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Guide to the University ofChicago Social ScienceResearch CommitteeRecords 1923-1964

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Table of Contents

3Descriptive Summary3Information on Use3Access3Citation3Historical Note4Scope Note5Related Resources6Subject Headings6INVENTORY6Series I: Minutes6Series II: Financial6Subseries 1: Budgets7Subseries 2: Financial Statements9Series III: Correspondence9Series IV: Committees10Series V: Annual Reports and Internal Studies12Series VI: Projects- General Reports and Requests12Subseries 1: General Project Reports13Subseries 2: General Project Requests14Series VII: Projects- Individual Reports14Subseries 1: 1928-192914Subseries 2: 1929-193014Subseries 3: 1930-193115Subseries 4: 1931-193215Subseries 5: 1932-193315Subseries 6: 1933-193416Subseries 7: 1934-193516Subseries 8: 1935-193617Subseries 9: 1936-193718Subseries 10: 1937-193818Subseries 11: 1938-193919Subseries 12: 1939-194020Subseries 13: 1940-194121Subseries 14: 1941-194221Subseries 15: 1942-194322Subseries 16: 1943-194422Subseries 17: 1944-194523Subseries 18: 1945-194625Subseries 19: 1946-194728Subseries 20: 1947-194830Series VIII: Publications31Series IX: Titles

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Descriptive Summary

Identifier ICU.SPCL.SSRC

Title University of Chicago. Social Science Research Committee. Records

Date 1923-1964

Size 11.5 linear feet (23 boxes)

Repository Special Collections Research CenterUniversity of Chicago Library1100 East 57th StreetChicago, Illinois 60637 U.S.A.

Abstract The records of the University of Chicago Social Science Research Committeecontain minutes, budgets, financial statements, correspondence, andreports related to the administration of research projects supported by theCommittee and its predecessor, the Local Community Research Committee(1923-1930).

Information on Use

Access

No restrictions.

Citation

When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: University of Chicago.Social Science Research Committee. Records, [Box #, Folder #], Special Collections ResearchCenter, University of Chicago Library

Historical Note

The Local Community Research Committee was established in 1923 with an initial grantof $21,000 from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial. This grant was supported bysubsequent annual direct and matching grants amounting to nearly half a million dollars by1931. The first members of the Committee were chairmen of five University departmentsconcerned with social science research: Albion W. Small (Sociology and Anthropology);Charles E. Merriam (Political Science); Leon C. Marshall (Political Economy); James H. Tufts(Philosophy); and Andrew C. McLaughlin (History). Harry A. Millis (Political Economy)served as secretary of the Committee from 1924 to 1926, after which Leonard D. White(Political Science) was appointed to the part-time position of Executive Secretary. Significantprojects completed or initiated with the support of the LCRC from 1923 to 1930 includedCharles Merriam and Harold Gosnell on voting patterns; Ernest W. Burgess on delinquency;Quincy Wright on the causes of war; Simeon Leland on public finance; Vivien Palmer onneighborhoods; and Bessie Louise Pierce on the history of Chicago. The work of the LCRC

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culminated in the dedication of the Social Science Research Building in December, 1929, andthe publication of a collaborative report, Chicago: An Experiment in Social Science Research(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1929).

In 1930, the LCRC was renamed the Social Science Research Committee and Donald Slesingerwas brought from Yale University's Institute of Human Relations to become the full-timeExecutive Secretary, replacing Leonard White, who had resigned to resume his teaching career.Following suggestions made by White before his departure, a Social Science Research Councilrepresenting all appropriate University departments and professional schools was created toprovide general direction and advice, while supervision of the research program was lodgedin a small executive Committee consisting of Slesinger and four faculty members: EdithAbbott, Charles Merriam, Harry A. Millis, and Edward Sapir. Additional committees and sub-committees were established as needed to monitor the progress and insure the completion ofindividual projects.

Primary financial support for the Social Science Research Committee came from the RockefellerFoundation, which had absorbed the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial in 1929, from theDivision of the Social Sciences, and from the University's general research funds; as had beenthe case with the LCRC, additional funds were received from local organizations, foundations,and occasional private gifts. Scholars whose work was supported by the Committee after 1930included Ernest W. Burgess, L. L. Thurstone, Fay-Cooper Cole, William F. Ogburn, Charles E.Merriam, Frank H. Knight, Louis Wirth, Robert J. Havighurst, Hans J. Morgenthau, and JohnU. Nef, among others. The tenth anniversary of the Social Science Research Building providedan opportunity to survey the accomplishments of the University's social science research effortthrough a series of commemorative round-table discussions, the proceedings of which werepublished in Eleven Twenty-six: A Decade of Social Science Research (Chicago: University ofChicago Press, 1940). The Social Science Research Committee was superceded in 1970 by theSocial Sciences Divisional Research fund.

Scope Note

The Social Science Research Committee maintained its files in eight general categories. Thenames of these categories, as well as the titles of individual folders, have been retained in thearchival organization of the records.

Series I: Minutes, records the activities of both the Local Community Research Committee andthe Social Science Research Committee from 1923 to 1957.

Series II: Financial consists of budgets and financial statements arranged chronologically by year,followed by folders containing material on matched funds (5:1) and the Committee's payroll(5:2).

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Series III: Correspondence is miscellaneous in character and includes notes to Committeemembers and project directors, memoranda, announcements, and reports.

Series IV: Committees. The committees in this series represent only a fraction of thoseestablished by the SSRC to monitor progress on individual research projects. In addition toGovernment Finance, the History of Chicago, and Local Community Research, other suchcommittees included those on Meat Packing, the Causes of War, Citizens' Police, OrganizedCrime, Personality Studies, Standards of Measurement and Municipality Reporting, Negroes,the Census, and the Lie Detector.

Series V: Annual Reports and Internal Studies. The LCRC and SSRC compiled annual reportsto the President of the University (8:1-3) and to the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial andRockefeller Foundation (8:10-9:7). In addition, periodic comprehensive reviews of Committeepolicy and activities (8:4, 7-9) provided a basis for the reassessment of research objectives.The memoranda prepared by Leonard D. White (9:9) guided the reorganization of the LocalCommunity Research Committee in 1930.

Series VI: Projects, General Reports and Requests, consists of general yearly summaries ofresearch projects undertaken and requests for funding of existing or future projects.

Series VII: Project, Individual Reports, consists of files on individual research projects arrangedchronologically and by the name of the research director. These files contain reports on yearlyexpenses, and may also include accounts of research progress and copies of proposals foradditional work.

Series VIII: Publications. Records in this series concern books derived from research sponsoredby the LCRC and SSRC and subsequently published with Committee subventions.

Related Resources

The following related resources are located in the Department of Special Collections:

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/spcl/select.html

Additional information on the Local Community Research Committee and the Social ScienceResearch Committee may be found in the Presidents' Papers; the papers of Ernest W. Burgess,Philip M. Hauser, Charles E. Merriam, William F. Ogburn, Bessie Louise Pierce, and LeuisWirth; the minutes of the Division of the Social Sciences; the records of the Social ScienceResearch Building Tenth Anniversary; and the General Archival Files.

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Subject Headings

• University of Chicago. Social Science Research Committee• Social sciences

INVENTORY

Series I: Minutes

Box 1Folder 1

1923-1928Box 1Folder 2


1926-1927; 1927-1928Box 1Folder 4









1951-1957

Series II: Financial

Subseries 1: Budgets

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Box 3Folder 1









1939-1940Box 3Folder 10

1940-1941Box 3Folder 11

19411942Box 3Folder 12

1942-1943Box 3Folder 13

1943-1944Box 3Folder 14

1944-1945

Subseries 2: Financial Statements

Box 3Folder 15

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1923-1924; 1925-1926Box 3Folder 16

1926-1927; 1927-1928Box 4Folder 1

1928-1929; 1929-1930Box 4Folder 2








1938-1939Box 4Folder 10

1939-1940Box 4Folder 11

1940-1941Box 4Folder 12

1941-1942Box 4Folder 13

1942-1943Box 4Folder 14

1943-1944

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Box 4Folder 15

1944-1945Box 4Folder 16

1945-1946Box 4Folder 17

1946-1947Box 5Folder 1-3

Matching Funds, 1924-1940Box 5Folder 4-5

Payroll, 1939-1941

Series III: Correspondence

Box 5Folder 6








1958-1964

Series IV: Committees

Box 6Folder 5

Government Finance, Committee on, annual reports, 1931-1934

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Box 7Folder 1

Government Finance, Committee on, articles and speeches, 1930-1932Box 7Folder 2

Government Finance, Committee on, budget, 1926-1939Box 7Folder 3

Government Finance, Committee on, Cermak Committee (Committee of 33), 1931Box 7Folder 4

Government Finance, Committee on, Cost of Government in Illinois project, 1928Box 7Folder 5

Government Finance, Committee on, Institute, 1930Box 7Folder 6

Government Finance, Committee on, progress reports, 1928-1932Box 7Folder 7

History of Chicago, Committee on, architecture, 1931-1932Box 7Folder 8

History of Chicago, Committee on, bibliography, 1928Box 7Folder 9

History of Chicago, Committee on, correspondence, 1930-1936Box 7Folder 10

History of Chicago, Committee on, financial, 1936-1941Box 7Folder 11

History of Chicago, Committee on, minutes, 1931-1933Box 7Folder 12

History of Chicago, Committee on, progress reports, 1929-1941Box 7Folder 13

Local Community Research, Sub-Committee on, 1934

Series V: Annual Reports and Internal Studies

Box 8Folder 1

Annual Report to the President, 1923-1924Box 8Folder 2

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Annual Report to the President, 1927Box 8Folder 3

Annual Report to the President, 1935Box 8Folder 4

Five Year Report, 1927-1932Box 8Folder 5

Manual of Administrative Practice, [1928]Box 8Folder 6

Merriam, Charles E., Informal Memorandum on Social Research, 1938Box 8Folder 7

Research Activities, Review and Study, 1938Box 8Folder 8

Research Activities, Review and Study, 1945Box 8Folder 9

Research, Expenditure, and Results, 1923-1927Box 8Folder 10

Rockefeller Foundation, correspondence, 1940-1941Box 9Folder 1

Rockefeller Foundation, reports to, 1924-1925Box 9Folder 2


Rockefeller Foundation, reports to, 1926-1927, 1928-1929Box 9Folder 4



Rockefeller Foundation, requests for support from 1940-1941Box 9Folder 7

Rockefeller Foundation, requests for support from, 1941-1945

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Box 9Folder 8

Social Science Research Council (New York), reports to, 1937-1938Box 9Folder 9

White, Leonard D., memoranda on reorganization of the Local Community ResearchCommittee, 1929, 1930

Series VI: Projects- General Reports and Requests

Subseries 1: General Project Reports

Box 10Folder 1

1924-1931Box 10Folder 2

1924-1942Box 10Folder 3

1931-1932Box 10Folder 4

1932-1933Box 10Folder 5

1933-1934Box 10Folder 6

1934-1935Box 10Folder 7

1935-1936Box 10Folder 8

1936-1937Box 10Folder 9

1937-1938Box 11Folder 1

1938-1939Box 11Folder 2

1939-1940Box 11Folder 3

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1940-1941Box 11Folder 4

1940-1942Box 11Folder 5

1942-1943Box 12Folder 1

1943-1944Box 12Folder 2

1947

Subseries 2: General Project Requests

Box 12Folder 3

1934-1935Box 12Folder 4

1935-1936Box 12Folder 5

1936-1937Box 12Folder 6

1937-1938Box 12Folder 7

1938-1939Box 12Folder 8

1939-1940Box 13Folder 1

1940-1941Box 13Folder 2

1941-1942Box 13Folder 3

1942-1943Box 13Folder 4

1943-1944Box 13

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Folder 51944-1945

Box 13Folder 6

1945-1946Box 14Folder 1

1946-1947Box 14Folder 2

1947-1948Box 14Folder 3

1958-1960

Series VII: Projects- Individual Reports

Subseries 1: 1928-1929

Box 14Folder 4

Mints, Lloyd W.Box 14Folder 5

Wooddy, Carroll H.


Box 14Folder 6

Bruce, Andrew A.Box 14Folder 7

Burgess, Ernest W.Box 14Folder 8

Cole, Fay-CooperBox 14Folder 9

Thurstone, Louis L.


Box 14Folder 10


Burgess, Ernest W., and Vivien Palmer

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Box 14Folder 12

Ridley, Clarence E.


Box 14Folder 13

Abbott, EdithBox 14Folder 14

Sutherland, Edwin H.Box 14Folder 15

Wright, Chester W.


Box 14Folder 16

Blumer, HerbertBox 14Folder 17

Davis, MichaelBox 14Folder 18

Millis, Harry A., and Paul KelloggBox 14Folder 19

Schuman, Frederick L.


Box 14Folder 20

Duddy, Edward A.Box 14Folder 21

Freeman, Frank N.Box 14Folder 22

Haile, BerardBox 14Folder 23

Kyrk, HazelBox 15Folder 1

Millis, Harry A.Box 15

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Folder 2Mints, Lloyd W.

Box 15Folder 3


Wirth, Louis


Box 15Folder 5


Buswell, Guy T.Box 15Folder 7

Cottrell, Leonard S.Box 15Folder 8

Eggan, FrederickBox 15Folder 9

McLaughlin, Andrew C.Box 15Folder 10

Newcomb, Charles S.Box 15Folder 11

Schuman, Frederick L.Box 15Folder 12

Slesinger, DonaldBox 15Folder 13


Wirth, Louis


Box 15Folder 15

Breckenridge, Sophonisba P.Box 15

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Folder 16Burgess, Ernest W.

Box 15Folder 17


Douglas, Paul H.Box 15Folder 19

Embree, JohnBox 15Folder 20

Heer, ClarenceBox 15Folder 21

Kyrk, HazelBox 15Folder 22

Lang, Richard O,Box 15Folder 23

Lasswell, Harold D.Box 15Folder 24

Ogburn, William F.Box 15Folder 25

Radcliffe-Brown, A. R.Box 15Folder 26

Viner, Jacob


Box 15Folder 27


Busswell, Guy T.Box 15Folder 29

Hauser, Philip M.Box 15Folder 30

Merriam, Charles E.

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Box 16Folder 1


Schmitt, Bernadotte E.Box 16Folder 3

Schuman, Frederick L.Box 16Folder 4

Wirth, Louis

Subseries 10: 1937-1938

Box 16Folder 5





Jernagan, Marcus W.Box 16Folder 10

Millis, Harry A.Box 16Folder 11

Park, Robert E.Box 16Folder 12

Warner, W. Lloyd

Subseries 11: 1938-1939

Box 16Folder 13


Morrison, John A.

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Box 16Folder 15


Opler, Morris E.Box 16Folder 17

Palyi, Melchior

Subseries 12: 1939-1940

Box 16Folder 18


Craven, Avery O.Box 16Folder 20


Gottschalk, LouisBox 16Folder 22

Gulliksen, HaroldBox 16Folder 23

Holzinger, Arthur W.Box 16Folder 24

Kornhauser, Arthur W.Box 16Folder 25

Lange, OskarBox 16Folder 26

Leland, Simeon E.Box 17Folder 1

Merriam, Charles E.Box 17Folder 2


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Nef, John U.Box 17Folder 4


Stouffer, Samuel A.Box 17Folder 6

Wirth, LouisBox 17Folder 7

Wright, Quincy

Subseries 13: 1940-1941

Box 17Folder 8


Dean, JoelBox 17Folder 10


Gosnell, Harold F.Box 17Folder 12

Harbison, Frederick H.Box 17Folder 13

Holzinger, Karl J.Box 17Folder 14

Jones, Wellington D.Box 17Folder 15

Jordan, Wilbur K.Box 17Folder 16

Knight, Frank H.Box 17Folder 17

Koos, Leonard V.Box 17

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Folder 18Lewis, H. Gregg

Box 17Folder 19

Mints, Lloyd W.Box 17Folder 20

Rippy, J. FredBox 17Folder 21

Viner, Jacob

Subseries 14: 1941-1942

Box 18Folder 1


Eggan, FrederickBox 18Folder 3

Gosnell, Harold F.Box 18Folder 4


Leites, Natan C.Box 18Folder 6


Sherman, Mandel

Subseries 15: 1942-1943

Box 18Folder 8


Gulliksen, HaroldBox 18Folder 10

Hughes, Everett C.Box 18

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Folder 11Ireland, Philip W.

Box 18Folder 12

Johnson, T. WalterBox 18Folder 13


Koos, Leonard V.Box 18Folder 15


MacNair, Harley F.Box 18Folder 17

Nef, John U.

Subseries 16: 1943-1944

Box 18Folder 18

Edwards, Newton, and Herman G. RicheyBox 18Folder 19

Jordan, Wilbur K.Box 18Folder 20


Pierce, Bessie LouiseBox 18Folder 22


Warner, W. Lloyd, and Robert J. HavighurstBox 18Folder 24

Wirth, Louis

Subseries 17: 1944-1945

Box 18

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Folder 25Burgess, Ernest W.

Box 18Folder 26


Havighurst, Robert J.Box 18Folder 28


Hughes, Everett C.Box 18Folder 30

Leland, Simeon E.Box 18Folder 31

Marschak, JacobBox 18Folder 32


Morgenthau, Hans J.Box 18Folder 34

Pritchett, Charles H.Box 18Folder 35


Thurstone, Louis L.Box 18Folder 37

White, Leonard D.Box 18Folder 38

Wirth, Louis, and Charles E. Merriam

Subseries 18: 1945-1946

Box 18Folder 39

Andrews, T. G.

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Box 18Folder 40

Bendix, ReinhardBox 18Folder 41


Burgess, Ernest W., and Robert J. HavighurstBox 18Folder 43


Davis, AllisonBox 18Folder 45







Johnson, T. WalterBox 19Folder 5



Leland, Simeon E.Box 19

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Folder 8Marschak, Jacob

Box 19Folder 9






Schultz, Theodore W.Box 19Folder 15

Schultz, Theodore W., and Jacob MarschakBox 19Folder 16


Viner, JacobBox 19Folder 18

Warner, W. Lloyd, and Robert J. HavighurstBox 19Folder 19


Wirth, Louis

Subseries 19: 1946-1947

Box 19Folder 21

Berelson, Bernard R.Box 19Folder 22

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Box 19Folder 23






Edwards, Newton, and Herman G. RicheyBox 19Folder 29

Finer, HermanBox 19Folder 30


Grodzins, MortonBox 19Folder 32


Henry, William E., and Caroline TryonBox 19Folder 34


Hughes, Everett C., and Sol TaxBox 19Folder 36

Jernegan, Marcus W.Box 19Folder 37

Leland, Simeon E.Box 19

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Folder 38Marschak, Jacob

Box 19Folder 39

Marschak, Jacob, and Theodore W. SchultzBox 19Folder 40






Pritchett, Charles H.Box 19Folder 46

Reeves, Floyd W.Box 20Folder 1


Rogers, Carl R.Box 20Folder 3


Slotkirw James S.Box 20Folder 5


Warner, W. Lloyd, and Robert J. HavignurstBox 20Folder 7

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Wirth, Louis

Subseries 20: 1947-1948

Box 20Folder 9

Berelson, Bernard R.Box 20Folder 10

Boorstin, Daniel J.Box 20Folder 11




Cronbach, Lee J.Box 20Folder 15


De SebastianBox 20Folder 17


Drell, BernardBox 20Folder 19

Finer, HermanBox 20Folder 20

Goldhamer, HerbertBox 20Folder 21

Gottschalk, LouisBox 20

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Folder 22Grodzins, Morton

Box 20Folder 23

Hamilton, Earl J.Box 20Folder 24


Hardin, Charles M.Box 20Folder 26


Henry, William E., and Caroline TryonBox 20Folder 28

Jackson, W. TurrentineBox 20Folder 29

Jernegan, Marcus W.Box 20Folder 30

Johnson, D. Gale, and Theodore W. SchultzBox 20Folder 31

Leiserson, AveryBox 20Folder 32

Marschak, Jacob, et al.Box 20Folder 33



Moore, BarringtonBox 20Folder 36


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Redfield, RobertBox 21Folder 5


Rogers, Carl R.Box 21Folder 7

Rothfels, HansBox 21Folder 8


Simson, Otto vonBox 21Folder 10

Slotkin, James S.Box 21Folder 11

Tax, Sol, and Everett C. HughesBox 21Folder 12



Whyte, William F.Box 21Folder 15

Wirth, Louis

Series VIII: Publications

Box 21

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Folder 16Contracts and royalty statements, 1926-1941

Box 21Folder 17

Correspondence with the University of Chicago Press, general, 1936-1941Box 21Folder 18

Correspondence with the University of Chicago Press, general, 1948-1954Box 22Folder 1

Correspondence with the University of Chicago Press, policy and administration,1936-1944

Box 22Folder 2

Ph.D. dissertations published, 1941-1942Box 22Folder 3

Problems of faculty in publication, 1941Box 22Folder 4

Program for publication, 1932-1936Box 22Folder 5

Publications lists, 1938-1942Box 22Folder 6



Survey of publications, 1928-1930Box 23Folder 3

Survey of publications, 1930-1941

Series IX: Titles

Box 23Folder 4

F. M. Fryxell, The Physiography of the Region of Chicago, 1927

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