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Collection material in English
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
The papers of Adolph Caspar Miller, economist, educator, author, and member of the original Federal Reserve Board of Governors, were transferred to the Library of Congress from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in 1980.
The papers of Adolph Caspar Miller were arranged and described in 1981. The finding aid was created in 2011.
Some photographs have been transferred to the Prints and Photographs Division where they are identified as part of the Adolph Caspar Miller Papers.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Adolph Caspar Miller is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The papers of Adolph Caspar Miller are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Adolph Caspar Miller Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of Adolph Caspar Miller (1866-1953), member of the original Federal Reserve Board of Governors, span the years 1913-1947 and relate specifically to the administration of monetary policy during Miller’s service with the Federal Reserve Board. The collection is organized as received by topic, name of person or organization, or by type of material.
The collection consists of internal correspondence and memoranda from individuals and other Federal Reserve banks; typescripts and handwritten copies of published articles, speeches, and notes relating to international and domestic banking and finance, drafts and final copies of minutes, reports, and proceedings of meetings and conferences of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, agents, and chairmen from 1923 to 1936. There are also copies of correspondence and speeches and articles by several of Miller’s colleagues in academic and government service that relate to Federal Reserve policy. Among these items is an unpublished speech by Paul M. Warbug during his term as president of the Manhattan Corporation in 1930.
The collection includes internal correspondence and memoranda, internal documents and notes between Miller and members and staff of the Federal Reserve System, prominent individuals in banking and finance, and colleagues of Miller’s years as an academician. Correspondents include Carter Glass, E. A. Goldenweiser, Charles S. Hamlin, W. G. McAdoo Edmund Platt, Winfield W. Riefler, Walter Lichtenstein, Benjamin Strong, W. W. Stewart (director of the Federal Reserve Board’s Division of Analysis and Research), Paul M. Warburg, and John Skelton Williams.There are also letters and materials relating to the Panama Pacific International Exposition, of which Miller was chairman of government exhibits, 1914-1921.
Miller’s close relation with the White House is evidenced in the official and personal correspondence of the White, House, presidential letters, and individual correspondence files with Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The correspondence with Hoover dates from his wartime service as food administrator, 1917-1919, as secretary of commerce under Presidents Warren G. Harding and Coolidge, 1921-1928, to his term as president, 1929-1933. This correspondence relates to international economic issues and policy such as economic recovery in Europe, inflation, foreign trade and the Commerce Department’s efforts to absorb the Agriculture Department’s function in foreign trade.
The papers also include correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, press releases and policy recommendations related to the Federal Advisory Council, dated 1916, 1920-1935, and the Open Market Investment Committee from 1923 to 1930. Parts of handwritten manuscripts and notes by Miller on subjects such as the Franco-German War, French Revolution, Industrial Revolution of 1837, new conditions favoring commerce, printed matter and miscellaneous memorabilia comprise the remainder of the collection.
This collection is arranged as received by topic, name of person or organization, or by type of material.