Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1938 - 1985 (Creation)
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and medium
2.60 linear feet of textual records
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Repository
Archival history
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
This fonds hold copies of records from other repositories that relate to the history of the World Bank. One group of records copied from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library deals with the Bretton Woods conference. A second group, copied from the Harry S Truman Presidential Library, consists of selected documents on the Bretton Woods conference and the early years of the Bank. A third body is copies of records from the United States Government's Office of Agriculture, Technical Advisory Bureau, Agency for International Development, dating from 1970-1976. The records relate to agricultural research and to the founding of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. The final body is a copy of the J. Burke Knapp papers at the Hoover Institution, which were copied for a history of the Bank prepared by the Brookings Institution. When the copies were not longer needed by the history project they were given to the Archives. Finally, the Bank obtained copies of a few oral history interviews from the Truman Library and the Columbia University Oral History Research Office.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Records are arranged in four subfonds:
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Bretton Woods documents, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
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Bank history documents, Harry S Truman Presidential Library
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CGIAR founding documents, US National Archives
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J. Burke Knapp papers, Hoover Institution
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Open.
Conditions governing reproduction
Records are subject to the Copyright Policy of the World Bank Group.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
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Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Harry S Truman
Existence and location of copies
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Description control area
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Rules and/or conventions used
Internal World Bank Group Archives rules based on ISAD(G).
Disclosure status
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Dates of creation revision deletion
31 July 2003