Wesley Clair Mitchell papers, 1898-1953

Summary Information

At a Glance

Call No.:
Ms Coll\Mitchell
Bib ID:
4079117 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Mitchell, Wesley C (Wesley Clair), 1874-1948
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Physical Description:
22.5 linear feet (50 boxes (24000 items))
Language(s):
English .
Access:
You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

The following boxes are located off-site: 1-6; 15-49. You will need to request this material from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.

This collection has no restrictions.

Description

Scope and Content

Professional correspondence, diaries, unpublished articles, lecture notes, abstracts, and other manuscripts by Mitchell. Subjects include economic theory and its history, business cycles, money, national planing, anthropology and psychology, and published material by Mitchell and others.

Abbreviations:

AAAS American Association for the Advancement of Science

AEA American Economic Association

ASA American Statistical Association

BASM The Backward Art of Apending Money

BC Business Cycle; (13) denotes 1913 volume, (27) denotes 1927 volume

BC "Business Cycles" course

BCU Business Cycles and Unemployment

EC "Economic Change" course

EH "Economic History" course

EO "Econimic Origins" course

GPW Gold, Prices, and Wages under the Greenback Standard

HG A History of Greenbacks

HP History of Prices Dirung the War

ILO International Labor Organization

ISI International Statistical Institute

LSM Lucy Sprague Mitchell (wife)

M "Money" course

MBB Measuring Business Cycles

ME "Money Economy" course

MUNI Making and Using Index Numbers

NB National Bureau of Economic Research

NRB National Resources Board

NRC National Resources Committee

SSRC Social Science Research Council

TP "Types of Economic Throey" copurse

WCM Wesley Clair Mitchell

WHDBC What Happens during Business Cycles

Arrangement

Selectively cataloged; remainder arranged. chronological by subject: A=Economic theory & its history; B=Business cycles; C=Correspondence (cataloged); M=Money, etc.; N=National planning; O=Anthropology & psychology; P=Published materials; P-WCM=Published materials by Mitchell; X=Miscellaneous; & Addition 1998.

Using the Collection

Restrictions on Access

You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

The following boxes are located off-site: 1-6; 15-49. You will need to request this material from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.

This collection has no restrictions.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Reproductions may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Curator of Manuscripts/University Archivist, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RBML). The RBML approves permission to publish that which it physically owns; the responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Wesley Clair Mitchell Papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Related Materials

See also: Ms Coll/Mitchell, L.S. The Papers of Lucy Sprague Mitchell

Accruals

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

Reproduction Note

Mitchell's diaries for 1905 to 1948 are available on: Type of reproduction--microfilm

Ownership and Custodial History

Gift of the widow and heirs of Prof. Mitchell, 1950.

Gift of the University of Connecticut, 1998.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Widow and heirs of Wesley Clair Mitchell. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1950. Accession number--M-50.

Diaries & additional papers: Source of acquisition--Connecticut, University of. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--09/30/1998. Accession number--M-98-09-30.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 08/--/1989.

Diaries & additional papers Procedded HR 10/26/1998.

Revision Description

2009-06-26 File created.

2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.

Biographical / Historical

American economist, teacher. Professor of economics at Berkeley, 1903-1912, and at Columbia University, 1913-1919 and 1922-1944; a founding faculty member of the New School for Social Research, 1919-1922; and the founder and director of the National Bureau of Economic Research, 1920-1945. In 1912, he married Lucy Sprague, educator and founder of Bank Street College of Education.

Subject Headings

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Genre/Form
Abstracts (summaries) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Articles CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Bibliographies CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Charts (graphic documents) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Diaries CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Drafts (documents) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Examinations (documents) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Excerpts CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
First drafts CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Invitations CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Lectures CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Lists (document genres) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Notes (documents) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Outlines (documents) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Prefaces CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Programs (documents) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Questionnaires CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Reviews (documents) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Summaries CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Name
Beveridge, William Henry Beveridge, Baron, 1879-1963 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Clark, John Maurice, 1884-1963 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Columbia University -- Faculty CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Commons, John R (John Rogers), 1862-1945 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Dewey, John, 1859-1952 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Fisher, Irving, 1867-1947 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Gay, Edwin F (Edwin Francis), 1867-1946 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Hand, Learned, 1872-1961 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Hayek, Friedrich A. von (Friedrich August), 1899-1992 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Keynes, John Maynard, 1883-1946 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Lynd, Robert Staughton, 1892-1970 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Mitchell, Lucy Sprague, 1878-1967 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
National Bureau of Economic Research CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y. : 1919-1997) -- Faculty CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Taussig, F. W (Frank William), 1859-1940 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
University of California, Berkeley -- Faculty CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Veblen, Thorstein, 1857-1929 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Subject
Anthropology CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
College teachers CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Economic policy CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Economics -- Research CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Economics -- Study and teaching CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Economists CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Finance CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Money CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Psychology CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Translations CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID