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STAFF OFFICES: General Chairman - Alphabetical File
Box 1
- Advertising
- Amplification
- Archives
- Armed forces
- Bells
- Biffle, Leslie
- Boyle, William
- Calliope
- Chairs
- Committees - subcommittees
- Complaints
- Community Chest
- Concessions Committee
- Cooperation of Civic bodies
- Decorations Committee
- Democratic National Committee
- Department store exhibits
- Diplomatic corps
- District of Columbia
- Evans, Joseph S.
- Finance Committee
- Fireworks committee
- Flags
- Floats
- Foreign language press
- Freedom Train
- Gala Concert
- General Inaugural Committee
- General Services Committee
- Government department liaison and ticket sales
- Grandstand construction
- Guarantee Fund
- Historic Sties Committee
- Hospitality and housing
Box 2
- Inaugural Ball Committee
- Inaugural Dinner
- Inaugural Items
- Inaugural Committee
- Invitation requests
- Invitations - general
- Invocation
- Joint Congressional Inaugural Committee liaison
- King, Fay
- Labor Participation Committee
- Legal and Legislative Committee
- Liaison representatives
- Liquor
- Medals
- Medical Aid Committee
- Memos (Evans)
- Military aides
- Miscellaneous memoranda
- Motion Pictures Committee
- National Advertising Committee
- National Guard Armory
- National Inaugural album
- National Participation Committee
- Offers of participation or help
- Office space
- Outgoing correspondence - miscellaneous
- Parade and special events
- Personnel
- Poetry
- Positions
- Posters
- Postmaster
- Presidential reception
- President's portrait
Box 3
- Program Committee
- Public buildings
- Publicity
- Public Safety Committee
- Radio - television
- Reception for distinguished guests
- Red Cross - first aid
- Release
- Religious observance
- Roach, Neale
- Sanitation Committee
- Scrapbook material
- Seats - grandstand
- Secretary
- Signs
- Special events
- Staff meetings
- State Groups Committee
- Statues
- Sub-Committees (new)
- Suffrage
- Supplies
- Taxes
- Telephone service
- Tickets - general
- Tickets - requests for
- Transportation Committee
- United Nations
- Veterans Committee
- Visiting Lawyers Reception Committee
- Weather
- White House Liaison Committee
- White House Mail
Box 4
- Report - College Participation Committee
- Report - Committee on Civic/Business Participation
- Report - Finance Committee
- Report - Freedom Train Committee (folder 1)
- Report - Freedom Train Committee (folder 2)
- Report - Freedom Train Committee (folder 3)
- Report - Freedom Train Committee (folder 4)
Box 5
- Report - Freedom Train Committee (folder 5)
- Report - Museum Committee
- Report - Parade/Special Events Committee
- Report - Portable Grandstand
- Report - Public Relations Committee
- Report - Reception for visiting Lawyers Committee
- Report - Religious Participation Committee
- Report - Sanitation Committee
- Report - Transportation Committee
- Report - U.N. Participation Committee
- Report - Ways and Means Committee
- Tennessee Visitors to Inauguration
- General Invitations - answers to (folder 1)
Box 6
- General Invitations - answers to (folders 2-5)
Box 7
- General Invitations - answers to (folders 6-10)
Box 8
- General Invitations - answers to (folders 11-15)
Box 9
- General Invitations - answers to (folders 16-19)
Box 10
- General Invitations - answers to (folders 20-23)
Box 11
- Accounts
- Applications for employment
- Archivist
- Beesley, Thomas
- Budget/audit control
- Civic, business participation
- Concessions
- Domestic transportation
- Hospitality and housing
- Inaugural Ball
- Inaugural items
- Kemp, H.L.
- Medals
- National Transportation
- Office of the Chairman
- Orders (index)
- Parades/special events
- Programs
- Publicity
- Releases (folder 1
Box 12
- Releases (folder 2)
- Religious participation
- State groups
- Telegrams (2 folders)
- Veterans Committee
- Vouchers
Box 13
- Archivist
- Armed Forces Committee
- Civic/Business Participation Committee
- College Participation Committee
- Committee lists (2 folders)
- Concessions Committee
- Correspondence (A-Z)
- Correspondence - acceptances to serve on Committee
- Correspondence - Tickets
- Finance Committee (Maryland)
- Fireworks Committee
- Freedom Train Committee
- General Services Committee
- Government Department Liaison Committee
- Grandstand Construction Committee
- Hospitality/Housing Committee
- Inaugural Ball Committee
- Inaugural Committee staff lists
- Inaugural events
Box 14
- Inaugural items
- Labor Participation Committee
- Labor relations
- Medals Committee
- Medical Aid Committee
- Miscellaneous memoranda
- National Advertising Committee
- National Participation Committee
- Parade/Special Events Committee
- Program Committee
- Public Buildings Committee
- Public Relations Committee
- Public Safety Committee
- Reception for V.I.P. Committee
- Religious Observance Committee
- Request for general invitations
- State Groups Committee
- Transportation Committee (domestic)
- Transportation Committee (National)
- United Nations Committee
- Veterans Committee
- Young Democrats Committee
Box 15
- Administrative officers - Beesley, Thomas
- Administrative officers - Graham, J.
- Administrative officers - Kemp, H.L.
- Archives Advisory Board
- Archives - historical information
- Budget Committee/audit control
- Chairman - Inaugural Committee memoranda
- General Chairman - records organization
- Inaugural Committee - personnel lists
- Inaugural items
Box 16
- Letterhead stationary
- Mimeographed publications - master file (#1-50)
- Mimeographed publications - master file (#51-100)
- Mimeographed publications - master file (#101-163)
- Musical tributes
- Press releases
- Programs for Inauguration week
- Publicity office - general
Box 17
- Radio scripts
- Record of progress reports
- Records control chart
- Reference requests
- Report of the Archivist
- Samples of invitations, programs, tickets (2 folders)
- Stofberg, Charles
- Washington, D.C. - information re
- World Flag Encyclopedia
Box 18
- Armed Forces Inaugural Committee
- Budget Committee/Audit Control
- Committee on Civic/Business Participation
- Concessions Committee
- Decorations Committee
- Finance Committee
- Freedom Train Committee (2 folders)
Box 19
- General Services
- Government Department Liaison/Ticket Sales Committee
- Grandstand Construction Committee
- Hospitality/Housing Committee
- Inaugural Ball
- Insurance Committee
- Legal/Legislative Committee
- Liaison Committee
- Medals Committee
Box 20
- National Participation Committee
- Parade/Special Events Committee - general
- Parade/Special Events Committee - report
- Program Committee
- Public Relations Committee
- Reception Committee
- Religious Observance Committee
- State Groups Committee
- Transportation Committee (domestic)
- Transportation Committee (National)
- Veterans Committee
- Ways and Means Committee
- Young Democrats Participation Committee
Box 21
- 1948
- November 8
- November 9
- November 10
- November 11
- November 12
- November 13
- November 14
- November 15
- November 16
- November 17
- November 18
- November 19
- November 20
- November 21
- November 22
- November 23
- November 24
- November 25
- November 26
- November 27
- November 28
- November 29
- November 30
- December 1
- December 2
- December 3
- December 4
- December 5
- December 6
- December 7
- December 8
- December 9
- December 10
Box 22
- December 11
- December 12
- December 13
- December 14
- December 15
- December 16
- December 17
- December 18
- December 19
- December 20
- December 21
- December 22
- December 23
- December 24
- December 25
- December 26
- December 27
- December 28
- December 29
- December 30
- December 31
- 1949
- January 1
- January 2
- January 3
- January 4
- January 5
- January 6
- January 7
- January 8
- January 9
- January 10
- January 11
- January 12
- January 13
- January 14
- January 15
Box 23
- January 16
- January 17
- January 18
- January 19
- January 20 (2 folders)
- January 21
- January 22
- January 23
- January 24
- January 25
- Miscellaneous
Box 24
- Armory
- Budget
- Correspondence
- Credentials issued - lists
- Credentials - press
- Credentials - Radio/TV
- Democratic National Committee
- Gala concert
- Grandstand blueprints
Box 25
- Hildreth, Melvin D.
- Housing and hospitality
- Inter-office memos
- Mailing list requests
- Mimeograph information
- Mimeograph orders (folders 1-3)
Box 26
- Miscellaneous material
- Musicians' unions
- News releases
- Oldfield, Elizabeth
- Operational plans/assignments
- Passes and Tag identification
- Personnel applications
- Plans - Washington, D.C.
- Press releases
Box 27
- Radio galleries
- Radio programs
- Radio scripts
- Radio spot announcements
- Radio and Television Committee
- Radio - TV (signed Receipts)
- Releases - legal liability
- Reports (final)
- Salaries - Publicity Committee
- Stofberg, Charles
- Thank you letters
- Tickets - requests for (A-H)
- Tickets - requests for (I-Z)
- Tickets - miscellaneous
- Vouchers - expense accounts
- Vouchers - payroll accounts
- Warwick and Legler
Box 28
- Appropriations authorization - general
- Appropriations authorization - Department Store exhibits
- Appropriations authorization - fireworks
- Appropriations authorization - Presidential grandstand
- Appropriations authorization - transportation information
- Appropriations authorization - Veterans
- Bank statements
- Budget/audit Control Committee
- Budget and Audit Control Disbursement Journal [2008 accretion]
- Budgets - general
- Cancelled checks (2 folders)
Box 29
- Directory - committees
- Employment record (2 folders)
- Financial Report (folder 1)
Box 30
- Financial Report (folder 2)
- Miscellaneous material
- Notebooks
- Outdoor Advertising Committee
- Refunds
- Salary Payments - Alexander, Leroy
- Salary Payments - Allredge, Charles H.
- Salary Payments - Blackburn, Katherine C.
- Salary Payments - Blackerby, E. Buckner
- Salary Payments - Chase, Henrietta S.
- Salary Payments - Chisholm, Annie Lee
- Salary Payments - Choroszy, Lena C.
- Salary Payments - Clagett, Mary B.
- Salary Payments - Collins, Margaret B.
- Salary Payments - Connell, Vera M.
- Salary Payments - Cooney, Kathryn L.
- Salary Payments - Cooper, Betty W.
- Salary Payments - Davis, Nelle M.
- Salary Payments - Dew, Flora D.
- Salary Payments - Doran, Robert J.
Box 31
- Salary Payments - Drake, William A.
- Salary Payments - Dugan, Charles L.
- Salary Payments - Dunkelberger, Mildred S.
- Salary Payments - Evans, Joseph S.
- Salary Payments - Faulkner, Woodrow E.
- Salary Payments - Feltman, Elizabeth H.
- Salary Payments - Gallagher, Dennis J.
- Salary Payments - Galvin, Miriam S.
- Salary Payments - Goodman, James S.
- Salary Payments - Grimes, Esther E.
- Salary Payments - Hammett, Marion
- Salary Payments - Hartshorne, James
- Salary Payments - Herhusky, Marie S.
- Salary Payments - Hogan, Margaret P.
- Salary Payments - Houston, Theophilus
- Salary Payments - Humbert, Ann B.
- Salary Payments - Jamison, Dorothy A.
- Salary Payments - Johnson, Vivian E.
- Salary Payments - Johnston, Louise J.
- Salary Payments - Jones, Kathleen
- Salary Payments - Lanza, Ann E.
- Salary Payments - Lendinski, Mary M.
- Salary Payments - Lowe, Vivian
- Salary Payments - McBride, Marion F.
- Salary Payments - McDonald, George W.
- Salary Payments - McDowell, Marguerite
- Salary Payments - Miner, Eva G.
- Salary Payments - Morgan, Ellsworth G.
- Salary Payments - Munday, Wilkins O.
- Salary Payments - Oldfield, Elizabeth
- Salary Payments - Oliver, Patricia
- Salary Payments - O'Neill, Daniel J.
- Salary Payments - Perrott, Dorothy
- Salary Payments - Pettigrew, Mary C.
- Salary Payments - Phelps, Marian C.
- Salary Payments - Polley, Ruby M.
- Salary Payments - Rosner, Alice C.
- Salary Payments - Ruffley, Pauline E.
- Salary Payments - Saaristo, Rose L.
- Salary Payments - Sauer, Al C.
- Salary Payments - Schwab, Melva
- Salary Payments - Slater, Doris E.
- Salary Payments - Smith, Clara W.
- Salary Payments - Smullen, Isabelle A.
- Salary Payments - Spangler, Helen M.
- Salary Payments - Spragg, Lloydis
- Salary Payments - Stanley, Lee B.
- Salary Payments - Taylor, Clyde H.
- Salary Payments - Thornton, Knoxye
- Salary Payments - Tilton, Flether S.
- Salary Payments - Vorhees, Vera P.
- Salary Payments - Ward, Enger E.
- Salary Payments - list
- Stamps
- Taxes
- Vouchers - administrative officers
Box 32
- Vouchers - audit/budget books
- Vouchers - Chairman's office (2 folders)
- Vouchers - Concessions Committee
- Vouchers - Decorations Committee
- Vouchers - Department Store Exhibits Committee
- Vouchers - Finance Committee
- Vouchers - Fireworks Committee
- Vouchers - Freedom Train Committee
- Vouchers - General Services
- Vouchers - Governors Liaison Committee
- Vouchers - Grandstand Construction Committee
- Vouchers - Grandstand (Portable) Committee
Box 33
- Vouchers - Grandstand Sales Committee
- Vouchers - Hospitality and Housing Committee
- Vouchers - Inaugural Ball Committee
- Vouchers - Insurance Committee
- Vouchers - Medals/Medal Sales Committee
- Vouchers - Medical Aid Committee
Box 34
- Vouchers - miscellaneous
- Vouchers - National Participation Committee
- Vouchers - Parade/Special Events Committee
- Vouchers - Program Committee
- Vouchers - Publicity Committee
- Vouchers - State Groups Committee
- Vouchers - Supplementary Services
- Vouchers - Transportation Committee (domestic)
- Vouchers - Transportation Committee (National)
- Vouchers - Veterans Committee
- Vouchers - Void
- Vouchers - Ways and Means Committee
Box 35
- Vouchers - shared (4 folders)
- Appropriations
- Blueprints (folder 1)
Box 36
- Blueprints (folders 2-3)
- Bulletins to agency representatives
- Circular letters and memos
- Committee on Portable Grandstands - members
- Committee on Portable Grandstands - report
- Committee reports - agriculture
- Concessions Committee - correspondence
- Concessions Committee - forms
- Concessions Committee - minutes of meetings
- Concessions Committee - permits
- Concessions Committee - reports of concessionaires
- Contracts - Grandstand Committee
- Construction - erection permits
- Construction - offers and proposals
Box 37
- Department Liaison - Ticket Sales Committee
- General Service Committee - memoranda
- General Service Committee - personnel
- Grandstand construction
- Inaugural Committee appropriation - administrative
- Inaugural Committee appropriation - Budget/audit
- Inaugural Committee appropriation - Chairman
- Inaugural Committee appropriation - Department Store exhibit
- Inaugural Committee appropriation - Fireworks
- Inaugural Committee appropriation - Freedom Train
- Inaugural Committee appropriation - General Services
- Inaugural Committee appropriation - Presidential Grandstand
- Inaugural Committee appropriation - Portable Grandstand
- Inaugural Committee appropriation - Grandstand Sales
- Inaugural Committee appropriation - Hospitality and Housing
- Inaugural Committee appropriation - Inaugural Ball
- Inaugural Committee appropriation - Insurance
- Inaugural Committee appropriation - Legal and legislative
- Inaugural Committee appropriation - Medal/Medal Sales
- Inaugural Committee appropriation - National Participation
- Inaugural Committee appropriation - Decorations
- Inaugural Committee appropriation - Program
- Inaugural Committee appropriation - Publicity
- Inaugural Committee appropriation - State Groups
- Inaugural Committee appropriation - Transportation
- Inaugural Committee appropriation - Veterans
- Inaugural Committee appropriation - Ways and Means
- Letters to heads of agencies
- List of representatives - government agencies
- Meetings - Committees
- Miscellaneous material
Box 38
- Orders for tickets
- Personal services
- Receipts for funds remitted - Government agencies (2 folders)
- Reports on sales of tickets
- Statistics - construction costs
- Thank you letters
- Tickets - allocations for Government agencies
- Tickets - applications for
- Tickets - J.C. Turner
- Tickets - number totals
- Tickets - transmittal record/receipt
- Time Record of employees
- Vouchers - general
Box 39
- Archives
- Army property
- Blackburn, Katherine
- Board of Trade
- Budget - D. Perrott
- Children's Committee
- Directory of Committee Members
- Electors - accommodations for
- Embassy correspondence
- Forms - Inaugural Housing Bureau
- Forms - general
- Forms - listing sheets
- Forms - public relations
- Forms - room listings/placements
- Grand opening
- Hospitality Day and housing
- Housing - general
- Housing - legal aspects
- Housing - miscellaneous
- Housing - special
- Inaugural Housing Bureau
- Inaugural items
- Information booths
- Information Service
- Legal - insurance/liability
- McClintock, Mrs. John C.
- Maryland - housing
- Meetings, committee
- Memos - inter-office
Box 40
- Minutes - staff meetings
- Miscellaneous memoranda
- Office administrator
- Office volunteers
- Open House - military installations
- Pending file
- Personnel
- Petty cash
- Placements - data
- Policies - program/administration
- Publicity - churches
- Publicity - commodity contracts
- Publicity - general
- Publicity - Government agencies
- Publicity - press releases
- Publicity - radio
- Public relations
- Reports, final
- Reports, weekly
- Room clearance and listings
- Shopping directory
- Secret Service
- Speakers Bureau
- Speeches
- State societies
- Thank you letters
- Tourist information
- Transportation
- Virginia housing
- Volunteers slips
Box 41
- Acceptances
- Active letters
- Armed Services Committee
- Armory Committee
- Brewood Engravers
- Cards made
- Chairman of Committee
- Committee - general
- Committee list (program)
- Concessions
- Employment Finances - budget
- Forms (sample)
- Form 27 answers
- Form 26 answers
- Form 73 answers
- Guarantee Fund
- Inaugural Ball Committee
- Invitation lists
Box 42
- Invitations - Black, Ethel
- Invitations - Blackburn, K.C.
- Invitations - Boyle, William
- Invitations - Cabinet/Government Agencies
- Invitations - Chapman, Oscar
- Invitations - Democratic National Committee (2 folders)
- Douglas, Melvyn
- Edwards, India
- Electoral College
- Governors
- Hildreth, Melvin
- Johnson, Louis
- Kearney, Jean
- Members of Congress
- Mesta, Mrs. George
- Miscellaneous
- Supreme Court
- Truman-Barkley Club (National)
Box 43
- Invitations - Wheeler, Al
- Letters of acceptance
- Mailing invitations
- Miscellaneous letters
- Newspaper clippings
- Notices of meetings
- Postage - cash fund
- Postage - Inaugural Ball
- Regrets (2 folders)
- Sample of tickets/program
- Souvenir invitations
- Telephone Directory
- Tickets - distinguished guests
- Ticket purchases (record of)
Box 44
- Deposit slips
- Medal Committee
- Medal sales (A-B) correspondence
- Medal Sales - appropriation
- Medal sales (record of)
- Meter registers - statement of readings
- Insurance Committee
- Summary of ticket orders
Box 45
- Appropriations
- Bids and contracts
- Budget and ticket information
- Cancellations/refunds - Inaugural Gala
- Daily Reminder (diary)
- Float Committee - memoranda
- Float Committee - report
- Floats - Inaugural Parade
- Gala - general correspondence
- Gala - passes/tickets
- Gala - program (sample)
- Gala - ticket refunds (folder 1)
Box 46
- Gala - ticket refunds (folder 2)
- General records - Gala Inaugural
- Legal/legislative
- Parade, correspondence re
- Transportation
- Vouchers (2 folders)
Box 47
- Ticket orders for Gala Ceremonies - (A)
- Ticket orders for Gala Ceremonies - (B)
- Ticket orders for Gala Ceremonies - (C)
- Ticket orders for Gala Ceremonies - (D)
- Ticket orders for Gala Ceremonies - (E)
- Ticket orders for Gala Ceremonies - (F)
- Ticket orders for Gala Ceremonies - (G)
- Ticket orders for Gala Ceremonies - (H)
Box 48
- Ticket orders for Gala Ceremonies - (I-K)
- Ticket orders for Gala Ceremonies - (L)
- Ticket orders for Gala Ceremonies - (M)
- Ticket orders for Gala Ceremonies - (N-O)
- Ticket orders for Gala Ceremonies - (P-Q)
- Ticket orders for Gala Ceremonies - (R)
- Ticket orders for Gala Ceremonies - (S-T)
- Ticket orders for Gala Ceremonies - (U-V)
- Ticket orders for Gala Ceremonies - (W-XYZ)
Box 49
- Works/Preparation - arrangements committee
- Works/Preparation - Band Committee
- Works/Preparation - Civic participation
- Works/Preparation - Floats (foreign countries)
- Works/Preparation - Float Sub-Committee
- Works/Preparation - Gala invitations
- Works/Preparation - Inaugural Gala - general (folders 1-2)
Box 50
- Works/Preparation - Inaugural Gala - general (folder 3)
- Works/Preparation - Inaugural Music Committee
- Works/Preparation - Parade Coordinator - Correspondence (1933-1948)
- Works/Preparation - Parade Coordinator - (1949)
- Works/Preparation - Parade Coordinator - Correspondence (undated)
- Works/Preparation - Program and Printing Committee
- Works/Preparation - Special Events and Cultural activities
Box 51
- General Inaugural dada - State groups (2 folders)
- Invitations - accepted
- Invitations - declined
- Reception for V.I.P.'s
- State Groups Committee - contacts
- State Groups Committee - report
- State Society officers
Box 52
- Air Transportation
- Bus Committee
- Cars for Parade
- Car pool
- Committee on National/International Air Transportation
- Daily Notes
- Data for meeting on transportation
- Democratic National Committee
- General memoranda - transportation
- Inaugural Committee
- Inaugural tags
Box 53
- Parade data
- Progress report - Transportation Committee
- Railroad transportation
- Souvenir tags
- Transportation Committee - Vice Chairman
- Transportation Committee - bus service
- Veterans Committee - general
- Veterans Committee report