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Correspondence, memoranda, manuscripts, speeches, documents, and subject files of Willis. Much of the collection deals with the formation and early development of the Federal Reserve System. The papers also deal with his work with the Philippine National Bank, the Irish Banking Commission, the Banking Inquiry of 1925 and the Banking Act of 1933, the New Zealand Monetary Commission, Australian Banking, and the Indian Currency Commission. Among the major correspondents are Charles Francis Adams, Irving Fisher, Carter Glass, Francis W. Hirst, William G. McAdoo, Christopher Morley, Manuel L. Quezon, and E.R.A. Seligman.

Papers on banking and finance, especially relating to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

The general correspondence in the collection deals with Barger's dissertation and writings in the area of economics. Of note are letters from John Maynard Keynes, Dennis Robertson, and Wesley C. Mitchell; correspondence with chairman and other departmental faculty members concerning research and other departmental activities; and correspondence with foreign scholars concerning research.

Business correspondence of the Hartford Life and Annuity Insurance Company, addressed mainly to the secretary, Stephen Ball. The letters are from insurance agents, business firms, and banks and relate to policies, premiums, taxes, investments, and other business transactions.

Notes taken by Widenmann of courses and lectures given by H. Parker Willis, Chairman of the Dept. of Banking, Columbia University, 1917-1937. Included are miscellaneous banking and business forms. The notes are in manuscript, typescript, and mimeograph form.

Correspondence, speeches, articles, economic data, photographs, scrapbooks, appointment books, telephone logs, memorabilia, and printed materials dealing almost exclusively with Woods' presidency of the World Bank. The papers consist largely of volumes of speeches and articles by Woods, world economic briefs and scrapbooks of clippings and photographs. The collection includes a number of signed and inscribed photographs including Mohammad Ayub Khan, Hassan II of Morocco, Ferdinand E. and Imelda Marcos, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and Gamal Abdul Nasser. Also in the collection are books from Woods' library, some of them inscribed; printed materials by and about Woods; and silver and other memorabilia.

Correspondence, manuscripts, notes, reports, memoranda, contracts, and other legal documents, and printed materials of Kalmanoff. These files cover the period of his associate directorship of the International Research Projects, especially his work on the Public International Development Financing Project at Columbia University, and his work as an economic consultant for many companies and organizations.