Archival Manuscript/Mixed Formats (Collection)W Averell Harriman papers, 1869-2001
Personal name
Main title
- W. Averell Harriman papers, 1869-2001 (bulk 1895-1986).
Links
Links
- Harriman Alaska Expedition album at the Library of Congress http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.amrvm03
- Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003012
- Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003012.3
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Description
- 346,760 items.
- 1,041 containers plus 11 classified and 75 oversize.
- 54 microfilm reels.
- 529.9 linear feet.
Access advisory
- Open to research.
- Classified, in part.
Finding aids
- Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003012
Local shelving no.
- 0321A
- 0341A
- Oversize 0113A
- Oversize 0114S
- Oversize 0115F
- Oversize 7:10
- Vault 0202C
- Vault 0208E
- Vault 0204G : Microfilm 19,613-53N-53P
- Microfilm 21,145-1N-1P
Biography/History note
- Diplomat, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and politician.
Organized/Arranged
- Arranged in twenty-five series. Series 1: Family Papers, 1869-1981; Series 2: Subject File, 1906-1954; Series 3: Special Files: Public Service, 1918-1986; Series 4: Special Files: Business, 1915-1977; Series 5: Speeches and Statements, 1920-1983; Series 6: Writings, 1922-1981; Series 7: Photographs, circa 1895-1983; Series 8: Scrapbooks, 1941-1968; Series 9: Oversize, circa 1900-1975; Series 10: Addition I: Special Files: Public Service; Series 11: Addition I: Speeches and Statements, 1983-1984; Series 12: Addition I: Writings, 1982-1985; Series 13: Addition I: Alaska Expedition, 1899; Series 14: Addition II: Family Papers, 1891-1986; Series 15: Addition II: Special Files: Public Service; Series 16: Addition II: Special Files: Business; Series 17: Addition II: Speeches and Statements, 1951-1983; Series 18: Addition II: Writings, 1941-1985; Series 19: Addition II: Photographs, 1944; Series 20: Addition III: Assorted Material, 1902-2008; Series 21: Addition III: Oversize, circa 1963-1965; Series 22: Classified, 1946-1980; Series 23: Top Secret, 1948-1978; Series 24: Restricted Data, 1961-1968; and Series 25: Sensitive Compartmented Information, 1961-1968.
Summary
- Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, statements and writings, business records, political files, diplomatic accounts, family papers, architectural and mechanical drawings, printed matter, scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers documenting Harriman's career in business, finance, politics, and public service, particularly during the Franklin Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, and Carter presidential administrations. Major topics include the defeat of Germany in World War II, Soviet-American relations, Marshall Plan, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Korean and Vietnamese wars, African independence movements, U.S. intervention in Latin America, arms negotiations, and the antinuclear movement.
- Family members represented include Mary Averell Harriman Fisk, E. Roland Harriman, Edward Henry Harriman, Marie Norton Whitney Harriman, Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman, Kathleen Lanier Harriman Mortimer, and Mary Harriman Rumsey. Other persons represented include Dean Acheson, Konrad Adenauer, Vincent Astor, C. R. Attlee, Mohammad Ayub Khan, Lord Beaverbrook (Max Aiken), Georges Bidault, Habib Bourguiba, Leonid Il'ich Brezhnev, James Francis Byrnes, Winston Churchill, Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, Richard Stafford Cripps, Wilhelm Cuno, John R. Deane, Anatoliy Fedorovich Dobrynin, Allen Welsh Dulles, Ira Eaker, Anthony Eden, Dwight D. Eisenhower, James Forrestal, Charles de Gaulle, Edward Heath, Richard Helms, Paul G. Hoffman, Cordell Hull, Robert F. Kennedy, Aleksey Nikolayevich Kosygin, Nikita Sergevich Khrushchev, Robert A. Lovett, Robert S. Lovett, Douglas MacArthur, Harold MacMillan, George C. Marshall, John Jay McCloy, Robert S. McNamara, Robert P. Meiklejohn, Robert Gordon Menzies, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov, Jean Monnet, Mohammad Mosaddeq, Jawaharlal Nehru, Georgi M. Pushkin, Dean Rusk, Robert Schuman, Souvanna Phouma, Paul-Henri Spaak, Joseph Stalin, Edward R. Stettinius, Herbert Bayard Swope, Josip Broz Tito, Ahmed Sékou Touré, Cyrus R. Vance, Sumner Welles, and Harold Wilson.
- Other topics include Palisades Interstate Park Commission, Business Advisory Council for the Dept. of Commerce, World War II missions to Moscow, the Casablanca and other wartime and postwar conferences, posts in the Truman administration as ambassador to Great Britain and to the Soviet Union, secretary of commerce, and director of the Mutual Security Agency, presidential campaigns of 1952, 1956, and 1960, Harriman's campaign for and governorship of New York (1955-1959), and his 1983 trip to the Soviet Union. Includes business files on Georgian Manganese Company, Merchant Shipbuilding Corporation, Russian Finance and Construction Corporation, the Sun Valley (Idaho) ski resort, Union Pacific Railroad Company, and W.A. Harriman & Company; memoirs Harriman coauthored with Elie Abel; and writings and subject files of Mark Lincoln Chadwin and Herbert Feis. Also included is an album documenting the Harriman Alaska Expedition, a scientific expedition to Alaska in 1899 undertaken by the Harriman family accompanied by John Muir and other scientists and naturalists.
LC Subjects
- Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971.
- Abel, Elie.
- Adenauer, Konrad, 1876-1967.
- Astor, Vincent, 1891-1959.
- Attlee, C. R. (Clement Richard), 1883-1967.
- Ayub Khan, Mohammad, 1907-1974.
- Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Baron, 1879-1964.
- Bidault, Georges.
- Bourguiba, Habib, 1903-2000.
- Brezhnev, Leonid Il'ich, 1906-1982.
- Byrnes, James F. (James Francis), 1882-1972.
- Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
- Chadwin, Mark Lincoln.
- Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965.
- Clark Kerr, Archibald John Kerr, Baron Interchapel, 1882-1951.
- Cripps, Richard Stafford, Sir, 1889-1952.
- Cuno, Wilhelm.
- Deane, John R. (John Russell), 1896-
- Dobrynin, Anatoly, 1919-2010.
- Dulles, Allen, 1893-1969.
- Eaker, Ira, 1896-1987.
- Eden, Anthony, Earl of Avon, 1897-1977.
- Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969.
- Feis, Herbert, 1893-1972.
- Fisk, Mary Averell Harriman, 1917-
- Forrestal, James, 1892-1949.
- Gaulle, Charles de, 1890-1970.
- Harriman, E. Roland (Edward Roland), 1895-1978.
- Harriman, Edward Henry, 1848-1909.
- Harriman, Marie Norton Whitney, 1903-1970.
- Harriman, Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward, 1920-1997.
- Heath, Edward.
- Helms, Richard.
- Hoffman, Paul G. (Paul Gray), 1891-1974.
- Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955.
- Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973.
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.
- Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968.
- Kosygin, Aleksey Nikolayevich, 1904-1980.
- Khrushchev, Nikita Sergevich, 1894-1970.
- Lovett, Robert A. (Robert Abercrombie), 1895-1986.
- Lovett, R. S. (Robert Scott), 1860-1932.
- MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964.
- Macmillan, Harold, 1894-1986.
- Marshall, George C. (George Catlett), 1880-1959.
- McCloy, John J. (John Jay), 1895-1989.
- McNamara, Robert S., 1916-2009.
- Meiklejohn, Robert P.
- Menzies, Robert, 1894-1978.
- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, 1919-1980.
- Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich, 1890-1986.
- Monnet, Jean, 1888-1979.
- Mortimer, Kathleen Lanier Harriman, 1917-2011.
- Mosaddeq, Mohammad, 1880-1967.
- Muir, John, 1838-1914.
- Nehru, Jawaharlal, 1889-1964.
- Pushkin, Georgi M.
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
- Rumsey, Mary Harriman, 1881-1934.
- Rusk, Dean, 1909-1994.
- Schuman, Robert, 1886-1963.
- Souvanna Phouma, Prince of Laos, 1901-1984.
- Spaak, Paul-Henri, 1899-1972.
- Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953.
- Stettinius, Edward R., Jr. (Edward Reilly), 1900-1949.
- Swope, Herbert Bayard, 1882-1958.
- Tito, Josip Broz, 1892-1980.
- Touré, Ahmed Sékou, 1922-1984.
- Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972.
- Vance, Cyrus R. (Cyrus Roberts), 1917-2002.
- Welles, Sumner, 1892-1961.
- Wilson, Harold, 1916-1995.
- Business Advisory Council for the Dept. of Commerce (U.S.)
- Georgian Manganese Company (Chiatura, Georgian S.S.R.)
- Marshall Plan.
- Merchant Shipbuilding Corporation.
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
- Palisades Interstate Park Commission.
- Russian Finance and Construction Corporation.
- Union Pacific Railroad Company.
- United States. Mutual Security Agency.
- W.A. Harriman & Company.
- Casablanca Conference (1943)
- Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899)
- Antinuclear movement.
- Arms control.
- Diplomatic and consular service, American.
- Disarmament.
- Finance--United States.
- International finance.
- Korean War, 1950-1953.
- Manganese industry--Soviet Union.
- Presidents--United States--Election.
- Railroad companies--United States.
- Scientific expeditions--Alaska.
- Shipbuilding industry--United States.
- Ski resorts--Idaho--Sun Valley.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- World War, 1939-1945--Diplomatic history.
- World War, 1939-1945--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Soviet Union.
- Africa--History--Autonomy and independence movements.
- Latin America--Foreign relations--United States.
- New York (State)--Politics and government--1951-
- Great Britain--Foreign relations--United States.
- Moscow (Russia)--Description and travel.
- Soviet Union--Description and travel.
- Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States.
- United States--Foreign relations--1933-1945.
- United States--Foreign relations--1945-
- United States--Foreign relations--Latin America.
- United States--Foreign relations--Great Britain.
- United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.
- United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
- United States--Politics and government--1945-
- Diplomats.
- Entrepreneurs.
- Philanthropists.
- Politicians.
Notes
- Artistic prints transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
- Motion picture films and sound and video recordings transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.
- Collection material in English.
Acquisition source
- Gift and deposit converted to gift, Pamela C. Harriman, Namirrah Corporation, and others, 1985-2001.
- Gift, Kathleen Harriman Mortimer and Mary Harriman Fisk, 1992.
Additional formats
- Harriman Alaska Expedition album available through the Library of Congress Web site at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.amrvm03
- Microfilm of World War II files restricted, no. 19,613.
- Microfilm of the Harriman Alaska Expedition album available, no. 21,145.
- Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1988-1995.
LCCN
- mm 85061911
Other standard no.
- MSS61911
Repository
- Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home
Type of material
- Archival Manuscript/Mixed Formats (Collection)
Item Availability
CALL NUMBER
- 0321A
- Containers 1-895, 940-947, 979-1108
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- Oversize 0114S
- OV Containers 948-968, 971-978
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- Oversize 0115F
- Scrapbooks : OV Containers 896-939
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- Microfilm 21,145-1P
- Harriman Alaska Expedition album
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- Vault 0202C
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- Oversize 7:10
- Containers 969-970
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- Oversize 0113A
- OV Container 1117
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- 0341A
- Containers 1109-1116
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- Vault 0208E
- Harriman Alaska Expedition album
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- Microfilm 19,613
- Master negative
- Set 1
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