Henry Putney Beers papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 7500
Subjects: Social life and customs; Bibliography; Archival surveys; Depressions; United States. Works Progress Administration; United States. National Archives and Records Service; United States; World War, 1939-1945; Military life; Public records; United States. Navy; History
Description: Correspondence, memoranda, writings, book reviews, reports, and other papers relating primarily to Beers's work as a bibliographer in American history.  Also includes material pertaining to his career at the National Archives including his work with federal record surveys and an editorial project, Beers's life during the Great Depression, his naval service in World War II, and his doctoral advisor, St. George L. Sioussat.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Henry Putney Beers, 1980-1992.

Historian, bibliographer, and archivist with the National Archives.  Died 1996.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001008