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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Rare Books
326036
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Manuscripts
A collection of 9,601 items from 1786 to 1973, which consists of professional and personal material related to Edwin Francis Gay's life and multifaceted career. The collection documents his career in the civil service, at Harvard University, the New York Evening Post, and the Huntington Library; there are also some papers related to the National Bureau of Economic Research. Subjects include European economic recovery after World War I; international economic relations after World War II; United States business; and Gay's voluminous research notes on European and American economic history. Also included are Gay's notes on the Temple family papers in the Stowe collection at the Huntington Library and correspondence and papers relative to Herbert Heaton's book Scholar in action : Edwin Francis Gay (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1952). The collection also includes business, family and personal correspondence, documents, genealogy, printed material, photographs, clippings, and ephemera. Also present is Woodrow Wilson telegram to Edwin Francis Gay, 1919 September 17 (GY 3292) in Box 124.
mssGY
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Manuscripts
The bulk of the collection centers on Scherer's work with the Council of National Defense during the First World War. There are two and half boxes of documents which had been previously collected in two large volumes. The original arrangement (by date) has been retained for both collections (labeled "Bulletins" and "General Letters," respectively) in cataloged form. The "General Letters" collection is the most extensive; it comprises the entirety of Box 2 and the first half of Box 3. In some cases - due to the similarity of their subject material - two or more consecutive listings in the index have been cataloged together in one folder. There are two smaller collections labeled "Noteworthy Activities Undertaken by State Councils" and "I.C.A. Circulars." These two smaller document collections have their own folders in Box 3. All four contain an index - those for the two still-bound collections list the bulletins in the reverse order of their appearance. The two large volumes have been cataloged in the order listed in their indexes.
mssScherer papers
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