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Description:

Series 1, Biographical and Personal Materials (circa1932-1965) consists of general biographical material by and about Hugh Moore, awards received by Moore, publications, several essays and letters to the editor by Moore, radio broadcasts, and a speech given by Moore. These materials are of a personal nature.

The order in which these materials were sent to Princeton has been maintained.

Description:

Series 2, Correspondence (circa 1932-1972)includes correspondence and an alphabetical listing of all correspondents. Correspondence by the same individuals may be located in both the Subject and Organization series and the Correspondence series.

The correspondence in this series is arranged alphabetically by correspondent. In cases where there is a substantial amount of correspondence a separate folder has been designated by name. The alphabetical listing of all correspondents is found after the box and folder listing

Description:

Series 3, Subject and Organizational Files (1922-1972) contains the core of The Hugh Moore Fund Collection. Here may be found materials reflecting the wide-ranging diversity of Hugh Moore's life-long interests in the areas of international relations and population.

In an effort to provide a sense of order to what would otherwise be a purely alphabetical listing, certain materials have been grouped under the subject headings NATO, Population, and the United Nations. In general, organizations are arranged alphabetically. The exceptions to this arrangement are those groups whose names changed over the period of time in which Moore was involved with them. In these cases, regardless of the different names, all materials will be listed alphabetically under the most recent name of the organization in chronological order, from earliest to most recent. For example, Hugh Moore was active in the United Nations Association. These materials are located under the general subject heading "United Nations", and then under the organizational name, "American Association for the United Nations," the most recent name of the United Nations Association. Also under this organizational name will be found materials relating to the United Nations Association's predecessor, the League of Nations.

Description:

Series 4, Photographs (circa 1939-1970) contains photographs relating to The Hugh Moore Fund and Moore's activities with the Fund.

The photographs in this series are arranged in alphabetical order, by subject.

Description:

Series 5, Oversize Materials (1947; 1967-1969) contains newspaper advertisements of the World Population Emergency Campaign and the Campaign to Check the Population Explosion, and two sets of display boards for presentations given by the Save the United Nations (S.U.N.) Committee and the World Population Emergency Campaign (WPEC).

The order in which these materials were sent to Princeton has been maintained.

Description:

Series 6, March 2012 Accession includes reports, subject files, and posters from the Hugh Moore Fund.

The order in which these materials were sent to Princeton has been maintained.

Scope and Contents

Consists of correspondence, memoranda, articles, speeches, photographs, and posters belonging to Moore, relating to his interest in the areas of world peace and world population. The organizations which the Hugh Moore Fund supported or on which Hugh Moore served include the United Nations Association, the League of Nations, American Council on NATO, the Atlantic Citizen's Congress, the Atlantic Institute, and the Atlantic Union Committee. The subject files relating to the United Nations contain materials relating to Moore's involvement with the American Association for the United Nations (1937-1962), formerly known as the League of Nations Association and the United Nations Association. Materials relating to Moore's role as a consultant to the U.S. Delegation at the 1945 San Francisco conference to establish the United Nations are found as well, located under the Americans United for World Organization.

Collection Creator Biography:

Moore, Hugh, 1887-1972

Hugh Moore (1887-1972) was an industrialist, philanthropist, and perennial organizer. Born in Kansas on April 27, 1887 and raised in Missouri, Moore attended but did not graduate from Harvard (he is considered a member of the Class of 1907). At the age of 21 Moore, and his brother-in-law went to New York City to promote the idea of a sanitary paper drinking cup to replace the "common cup" that could be found in train stations, hospitals, and other public venues. Encountering much initial skepticism, Moore and his brother-in-law soon won over a group of investors by writing letters on Waldorf-Astoria Hotel stationery. With the help of W. T. Graham, President of the American Can Co., and other investors, Moore and his brother-in-law founded the Dixie Cup Corporation. In 1957 he sold Dixie Cup to the American Can Company, and began to devote his efforts entirely to the causes of world population and world peace, in which he had already taken a great deal of interest. He continued to be active in directing the work of the Hugh Moore Fund until his death in 1972.

Moore established The Hugh Moore Fund in 1944 with the specific goal of promoting world peace. His conception of world peace was broad, as can be seen from the materials in this collection relating to the United Nations and NATO on international, national and local levels. However, Moore's most important contribution to the understanding of the concept of world peace was his insistence that population be an element of the definition of world peace, and that it be a factor in issues relating to international relations. An overpopulated, underfed, and undereducated world was a world in which peace could not exist, at least not equally for all, he believed. Moore has consistently been characterized as ahead of his time in this matter. His pamphlet, The Population Bomb, published in the early 1950s, dealt with "population control" issues that were considered taboo at the time, and coined the phrase "population explosion" as a warning that the world would "breed itself to death." Moore was deeply concerned about birth control and euthanasia, and continued to address them despite a great deal of opposition voiced by many experts in the field of population studies. John D. Rockefeller III, chair of The Population Council considered Moore's publication of The Population Bomb a mistake and thought that it would create general panic.

Acquisition:

The Hugh Moore Fund Collection was donated to Mudd Library by Hugh Moore and Louise Moore Pine in a series of accessions from 1975 to 1994. Earlier accessions were integrated and processed as one collection. Later, additional accessions were simply added to the collection. In 1994 a final accession was received. All accessions have now been integrated to form one collection. As a result, materials have been rearranged and placed into an order that is as straightforward and accessible as possible.

The materials in Series 6 came from the estate of Louise W. Moore Pine (Hugh Moore's widow) via her executrix, Antonia Grifo in April 2012 . The accession number associated with this gift is ML.2012.018.

Appraisal

Materials relating to the Dixie Cup Corporation were removed from the collection in 1995. The Dixie Cup Records are located in the archives at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa. Please contact the Archives and Special Collections at Lafayette College for information regarding this collection.

A small group of materials relating to the Committee on the Marshall Plan, of which Moore served as treasurer, were separated from the collection in April, 1994, and sent to the Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Missouri where they will complement the other holdings on the Marshall Plan that Moore had sent to that library at an earlier date.

Several books that came in the April 2012 accession were sent to the book sale.

Processing Information

This collection was processed by Melissa Johnson during 1994 and 1995. Finding aid written by Melissa Johnson during 1995. The finding aid was updated by Maureen Callahan in April 2004 in order to incorporate materials in the April 2012 accession. These materials were re-housed in archival folders and boxes at this time.

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Collection is open for research use.

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Credit this material:

Hugh Moore Fund Collection; Public Policy Papers, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library

Permanent URL:
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Location:
Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library
65 Olden Street
Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
(609) 258-6345
Storage Note:
  • Mudd Manuscript Library (scamudd): Box 1-31
Related Materials

Related material can be found in The Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies Collection [MC011]. Columbia University holds materials related to the Declaration of Atlantic Unity.

Related publications include Lawrence Lader's book, Breeding Ourselves to Death published in New York by Ballantine Books 1971).

Subject Terms:
Birth control -- United States -- 20th century.
Developing countries -- Population policy -- 20th century.
Peace -- Societies, etc. -- 20th century.
Peaceful change (International relations) -- 20th century.
Population policy -- 20th century.
Public health -- International cooperation -- 20th century.
Public officers -- United States -- 20th century.
Reconstruction (1939-1951)
Social reformers -- United States -- 20th century.
Water resources development -- Canada -- Saint Lawrence Seaway.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Peace.
World health -- 20th century.
Genre Terms:
Articles.
Correspondence
Photographs, Original.
Posters.
Reports.
Speeches.
Names:
Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies
Council on foreign relations
American Association for the United Nations
Americans United for World Organization (U.S.)
Atlantic Citizens' Congress (U.S.)
Atlantic Union (U.S.)
Atlantic Union Committee
Woodrow Wilson Foundation
World peace foundation
World Population Emergency Campaign (U.S.)
United Nations association of the United States of America
United Nations association of the United States of America
United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference 1944 Bretton Woods, N.H.
United Nations
Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation.
League of Nations.
International Free World Association.
International Planned Parenthood Federation.
Hugh Moore fund
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Planned parenthood federation of America
Population Crisis Committee
Canfield, Cass, 1897-1986
Clayton, Will, 1880-1966
Draper, William F., 1912-2003
Kefauver, Estes, 1903-1963
Lader, Lawrence
Marts, Arnauld C.
Osborne, Lithgow
Rockefeller, John D., III (John Davison), 1906-1978
Roper, Elmo, 1900-1971.
Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966
Places:
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1933-1945.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-
United States -- Population policy -- 20th century.