Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); George D. Woods Papers, Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
COinS Metadata
available (e.g., for Zotero).
Summary Information
At a Glance
Bib ID: | 4078355 View CLIO record |
Creator(s): | Woods, George D. 1901-1982. |
Title: | George D. Woods Papers,
1935-1982
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Physical description: | ca. 565 items (5 v., 40 boxes and 26 oversize items).
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Language(s): | In English
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Access: |
The following boxes are located off-site: 4-95. You will need to request this material from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at least two business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
Country Economic Briefs, April l968, may not be used without written permission of the World Bank.
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Arrangement
Arrangement
This collection is arranged into 4 series:
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Description
Scope and Content
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.
Series I: Photographs
Series II: Audio Visual
Series III: Card Files
Note: All 4 Card File Boxes (#95, #96, #97, #98) are stored in 1 Record Carton, numbered Box 95
Names and addresses of people in different countries; often giving datails about their rank and position.
Series IV: Oversize Material
Subseries IV.1: Scrapbooks
Subseries IV.2: Documents
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Using the Collection
Partially Offsite
Access Restrictions
The following boxes are located off-site: 4-95. You will need to request this material from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at least two business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
Country Economic Briefs, April l968, may not be used without written permission of the World Bank.
Restrictions on Use
Single photocopies 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.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); George D. Woods Papers, Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
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About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries. Rare Book and Manuscript Library; machine readable finding aid created by Columbia University Libraries Digital Library Program Division
Processing Information
Papers Processed 01/26/83 MMB
Addition Processed 10/13/83 MMB
Addition Processed 02/29/84 MMB
Addition Processed 02/--/86 JCA
correspondence files, calendars, and phone lists. processed 05/--/86 RL
Machine readable finding aid generated from MARC-AMC source via XSLT conversion June 26, 2009
Finding aid written in English.
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Subject Headings
The subject headings listed below are found in this collection. Links below allow searches at Columbia University through the Archival Collections Portal and through CLIO, the catalog for Columbia University Libraries, as well as ArchiveGRID, a catalog that allows users to search the holdings of multiple research libraries and archives.
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Genre/Form
Subjects
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History / Biographical Note
Biographical Note
Investment banker who served as president of the World Bank from 1963 to 1968. Prior to which he had been chairman of the board of the First Boston Corporation, of which he was also a founder.
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