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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 records of the Fund for the Reinhold Niebuhr Award, Inc., were given to the Library of Congress by James Loeb in 1977.
The records of the Fund for the Reinhold Niebuhr Award, Inc., were arranged and described in 1979. The finding aid was revised in 2013.
Videotapes and an audiotape have been transferred to the Library's Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division where they are identified as part of these papers.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of the Fund for the Reinhold Niebuhr Award, Inc., is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The records of the Fund for the Reinhold Niebuhr Award, Inc., records 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, Fund for the Reinhold Niebuhr Award, Inc., Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The records of the Fund for the Reinhold Niebuhr Award, Inc., span the years 1965-1975 and consist mainly of correspondence, administrative and financial records, printed matter, and miscellaneous material concerning a fund to honor the theologian and social philosopher Reinhold Niebuhr. Much of the correspondence is between the organization’s principal officer, James I. Loeb, and members of the board. Other correspondents include Niebuhr’s wife and son, Ursula Niebuhr and Christopher Niebuhr, as well as other friends and relatives, and Virginia Lieson Brereton and John C. Bennett, administrative members of the fund that was founded in 1972 and dissolved in 1975.
This collection is organized by type of material.