Newspaper clippings are most frequently from the New York Times , New York Herald Tribune , Washington Post , Washington Star and Wall Street Journal . During several periods of intense activity relating to silver, Mr. Bratter also used a clipping service. There are some clippings from English language papers in other countries and a few in the language of the country. Regular bulletins of major banks in this and other countries are included among the papers. There are a copies of articles by Mr. Bratter, occasional correspondence, and several reports from commercial attaches in U.S. embassies in the Far East.
Correspondence is filed in the relevant subject matter folder.
While not complete, the material embraces a period when the monetary and fiscal policies of the United States were of major economic and political importance, an era of world-wide depression, a period when a number of countries including the United States abandoned the gold standard, the years of the Second World War and the establishment of such international agencies as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. It is complete enough to be useful for doctoral dissertations on several subjects. Later, two additional boxes of publications were received and added to the collection. They comprise boxes 1 and 2 of Series 6, Pamphlets, Bulletins, Congressional Committee Reports, Congressional Hearings and Other Publications. The topical, political and geographical series are arranged alphabetically within each series.