LeRoy Bowman papers, 1905-1971

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Series I: Correspondence



Box 1 Correspondence

Series II: Subject Files



Box 2 Aberrance


Box 2 Adolescence


Box 2 Adoptions


Box 2 Adult Education


Box 2 Advertising


Box 2 Aggression


Box 2 Aging


Box 2 Alcohol



Box 3 Alcohol


Box 3 Art


Box 3 Automation


Box 3 Behavior


Box 3 Bibliographies


Box 3 Black Causes


Box 3 Beatniks


Box 3 Business


Box 3 Business and Government



Box 4 Candidates


Box 4 Change


Box 4 Children


Box 4 Church and State


Box 4 Cities



Box 4a City Planning



Box 5 City Planning


Box 5 Civics


Box 5 Civil Rights


Box 5 Class


Box 5 Cognition


Box 5 Colleges


Box 5 Communication


Box 5 Communities


Box 5 Computers


Box 5 Condon-Wadline Law


Box 5 Conformity


Box 5 Conflict


Box 5 Conflict Analysis



Box 6 Constitutional Convention


Box 6 Consumer


Box 6 Cooperatives--Coop Housing



Box 6a Coop Housing



Box 6 Corruption



Box 7 Creativity


Box 7 Creative maturity


Box 7 Courts


Box 7 Credit unions


Box 7 Crime


Box 7 Culture


Box 7 Cybernetics


Box 7 Dance Studies


Box 7 Decentralization



Box 8 Decentralization


Box 8 Delay


Box 8 Democracy


Box 8 Demonstration


Box 8 John Dewey


Box 8 Discussion



Box 9 Discussion


Box 9 Dissent


Box 9 Districting


Box 9 Disturbing


Box 9 Drugs


Box 9 Economics


Box 9 Ecumenical


Box 9 Education



Box 10 Education


Box 10 Adult Education


Box 10 Board of Education



Box 11 Educational Development


Box 11 Educational Development Loans


Box 11 Ethics


Box 11 Employment


Box 11 Euthanasia


Box 11 Existentialism


Box 11 Forums


Box 11 Friends (Quakers)


Box 11 Funeral Bill, 1966


Box 11 Director


Box 11 Future



Box 12 Gambling


Box 12 Games


Box 12 Government


Box 12 Grapes


Box 12 Great Society


Box 12 Group Health


Box 12 Group Health


Box 12 Dynamics


Box 12 Group Health


Box 12 Process


Box 12 Group Health


Box 12 Work



Box 13 Health


Box 13 Honesty


Box 13 Housing


Box 13 Humanism


Box 13 Humor



Box 14 Indians


Box 14 Integration


Box 14 Intergroup Relations


Box 14 International


Box 14 Interorganizational Relations


Box 14 Interpersonal


Box 14 Irrational


Box 14 Isolation


Box 14 Judicial Selection


Box 14 Juvenile Delinquency



Box 15 Labor


Box 15 Leadership


Box 15 Legislation


Box 15 Legislative vs Executive


Box 15 Leisure


Box 15 Lobbying



Box 16 Long John Nebel


Box 16 Loved One


Box 16 Loyalty (Divisions)


Box 16 Media


Box 16 Management


Box 16 Mass Demonstrations


Box 16 Merit Promotions


Box 16 Metamorphose


Box 16 Method


Box 16 Middle Income Housing


Box 16 Minorities


Box 16 Model Cities


Box 16 Monopoly


Box 16 Moratorium


Box 16 Motivation


Box 16 Movements



Box 17 Much Talkers


Box 17 Negotiations


Box 17 Neighborhood


Box 17 Negro


Box 17 Newburgh


Box 17 Nixon


Box 17 Nursing Homes


Box 17 Old Age



Box 17a Old Age


Box 17a Operation Crossroads Africa


Box 17a Organization



Box 18 Organization



Box 19 Paradoxes


Box 19 Peace


Box 19 Pentagon Budget Making


Box 19 Persons (various)


Box 19 Personal Health


Box 19 Personality


Box 19 Philosophy


Box 19 Police


Box 19 Politics



Box 20 Population


Box 20 Population Mobility


Box 20 Poverty (various)


Box 20 Power


Box 20 Prejudice


Box 20 Pressures


Box 20 Programs


Box 20 Professionals


Box 20 Project


Box 20 Proportion of Representation


Box 20 Psychological Processes


Box 20 Psychology


Box 20 Public Opinion


Box 20 Puerto Ricans



Box 21 Race


Box 21 Radical Education


Box 21 Readiness to Organize


Box 21 Realism


Box 21 Reform


Box 21 Religion


Box 21 Remembering



Box 22 Reasearch


Box 22 Responsibility


Box 22 Retirement


Box 22 Revolution


Box 22 Riots


Box 22 Roles and Status


Box 22 Romancing


Box 22 Rural


Box 22 Scenes


Box 22 Secrecy


Box 22 Seminar


Box 22 Services


Box 22 Settlements


Box 22 Sex Education


Box 22 Science


Box 22 Sit-ins


Box 22 Size


Box 22 Size of Computerized Knowledge



Box 23 Snooping


Box 23 Sociability


Box 23 Social Security


Box 23 Special Privilege


Box 23 Special Treatments


Box 23 Staff Reorganization


Box 23 Stereotypes


Box 23 Students


Box 23 Student Protests


Box 23 Support Programs Organization


Box 23 Survival



Box 24 Tactics


Box 24 Taxes


Box 24 Technology


Box 24 Telephone


Box 24 Third World Nations


Box 24 Violence


Box 24 Volunteers


Box 24 Welfare


Box 24 Women


Box 24 Words


Box 24 Writers


Box 24 Youth



Box 25 Community Organization



Box 26 Community Organization



Box 27 Community Organization



Box 28 Community Organization



Box 29 Community Organization



Box 30 Community Organization



Box 31 Community Organization

Series III: Organizations



Box 32 Adelphi


Box 32 Alfred Adler Institute


Box 32 All Day Neighborhood Schools


Box 32 American Council of Learned Societies


Box 32 American Friends Service Committee


Box 32 American Humanist Association



Box 33-36 American Humanist Association


Box 33-36 American Institute for Economic Research


Box 33-36 American Sociological Association


Box 33-36 American Universalist Association


Box 33-36 Americans for Democratic Action


Box 33-36 Arnold Tonybee House


Box 33-36 Athletics for the Blind


Box 33-36 Brooklyn Heights Coop


Box 33-36 Bethany


Box 33-36 John Carroll University & Cleveland Public Schools Study



Box 38 Church of All Nations


Box 38 Church World Service


Box 38 Citizens' Union


Box 38 City Affairs Committee


Box 38 City-Wide Association of Social Agencies


Box 38 Civil Liberties Union


Box 38 College Settlement


Box 38 Committee on Human Rights and Welfare


Box 38 Community Center, Kentucky


Box 38 Community Church of New York


Box 38 Community Church Organizations


Box 38 Community Committee



Box 39 Community Committee



Box 40 Community Councils



Box 41 Community Development


Box 41 Community Experience


Box 41 Community Guidance Clinic


Box 41 Council of Lower West Side Social Agencies


Box 41 Council of Organizations for War Service


Box 41 Council of Protestant Churches


Box 41 Council of Social Work Education


Box 41 Cybercultural Research Institute Conference


Box 41 Domestic Relations


Box 41 Disciples Community House


Box 41 Divine Paternity House


Box 41 Drugs and Hospital. Workers


Box 41 East Harlem Block Nursery


Box 41 Ethical Culture


Box 41 Fellowship of Religious Humanists


Box 41 Flatbush Church


Box 41 Ford Foundation



Box 42 Foundation for Coop Housing


Box 42 Fund for the Republic Convocation


Box 42 Fund for Urban Development


Box 42 Grace Chapel


Box 42 Grand Street Settlement


Box 42 Greenwich House


Box 42 Grosvenor Horse



Box 43 Harlem House


Box 43 Henry Street Settlement


Box 43 Hiram House


Box 43 Houstan House


Box 43 Human Relations Conference


Box 43 Report to Intergroup Conference


Box 43 Institute of Pastoral Care


Box 43 Job Corps


Box 43 Judson Neighborhood House


Box 43 Labor Temple


Box 43 League for Industrial Democracy



Box 44 League for Industrial Democracy



Box 45 League for Industrial Democracy


Box 45 Lower Fast Side Association


Box 45 Matinecock Neighborhood Association


Box 45 May or's Committee of women on National Defense



Box 46 National Advisory Committee on Farm Labor


Box 46 National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders


Box 46 NCAA



Box 47 NCCA


Box 47 National Council of Jewish Women


Box 47 National Conference on Religion and race


Box 47 National Conference of Christians and Jews



Box 48 National Conference of Christians and Jews


Box 48 National Federation of Settlements


Box 48 National Association of Neighborhood Councils



Box 48a Neighborhood Associations

(Including Canarsie, Kips Bay, Chelsea, Lenox Hill, Federated, Bowling Green, Gramercy, Clinton, Greenport, Long Island)



Box 49 Neighborhood Associations

(Including Mulberry, New Brunswick, Old South Brooklyn, Yorkville)


Box 49 New School


New York City


Box 49 Youth Board


Box 49 Regional Interdepartmental Rehabilitation Commission


Box 49 Review Board Conference, 1966



Box 50 Pioneer Youth


Box 50 Planning and Organization Committee


Box 50 Post-War World Council


Box 50 Povl Bang-Jensen Memorial Fund


Box 50 Project Aware


Box 50 P.S. 20


Box 50 Puerto Rican Cultural Center


Box 50 FulDit Committee


Box 50 Regional Planning Committee


Box 50 REH


Box 50 Sane


Box 50 SDS


Box 50 Settlements-Hudson Guild


Box 50 Settlements



Box 51 Socialist Party


Box 51 Society for the Investigation of Recurring Events


Box 51 Society for Study of Special Problems


Box 51 Southeast USA


Box 51 Thirty-3event b Street Center


Box 51 East Harlem Union Settlement


Box 51 Union Settlement


Box 51 United Federation of Teachers


Box 51 United Neighborhood Houses Educational Alliance


Box 51 United Neighborhood Houses 57th Street House



Box 52 United Neighborhood Houses


Box 52 Lenox Hill


Box 52 Lincoln



Box 53 Madison


Box 53 Meinhard Memorial


Box 53 Music School


Box 53 Richmond Hill


Box 53 Jacob Riis


Box 53 79th Street


Box 53 United Parents' Association


Box 53 Urban League


Box 53 Welfare Council


Box 53 West Brooklyn Independent Democrats


Box 53 Workmen's Council


Box 53 The Wider Quaker Fellowship


Box 53 Workshop on Intergroup Relations

Series IV: Liberal Party



Box 54 King's County



Box 55 New York Campaign Materials (Bowman and Others)



Box 56 New York Campaign Materials (Bowman and Others)



Box 57 New York State Party Platforms and Correspondence



Box 58 New York State Miscellaneous



Box 59 New York State Miscellaneous



Box 60 Miscellaneous



Box 61 Miscellaneous



Box 62 Clippings

Series V: Funeral and Memorial Societies



Box 63 Correspondence with Individuals


Box 63 Continental Association of Funeral and Memorial Societies



Box 64 Continental Association of Funeral and Memorial Societies



Box 65 Continental Association of Funeral and Memorial Societies



Box 66 Continental Association of Funeral and Memorial Societies



Box 70 Miscellaneous



Box 71 Miscellaneous



Box 72 Miscellaneous

Series VI: General Files



Box 73 Speeches



Box 74 Speeches



Box 75 Speeches


Travel Notes



Box 76 Korea



Box 77 Korea



Box 78 Other travel Notes


Bank Street College



Box 79 General



Box 80 General



Box 81 N.E. Maine Schools Project



Box 82 N.E. Maine and Miscellaneous Schools Project



Box 83 Study on Crown Heights Community


Box 83 Study on Social Competence of the Individual



Box 84 Course Materials & Notes



Box 85-85a Articles & Books by Bowman


Box 85-85a Unpublished writings


Box 85-85a Reviews of his books



Box 86 Notes on Books



Box 87 Notes on Books



Box 88 Biographical Material



Box 88a Biographical Material



Box 89 Biographical Material & Photos



Box 90 Biographical Material & Photos



Box 90a Biographical Material & Photos



Box 91 Printed Materials



Box 92 Printed Materials



Box 93 Printed Materials