Arthur Woods papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Military readiness; United States. War Dept. Division of Military Aeronautics; Vocational rehabilitation; Unemployment; Defenses; Design and construction; United States; Police administration; Maintenance and repair; Military Airplanes; Social life and customs; United States. War Dept.; Piloting; History
Description: Diary, correspondence, reports, notes, scrapbooks, clippings, and photographs pertaining chiefly to Woods's service as New York City police commissioner, colonel in the U.S. War Dept. Division of Military Aeronautics, and assistant to the U.S. secretary of war.  Also documents Woods's work with John D. Rockefeller during the 1920s and 1930s.  Subjects include Woods's youth in Boston, Mass.; airplane production and maintenance, pilot training, and military preparedness during World War I; vocational rehabilitation for servicemen and unemployment following World War I; and restoration of Williamsburg, Va.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm edition available, no. 19,604.

Microfilm edition produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1987.

Gift, John Woods, 1972.

U.S. Army officer and New York city police commissioner.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007032