willkie
Box 10 Imperative Book #4, 1943
Box 10 U. S. Foreign Policy... by Walter Lippmann
Box 10 Imperative Book #5, 1944
Box 10 A Bell For Adano by John Hersey
Box 10 Imperative Book #6, 1944
Box 10 People on Our Side by Edgar Snow
Box 10 Independence Day, 1943
Box 10 Infantry Journal, 1942-1943
Box 10 Information Committee, 1942-1943
Box 11 Correspondence
Box 11 Meeting Minutes, Misc.
Box 11 Information - Miscellaneous, 1943-1944
Box 11 Inquiries, 1942-1943
Box 11 International Study Center for Democratic Reconstruction, 1944-1945
Box 11 Invitations, 1942-1945
Box 11 Irving Trust Company, 1942-1946
Box 11 Kaltenborn, H. V., 1944
Box 11 Kerr, Chester
Box 11 [see: Office of War Information]
Box 11 Kirstein, Lincoln, 1943
Box 11 Letter to Magazines & Newspapers (re contributing membership), 1943
Box 11 Library Committee, 1942-1945
(4 folders)
Box 11 Library of Congress, 1942-1947
Box 12 Library Requests, 1943-1946
Box 12 Lincoln, Abraham, 1944-1945
Box 12 Mailing Lists, n.d.
(4 folders)
Box 12 Marine Corps Book Projects, 1943-1945
Box 12 Motion Picture Committee, 1942-1945
Box 12 National Advisory Committee, 1942-1943
Box 12 National Book Council (England), 1942
Box 12 Navy Dept. Book Projects
Box 13 General, 1943-1945
(3 folders)
Box 13 re: Battle Report, 1943-1945
(3 folders)
Box 13 New York National War Fund, 1944-1945
Box 13 New York Post, 1943
Box 13 New York Times Hall Meetings- (requests for copies of the speeches), 1942
Box 13 New Zealand Book Project, 1943
Box 13 Newsreels, 1943-1944
Box 13 Norton, William Warder (1891-1945), 1932-1945
Box 13 Office of War Information, 1942-1946
Box 14 Correspondence
(5 folders)
Box 14 Procedures & Misc.
Box 14 Ogden, Archibald, 1941-1945
(4 folders)
Box 14 Pearl Harbor Anniversary Meeting, 1943
Box 15 Petrullo, Vincenzo, 1944
Box 15 Philadelphia Book Fair, 1942
Box 15 Press Committee, 1943
Box 15 Princeton University, 1944-1946
Box 15 Promotion Committee, 1943-1945
Box 15 Correspondence
Box 15 Meeting Minutes
Box 15 Publicity, 1942-1943
Box 15 Publishers' Book Lists, 1943-1945
Box 15 Radio Committee, 1942
Box 15 Correspondence
Box 15 Meeting Minutes
Box 15 Radio Committee, 1943
Box 16 Correspondence
Box 16 Meeting Minutes
Box 16 Requests for Scripts
Box 16 Radio Committee, 1944
Box 16 Radio Releases, 1942-1944
Box 16 Rakowsky, Irene, 1945
Box 16 Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan (1896-1953), 1945-1946
Box 16 Recommended Books, 1943-1945
Box 16 Correspondence
(5 folders)
Box 16 Lists (#1-20)
Box 17 re: Posters
Box 17 Releases
Box 17 Releases & Mailings, 1943-1946
(3 folders)
Box 17 Religious Book Committee, 1942-1944
Box 18 Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1882-1945), 1942
Box 18 Russia, 1942-1944
Box 18 Book Exchange Programs
Box 18 Book Lists
Box 18 Soldiers' Vote Act, 1944
Box 18 Correspondence
(2 folders)
Box 18 Printed Matter
Box 18 Releases
Box 18 Speakers - N. Y. Herald Tribune Club Service Bureau, 1943-1945
Box 18 Speeches (misc.), 1942-1943
Box 19 Stern & Reubens, 1944-1947
Box 19 Stevens, Barry Fox, 1943-1944
Box 19 Submitted Manuscripts, 1943-1945
(2 folders)
Box 19 Suggested Books, 1944-1945
(2 folders)
Box 19 Treasury Dept., 1942-1944
Box 19 Twentieth-Century Fox Literary Fellowships, 1944-1945
Box 19 Unconquerables, 1943
Box 19 Under Cover by John Roy Carlson, 1943
Box 19 United Nations, 1942-1946
Box 20 Book Week
(2 folders)
Box 20 Misc. Material
Box 20 United Seamen's Service, Inc., 1943-1944
Box 20 United States History for U. S.
Box 20 Citizens (book list), 1943
Box 20 United States International
Box 20 Book Assoc., Inc., 1945
Box 20 Victory Book Campaign, 1942-1943
Box 20 Victory Loan Drive, 1945
(2 folders)
Box 20 Virginia Quarterly Review, 1943
Box 20 A War Atlas for Americans by the Office of War Information, 1942-1944
(2 folders)
Box 20 War Dept., 1943-1945
Box 20 Book Policy
Box 20 Book Projects
(3 folders)
Box 20 War Prisoners' Aid of the YMCA, 1943-1945
(2 folders)
Box 21 Washington Committee, 1942-1943
Box 21 Corresp. & Minutes
Box 21 Reports
(2 folders)
Box 21 Writers' War Board, 1942-1945
Box 21 Yank, the Army Weekly, 1944-1945
Box 21 Yugoslavia, 1943
Box 21 Ziff, William B. (1898- ), n.d.
Box 21 Subseries D: Radio Programs
Subseries Description
Subseries D: Radio Programs are arranged by sponsoring station and include correspondence, permissions, lists, schedules and scripts for book dramatizations on “Words at War” (NBC), and author interviews conducted by Bennett Cerf and others on “Fighting Words” (WMCA) and “Books are Bullets” (WQXR).
NBC
Box 22 Correspondence, 1942-1945
(5 folders)
Box 22 “Words at War”
Box 22 Permissions, 1943-1945
(4 folders)
Box 22 Lists, Schedules, etc., n.d.
Box 23 Scripts, 1944-1945
Box 23 WMCA
Box 23 Correspondence, 1943-1945
Box 23 “Fighting Words”
Box 23 Lists, Schedules, etc., 1943-1945
Box 23 Scripts, 1943-1944
(6 folders)
Box 23 WQXR
Box 24 Correspondence, 1943-1945
(3 folders)
Box 24 “Books are Bullets”
Box 24 Author & Book Notes, n.d.
Box 24 Schedules & Misc., 1943
Box 24 Scripts, 1943-1945
(3 folders)
Box 24 “Books in the News”, 1945
Box 24 Miscellaneous Scripts, 1942-n.d.
(2 folders)
Box 24 Subseries E: Financial Records
Subseries Description
Subseries E: Financial Records are arranged chronologically. Included are lists of publishers who made contributions to finance the work of the Council and monthly financial statements (1942-1946).
Contributions (Lists, bulletins, etc.), 1942-1944
Box 25 Financial Statements, 1942-1946
(5 folders)
Box 25 Sales Tax, 1944
Box 25 Series II. Armed Services Editions (ASE), (1943-1947)
Subseries A: Subject File
Subseries Description
Subseries A: Subject File of correspondence arranged alphabetically by topic or personal name and includes files on by-laws, book lists, paper supply, Isabel DuBois, Raymond Trautman, and the War Production Board.
Army, 1943-1945
(2 folders)
Box 25 Army Special Services, 1945-1947
Box 25 Book Lists, 1943-1946
Box 25 By-Laws, 1944
Box 25 Certificate of Incorporation, 1943
Box 25 Contracts, 1943-1945
Box 25 Correspondence (Misc.), 1943
Box 25 Correspondence (Misc.), 1944-1947
(5 folders)
Box 26 Cover Copy, 1943
Box 26 Du Bois, Isabel, 1943-1946
(3 folders)
Box 26 Farrar, John, 1943-1945
Box 26 Fifth Avenue Bank of N. Y., 1944-1947
Box 26 Hospitals, Books for, 1943-1944
Box 26 Liaisons, 1943
Box 27 Meetings (Misc.), 1943-1947
Box 27 Meetings (Annual), 1947
Box 27 Newspaper Clippings, 1945
Box 27 Packing & Shipping of Books, 1943-1944
Box 27 Paper Supply, 1944-1945
Box 27 Plans & Policies, 1943
Box 27 Releases, 1942-1945
Box 27 Robinson, John M., 1945
Box 27 Royalties, 1944-1946
Box 27 Scott, S. Spencer, 1943-1947
Box 27 Shortages, 1944-1946
Box 27 Simon, Richard L., 1943-1946
Box 27 Sloan, William M. (1906-1974), 1944-1945
Box 27 Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1944-1946
Box 27 Trautman, Raymond, 1943-1947
(3 folders)
Box 28 Veterans Administration, 1944
Box 28 W. C. Heaton and Company, 1944-1947
Box 28 War Production Board, 1943-1944
Box 28 Subseries B: Army and Navy Contracts
Subseries Description
Subseries B: Army and Navy Contracts files are arranged by lot series (A-Z & AA-TT) and contain contracts, lists, correspondence and financial data concerning the books approved by the Army and Navy for publication by ASE.
Army and Navy Contracts
Box 28 A - H Lists, 1943-1944
(10 folders)
Box 28 I - Z Lists, 1944-1946
(22 folders)
Box 29 AA - TT Lists, 1946-1947
(25 folders)
Box 30 Navy Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, 1944-1945
Box 30 Lists (Misc.), 1943-1945
Box 30 Subseries C: Financial Records
Subseries Description
Subseries C: Financial Records includes monthly statements of finances for the years 1943-1947.
Financial Statements, 1943-1947
(5 folders)
Box 31 Production Data, 1943-1947
Box 31 Subseries D: Letters from Servicemen
Subseries Description
Subseries D: Letters from Servicemen are arranged alphabetically. The letters come from enlisted men and officers expressing appreciation for ASE books. Some original letters are present, however most are V-mail or carbon copies, many accompanied by replies from ASE staff.
Letters from Servicemen, A-I, 1944-1945
Box 31 Letters from Servicemen, J-Z, 1944-1945
Box 32 Series III. Overseas Editions, Inc. (OEI), (1944-1946)
Subseries A: Subject File
Subseries Description
Subseries A: Subject File arranged alphabetically by topic including agreement forms, book lists, meeting minutes, and miscellaneous correspondence.
Agreement Forms, 1944
Box 32 Book Lists, 1944-1945
Box 32 Contracts, 1944-1945
Box 32 Correspondence (Misc.), 1944-1946
(5 folders)
Box 32-33 Form Letters, 1945
Box 33 Incorporation, 1944-1945
Box 33 Meeting Minutes, 1944-1945
Box 33 Management Committee
Box 33 Various Committees
Box 33 Office of War Information, 1944
Box 33 Personnel, 1944-1945
Box 33 Reynolds, Quentin, n.d.
Box 33 Rights in English and Foreign Languages, 1944
Box 33 Theodotos, Sophocles, 1945
Box 33 Subseries B: Book Subject File
Subseries Description
Subseries B: Book Subject File arranged by title consists of contracts, printing data and correspondence concerning the copy-editing, translating and publishing of OEI books.
Lists of Books Published by Overseas Editions, Inc., 1944-1945
Box 33 America by Stephen Vincent Benet
(4 folders)
Box 33 American High Command Report by George Marshall
(7 folders)
Box 33 Audubon by Constance Rourke
(3 folders)
Box 33 Benjamin Franklin by Carl Van Doren
(5 folders)
Box 34 Bombs Away by John Steinbeck
(3 folders)
Box 34 Boy on Horseback by Lincoln Steffens
(4 folders)
Box 34 Captain Retread by Donald Hough
(6 folders)
Box 34 Citizen Tom Paine by Howard Fast
(5 folders)
Box 34 Daybreak for Our Carrier by Max Miller
(2 folders)
Box 34 For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
(2 folders)
Box 34 The Free State by D. W. Brogan
(2 folders)
Box 34 G. I. Joe by Ernie Pyle
(4 folders)
Box 34 George Washington Carver by Rackham Holt
(6 folders)
Box 35 How America Lives by J. C. Furnas
(4 folders)
Box 35 How New Will the Better World Be? by Carl Becker, 1944-1945
(6 folders)
Box 35 The Human Comedy by William Saroyan
(4 folders)
Box 35 Into the Valley by John Hersey
(4 folders)
Box 35 Japan by Editors of Fortune
(6 folders)
Box 35 Lend-Lease by Edward L. Stettinius
(1 folder)
Box 35 Mainstream by Hamilton Basso
(1 folder)
Box 35 Men of Science in America by Bernard Jaffe
(3 folders)
Box 36 The Navy's War by Fletcher Pratt
(3 folders)
Box 36 On Native Grounds by Alfred Kazin
(5 folders)
Box 36 One Man's Meat by E. B. White
(4 folders)
Box 36 The Pocket History of the United States by H. Commager & A. Nevins
(5 folders)
Box 36 Prefaces to Peace by W. Willkie, H. Hoover, and others
(1 folder)
Box 36 Prelude to Invasion by Henry L. Stimson
(3 folders)
Box 36 The Raft by Robert Trumbull
(7 folders)
Box 36-37 Report From Tokyo by Joseph C. Grew, 1944-1945
(5 folders)
Box 37 The Road to Teheran by F. R. Dulles
(6 folders)
Box 37 Science Yearbook of 1944 by John Ratcliff
(4 folders)
Box 37 Tarawa by Robert Sherrod
(5 folders)
Box 37 Then There Was One by Eugene Burns
(3 folders)
Box 37 Thomas Jefferson by Gilbert Chinard
(3 folders)
Box 37 TVA: Democracy on the March by David Lilienthal
(4 folders)
Box 38 U. S. Foreign Policy and U. S. War Aims by Walter Lippmann
(4 folders)
Box 38 A Walk in the Sun by Harry Brown
(6 folders)
Box 38 Yankee from Olympus by Catherine Drinker Bowen
(6 folders)
Box 38 Subseries C: Production File
Subseries Description
Subseries C: Production File concerns the actual set up and printing procedures for OEI books and consists of correspondence arranged alphabetically by topic, primarily the names of printing firms such as Colonial Press and W. F. Hall, as well as files on composition, covers, paper, progress reports and translators.
A. E. Munyer Electrotype Co., 1944-1945
Box 38 American Book - Stratford Press
Box 38 American Typesetting Corp.
Box 38 Baumwell, M. J.
Box 38 Bermingham & Prosser Co.
Box 38 Book Conference - OWI
Box 38 Brown Brothers Linotypers
Box 38 Colonial Press
Box 38 The Composing Room
Box 38 Composition (misc. papers)
Box 39 Copy Editors
Box 39 Covers
Box 39 1st lot of 8
Box 39 2nd lot of 8
Box 39 3rd lot of 8
Box 39 4th lot of 8
Box 39 5th lot of 8
Box 39 6th lot of 8
Box 39 7th lot
Box 39 8th lot
Box 39 9th lot
Box 39 Covers - Paper & Design
Box 39 Elliot Electrotype, Stereotype & Mat Co.
Box 39 Glick, Milton
Box 39 H. O. Houghton & Co.
Box 39 H. Wolff Book Manufacturing Co., Inc.
Box 39 The International Press
Box 39 Jeffrey Composition Co.
Box 39 Lancaster Press
Box 39 M & L Typesetting & Electrotyping Co.
Box 40 Maple Press
Box 40 Paper
Box 40 Plimpton Press
Box 40 Progress Reports
Box 40 Translations
Box 40 Translators
Box 40 Vail-Ballou Press, Inc.
Box 40 W. B. Conkey Company
Box 40 W. F. Hall Printing Company
(2 folders)
Box 40 Waverly Press, Inc.
Box 40 Series IV. Photographs, (ca.1942-1945)
Series Description
Series IV. Photographs (ca.1942-1945) - Consists of one box of black and white photographs of authors such as Robert Lawson, Agnes Turnbull, Wendell Willkie, and Donald Hough; photographs of damaged cartons of books; group photographs of Council presentations, meetings, and radio interviews; and photographs of book displays and posters.
Authors
Box 43 Book Packaging
Box 43 Council Members & Activities
Box 43 Exhibits & Posters
Box 43 Series V. Printed Matter, (1941-1945)
Series Description
Series V. Printed Matter (1941-1945) - Contains pamphlets, bulletins, book lists, flyers, tearsheets, miscellaneous printed items, and newspapers clippings of articles about or related to the Council. Newspaper clippings here, and throughout the Records have been photocopied and the originals discarded.
Subseries A: Pamphlets, Tearsheets, Etc.
American Booksellers Association Bulletins, 1942-1943
Box 41 Council on Books in Wartime-Speeches, 1942
Box 41 Currents in the Trade (column), 1943-1944
Box 41 Miscellaneous, 1942-1944
Box 41 Subseries B: Newspapers Clippings
Nov., 1941
Box 41 April - Dec., 1942
(8 folders)
Box 41 Jan. - Aug., 1943
(9 folders)
Box 41 Sept. - Dec., 1943
(4 folders)
Box 41 Jan. - Dec., 1944
(12 folders)
Box 42 Jan. - Dec., 1945
(10 folders)
Box 42 Miscellaneous
Box 42 Series VI. Posters
Series Description
Series VI. Posters - Consists of 40 undated posters of various sizes used for publicity by the Council in libraries and bookstores. Included are Recommended Books posters, freedom posters by Norman Rockwell, and one of the Council's motto “Books are Weapons in the War of Ideas”.
Books on the War - Recommended
(Damaged and torn pieces)Cabinet 1, Drawer 2 Lists #4-16
(13 posters)
Cabinet 1, Drawer 2 Imperative - People on Our Side
(1 poster)
Cabinet 1, Drawer 2 Book & Author Luncheon
(1 poster)
Cabinet 1, Drawer 2 This Man is Your Friend
(6 posters)
Cabinet 1, Drawer 2 Buy War Bonds
(1 poster)
Cabinet 1, Drawer 2 Pick Up Your Stick...
(1 poster)
Cabinet 1, Drawer 2 A War Atlas for Americans
(1 poster)
Cabinet 1, Drawer 2 Battle Report
(1 poster)
Cabinet 1, Drawer 2 Display cards
(3 posters)
Cabinet 1, Drawer 2 Windows at War
(3 posters)
Cabinet 1, Drawer 2 Freedom posters by Norman Rockwell
(4 posters)
Cabinet 1, Drawer 2 Books are Weapons in the War of Ideas
(1 poster)
Cabinet 1, Drawer 2 United Nations
(2 posters)
Cabinet 1, Drawer 2 Elmer Davis quote
(1 poster)
Cabinet 1, Drawer 2 Doubleday, Doran Book Shop ad
(1 poster)
Cabinet 1, Drawer 2
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