Wernher Von Braun papers, 1796-1970 (Library of Congress Finding Aid)

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Container	Contents

BOX 40-45	Subject File, 1949-1968
BOX 40-45		Subject correspondence sent and received; organizational minutes, reports, and printed matter; personnel forms; bibliographies; notes; and miscellaneous material.
		Arranged alphabetically according to subject matter and chronologically therein.
BOX 40		Alabama's World Fair Commission, 1962
		Alabama State Fair Exhibit, 1961
		American Rocket Society
			1954-Apr. 1958
				(4 folders)
BOX 41			May 1958-1960
BOX 41				(6 folders)
BOX 42			Photocopies, 1952-1957
		American Ballistic Missile Agency, 1958-1961
		Astronautica Acta, 1954-1958
		A. V. Grosse Action, launching a satellite, 1951-1957
		Bibliographies of Von Braun's writings
		Calculations for moon book
		Colliers, 1951-1953 See also Oversize
			(2 folders)
		Congress and the space program
			1963-1964
				(2 folders)
BOX 43			1965-1966
BOX 43				(2 folders)
		Dedication of Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala., thank-you letters, 1960
		German correspondence
			General, 1949-1954
				(2 folders)
			Gesellschaft für Weltraumforschung, 1950-1953
				(2 folders)
		German personnel, 1952
		Guided missile development, miscellaneous declassified material, 1952-1965
BOX 44		Mercury flight, congratulations, 1961
		Mercury-Redstone 3, congratulations, 1961
		Mercury-Redstone 5, congratulations, 1961
		National Aeronautics and Space Administration conferences, 1961-1963
		Office notes, memoranda, drafts, etc., 1963-1968
		Press relations, 1958-1960
			(3 folders)
		Publications, correspondence concerning
			1949-1953
BOX 45			1954-1956
		Ranger 7-9 lunar flights
			(3 folders)
		Saturn rocket, congratulations, 1961
		Saturn C-1 launching, invitations, 1962
		Steuben Society of America, 1960-1961
		Symposium on air travel in thirty years, 1955
		Thiel, Adolph K., dissertation
BOX 46-52	Speeches and Writings, 1934-1969
BOX 46-52		Handwritten, typewritten, near-print, printed, and photocopies of speeches and writings by Von Braun and others.
		Arranged chronologically, with longer and undated book and article drafts placed alphabetically by title near the end of the series, followed by speeches and writings by others arranged chronologically.
BOX 46		1947-Apr. 1959
BOX 46			(9 folders)
BOX 47		May 1959-Aug. 1961
BOX 47			(10 folders)
BOX 48		Sept. 1961-June 1968
BOX 48			(7 folders)
BOX 49		July 1968-1969, undated
BOX 49			(5 folders)
		“Across the Moon”
BOX 50		Conquest of the Moon
		The Exploration of Mars
		“First Flight to the Moon”
			(4 folders)
		The Mars Project
			General
BOX 51			Handwritten draft of the scientific appendix
		“Raketentechnik and Raumfahrtforschung,” Ph. D. dissertation, 1934
		“Voyage to Mars”
		“Voyage to the Moon”
BOX 52		By others, 1962-1965
BOX 52			(3 folders)
BOX 52-57	Miscellany, 1796-1968
BOX 52-57		Assorted vellum diplomas, loose clippings, and photocopies of Von Braun's scrapbooks.
		Clippings chronologically arranged by year; scrapbooks arranged in rough chronological sequence.
BOX 52		Assorted vellum diplomas, 1796-1823
		Clippings, 1934-1968
			(3 folders)
		Citations and awards (photocopies), 1952-1961
		German items (photocopies), 1928-1933
		Programs (photocopies), 1957-1961
		University degrees (photocopies), 1958-1959
BOX oversize: 53		Colliers rocket drawings, 1951-1953 (Container 42)
		Scrapbooks
			Awards and photocopies of awards
			Rocketry, 1930-1934
			German scientists come to America, 1945-1952
			Rocketry, 1946-1949
BOX oversize: 54			Rocket to the moon, 1948-1955
			Space flight campaign, 1949-1954
			Rocket research center started at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Ala., 1950-1952
BOX oversize: 55			Peenemünde in U.S.A., 1950
			Practicality of space flight, 1952-1956
			Immigration to the United States, 1963
BOX oversize: 56			Space flight, 1953-1956
			Space exploration, 1953-1954
BOX oversize: 57			International Geophysical Year Project, 1955-1957
			Missiles, 1956
			United States Army-Jupiter, 1956-1958
BOX 58-61	Addition, 1913-1970
BOX 58		General Correspondence, 1953-1969
BOX 58			Photocopies of letters, memoranda, and notes sent and received.
			Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.
BOX 58			1953-1969, A-Z
BOX 58-60		Public Relations Correspondence, 1963-1970
BOX 58-60			Photocopies of autograph requests and congratulatory letters, mostly pertaining to the Apollo 11 mission.
			Arranged by year with additional distinctions between autograph requests, congratulatory letters, and foreign-language letters.
BOX 58			1963-1968
			1969
				Autograph requests
					(2 folders)
				Congratulatory letters
					(3 folders)
BOX 59				Foreign language letters
					General
						(6 folders)
BOX 60					General
BOX 60						(2 folders)
					From American citizens
					From prominent individuals
			1970, autograph requests
BOX 60-61		Subject File, 1959-1969
BOX 60-61			Photocopies of personnel files, thank-you letters sent to Apollo 11 team members, and photocopies of correspondence and related matter concerning the House Committee on Science and Astronautics.
			Arranged alphabetically by title of subject.
BOX 60-61			Apollo 11, thank-you letters sent, 1969
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