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BOX 12-79 Federal Career, 1925-1953
The Federal Career series documents Evans's involvement in the Work Projects Administration Historical Records Survey (HRS) and UNESCO, and his career at the Library of Congress. The work of the HRS is documented mostly through correspondence, memoranda, and writings, and frequently deals with personnel issues, planning, and projects, including the American imprints inventory, American portrait survey, and “Annotated Bibliography of American History.” The Francis S. Philbrick letter file contains information on early HRS planning. The bulk of the UNESCO files document meetings, beginning with records of the 1945 meetings to establish the organization, and continuing to 1953. Files for each meeting often include Evans's notes on the participants and matters discussed. No material in the collection documents Evans's tenure as UNESCO director-general. The Library of Congress files largely document his role as director of the Legislative Reference Service and contain many notes he maintained throughout his career at the Library, including as librarian, from 1939 to 1953. The "slip notes" contain short memoranda to Evans from secretarial staff regarding phone messages, meetings, reminders, and other day-to-day business. The series also documents Evans's involvement in the drafting and adoption by UNESCO of the 1952 Universal Copyright Convention.
Material types include correspondence, press releases, reports, news clippings, articles, manuals, notes, photographs, newsletters, agendas, meeting minutes, programs, diaries, financial documents, and printed matter.
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
BOX 12 Copyright, 1925-1953
BOX 12 Inter-American Conference of Experts on Copyright, Washington, D.C., 1946
(4 folders)
BOX 13 Intergovernmental Conference on Copyright, Geneva, Switzerland, 1952
(7 folders)
BOX 14 Intergovernmental Conference on Copyright, Geneva, Switzerland, 1952
(2 folders)
BOX 14 Miscellany, 1925, 1938, 1944-1952
(2 folders)
BOX 14 Universal Copyright Convention, draft and planning, Paris, France
BOX 14 1951
(2 folders)
BOX 15 1952
BOX 15 Library of Congress
BOX 15 Account book, 1945-1952
BOX 15 Legislative Reference Service
BOX 15 Chronological file, 1938-1940, undated
(5 folders)
BOX 15 Committee on Publication of Archival Material, Society of American Archivists, 1939
BOX 15 Correspondence
BOX 15 1939
BOX 16 1940
(3 folders)
BOX 16 Estimates for legislative reference services, 1939-1942
BOX 16 "Legislative Reference and Political Partiality," 1940
BOX 16 "The Librarian and Statesmanship," 1940
BOX 16 News clippings, 1939-1940
BOX 16 Opinions of the U.S. attorney general regarding the Library of Congress, 1940
BOX 16 Personnel employment memoranda, 1941-1943
BOX 16 Recommendations for appointment, 1941-1943
(3 folders)
BOX 17 "Services of the Library of Congress to Members of Congress," Albert M. Tewksbury, undated
BOX 17 Services to Congress by Legislative Reference Service, 1940
(2 folders)
BOX 17 "Spot News" memoranda, 1939
BOX 17 Miscellany
BOX 17 1939-1949
(5 folders)
BOX 18 1950-1952, undated
BOX 18 News clippings, appointment as Librarian of Congress, 1945 See also Container OV 12, same heading
BOX 18 Notes and drafts
BOX 18 1939-1941
(6 folders)
BOX 19 1942-1944
(6 folders)
BOX 20 1944-1947
(7 folders)
BOX 21 1947-1950
(7 folders)
BOX 22 1951-1953
(7 folders)
BOX OV 1-OV 11 Slip notes, 1940-1953 See Containers OV 1-OV 11, same heading
BOX 23 UNESCO
BOX 23 Chronological file
BOX 23 1946-1948 See also Container OV 12, Poster, "BIENVENIDOS..."
(8 folders)
BOX 24 1948-1949
(6 folders)
BOX 25 1949-1950
(5 folders)
BOX 26 1950
(6 folders)
BOX 27 1951-1952
(6 folders)
BOX 28 1952 See also Container OV 12, "Preliminary Project"
(6 folders)
BOX 29 1952-1953, undated
(4 folders)
BOX 29 Human rights, 1949-1951
BOX 29 Meetings and conferences
BOX 29 1945
BOX 29 Oct. 26-28, U.S. delegation, Washington, D.C.
BOX 29 Nov. 3-15, U.S. delegation, London
(3 folders)
BOX 30 Nov. 3-15, U.S. delegation, London
BOX 30 1946
BOX 30 Jan. 28, UNESCO consultants, Washington, D.C.
BOX 30 Mar. 14, UNESCO consultants, Washington, D.C.
BOX 30 Apr. 16, UNESCO consultants, Washington, D.C.
BOX 30 Sept. 9-28, U.S. National Commission for UNESCO, Washington, D.C.
BOX 30 1947
BOX 30 Jan. 16-17, U.S. National Commission for UNESCO Executive Committee, Washington, D.C.
BOX 30 Mar. 23-26, U.S. National Commission for UNESCO Executive Committee, Washington, D.C.
BOX 30 Apr.-Aug., miscellaneous meetings
BOX 30 Sept. 10, U.S. National Commission for UNESCO Executive Committee, Washington, D.C.
BOX 30 Sept. 11-13, U.S. National Commission for UNESCO, Chicago, Ill.
BOX 30 Nov. 6-Dec. 3, UNESCO General Conference, Mexico City
(2 folders)
BOX 31 Nov. 6-Dec. 3, UNESCO General Conference, Mexico City
(6 folders)
BOX 31 1948
BOX 31 Feb. 16-18, U.S. National Commission for UNESCO, Washington, D.C.
BOX 32 Feb. 16-18, U.S. National Commission for UNESCO, Washington, D.C.
(2 folders)
BOX 32 May 25, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C.
BOX 32 June 11-12, U.S. National Commission for UNESCO Executive Committee, Washington, D.C.
BOX 32 July 27, UNESCO General Conference, Paris, France
BOX 32 Sept. 26-29, U.S. National Commission for UNESCO, Boston, Mass.
(3 folders)
BOX 33 Sept. 26-29, U.S. National Commission for UNESCO, Boston, Mass.
(2 folders)
BOX 33 Nov. 7-Dec. 11, UNESCO General Conference, Beirut, Lebanon
(3 folders)
BOX 34 Nov. 7-Dec. 11, UNESCO General Conference, Beirut, Lebanon
(6 folders)
BOX 35 1949
BOX 35 Jan. 14, National Conference of the United Nations, Washington, D.C.
BOX 35 Jan.17-22, Southern California Council for UNESCO, Los Angeles, Calif.
BOX 34 Feb. 18-19, U.S. National Commission for UNESCO Executive Committee, Washington, D.C.
BOX 35 Mar. 30-31, U.S. National Commission for UNESCO, Cleveland, Ohio
(2 folders)
BOX 35 June 24-25, U.S. National Commission for UNESCO Executive Committee, Washington, D.C.
BOX 35 Sept. 8-10, U.S. National Commission for UNESCO Executive Committee, Washington, D.C.
(2 folders)
BOX 36 Sep. 19-Oct. 5, UNESCO General Conference, Paris, France
(4 folders)
BOX 37 Nov. 14-15, U.S. National Commission for UNESCO Executive Committee, Washington, D.C.
BOX 37 Nov. 23-Dec. 2, UNESCO General Conference, Paris, France
BOX 37 1950
BOX 37 Jan. 30-31, U.S. National Commission for UNESCO Executive Committee, Washington, D.C.
BOX 37 Feb. 2, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C.
BOX 37 Mar.-Apr., UNESCO General Conference, Paris, France
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