Papers of Karl G. Karsten, 1909-1966 (bulk 1925-1936).

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Papers of Karl G. Karsten, 1909-1966 (bulk 1925-1936).

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Correspondence, memoranda, diary, speeches, writings, reports, notebooks, surveys, graphs, charts, numerical and decimal notations, index cards, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other papers. Chiefly the records of Karsten's firms, Karsten Forecasts, inc., and Karsten Statistical Laboratory. Includes papers of Karsten's wife, Helen Ward Tippy. Documents Karsten's years at the University of Oxford and in New York, N.Y., and his work for the Business Reading Service, Works Progress Administration, and the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. Subjects include the 1929 stock market crash, business cycles, unemployment, stock market forecasting, land planning, wartime supply procurement planning, social movements, theatrical life, and pacifism.

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