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Isaac W. Carpenter Papers
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Isaac W. Carpenter served as assistant secretary and controller for the Department of State from 1954 to 1957.
Consists of seventeen notebooks containing a summary record of Carpenter's term in office as assistant secretary and controller for the Department of State from 1954 to 1957. Included are notes, correspondence, transcripts of conversations, schedules, reports, speeches, diaries, a few photographs, newspaper clippings, and other printed matter primarily relating to budgetary and fiscal controls, personnel administration, and the operations of the Foreign Service, with files on two trips to Europe and the Middle East (1954 and 1955).
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- Publisher
- Public Policy Papers
- Finding Aid Date
- 2007
- Access Restrictions
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The collection is open for research.
- Use Restrictions
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Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. For quotations that are fair use as defined under U. S. Copyright Law, no permission to cite or publish is required. For those few instances beyond fair use, researchers are responsible for determining who may hold the copyright and obtaining approval from them. Researchers do not need anything further from the Mudd Library to move forward with their use.
Collection Inventory
No arrangement action taken or arrangement information not recorded at the time of processing.
A "Special Record" of his Term in Office as Assistant Secretary of State including reports, notes, correspondence, clippings, photographs, etc. in loose-leaf notebooks with the following dates:
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Includes related papers to 1961.
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In a single loose-leaf notebook.
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"Briefing Books" in the following loose-leaf notebooks:
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