The Franklin D. Roosevelt Library

Resources (33)

• Adolf A. Berle (1895-1971)

  Papers, 1912–74. 92 ft. Assistant secretary of State, 1938–44. 750 pp. of materials, 1946–71, pertain to Russian and United States foreign policy. Unpublished finding aid. (NUCMC 77–252)

• Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)

  Papers, ca. 1877–1964. 1,330 ft. Wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Materials, 1945–62, pertaining to U.S.-Soviet relations and to Mrs. Roosevelt's trip to the Soviet Union. Unpublished finding aid. (NUCMC 74–317)

• Anna Roosevelt Halsted (1906-1975)

  Papers, 1886–1974. 20 ft. Daughter of Franklin D. Roosevelt. 300 pp., 1945–51, pertain to U.S.Soviet relations, including the Yalta Conference. Unpublished finding aid.

• Charles W. Taussig (1896-1948)

  Papers, 1928–48. 65 ft. Chairman, National Advisory Committee, National Youth Administration, 1935–43. 230 pp., 1922, 1932–34, 1945, pertain to mineral deposits in the Soviet Union and the San Francisco Conference. Unpublished finding aid. (NUCMC 65–66)

• Elbert D. Thomas (1883-1953)

  Papers, 1907–50. 135 ft. U.S. senator from Utah, 1933–51. 200 pp., 1943–50, pertaining to the Cold War and to American public opinion toward the Soviet Union. Unpublished finding aid. (NUCMC 65–67)

• Eleanor Roosevelt oral history transcripts (part 1), 1977-1980

  68 items. Transcripts of interviews with Minnewa Bell, Robert S. Benjamin, Otto Berge, Viola W. Bernard, John R. Boettiger, Dorothy S. Bowles, Gilbert Calhoun, Catherine F. Connell and Gabrielle O'Neill, Maureen Corr, Archie H. "Tubby" Curnan, Jonathan Daniels, Vladimir Dedijer, Oscar A. DeLima, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Olin Dows, Elizabeth B. Drewry, Clark Eichelberger, Steward Elliott, Marguerite Entrup, May Thompson Evans, Harold Farley, Martha Gellhorn, Nina Roosevelt Gibson, Anne Ward Gilbert, James Frederick Green, Edna P. Gurewitsch, Grania Gurievitch, Gabriele Gutkin, Diana Hopkins Halsted, James A. Halsted, and W. Averell Harriman.
  Other people interviewed include Elizabeth and John Hight, Joan Morgenthau Hirschhorn, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, Diana Roosevelt Jaicks, Janet Roosevelt Katten, Gordon Kidd, Frank S. Landolfa, Trude W. Lash, Mary Lasker, Estelle Linzer, and James I. Loeb.

• Francis Biddle

  The papers of this lawyer have been willed to the Library, but it has not yet received them.

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Papers as assistant secretary of the Navy, 1913–20. 53 ft. 1 item, n.d., pertaining to the Provincial Siberian Assembly and to German and Austrian prisoners in Russia. Unpublished finding aid. (NUCMC 75–550)

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Papers as president, Map Room file, 1941–45. 81 ft. 3 ft. of materials, 1942–45, pertain to Roosevelt and Stalin, the Teheran and Yalta Conferences, the Churchill-Stalin Conferences, Russia and Poland, convoys to the Soviet Union, World War II, and occupied zones in Germany. Unpublished finding aid. (NUCMC 75–578)

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Papers as president, official file, 1933–45. 1,174 ft. Materials on the USSR and the United States, 1933–45. Unpublished finding aid. (NUCMC 75–579)

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Papers as president, president's personal file, 1933–45. 608 ft. Materials on Russia and the United States, 1933–45. Unpublished finding aid. (NUCMC 75–562)

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Papers as president, president's secretary's file, 1933–45. 130 ft. 3,000 pp., 1933–45, pertain to the USSR and the United States. Unpublished finding aid. (NUCMC 75–581)

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Papers as president, press conferences, 1933–45. 15 ft. Contains materials pertaining to the USSR. (NUCMC 75–580) The press conferences have been published by DaCapo Press, New York, 1972.

• Harry L. Hopkins (1890-1946)

  Papers, 1928–46. 140 ft. Administrator, Works Progress Administration, 1935–38; secretary of commerce, 1938–40; adviser to the president, 1940–45. 5 ft., 1936–46, pertain to U.S. trade with the USSR, lend-lease aid, U.S.-Soviet military arrangements, post-war conferences (at Teheran, Yalta, and Potsdam), and to Hopkins's special missions to the USSR. Unpublished finding aid. (NUCMC 65–43)

• Henry Field (b. 1902)

  Papers, 1920–76. 100 ft. Anthropologist; director, "M" Project, 1944–45. 5 ft. of materials, 1920–77, contain miscellaneous studies of anthropology in Russia and documentation on Field's trips to the USSR. Unpublished finding aid. (NUCMC 65–36)

• Henry Morgenthau, Jr. (1891-1964)

  Papers, 1866–1948. 91 ft. Undersecretary, 1933–34, and secretary of the treasury, 1934–45. 6 ft., 1934–45, on U.S. lend-lease to Russia, U.S.Soviet trade, Soviet gold production and reserves, Soviet debts to the U.S., and post-war planning in the Soviet Union. Unpublished finding aid. (NUCMC 65–54)

• Herbert Clairborne Pell (1884-1961)

  Papers, 1912–61. 25 ft. Minister to Portugal, 1937–41, and Hungary, 1941; American member on U.N. Commission to Investigate War Crimes. 300 pp., 1933–46, pertain to the recognition of the Soviet Union by the U.S. and to the U.S. Commission to Investigate War Crimes. Unpublished finding aid. (NUCMC 65–57)

• Isador Lubin (1896-1978)

  Papers, 1924–61. 146 ft. Special statistical assistant to the president, 1941–45. 400 pp., 1945, pertain to German war reparations to Russia. Unpublished finding aid. (NUCMC 65–48)

• James M. Carmody (1881-1963)

  Papers, 1900–58. 146 ft. Chief engineer, Civil Works Administration, 1933–35; administrator, Rural Electrification Administration, 1936–39. 3 ft. of documents on U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union and on economic conditions and industrial management in the USSR. Unpublished finding aid. (NUCMC 65–27)

• John Cooper Wiley (1893-1967)

  Papers, 1898–1967. 5 ft. Foreign Service officer and minister to Estonia and Latvia, 1938–40. 1,100 pp., 1928–41, 1950–51, deal with Soviet debts to the U.S., lend-lease negotiations with the Soviet Union, 1950–51, and Russian relations with Eastern Europe. Unpublished finding aid. (NUCMC 75–587) There are security classified materials on the subject of lend-lease negotiations with Russia, 1950–51.

• Louis Fischer (1896-1970)

  Papers, 1938–49. Ca. 1 ft. 270 pp. 60 pp., 1938–49, relate to the emigration of Fischer's wife and of members of her family from the USSR. Unpublished finding aid. (NUCMC 75–526)

• Mordecai Ezekiel (1899-1974)

  Papers, 1918–75. 19 ft. Economic advisor to the secretary of agriculture, 1933–44. 300 pp., 1930–32, pertain to agricultural and economic planning in the USSR. Unpublished finding aid.

• Oscar Cox (1905-1966)

  Papers, 1938–66. 84 ft. General counsel, Foreign Economic Administration, 1943–46. 1,450 pp. of materials, 1944–45, pertain to U.S. aid to the USSR, the San Francisco Conference, and other Sovietrelated matters. Unpublished finding aid. (NUCMC 74–310)

• President's Soviet Protocol Committee

  Records, 1941–45. 12 ft. Records, 1941–45, relating to war supplies for the Soviet Union. Unpublished finding aid. (NUCMC 75–582)

• Robert Walton Moore (1859-1941)

  Papers, 1933–40. 12 ft. Assistant secretary of state, 1933–37, and counselor of the Department of State, 1937–41. 600 pp., 1933–40, pertain to the U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union and to Soviet debts to the U.S. Unpublished finding aid. (NUCMC 65–53)

• Russian-related oral history transcripts include interviews with John Franklin Carter, with the "M Project"

  29 pp., and Samuel I. Rosenman, special counsel to the president, 1943–46, 233 pp.

• Samuel Irving Rosenman (1896-1973)

  Papers, 1928–48. 36 ft. Special counsel to the president, 1943–46. Russia, the Yalta Conference, and the future of Poland after World War II are dealt with in 25 pp. of these papers. Unpublishing finding aid. (NUCMC 65–64)

• State, Department of

  Records pertaining to foreign gift items, 1937–45. 40 ft. Includes materials on gifts given to and received from the Soviet Union. The records are not yet fully processed. (NUCMC 75–576)

• The Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Foundation

  Papers (1889-1982). 20 linear feet. Office files including minutes of meetings, membership lists, correspondence, financial records, clippings, and Freedom from Want files, a study on poverty in urban America, 1954-1958, based on Bureau of Labor statistics; and records of the foundation's Historical Data Project consisting of diaries, recollections, statements, and interviews of nearly 250 former associates of President Franklin D. Roosevelt regarding their association with him. Includes contributions from Will W. Alexander speaking of Roosevelt's views on housing and the Civilian Conservation Corps; Charles E. Bohlen arguing that Yalta was a Soviet defeat; John M. Carmody and Oscar Chapman describing New Deal personalities; Leon Henderson describing the president's views on economic matters; Emory S. Land on Roosevelt's relations with ranking naval officers; and John L. McCrea's reminiscences on the voyage to Teheran. Other contributing associates include Vincent Astor, Adolf A. Berle, Jr., Nelson Brown, Elmer Davis, Mary Williams (Molly) Dewson, Philip B. Fleming, Dudley W. Knox, Arthur Bliss Lane, Lowell Mellett, Edward Asbury O'Neal, Edward L. Roddan, Gerard Swope, and Rexford Guy Tugwell. Finding aid available: http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/pdfs/findingaids/findingaid_fdrmemorialfoundation.pdf

• United Nations

  Papers relating to Mrs. Roosevelt, 1946–63. 10 ft. Printed materials (agendas, minutes of meetings, press releases, reports) concerning the work of the United Nations. The papers are not yet fully processed. (NUCMC 75–574)

• War Refugee Board

  Records, 1944–45. 46 ft. 150 pp., 1944–45, pertain to the condition of Jewish refugees in areas controlled by the Soviet Union. Unpublished finding aid. (NUCMC 75–584)

• Wayne Coy (1903-1957)

  Papers, 1934–57. 10 ft. Special assistant to the president, 1941–43; assistant director, Bureau of the Budget, 1942–44. Lend-lease to Russia is documented in 150 pp. from July-August 1941 to 1946. Unpublished finding aid. (NUCMC 65–31)

• Whitney Hart Shepardson (1890-1966)

  Papers, 1910–66. 4 ft. Special assistant to the ambassador to Great Britain, 1942. 30 pp., 1955–57, deal with Russia and the Free Europe Committee. Unpublished finding aid. (NUCMC 75–570)