Records of the Presidential Inaugural Committees: Records of the 1949 Inaugural Committee (Record Group 274)

FOLDER TITLE LIST

STAFF OFFICES: General Chairman - Alphabetical File

Box 1

• Advertising
• Amplification
• Archives
• Armed forces
• Bells
• Biffle, Leslie
• Boyle, William
• Calliope
• Chairs
• Committees - subcommittees
• Complaints
• Community Chest
• Concessions Committee
• Cooperation of Civic bodies
• Decorations Committee
• Democratic National Committee
• Department store exhibits
• Diplomatic corps
• District of Columbia
• Evans, Joseph S.
• Finance Committee
• Fireworks committee
• Flags
• Floats
• Foreign language press
• Freedom Train
• Gala Concert
• General Inaugural Committee
• General Services Committee
• Government department liaison and ticket sales
• Grandstand construction
• Guarantee Fund
• Historic Sties Committee
• Hospitality and housing

Box 2

• Inaugural Ball Committee
• Inaugural Dinner
• Inaugural Items
• Inaugural Committee
• Invitation requests
• Invitations - general
• Invocation
• Joint Congressional Inaugural Committee liaison
• King, Fay
• Labor Participation Committee
• Legal and Legislative Committee
• Liaison representatives
• Liquor
• Mail
• Medals
• Medical Aid Committee
• Memos (Evans)
• Military aides
• Miscellaneous memoranda
• Motion Pictures Committee
• National Advertising Committee
• National Guard Armory
• National Inaugural album
• National Participation Committee
• Offers of participation or help
• Office space
• Outgoing correspondence - miscellaneous
• Parade and special events
• Personnel
• Poetry
• Positions
• Posters
• Postmaster
• Presidential reception
• President's portrait

Box 3

• Program Committee
• Public buildings
• Publicity
• Public Safety Committee
• Radio - television
• Reception for distinguished guests
• Red Cross - first aid
• Release
• Religious observance
• Roach, Neale
• Sanitation Committee
• Scrapbook material
• Seats - grandstand
• Secretary
• Signs
• Special events
• Staff meetings
• State Groups Committee
• Statues
• Sub-Committees (new)
• Suffrage
• Supplies
• Taxes
• Telephone service
• Tickets - general
• Tickets - requests for
• Transportation Committee
• United Nations
• Veterans Committee
• Visiting Lawyers Reception Committee
• Weather
• White House Liaison Committee
• White House Mail

STAFF OFFICES: General Chairman - Committee Reports and Invitations

Box 4

• Report - College Participation Committee
• Report - Committee on Civic/Business Participation
• Report - Finance Committee
• Report - Freedom Train Committee (folder 1)
• Report - Freedom Train Committee (folder 2)
• Report - Freedom Train Committee (folder 3)
• Report - Freedom Train Committee (folder 4)

Box 5

• Report - Freedom Train Committee (folder 5)
• Report - Museum Committee
• Report - Parade/Special Events Committee
• Report - Portable Grandstand
• Report - Public Relations Committee
• Report - Reception for visiting Lawyers Committee
• Report - Religious Participation Committee
• Report - Sanitation Committee
• Report - Transportation Committee
• Report - U.N. Participation Committee
• Report - Ways and Means Committee
• Tennessee Visitors to Inauguration
• General Invitations - answers to (folder 1)

Box 6

• General Invitations - answers to (folders 2-5)

Box 7

• General Invitations - answers to (folders 6-10)

Box 8

• General Invitations - answers to (folders 11-15)

Box 9

• General Invitations - answers to (folders 16-19)

Box 10

• General Invitations - answers to (folders 20-23)

STAFF OFFICES: Administrative File

Box 11

• Accounts
• Applications for employment
• Archivist
• Beesley, Thomas
• Budget/audit control
• Civic, business participation
• Concessions
• Domestic transportation
• Hospitality and housing
• Inaugural Ball
• Inaugural items
• Kemp, H.L.
• Medals
• National Transportation
• Office of the Chairman
• Orders (index)
• Parades/special events
• Programs
• Publicity
• Releases (folder 1

Box 12

• Releases (folder 2)
• Religious participation
• State groups
• Telegrams (2 folders)
• Veterans Committee
• Vouchers

STAFF OFFICES: Office of the Secretary

Box 13

• Archivist
• Armed Forces Committee
• Civic/Business Participation Committee
• College Participation Committee
• Committee lists (2 folders)
• Concessions Committee
• Correspondence (A-Z)
• Correspondence - acceptances to serve on Committee
• Correspondence - Tickets
• Finance Committee (Maryland)
• Fireworks Committee
• Freedom Train Committee
• General Services Committee
• Government Department Liaison Committee
• Grandstand Construction Committee
• Hospitality/Housing Committee
• Inaugural Ball Committee
• Inaugural Committee staff lists
• Inaugural events

Box 14

• Inaugural items
• Labor Participation Committee
• Labor relations
• Medals Committee
• Medical Aid Committee
• Miscellaneous memoranda
• National Advertising Committee
• National Participation Committee
• Parade/Special Events Committee
• Program Committee
• Public Buildings Committee
• Public Relations Committee
• Public Safety Committee
• Reception for V.I.P. Committee
• Religious Observance Committee
• Request for general invitations
• State Groups Committee
• Transportation Committee (domestic)
• Transportation Committee (National)
• United Nations Committee
• Veterans Committee
• Young Democrats Committee

STAFF OFFICES: Office of the Archivist - General File

Box 15

• Administrative officers - Beesley, Thomas
• Administrative officers - Graham, J.
• Administrative officers - Kemp, H.L.
• Archives Advisory Board
• Archives - historical information
• Budget Committee/audit control
• Chairman - Inaugural Committee memoranda
• General Chairman - records organization
• Inaugural Committee - personnel lists
• Inaugural items

Box 16

• Letterhead stationary
• Mimeographed publications - master file (#1-50)
• Mimeographed publications - master file (#51-100)
• Mimeographed publications - master file (#101-163)
• Musical tributes
• Press releases
• Programs for Inauguration week
• Publicity office - general

Box 17

• Radio scripts
• Record of progress reports
• Records control chart
• Reference requests
• Report of the Archivist
• Samples of invitations, programs, tickets (2 folders)
• Stofberg, Charles
• Washington, D.C. - information re
• World Flag Encyclopedia

STAFF OFFICES: Office of the Archivist - Committee File

Box 18

• Armed Forces Inaugural Committee
• Budget Committee/Audit Control
• Committee on Civic/Business Participation
• Concessions Committee
• Decorations Committee
• Finance Committee
• Freedom Train Committee (2 folders)

Box 19

• General Services
• Government Department Liaison/Ticket Sales Committee
• Grandstand Construction Committee
• Hospitality/Housing Committee
• Inaugural Ball
• Insurance Committee
• Legal/Legislative Committee
• Liaison Committee
• Medals Committee

Box 20

• National Participation Committee
• Parade/Special Events Committee - general
• Parade/Special Events Committee - report
• Program Committee
• Public Relations Committee
• Reception Committee
• Religious Observance Committee
• State Groups Committee
• Transportation Committee (domestic)
• Transportation Committee (National)
• Veterans Committee
• Ways and Means Committee
• Young Democrats Participation Committee

STAFF OFFICES: Office of the Archivist - Newspaper Clippings

Box 21

• 1948

• November 8
• November 9
• November 10
• November 11
• November 12
• November 13
• November 14
• November 15
• November 16
• November 17
• November 18
• November 19
• November 20
• November 21
• November 22
• November 23
• November 24
• November 25
• November 26
• November 27
• November 28
• November 29
• November 30
• December 1
• December 2
• December 3
• December 4
• December 5
• December 6
• December 7
• December 8
• December 9
• December 10

Box 22

• December 11
• December 12
• December 13
• December 14
• December 15
• December 16
• December 17
• December 18
• December 19
• December 20
• December 21
• December 22
• December 23
• December 24
• December 25
• December 26
• December 27
• December 28
• December 29
• December 30
• December 31

• 1949

• January 1
• January 2
• January 3
• January 4
• January 5
• January 6
• January 7
• January 8
• January 9
• January 10
• January 11
• January 12
• January 13
• January 14
• January 15

Box 23

• January 16
• January 17
• January 18
• January 19
• January 20 (2 folders)
• January 21
• January 22
• January 23
• January 24
• January 25
• Miscellaneous

STAFF OFFICES: Publicity

Box 24

• Armory
• Budget
• Correspondence
• Credentials issued - lists
• Credentials - press
• Credentials - Radio/TV
• Democratic National Committee
• Gala concert
• Grandstand blueprints

Box 25

• Hildreth, Melvin D.
• Housing and hospitality
• Inter-office memos
• Mailing list requests
• Mimeograph information
• Mimeograph orders (folders 1-3)

Box 26

• Miscellaneous material
• Musicians' unions
• News releases
• Oldfield, Elizabeth
• Operational plans/assignments
• Passes and Tag identification
• Personnel applications
• Plans - Washington, D.C.
• Press releases

Box 27

• Radio galleries
• Radio programs
• Radio scripts
• Radio spot announcements
• Radio and Television Committee
• Radio - TV (signed Receipts)
• Releases - legal liability
• Reports (final)
• Salaries - Publicity Committee
• Stofberg, Charles
• Thank you letters
• Tickets - requests for (A-H)
• Tickets - requests for (I-Z)
• Tickets - miscellaneous
• Vouchers - expense accounts
• Vouchers - payroll accounts
• Warwick and Legler

STAFF OFFICES: Budget and Audit Control

Box 28

• Appropriations authorization - general
• Appropriations authorization - Department Store exhibits
• Appropriations authorization - fireworks
• Appropriations authorization - Presidential grandstand
• Appropriations authorization - transportation information
• Appropriations authorization - Veterans
• Bank statements
• Budget/audit Control Committee
• Budget and Audit Control Disbursement Journal [2008 accretion]
• Budgets - general
• Cancelled checks (2 folders)

Box 29

• Directory - committees
• Employment record (2 folders)
• Financial Report (folder 1)

Box 30

• Financial Report (folder 2)
• Miscellaneous material
• Notebooks
• Outdoor Advertising Committee
• Refunds
• Salary Payments - Alexander, Leroy
• Salary Payments - Allredge, Charles H.
• Salary Payments - Blackburn, Katherine C.
• Salary Payments - Blackerby, E. Buckner
• Salary Payments - Chase, Henrietta S.
• Salary Payments - Chisholm, Annie Lee
• Salary Payments - Choroszy, Lena C.
• Salary Payments - Clagett, Mary B.
• Salary Payments - Collins, Margaret B.
• Salary Payments - Connell, Vera M.
• Salary Payments - Cooney, Kathryn L.
• Salary Payments - Cooper, Betty W.
• Salary Payments - Davis, Nelle M.
• Salary Payments - Dew, Flora D.
• Salary Payments - Doran, Robert J.

Box 31

• Salary Payments - Drake, William A.
• Salary Payments - Dugan, Charles L.
• Salary Payments - Dunkelberger, Mildred S.
• Salary Payments - Evans, Joseph S.
• Salary Payments - Faulkner, Woodrow E.
• Salary Payments - Feltman, Elizabeth H.
• Salary Payments - Gallagher, Dennis J.
• Salary Payments - Galvin, Miriam S.
• Salary Payments - Goodman, James S.
• Salary Payments - Grimes, Esther E.
• Salary Payments - Hammett, Marion
• Salary Payments - Hartshorne, James
• Salary Payments - Herhusky, Marie S.
• Salary Payments - Hogan, Margaret P.
• Salary Payments - Houston, Theophilus
• Salary Payments - Humbert, Ann B.
• Salary Payments - Jamison, Dorothy A.
• Salary Payments - Johnson, Vivian E.
• Salary Payments - Johnston, Louise J.
• Salary Payments - Jones, Kathleen
• Salary Payments - Lanza, Ann E.
• Salary Payments - Lendinski, Mary M.
• Salary Payments - Lowe, Vivian
• Salary Payments - McBride, Marion F.
• Salary Payments - McDonald, George W.
• Salary Payments - McDowell, Marguerite
• Salary Payments - Miner, Eva G.
• Salary Payments - Morgan, Ellsworth G.
• Salary Payments - Munday, Wilkins O.
• Salary Payments - Oldfield, Elizabeth
• Salary Payments - Oliver, Patricia
• Salary Payments - O'Neill, Daniel J.
• Salary Payments - Perrott, Dorothy
• Salary Payments - Pettigrew, Mary C.
• Salary Payments - Phelps, Marian C.
• Salary Payments - Polley, Ruby M.
• Salary Payments - Rosner, Alice C.
• Salary Payments - Ruffley, Pauline E.
• Salary Payments - Saaristo, Rose L.
• Salary Payments - Sauer, Al C.
• Salary Payments - Schwab, Melva
• Salary Payments - Slater, Doris E.
• Salary Payments - Smith, Clara W.
• Salary Payments - Smullen, Isabelle A.
• Salary Payments - Spangler, Helen M.
• Salary Payments - Spragg, Lloydis
• Salary Payments - Stanley, Lee B.
• Salary Payments - Taylor, Clyde H.
• Salary Payments - Thornton, Knoxye
• Salary Payments - Tilton, Flether S.
• Salary Payments - Vorhees, Vera P.
• Salary Payments - Ward, Enger E.
• Salary Payments - list
• Stamps
• Taxes
• Vouchers - administrative officers

Box 32

• Vouchers - audit/budget books
• Vouchers - Chairman's office (2 folders)
• Vouchers - Concessions Committee
• Vouchers - Decorations Committee
• Vouchers - Department Store Exhibits Committee
• Vouchers - Finance Committee
• Vouchers - Fireworks Committee
• Vouchers - Freedom Train Committee
• Vouchers - General Services
• Vouchers - Governors Liaison Committee
• Vouchers - Grandstand Construction Committee
• Vouchers - Grandstand (Portable) Committee

Box 33

• Vouchers - Grandstand Sales Committee
• Vouchers - Hospitality and Housing Committee
• Vouchers - Inaugural Ball Committee
• Vouchers - Insurance Committee
• Vouchers - Medals/Medal Sales Committee
• Vouchers - Medical Aid Committee

Box 34

• Vouchers - miscellaneous
• Vouchers - National Participation Committee
• Vouchers - Parade/Special Events Committee
• Vouchers - Program Committee
• Vouchers - Publicity Committee
• Vouchers - State Groups Committee
• Vouchers - Supplementary Services
• Vouchers - Transportation Committee (domestic)
• Vouchers - Transportation Committee (National)
• Vouchers - Veterans Committee
• Vouchers - Void
• Vouchers - Ways and Means Committee

Box 35

• Vouchers - shared (4 folders)

COMMITTEES: General File

• Appropriations
• Blueprints (folder 1)

Box 36

• Blueprints (folders 2-3)
• Bulletins to agency representatives
• Circular letters and memos
• Committee on Portable Grandstands - members
• Committee on Portable Grandstands - report
• Committee reports - agriculture
• Concessions Committee - correspondence
• Concessions Committee - forms
• Concessions Committee - minutes of meetings
• Concessions Committee - permits
• Concessions Committee - reports of concessionaires
• Contracts - Grandstand Committee
• Construction - erection permits
• Construction - offers and proposals

Box 37

• Department Liaison - Ticket Sales Committee
• General Service Committee - memoranda
• General Service Committee - personnel
• Grandstand construction
• Inaugural Committee appropriation - administrative
• Inaugural Committee appropriation - Budget/audit
• Inaugural Committee appropriation - Chairman
• Inaugural Committee appropriation - Department Store exhibit
• Inaugural Committee appropriation - Fireworks
• Inaugural Committee appropriation - Freedom Train
• Inaugural Committee appropriation - General Services
• Inaugural Committee appropriation - Presidential Grandstand
• Inaugural Committee appropriation - Portable Grandstand
• Inaugural Committee appropriation - Grandstand Sales
• Inaugural Committee appropriation - Hospitality and Housing
• Inaugural Committee appropriation - Inaugural Ball
• Inaugural Committee appropriation - Insurance
• Inaugural Committee appropriation - Legal and legislative
• Inaugural Committee appropriation - Medal/Medal Sales
• Inaugural Committee appropriation - National Participation
• Inaugural Committee appropriation - Decorations
• Inaugural Committee appropriation - Program
• Inaugural Committee appropriation - Publicity
• Inaugural Committee appropriation - State Groups
• Inaugural Committee appropriation - Transportation
• Inaugural Committee appropriation - Veterans
• Inaugural Committee appropriation - Ways and Means
• Letters to heads of agencies
• List of representatives - government agencies
• Meetings - Committees
• Miscellaneous material

Box 38

• Orders for tickets
• Personal services
• Receipts for funds remitted - Government agencies (2 folders)
• Reports on sales of tickets
• Statistics - construction costs
• Thank you letters
• Tickets - allocations for Government agencies
• Tickets - applications for
• Tickets - J.C. Turner
• Tickets - number totals
• Tickets - transmittal record/receipt
• Time Record of employees
• Vouchers - general

COMMITTEES: Hospitality and Housing

Box 39

• Archives
• Army property
• Blackburn, Katherine
• Board of Trade
• Budget - D. Perrott
• Children's Committee
• Directory of Committee Members
• Electors - accommodations for
• Embassy correspondence
• Forms - Inaugural Housing Bureau
• Forms - general
• Forms - listing sheets
• Forms - public relations
• Forms - room listings/placements
• Grand opening
• Hospitality Day and housing
• Housing - general
• Housing - legal aspects
• Housing - miscellaneous
• Housing - special
• Inaugural Housing Bureau
• Inaugural items
• Information booths
• Information Service
• Legal - insurance/liability
• McClintock, Mrs. John C.
• Maryland - housing
• Meetings, committee
• Memos - inter-office

Box 40

• Minutes - staff meetings
• Miscellaneous memoranda
• Office administrator
• Office volunteers
• Open House - military installations
• Pending file
• Personnel
• Petty cash
• Placements - data
• Policies - program/administration
• Publicity - churches
• Publicity - commodity contracts
• Publicity - general
• Publicity - Government agencies
• Publicity - press releases
• Publicity - radio
• Public relations
• Reports, final
• Reports, weekly
• Room clearance and listings
• Shopping directory
• Secret Service
• Speakers Bureau
• Speeches
• State societies
• Thank you letters
• Tourist information
• Transportation
• Virginia housing
• Volunteers slips

COMMITTEES: Inaugural Ball

Box 41

• Acceptances
• Active letters
• Armed Services Committee
• Armory Committee
• Brewood Engravers
• Cards made
• Chairman of Committee
• Committee - general
• Committee list (program)
• Concessions
• Employment Finances - budget
• Forms (sample)
• Form 27 answers
• Form 26 answers
• Form 73 answers
• Guarantee Fund
• Inaugural Ball Committee
• Invitation lists

Box 42

• Invitations - Black, Ethel
• Invitations - Blackburn, K.C.
• Invitations - Boyle, William
• Invitations - Cabinet/Government Agencies
• Invitations - Chapman, Oscar
• Invitations - Democratic National Committee (2 folders)
• Douglas, Melvyn
• Edwards, India
• Electoral College
• Governors
• Hildreth, Melvin
• Johnson, Louis
• Kearney, Jean
• Members of Congress
• Mesta, Mrs. George
• Miscellaneous
• Supreme Court
• Truman-Barkley Club (National)

Box 43

• Invitations - Wheeler, Al
• Letters of acceptance
• Mailing invitations
• Miscellaneous letters
• Newspaper clippings
• Notices of meetings
• Postage - cash fund
• Postage - Inaugural Ball
• Regrets (2 folders)
• Sample of tickets/program
• Souvenir invitations
• Telephone Directory
• Tickets - distinguished guests
• Ticket purchases (record of)

COMMITTEES: Medals and Tickets

Box 44

• Deposit slips
• Medal Committee
• Medal sales (A-B) correspondence
• Medal Sales - appropriation
• Medal sales (record of)
• Meter registers - statement of readings
• Insurance Committee
• Summary of ticket orders

COMMITTEES: Parade and Special Events

Box 45

• Appropriations
• Bids and contracts
• Budget and ticket information
• Cancellations/refunds - Inaugural Gala
• Daily Reminder (diary)
• Float Committee - memoranda
• Float Committee - report
• Floats - Inaugural Parade
• Gala - general correspondence
• Gala - passes/tickets
• Gala - program (sample)
• Gala - ticket refunds (folder 1)

Box 46

• Gala - ticket refunds (folder 2)
• General records - Gala Inaugural
• Legal/legislative
• Parade, correspondence re
• Transportation
• Vouchers (2 folders)

Box 47

• Ticket orders for Gala Ceremonies - (A)
• Ticket orders for Gala Ceremonies - (B)
• Ticket orders for Gala Ceremonies - (C)
• Ticket orders for Gala Ceremonies - (D)
• Ticket orders for Gala Ceremonies - (E)
• Ticket orders for Gala Ceremonies - (F)
• Ticket orders for Gala Ceremonies - (G)
• Ticket orders for Gala Ceremonies - (H)

Box 48

• Ticket orders for Gala Ceremonies - (I-K)
• Ticket orders for Gala Ceremonies - (L)
• Ticket orders for Gala Ceremonies - (M)
• Ticket orders for Gala Ceremonies - (N-O)
• Ticket orders for Gala Ceremonies - (P-Q)
• Ticket orders for Gala Ceremonies - (R)
• Ticket orders for Gala Ceremonies - (S-T)
• Ticket orders for Gala Ceremonies - (U-V)
• Ticket orders for Gala Ceremonies - (W-XYZ)

Box 49

• Works/Preparation - arrangements committee
• Works/Preparation - Band Committee
• Works/Preparation - Civic participation
• Works/Preparation - Floats (foreign countries)
• Works/Preparation - Float Sub-Committee
• Works/Preparation - Gala invitations
• Works/Preparation - Inaugural Gala - general (folders 1-2)

Box 50

• Works/Preparation - Inaugural Gala - general (folder 3)
• Works/Preparation - Inaugural Music Committee
• Works/Preparation - Parade Coordinator - Correspondence (1933-1948)
• Works/Preparation - Parade Coordinator - (1949)
• Works/Preparation - Parade Coordinator - Correspondence (undated)
• Works/Preparation - Program and Printing Committee
• Works/Preparation - Special Events and Cultural activities

COMMITTEES: V.I.P. - State Groups

Box 51

• General Inaugural dada - State groups (2 folders)
• Invitations - accepted
• Invitations - declined
• Reception for V.I.P.'s
• State Groups Committee - contacts
• State Groups Committee - report
• State Society officers

COMMITTEES: Transportation and Veterans

Box 52

• Air Transportation
• Bus Committee
• Cars for Parade
• Car pool
• Committee on National/International Air Transportation
• Daily Notes
• Data for meeting on transportation
• Democratic National Committee
• General memoranda - transportation
• Inaugural Committee
• Inaugural tags

Box 53

• Parade data
• Progress report - Transportation Committee
• Railroad transportation
• Souvenir tags
• Transportation Committee - Vice Chairman
• Transportation Committee - bus service
• Veterans Committee - general
• Veterans Committee report

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