1938-1959
Assistant Chief, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Department of Agriculture, 1946-1952
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CORRESPONDENCE FILE
Box 1
- Memorandum, Raymond C. Smith to James E. Salisbury, Jr., September 5, 1944 - re rural health program
- James E. Salisbury, Jr. to Raymond C. Smith, September 18, 1944
- Raymond C. Smith et al to Charles F. Brannan, May 9, 1952
- Draft-A Bill - "To provide greater mobilization of agricultural resources and manpower for the defense of the Nation...", July 10, 1951
- Draft-A Bill - "To strengthen the nation by providing for the fuller utilization of underemployed rural manpower..."
- Hearings - Subcommittee of Committee on Military Affairs - U.S. Senate, 78th Congresss, 2nd Session
- Hearings - Special Committee on Post-War Economic Planning - U.S. Senate, 78th Congress, 2nd Session S. Res. 102 - Part 3
- Hearings - Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Redevelopment of the Special Committee on Post-War Economic Policy and Planning, U.S. Senate, 79th Congress, 1st Session - S. Res. 33
- 1939, January 1 - "I was a Share Cropper" - employees of the Farm Security Administration in Texas and Oklahoma
- 1939, February - reprint from Journal of Farm Economics, Vol. XXI, No. 1 "Public Assistance to Low-Income Farmers in the North" by R.C. Smith
- 1939, March - reprint from Rural Sociology, Vol. 4, No.4 - "The Social Effects of Recent Trends in the Mechanization of Agriculture" by C. Horace Hamilton
- 1941, February - reprint from Journal of Farm Economics, Vol. XXIII, No.1 "Social Effects of the War and the Defense Program on American Agriculture" by R.C. Smith
- 1944, January - Rural Electrification News
- 1946, November - reprint from Journal of Farm Economics, Vol. XXVIII, No. 4, "Can Prices Allocate Resources in American Agriculture?" by John M. Brewster and Howard L. Parsons
- 1947, November - reprint from Journal of Farm Economics, Vol. XXIX, No. 4, "Technological Advance and the Structure of American Agriculture" by John C. Ellickson and John M. Brewster, Bureau of Agricultural Economics
- 1958, December - reprint from Journal of Farm Economics, Vol. XL, No. 5 and The Canadian Agricultural Economics Society, Vol. VI, No.2 "Social Security for Farm Operators: Acceptance and Role in Farm Population Adjustment" by John C. Ellickson and "Technological Advance and the Future of the Family Farm" by John M. Brewster
- 1959, December - reprint from Journal of Farm Economics, Vol. XLI, No. 5, "The Impact of Technological Advance and the Migration on Agricultural Society and Policy" by John M. Brewster
- undated issue - FSA Contributes to Life in the Southwest
- Maps and charts
- Memorandum to all regional chairmen from Raymond C. Smith, Chairman, Committee on Postwar Programs, September 5, 1942
- Newspaper clippings
- Projects - Osage Farms Project - Pettis County, Missouri
- Projects - Scioto Farms Project - Ross, Fayette, Peckaway and Madison Counties, Ohio
- Projects - Southeast Missouri Project - La Forge Farms
- Projects - Southeast Missouri Project - "Rich Land - Poor People" by Max R. White, Douglas Ensminger and Cecil L. Gregory, Research Report No. 1, January 1938
Box 2
- Projects - Southeast Missouri Project - Design and Construction- (2 black blinders)
- 1939, April 1-30 - Report of Activities of the Tenant Purchase Division
- 1939, May 8-9 - School for Farm Security Administration Personnel, Theme: "What is a Desirable National Agricultural Program?"
- Ca.1939, July - History of the Farm Security Administration
- 1939, December - "Conserving Both Human and Natural Resources by Utilization of the Unoccupied Time of Needy Rural People in Conservation of the Physical Resources upon which They Must Depend in the Future" (Report of the Inter-Bureau Coordinating Committee on a Rural Conservation Works Program)
- 1940, May 24 - "A Statement on Two Suggested Solutions for the Problem of Farm Unemployment and Under- Employment" by Raymond C. Smith, Chief Program Analyst, (presented before the Senate Committee on Education and Labor)
- 1940, September 13 - Report of the Interbureau Coordinating Committee on the Mississippi Delta Land Settlement Problem
- 1941, January 15 - "New Ground Settlement in the Mississippi Delta"
- 1941, January 17 - "Gee's Bend" (Southern Alabama)
- 1941, April 14 - Report of the Interbureau Coordinating Committee on Rural Housing
- 1941- U.S. Department of Agriculture Handbook, pages 816-826, "New Conditions Demand New Opportunities"
- 1941, May 1 - Farm Security Administration handbook
- 1941, October - Report of the Interbureau Coordinating Committee on Rural Electrification
Box 3
- 1941, December 19 - Report of the Interbureau Planning Committee on Distribution Programs
- 1941, December 31 - Report of the Interbureau Planning Committee on Farm Labor
- 1942, January 1 - Wartime Work Programs of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics
- 1942, January - Farm Security Administration pamphlets
- 1942 - Supervisors' Guide for Community & Cooperative Services
- 1942 - "A Place on Earth - A Critical Appraisal of Subsistance Homesteads"
- 1942, December 23 - Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, 1942
- 1943, May 13 - Farm Security Administration Goes to War
- 1944, January - "What Postwar Policies for Agriculture?"
- 1944 - Index, Land Policy Review for 1943 and 1944
- 1945, April 30 - War Prices and the Active Standard RR Family
- 1945 - pamphlets - "What Peace Can Mean to American Farmers"
- 1945 and 1947 - Index to Land Policy Review
- 1947, July - "Ten Years of Rural Rehabilitation in the United States" - Bureau of Agricultural Economics
- 1949, January - "The Labor Market" - U.S. Employment Service and Affiliated Employment Services, Federal Security Agency
- 1951 - "Underemployment of Rural Families" - materials prepared for the Joint Committee on the Economic Report by the Committee Staff
- 1952, February 8 - Family Farm Policy Review - Preliminary Report
Box 4
- Dr. Will Alexander, Administrator, Farm Security Administration - Statement at hearings on savings and investment before Temporary National Economic Committee, May 24, 1939
- Bushrod W. Allen, Chairman, Outlook and Situation Board, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Green Lake, Wisconsin, September 10, 1947
- Missouri Farm Bureau, Columbia, November 16, 1938
- Third Annual National Farm Institute, Des Moines, Iowa, February 17-18, 1939
- Joint Regional Conference, Farm Security Administration, Edgewater Park, Mississippi, August 22,1939
- Four Speeches from Report of Conference of Regional RR Officials, Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, D.C., September 18-23, 1939
- National Conference of Social Work, Grand Rapids, Michigan, May 30, 1940
- Region III - FSA Regional Conference, Spring Mill State Park Inn, September 13, 1940
- American Home Economics Association, Chicago, Illinois, June 24, 1941
- 20th Annual Agricultural Outlook Conference, Washington, D.C., October 21, 1942
- 21st Annual Agricultural Outlook Conference, Washington, D.C., October 20, 1943
- Gulfport BAE Conference, August 12-16, 1946
- Conference on Housing, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, March 28, 1947
- Review of "Ten Years of Rural Rehabilitation in the United States", December 14, 1947
- Fourth Annual Pacific Northwest Rural Life and Education Conference, Portland, Oregon, March 17-19, 1948
- Testimony before Senate Committee on Banking and Currency, on S.138, the Housing Act of 1949, February 7, 1949
- Testimony before the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, on H.R. 4312 and H.R. 4313, the National Health Insurance and Public Health Act, June 8, 1949
- Cross reference sheet - materials transferred to the Book Collection