Black, Myron L. Papers

Field Director, Foreign Services Division, War Shipping Administration, 1942-1944; Director, Field Operations Staff, Foreign Economic Administration, 1944-1945; Special Assistant to the American Minister to Denmark, 1945; Advisor on Shipping in the Mediterranean Area, American Embassy, Rome, Italy, 1945-1948

The papers of Myron L. Black consist of correspondence, reports, handwritten notes, certificates, printed materials, and other documents mostly relating to Black’s career with the U.S. government.

Size: 5 linear inches (about 700 pages).
Access: Open.
Copyright: The donor gave to the United States all copyrights which she had in unpublished writings in this or any other collection of papers at the Truman Library. Documents created by U.S. government officials in the course of their duties are also in the public domain. Copyright interest in other documents presumably belongs to the creators of those documents, or their heirs.
Processed by: Dennis E. Bilger (1979).
Updated by: Bailey L. Moffitt (2013) as part of the Truman Library Internship Program.
Supervising Archivists: Randy Sowell and David Clark.

The papers of Myron L. Black consist of correspondence, reports, handwritten notes, certificates, printed materials, and other documents mostly relating to Black’s work with the War Shipping Administration and the Foreign Economic Administration during World War II.

Most of the collection is made up of correspondence, reports, and travel documents concerning wartime shipping and the Greek shipping industry after the war.

Related collections at the Truman Library include the papers of Mark E. Andrews and the records of the President’s Advisory Committee on the Merchant Marine (Record Group 220).