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This subseries contains old maps of Tokyo and reprints of old maps of Tokyo. Additional maps, including wartime maps of East Asia, are kept in the East Asian Special Collections.

Brookings Institution consists of correspondence, grant proposals, board records, and related documents during Barnett's years as a senior fellow in Brookings' Foreign Policy Studies Program. Included are correspondence between Barnett and government officials including Presidents Johnson, Nixon, and Carter; members of Congress; and National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Documents cover Barnett's views on Taiwan and on relations between the US, China, and the Soviet Union, as well as the Nixon Administration's rapprochement with China. Records cover meetings Barnett organized at Brookings of academicians and government officials on US China policies. Also here are letters written to Barnett from Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine, media representatives, academic colleagues, and others after Barnett's heart attack in 1971. There are documents on Jimmy Carter's Presidential candidacy, State Department officials and members of Congress. Materials also include reports on a 1980 meeting of the US-People's Republic of China Joint Commission on Cooperation in Science and Technology, which was held in China and the subsequent 1981 Brookings-Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Conference on Political, Economic, and Security Trends and Problems in East Asia, held in Williamsburg, Virginia