Bibframe Work
TitleLeonard Porter Ayres papersTypeMixed MaterialCollectionNoteLanguage: Collection material in English.SummaryCorrespondence, memoranda, journals, reports, notes, subject files, printed matter, statistical tables and graphs, clippings, and other papers relating chiefly to Ayres's career as a statistician, military officer, and educator. Documents his service as chief statistical officer for the U.S. War Department during World War I, technical adviser to the Allied Powers Reparation Commission as part of the Dawes Committee in 1924, consultant to the War Department between the wars, and statistical coordinator for the War Department and consultant to the U.S. War Manpower Commission during World War II. Also documents his years as an educator in Puerto Rico, 1902-1908, and his work with the Cleveland Foundation Survey Committee, Cleveland Trust Company, and Russell Sage Foundation. Subjects include education, especially in Puerto Rico and Cleveland, Ohio; and the American colonial administration and life in Puerto Rico. Includes a journal kept by Agnes Brooks Young as Ayres's secretary at the War Department and War Manpower Commission, a file of correspondence between Christian Herter and Alan Goldsmith relating to the Dawes Committee, and Ayres family correspondence.Origin Date(s)1902-1946 Authorized Access PointAyres, Leonard Porter, 1879-1946 Leonard Porter Ayres papers