Edward Eyre Hunt papers, 1902-1953

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Creators:
United States. Department of Commerce, Hunt, Edward E. (Edward Eyre), 1885-1953, United States. Department of Labor, United States. War Production Board, and Conference on Unemployment (Location of meeting: Washington, D.C. Date of meeting or treaty signing: 1921.)
Abstract:
Reports, memoranda, correspondence, diaries, writings, printed matter, and photographs, relating to relief and reconstruction in Europe during and after World Wars I and II (especially in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, and Poland), the Commission for Relief in Belgium, the American Red Cross, Herbert Hoover and the presidential campaign of 1920, and American economic conditions between the two world wars.
Extent:
105 manuscript boxes, 2 oversize boxes, 1 envelope, 3 maps (44.5 Linear Feet)
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Edward Eyre Hunt Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains reports, memoranda, correspondence, diaries, writings, printed matter, and photographs, relating to relief and reconstruction in Europe during and after World Wars I and II (especially in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, and Poland), the Commission for Relief in Belgium, the American Red Cross, Herbert Hoover and the presidential campaign of 1920, and American economic conditions between the two world wars. Includes handwritten and typewritten manuscripts and drafts of books, speeches and articles by Edward E. Hunt. Includes photographs.

Biographical / historical:
Date Event
1885, August 1
Born, Bellwood, Nebraska
1910
A.B., Harvard
1910
Author, Sir Orfeo
1910-1912
Secretary for appointments and assistant in English Department, Harvard
1912-1914
Editorial staff, American Magazine, New York
1914
War Correspondent, Europe
1914-1916
American delegate, Commission for Relief in Belgium in charge of Province of Antwerp
1916
Author, War Bread: A Personal Narrative of the War and Relief in Belgium
1916
Author, Haj
1917
Director of Publications, American Red Cross, Washington, D.C.
1917-1918
Head of Economic Rehabilitation work of Red Cross in France
1917
Director General of Civilian Relief, Red Cross, Italy
1918
Author, Tales from a Famished Land
1918
Author, The Red Cross on the Front Line in the Great Battle of 1918
1920
Labor Manager, Clothing Industry, New York
1920
Appointed by Herbert Hoover as member of the Committee on Elimination of Waste in Industry, Federated American Engineering Societies
1921
Secretary of Conference on Unemployment called by President Warren Harding
1921
Co-author, Waste in Industry
1922-1923
Secretary, U.S. Coal Commission
1923
Co-author, Business Cycles and Unemployment
1924
Co-author, Seasonal Operation in the Construction Industries
1924
Editor, Scientific Management Since Taylor
1925
Author, Conferences, Committees, Conventions, and How to Run Them
1925
Editor, What the Coal Commission Found
1927
American Expert on Scientific Management, League of Nations, World Economic Conference
1928
Member, Committee on Recent Economic Changes
1929
Editor, Recent Economic Changes in the United States
1930
Author, An Audit of America
1930-1931
Secretary, President's Emergency Committee for Employment
1930-1933
Member, President's Research Committee on Social Trends
1931
American member of World Economic Depression Inquiry
1937
Author, Greathouse
1939-1940
Engaged in economic and social surveys, Venezuela
1942-1943
Chief Industrial Economist, War Production Board
1943
Associate Director, Field Operations, Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation, U.S. Department of State
1944
Chief of Italian Division, Foreign Economic Administration
1944
Editor, The Power Industry and the Public Interest
1945-1946
Director, Italian Division, U.S. Department of State
Acquisition information:
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library Archives in 1975.
Physical location:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

Terms of access:

For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Edward Eyre Hunt Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Location of this collection:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6003, US
Contact:
(650) 723-3563
hooverarchives@stanford.edu
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