Victor S. Clark papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 4500
Subjects: Correspondence; Social life and customs; Merchants; Economic history; Economics; Railroads; United States. Bureau of Mediation; Institute of Current World Affairs; United States; Board of Research Associates in American Economic History; Puerto Rico. Insular Board of Education; World politics; Puerto Rico; Social history; Green and Davis; Education; Agriculture; History
Description: Correspondence, reports on countries and regions, notes, family papers, clippings, and other papers pertaining primarily to Clark's career as an economist and author.  Documents his work as trustee of the Institute of Current World Affairs, member of the Board of Research Associates in American Economic History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, arbitrator on railroad cases with the U.S. Bureau of Mediation, and member of the Insular Board of Education in Puerto Rico shortly after the territory was acquired by the United States in 1898.  Correspondents include Thomas L. Blakemore, Hallie Flanagan, John N. Hazard, Walter S. Rogers, and Phillips Talbot.

Family papers contain farm diaries, business and land records, account books, daybooks, and financial records and legal papers relating to the firm of Green and Davis, Levi Davis, LeRoy Davis, and the Davis and Clark families especially in the Genesse River Valley, New York.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift and bequest, Victor Selden Clark, 1928-1951.

Transfer, Library of Congress Central Services Division, 1970.

Economist and author.

Collection material in English and Spanish.

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