Guide to the Carl Cleveland Taylor Papers,
1920-1969

Collection Number: 3230

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-3530
Fax: (607) 255-9524
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Compiled by:
A. Wagner
Date completed:
July 1972
EAD encoding:
Martin Heggestad, May 2003

© 2002 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Carl Cleveland Taylor papers, 1920-1969.
Collection Number:
3230
Creator:
Carl C. Taylor, b. 1884.
Quantity:
47 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Speeches, articles, correspondence, a diary, cartoons, pamphlets, research material, reference books, index cards, glass slides, tape recordings, memorabilia, and personal and family papers.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Papers of Carl C. Taylor, a rural sociologist. Includes speeches; articles; "Argentine Diary"; correspondence; "Notes on Taylor's Trip" to India and Pakistan; material on the Near (Middle) East, Japan, Haiti, and the Caribbean; rural cartoons; pamphlets; research material; reference books; index cards; glass slides; tape recordings; memorabilia; and personal and family papers.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Carl Cleveland Taylor was born in Iowa on December 16, 1884. He taught college-level economics and sociology and in 1933 was appointed sociologist with the Subsistence Homesteads Division of the United States Department of the Interior. He was regional director with the Land Policy Section of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, 1934-1935. Later he was chief of the Division of Farm Population and Rural Welfare, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, United States Department of Agriculture. He spent a year of research in rural sociology in Argentina with the State Department, 1942-1943. He was a member of the American Country Life Association, the American Sociological Society, and the Rural Sociology Society. He was a joint author on many surveys, and wrote The Social Survey - Its History and Method, 1919; Economics and Social Conditions of North Carolina Farmers, 1923; Rural Sociology, 1926; Human Relations, 1927; The People of the Drought States (with Conrad Taeuber); and Disadvantaged Classes in American Agriculture (with Helen Wheeler and E.L. Kirkpatrick).
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Includes speeches; articles; "Argentine Diary"; correspondence; "Notes on Taylor's Trip" to India and Pakistan; material on the Near (Middle) East, Japan, Haiti, and the Caribbean; rural cartoons; pamphlets; research material; reference books; index cards; glass slides; tape recordings; memorabilia; and personal and family papers.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Taylor, Carl C. (Carl Cleveland), b. 1884.
Taylor, Carl C. (Carl Cleveland), b. 1884. Disadvantaged classes in American agriculture.
Taylor, Carl C. (Carl Cleveland), b. 1884. Economics and social conditions of North Carolina farmers.
Taylor, Carl C. (Carl Cleveland), b. 1884. Human relations.
Taylor, Carl C. (Carl Cleveland), b. 1884. Rural sociology.
Taylor, Carl C. (Carl Cleveland), b. 1884. People of the drought states.
Taylor, Carl C. (Carl Cleveland), b. 1884. Social survey: its history and method.
American Country Life Association.
American Sociological Society.
Rural Sociology Society.
United States. Agricultural Adjustment Administration.Land Policy Section.
United States. Department of Agriculture.Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Division of Farm Population and Rural Welfare.
United States. Department of Interior. Subsistence Homesteads Division.

Subjects:
Agriculture--Economic aspects.
Sociology, Rural.
Economists.
Sociologists.

Places:
Argentina.
Caribbean area.
Haiti.
India.
Japan.
Middle East.
Pakistan.

Form and Genre Terms:
Negatives.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Carl Cleveland Taylor papers, #3230. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
CONTAINER LIST

Description
Container
Cabinet 1, Drawer 1. Speeches and articles.
 Box 1
Cabinet 1, Drawer 1. Speeches and articles, 41 vols. Agricultural History.
 Box 2
Cabinet 1, Drawer 2. Speeches and articles.
 Box 3
Cabinet 1, Drawer 2 & 3. Speeches and articles, research material.
 Box 4
Cabinet 1, Drawer 4. Speeches and articles.
 Box 5
Cabinet 2, Drawer 1. Speeches and articles. MS "Argentine Diary."
 Box 6
Cabinet 2, Drawer 2. Speeches and articles, correspondence, 3 MS vols., "Notes on Taylor's Trip" to India and Pakistan.
 Box 7
Cabinet 2, Drawer 3. Speeches and articles, correspondence, ad hoc committees.
 Box 8
Cabinet 2, Drawer 4. Speeches and articles, correspondence, ad hoc committees.
 Box 9
Cabinet 3, Drawer 1. Speeches and articles, correspondence.
 Box 10
Cabinet 3, Drawer 1. Speeches and articles.
 Box 11
Cabinet 3, Drawer 2. Speeches and articles, correspondence, Middle East, India and Pakistan, Japan. U.N. Mission to the Caribbean.
 Box 12
Cabinet 3, Drawer 2 & 3. Speeches and articles, correspondence. U.N. Mission - Haiti, Philippines.
 Box 13
Cabinet 3, Drawer 4. Speeches and articles, correspondence, trip notes.
 Box 14
Small filing cabinet. Speeches and articles, correspondence. Middle East, U.N. Mission to the Caribbean.
 Box 15
Metal trunk. Rural cartoons and pamphlets.
 Box 16
Metal trunk. Speeches and articles, correspondence, McNary-Haugen Bil and Farm Board.
 Box 17
Metal trunk. Personal correspondence, notes, courses.
 Box 18
Fragments. Regions, etc.
 Box 19
Fragments. Farm movements research, etc.
 Box 20
Correspondence. U.N. Mission, personal.
 Box 21
Correspondence. U.N. Mission, personal.
 Box 22
U.N. Mission.
 Box 23
U.N. Mission, farm research.
 Box 24
Farm movements research.
 Box 25
Farm movements research.
 Box 26
Farm movements research.
 Box 27
Farm movements research.
 Box 28
Farm movements research.
 Box 29
Farm movements research. Thesis, Robert L. Hunt. Farm Labor Union of America.
 Box 30
Farm movements research, agriculture.
 Box 31
Farm movements research, Argentina.
 Box 32
Pakistan. Correspondence and articles.
 Box 33
India and Pakistan. Reference works, letter box.
 Box 34
India and Pakistan. Pamphlets and correspondence.
 Box 35
Corrrespondence, speeches and articles.
 Box 36
Correspondence, letter boxes.
 Box 37
Pamphlets.
 Box 38
Pamphlets and books.
 Box 39
Annotated books.
 Box 40
Annotated books.
 Box 41
Annotated books.
 Box 42
Personal, Carl Taylor.
 Box 43
Personal, Jean Taylor.
 Box 44
Personal, family.
 Box 45
Index cards, glass slides, tape recordings, memorabilia.
 Box 46