Brooks, Philip C. Papers

Dates: 1927-1977

Director, Harry S. Truman Library, 1957-1971

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Size: 7 linear feet.
Access: Open
Copyright: The donor gave to the U.S. government the copyrights in this material and in any other material received by the U.S. government and maintained in a depository administered by the National Archives and Records Administration. Documents created by U.S. government officials in the course of their official duties are in the public domain. Copyright interest in other documents presumably belongs to the creators of those documents, or their heirs.
Processed by: Erwin J. Mueller (1973); Dennis E. Bilger (1978).

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FOLDER TITLE LIST
ALPHABETICAL FILE

Box 1

  • A
  • American Historical Association
  • American Historical Association - Committee on Historians and Government - drafts and reports
  • American Historical Association - Committee on Historians and Government - correspondence and notes
  • B
  • Bahmer, Robert H.
  • Bemis, Samuel F. - Correspondence
  • Benton, Thomas Hart

Box 2

  • Bolton, Herbert E. - Correspondence
  • Boyd, Julian P.
  • Bryan, Mary G. - Georgia Department of Archives and History
  • Buck, Solon J.
  • C
  • Connor, R.D.W.
  • Crittendon, Christopher
  • D
  • E
  • Evans, Tom L.
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • Harriman, W. Averell
  • I
  • J
  • Johnson, Lyndon

Box 3

  • K
  • L
  • Lee, Guy
  • Lloyd, David D.
  • Mc
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Posner, Dr. Ernst M.
  • Q

Box 4

  • R
  • Rhoads, James B.
  • S
  • T
  • Trever, Karl L.
  • U
  • V
  • W
  • White, Gerald T.
  • XYZ
SUBJECT FILE
  • Access to papers
  • Advisory Board for Archival Affairs, Region 6, GSA
  • Agencies - Organization and activities
  • American Association for State and Local History
  • American Council of Learned Societies
  • American Society for Public Administration
  • American University - course material
  • American University - PhD Committee
  • Appraisals of personal papers - general
  • Archival principles and history

Box 5

  • Archival training
  • Archives Administration - general
  • Art
  • Arts - Missouri
  • Atlas of American History
  • Bancroft Library
  • British Records Association
  • Business Records
  • California University gatherings
  • College and university archives
  • Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention papers
  • Definitions: records and other terms
  • European Recovery Program - interview project by Dr. Brooks
  • Evaluation - Dr. Philip C. Brooks file
  • Federal Records Center - San Francisco, California
  • Foreign Archives
  • Freedom of Information

Box 6

  • Harry S. Truman Library
  • Harry S. Truman Library Institute
  • Society for (Historians of American Foreign Relations)
  • Historical activities - Government Budget Bureau - 1946-1947, 1951
  • Historical Societies and collections
  • Hoover (Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government)
  • Indian archives
  • Inter-American Archives Conference - October, 1961
  • International archival activities
  • International council on archives
  • IRAC - general
  • IRAC - San Francisco
  • Johnson, Lyndon B.
  • Johnson, Lyndon B. - visit to Independence, Mo. - July 30, 1965
  • Jury duty
  • Language usage
  • Latin American - ICA - other Missions - 1955
  • Latin American activities
  • Lecture outlines - archives and records management
  • Legislation - general
  • Libraries - general
  • Library of Congress

Box 7

  • Management
  • Manuscripts
  • Maps - geography
  • Marshall Library
  • Menninger Foundation
  • Mexico - Point IV and archives
  • Minnesota Historical Society
  • Minnesota State archives
  • Missouri Commission on Higher Education
  • Missouri State archives
  • Modern diplomatics - proposed study - 1940
  • Museums
  • National Archives - general - 1967

Box 8

  • National Archives - publications
  • National Archives - records administration circulars
  • National Historical Publications Commission
  • New Mexico - Sender case
  • Nixon, Richard M. - Library of
  • Open conference on Administration and Seminar Conference - National Archives, 1944-1947
  • Oral History
  • Organization of American Historians
  • Pan American Institute of Geography and History
  • Panama project - administration - 1954
  • Panama project - administration - 1955
  • Panama project - Canal Zone records
  • Panama project - dependencies
  • Panama project - Grandi, Estels - correspondence with, 1954-1971
  • Panama project - Lectures by Dr. Philip C. Brooks
  • Panama project - Ley de Archives
  • Panama project - operations missions - correspondence with
  • Panama project - Panama archives
  • Panama project - Porros, Belisario - papers of
  • Panama project - publicity - Panama, 1954-1955
  • Panama project - report of Dr. Philip C. Brooks on the records management project in Panama, Nov. 21, 1955
  • Panama project - U.S. Government officials - correspondence with concerning records management lecture material
  • Panama project - University of Tennessee mission

Box 9

  • Park College - Educational Advisory Board
  • PCB - personal
  • Personnel - reference file
  • Photography and microphotography - general
  • Posner class - lists and schedules
  • Preservation of records
  • Public administration
  • Records management (Federal) - general
  • Records management - NAR
  • Records management - NSRB
  • Records management - States
  • Reference service
  • Restrictions
  • Revisionism
  • Riggs, John B. - thesis
  • Secretary of State
  • Security classified records
  • Security problems
  • Social Science Research Council
  • Society for Advancement of Management
  • Spanish publications - archives and records management

Box 10

  • State archives
  • State Department archives
  • Television - educational
  • Texas - report of Dr. Philip C. Brooks on records Management to the Texas State Library and Historical Commission
  • Texas - years 1950-1952 - correspondence
  • Truman administration research and publication
  • Truman correspondence - general
  • United Nations Association
  • University archives and history
  • War history publications - general
  • Watkins Mill
  • The White House
  • Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars - Washington, D.C.
COMMUNITY AFFAIRS FILE
  • Boy Scouts
  • Community Music Association
  • Independence (Mo.) local affairs
  • Rotary Club - general
JACKSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
  • Correspondence file, 1959-1971
SOCIETY OF AMERICAN ARCHIVISTS
  • SAA - American archivist

Box 11

  • SAA - annual meeting - 1961
  • SAA - Committee on Oral History
  • SAA - Committee on Professional Standards and Training
  • SAA - Committee on Records Administration
  • SAA - Constitution and amendments
  • SAA - Correspondence - general
  • SAA - Council, 1942-1943
  • SAA - Council, 1944-1946
  • SAA - Council, 1946-1947
  • SAA - Directory of members - 1970
  • SAA - Distinguished Service Award - 1966
  • SAA - General - 1942-1943
  • SAA - General - 1944-1946
  • SAA - General - 1947
  • SAA - Federal Records Conference

Box 12

  • SAA - Federal-State Relations Committee
  • SAA - History of the Society
  • SAA - Honorary members
  • SAA - International Relations
  • SAA - Joint Committee on Historical Manuscripts
  • SAA - Leland Prize Committee, 1961-1962
  • SAA - Long Range Planning Committee
  • SAA - Meeting, annual
  • SAA - Membership committee
  • SAA - Nominating committee
  • SAA - Nominations for office
  • SAA - Paper salvage campaign
  • SAA - Preservation of local and Federal archives

Box 13

  • SAA - President - General correspondence
  • SAA - Secretary
  • SAA - State archives
PUBLICATIONS AND LECTURES FILE
  • American Archivist
  • Article on Ernst Posner - Indian archives - 1970
  • Articles and reviews by Dr. Philip C. Brooks in historical publications
  • Diplomacy and the Borderlands - correspondence - California press
  • Diplomacy and the Borderlands - Comment
  • Diplomacy and the Borderlands - General
  • Diplomacy and the Borderlands - 42 degree line to the Pacific
  • Diplomacy and the Borderlands - Individuals - biographies
  • Diplomacy and the Borderlands - Melish map
  • Diplomacy and the Borderlands - Notes and documents
  • Diplomacy and the Borderlands - reprint 1970 - proposed article

Box 14

  • The Harry S. Truman Library - Plans and Reality
  • Historians' Stake in Federal Records - AHA
  • Interagency Records Administration Conferences
  • Mt. Rushmore Presidential Institute - 1970
  • Public Records Management - Philip C. Brooks
  • Public Records Management manuals
  • Publications by Philip C. Brooks, 1934-1942
  • Publications by Philip C. Brooks, 1943-1952
  • Publications by Philip C. Brooks, 1950

Box 15

  • Research in Archives (Ch #1) archives and private papers
  • Research in Archives (Ch #2) finding the sources
  • Research in Archives (Ch #3) the researchers and the archivist
  • Research in Archives (Ch #4) limitations
  • Research in Archives (Ch #5) notes and copies
  • Research in Archives (Ch #6) criticism of sources
  • Research in Archives (Ch #7) changing ways
  • Research in Archives - Manual for users - arrangements
  • Research in Archives - Manual - correspondence
  • Research in Archives - Manual - correspondence on materials
  • Research in Archives - Plan and comment in process
  • Research in Archives - University of Chicago Press
  • Research in Archives - University - teaching and lectures

Box 16

GENERAL FILE
  • The Alternative
  • Brooks, Philip C. - bibliography
  • Brooks, Philip C. - correspondence, 1942-1972
  • Brooks, Philip C. - press releases, articles
  • Daniel, C. Clifton
  • Events and programs - newsclipping re
  • First Methodist Church, Palo Alto, California. 1952-1956
  • Harry S. Truman Library - correspondence, 1961-1976
  • Harry S. Truman Library - newsclippings, notes programs, re
  • Harry S. Truman Library - stationery
  • Harry S. Truman Library Institute for National and International Affairs, 1969-1977
  • Kennedy, John F. - exhibition of portraits and sketches by Elaine de Kooning, 1965
  • McCoy, Donald R. - correspondence, 1973-1977
  • Miscellaneous correspondence, 1965-1974
  • Miscellaneous correspondence, 1943-1976

Box 17

  • National Historical Publications and Records Commission - correspondence, 1976
  • Presidents and their papers - correspondence, 1929-1972 (2 folders)
  • The Presidency
  • Presidential Libraries - general
  • Private papers vs. official records
  • Research in Archives
  • Retirement publicity
  • Travel accounts
  • Truman, Harry S. - articles by Philip C. Brooks
  • Truman Associates
  • Truman, Harry S. Statue Project

Box 18

ALPHABETICAL FILE - II
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I-J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N-O
  • P-Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U-V
  • W
  • X, Y, Z
PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE FILE
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I-J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N-O
  • P-Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U-V
  • W-X [empty]
  • Y-Z

Box 19

SUBJECT FILE - II
  • Arizona Historical Advisory Commission
  • Brooks, Philip C. - Personal Records - 1944-1953
  • Brooks, Philip C. - Personnel Records, Director of Harry S. Truman Library
  • Capon, Lester J. - the Newberry Library [1 of 2]
  • Capon, Lester J. - the Newberry Library [2 of 2]
  • Committee on Conservation of Cultural Resources
  • Distinguished Service Awards - 1967
  • Friis, Herman [personal correspondence, 1969-1973]
  • Gentry, Sue - Independence Examiner
  • Historic Preservation - General
  • Jackson County Historical Society
  • Jonas, Dr. Harry
  • Lee, Guy A. [personal correspondence, 1951-1969]
  • Library of Congress (1972)
  • National Archives - Brooks memoranda of 1939 on Government Organization (1943)

Box 20

  • National Archives - Philip C. Brooks memoranda, 1935-1940
  • National Archives - Philip C. Brooks - Miscellaneous memoranda, 1943-1972
  • National Archives - Philip C. Brooks - Papers on the National Archives, (1939-1944)
  • National Trust for Historic Preservation
  • National Archives - Relationship to the General Services Administration ["Opra Exit" - NARA separation for GSA]
  • Oral History
  • OAH (Organization of American Historians)
  • Panama Agreement - 1954
  • Position Correspondence [re position for Dr. Brooks in Field Operation, Records Center Division, National Archives and Records Service]
  • Posner, Ernst, 1971 (1962)

Box 21

  • Professional Organizations
  • Society of American Archivists (SAA)
  • Truman, Harry S. - Notes and Correspondence
  • Truman, Harry S. - Funeral Plans and Facts (OPLAN)
  • Harry S. Truman Library
  • University of Michigan - Awards
  • Warner, Dr. Robert M. - University of Michigan, Michigan Historical Collections
  • White, Gerald T. (personal correspondence)
  • Unidentified correspondence

Box 22

DIARIES FILE, 1957-1971 [2009 accretion]
  • 1957-1966 and undated
  • 1957-1959
  • 1960-1962
  • 1963-1965
  • 1966-1968
  • 1969-1971
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