- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Sloan, Eugene Williams, 1893-
- Title:
- Eugene W. Sloan papers
- Repository:
- Public Policy Papers
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/3f462546n
- Dates:
- 1941-1945
- Size:
- 13 boxes
- Storage Note:
- Mudd Manuscript Library (scamudd): Box 1-13
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Eugene W. Sloan served as Assistant Secretary to the Treasury (beginning in 1935) and was the creator and first administrator of the United States Savings Bond program. Consists of fourteen scrapbooks compiled by Sloan. Two scrapbooks, which Sloan compiled while Executive Director of the War Savings Staff.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Scope and Contents
Consists of fourteen scrapbooks compiled by Sloan. Two scrapbooks, which Sloan compiled while Executive Director of the War Savings Staff, contain photographs, clippings, correspondence, and other mementos detailing his professional and personal life, including his World War I military service (including photographs) as well as his tenure at the Department of the Treasury in the Franklin Roosevelt administration. Letters of thanks from James Forrestal and Henry Morganthau to Sloan are included. Twelve other scrapbooks document the Treasury War Bond Program and Savings Bond Program and contain newspaper clippings, pamphlets, posters, etc., on defense bonds and stamps and war savings bonds and stamps.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Sloan, Eugene Williams, 1893-
Eugene W. Sloan served as Assistant Secretary to the Treasury (beginning in 1935) and was the creator and first administrator of the United States Savings Bond program. In 1941 Sloan became Executive Director of the War Savings Staff. He was appointed Deputy Commissioner of the Public Debt in 1943 and served in that capacity through World War II.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Available information about this collection indicates that the original acquisition of 12 scrapbooks arrived at Princeton in 1946. Two more scrapbooks were the gift of Mrs. Eugene Sloan in 1989.
- Appraisal
No information about appraisal is available for this collection.
- Processing Information
A collection-level description and finding aid were created for this collection by Dan Santamaria on March 4, 2008.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
- 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
For preservation reasons, original analog and digital media may not be read or played back in the reading room. Users may visually inspect physical media but may not remove it from its enclosure. All analog audiovisual media must be digitized to preservation-quality standards prior to use. Audiovisual digitization requests are processed by an approved third-party vendor. Please note, the transfer time required can be as little as several weeks to as long as several months and there may be financial costs associated with the process. Requests should be directed through the Ask Us Form.
- Credit this material:
Eugene W. Sloan papers; Public Policy Papers, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/3f462546n
- Location:
-
Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library65 Olden StreetPrinceton, NJ 08540, USA
- Storage Note:
- Mudd Manuscript Library (scamudd): Box 1-13
