Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, Part 1, 1884-1964 | Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum

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Collection Overview

Title: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, Part 1, 1884-1964

Primary Creator: Roosevelt, Eleanor (1884-1962)

Extent: 889.62 Cubic Feet

Arrangement:

The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers is organized into three distinct parts - pre-White House material, White House material, and post-White House material. Within those parts, the collection is arranged into 63 series. The series are generally arranged chronologically and then aplhabetically thereunder.

Due to the large size of the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, the online finding aid has been divided into three sections. Part 1 covers boxes 1-1395.

Scope and Contents of the Materials

This collection contains material accumulated by Anna Eleanor Roosevelt during her lifetime. The pre-White House material includes early family papers, school exercise books, and correspondence with family and friends up to her years as the wife of the governor of New York. The White House material contains correspondence with family, friends, the general public, and government officials. The general public wrote requesting material assistance; commenting on her activities as First Lady, including her trips, speeches and articles; seeking her patronage; requesting an autograph, photograph or invitation to the White House; invitations to events, and sending her gifts. The correspondence with government officials asks their help in finding work, saving homes and farms and other assistance requests. The post-White House material contains correspondence with family, friends, the general public and government officials. This material also includes her correspondence and other material pertaining to her term as a delegate to the United Nations and as Chairman of the Human Rights Committee. The collection also contains copies of a number of her speeches and articles including her "My Day" column.

Administrative Information

Repository: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum

Access Restrictions: The papers contain material restricted in accordance with Executive Order 12958, and material which might constitute the invasion of privacy of living persons has been closed.

Use Restrictions: The unpublished writings of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt are in the public domain. Mrs. Roosevelt's published writings are subject to her literary estate.

Acquisition Method: The papers of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt were donated by Mrs. Roosevelt and her children.

Related Materials: Numerous collections in the Library including: President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Official, Personal and Secretary’s Files; Franklin D. Roosevelt: Papers pertaining to Family, Business and Personal Affairs; Franklin D. Roosevelt: Papers as Vice Presidential Candidate, 1920; Franklin D. Roosevelt: Papers as Governor of New York, 1929 -1932; Eleanor Roosevelt Oral History project; Papers of Anna Roosevelt Halsted; Papers of Lorena Hickok; and Roosevelt Family Papers Donated by the Children of Franklin, Eleanor Roosevelt, and John A. Roosevelt.

Box and Folder Listing

Series 47: Miscellaneous Reports, 1931-1945

Arranged chronologically only, this file contains a wide variety of miscellaneous reports, abstracts, studies, reviews, etc., received by Mrs. Roosevelt at the White House. The subject range of these materials is wide, for example, in the same container, may be found such divergent items as: a report from the Office of the U.S . Attorney General (1934), and a study of the flags of Texas (1934). Some other materials found in this file include: the Annual Report of the Women's Trade Union League of New York (1932), a study of the White House Conferences (1933), a guide book to Fairmont, West Virginia (1934), summaries from the Women's Division of the Democratic National Campaign Committee (1932), reports from the FERA (1934), TVA (1937, 1939), NYA (1942), WPA (1935, 1936), abstracts of magazine book reviews from the Department of Commerce (1935), studies on Dutchess County and Defense (1941), the Population Policy and Social Planning (1939), etc.

Box 1387

Women's Trade Union League of New York, 1931-1932
Democratic National Committee-Women's Division, November 1932
Continental Congress of Workers & Farmers, May 6 & 7 1933
A Study of the White House Conferences, 1933

Box 1388

Muscians Emergency Fund, 1933-1934
Crossett (Arkansas) Lumber Company-Loan Application, May 1934
Memoirs of Twin Lakes (NJ) Camp, August-September 1934
Report of Resident Schools & Camps for Unemployed Women, Summer 1934
Attorney General's Report on the Virgin Islands, November 1934
America Challenges Co-Ops, 1934
The Flags of Texas, 1934
Guide Book to Fairmont (West Virginia), 1934
Abstracts of Book Reviews, February-April 1935

Box 1389

Marlin (Texas) Hot Wells Foundation for Crippled Chldren, March 1935
Rural Indian Schools & Homes, Oklahoma, April 1935
Works Progress Administration-Household Workers Program, February 1936
Works Progress Administration-New Era Adult Education & Recreation, April 1936
Works Progress Administration-Adult Classes, 1935-1936
Buncombe (North Carolina) County Community School Program, January 1936
Magazine Abstracts, January-June 1936
Relief Projects, Denver, Colorado, July 2, 1936
"Camp Eleanor," Hinckley, Minnesota, October 1936

Box 1390

Civilian Conservation Corps - "Midnight Workers", 1936
Kenton County (Kentucky) Health Department, 1936
Press Releases, 1936
Tennessee Valley Authority-Forestry Division, 6/10/37
Nashille (Tennessee) Chamber of Commerce, April 1938
Tennessee Folklore Society, November-December 1938
French Veterans' Dinner, February 1939
Pennsylvania Studies in Dietary Habits, April 1939
Population Association of America, May 1939
Vocational Adjustment of Rural Young Women in Washington. D.C., July 1939

Box 1391

"Wheat, A Rural Community in the Tennessee Valley", December 1939
Civilian Conservation Corps, 1939
Employment and Training, 1939
National Health, 1939
National Youth Administration, 1939
Works Progress Administration-Toy & Renovation Project, 1939
Miscellaneous, 1939
Community Service Projects, May 1940
"I'm An American" by Jesus Lopez, April 1941

Box 1392

Dutchess County & Defense, July 1941
National Advisory Committee-Community Service Projects, July 1941
Youth Works Camps, 1941
Work Projects Administration-Work in Defense Areas, Region IV, May 1942
"Champions Parade", 1942
Endicott College, 1942
Negroes and National Defense, 1942
War Department, 1942
Washington, D.C.-Housing, 1942
American Foundation for Studies in Government-Medical Advisory Committee
Benefits of the Greenbelt Demonstration
Civil Works Projects-Classified by Type

Box 1393

Committee for Economic Recovery
Economics-"So What"
Population Policy and Social Planning
Putnam County (West Virginia) Homesteads
Relief in Colorado
The Southern Appalachian Problem-A Solution
"Trail of the Forgotten Man," George Golding
Editorial Research Reports, March-July 1933

Box 1394

Editoria Research Reports, August-December 1933
Editorial Research Reports, January-May 1934
Editorial Research Reports, June-August & 12/28/1934
Editorial Research Reports, January-Februart, March 1 &2 & April 30, 1935
Editorial Research Reports: Monographs, 1933-1935
Radio Scripts, 1942
Radio Scripts-The Baby Institute, January 1943