Boyd, James Papers

FOLDER TITLE LIST MILITARY RECORDS

Box 1

• Special Orders
• Vouchers and travel orders
• Ration book applications
• Personal correspondence (2 folders)
• Reynolds, Morgan A.
• Military correspondence

Box 2

• Records of telephone conversations, 1943-1945 (3 folders)
• Engineering and industrial administrators training program by Edgar R. Gealy
• End Products Committee

BUREAU OF MINES

• Letters of congratulation on appointment as Director of the Bureau of Mines, 1947-1949 (2 folders)

Box 3

• Correspondence concerning confirmation as Director of the Bureau of Mines, 1947-1949 (4 folders)

Box 4

• U.S. Mines
• Confirmation of appointment as Director of the Bureau of Mines (2 folders)
• Chronological file, 1950 - Director of the Bureau of Mines
• Chronological file, 1951 - Director of the Bureau of Mines
• Diary file, 1947
• Diary file, 1950
• Diary file, 1950-1951
• Appointment book, 1950

Box 5

• Two portfolios - Bureau of Mines, College Park, Maryland
• Statements and reports by James Boyd as Director of the Bureau of Mine, 1950-1951
• Summary of remarks by James Boyd as Director of the Bureau of Mines
• Summary of telephone conversations, November 29, 1950 to August 1, 1951

Box 6

• Correspondence concerning resignation as Director of Bureau of Mines, October 1951
• Observation on British coal mining industry - London trip, 1948

DEFENSE MINERALS ADMINISTRATION

• Chronology of events in aluminum expansion program, September 29, 1950-July 1951
• Hearing - Subcommittee on Mines and Mining, April 4, 1951
• Defense production - hearings and programs, 1951
• Defense Minerals Administration - procedures guide, 1951

Box 7

• Records of telephone calls and visitors, Office of Defense Minerals Administration
• News Releases
• Interviews of James Boyd
• Correspondence - Defense Minerals Administration

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

• Geology, 1953-1956

Box 8

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION - ADVISORY COMMISSION ON MINERAL RESEARCH

• National Science Foundation, September 1952-December 1955, Committee on Mineral Research (2 folders)
• National Science Foundation, Coordinating Committee, 1953-1956
• Geochemistry, 1953-1956
• National Science Foundation - Advisory Committee on Mineral Research, 1953

Box 9

• Committee on Mineral Resources of the National Science Foundation
• Geophysics, 1953-1956
• Research Institute, 1953-1956
• National Science Foundation Meetings, 1956-1958

OFFICE OF DEFENSE MOBILIZATION AND MOBILIZATION PROGRAM ADVISORY COMMITTEE

• Report in Columbium-tantalum, 1953
• Office of Defense Mobilization

Box 10

PUBLICATIONS FILE

• Articles re James Boyd, December 8, 1969-July 10, 1970
• Directory of Employees - Bureau of Mines and Defense Minerals Administration, June 1, 1951
• Magazines re mining and engineering, 1948
• Magazines re mining and engineering, 1949

Box 11

• Magazines re mining and engineering, 1950
• Magazines re mining and engineering, 1951-1955
• Pamphlets
• Report of the Proceedings - Hearing held before the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, U.S. Senate, March 7, 1947, Vol. 1 (2 copies)

Box 12

EDUCATIONAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL FILE

• Biography - James Boyd (extra copies)
• Calendar of appointments, 1948
• California Institute of Technology, Alumni Distinguished Service Awards, 75th Anniversary Dinner, October 25, 1966
• Dinner in honor of T.E.B. Young, National Coal Board of Great Britain
• Doctoral thesis of James Boyd
• Federal Trade Commission - letter from Otis B. Johnson, Secretary of Federal Trade Commission to James Boyd, November 17, 1926
• List of materials turned over to the HSTL book collection and audio-visual collection
• News clippings (3 folders)

Box 13

SPEECHES AND STATEMENTS

• 1947, May 19 - "Our Stake in German Recovery" by M.S. Szymczak, Office of Military Government for Germany (U.S.) - luncheon meeting of Economics Club, Detroit, Michigan
• 1947, October 27 - American Mining Congress, El Paso, Texas
• 1947, December 11 - 61st Annual meeting of Coal Mining Institue of America, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• 1948, January 12 - American Institue of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, Duluth, Minnesota
• 1948, February 15 - American Institue of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, Mineral Industry Education Division, New York, New York
• 1948, February 19 - American Institue of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, Mineral Economics Session, New York, New York
• 1948, April 15 - American Zinc Institute, St. Louis, Missouri
• 1948, April 26 - American Mining Congress, Cincinnati, Ohio
• 1948, June 8 - American Retail Coal Association, Cincinnati, Ohio
• 1948, June 16-18 - 24th Annual Mine Safety Conference, Lake Superior Section, National Safety Council, Duluth, Minnesota
• 1948, September 21 - American Mining Congress, San Francisco, California
• 1948, October 15 - American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, Los Angeles, California
• 1949, February 1 - Colorado Mining Association, Denver, Colorado
• 1949, February 12 - New Mexico Miners and Prospectors Association, Santa Fe, New Mexico
• 1949, April 12 - Society of American Military Engineers, Fort Belvoir, Virginia
• 1949, April 20 - radio address, "Coal, Petroleum, and Modern Science," Radio Station WGY, Schenectady, New York
• 1949, May 27 - Commencement address, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado
• 1949, June 10 - Commencement address, Montana School of Mines, Butte, Montana
• 1949, August 13 - Presentation of Awards to Hunter Tunel Mine, Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, winner of Anthracite Group of the 1948 National Safety Competition, Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania
• 1949, September 11 - Central Idaho Mining and Industrial Association, Hailey, Idaho
• 1949, September 20 - Oil-Shale Mining Demonstration Dinner, Glenwood Springs, Colorado
• 1949, September 27 - American Mining Congress, Spokane, Washington
• 1949, November 17 - Washington Society of Engineers (Washington, D.C.?)
• 1949, December 9 - Joint Meeting of the Oklahoma Chamber of Commerce and the 5th Southwest Regional Conference of the American Chemical Society, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
• 1950, February 21 - Article by James Boyd, "The Unseen Keystone of Steel," Steel Ways
• 1950, February 22 - National War College, Washington, D.C.
• 1950, March 20 - Chemical Club of Washington, D.C.
• 1950, April 11 - American Zinc Institue, St. Louis, Missouri
• 1950, June 15 - 27th Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Grade Oil Association, William Penn Hotal, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• 1950, November 15 - Joint Session of the Marketing and Refining Division, American Petroleum Institue, Los Angeles, California
• 1950, November 20 - Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Washington, D.C.; TV statement of James Boyd; notes for talk to New England Council
• 1950, November 30 - Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, New York, New York
• 1950, December 15 - Chamber of Commerce of the United States, Conference on Business Economists, Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C.
• 1951, April 14 - 14th Annual seminar of the California Technology Alumni Association, Pasadena, California
• 1951, September 11 - 12th International Congress of Pure and Applied Chemistry, New York, New York
• 1951, October 14 - World Metallurgical Congress, Hotel Statler, Detroit, Michigan
• 1951, October 22 - The American Mining Congress, Los Angeles, California
• 1954, November 18 - Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Dallas, Texas
• 1956, January 19 - National Industrial Conference Board (no city listed)
• 1956, March 5 - Canadian Proprietors and Developers Association (no city listed)
• 1957, May 28 - Southern California Section of AIME, Los Angeles, California
• 1959, February 5 - Resources for the Future Forum, Washington, D.C.
• 1960, March 22 - Public Hearing before the Subcommittee on Research and Development of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, Washington, D.C.
• 1961, June 17 - Commencement Address, The Michigan College of Mining and Technology, Houghton, Michigan
• 1961, October 25 - Michigan Natural Rsources Council, Lansing, Michigan
• 1962, February - "Cooper in 1961," article by James Boyd, Mining Congress Journal
• 1962, May - "Leadership Developement - A Question of Survival!," Journal of Metals (based on a talk given at the Annual Metallurgical Society of the 1962 AIME Meeting, New York, New York)
• 1962, May - Statement before the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee, Washington, D.C. (Xerox copy), (In re S.174, to establish a National Wilderness Preservation System)
• 1962, July 18 - National Stockpile and Naval Petroleum Reserves Subcommittee of the Committee on Armed Services, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C.
• 1963, January 14 - School of Earth Sciences Lecture Series, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
• 1963, May 10 - Statement before Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Subcommittee on Minerals, Materials, and Fuels, Washington, D.C. (re The State of the Mineral Industry)
• 1963, May 23 - Lake Superior Mines Safety Council (Xerox copy) (no city listed)
• 1963, July 2 - Memorandum for Discussion with Representative of Bache & Co.
• 1963, September 17 - Public Lands Session, American Mining Congress, Los Angeles, California
• 1963, October 16 - New York Society of Security Analysists, New York, New York
• 1964, February 13 - Utah Section, AIME
• 1964, April 25 - Cooper and Brass Warehouse Association Meeting, Boca Raton, Florida
• 1964, May 7 - Tri-state section of AIME, Baxter Springs (no state listed)
• 1964, May 20 - Talk by James Boyd, Detroit, Michigan
• 1964, September 24 - The Mineral 5 Luncheon, American Hotel, New York
• 1964, October 29 - National Safety Congress and Exposition, Chicago, Illinois
• 1965, February 25 - News release from Robert Pickett, Ruder & Finn, Inc., New York (re address by James Boyd, who was named 1964 Copper-Man-of-the-Year, "Copper's Modern Environment")
• 1965, March 22 - National Association of Secondary Material Industries, Inc., San Francisco, California
• 1965, June 9 - 55th Annual Convention of the Mine Inspectors' Institue of America, Sequoyah State Park, Western Hills, Oklahoma
• 1965, September 18 - The Billionth Pound Copper Celebration, White Pine, Michigan
• 1965, October 8 - A.I.P.G., Denver, Colorado
• 1966, January 18-May 8, 1969 - Annual Meetings, Copper Range Company, New York, New York
• 1966, February - "Copper - 1965 Producers' Report" - Article by James Boyd in the Engineering and Mining Journal
• 1966, March 9 - Statement by James Boyd on Government Stockpile Policy printed in the Congressional Record, March 9, 1966
• 1966, March 21 - Statement by James Boyd before Senate Subcommittee on Labor on behalf of the American Mining Congress (In re H.R.8989, S.2972 and related bills)
• 1966, May - Addresses - Copper Developement Association, Financial Analysists Federal Convention
• 1966, November 8 - 36th Annual Meeting of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Houston, Texas
• 1967, February 22 - A.I.M.E. Meeting, Los Angeles, California (President's Banquet Program and Honors Conferred Ninety-Sixth Annual Meeting)
• 1967, June 21 - Meeting of Security Analysts, Atlanta, Georgia
• 1968, September 3 - Natural Resources Committee of the National Association of Manufacturers, Pheasant Run Lodge, St. Charles, Illinois
• 1969, February 19 - Annual Meeting, American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME), Washington, D.C. - press release re naming James Boyd president of AIME and Boyd's acceptance speech
• 1969, June - Article by James Boyd, "Perspective" in Mining Engineering, Journal of Petroleum Technology, and Journal of Metals
• 1969, July 9 - Statement before House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Washington, D.C.
• 1969, November 6 - Statement before House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Washington, D.C. (in support of S.719, a bill to establish a National Mining and Minerals Policy)
• 1969, December 10 - American Metal Market Forum, New York, New York
• 1969, December 16 - National Association of Secondary Material Industries, Waldorf-Astoria, New York, New York
• 1970, July 13 - Engineering Foundation Research Conference, New England College, Henniker, New Hampshire
• 1971, March 10 - Prospectors and Developers Association, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• 1971, April 13 - Annual Institute of Chemical Engineers, Environmental Workshop, Detroit, Michigan

MISCELLANEOUS

• Correspondence between James Boyd and Federal Government Officials re the copper situation, 1966-1967
• Copper Strike of 1967

Box 15

• Speeches and Articles, 1972-1973
• Speeches and Articles, 1974-1975

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