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International Institute of Rural Reconstruction records, 1914-2018 163 linear feet (271 boxes; Audio Visual boxes; Flat boxes; 8 Tube boxes)

International Institute of Rural Reconstruction

Correspondence, manuscripts, lectures, notes, diaries, notebooks, reports, financial records, blueprints, photographs, and printed materials of Y.C. James Yen and the IIRR concerned with the development, sharing, and financing innovative methods of teaching, improving agriculture, health and family planning, and education in impoverished villages. Among the cataloged correspondents are: Pearl Buck, William O. Douglas, Nelson Rockefeller, and DeWitt Clinton.

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J. Max and Ruth Clement Bond papers, 1912-2004, bulk 1930-1990 32 linear feet (42 Boxes: 17 document boxes, 23 record cartons, 1 oversized box)

Bond, J. Max, Sr., 1902-1991
This collection contains the papers of J. Max Bond, Sr. (1902-1991), educator, State Department and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) official and president of the University of Liberia, and Ruth Clement Bond (1904-2005), chair of the English Department at Kentucky State College and at the University of Liberia, and president of the African-American Women's Association. The collection includes extensive family and professional correspondence, writings, and documents relating to educational, political, community and civil rights organizations in which the Bonds participated. The collection also contains photographs and ephemera.
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