Wesley Clair Mitchell papers, 1898-1953

Summary Information

At a Glance

Arrangement

Arrangement

Selectively cataloged; remainder arranged. chronological by subject: A=Economic theory & its history; B=Business cycles; C=Correspondence (cataloged); M=Money, etc.; N=National planning; O=Anthropology & psychology; P=Published materials; P-WCM=Published materials by Mitchell; X=Miscellaneous; & Addition 1998.

• Series I: [A]. Economic Theory and its History
• Series II: [B]. Business Cycles
• Series III: [C] Correspondence
• Series IV: [P] Printed Materials not by WCM
• Series V: [P-WCM] Published Material by WCM
• Series VI: [M] Money, The Money Economy, and Economic History
• Series VII: [N] National Planning
• Series VIII: [O] Anthropology and Psychology
• Series IX: [X] Miscellaneous
• Series X: Wesley Clair Mitchell 1998 Addition, 1998
• Subseries X.1: Correspondence
• Subseries X.2: Manuscripts by Mitchell:

Description

Scope and Content

Professional correspondence, diaries, unpublished articles, lecture notes, abstracts, and other manuscripts by Mitchell.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:

AAAS American Association for the Advancement of Science

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

• Series I: [A]. Economic Theory and its History

• Series II: [B]. Business Cycles

• Series III: [C] Correspondence

• Series IV: [P] Printed Materials not by WCM

  C = Complimentary copies

  AC = Autographed complimentary copies

• Series V: [P-WCM] Published Material by WCM

• Series VI: [M] Money, The Money Economy, and Economic History

• Series VII: [N] National Planning

• Series VIII: [O] Anthropology and Psychology

• Series IX: [X] Miscellaneous

• Series X: Wesley Clair Mitchell 1998 Addition, 1998

Using the Collection

Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Restrictions on Access

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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.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

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); Wesley Clair Mitchell Papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Related Materials

See also: Ms Coll/Mitchell, L.S. The Papers of Lucy Sprague Mitchell

Accruals

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

Reproduction Note

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

Ownership and Custodial History

Gift of the widow and heirs of Prof. Mitchell, 1950.

Gift of the University of Connecticut, 1998.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

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.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 08/--/1989.

Diaries & additional papers Procedded HR 10/26/1998.

Revision Description

2009-06-26 File created.

2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.

Subject Headings

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Subject

History / Biographical Note

Biographical / Historical

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.