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Cohen, Wilbur J. (Wilbur Joseph), 1913-1987. Wilbur J. Cohen papers, 1930-1987 (bulk 1935-1979).

Title: Wilbur J. Cohen papers, 1930-1987 (bulk 1935-1979).

Papers of an official in the Social Security Administration (1935-1956), assistant secretary, undersecretary, and secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (1961-1969), professor of social work (1956-1960), professor of education and public welfare and dean of the School of Education at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (1969-1979), and founder and co-chairman of the Save Our Security coalition. Included are appointment books, personal and professional correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, draft legislation, testimony, task force clippings, memoirs, writings and speeches, interview transcripts, and sound recordings. Prominent correspondents include Arthur Altmeyer, Robert Ball, J. Douglas Brown, Nelson Cruikshank, John Dingell, Paul Douglas, Robert Doughton, Arthur Flemming, John Fogarty, Aime Forand, John Gardner, Walter George, Burr Harrison, Lister Hill, Hubert Humphrey, Leo Irwin, Henry Jackson, Lester Johnson, Robert Kean, John F. Kennedy, Edward Kennedy, Robert Kerr, Russell Long, George McGovern, Wilbur Mills, Wayne Morse, Robert Myers, Carl Perkins, Claude Pepper, J. J. Pickle, Merlyn Pitzele, Henry Reuss, Alice Rivlin, Sargent Shriver, Theodore Sorensen, Robert Wagner, Elizabeth Wickenden, and Edwin Witte. The files document the expansion of the Social Security system; the establishment of the Medicare program; social welfare policy and legislation during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations; Cohen's career as a federal official, academic, expert and consultant on Social Security; and his activities as a writer, speaker, and advocate of government health, education, and social programs. The processed portion of this collection is summarized above, dates 1930-1987, and described in the register. Additional accessions, also date 1930-1987, are described below.

ArchivalResource: 109.8 c.f. (279 archives boxes) and4 tape recordings; plusadditions of 11.4 c.f.,91 tape recordings,148 photographs and1.2 c.f. of photographs,29 negatives,2 film reels, and6 videorecordings.

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Brown, J. D. Photographs of Milwaukee (Wis.) parks, undated.

Title: Photographs of Milwaukee (Wis.) parks, undated.

Photographs of Milwaukee parks, including Lake Park and South Park, depicting the landscape and architecture of area parks.

ArchivalResource: 6 photographs.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173694746 View

Brown, J. Douglas (James Douglas), 1898-. Reminiscences of James Douglas Brown : oral history, 1965.

Title: Reminiscences of James Douglas Brown : oral history, 1965.

Chairman of Advisory Council, Subcommittee of Senate Finance Committee; Social Security Board, 1937-38; advisory councils, 1947-48, 1957-58, 1963-64; efforts toward old age insurance legislation; impressions of Edwin Witte, Barbara Armstrong, Murray Latimer.

ArchivalResource: Miscellaneous papers relating to oral history.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122481100 View

Brown, James D. Cheat Mountain Turnpike field notes, [ca. 1833].

Title: Cheat Mountain Turnpike field notes, [ca. 1833].

Field notes consist of a survey from Riffles Run towards Warmsleys by way of meeting house, taken by James D. Brown, chief engineer.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

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Princeton University. Office of the Dean of the Faculty. Office of Dean of the Faculty Records, 1781-2005.

Title: Office of Dean of the Faculty Records, 1781-2005.

The collection consists of the files of the dean, the office's staff, as well as the faculty. In addition to the office's subject files, the collection holds the records of the faculty meetings, faculty and University committees, and the personnel files of faculty, senior staff, and trustees.

ArchivalResource: 82.53 linear ft. (133 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/177695454 View

Brown, James D. Beverly to Clarksburg Turnpike field notes, 1834.

Title: Beverly to Clarksburg Turnpike field notes, 1834.

Field notes consist of 3 volumes of notes on terrain, etc., with a few sketches, by James D. Brown, chief engineer.

ArchivalResource: 3 v.

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Brown, James D. Warm Springs to Bull Pasture River Turnpike field notes, 1834.

Title: Warm Springs to Bull Pasture River Turnpike field notes, 1834.

These records contain field notes taken for the survey, by James D. Brown.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

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Princeton University. Bicentennial Celebration Committees. Bicentennial Celebration records, 1944-1947.

Title: Bicentennial Celebration records, 1944-1947.

The Bicentennial Celebration records contain material documenting the planning and organization of the yearlong festivities by the Bicentennial Committees, as well as material relating to the conferences, convocations, and other events that were held in honor of Princeton's 200th anniversary. The records contain correspondence, writings, speeches, reports, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, press releases, transcripts, tickets, and decorative water color and pencil sketches and various other materials documenting the Bicentennial Celebration.

ArchivalResource: 14.03 linear ft. (20 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/74214063 View

Brown, J. D. [Wild flower collection : Huntsville, Texas, 1894-1896] / J.D. Brown.

Title: [Wild flower collection : Huntsville, Texas, 1894-1896] / J.D. Brown. [1896?]

Specimens of Huntsville area wild flowers. Mounted in a bound notebook, most are labelled and described. Completed by Brown while a student at Sam Houston Normal Institute. He graduated in the class of 1896.

ArchivalResource: 43 leaves : samples ; 21 cm. + 6 loose specimens sealed in mylar.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34275184 View

American Association for Social Security. American Association for Social Security. Series 1. Correspondence, 1927-1944, bulk 1931-1944.

Title: American Association for Social Security. Series 1. Correspondence, 1927-1944, bulk 1931-1944.

Chiefly concerns unemployment insurance, federal social security, health insurance, merit rating, old age pensions, state legislation and workmen's compensation. Correspondents include Harvey Lebrun (acting executive director, AASS); Bishop Francis J. McConnell (president, AASS); Frances Perkins (secretary of labor); additionally, considerable routine business correspondence of the Association. Correspondence concerning unemployment insurance (l930-l942) deals with the Wagner-Lewis unemployment bill; federal excise tax on unemployment insurance; AASS conference held at Brookwood Labor College on proposed standards for unemployment insurance; AASS's annual census of unemployment insurance developments; data on U.S. Employment Service; unemployment compensation; and the proposed Laidler State Employment Insurance Bill (1930). Other topics include criticism of AASS's old age pension plan system and other AASS sponsored public assistance programs; tentative qualification standards for unemployment insurance established by AASS and embodied in a model bill for unemployment insurance; and changes in the federal Social Security Act. Also concerns state efforts to establish unemployment relief bills (California, Connecticut, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Wisconsin); federal legislation on unemployment insurance; criticism of the New York Unemployment Insurance Act; Byrne-Killgre Bill; Municipal Assembly bill on unemployment insurance (N.Y. City). The correspondence also concerns William Leiserson's committee to study operation of the Unemployment Insurance Law; Byrne-Condon Bill with AASS suggested revisions; the Stamp Plan vs. payroll tax plans for unemployment insurance; experience rating and interstate hearings on unemployment compensation. There is also correspondence between Prof. Herman Gray and Lincoln University regarding blacks and social security, and other miscellaneous or routine correspondence. The correspondence concerning federal social security (l93l-1943) deals with the pros and cons of making unemployment compensation a federal problem; correspondence with I.S. Falk and Eleanor L. Dulles concerns changing the 50-50 matching system of federal grants in aid to be more equitable to the needy, the aged, the blind, and dependent children, and legislation to aid mothers; correspondence with Margaret Wagner regards Ohio gubernatorial candidate Martin Davey and the AASS position on tax freezing; and correspondence from M.D. Litman concerns injustice of the unemployment system. The correspondence concerning health insurance (1929-l943) deals with the reactions to the AASS model bill; letters from Epstein to Frances Perkins, Robert Wagner, and Mayor La Guardia regarding AASS's proposed health insurance program; correspondence between Epstein and J. Douglas Brown and E. Wight Bakke regarding expansion of New Jersey's unemployment compensation system to include illness coverage; notes on proposed New York State Health Insurance Plan Principles; opposition to Rhode Island's proposed illness compensation bill; and routine correspondence. The documents concerning merit rating (1940-1944) include a list of organizations opposed to merit rating; criticism of merit rating; reports on experience rating in unemployment compensation; and A.F. of L. sentiments for repeal of merit rating laws. The correspondence concerning old age pensions (1925-1942) includes letters from New York and New Jersey recipients of old age assistance expressing their gratitude for payments; industrial pension plans (General Electric, Central Hudson Gas and Electric Corporation, Mississippi State Senator Putman, Harry Kaplan, E.D. Hackett); pension programs of the Board of Pensions and Relief of the Methodist Episcopal Church; state retirement laws and programs; AASS request for the elimination of almshouses; and trade union pension plans and relief systems. The correspondence concerning state legislation (l943-l944) deals with information concerning various state programs for the blind; Aid to Families with Dependent Children; state public welfare programs and old age assistance programs. The correspondence concerning workmen's compensation (1942-1944) deals with the possible amalgamation of the AASS with the American Association for Labor Legislation; advances in workmen's compensation during 1942-1943; and changes in workmen's compensation during 1943. The correspondence with Harvey Lebrun (1943-1944) deals with Lebrun's appointment as acting executive director of AASS following Epstein's death; Lebrun's lecture on U.S. Social Security, delivered at Jefferson School of Social Science; and his and Epstein's mutual interest in research on old age assistance and social security. The correspondence with Bishop Francis J. McConnell (1928-1943) deals with routine matters and McConnell's twenty-fifth anniversary of service in 1937. The correspondence with Frances Perkins (1933-1938) regards agendas of labor conferences dealing with safety and health, minimum wages, old age pensions, unemployment insurance legislation, etc.; protests to Perkins concerning the exclusion of AASS from conference on labor legislation; also Dept. of Labor sponsorship of a conference on social insurance.

ArchivalResource: 9 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64755382 View

Office of Dean of the Faculty Records, 1781-2012

Title: Office of Dean of the Faculty Records 1781-2012

Princeton University's dean of the faculty is the senior administrator responsible for the quality and well-being of the faculty and professional staffs of the university. In the past, the office has been responsible for matters ranging from student discipline to undergraduate academic life and the curriculum. This record group consists of the files of the faculty, the dean, the office, and its staff. In addition to the office's subject files, the collection includes the records of faculty meetings, faculty and University committees, and the personnel files of faculty, senior staff, and trustees.

ArchivalResource: 87.42 linear feet; 45 volumes and 157 boxes

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/h415p9538 View

Social security files, 1932-1957.

Title: Social security files, 1932-1957.

Includes letters, memoranda, and reports of the meetings of the United States Social Security Advisory Council during the period Cohen served as its technical advisor (1937-1938), as well as correspondence, reports, notes, pamphlets, statistical studies and other documents assembled by Cohen, relating to economic security.

ArchivalResource: 4.5 linear ft.

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Virginia. Board of Public Works. Special engineers, 1825, 1832-1837, 1850.

Title: Special engineers, 1825, 1832-1837, 1850.

These records contain letters sent; vouchers and accounts of expenses. Special Engineers were William Anderson, James D. Brown, John Couty, Thomas H. DeWitt, Samuel L. Hays, James Herron, Moncure Robinson, William P.S. Sanger, Peter Scales, Charles B. Shaw, and Josias Thompson.

ArchivalResource: 5 in.

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Witte, Edwin E. (Edwin Emil), 1887-1960. Edwin E. Witte papers, 1903-1970.

Title: Edwin E. Witte papers, 1903-1970.

Primarily professional papers of Edwin E. Witte, a University of Wisconsin economist, specialist in labor legislation, and the chief author of the Social Security Act of 1935; including correspondence, research files, articles, speeches, lecture notes, diaries, scrapbooks, photographs, and audio recordings.

ArchivalResource: 124.7 c.f. (276 archives boxes, 15 flat boxes, 6 card file boxes, and 1 volume) and2 reels of microfilm (35 mm); plusadditions of 4.3 c.f.38 photographs, and14 disc recordings.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173700412 View

Brown, J. Douglas (James Douglas), 1898-1986. J. Douglas Brown Papers, 1917-1978 (bulk 1930-1970).

Title: J. Douglas Brown Papers, 1917-1978 (bulk 1930-1970).

The J. Douglas Brown Papers document Brown's career as a government consultant, a scholar, and a Princeton University administrator and professor. The papers particularly document Brown's work with the development and revision of the Social Security program, with the War Department during World War II, and with Princeton University as a professor and administrator. The papers include Brown's correspondence and writings, and reports, meeting minutes, notes, and publications pertaining to his involvement in a wide variety of government agencies and professional organizations.

ArchivalResource: 35.03 linear feet (84 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/156029433 View