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    <unittitle>Isaac W. Carpenter Papers</unittitle>
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      <persname role="cre" rules="rda" source="local">Carpenter, Isaac W. (1893-1983)</persname>
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    <unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1954/1961" type="inclusive">1954-1961</unitdate>
    <unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1954/1957" type="bulk">1954-1957</unitdate>
    <abstract id="ceba2bcc809198572649ffd66c58dcc8">Carpenter served as assistant secretary and controller for the Department of State from 1954 to 1957. Consists of seventeen notebooks containing a summary record of Carpenter's term in office as assistant secretary and controller for the Department of State from 1954 to 1957.</abstract>
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  <scopecontent id="e6b2e30a526e0c0d275f4c44033775e2">
    <head>Scope and Contents</head>
<p>Consists of seventeen notebooks containing a summary record of Carpenter's term in office as assistant secretary and controller for the Department of State from 1954 to 1957. Included are notes, correspondence, transcripts of conversations, schedules, reports, speeches, diaries, a few photographs, newspaper clippings, and other printed matter primarily relating to budgetary and fiscal controls, personnel administration, and the operations of the Foreign Service, with files on two trips to Europe and the Middle East (1954 and 1955).</p>  </scopecontent>
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<p>Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Collection Title, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.</p>  </prefercite>
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    <note label="personal-name">Carpenter, Isaac W. (1893-1983)</note>
    <head>Biographical / Historical</head>
<p>Isaac W. Carpenter served as assistant secretary and controller for the Department of State from 1954 to 1957.</p>  </bioghist>
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  <dsc><c id="MC009_c001" level="series"><did><unittitle>Series 1: Special Record</unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/3/archival_objects/530609</unitid><physdesc altrender="whole"><extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">2 boxes</extent></physdesc><unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1954/1957" type="inclusive">1954-1957</unitdate></did><arrangement id="d0f025ae87ceedb4768e474fdef01441"><head>Arrangement</head><p>No arrangement action taken or arrangement information not recorded at the time of processing.</p></arrangement><scopecontent id="5832f715e5146aeb7fa6438e20a5682f"><head>Scope and Contents</head><p>A "Special Record" of his Term in Office as Assistant Secretary of State including reports, notes, correspondence, clippings, photographs, etc. in loose-leaf notebooks with the following dates:</p></scopecontent><c id="MC009_c002" level="file"><did><unittitle>Special Record</unittitle><unitid>1</unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/3/archival_objects/530612</unitid><physdesc altrender="whole"><extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">1 box</extent></physdesc><unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1954-04-23/1954-12-31" type="inclusive">1954 April 23 - 1954 December 31</unitdate><container altrender="scamudd" encodinganalog="NBox" id="56662e0b97bd6430eef1b5c44c78bc94" label="Mixed Materials [32101103110589]" type="box">1</container></did></c><c id="MC009_c003" level="file"><did><unittitle>Special Record</unittitle><unitid>2</unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/3/archival_objects/530613</unitid><physdesc altrender="whole"><extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">1 box</extent></physdesc><unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1955-01-01/1955-03-31" type="inclusive">1955 January 1 - 1955 March 31</unitdate><container altrender="scamudd" encodinganalog="NBox" id="c1f22585c563ff6b5ec0642d9bc8d0ca" label="Mixed Materials [32101103110589]" type="box">1</container></did></c><c id="MC009_c004" level="file"><did><unittitle>Special Record</unittitle><unitid>3</unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/3/archival_objects/530614</unitid><physdesc altrender="whole"><extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">1 box</extent></physdesc><unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1955-04-01/1955-07-31" type="inclusive">1955 April 1 - 1955 July 31</unitdate><container altrender="scamudd" encodinganalog="NBox" id="9001d203d06ee6a445860918b2f9fff3" label="Mixed Materials [32101103110589]" type="box">1</container></did></c><c id="MC009_c005" level="file"><did><unittitle>Special Record</unittitle><unitid>4</unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/3/archival_objects/530615</unitid><physdesc altrender="whole"><extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">1 box</extent></physdesc><unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1955-08-01/1955-10-31" type="inclusive">1955 August 1 - 1955 October 31</unitdate><container altrender="scamudd" encodinganalog="NBox" id="69fe743b69d11253d140a8c86b4024a3" label="Mixed Materials [32101103110589]" type="box">1</container></did></c><c id="MC009_c006" level="file"><did><unittitle>Special Record</unittitle><unitid>5</unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/3/archival_objects/530616</unitid><physdesc altrender="whole"><extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">1 box</extent></physdesc><unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1955-11-01/1956-04-04" type="inclusive">1955 November 1 - 1956 April 4</unitdate><container altrender="scamudd" encodinganalog="NBox" id="feafd55d4486dc1717d1b9e5f77d0182" label="Mixed Materials [32101103110589]" type="box">1</container></did></c><c id="MC009_c007" level="file"><did><unittitle>Special Record</unittitle><unitid>6</unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/3/archival_objects/530617</unitid><physdesc altrender="whole"><extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">1 box</extent></physdesc><unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1956-04-05/1956-07-05" type="inclusive">1956 April 5 - 1956 July 5</unitdate><container altrender="scamudd" encodinganalog="NBox" id="2bd86b72cb2a68ee1feecfac727ffeb7" label="Mixed Materials [32101103110589]" type="box">1</container></did></c><c id="MC009_c008" level="file"><did><unittitle>Special Record</unittitle><unitid>7</unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/3/archival_objects/530618</unitid><physdesc altrender="whole"><extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">1 box</extent></physdesc><unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1956-07-06/1956-11-01" type="inclusive">1956 July 6 - 1956 November 1</unitdate><container altrender="scamudd" encodinganalog="NBox" id="cacb439a88c4e777d27f6b79489daedb" label="Mixed Materials [32101103110589]" type="box">1</container></did></c><c id="MC009_c009" level="file"><did><unittitle>Special Record</unittitle><unitid>8</unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/3/archival_objects/530619</unitid><physdesc altrender="whole"><extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">1 box</extent></physdesc><unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1956-11-01/1957-01-31" type="inclusive">1956 November 1 - 1957 January 31</unitdate><container altrender="scamudd" encodinganalog="NBox" id="7b35d4b581ab08cb51bba474b1a7e52e" label="Mixed Materials [32101103110589]" type="box">1</container></did></c><c id="MC009_c010" level="file"><did><unittitle>Special Record</unittitle><unitid>9</unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/3/archival_objects/530620</unitid><physdesc altrender="whole"><extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">1 box</extent></physdesc><unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1957-02-01/1957-05-06" type="inclusive">1957 February 1 - 1957 May 6</unitdate><container altrender="scamudd" encodinganalog="NBox" id="e4d6f51f54c0f22ba5563274d647ea73" label="Mixed Materials [32101103110589]" type="box">1</container></did></c><c id="MC009_c011" level="file"><did><unittitle>Special Record</unittitle><unitid>10</unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/3/archival_objects/530621</unitid><physdesc altrender="whole"><extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">1 box</extent></physdesc><unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1957-05-07/1957-07-07" type="inclusive">1957 May 7 - 1957 July 7</unitdate><container altrender="scamudd" encodinganalog="NBox" id="7817e3291a2b7b0164390c5c7a15e115" label="Mixed Materials [32101103110597]" type="box">2</container></did></c><c id="MC009_c012" level="file"><did><unittitle>Special Record</unittitle><unitid>11</unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/3/archival_objects/530622</unitid><physdesc altrender="whole"><extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">1 box</extent></physdesc><unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1957-07-08/1957-11-01" type="inclusive">1957 July 8 - 1957 November 1</unitdate><container altrender="scamudd" encodinganalog="NBox" id="77748cc3b5ecd074be2ee86bab410b52" label="Mixed Materials [32101103110597]" type="box">2</container></did></c><c id="MC009_c013" level="file"><did><unittitle>Special Record</unittitle><unitid>12</unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/3/archival_objects/530623</unitid><physdesc altrender="whole"><extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">1 box</extent></physdesc><unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1957-11-02/1957-12-13" type="inclusive">1957 November 2 - 1957 December 13</unitdate><container altrender="scamudd" encodinganalog="NBox" id="2435befca9cd2a8ce01fb0cc0cf6c35a" label="Mixed Materials [32101103110597]" type="box">2</container></did><scopecontent id="b9d48a9329fa4597155ba0feaa4d5e38"><head>Scope and Contents</head><p>Includes related papers to 1961.</p></scopecontent></c></c><c id="MC009_c014" level="series"><did><unittitle>Series 2: Highlights of Recent Actions Taken by the Dept. of State to Improve Foreign Service Administration</unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/3/archival_objects/530610</unitid><physdesc altrender="whole"><extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">1 box</extent></physdesc><unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1954/1954" type="inclusive">1954</unitdate></did><arrangement id="047a58b72dd25a6643c1ce7373b2b22c"><head>Arrangement</head><p>No arrangement action taken or arrangement information not recorded at the time of processing.</p></arrangement><scopecontent id="008a9b4bcfcb1ee75c743d285530047f"><head>Scope and Contents</head><p>In a single loose-leaf notebook.</p></scopecontent><c id="MC009_c015" level="file"><did><unittitle>"Highlights of Recent Actions Taken by the Department of State to Improve Foreign Service Administration (June 1954 to date)"</unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/3/archival_objects/530624</unitid><physdesc altrender="whole"><extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">1 box</extent></physdesc><unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1954/1957" type="inclusive">1954 - 1957</unitdate><container altrender="scamudd" encodinganalog="NBox" id="4d5393d8ad86219a57f77c6112b6ac56" label="Mixed Materials [32101103110605]" type="box">3</container></did></c></c><c id="MC009_c016" level="series"><did><unittitle>Series 3: Briefing Books, Department of State, oversea trip</unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/3/archival_objects/530611</unitid><physdesc altrender="whole"><extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">1 box</extent></physdesc><unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1954/1954" type="inclusive">1954</unitdate><unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1955/1955" type="inclusive">1955</unitdate></did><arrangement id="83bcc6ba18f7a67369651e0106d9d66e"><head>Arrangement</head><p>No arrangement action taken or arrangement information not recorded at the time of processing.</p></arrangement><scopecontent id="79a3cd8e50b663fc794c06bd81068b87"><head>Scope and Contents</head><p>"Briefing Books" in the following loose-leaf notebooks:</p></scopecontent><c id="MC009_c017" level="file"><did><unittitle>"Briefing Book" regarding Department of State Organization, Personnel, Regulations, Pending Personnel Actions, etc</unittitle><unitid>1</unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/3/archival_objects/530625</unitid><physdesc altrender="whole"><extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">1 box</extent></physdesc><unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1954/1955" type="inclusive">1954-1955</unitdate><container altrender="scamudd" encodinganalog="NBox" id="d4e564af3d20d9d816d633f28b590db8" label="Mixed Materials [32101103110605]" type="box">3</container></did></c><c id="MC009_c018" level="file"><did><unittitle>"Briefing Book" relating to the Overseas Trip of Isaac W. Carpenter, Jr., Assistant Secretary for Personnel and Administration "to become familiar with the problems of the Foreign Service"</unittitle><unitid>2</unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/3/archival_objects/530626</unitid><physdesc altrender="whole"><extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">1 box</extent></physdesc><unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1954-08/1954-08">1954 August</unitdate><container altrender="scamudd" encodinganalog="NBox" id="22ab97ae8dc73d0dfaf8f02b8c9e06b4" label="Mixed Materials [32101103110605]" type="box">3</container></did></c><c id="MC009_c019" level="file"><did><unittitle>"Briefing Book" relating to the Overseas Trip of State, Justice and Judicial Subcommittee of House Appropriations Committe</unittitle><unitid>3</unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/3/archival_objects/530627</unitid><physdesc altrender="whole"><extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">1 box</extent></physdesc><unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1955-08/1955-08">1955 August</unitdate><container altrender="scamudd" encodinganalog="NBox" id="2735be450d23c8f27776bcce3bb5fe8e" label="Mixed Materials [32101103110605]" type="box">3</container></did></c><c id="MC009_c020" level="file"><did><unittitle>"Briefing Book" relating to the Overseas Trip of State, Justice and Judicial Subcommittee of House Appropriations Committe</unittitle><unitid>4</unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/3/archival_objects/530628</unitid><physdesc altrender="whole"><extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">1 box</extent></physdesc><unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1955-08/1955-08">1955 August</unitdate><container altrender="scamudd" encodinganalog="NBox" id="af249e19e1c733d9df24982a6eb250aa" label="Mixed Materials [32101103110605]" type="box">3</container></did></c></c></dsc>
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