World Calendar Association records
Contributors: International World Calendar Association
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: Correspondence; Calendar reform; Journal of calendar reform
Description: Correspondence, speeches, reports, articles, manuscripts and galley proofs of material appearing in the Journal of Calendar Reform, publicity material, scrapbooks, clippings, photographs, and other records relating to the work of the organization in the promotion of calendar reform.  Includes correspondence with and papers of a wide variety of organizations and periodicals.  Correspondents include Elisabeth Achelis; William Henry Barton; Samuel Whittemore Boggs; Ralph J. Bunche; Carrie Chapman Catt; William Henry Grenfell, Baron Desborough; and Ching-sung Yü.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Elizabeth Achelis, 1956.

Gift, International World Calander Association, 2001.

Transfer, U.S. National Bureau of Standards, 1954.

Founded in 1930 to promote calendar reform; in 1955 the association moved its headquarters from New York to Ottawa, Ontario, and became the International World Calendar Association.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and on Internet.

Containers 256 and 257 contain papers formerly processed and cataloged as the Wilmer Henry Souder Papers.