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Prices: Cost of living and Wholesale Price Index numbers or Gold Standard Countries and U.S., July 1931 to Date, 1933

1 box
Collection Creator:
Kemmerer, Edwin Walter, 1875-1945
Dates:
1933
Located In:
Box 359
Extent:
1 box
Languages:
English Spanish; Castilian
Existence and Location of Copies

The papers documenting Kemmerer's work in the Philippines and a portion of the papers documenting Kemmerer's work with the financial advisory commission in China are also available on microfilm, which is stored offsite at the ReCAP storage facility. Call numbers are:

MICROFILM 4898

MICROFILM 5051

Some microfilm of part of the papers is available through this finding aid.

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research use.

Conditions Governing Use

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. For quotations that are fair use as defined under U. S. Copyright Law, no permission to cite or publish is required. For those few instances beyond fair use, researchers are responsible for determining who may hold the copyright and obtaining approval from them. Researchers do not need anything further from the Mudd Library to move forward with their use.

Credit this material:

Prices: Cost of living and Wholesale Price Index numbers or Gold Standard Countries and U.S., July 1931 to Date; Edwin W. Kemmerer Papers, MC146, Public Policy Papers, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library

Storage Note:
  • Mudd Manuscript Library (mudd): Box 359
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Graphs, maps, and charts, which are printed on thin paper, are fragile and should be unrolled and handled with care.

Processing Information

This collection was processed by Adriane Hanson, Jessie Thompson, and Melina Meneguin-Layerenza in 2007 and Helene van Rossum in November 2019, when materials in Series 7 were processed. Finding aid written by Adriane Hanson in August 2007.

Collection Overview

Collection Description & Creator Information

Arrangement

The series is arranged by country.

Collection History

Appraisal

Duplicate materials, student papers and recommendations, personal financial papers, blueprints of Kemmerer's properties, and wall charts illustrating general financial and economic concepts for use in the classroom were separated from this collection. Maps were transferred to the Geosciences and Map Library at Princeton University.

Sponsorship:

These papers were processed with the generous support of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission and the John Foster and Janet Avery Dulles Fund.

Processing Information

This collection was processed by Adriane Hanson, Jessie Thompson, and Melina Meneguin-Layerenza in 2007 and Helene van Rossum in November 2019, when materials in Series 7 were processed. Finding aid written by Adriane Hanson in August 2007.

Access & Use

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research use.

Conditions Governing Use

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. For quotations that are fair use as defined under U. S. Copyright Law, no permission to cite or publish is required. For those few instances beyond fair use, researchers are responsible for determining who may hold the copyright and obtaining approval from them. Researchers do not need anything further from the Mudd Library to move forward with their use.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Graphs, maps, and charts, which are printed on thin paper, are fragile and should be unrolled and handled with care.

Credit this material:

Prices: Cost of living and Wholesale Price Index numbers or Gold Standard Countries and U.S., July 1931 to Date; Edwin W. Kemmerer Papers, MC146, Public Policy Papers, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library

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Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library
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Storage Note:
  • Mudd Manuscript Library (mudd): Box 359

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Existence and Location of Copies

The papers documenting Kemmerer's work in the Philippines and a portion of the papers documenting Kemmerer's work with the financial advisory commission in China are also available on microfilm, which is stored offsite at the ReCAP storage facility. Call numbers are:

MICROFILM 4898

MICROFILM 5051

Some microfilm of part of the papers is available through this finding aid.

Related Materials

This collection is part of a group of 28 Mudd Manuscript Library collections related to 20th century economic thought and development which were processed as part of a National Historical Publications and Records Commission funded project. Researchers wishing to access these collections should search for the subject "Economics--20th century" or related terms in the Princeton University Library Main Catalog. Collections at the Mudd Manuscript Library of particular relevance to the Kemmerer Papers are the papers of Albert O. Hirschman, who served as an advisor in Latin American during the 1950s, the records of the Economists' National Committee on Monetary Policy, and the papers of two members of the Committee, Walter E. Spahr and John E. Rovensky.

Bibliography

The following sources were consulted during preparation of the biographical note: "Edwin Walter Kemmerer (Deceased)," Marquis Who's Who on the Web, http://www.marquiswhoswho.com Accessed October 10, 2006. "Kemmerer, Edwin Walter," Current Biography: H. W. Wilson Company, 1941. Materials from Series 1: Biographical; Edwin W. Kemmerer Papers; Public Policy Papers, Special Collections, Princeton University Library. "Obituary: Edwin Walter Kemmerer," by G. Findlay Shirras. The Economic Journal, vol. 56, no. 222, June 1946. "Obituary: Edwin Walter Kemmerer 1875-1945." The American Economic Review, vol. 36, no. 1, March 1946.

Names:
Economists' National Committee on Monetary Policy (U.S.)
Princeton University
Kemmerer, Donald Lorenzo
Kemmerer, Edwin Walter, 1875-1945