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COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
33 L i b e r t y S t r e e t , New York 4 5 , New York
PRELIMINARY QUESTIONNAIRE ON FEDERAL RESERVE BANK ARCHIVAL MATERIAL
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF
DATE
BANK HISTORY
Has a history of the Bank been written?
If so, please give author, title,
publisher and date of publication.
PUBLICATIONS
What publications does the Bank Issue regularly?
State how many copies are
preserved permanently, inclusive dates, and where filed.
Give exact
title, and changes in title as made.
Annual Report
Monthly Review
Daily. Newspaper Digest
Employees House Organ
Other Publications (Periodical only)
List any Anniversary Issues of House Organs, Periodicals, Newspapers, on Federal
Reserve events.
State whether copies have been preserved and where filed.
2
BIOGRAPHICAL DATA ON PERSONNEL
Have biographies of any bank officers or directors been printed?
If so,
indicate titles, with full publication details.
Are photographs of officers and directors preserved?
Where located?
Has the Bank maintained biographic records of officers and directors?
For what period?
Where filed?
Are these available for research?
Authorship:
Books, Addresses, Papers, Periodical Articles of officers and
directors.
Listing made?
If so, is copy available?
Catalogued or indexed in Bank's Library?
Copies filed in Bank's Library?
Elsewhere in Bank?
RESEARCH STUDIES & STAFF MEMOS
Has the Bank a cumulative file of staff papers and studies?
Period covered?
Where filed?
How classified?
Mostly concerned with: Regional Matters?
Available to students?
National?
International?
3
LIBRARY - SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
Newspaper Clippings
Are clippings of historic interest kept permanently?
In files?
In scrapbooks?
Any noteworthy special collections or long series of reports and periodicals that
would provide reference material on Federal Reserve History?
(Not file
material)
ARCHIVES COLLECTION
Where can you locate material of historic interest when it is needed?
Has the Bank made any attempt to set up an archives collection?
If so,
How managed?
Who may use?
Liberty Loan Material.
How much approximately has "been preserved?
Coverage?
Picture Collection.
Are pictures of the Bank's buildings, Bank events, e.g., anniversary dinners,
etc., preserved?
Period covered?
If so, where filed?
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QUESTIONNAIRE ON FEDERAL RESERVE BANK ARCHIVAL MATERIAL
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF ATJANTA
DATE
M a r c h 17, 1955
BANK HISTORY
Has a h i s t o r y of t h e Bank been w r i t t e n ?
No
If so, p l e a s e give a u t h o r , t i t l e ,
p u b l i s h e r and date of p u b l i c a t i o n .
PUBLICATIONS
What p u b l i c a t i o n s does t h e Bank i s s u e r e g u l a r l y ?
S t a t e how many copies are
preserved permanently, i n c l u s i v e d a t e s , and where f i l e d .
Give exact
t i t l e , and changes i n t i t l e as made.
Annual Report
R e s e a r c h L i b r a r y h a s one s e t f r o m 1915 to d a t e .
h a s a s e t beginning i n 1925.
Accounting Dept.
Monthly Review R e s e a r c h L i b r a r y h a s c o m p l e t e s e t f r o m 1919 to d a t e .
Daily. Newspaper Digest R e s e a r c h L i b r a r y h a s c o m p l e t e s e t f r o m 1943 to d a t e .
Employees House Organ
R e s e a r c h L i b r a r y h a s c o m p l e t e s e t of the 6 - F M e s s e n g e r
f r o m i t s i n c e p t i o n i n 1955.
Other P u b l i c a t i o n s ( P e r i o d i c a l only)
Bankers F a r m Bulletin — R e s e a r c h L i b r a r y has complete set from
1949 to d a t e .
List any Anniversary Issues of House Organs, Periodicals, Newspapers, on Federal
Reserve events.
State whether copies have been preserved and where filed.
j
R e s e a r c h L i b r a r y h a s a copy of the b r o c h u r e i s s u e d on the opening of the
J a c k s o n v i l l e B r a n c h Building (1952) and m e m o r i a l b r o c h u r e s to H o w a r d G r a y ,
E u g e n e B l a c k , W i l l i a m K e t t i g , O s c a r N e w t o n , and R o b e r t P a r k e r . A copy
of the s t a t e m e n t s m a d e on the r e t i r e m e n t of F r a n k N e e l y i s a v a i l a b l e i n the
administrative r e c o r d s section.
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BIOGRAPHICAL DATA ON PERSONNEL
Have biographies of any bank o f f i c e r s or d i r e c t o r s been p r i n t e d ?
No
If s o ,
i n d i c a t e t i t l e s , with f u l l p u b l i c a t i o n d e t a i l s .
Are photographs of o f f i c e r s and d i r e c t o r s preserved?
Where l o c a t e d ? P h o t o g r a p h s
of Head Office d i r e c t o r s a r e p a c k e d and k e p t i n the t e l e p h o n e e q u i p m e n t r o o m .
S o m e a r e hanging i n the B o a r d R o o m .
Has t h e Bank maintained biographic records of o f f i c e r s and d i r e c t o r s ?
For what p e r i o d ?
D i r e c t o r s ' biographical sketches, incomplete in e a r l i e r
y e a r s , a r e k e p t in the L e g a l D e p a r t m e n t . O f f i c e r s ' b i o g r a p h i c a l s k e t c h e s
Where f i l e d ? a i s o i n c o m p l e t e i n the b e g i n n i n g , a r e k e p t i n the P e r s o n n e l
Department.
Are t h e s e a v a i l a b l e f o r r e s e a r c h ? T h e s e r e c o r d s f o r m the b a s i s of b i o g r a p h i c a l
m a t e r i a l b e i n g c o m p i l e d for the C o m m i t t e e and a r e p r o v i d e d contingent upon
l a t e r official a u t h o r i z a t i o n . A v a i l a b i l i t y of the o r i g i n a l r e c o r d s to o t h e r t h a n b a n k
Authorship: Books, Addresses, Papers, P e r i o d i c a l A r t i c l e s of o f f i c e r s a n d / e m p l o y e e s
would be s u b directors.
. .
,
j e c t to a d L i s t i n g made?
No
i f s o , i s copy a v a i l a b l e ?
ministration
decision at
t i m e of r e quest.
Catalogued o r indexed i n Bank's Library? Some
Copies f i l e d i n Bank's Library? Some Elsewhere i n Bank? E a r l y
m a t e r i a l i s in record r o o m .
RESEARCH STUDIES & STAFF MEMOS
Has t h e Bank a .cumulative f i l e of s t a f f papers and s t u d i e s ?
Period covered?
Where f i l e d ?
Not a s such.
1938 to d a t e
R e s e a r c h D e p a r t m e n t files
How c l a s s i f i e d ?
subject
Mostly concerned w i t h : Regional M a t t e r s ?
Available t o students?
X
National?
International?
Subject to a d m i n i s t r a t i v e d e c i s i o n a t the t i m e of r e q u e s t .
3
LIBRARY - SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
Newspaper. Clippings
Are c l i p p i n g s of h i s t o r i c i n t e r e s t kept permanently? Y e s i n f i l e s ?
Y e s (incomplete)
In scrapbooks?
Any noteworthy s p e c i a l c o l l e c t i o n s or long s e r i e s of r e p o r t s and p e r i o d i c a l s t h a t
would provide reference m a t e r i a l on F e d e r a l Reserve H i s t o r y ?
material)
(Not f i l e
No
ARCHIVES COLLECTION
Where can you l o c a t e m a t e r i a l of h i s t o r i c i n t e r e s t when i t i s needed? L e g a l department,
R e c o r d R o o m , Administrative R e c o r d s Section, R e s e a r c h L i b r a r y , R e s e a r c h F i l e s ,
P e r s o n n e l Department.
Has t h e Bank made any attempt t o s e t up an a r c h i v e s c o l l e c t i o n ? No
i f so,
How managed?
Who may use?
L i b e r t y Loan M a t e r i a l .
How much approximately has been p r e s e r v e d ?
Coverage?
N e a r l y a l l of the
non-accounting m a t e r i a l h a s b e e n d e s t r o y e d . A few s c a t t e r e d r e c o r d s a r e
in the e a r l y G o v e r n o r s ' and'Chairmeris p a p e r s .
Picture Collection.
Are p i c t u r e s of t h e Bank's b u i l d i n g s , Bank e v e n t s , e . g . , a n n i v e r s a r y d i n n e r s ,
e t c . , p r e s e r v e d ? Y e s If s o , where f i l e d ? A d m i n i s t r a t i v e R e c o r d s Section
and hanging in various offices of Head Office and B r a n c h e s . In recent' y e a r s
Period covered?
personnel department h a s made photographs and
has records.
COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
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PRELIMINARY QUESTIONNAIRE ON FEDERAL RESERVE BANK ARCHIVAL MATERIAL
APR 7 1955
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF BOSTON
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BANK HISTORY
Has a history of the Bank been written? Yes
If so, please give author, title,
publisher and date of publication.
Taggart, Joseph H. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Boston, New York,
0| 1
Bankers Publishing uompany, i?j}0. ZO^p. * Ul^J^M
PUBLICATIONS
What publications does the Bank issue regularly? State how many copies are
preserved permanently, inclusive dates, and where filed. Give exact
title, and changes in title as made.
Annual Report • Annual Report of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston^ 1915-1935.
Issued amuiiQyfor those years, but moos published for 1936-1951. In 1952
annual publication resumed. Bound file kept in the Resesrch Library permanently*
Monthly Review See separate sheet noting changes in title. One copy bound
and kept in Research Library; complete file of multiple copies in Research
and Statistics Department*
Daily,Newspaper Digest; Daily News Notes, In continuous publication since
1923* Permanent file kept in the Research Library.
Employees House Organ* See separate sheet.
Other Publications (Periodical only) See separate sheet.
List any Anniversary Issues of House Organs, Periodicals, Newspapers, on Federal
Reserve events. State whether copies have been preserved and where filed.
Pamphlet publications commemorating opening of bank buildings, new and old:
Inspection of the New Banking House by the Staff of the Banks ... ,
April 20, 1922.
Federal Reserve Bank Building, December 30, 1922
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 1953. (New building)
Miscellaneous clippings commemorating both these events
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PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST TO MEMBER BANKS, STORES, AND OTHERS
Issued by
The Research and Statistics Department
of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
* Note: Date indicates when file or publication was suarcedj file kept in
Research and Statistics Dept.
A. Special publications
1. Monthly Review
2. Farm Finance News
3. A Survey of Industrial Opportunities in New England
(Study by Arthur D. Little, Inc. at $2.00 per copy)
h> Growth Trends in the New England Economy
5. New England, Its Economic Importance and Prospects
6. Annual Report of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
7. #Wboden Dollars
8. Report on Steps to Maintain Economic Stability
B. Financial Statistics
Weekly
1. #Loan and Discount and Gross Deposit Totals of Providence banks ngrQ
2. ^Selected balance sheet items for Providence weekly reporting
member banks
Monthly
1. All Member Banks in District I - Assets and Liabilities - 19l;7
2. *New England Mutual Savings Bank Report - 192U
3. ^Deposit Index for Banks in Selected Cities - 1919
k* ^Business Trends for New England Council - 1952 (Discontinued at present)
Annual and Special
1. Member Bank Income and Expense Survey - 1926
2. Deposit Ownership Survey - 19l|3
3. *Trust Department Operations Survey - 19U5
h. List of Member Banks Within the District - 1920
<~>5» ^Quarterly Report on Interest Rates Charged on Business Loans by
/
Selected Member Banks in District I 191+8 6. ^Quarterly Interest Rates Charged Business Loans Maturing in 1 Year
or Less Made by Reporting Banks in 19 Cities in United States
7. Supplementary Tables Based on Income and Expense Survey - annual
8. Analysis of Reports of Condition - semi-annual
RETAIL TRADE STATISTICS
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF BOSTON
A*
Department Store Statistics
Weekly
1. *Unaudited Sales Report for 11 Boston Stores (Showing Range) Jan. 1925
2. *Weekly Departmental Sales Report for 11 Boston Stores - H.8 Mar. 1930
3. *Unaudited Sales Report for h Providence Stores with Range Jan. 1938
It. New England Department Store Sales Jan. 19Ul
5. *Summary of Emergency Weekly Report - Sales by Selected Departments Mar.
# Out of p r i n t .
* Denotes r e s t r i c t e d , specialized service furnished by t h i s bank.
-2A. Department Store Statistics - Contd.
Monthly
192$
1. Monthly Department Store Sales &. Transactions - Boston Federal Reserve -Jan.
District (States, Metropolitan Areas, Cities) Mar. 1930
2. ^Unaudited Sales Report for h Providence Stores with Range - Jan. 1938
3. Monthly Department Store Sales and Stocks by Departments - Boston
District (Downtown Boston, Metropolitan Boston and District) - Jan. 1922
h. Monthly Department Store Sales and Stocks by Departments - Providence
Stores (Providence and District) Jan. 1931
£. Department Store Credit - Boston District (Boston Metropolitan Area,
Providence, District) - Jan. 193?
6. Monthly Department Store Stocks and Merchandise Orders Outstanding
(Boston Metropolitan Area, Providence, District) - Jan. 1922
7. Boston Department Store Sales Index - 1919
8. Providence Department Store Sales Index - 1919
9. Worcester Department Store Sales Index - 1929
10. Boston Federal Reserve District Department Store Sales Index - 1919
Adjusted for Seasonal Variation 19U7-U9-100 (Revised)- 1919
11. Boston Federal Reserve District Department Store Stocks Index Adjusted for Seasonal Variation 19l*7-119*100 (Revised) - 1919
Annual or Special Reports
1. Annual Summary of New England Department Store Trade (Boston and
New England) - 1923
2. Analysis of Department Store Trade - Spring Season (Boston and
New England) - 192?
3. *Annual Summary - Sales by Departments - Providence - 19^6
Ij. #Special Report - March and April Sales by Departments - Providence
Department Stores - 1936
B. Furniture Store Statistics
Monthly
~Tl Retail Furniture Report (Sales, Accounts Receivables, Collections
and Inventories Data) - ^ay 19l*2
C. Retail Household Appliance Store Report - New England
- Jan. 1953
(Metropolitan Boston, Other New England, Total New England)
D. Wholesale Appliances
Monthly
1. *Wholesale Sales Report (Major Appliances, Radios, and Television
for Suffolk, Middlesex and Norfolk Counties only) - Jan. 191+8
2. Air-Conditioning Units - May \$$2
E. Vacation Business Index
Monthly reports sent to vacation lodging reporters, ski-tow operators,
boys' and girls' camp operators, member banks and others. - June 191*7
F. Other Publications
1. News Notes - Daily
2. Quarterly Inventory of Economic Research
* Denotes restricted, specialized service furnished by this bank.
PUBLICATIONS - Monthly Review
Changes in title:
Business and Money Conditions in the New England District - January 1919 Monthly Review of Business and Industrial' 'Conditions in the New England
District - October 1919 Monthly Review of Industrial and Financial Conditions in the New England
District - January 1922Monthly Review of New England Business - June 19U7 Monthly Review •» August 19U7 - date
Employees House Organ
Federal Reserve Society News» v»l - h> April 1919 - December 1922»
dhatter, April 1923 - August 1926
Servicemen* s Newsletter, April 1, 19l*2 - October 19U6
Society Newsletter, November 19U6 - December V$k
East Wind, January 19#> -
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BIOGRAPHICAL DATA ON PERSONNEL
Eave biographies of any bank officers or directors been printed?
If so,
indicate titles, with full publication, details. No. (From 191*0 - date,
brief biographies have been supplied on Form 2l*2, 2a3» Other biographical
material scattered in various files.
Are photographs of officers and directors preserved?Yes Where located?
Conference Room - Earlier file
Office of the General Counsel - Current file of photographs
Has the Bank maintained biographic records of officers and directors?
For what period?
See above
Where filed?
Are these available for research? Considered private files, but
under certain conditions would probably be available.
Authorship:
Books, Addresses, Papers, Periodical Articles of officers and
directors.
Listing made?
No
If so, is copy available?
Catalogued or indexed in Bank1s Library?
Copies filed in Bank's Library?
In some cases
No
Elsewhere in Bank?
Research & Statistics Dept.
RESEARCH STUDIES & STAFF MEMOS
Has the Bank a cumulative file of staff papers and studies? No
(See separate sheet)
Period covered?
- Scattered files.
Where filed?
How classified?
Mostly concerned with: Regional Matters?
Available to students?
National?
International?
RESEARCH STUDIES AND STAFF MEMOS
There is no central file for staff papers and studies. A few or the
earlier ones* are kept in the Research and Statistics Department filesj
some are kept in economists* individual files. The current studies are
filed in the Research Library with copies available in other files in the
Research and Statistics Department. Studies are concerned with both
national and regional matters.
Available to students on a selective basis.
* For example, Development of Banking Reserves, by Ethel M. Thorabury. 1?19»
Member Bank Reserves, by Henry R. Bowser and Edith B«
Fagerstrom, 1930.
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LIBRARY - SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
Newspaper Clippings
Are clippings of historic interest kept permanently? Yes In files?
In scrapbooks?
Verticft\ files
Any noteworthy special collections or long series of reports and periodicals that
would provide reference material on Federal Reserve History?
material)
(Not file
No
ARCHIVES COLLECTION
Where can you locate material of historic interest when it is needed?
Uncurrent files and in part in the Research LibraryHas the Bank made any attempt to set up an archives collection?
No
If so.
How managed?
Who may use?
Liberty Loan Material.
*How much approximately has been preserved?
Coverage?
Selected material - 1917 - 1923 in Filing Department.
Picture Collection.
Are pictures of the Bank's buildings, Bank events, e.g., anniversary dinners,
etc., preserved? Yes If so, where filed?
Relations Dept.
Period covered? Approximately 192U - date
Office of the Public
* Material includes Government publications relating to Liberty Loans
and L.L. Committee publications - releases and correspondence covering:
Central Committee, Publicity Committee, New England Committee, Trades
Committee, and Distribution Committee. Some L.L. reports and statistics.
COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM* C
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PRELIMINARY QUESTIONNAIRE ON FEDERAL RESERVE BANK ARCHIVAL MATERIAE"
COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY
FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF
Chicago
DATE
July 25, 1955
BANK HISTORY
Has a history of the Bank been written? Yes
I f s0> please give author, title,
Griswold, John A. A History of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
publisher and date of publication.
St. Louis, Missouri
The author, 1936.
PUBLICATIONS
What publications does the Bank issue regularly?
preserve
State how many copies are
permanently, inclusive dates, and where filed.
title, and changes in title as made.
Annual Report
Give exact
Complete bound files in Library.
1915 - 1935, 1947-
Monthly Review
Business Conditions, 1917-
Daily Newspaper Digest
Ho
Employees House Organ
Among Ourselves, 1919-1931
The Commentator, 1942Other Publications (Periodical only)
Agricultural Letter, 1944Agricultural Credit Trends and
Annual Statement, 1915Farm Land Values (quarterly),
Directory, 1948May 15, 1943List any Anniversary Issues of House Organs, Periodicals, Newspapers, on Federal
Reserve events.
State whether copies have been preserved and where filed.
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BIOGRAPHICAL DATA ON PERSONNEL
Have biographies of any bank officers or directors been printed?
No
If so,
indicate titles, with full publication details.
Are photographs of officers and directors preserved?/^ Where located?
Has the Bank maintained biographic records of officers and directors?
For what period?
Where filed?
1914-
In Personnel Department, Secretary's Offioe, and Bank's Library.
Are these available for research?
Authorship:
Yes, incomplete
Yes
Books, Addresses, Papers, Periodical Articles of officers and
directors.
Listing made?
No
If so, is copy available?
Catalogued or indexed in Bank1s Library?
Copies filed in Bank's Library?
Yes, but file incomplete*
Yes
Elsewhere in Bank?
RESEARCH STUDIES & STAFF MEMOS
Has the Bank a cumulative file of staff papers and studies?
Period covered?
1940's-
Where filed?
Research Department Files in Library.
How classified?
Subject.
Yes, incomplete
Mostly concerned with: Regional Matters?
Available to students?
X
National?
X
With special permission.
International?
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LIBRARY - SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
Newspaper Clippings
Are clippings of historic interest kept permanently? Yes In files?
In scrapbooks?
Yes
Ho
Any noteworthy special collections or long series of reports and periodicals that
would provide reference material on Federal Reserve History?
material)
(Not file
No
ARCHIVES COLLECTION
Where can you locate material of historic interest when it is needed?
Publications of Bank, Bank's Library files, employees' personal files and minds*
Has the Bank made any attempt to set up an archives collection?
No. If so,
How managed?
Who may use?
Liberty Loan Material.
How much approximately has been preserved?
Some
Coverage?
Some at Chicago Historical Society and in Bank's Library*
Picture Collection.
Are pictures of the Bank's buildings, Bank events, e.g., anniversary dinners,
etc., preserved? a few If so, where filed?
Period covered?
1920's-
Bank's Library-
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COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY OF THE FEDERAL ^ S E R v S e ^ E l l V £
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APR 1 3 1955
PRELIMINARY QUESTIONNAIRE ON FEDERAL RESERVE BANK ARCHIVAL MATERIAL
COMMITTEE OM THE HISTORY
OF THE
FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF
DATE APR 12 1955
CLEVELAND
BANK HISTORY
Has a history of the Bank been written?
Yes
If so, please give author, title,
publisher and date of publication.
Bradford, Frederick A.
"Recent Banking Development in the City of Cleveland"
(typed) 1926 p. 29-U7
Blazer, Arthur Frederick
"The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland"
New York, Columbia University Press, 19^2
Brill, Russell F.
"A History of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland"
1939 Thesis
(Note: At Fenn College. Does not add to information
already in Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland library)
PUBLICATIONS
What publications does the Bank issue regularly?
State how many copies are
preserved permanently, inclusive dates, and where filed.
Give exact
title, and changes in title as made.
Annual Report
Library:
1st annual report bound with 2nd annual report of Board (1915>)
2nd annual report (1916) to 21st annual report (1935) - one
set bound - 3 additional copies
(Not published 1936-19U9)
19^0 to date - one set bound or being held for binding 3 additional copies
Public Relations:
19^0 to date - 5 copies of each in permanent file
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF
CLEVELAND
PUBLICATIONS (contd.)
Monthly Business Review
Library:
1919 to date - 3 sets bound or being held for binding
(one set covering 19UU to 19^3 on permanent loan to Research)
Archives:
Feb. 1919 to date - 10 copies of each issue retained permanently
(75 copies retained for 10 years, after which excess over 10
copies is discarded)
Research:
Feb. 1919 to date - at least one copy, but usually more than 3
copies of each issue held in permanent file
Daily Newspaper Digest
None
Federal Reserve Notes
Library:
1918 to 1926 (old series) - 2 sets bound - also extra copies
19U3 to date (new series) - 3 sets bound or being held for
binding
Public Relations: 1918 to 1926 (old series) - 3 copies of each issue
I9I4.3 to date (new series) - 20 copies of each issue
Business Trends
Library:
Oct. 19l;8 to date - no special arrangements for permanent file at least one complete set could be produced at present time
Public Relations: Oct. I9U8 to date - £ copies of each issue held in permanent file
Research:
Oct. 19U8 to date - no special arrangements for permanent file at least one complete set could be produced at present time
Service Bulletin
1919 to 1935 - one set bound
Library:
(name changes)
Library New Sheet
192U (irregular) to date - unbound
Library:
h D News
Library:
1920-1921 - unbound
List any Anniversary Issues of House Organs, Periodicals, Newspapers, on Federal
Reserve events. State whether copies have been preserved and where filed.
Twenty-fifth Anniversary Program - copies in Library and in Archives
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF
CLEVELAND
BIOGRAPHICAL DATA ON PERSONNEL
Have biographies of any bank officers or directors been printed?
No
If so,
indicate titles, with full publication details.
Are photographs of officers and directors preserved?
Yes
Where located?
Some in Library - some in Public Relations
Has the Bank maintained biographic records of officers and directors?
For what period?
191U to date
Where filed?
Clippings, etc. in Library
Yes
Complete file since 19h3 in Public Relations
Directors' biographies in Secretary's files
Are these available for research?
Authorship:
Yes
Books, Addresses, Papers, Periodical Articles of Officers and Directors.
Listing made?
Card catalog
Magazine index
If so, is copy available?
Catalogued or indexed in Bank's Library?
Copies filed in Bank's Library?
Yes
Yes, both
Elsewhere in Bank?
Some in Archives?
not indexed - few in General Files
RESEARCH STUDIES & STAFF MEMOS
Has the Bank a cumulative file of staff papers and studies?
Period covered?
Where filed?
Yes
1918 to date
Library - individuals may have sets in personal files
How classified?
Catalogued
Mostly concerned with: Regional Matters?
Yes
Available to students?
Yes
National?
International?
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF
CLEVELAND
LIBRARY - SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
Newspaper Clippings
Are clippings of historic interest kept permanently?
In scrapbooks?
Yes
In files? Most of them
Some - 191h to 1917
Any noteworthy special collections or long series of reports and periodicals that
would provide reference material on Federal Reserve History?
(Not file material)
Commercial and Financial Chronicle - 1882 to date - almost complete
Fourth District Banker - 1921; to 19~30 Money and Commerce - 1918 to date
/Finance and Industry - 1919 to 1928
American Banker - 1921 to date
Ohio Banker - 1921 to date
Commerce and Finance - 1918 to 1936
Chronological Log of Important Happenings and Events - 21 3-ring binders
ARCHIVES COLLECTION
Where can you locate material interest when it is needed?
No historical collection
or section in Archives
Has the Bank made any attempt to set up an archives collection?
No
How managed?
Who may use?
Liberty Loan Material
How much approximately has been preserved?
to 1925 pertaining to Liberty Loans
Fiscal Agency correspondence 1917
Coverage?
Picture Collection
Are pictures of the Bank's buildings, Bank events, e.g. anniversary dinners,
etc., preserved?
Yes
Period covered?
Few pictures in Archives or General Files
If so, where filed?
Archives, Library, Public Relations
Some in Library and in Building Office
19U3 to date in Public Relations
COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
33 Liberty Street, New York 45, New York
PRELIMINARY QUESTIONNAIRE ON FEDERAL RESERVE BANK ARCHIVAL MATERIAL
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF
New York
DATE
June 27, 1955
Pittsburgh Branch
BANK HISTORY
Has a history of the Bank been written?
No #
If so, please give author, title,
publisher and date of publication.
PUBLICATIONS
What publications does the Bank issue regularly?
preserve
State how many copies are
permanently, inclusive dates, and where filed.
Give exact
title, and changes in title as made.
Annual Report
, ^_„ „ .
Monthly Review
(Pittsburgh Branch included in publications of
Federal Keserve Bank of Cleveland)
Daily. Newspaper Digest
Employees House Organ
Other Publications (Periodical only)
List any Anniversary Issues of House, Organs, Periodicals, Newspapers, on Federal
Reserve events.
State whether copies have been preserved and where filed.
25th Anniversary booklet
Copies filed in Library and Historical Archives,
2
BIOGRAPHICAL DATA ON PERSONNEL
Have biographies of any bank officers or directors been printed?
JJ0#
If so,
indicate titles, with full publication details.
Are photographs of officers and directors preserved?
Yes#
Where located?
Historical Archives
Has the Bank maintained biographic records of officers and directors?
For what period?
1940 -
Where filed?
Library-
Are these available for research?
Authorship:
Yes
Books, Addresses, Papers, Periodical Articles of officers and
directors.
(A
fW)
Listing made?
If so, is copy available?
Catalogued or indexed in Bank's Library?
Copies filed in Bank1s Library?
Elsewhere in Bank?
RESEARCH STUDIES & STAFF MEMOS
Has the Bank a cumulative file of staff papers and studies?
No
Period covered?
Where filed?
How classified?
Mostly concerned with: Regional Matters 7
Available to students?
National?
International?
3
LIBRARY - SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
Newspaper Clippings
Are clippings of historic interest kept permanently? y 8 S In files?
Library
files
In scrapbooks?
Any noteworthy special collections or long series of reports and periodicals that
would provide reference material on Federal Reserve History?
(Not file
material)
ARCHIVES COLLECTION
Where can you locate material of historic interest when it is needed?
Library and Historical Archives
Has the Bank made any attempt to set up an archives collection?
Yes
How managed?
Cashier, Librarian and Senior File Clerk
Who may use?
Bank staff, authorized individuals from public and
educational institutions*
If so,
Liberty Loan Material.
How much approximately has been preserved?
Coverage?
Picture Collection.
Are pictures of the Bank's buildings, Bank events, e.g., anniversary dinners,
etc., preserved? Yes
If so, where filed?
Historical archives
Building file
Period covered?
Early pictures undated* A few pictures, from 1920 's.
Good coverage in past five years*
COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY OF THE FEDERAL RESERVgi gYSTEM E J V E
33 Liberty Street, New York 45, New York
D
PRELIMINARY QUESTIONNAIRE ON FEDERAL RESERVE BANK ARCHwAL'(MAlrfei£i$
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF DALLAS
COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY
OF THE
$$£1%kF8iE%%s'W&/l
BANK HISTORY
Has a history of the Bank been written?
If so, please give author, title,
publisher and date of publication.
Lumpkin, James Lightfoot, History of Organization and Growth of Federal Reserve
Bank of Dallas (bound typescript), March 31, 1920
Richardson, Jean, The Discount Operations of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
(Master's thesis for North Texas State Teachers College at Denton - now Worth
Texas State College, bound typescript), Aug. 194-7, 163 pp.
PUBLICATIONS
What publications does the Bank issue regularly? State how many copies are
preserved permanently, inclusive dates, and where filed. Give exact
title, and changes in title as made.
Annual Report
Annual Report of the .federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, 1915
through 1935 (printed and published). Items 1946 to date.** Federal Reserve
Bank of Dallas - Annual Report to Stockholders, 1923-1944•*
*Two bound copies of each in Library. "^One set bound - filed in Library.
Monthly Review Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Sept.' 1916 (monthly)
5,500 circulation to
Report of Business Conditions in the 11th Fed. Res. Dist.
member banks, some
(started as Fiscal Agent's Report, Dec. 23, 1919)
colleges, all regional Monthly Review of Business & Industrial Conditions, Apr. 15, 1920
banks
Sa&j5Bp8^gBeggegMEEgat Monthly Business Review, Mar. 1, 1926
***0ne bound set in Library; one bound set in Research Department; 11 bound
sets of each volume (not complete).
Employees House Organ
"Items" began Sept. 1919 vol. I No. 1 to Feb. 1931then discontinued until Nov. 1946 - from then to date.
Other Publications (Periodical only) Federal Reserve News - mimeographed June 1943 to Nov. 1945 (sent to employees in armed forces) bound *%**
***»0ne set in Library.
List any Anniversary Issues of House Organs, Periodicals, Newspapers, on Federal
Reserve events. State whether copies have been preserved and where filed.
(See attached supplemental list)
Supplemental List:
(Page 1 continued)
List any Anniversary Issues of House Organs, Periodicals, Newspapers, on Federal
Reserve events. State -whether copies have been preserved and where filed.
Anniversary issues, etc.
"Items"
1. "Championship No." - Oct. 1919
(Baseball)
2. List of directors, officers, and employees of the Federal
Reserve Bank of Dallas and branches - May 1920, p. 102-U
3. New Building - p. 85 - May-June 1921
k. Educational No. - Sept. 1921
5. The El Paso Branch - March 1922, p. 3-H
6. Anniversary No. - Oct.-Nov. 1922
7. Anniversary No. - Nov. 192U
8. San Antonio Branch Bank - Oct. 1928
9. l£th Anniversary - Sept. 1929
10. "Woman's Issue" - OcVNov. 1929
11. Jan. 1930 issue - Officers and Federal Reserve Club
12. "All Men's Issue" - March 1930
13. Vacation issue - May-June 1930
lli. Dec. 1930 - Lists officers and employees.
15. July 19U7 - 25-year employees - p. 6-7
16. Aug. 19^7 - p. 6-7 - Let's Look at Houston
17. Nov. 191*9 - 35th Anniversary No.
18. Nov. 1951 - 37th Anniversary No.
19. Nov. 1953 - 39th Anniversary No.
20. Nov, 1951i - UOth Anniversary No.
2
BIOGRAPHICAL DATA ON PERSONNEL
Have biographies of any hank officers or directors been printed? flot
known
indicate titles, with full publication details.
If so,
Yes
Are photographs of officers and directors preserved? / Where located?
Located in Personnel Department, Secretary of the Board Files, and Officers'
Lounge.
Has the Bank maintained biographic records of officers and directors?
For what period?
Where filed?
Yes.
These records for back years are incomplete.
Secretary of the Board Files.
Are these available for research?
Information taken from these files is
available.
Authorship:
Books, Addresses, Papers, Periodical Articles of officers and
directors. Each officer probably keeps his own. (Texas Bankers AssnJ
Listing made? Not com- if S o , is copy available?
pieu©.
Catalogued or indexed in Bank1s Library?
Copies filed in Bank's Library? Some
Elsewhere in Bank?
RESEARCH STUDIES & STAFF MEMOS
Has the Bank a cumulative file of staff papers and studies? Yes
Period covered? Waster file set up in 1942, but short staff has kept it from being
complete - manuscript and all information used in compiling it
Where filed?
Research Department
How classified? Contemplated, current and completed
Mostly concerned with: Regional Matters? First
National?
International? Occasional on
importance in original research
Information and
Mexico - spot check on S. Amer.
Available to students?
appraisal furInternat'l data on cotton and
nished Bd. of Di_ -wheat (Anderson-Clayton biggest
rectors & Officers exporters of cotton), Port data,
monthly
etc.
3
LIBRARY - SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
Newspaper Clippings
(We have very few newspaper clippings.)
Are clippings of historic interest kept permanently? y e s In files?
In scrapbooks?
Scattered in Library, among officers1 secretaries, etc.
Any noteworthy special collections or long series of reports and periodicals that
would provide reference material on Federal Reserve History?
material)
(Not file
No.
ARCHIVES COLLECTION
Where can you locate material of historic interest when it is needed?
Has the Bank made any attempt to set up an archives collection? Dead if so,
files
How managed?
Who may use?
Liberty Loan Material. Some in Library
One file drawer.
How much approximately has been preserved? /
Coverage?
19h2 - through special drives following end of War,
Fairly complete quotas and sales statistics
Picture Collection.
Are pictures of the Bank's buildings, Bank events, e.g., anniversary dinners,
etc., preserved? Yes. If so, where filed?
Period covered?
Personnel Department.
COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY OP THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
33 L i b e r t y S t r e e t , New York 4 5 , New York
EpREEmfNArfY QUESTIONNAIRE ON FEDERAL RESERVE BANK ARCHIVAL MATERIAL
JUL 1 3 19^"
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF
COMMITTEE ON THF
OF t!
FEDE
Kansas City
DATE J u n e , 1955
Mk]?tarsTORY
Has a history of the Bank been written? Yes
If s0> please give author, title,
publisher and date of publication.
Underhill, Hurshei. E. "The Kansas
City Federal Reserve District - Origins and Developments." Spalding Moss Co.,
Boston, 1941
Wallace, Robert F. (thesis! "The„Eederal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (1914-1921)"
Worley, Jesse. "History of Irie'Teoersl Reserve Bank of Kansas City."
(unfinished typescript)
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Note: There are discrepancies as to fact among these publications, and apparently
PUBLICATIONS some statements are in error.
What publications does the Bank issue regularly? State how many copies are
preserved permanently, inclusive dates, and where filed. Give exact
title, and changes in title as made.
Annual Report TiH?e«gh- ±9£0 Feperte sonetiaes tkin, sometimes fat. To-*a*Beard-, then Jto- the Stoekhe-lders —1924-40-toia. 1949, keeriy-pub-liohcd firct -&f
-&- aeye discursive series. (See note on check list)
Monthly Review -Mfr-i+My T°t,t°~ ™ r Vr'"" 1 * V ™ 1 Q ^ t^r^icli 1 Q 1 ° *" /i-r"Pa
•e/vrm.
R o g i n i r i n g TH t h Mry^
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Mnn+h l y R A T I P B Knrt
innrpfisfifi
iti si go to 8 pcgoc.—Tno format van changed wllh Uie" January, 1954 issue, -bttt-4t.
±&-sfrm r.fl11pri t,hp Monthly Review. (s e e note on check list)
Daily Newspaper Digest No
Employees House Organ The official house organ vas issued first in January,
1954* end is published monthly under the name of "TennT News."
Other Publications (Periodical only) See check list
List any Anniversary Issues of House Organs, Periodicals, Newspapers, on Federal
Reserve events. State whether copies have been preserved and where filed.
a
4'
Kansas City Star, November, 1954
A scrapbook of all 40th anniversary material is kept in the library.
2
BIOGRAPHICAL DATA ON PERSONNEL
Have biographies of any bank officers or directors been printed? None
that we have any record of.
"ff^ss,
If so, indicate titles, with full publication details. The following book contains
biographical sketches of H.G. Leedy and R.3. Caldwell: Fowler, Dick. Leaders in
our town. Kansas City, Ho., Business Lien's Assurance Company, (19539)
a partial file.
Are photographs of officers and directors preserved? Yes/Where located? Secretary's
file
The Research Department began such a file in 1954, but it is not complete.
Has the Bank maintained biographic records of officers and directors? Yes.
For what period? Casual before 1935 - then Board set a form and has been
kept since.
Where filed? Officers' records ere in personnel division file - early ones
are not uniform.
Are these available for research? Yes, if properly authorized.
Authorship:
Books, Addresses, Papers, Periodical Articles of officers and
directors.
Listing made?
NO.
If so, is copy available?
No.
Catalogued or indexed in Bank's Library? The library has some books and Rutgers
theses by men who became officers, the collection is probably not complete, however
Copies filed in Bank's Library?See
Elsewhere in Bank?
answer above.
RESEARCH STUDIES & STAFF MEMOS
Has the Bank a cumulative file of staff papers and studies?
No.
Period covered?
Where filed?
How classified?
Mostly concerned with: - some research studies of permanent value are kept in
the Research department.
Regional Matters? Yes.
National? Yes.
International? No.
Available to students?
Ho.
LIBRARY - SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
Newspaper Clippings
Are clippings of historic interest kept permanently?
In files? Yes
A few old cliopincs have been kept in the library. The Research Departmeathas
TV, =~,.0-r.v„™vc!<?
subscribed to a ciipoina faerviue since
scragDoofsr
November, 1952. Important clippings are
,_ Research Department: Yes,
mounted and kept permanently.
Any noteworthy special collections or long series of reports and periodicals that
would provide reference material on Federal Reserve History?
material)
(Not file
No.
ARCHIVES COLLECTION
Where can you locate material of historic interest when It is needed?
It depends on the material needed, of course, but a check is usually made of
the library, the President's office, general files, Kansas City Public
Library and the Kansas City Star library.
Has the Bank made any attempt to set up an archives collection? no.
If so,
How managed?
Who may use?
Liberty Loan Material.
How much approximately has "been preserved?
Coverage?
24. transfer cases on Treasury stuff - includes liberty Loan
Picture Collection.
Are pictures of the Bank's buildings, Bank events, e.g., anniversary dinners,
etc., preserved? Yes
If so, where filed? Library has a fat photograph
album of building progress.
The library also has a small collection of group
Period covered?
_
pictures wnich is indexed. The Research Department- has
Building: 1920-21.
a picture file dating from 1954.
Group Pictures: 1914—date.
Research file: 1954—date.
(L^yju. <v*r3"
PUBLICATIONS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF KANSAS CITY"
Monthly Review.
•7.1—4.
1916—1919. Under title: Report of Conditions in District No. 10.
v.5.
1920. Under title: The Monthly Bulletin,
v. 6—
1921—date. Under present title.
•Permanent file: Research Department, 6 copies; Library, 1 copy.
Annual Report to Stockholders.
Through Report No. 33, for 1947, this publication was a brief statistical report
of operations, with data included varying from year to year. From 1948 to date,
it has been made up of both statistical material and text. The latter series of
reports contains an economic review for the Tenth District as well as a summary
of the Bank's operations.
No. 1—2.
1915—1916. Untitled.
No. 3—7.
1917—1921. Under title: Annual Report.
No. 8—9.
1922—1923. Under title: Annual Statement.
No. 10.
1924. Under title: Report to Stockholders.
No. 11-21.
1925—1935. Under title: Annual Statement.
No. 22—26.
1936—1940. Under title: Report to Stockholders.
No. 27—331941—1947. Under title: Annual Statement.
No. 3 4 —
1948—date. Under present title,
•permanent file: Research Department, 2 copies; Library, 1 copy.
Operating Ratios of Member Banks. Annual.
1937—1942. Untitled.
1943—date. Under present title.
•Permanent file: Research Department, 3 copies; Library, 1 copy.
Condition and Earnings Report. Quarterly.
(Title for the reports issued after spring and fall bank calls is Member Bank
Condition. After the June and December bank calls it is as listed above.)
1953—date.
Permanent file: Research Department, 6 copies; Library, 1 copy.
Financial Conditions—Review of the tlonth.
4/18/46—6/1/46. (Weekly) Under title: Memorandum to Accompany Condition Reports
of Weekly Reporting Member Banks.
6/14/46—11/5/46. Under title: Financial Developments—Review of the Week.
11/12/46—date. Under present title.
Permanent file: Research Department, 1 copy through 1951, 5 copies thereafter;
Library, 1 copy.
*For the earlier years the permanent files sometimes contain fewwr copies than are
kept at present.
PUBLICATIONS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF KANSAS CITY.
2.
Selected Items of Condition of Tenth District member Banks. Monthly.
(Similar data appeared in Monthly Review from the beginning of 1920 through
December, 1953. A compilation was issued covering 1952—1953» and there is
an annual compilation from 1954.)
1/54—date.
Permanent file: Research Department, 5 copies; Library, 1 copy.
Bank Debits. Monthly.
(Data from beginning of 1920 through May, 1947 appeared in the Monthly Review.)
6/47—date.
Permanent file: Research Department, 1 copy; Library, 1 copy, 1953—date.
Consumer Instalment Credit of Commercial and Industrial Banks. Monthly.
2/42—12/53- Under title: Consumer Instalment Credit of Monthly Reporting
Member Banks.
1/54—date. Under present title.
Permanent file: Research Department, 1 copy; Library, 1 copy, 1953—date.
Weekly Department Store Sales. (H.8)
l/8/38~date.
Permanent file: Research Department, 1 copy; Library, 1 copy, 1953—date.
Monthly Department Store Sales. (G.7.2)
(Data from beginning of 1920 through December, 1932 appeared in the Monthly Review.)
1/33--12/40. Under title: Retail Trade.
1/41—5/54. Under title: Department Store Trade.
6/54—date. Under present title.
Permanent file: Researcn Department, 1 copy; Library, 1 copy, 1953—date.
Department Store Merchandising Data. (G.7.4.I) Monthly.
1/41—5/54. Under title: Department Store Trade.
6/54—date. Under present title.
Permanent file: Research Department, 1 copy; Library, 1 copy, 1953—date.
Monthly Department Store Stocks. (G.7.4.2)
(Data from beginning of 1920 through December, 1932 appeared in the Monthly Review.)
1/33—12/40. Under title: Retail Trade.
1/41—5/54. Under title: Department Store Trade.
6/54—date. Under present title.
Permanent file: Research Department, 1 copy; Library, 1 copy, 1953—date.
Department Store Credit. (G.17) Monthly.
1/33—12/40. Under title: Retail Trade.
1/41—5/54. Under title: Department Store Trade.
6/54—date. Under present title.
Permanent file: Research Department, 1 copy; Library, 1 copy, 1953—date.
Department Store Sales and Stocks, by Departments. (G.7.3) Monthly.
1/41—date.
Permanent file: Research Department, 1 copy; Library, 1 copy, 1953—date.
PUBLICATIONS OS* THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF KANSAS CITY.
3.
Distribution of Annual Department Store Sales by Months. (C.7.3.1) Annual.
1944—date.
Permanent file: Research Department, 1 copy; Library, 1 copy, 1953—date.
Distribution of Department Store Sales by Departments. (C.7»3»2) Annual.
1944—date.
Permanent file: Researcn Department, 1 copy; Library, 1 copy, 1953—dote.
Changes in Sales and Stocks by Departments in Kansas City Retail Stores.
10/36—12/40.
Permanent file: Research Department, 1 copy.
Uonthly.
Retail Trade in Kansas City. Monthly.
1/34—12/40.
Permanent file: Research Department, 1 copy.
Statement of Condition of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. YJeekly.
*1926—date.
Permanent file: Library, 3 copies.
Ten J News. Monthly.
1954—date.
Permanent file: Research Department, 5 copies; Library, 1 copy.
Confidential:
Discount Summary. Weekly.
1/7/53—date.
Permanent file: Research Department, 5 copies.
*This release was issued for many years before 1926, but has been kept only since
that time.
7/55
COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
33 Liberty Street, New York 45, New York
PRELIMINARY QUESTIONNAIRE ON FEDERAL RESERVE BANK ARCHIVAL MATERIAL
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF
ty***
BANK HISTORY
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If so, please give author, title,
publisher and date of publication*
PUBLICATIONS
What publications does the Bank issue regularly? State how many copies are
preserved* permanently, inclusive dates, and where filed*
Give exact
title, and changes in title as made.
Annual Report
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Monthly Review
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Daily.1 Newspaper Digest
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Employees House Organ
Other Publications (Periodical only)
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List any Anniversary,, Issues of House Organs, Periodicals, Newspapers, on Federal
Reserve events* State whether copies have been preserved and where filed.
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2
BIOGRAPHICAL DATA ON PERSONNEL
Have biographies of any bank officers or directors been printed?
If so,
indicate titles, with full publication details.
Are photographs of officers and directors preserved?
Where located?
Has the Bank maintained biographic records of officers and directors?
For vhat period?
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Are these available for research?
Authorship: Books, Addresses, Papers, Periodical Articles of officers and
directors.
Listing made?
If so, is copy available?
Catalogued or indexed in Bank1 s Library?
Copies filed in Bank's Library?
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RESEARCH STUDIES & STAFF MEMOS
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Has the Bank a cumulative file of staff papers and studies?
Period covered? .
Where filed?
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National?
Available to students?
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LIBRARY - SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
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Newspaper Clippings
Are clippings of historic interest kept permanently?
In files?
In scrapbooks?
Any noteworthy special collections or long series of reports and periodicals that
would provide reference material on Federal Reserve History? (Not file
material)
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ARCHIVES COLLECTION
Where can you locate material of historic interest when it is needed?
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Has the Bank made any attempt to set up an archives collection? ^jMp —If so,
How managed?
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Liberty Loan Material.
How much approximately has been preserved?
Coverage?
Picture Collection.
Are pictures of the Bank's buildings, Bank events, e.g., anniversary dinners,
etc., preserved?
Period covered?
If so, where filed?
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COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
33 Liberty Street, New York 45, New York
PRELIMINARY QUESTIONNAIRE ON FEDERAL RESERVE BANK ARCHIVAL MATERIAL
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK
DATE
May 13, 1955
BANK HISTORY
Has a history of the Bank been written? Yes
If so, please give author, title,
publisher and date of publication.
Clark, Lawrence.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
1930.
PUBLICATIONS
What publications does the Bank issue regularly?
State how many copies are
preserved, permanently, inclusive dates, and where filed.
Give exact
title, and changes in title as made.
Annual Report 2.$lk (Oct.5) to date, h bound sets in Library
Annual Statement, 1917+tg date• Bound with annual report.
President's Report to/Directors. 19l>2 to date. Confidential. 3 sets in Library,
(Annual)
Monthly Review
General Businers Conditions, Jan.3, 1918 - Aug. 15, 1919.
) h bound sets in
Monthly Review of Credit and Business Conditions, 1919 to date)
Library
Daily Newspaper Digest
Newspaper Review. Mimeo. 1920 to date.
On backers in Library. Daily.
Employees House Organs)Federal Reserve Club Magazine (Monthly) Jan. 1919 - Dec.1923
The Federalist (weekly)l/l6/2>»3/Wli9The Fed (bi-weekly) Ap.13,19^9 to date.
~.-u
QpifflSlete .bound file xn Glub office" j> current years in Library.
Other Putflications (Periodical only)
Circulars (Irreg.) Oct.28, 19lli to date. Bound vols, in Library & Publications
Bulletins (Internal. Irreg.) Complete bound set in Publications Div.
Eiv,
(See attached list for oth=r titles in Library)
ff\0
List any Anniversary Issues of House Organs, Periodicals, Newspapers, on Federal
Reserve events. State whether copies have been preserved and where filed.
The Federalist, Memorial number to Governor Strong. 1928.
30th. Anniversary of the Federal Reserve B?nk of New York, Nov.l6, I9I1U.
Anniversary souvenir number of the Federalist.
ItOth. Anniversary of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Nov.l6, 195k»
The Federalist.
All of above in Library and in Club Office.
2
BIOGRAPHICAL DATA ON PERSONNEL
Have biographies of any bank officers or directors been printed? No.
if so,
indicate titles, with full publication details.
Are photographs of officers and directors preserved? YesWhere located?
Framed photographs of directors in N.W. Conference Room, 10th.floor. Official album of current
officers' photos in Secretary's Office, and some for a few years back. Also
current officers' album in Public Information Division.
Has the Bank maintained biographic records of officers and directors? Yes.
For what period"? 19ll| to date, in Personnel folders .
Where filed?
Secretary's Office.
Are these available for research?
an officer.
Authorship:
No, except with special permission from
Books, Addresses, Papers, Periodical Articles of officers and
directors.
Listing made?
No.
If so, is copy available?
Catalogued or indexed in Bank's Library? Yes.
Copies filed in Bank's Library? Yes. Elsewhere in Bank? Publications Division
has complete set of speeches of Alan Sproul that were made public. Also of
speeches by members of Bd. of Governors that reached them iia mailing list.
RESEARCH STUDIES & STAFF MEMOS
Has the Bank a cumulative file of staff papers and studies? Yes. Only obsolete studies
are discarded.
Period covered? Date of preparation - 1920 to date. Studies may cover in subject
any span of dates.
Where filed? In Division files of Research Dept.
Domestic Research Div.- Ey subject
How classified? Foreign Research Div. - By area, then subject.
(Other Divisions have no files that come within this category.)
Mostly concerned with: Regional Matters? x Yes
Available to students? No.
National? x Yes
International? x
Yes
3
LIBRARY - SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
Newspaper Clippings
Are clippings of historic interest kept permanently? Ye^ In files? Some.
In scrapbooks?
Yes.
(See titles in List # 2 . )
Any noteworthy special collections or long series of reports and periodicals that
would provide reference material on Federal Reserve History?
(Not file
material)
See attached list # 2 .
ARCHIVES COLLECTION
Where can you locate material of historic interest when it is needed? Yes.
Reference Library - Books and Files, through catalog.
Correspondence Files, classified by subjsct.
Annex for old records.
Has the Bank made any attempt to set up an archives collection? Partiallf so,
How managed? Old records of all departments are stored in Annex, where
they are arranged and indexed by Files Section of Accounting Division
of Accounting Dept.
Who may use? Bank personnel and Federal examiners.
Liberty Loan Material.
How much approximately has been preserved? None. Coverage?
Poster collection, originally sent to Annex, presumably transferred to
Treasury Dept. Statistical and other documents in Library.
Picture Collection.
Are pictures of the Bank's buildings, Bank events, e.g., anniversary dinners,
etc., preserved?Yes,
If so, where filed?
Period covered?
Publications Division (Secretary's Office) has (l) 2 or 3
albums of pictures of bank buildings and of departmental operations, such as
gold coding in forstorage, coin counting, cafeteria, etc. (2) Photographs by
Acme News, in Nov„lQU7> originally intended for booklet of bank operations.
Now given out for use by newspapers and magazines, e.g. check operations, etc.
Building Operating Dept. File of pictures of »\*eek by week progress on Bank's
building. Also of new addition to building.
Office of "The Fed". One fils copy and some dups. of originals for pictures printed
in "The Fed." filso a few old-time pictures. Also a c ouple of this area in
earlier days. Pictures of Bank's Christmas Dinner party since 19h9*
Library. Some photographs and pictures in vertical file under Federal Reserve
Bank of New York, subheads "Buildings" and "Pictures".
*l
Other Publications.
In Library unless otherwise noted. Technical mimeographed releases are not
listed here. A complete list of the regular releases, reports, tabulations
and charts of the Research Dept is available in the Library.
Bulletins. Irregular
Library has one year's file. Publications Bivision
has complete file.
Business and financial summary.
Prepared before 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month
for director's meeting. 1920 (May) to date. (With
supplement 1920-1935)
Circulars, 1914- (Oct 28) to date.
Daily letter. 1918 to date.
Directory of the Federal Reserve Bank of Hew York* Various
editions from 1925-1954. Library has two sets.
,
Highlights of Bank relations visits. Irregular
Library has currently only.
Library News. 1928 to date. Irregular.
List of studies placed in Research, files
Division). 1944 to date. Irregular.
(Domestic Research
Nomination and election of directors. 1921-1951, 1954.
Operating bulletins. Loose-leaf.
Operating circulars. Loose-leaf. 194.7 to date.
Press releases. March 16, 1920 - March 3, 1922. Discontinued.
Report of Bank and public relations activities. Monthly
Library has currently only.
Report of federal legislative developments affecting banking
in the ... Congress. Irregular
Library has currently only.
Report of open market operations and money market conditions
for the week ended... Confidential.
Kept in Securities Dept.
Report of the Committee on foreign affairs. Confidential
1925 to date.
t
Statement for the press. Irregular.
Current only in Lib. public Information Dept. has complete
file.
Weekly news review. 1950 to date.
Weekly news nummary. Hay 13, 1928 - December 21, 1939.
Entitled Banking and trade notes, 1928-30J Weekly review, 1931.
With issue of Dec. 27, 1938 absorbed into Business and financial
summary.
NOTEWORTHY COLLECTIONS
Periodical Indexes
Industrial Arts Index.
1922 to date.
public Affairs Information Service.
1915 to date.
Periodicals
American Academy of Political and Social Science.
(with a few earlier issues)
1919 to date,
American Economic Review (including Proceedings of the American
Economic Association) 1920 to date.
American Statistical Association. Journal.
1908 to date.
Annalist. Jan. 1915-Oct. 1940.
Banking.
July 1914 to date.
Commercial and Financial Chronicle.
Journal of Political Economy.
Political Science Quarterly.
1866 to date.
Feb. 1922-1924.; 1933 to date.
September 1919 to date.
Quarterly Journal of Economics.
1922 to date.
Review of Economics and Statistics.
1919 to date.
Newspapers.
New York Times. 1927 to date.
(SinSe71950 on microfilm)
New York Times Index.
1913 to date.
Annuals
Academy of Political Science. Proceedings.
U.S. Comptroller of the Currency.
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
(except 1850/51)
October 1913 to date.
Annual Report.
Annual Report.
1867 to date.
1790 to date,
Scrapbooks of Newspaper Clippings.
Adverse criticism of Federal Reserve credit policy.
Bank for International Settlements.
1929-1948. 2v.
Bank of United States. 1930 - 1934. 3v.
April 1932.
Scrapbooks of Newspaper Clippings. Continued.
Banking Act of 1935.
Banking crisis and noratoria.
1933-34-
2v.
Bretton Woods. 194-6-4.9.
British credits and gold standard crisis. 1931.
Federal monetary authority.
Credit policy. 1934-35*
Chicago rate controversy. 1927.
Conference of central bank governors at New York. 1927.
Discount rate - Second District. 1930-33.
European recovery program. 194-7-52.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. 1933-44Federal Reserve publicity.
Second District. 1919-21.
Federal Reserve publicity.
All Districts except Second.
Federal Reserve publicity.
1925-1953.
1925-29.
35v.
Federal Reserve: charter renewal. 1925-26.
Federal Reserve: discount rate.
1928-29
Federal Reserve System - five best speeches. 1921-25.
Foreign aid. 1947-4-8.
French franc devaluation. 1936-37.
German credits. 1931-35.
Glass bills (Banking act of 1933).
1932-34-
Great Britain1s return to gold standard.
April 1925.
Ruml income tax plan. 194-3.
Inflation and deflation.
1933.
2v.
International Bank and International Monetary Fund. 1950-54International banking and currency plans. 194-3-4-5.
McFadden bill.
1924--28. 2v.
2v.
Scrapbooks of Newspaper Clippings.
Continued.
Money, gold, silver, and monetary policies.
1933-1954* 6v.
National credit corporation. 1931-33.
Federal Reserve Bank of Hew York new "building scrapbook.
2v.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation and Small Business Administration.
1931-1954. 4v.
Reparations note of S. Parker Gilbert to the German government Oct. 20,
1927. 2v.
Savings bonds. 1945-1950.
U.S. defense financing.
1941-44. 4v.
Veterans bonus. 1931-33.
War debts. 1927-34. 3v.
World Konetary and economic conference. 1933.
Files.
Newspaper Review Index - a subject arrangeaent of items in the Newspaper
Review. 1920 to date.
Newspaper Review clippings. The Newspaper clippings from which Newspaper Review items were taken.
^
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ET I X ? 0 ^ * 1 ^ 2 0 N T H E HISTORY OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
& « * > *^ii Liberty Street, New York 45, New York
£PftF|l$L$SiNARY QUESTIONNAIRE ON FEDERAL RESERVE BANK ARCHIVAL MATERIAL
COMMITTEE Of* JH£ HISTORY
0P THE
FEEDEI^B^!ff^^ T BAW OF PHILADELPHIA
DATE Organised 1921
BANK HISTORY
Has a history of the Bank "been written? No
If so, please give author, title,
publisher and date of publication.
PUBLICATIONS
What publications does the Bank issue regularly? State how many copies are
preserved permanently, inclusive dates, and where filed. Give exact
title, and changes in title as made.
Annual Report
1916 - 1944 Very limited, incomplete
1945 - date Average of 50+- |5er copy
Kept in storage
Research Dept.
Monthly Review
_The Business Review
Research Dept.
191$ - 1921 A scattered few
tt
1921 - 1947 Average of 5 per copy
J3&Suz.^JS tl Average of 50 pey cppy
Daily. JSewspaperDige st
1Title
Ti Changes: Business Conditions 1913 -Aug. 1921
Business & Financial Conditions
Sept. 1921 -June 1923
no
Employees House Organ ^ e ^-C
Business Review July 1^23 ~_.date„
Kept in Storage and in 3-C files
1944 - date Average of 6 0 v per copy
Kept
in the Library
1919 - l ? ^ ... Pne B p u ^ s ^ g f TOlmes,
Otfter Publications ^Periodical only) Title Changes,; The 3-C Book 1919 - 1936
The 3-C
1944 - date
no
List any Anniversary Issues of House Organs, Periodicals, Newspapers, on Federal
Reserve events. State whether copies have been preserved and where filed.
40thAnniversary Issue - of the 3-0 100 copies kej>t in Storage and in 3-C files Oct. 1954
Forty ^ears of the Federal Reserve Act 1953 -Annual Report
kept in Research Dept.
50 original copies, 1300 Reprints
BIOGRAPHICAL DATA ON PERSONNEL
Have biographies of any bank officers or directors been printed? No
If
indicate titles, with full publication details.
Are photographs of officers and directors preserved? y es Where located?
3-C Files
Secretary of the Board's Piles
Has the Bank maintained biographic records of officers and directors? y e g
For what period?
1914 - date
Where filed?
Secretary of the Board's Files
Are these available for research?
Authorship:
Yes - Copies of the originals
Books, Addresses, Papers, Periodical Articles of officers and
directors.
Listing made? les
If so, is copy available?
Catalogued or indexed in Bank1 s Library?
Copies filed in Bank's Library?- les
Tes
¥es
Elsewhere in Bank?
No
RESEARCH STUDIES & STAFF MEMOS
Has the Bank a cumulative file of staff papers and studies?
Period covered?
We do not know what is referred to by "Staff Papers",
and therefore, have not filled it in.
Where filed?
How classified?
Mostly concerned with:
Regional Matters?
Available to students?
National?
Internat ional?
3
LIBRARY - SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
Newspaper Clippings
Are clippings of historic interest kept permanently? Yes I n files?
Yes
In scrapbooks?
Any noteworthy special collections or long series of reports and periodicals that
would provide reference material on Federal Reserve History?
(Not file
material)
The section of the Library stacks devoted to The Federal
Reserve System, and especially the Philadelphia Federal Reserve•
ARCHIVES COLLECTION
Where can you locate material of historic interest when it is needed?
Library
Research Dept.
Has the Bank made any attempt to set up an archives collection?
No
If
s0
>
How managed?
Who may use?
Liberty Loan Material.
How much approximately has been preserved? none
Coverage?
Picture Collection.
Are pictures of the Bank1s buildings, Bank events, e.g., anniversary dinners,
etc., preserved?
Period covered?
yes
If so, where filed?
1944 - d&te
3-C H i e s
COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY OF THE FEDERAL R E S E f f e l a f ^ M E
33 Liberty S t r e e t , New York 4 5 , New York
1 V E D
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PRELIMINARY QUESTIONNAIRE ON FEDERAL RESERVE BANK ARCH!
COMMITTEE ON THE HISTCBV
OF THE
FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
DATE March 31, 1955
FEDERAL RESERVE RANK OF RICHMOND
BANK HISTORY Coit, Charles Guernsey, The Federal Rcccrve Bank of Richmond,
,(Columbia University Press, Ilev York, 1941)
Has a history of the Bank been written?
If so, please give author, title,
publisher and date of publication*
PUBLICATIONS
What publications does the Bank issue regularly?
State how many copies are
preserve4 permanently, inclusive dates, and where filed.
Give exact
title, and changes in title as made.
Annual Report
Monthly Review
(See Attached Sheet)
u
Daily, Newspaper Digest
Employees House Organ
n
Other Publications (Periodical only)
List any Anniversary Issues of House Organs, Periodicals, Newspapers, on Federal
Reserve events. State whether copies have been preserved and where filed.
"Notes on the History of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond - Prepared at the
request of a Richmond Newspaper on the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Opening of
the Bank, November 16, 1939•" 7 copies.
Federal Observer 1914 - 1954 Vol. VIII 11 & 12 (October and November 1954).
Richmond News Leader - April 2, 1954 - clipping (1) 40th Anniversary.
2
BIOGRAPHICAL DATA ON PERSONNEL
Have biographies of any bank officers or directors been printed?
No.
If so,
indicate titles, with full publication details.
Are photographs of officers and directors preserved?
Where located?
Photographs of officers and directors have been kept only in recent years by
the Public Information Department.
Has the Bank maintained biographic records of officers and directors?
For what period?
Yes
Since 1936.
Where filed? Information on directors maintained in records of the
Secretary of the Board of Directors^ officers maintained in Personnel
Department*
Are these available for research? Yes, but limited availability due to
salary data on back of sheet.
Authorship:
Books; Addresses, Papers, Periodical Articles of officers and
directors.
Listing made? Yes
If
so
> ^ s copy available?
Yes
Catalogued or indexed in Bank* s Library? Books or theses are catalogued*
Recent speeches of permanent value which trould aid others in the inciting of
Copies filed in Bank1 s Library?
Elsewhere in Bank? speeches are inde::ed
in a speech file. °ther
addresses and papers are
RESEARCH STUDIES & STAFF MEMOS
filed by subject*.
Has the Bank a cumulative file of staff papers and studies?
Period covered?
Where filed?
The Bank does not have a cumulative file of staff papers
end studies filed together• The Library, hovever., has
these on file by subject and its collection is probably
complete.
How classified?
Mostly concerned with: Regional Matters? Yes
National?
International?
Available to students? All material, other than that marked confidential, is
available to money and banking students in the area.
3
LIBRARY - SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (See attcched sheet)
Newspaper Clippings
Are clippings of historic interest kept permanently?
In files?
In scrapbooks?
Any noteworthy special collections or long series of reports and periodicals that
would provide reference material on Federal Reserve History?
(Not file
material)
ARCHIVES COLLECTION
Where can you locate material of historic interest when it is needed?
In the Library there is one file dx&ver and a box which contain archival
material; so far this embodies The Archives I However, future plans call
for the organisation and assembling of an archives collection.
Has the Bank made any attempt to set up an archives collection?
If so,
How managed?
Who may use?
Liberty Loan Material-
(See attached sheet)
How much approximately has been preserved?
Coverage?
Picture Collection.
Are pictures of the Bank!s buildings, Bank events, e.g., anniversary dinners,
etc., preserved?
If so, where filed?
Period covered? Prior to 1950 when Public Information began their file,
pictures were saved by chance. Those which the bank has are idth the
other archival material.
PUBLICATIONS
Annual Reports
Report made to the Federal Reserve Board upon the operations of the
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond for the period between the date of organisation and December 31* 1915* bytfilliamIngle, Chairman of the Board and
Federal Reserve Agent.
Second Annual Report of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond 1916.
General format and title regained unchanged through
Twenty-First Annual Report of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond 1935.
The Twenty-Second Annual Report through the Thirty-Siiith Annual Report
only contained the "Comparative Statement of the Condition of the Federal Reserve Bonk of Richmond...together with a Comparative Statement of Profit".
1936-1950
The title for the year 1936 and 1937 is "Report to Stockholders" and for
the year 1938 is "Annual Report to Member Banks." From 1939 to 1950 the front
page contained a letter addressed to the Member Banks of the Fifth Federal Reserve District containing the above statement.
Thirty-Seventh Annual Report, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond 1951.
General format and title have remained unchanged through present time.
The Library has preserved one copy of each report through the eleventh (1925)
and three copies of each report from 1926 to present.
Monthly Review
From April 1915 - May 1917
Typed copies of the release sent to the Board as "Report of
Business Conditions of the Fifth Federal Reserve District for the
Federal Reserve Bulletin" are bound as the printed copies are not
available. Monthly.
From June 1917 - January 1919
Printed and bound copies of "Report of Business Conditions in
the Fifth Federal Reserve District for the Federal Reserve Bulletin."
Monthly.
From February 1919 - March 1923
"General Business and Agricultural Conditions in the Fifth.Federal
Reserve District." Monthly. Bound.
From April 1923 - January 1930
"Monthly Review—Business and Agricultural Conditions."
Bound.
Fron February 1930 - May 1937
"Monthly Review—Credit, Business and Agricultural Conditions".
Bound.
From June 1937 - December 194-7
"Monthly Review of Financial and Business Conditions". Bound,
From January 1948 - Present time
"Monthly Review". Bound.
House Or^an- Bound and Kept in Library
"Pun and Finance"
June 1922 1923 1924. 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 -
Vol.
Vol.
Vol.
Vol.
Vol.
Vol.
Vol.
Vol.
Vol.
Vol.
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IZ
X
_
—
-
iJos. 1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
-
7
11
11
11
12
12
12
12
12
4
-
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
(April 1931)
"5-E Flash"
Vol. 1 Ho.
Ho.
August 1946
September 1946
"Federal Observer"
August 1947
August 1948
August 1949
August 1950
August 1951
August 1952
December 1953
January 1955
Vol.
Vol.
Vol.
Vol.
Vol.
Vol.
Vol.
Vol.
Vol.
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
_
—
—
1
Bos. 3
1
1
1
1
1
1
l
Other Publications
Agricultural Itens - 1One copy kept in Libra.ry's files.
Vol. 1, Ho. 1
October 1947
through
Vol. VII, No. 12 December 1953
Inventory of Economic Research Related to Virginia Economy
Ho. 1, July 194-9 with supplement
2, July 1950
Inventor?/ of Economic Research in Fifth District
No. 1, December 1950? Parts I and II
2, December 1951
3, January 1953
U9 January 1954
5, January 1955
Library has one bound copy of each.
-42)
liar Savings and Thrift Stamps (August 23, 1918-Decembcr 23, 1919)
3)
1-Tar Savings and Thrift Stamps, (1920) .
All correspondence concerning the Liberty Loan has been destroyed. Any
circulars, however, put out by this bank during the period would be kept by
General Files in their complete record of circulars.
-3Ooerating Ratios of Fifth District Homber Banks
1925 - present
In booklet form beginning in 1947.
Library has 1 copy 1925 - 1946j 3 copies 1947 to present.
LIBRAE! - SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
Hevspaper Clippings
Scattered clippings -were saved on the opening of the Federal Reserve Bank
of Richmond., moving into the building at llinth and Franklin, etc. and these
clippings are being preserved permanently vith the archival material.
In 1950 the Public Information Department (then Bank and Public Relations)
began a file on clippings from local papers of historic interest to the Bank
and this is being currently maintained. These clipp ings vill be kept permanently
in files in this department.
Special Collections
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Questions and Answers on the Federal
Reserve System, ed. Chas. A. Peple (Richmond, 1st ed. 1920, 2nd ed. 1926).
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Letters to College Classes in Economics
and Banking Discussing the Practical Operations of the Federal Reserve System.
(Richmond, December 1921 - July 1926).
George J. Seay, Richmond as the Location of a. Federal Reserve Bank.
A brief prepared by George J. Seay, on behalf of the committee representing
Richmond. (Richmond, 1914) •
ARCHIVES COLLECTION
Liberty Loan material
George J. Seay, Financing the World "War With Special Reference to the Part
Played by the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, the Fifth Federal Reserve District
and the Citizens of Virginia, 1917-1919. (Richmond, April 1923.)
This comprises four loose-leaf notebooks. It is divided into tvro parts:
Part I develops some of the fundamental factors in the vay of financial preparedness, fiscal machinery, legislation, etc., upon vhJLch the superstructure of the
great campaigns rested. Part II describes fully the loan campaigns. These are
in the Library.
In the stacks on the second floor there are three notebooks containing circulars, etc., put out by the T.'ar Loan Organisation.
They are listed as:
l)
Treasury Savings Certificates
TJar Finance Bonds
COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM^
33 Liberty S t r e e t , New York 45, New York
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^
MOV
PRELIMINARY QUESTIONNAIRE ON FEDERAL RESERVE BANK ARCHIVAL MATERIAL
?1S55
COM.V.I77HI OU THE HISTORY
Or 1 ME
FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF ST* LOUIS
DATE
BANK HISTORY
Has a history of the Bank been written?
Tes
If so, please give author, title,
publisher and date of publication. "Federal Reserve Bank of St* Louis*, by
Wilbur Clarence Bothwell, Department of Economics, FtuD. dissertation, presented
to Board of Graduate Studies, Washington University, June 19iil# typewritten*
(Tiro copies on deposit with Washington University Libraiy. Biird copy
with the Federal Reserve Bank of St* Louis.)
PUBLICATIONS
What publications does the Bank issue regularly?
preserve
State how many copies are
permanently, inclusive dates} and where filed.
title, and changes in title as made.
Give exact
Bound, in Library!
Annual Report
1935 to 19521 for 1953 see Monthly Review, Feb* 1 9 # u
for 19$k see Monthly Review, Feb, 1955.
Monthly Review
Bound from March 1919 to date.
Probably started earlier as weekly*
Available in library, St. Louis Reserve Bank.
Daily. Newspaper Digest
April 1, 1921 to date
Unbound- Library files
Employees House Organ
"The Four Four NJWS 1 *, vol.1, no.l, Jan#2, 192U to date. Bound in Library.
Other Publications (Periodical only)
List any Anniversary Issues of House Organs, Periodicals, Newspapers, on Federal
Reserve events. State whether copies have been preserved and where filed.
BALUD OF THE'BANK (pamphlet/ (on opening of new building, 1925)
FOUR-FOUR NEWS Special issues;
Silver Anniversary, November, 1939. Bound in Library
Special Service Ed., March, 19U6"
"
"
2
BIOGRAPHICAL DATA ON PERSONNEL
Have biographies of any bank officers or directors been printed?
Yes
If so,
indicate titles, with full publication details.
Wells, Holla.
Episodes of my life*
Privately printed, 1933• 5lQp*
Are photographs of officers and directors preserved?
Secretary's office ~- (files incomplete)
Where located?
Has the Bank maintained biographic records of officers and directors?
Yes
For what period?
Where filed?
Secretary»s file.
Are these available for research?
Authorship:
Yes
Books, Addresses, Papers, Periodical Articles of officers and
directors.
Listing made?
No
If so, is copy available?
Catalogued or indexed in Bank1s Library?
Copies filed in Bank's Library? Yes
Many in Library*
Elsewhere in Bank?
RESEARCH STUDIES & STAFF MEMOS
Has the Bank a cumulative file of staff papers and studies?
Yes (may be incomplete)
Period covered? 19lU to date
Where filed?
In Library.
How classified?
Mostly concerned with: Regional Matters?
Available to students?
X
National?
X
Only with permission*
International?
LIBRARY - SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
Newspaper Clippings
Are clippings of historic interest kept permanently?
In files? 191U-U3, but
incomplete
In scrapbooks? yes
Any noteworthy special collections or long series of reports and periodicals that
. would provide reference material on Federal Reserve History?
(Not file
material)
ARCHIVES COLLECTION
Where can you locate material of historic interest when it is needed?
Has the Bank made any attempt to set up an archives collection? jj0
If so,
How managed?
Who may use?
Liberty Loan Material.
How much approximately has been preserved?
See attached sheet.
Coverage?
Picture Collection.
Are pictures of the Bank1s buildings, Bank events, e.g.,' anniversary dinners,
etc., preserved?yes,butlf so, where filed?Bank,s buildings —Secretary's
incomplete
office
Period covered?
Bank events,- etc. « files of the
\;
Cn^aJt**^
0
Asst. Ed. of
the Four-Four
News
Liberty Loan Material
Correspondence ( 191U-192U)
plus some Treasury Circulars —
General Files
Mr. Stewart1 s files nay have some material in them.
Library has:
Liberty Loan Organisation.
Quotas for the third liberty loan of the Eighth Federal Reserve District.
Liberty Loan Organization.
Subscriptions to the second liberty loan; Eighth Federal Reserve District.
Liberty Loan Organization.
Subscriptions to the third liberty loan; Eighth Federal lie serve District.
Liberty Loan Organization.
The Third liberty loan of 1918... (Loose-leaf binder)
Liberty Loan Organization.
Fourth liberty loan: September 28 - October 19, 1919 ••• (Loose-leaf binder)
COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
33 Liberty Street, New York 45, New York
PRELIMINARY QUESTIONNAIRE ON FEDERAL RESERVE BANK ARCHIVAL MATERIAL
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF
San
Francisco
DATE
April 8, 1955
BANK HISTORY
Has a history of the Bank been written? X e g
publisher and date of publication.
If so, please give author, title,
Willis, Parker B(rown)
The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco I A Stiufy in American Central
Banking, New lorki Columbia University Press, 1937
PUBLICATIONS
What publications does the Bank issue regularly?
State how many copies are
preserved, permanently, inclusive dates, and where filed.
Give exact
title, and changes in title as made.
Annual Report Always in the form of an Annual Statement, i page folder
• condensed comparative statement of condition11 (kept in files, have
complete)
Monthly Review (title varies) Monthly Reports on Ueneral Business and
Agricultural Conditions in the Twelfth Federal Reserve District,
Dec* 1917 to date (now called Monthly Review)
Daily: Newspaper Digest N o _ p a s te and route clippings, keep them not more than
2 years* Keep Mew lork clipping summary in file for 5 years.
Employees House Organ
Annals
Other Publications (Periodical only) special supplements to Monthly Review
on special subjects
List any Anniversary Issues of House Organs, Periodicals, Newspapers, on Federal
Reserve events.
State whether copies have been preserved and where filed.
12th Federal Reserve District - J/fi years|1914-l5 - Report and Annual Statement}
Head Office Hews * *ov* 1923, Anniversary Mumber (Sproul on the bank's progress)
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BIOGRAPHICAL DATA ON PERSONAL
Have biographies of any hank officers or directors "been printed?
If so,
indicate titles, with full publication details.
Are photographs of officers and directors preserved? XesWhere located?
Has the Bank maintained biographic records of officers and directors? Yen
For what period?
Where filed? Personnel
Are these available for research?
Authorship: Books, Addresses, Papers, Periodical Articles of officers and
directors. (tf0t much of this sort)
Listing made? fj0
If so, is copy available?
Catalogued or indexed in Bank1 s Library? JJ0
Copies filed in Bank's Library?
fl0
Elsewhere in Bank? j
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RESEARCH STUDIES & STAFF MEMOS
Has the Bank a cumulative file of staff papers and studies?
Period covered?
Where filed?
How classified?
Mostly concerned with: Regional Matters?
National?
International?
Available to students? ^
^ o f l,a|flB ^ ^ y ^ k e p t i n Ubraiy,
o f each ^
(Pacific Coast School of Banking, the local equivalent of Rutgers - 2 or 3 go
each year)
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LIBRARY - SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
Newspaper Clippings
Are clippings of historic interest kept permanently? y e s In files? y es -pa S ted
In scrapbooks?
Any noteworthy special collections or long series of reports and periodicals that
would provide reference material on Federal Reserve History?
material)
(Not file
Banking Crisis
Transamerica aeries of clippings
Evacuation of the Japanese
ARCHIVES COLLECTION
Where can you locate material of historic interest when it is needed?
Files - Subject File very complete
Index on confidential meetings
Has the Bank made any attempt to set up an archives collection?
JJQ
If -so,
How managed?
Who may use?
Liberty Loan Material*
How much approximately has been preserved?
Coverage?
Original posters, circulars, reports of committee
Complete
Picture Collection*
Are pictures of the Bank's buildings. Bank events, e.g., anniversary dinners,
etc., preserved? j e B If so, where filed? Files - in albums
Buildings, both branch and head office, old departments (1920)
Period covered?
F E D E R A L R E S E R V E B A N K O F S A N FRANCISCO
SAN FRANCISCO 20, CALIFORNIA
May 1 3 , 1955
R E C E I V E D
Miss Mildred Adams,
Committee on the History of the
Federal Reserve System,
33 Liberty Street,
New York 45$ New York.
.MAY 1 6 19o5
COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY
0F THE
FEOERAt RESERVE SYSTEM
Dear Miss Adams:
I wish to apologise for the long delay in replying to your
letters of April 19 and May 6. A series of conferences the last few
weeks has thrown our regular work off schedule.
Answers to your questions are set forth below in the same
order as they appear in your letters*
The Bank has accumulated a file of staff papers and studies.
is called "Department Memos" and"Division Studies".
It
The period covered is approximately since 1919, but it is fragmentary
during certain periods.
Current studies are filed in the Research Department, including two
years issues of the Monthly Review and copies of all Supplements to
the Review issued to date. A current file is also maintained on
research memoranda prepared for internal use. The remainder of the
material is filed in Old Records.
The materials are classified as follows: "Division Studies" are
filed according to type of study, i.e. Bank, Area Analysis, Agriculture,
Retail Trade, Business Conditions, etc. Usually a study appears as
an article in the Monthly Review but some are studies or memoranda which
have not been used for publication. Other "Division Studies" include
original data,collected from Twelfth District Firms, i.e. department
stores, furniture stores, apparel stores, banking data for 416 and
635 reports, operating ratios, etc.
A majority of the material is concerned with Regional matters - industry
studies, area studies, general business conditions, banking, including
demand deposit survey, interest rate survey, California Bankers
Association survey, etc. Some of the material deals with national subjects.
There is also material in the international area. Some of these studies
are for directors1 reports, others for limited circulation} some are
PAGE.
FEDERAL RESERVE B A N K OF SAN FRANCISCO
Miss Mildred Adams
May 13, 1955
detailed country studies with emphasis on the Far East countries,
trade policies in various countries and balance of payment studies.
Research Memoranda of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and
material from the Board of Governors pertaining to the international
field are also maintained as are standard sources from the Department
of Commerce and the United Nations and its agencies.
We maintain fairly complete files of outside source material, particularly
statistical data on the area covered by the Twelfth District, which are
available in answering requests from students, the public and, in
particular, member banks. Department memoranda and Division studies,
other than those appearing in the Monthly Review or other published
form, are not available either to students or to the public except
on specific authorization.
We note that in the material attached to your letter of May 6
under the heading Publications, Annual Report, no mention was made of the
annual reports published by the Federal Reserve Agent through 1934 or of
the special annual report published by the Bank for 1954> although this latter
is referred to under Anniversary Issues of House Organs, Periodicals,
Newspapers.
Please do not hesitate to let us know if you need further
information in regard to research studies and staff memoranda.
Yours very truly,
(JJ. P . WhtereleSf,
Vice President*
F E D E R A L R E S E R V E BANK OF SAN
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SAN FRANCISCO 20, CALIFORNIA
April 29, 1955
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COMMITTEE o n THE H i s T O RJV
OF THE
FEDERAL BEssavfi svaiffj
Miss Marguerite Burnett
Committee on the History
of the Federal Reserve System
33 Liberty Street
New York 4-5 > New York
Dear Marguerite:
I am sorry to have left important information out of
my recent letter.
The House Organ file is kept in the Library, With the
exception of Annals of 12-L. Vol, 1, 1920 and Vol* 2, 1921 nothing
is bound. They are not catalogued, although I now have hope that
we will get them on cards. I have never had, until the present,
anyone trained in cataloguing and had no time, myself, for the job.
We are working on a catalogue revision, and will include the file
of our staff publications in this project. We will report to you
once it is done.
Something else I didn't indicate clearly which I thought
of after mailing my letter, was the frequency of publication of
H. 0. N. and H. 0« P. Except for the period which I noted, when
H. 0. N. was issued as a weekly, they have been ostensibly on a
monthly basis. However, the notation, I suppose, should be "frequency varies," the reason being that the monthly issuance could
not always be maintained because of the stringencies of bank work
and certain emergency situations.
Something I regret very much is the fact that we do have
a few gaps in the file, because various editors, in spite of pleas
and tears on our part, have neglected to obtain copies for the
Library. When we put the file on cards, we will make an exact record of the missing issues. Every now and then one turns up to fill
in a gap.
The document "Evacuation Operation - Pacific Coast Military
Areas, 1942" is kept in the Filing Department.
(2)
I hope this takes care of the incomplete listing.
We, too, are having chilly storming weather. Even
when the sun shines it merely looks like spring but doesn't
feel like it in the least. Let us hope for better things,
both East and West.
Yours sincerely,
ElizabetTTH. Holden
Librarian
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