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Wesley Clair Mitchell papers

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Status	Container	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Diaries 1937-1948	Mixed material	Use in library	F d 8264 Diaries 1937-1948	Off-site
Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Diaries 1937-1948	Mixed material	Use in library	F d 8264 Diaries 1937-1948	Off-site
Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Diaries 1921-1936	Mixed material	Use in library	F d 8264 Diaries 1921-1936	Off-site
Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Diaries 1921-1936	Mixed material	Use in library	F d 8264 Diaries 1921-1936	Off-site
Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Diaries 1910-1920	Mixed material	Use in library	F d 8264 Diaries 1910-1920	Off-site
Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Diaries 1910-1920	Mixed material	Use in library	F d 8264 Diaries 1910-1920	Off-site
Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Diaries 1905-1909	Mixed material	Use in library	F d 8264 Diaries 1905-1909	Off-site
Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Diaries 1905-1909	Mixed material	Use in library	F d 8264 Diaries 1905-1909	Off-site

Description

22.5

Summary

Professional correspondence, diaries, unpublished articles, lecture notes, abstracts, and other manuscripts by Mitchell. Subjects include economic theory and its history, business cycles, money, national planing, anthropology and psychology, and published material by Mitchell and others.
Abbreviations
AEA American Economic Association
ASA American Statistical Association
BASM The Backward Art of Apending Money
BC Business Cycle; (13) denotes 1913 volume, (27) denotes 1927 volume
BC "Business Cycles" course
BCU Business Cycles and Unemployment
EC "Economic Change" course
EH "Economic History" course
EO "Econimic Origins" course
GPW Gold, Prices, and Wages under the Greenback Standard
HG A History of Greenbacks
HP History of Prices Dirung the War
ILO International Labor Organization
ISI International Statistical Institute
LSM Lucy Sprague Mitchell (wife)
M "Money" course
MBB Measuring Business Cycles
ME "Money Economy" course
MUNI Making and Using Index Numbers
NB National Bureau of Economic Research
NRB National Resources Board
NRC National Resources Committee
SSRC Social Science Research Council
TP "Types of Economic Throey" copurse
WCM Wesley Clair Mitchell
WHDBC What Happens during Business Cycles

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Access (note)

The following boxes are located off-site: 1-6; 15-49. You will need to request this material from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
This collection has no restrictions.

Cite As (note)

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Wesley Clair Mitchell Papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Original Location (note)

Mitchell's diaries for 1905 to 1948 are available on: Type of reproduction--microfilm

Terms of Use (note)

Reproductions may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Curator of Manuscripts/University Archivist, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RBML). The RBML approves permission to publish that which it physically owns; the responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Source (note)

Source of acquisition--Widow and heirs of Wesley Clair Mitchell. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1950. Accession number--M-50.
Diaries & additional papers: Source of acquisition--Connecticut, University of. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--09/30/1998. Accession number--M-98-09-30.

Biography (note)

American economist, teacher. Professor of economics at Berkeley, 1903-1912, and at Columbia University, 1913-1919 and 1922-1944; a founding faculty member of the New School for Social Research, 1919-1922; and the founder and director of the National Bureau of Economic Research, 1920-1945. In 1912, he married Lucy Sprague, educator and founder of Bank Street College of Education.

Provenance (note)

Processing Action (note)

OCLC

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries