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Organizations, 1951-1998 (continued)
BOX 182-184, 405, 433-434 Political Fundraising Activity, 1952-1990
The bulk of the subseries documents Stevens's brief but active role in national politics as a member of the Democratic National Committee between 1952 and 1960 and as the treasurer of Adlai E. Stevenson's 1956 presidential campaign. Later in life Stevens was a regular supporter of Democratic congressional candidates including Les Aspin, Birch Bayh, John Brademas, Frank Church, Tom Foley, Claiborne Pell, but also supported Republican candidates such as Charles Percy who he met and worked with during the years as an advocate for the National Council on the Arts and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Correspondence with these and other candidates is located in the Political Fundraising folders.

This subseries contains campaign literature, correspondence, financial statements, fundraising materials, and reports. Realia includes ribbons from the 1954 New York state Democratic convention and Stevens's 1960 Democratic Convention Finance Committee chairmanship; campaign buttons and pins for Jimmy Carter, W. Averell Harriman, Hubert Humphrey, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., Adlai E. Stevenson, and Stuart Symington; and convention name tags and ribbons.

Arranged alphabetically by campaign or subject.
BOX-FOLDER 182/6 Adlai E. Stevenson 65th birthday, 1965
BOX-FOLDER 182/7 Adlai E. Stevenson memorial program - script, 1965
Campaigns
BOX-FOLDER 182/8 Lindsay, John V. campaign, 1969
BOX-FOLDER 182/9 Monroney, Mike campaign, 1968
Stevenson for President Committee
National campaign
BOX-FOLDER 182/10-11 Correspondence, 1955-1956
BOX-FOLDER 182/12 Correspondence - Harold Oram, 1955-1956
BOX-FOLDER 183/1-2 Fundraising, 1955-1956
BOX-FOLDER 183/3 Publicity, 1955-1956
BOX-FOLDER 183/4 Television Programing, 1956
State campaigns
BOX-FOLDER 183/5 California, 1952-1956
BOX-FOLDER 186/6 California - Report on California Campaign, undated
BOX-FOLDER 183/7 Various states, 1952-1960
BOX-FOLDER 184/1 Democratic National Committee, 1952-1963, 1971
BOX-FOLDER 184/2 Democratic National Committee - Advisory Committee, 1957-1958
BOX 433 Democratic National Convention, 1960
Finance Committee ribbon
BOX-FOLDER 184/3 Democratic State Committee of Michigan, 1958
BOX 433 Democratic State Committee of New York, 1954 and undated
Three convention ribbons
BOX-FOLDER 184/4 Democratic State Committee of Puerto Rico, 1960
BOX-FOLDER 184/5 Photographs, 1956-1959
Includes: Images of Roger L. Stevens and Adlai E. Stevenson
BOX-FOLDER 184/6-7 Political fund-raising - Stevens donations, 1958, 1966-1993
BOX-FOLDER 184/8 Political Organizations - miscellaneous, 1955-1990
BOX 405, 433-434 Ribbons and buttons, 1949-1960, 1965
Includes: Campaign buttons for Adlai E. Stevenson's 1952 and 1956 presidential campaigns and the political campaigns of W. Averell Harriman, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., and Stuart Symington; staff badges for the Stevenson-Kefauver campaign; and a badge from the 1956 Democratic convention in Box 405
Includes: Two Adlai Stevenson shoe pins in Box 433
Includes: An Inauguaral Committee honorary chairman ribbon in Box 434
BOX-FOLDER 184/9 The Simulmatics Corporation, 1960
BOX 185-240, 428-430 Office Files, 1937-2000
This series documents a cross section of Stevens's business interests through clippings, daily calendars detailing his whereabouts, telephone logs, and a correspondence reading file with chronologically organized carbon copies of outgoing mail. Invitations and event programs are evidence of the many parties, receptions, private concerts, and art openings the Stevenses were asked to attend; dinner party and reception planning documents also record the many events the Stevenses hosted. Financial records contain a wide range of personal and professional expenditures, including the personal tax records for both Roger L. Stevens and Christine G. Stevens, miscellaneous bills and receipts, and information on checking accounts and investment portfolios with banks such as Irving Trust Company and Morgan Guaranty Trust Company, both of which are represented elsewhere in the collection.

Stevens collected information on investment opportunities with the newspaper the Honolulu Star Bulletin, Tiffany and Company, and electronics manufacturer Technical Services, Inc. A file on Thorley House of Flowers reveals professional and personal contacts to whom he sent flowers in the late 1950s. Writings by Stevens detail his thoughts on the real estate industry. The series also holds the business papers of Rolace, Inc., an office management company that addressed the administrative needs of Stevens's theatrical, real estate, and other business endeavors between 1965 and 1972.

Arranged alphabetically by material type or organization.
BOX-FOLDER 185/1-2 42nd Street Development Project, 1987-1989
BOX 428-430 Address and telephone cards, undated
BOX-FOLDER 185/3 American Humane Association, 1953-1957
BOX-FOLDER 185/4-6 Animal Welfare Institute, 1958-1992
BOX-FOLDER 185/7 Bright and Schiff & Co., 1958-1961
BOX-FOLDER 185/8 C. & C. Super Corporation, 1955-1957
Clippings
BOX-FOLDER 186/1-6 1943-1965
BOX-FOLDER 187/1-5 1966-1972
BOX-FOLDER 188/1-5 1973-1976
BOX-FOLDER 189/1-5 1977-1983
BOX-FOLDER 190/1-7 1984-1997 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 191/1 Comptometer Corporation, 1959-1963
BOX-FOLDER 191/2 Consular Corps Committee of the City of New York, 1960-1965
Correspondence reading file
Note: Telephone logs also found in years 1969 to 1980
BOX-FOLDER 191/3-7 1956-1958
BOX-FOLDER 192/1-5 1958-1959
BOX-FOLDER 193/1-5 1960-1961
BOX-FOLDER 194/1-6 1962-1965
BOX-FOLDER 195/1-7 1966-1970
BOX-FOLDER 196/1-8 1971-1975
BOX-FOLDER 197/1-9 1975-1980
BOX-FOLDER 198/1-3 1988-1996
Daily diaries and schedules
BOX-FOLDER 198/4-5 1957-1958
BOX-FOLDER 199/1-6 1959-1963
BOX-FOLDER 200/1-7 1964-1966
BOX-FOLDER 201/1-6 1967-1969
BOX-FOLDER 202/1-7 1970-1973
BOX-FOLDER 203/1-6 1973-1976
BOX-FOLDER 204/1-6 1976-1980
BOX-FOLDER 205/1-6 1980-1984
BOX-FOLDER 206/1-7 1985-1993
BOX-FOLDER 207/1 1994-1998
BOX-FOLDER 207/2-5 Dinner party and reception planning documents, 1953-1997 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 207/6 Economic Club of Detroit, 1954-1955
BOX-FOLDER 208/1-2 Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc., 1976-1994
Financial records
BOX-FOLDER 208/3 Colten, Joseph B., 1951-1959
BOX-FOLDER 208/4-6 Contributions, 1954, 1969-1986
BOX-FOLDER 209/1-2 Credit card statements and payments, 1986-1993
BOX-FOLDER 209/3 First New Haven National Bank, 1957-1962
BOX-FOLDER 209/4 Folger Nolan Fleming Douglas, Inc., 1979, 1986-1994
Irving Trust Company
BOX-FOLDER 209/5-7 Check registers, 1956-1969
BOX-FOLDER 210/1-6 Check stubs, 1955-1967
BOX-FOLDER 211/1-3 Contracts, correspondence, receipts, and statements, 1952-1972
BOX-FOLDER 211/4 Ledger, 1955-1958
BOX-FOLDER 211/5 Legal services, 1990-1993
Miscellaneous financial records
BOX-FOLDER 211/6 1937, 1949-1953
BOX-FOLDER 212/1-6 1946-1964
BOX-FOLDER 213/1-5 1964-1987
BOX-FOLDER 214/1-7 1988-1994 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 215/1 Morgen Grenfell & Co., Ltd., 1956-1963
BOX-FOLDER 215/2-3 Morgan Guaranty Trust Company, 1956-1967, 1974, 1980-1996
BOX-FOLDER 215/4-7 Riggs National Bank of Washington, D.C., 1990-1994
BOX-FOLDER 216/1 Schroeder Trust Company, 1963-1968
BOX-FOLDER 216/2 Stock certificates and transactions, 1946-1983
Tax records
BOX-FOLDER 216/3-14 1946-1959
BOX-FOLDER 217/1-19 1960-1984
BOX-FOLDER 218/1-3 1986-1993
BOX-FOLDER 218/4 Government appointment personnel forms, 1965-1969
BOX-FOLDER 218/5 Home Life Insurance Company, 1959-1961
BOX-FOLDER 218/6 Honolulu Star Bulletin, 1961-1962
Invitations and event programs
BOX-FOLDER 218/7-8 1937, 1952-1959
BOX-FOLDER 219/1-8 1960-1966
BOX-FOLDER 220/1-7 1967-1970
BOX-FOLDER 221/1-6 circa 1970-1975
BOX-FOLDER 222/1-6 1976-1978
BOX-FOLDER 223/1-7 1979-1984
BOX-FOLDER 224/1-7 1985-1989
BOX-FOLDER 225/1-6 1990-1998 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 226/1 Memorial remarks, 1967, 1987
Note: Delivered at memorial services for Alfred De Liagre Jr. and Elmer Rice
BOX-FOLDER 226/2 Michigan Rotary Press, Inc., 1954-1955
BOX-FOLDER 226/3 Miscellaneous business correspondence, 1952-1994
BOX-FOLDER 226/4 Miscellaneous business records, 1958-1990
BOX-FOLDER 226/5 Miscellaneous legal documents, 1954-1967
BOX-FOLDER 226/6 Motion picture companies and representatives, undated
BOX-FOLDER 226/7 New York City Hudson Celebration, 1958-1959
BOX-FOLDER 226/8 People seen - appointments, 1966-1969
BOX-FOLDER 226/9 Playbill, Inc., 1960-1964
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