U.S. President's Research Committee on Social Trends Records 1924-1936

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U.S. President's Research Committee on Social Trends Records 1924-1936

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Statistics compiled from census returns of 1910, 1920, and 1930 for eighteen cities used in preparing three chapters of the final report of the committee; also drafts of some of the chapters with commentary prepared for the Library of Congress by authors of the chapters, scrapbooks relating to the committee and reaction to its final report, a serialized condensation of the report; and data from a survey of rural communities used in preparing the report.

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Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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