Harry S. Truman Library, Inc. Records

FOLDER TITLE LIST

Box 1

ARCHITECT AND CONTRACTOR

• Hegeman-Harris Company, Inc.
• Architects - Somdal & Gentry (4 folders)
• Massman-Patti contractors
• Charts and drawing - Gentry & Voskamp

Box 2

• Sub-contractors

H.S.T. LIBRARY BUILDING MATERIALS

• Acquisition of the site of the Harry S. Truman Library
• Building costs (2 folders)
• Revision of building estimate, 1956 - Building Committee meeting, Feb. 1956
• H.S.T. Library blueprints
• Library inscriptions
• Library cost estimates

Box 3

• Furnishings and equipment estimates
• Duff and Repp
• Furnishing and landscaping - Hare & Hare
• Library drawings
• Library maps
• Location of Library
• Library pneumatic tube system
• Library shelving
• Library shelving pamphlets

JANUARY 8, 1953 - DINNER

• Attendance at dinner
• Dinner acceptance
• Dinner regrets
• Miscellaneous for dinner

HARRY S. TRUMAN LIBRARY GROUNDBREAKING

• Invitation list for groundbreaking
• Rejected invitations for groundbreaking

Box 4

• Accepted invitations to groundbreaking
• Publicity releases, printed cards, memos, letters for groundbreaking

HARRY S. TRUMAN LIBRARY DEDICATION FILE

• Library luncheon clippings (2 folders)
• Letters re ceremonies
• Lists - invitations sent (2 folders)

Box 5

• Invitations sent
• Formal invitations
• Joe McGee acceptance and regrets
• Joe Mcgee file
• Publicity
• Dedication press releases

Box 6

HARRY S. TRUMAN LIBRARY FILES, 1950 - 1953

• General correspondence Harry S. Truman Library Inc., 1950-1951
• General correspondence Harry S. Truman Library Inc., 1952
• Contribution letters
• Acknowledgement letters
• Bank statements and pass book
• Chairmanship letters

AUDITORS' REPORTS

• Auditors' reports, 1953
• Auditors' reports, 1954
• Auditors' reports, 1956
• Auditors' reports, 1957
• Auditors' reports, 1958

Box 7

HARRY S. TRUMAN LIBRARY CONTRIBUTORS AND FINANCIAL PAPERS, 1950 - 1957

• Balances, 1952
• Report of Treasurer, December 20, 1952
• Receipts, January 1, 1953 - March 1, 1953
• Library income breakdown, January 14 - July 8, 1953
• Analysis of income breakdown, July 18, 1950 - Sept. 1, 1953
• Expenses, January 21, 1953 - September 29, 1953
• Reports through December 31, 1953
• Treasurer's report June 8, 1954
• Treasurer's report July 15, 1950 - June 30, 1954
• Treasurer's report July 15, 1950 - September 15, 1954
• Treasurer's report September 15, 1954 - September 12, 1955
• Special Report, November 19, 1955
• Special Report, December 30, 1955
• Special Report, January 31, 1956
• Special Report, March 14, 1956
• Special Report, April 8, 1956
• Progress Report, August 1, 1956
• Treasurer's report, September 15, 1956
• Financial report, November 2, 1956
• Financial Status of the Library, November 15, 1956
• Financial Status of the Library, December 20, 1956
• Treasurer's report for special meeting January 28, 1957
• Financial status of the library, July 17, 1957
• Books, October 1950 - August 1952
• Library contributions, October 9, 1950 - February 2, 1953
• Building accounts, statements, invoices, etc. (Duter correspondence)
• Building account
• Building account - 1957 statements

Box 8

• Expense accounts and vouchers, 1954 - 1957 (2 folders)
• Deposit slips, 1953-1957 (2 folders)

Box 9

• Bank statements, 1953-1957
• Check stubs, 1953-1957
• Petty cash book

LIBRARY INVOICES AND BILLS

Box 10

• Bank statements and deposit slips, 1958 - 1963
• June 1955
• July 1955
• August 1955
• September 1955

Box 11

• October 1955
• November 1955
• December 1955
• January 1956
• February 1956
• March 1956

Box 12

• April 1956
• May 1956
• June 1956
• July 1956
• August 1956

Box 13

• September 1956
• October 1956
• November 1956 (3 folders)

Box 14

• December 1956
• January 1957 ( 2 folders)
• February 1957 ( 2 folders)
• March 1957 (folder 1)

Box 15

• March 1957 (folder 2)
• April 1957 (2 folders)
• May 1957
• June 1957

Box 16

• July 1957 (3 folders)
• August 1957
• September 1957
• December 1957
• 1958 - 1960

Box 17

• Expenses, January 1953 - April 1955 (28 folders)

Box 18

• Expenses, May 1955 - November 1957 (31 folders)

Box 19

• Balance sheets
• Building cost paid
• Weekly reports

PRESIDENTIAL PAPERS - INFORMATION RE OTHER LIBRARIES

• Presidential libraries - general
• The Presidential Library - Kahn article
• Miscellaneous libraries
• Eisenhower Library information
• Hoover Library
• Hyde Park Library information
• Hyde Park information

Box 20

• Lincoln Memorial Center Association
• Papers of Presidents ( 4 folders)

Box 21

FUND RAISING FOR THE HARRY S. TRUMAN LIBRARY

• State Committees - Arizona
• State Committees - Arkansas
• State Committees - California, pledge card replies
• State Committees - California, form letter, Los Angeles
• State Committees - California, San Francisco, (2 folders)
• State Committees - Colorado, Denver
• State Committees - Colorado, Denver Library dinner

Box 22

• State Committees - Washington, D.C.
• State Committees - Charles Murphy's mailing campaign
• State Committees - Dean Acheson's special gifts committee
• State Committees - Mrs. Mastin White, Treasurer, D.C.
• State Committees - Washington, D.C. luncheon, June 25, 1953
• State Committees - Melvin Hildreth's "stone" file
• State Committees - Library reception, May 7, 1954
• State Committees - Florida
• State Committees - Georgia
• State Committees - Chicago, Illinois (3 folders)

Box 23

• State Committees Hellenic Federation dinner, October 28, 1955
• State Committees - Indiana
• State Committees - Iowa
• State Committees - Louisiana
• State Committees - Maryland
• State Committees - Mass., Boston luncheon, March 8, 1954
• State Committees - Michigan
• State Committees - Michigan, Ann Arbor, Sam Hayes
• State Committees - Michigan, Detroit
• State Committees - Minnesota
• State Committees - Minnesota Farmers Union
• State Committees - Missouri, Communications Workers dinner

Box 24

• State Committees - Missouri, Kansas City dinner, November 6, 1954
• State Committees - Missouri, Kansas City
• State Committees - Missouri, St. Louis
• State Committees - Nebraska
• State Committees - New Jersey
• State Committees - New Mexico
• State Committees - New York dinner, May 8, 1953
• State Committees - New York contributions
• State Committees - New York, Frank Berand, Jack De Simone, Stephen Scopas, Greek activities cocktail party, November 11, 1953

Box 25

• State Committees - New York Luncheon, June 29, 1953
• State Committees - New York, Abraham Feinberg
• State Committees - North Carolina
• State Committees - Ohio, Toledo Young Democrats September 6, 1955
• State Committees - Ohio, Cleveland dinner, June 3, 1955
• State Committees - Ohio, Cleveland
• State Committees - Ohio, Cincinnati, Junior Order of the United American Mechanics
• State Committees - Oklahoma
• State Committees - Oregon
• State Committees - Pennsylvania, Philadelphia dinner, December 13, 1954 (2 folders)
• State Committees - Pennsylvania

Box 26

• State Committees - Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Harry S. Truman presentation of Franklin Portrait
• State Committees - Pennsylvania, Scranton
• State Committees - Texas
• State Committees - Utah
• State Committees - Washington, Seattle dinner, November 26, 1955
• State Committees - Wisconsin

FUND RAISING PLANS

• Progress report letters, January 21, 1955
• Form Letter replies, November 5, 1954
• Suggested methods of raising money, November 5, 1954
• Fund raising letters to trustees, contributors of $1000 or more and contributors of $100 or more
• Postal data - 1954 mailing
• Library mailing envelope
• Harry S. Truman television program - Callahan, Delehanty, O'Donnell, August 10, 1953

LISTS - POSSIBLE AND ACTUAL CONTRIBUTORS

• Key men -states - Miscellaneous

Box 27

• Key and potential contributors, 1953
• Large contributors listed
• Possible contributors

FOUNDATIONS

• Rockefeller Foundation - Dean Rusk
• Foundations - Ford Carnegie
• Harry S. Truman Library Foundations
• Memo for foundations
• Harry S. Truman Library and Foundation giving
• Homer Wadsworth

CORRESPONDENCE - CONTRIBUTORS TO HARRY S. TRUMAN LIBRARY OVER $100

• $100 contributors form letter

• A - L (12 folders)

Box 28

• Mc - W (11 folders)

CORRESPONDENCE - CONTRIBUTORS TO HARRY S. TRUMAN LIBRARY UNDER $100

• Anonymous contributors
• A - Mc (13 folders)

Box 29

• M - XYZ (10 folders)
• Correspondence pulled from files for replies
• Letters from President Truman re birthday contributions
• Democratic Committee contributions

ADVISORY COMMITTEE

• Miscellaneous
• Blegen, Theodore C.
• Commager, Henry Steele
• Decker, Clarence R.

Box 30

• Ellis, Elmer
• Grover, Wayne C.
• McGrath, Earl J.
• Murphy, Franklin D.
• Schlesinger, Arthur
• Shafer, Boyd
• Advisory Committee May 7, 1957
• Harry S. Truman will

OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES

• Acheson Bust (folder 1)

Box 31

• Acheson Bust (folder 2 and 3)
• Offer of papers
• Deposition and care of Presidential papers
• Independence Examiner Library Articles

Box 32

• Bank of Independence, Missouri resolution
• Land purchase account
• Library press release
• Library contributions made by officers and trustees
• Items sent to trustees
• Harry S. Truman
• Harry S. Truman Library - contents and archival aspects
• Evans, Tom
• Waller, Wilmer J.
• Acheson, Dean
• Anderson, Clinton P.
• Allen, George E.
• Arvey, Jacob M.
• Austin, Warren R.
• Barringer, L. T.
• Bez, Nick
• Blair, James T., Jr.
• Blaustein, Jacob

Box 33

• Bowles, Chester
• Brannan, Charles F.
• Brooks, Elwood M.
• Brown, Francis, C.
• Bulova, Arde
• Bunche, Ralph J.
• Carey, James B.
• Chapman, Oscar
• Chase, Mrs. Mary