Committee for the Recovery of Archaeological Remains
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content: Strong, William Duncan, 1899-1962
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content: William Duncan Strong papers
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content: William Duncan Strong papers / Series 9: Papers relating to organizations
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content: 1945-1953
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content: Box 50
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content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Strong's work with the Committee on Basic Needs of American Archaeology led to his proposal to set up the Committee for the Recovery of Archaeological Remains to advise the government in salvaging archaeological information from sites before they were destroyed by public works programs. This new committee began in 1945 with John Otis Brew as chairman. Strong became the National Research Council liaison member of the CRAR in 1946. Out of the committee's work came a program of which the Smithsonian's River Basin Surveys was a major part. 
Includes a signed letter by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., to Strong (May 26, 1950) concerning budget reductions for the Bureau of American Ethnology, correspondence, copies of the scripts for radio programs in which Strong participated (February 9 and May 14, 1948), an announcement for a lecture by Strong (February 6, 1948), and galleys and early drafts of the "Resolution Concerning the Conservation of National Archeological Resources in the River Valleys of the United States" (July 13, 1945).