Harold Foote Gosnell papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 9200
Subjects: Correspondence; United States. Office of War Information; Regional planning; Elections; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; United States; United States. National Resources Committee; Information services; United States. Dept. of State
Description: Chiefly subject files consisting of correspondence, memoranda, reports, research data, maps, charts, printed and near-print material, and miscellany relating principally to projects Gosnell conducted for various government agencies.  Documents a study (1937-1939) on state and regional planning for the U.S. National Resources Committee; studies (1943-1949) on government information services, especially those of the U.S. Office of War Information and the U.S. Dept. of State; and analyses of foreign elections for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, especially in the Philippines (1953, 1955), Indonesia (1955), and the Sudan (1958).  Correspondents include Joseph Barnes, Milton Stover Eisenhower, and Charles W. Eliot.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Harold F. Gosnell, 1976.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Political scientist, educator, and government consultant.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010168