Summary Information
Richard Critchfield Papers
1938-1987
- Critchfield, Richard, 1931-
U.S. Mss 117AF; Micro 541; Audio 1183A; PH 3729
16.0 c.f. (40 archives boxes), 1 reel of microfilm (35 mm), 2 tape recordings, and photographs
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Papers of Richard Critchfield, an author and foreign correspondent known for his coverage of Far Eastern events and reports on third world cultures and the impact on them of agricultural and technological change. Although the bulk of the papers consists of writings, the correspondence file contains important exchanges with his newspaper and book editors and personal correspondence with his family. There are also memoranda about events in Vietnam, exchanges with staff at the Alicia Patterson Fund which sponsored some of his research, and correspondence about political situations in the various countries which Critchfield studied. The collection contains substantial documentation on five books, The Long Charade: Political Subversion in the Vietnam War(1968), The Golden Bowl Be Broken: Peasant Life in Four Cultures (1973), Shahhat, An Egyptian (1978), Villages (1981), and Those Days: An American Album. Also in the collection are notes on interviews with Chester B. Bowles, John Kenneth Galbraith, Indira Gandhi, Ferdinand Marcos, Robert S. McNamara, Anwar Sadat, and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
English
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Biography/History
Richard Critchfield, newspaper reporter and author, was born March 23, 1931 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Raised in Fargo, North Dakota, and Seattle, Washington, he experienced a heightened interest in foreign people and places during a family trip to Paris, Bavaria, and Italy in 1950. This interest was to grow and become a major influence on his later career. In 1953, he graduated from the University of Washington with a major in Far Eastern studies, and then served with the Army in Korea from 1953 to 1955.
Though Critchfield had written and drawn cartoons for his college newspaper, his real involvement with journalism began in 1955 when he was hired by the Cedar Rapids Gazette published near his mother's home in Viola, Iowa. In 1956, he went to the Cedar Valley Daily Times, Vinton, Iowa, until his acceptance that same year at the Columbia School of Journalism. He received his M.S. in June 1957 and, after writing his thesis on editorial cartoons and cartoonists and considering becoming a cartoonist, decided to stick to news writing and obtained his first major journalism job with the Munroe News Bureau, Washington, D.C. The Bureau served the Farm Journal magazine, the Deseret News and Telegram, and several other papers.
Critchfield left Munroe in March 1958 for three terms of graduate study at the universities of Innsbruck and Vienna. During vacations, he taught English at a Hungarian refugee center in Linz, Austria. A 1959 trip around the world roused Critchfield's further interest in the Far East, and on his return to the U.S., he studied Indian history for one quarter at Northwestern University, then left to teach journalism at India's University of Nagpur.
At Nagpur, Critchfield continued earlier attempts at writing fiction, spent the summers tramping the Himalayas with resultant articles appearing in the Christian Science Monitor, and achieved fame as the central figure in an incident which bore evidence of being a Communist propaganda exercise. After being charged with anti-Indian activities, particularly with drawing an offensive political cartoon, Critchfield was relieved of his teaching position amid hints that he secretly worked for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
The 1962 Chinese invasion of India's northern borders interrupted Critchfield's plans to return home. He seized his opportunity, gained a retainer from The Washington Star, and wrote as a special correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune. With the war's end that winter, Critchfield briefly returned home, then freelanced his way through Egypt and Turkey and back to India. In January 1964, he found himself the only U.S. reporter in Kashmir when religious and political riots broke out there among the Moslem residents. His coverage led to an offer from the Star to join their staff and an assignment
in May to Vietnam.
With temporary absences to cover Nehru's funeral, the India-Pakistan war of 1965, and, occasionally, Chinese activities from Hong Kong, Critchfield covered the Vietnam War from May 1964 to December 1967. At first concerned more with the military aspects of the war, Critchfield won the Overseas Press Club award for “best daily newspaper reporting from abroad in 1965” for a series on the Marines. However, he soon became more immersed in the political intrigue he found and gradually evolved the theories later published in his book The Long Charade. The book, written during a 6-month leave of absence from the Star and published in 1968, pointed out what he felt were major American misconceptions about the war and the Vietnamese leadership. Critchfield contended that several Republic of South Vietnam leaders, including then Premier Ky, were members or allies of the secret Dai Viet party and were actually working for their own control of South Vietnam, rather than defeat of the Communist forces. The real problem of the war was political subversion and only by purging the northern-born Dai Viets could the U.S. hope to create a popular-based and potentially successful government for South Vietnam. The book created an uproar abroad but a disappointing lack of reaction in the U.S.
From June 1968 to September 1969, Critchfield headquartered in Washington, reporting on labor and national politics, part of the time as the Star's #2 White House correspondent. His continuing interest in foreign people, now developing into more of an anthropological interest, led to another leave of absence, 1969-1971, during which he studied the population explosion, the agricultural “green revolution,” and the upheaval experienced by people facing related rapid cultural change. Financed partly by a fellowship from the Alicia Patterson Fund, Critchfield lived with five different families in different countries using them as case studies of the problems faced by their cultures. His observations from the Punjab, Java, Mauritius, Iraq, and French North Africa were published by the Fund as eighteen reports, 1970-1971, and were later condensed into a book entitled The Golden Bowl Be Broken (Indiana University Press, 1973).
September 1971 found Critchfield back at the Star as a special projects writer, working on articles which tried to relate policy and issues to the lives of ordinary people. However, it was clear the Star did not intend to send him overseas again, which was where his main interests lay, so Critchfield explored possibilities in academic anthropology studies or grant support for further research like that for The Golden Bowl Be Broken. In July 1972 he began a tour financed by the Ford Foundation.
During the years 1972-1978 Critchfield spent time in the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, the Mid-East and Africa, living in small villages, participating in the daily routine of the villagers and concentrating on the problems of his previous book. The character of his work was somewhat changed because the Ford Foundation which provided financing was primarily interested in newpaper and magazine articles on the lives and problems of villagers in the Third World, rather than books or the pure studies done earlier for the Alicia Patterson Fund. In fact, these were Critchfield's most active years as a freelance journalist (the most profitable being 1978), in which he started and then consolidated his relations with the Economist and the Christian Science Monitor. In 1974, Critchfield began a study in Egypt which eventually resulted in the book Shahhat, An Egyptian, published in November, 1978, by Syracuse University Press.
The Ford Foundation project included two rapid tours of Asia, one in 1973 and the other in 1978, during which he did short studies on the technological and agricultural advances in these villages. The difference between the two was striking. While the 1973 tour had left him pessimistic, by 1978 there had been spectacular breakthroughs in birth control and agricultural modernization in most of the countries he had studied. Critchfield was greatly encouraged by the villagers' capacity to solve their problems of food shortage and people surplus by harnessing technology. Because of these studies, the Monitor proposed his work for a Pulitizer prize in 1973 and again in 1979.
In 1977, before his second tour of Asia, Critchfield was able to spend time in Latin America, studying villages in the mornings, and reading in anthropology in the afternoons. This was a time of taking stock, comparing his findings to those of anthropologists and formulating his own theories of “the universal peasant culture.” Based on this reading and his experience over the years, Critchfield eventually wrote two long studies for American Universities Field Staff. In 1978 Critchfield began to prepare a new book, Villages (Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1981), which is a summary of his ten year study of the Third World culture.
The preparation and promotion of Villages kept Critchfield busy for most of 1980-81. He worked on the expansion of his studies to include the all-important East Asian, Confucian, Japanese leadership in developing regions, plus updating Mexico and doing a short village study in Sri Lanka, the last country in Asia he had not yet visited. In 1981, he also did a short village study in Kenya, some interviewing, and a cross-country lecture tour of the U.S. to promote the book. By the end of 1981, Critchfield had completed thirteen village studies outside of the U.S., an average of one per year since 1970.
Upon winning the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1981, the majority of Critchfield's time during the years 1982 and 1985 was spent on a new study. Critchfield examined his own family past and projected his study as a “Manuscript on Cultural and Agricultural, Rural-Urban Change in 1880 to 1940 as Seen in the Life of an American Family.” It served as both a continuation and departure from his village work. The final outcome of this project was the book, Those Days (Doubleday, 1986). Critchfield's writings about the Third World were largely based on dialogue with the villagers with whom he lived, but he based this American story on interviews, mostly done with elderly people. Those Days is a history of Anne Williams Critchfield (1887-1982), as set down by her and other family members in 1959-1960, with brief additions by her in 1981-1982, supplemented by many interviews. As in his village writings, Critchfield desired to show how man's culture, defined as a ready-made design for living handed down from father to son, is decided by how he gets his food. The central idea advanced in Villages was that village life was not only vital in itself, but is still the fundamental basis of all civilized behavior, including our own. The story line in Those Days seeks to illustrate an era in American cultural history, the sixty years leading up to World War II, in which all the characters have been caught up in circumstances beyond their control, captives of their time and culture. Upon completion of Those Days, Critchfield undertook another cross-country tour to promote it.
Presently, Critchfield is working on a new book to be coauthored with Norman E. Borlaug on world rural technological and cultural change and how to save the family farm in America. Critchfield himself will be writing the book, but it will be based on extensive interviews with Dr. Borlaug. He plans to do research in the Mid-West and another rapid tour of Asia to get up to date on previously done research in the Third World. The projected publishing date is early 1989.
Scope and Content Note
The Richard Critchfield Papers are organized in two parts. The first part consists of the original collection as it was organized in 1974. This part dates 1938-1974 and comprises 24 archives boxes and 1 reel of microfilm. It focuses on Critchfield's early career, his years in Vietnam, and his work on The Golden Bowl Be Broken. Part 2 consists of additional papers received after 1974 and organized in 1987. This part dates 1952-1987 and comprises 16 archives boxes, 2 tape recordings, and photographs. It focuses on his continued Third World research and the same themes as illustrated in his own family history.
Administrative/Restriction Information
Placed on deposit by Richard Critchfield, Viola, Iowa, 1969-1987. Accession Number: MCHC69-81, 70-13, 22, 54, 86, 133; 71-27, 53, 59, 79, 97, 103, 117; 72-48, 87; 73-103; 74-12; 75-96; 76-2, 29, 93, 119; 77-75; 78-27, 118; 79-72, 109; 80-26, 111; 81-47; 82-5, 65; 83-33, 73; 84-454; 85-380; 86-296, 593.
Processed by Karen J. Baumann and R. Dishmond, December 31, 1974; additions processed by Gail Bennett, July 1987.
Contents List
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U.S. Mss 117AF
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Series: Part 1: Original Collection, 1938-1974Part 1 of the Richard Critchfield Papers contains general biographical information; correspondence; scrapbooks and diaries from his Nagpur and Nepal experiences; newspaper clippings and drafts of his articles; drafts, final copies, and resource and other materials from his published books; other fiction and non-fiction writings; and a large number of notebooks kept while covering the war in Vietnam. These records document both his personal life and professional career, particularly his preparations for writing The Long Charade and The Golden Bowl Be Broken. One of the most informative parts of the collection is the correspondence series. It consists mainly of incoming letters but also contains carbons of Critchfield's letters to his newspaper and book editors and many manuscript letters he wrote his mother, giving information of a more personal nature. Included here are about fifty long memos written to Washington Star editors Burt Hoffman and Crosby Noyes about Critchfield's unfolding suspicions in Vietnam; for instance, a particularly interesting December 9, 1966 letter to Noyes reviews Critchfield's Dai Viet suspicions and comments on the role of the U.S. press in influencing events in Vietnam. Notes and letters from many well-known members of the U.S. government are filed in this series as are a June 26, 1969 letter from Tran Van Huong, prime minister of South Vietnam, and interview notes in letter form dated March 16, 1969, bearing pencilled corrections by Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara. Several of Critchfield's letters to his mother refer to the “pariah” effect inflicted on his career by publication of The Long Charade. Some of the most significant items in the collection are found in various “miscellaneous” folders. For instance, the miscellaneous materials from The Long Charade (Box 8) include exchanges between the State Department and Senators Bourke B. Hickenlooper and George S. McGovern, with information supplied by Critchfield, concerning U.S. knowledge of the Dai Viet influence in Vietnam. The miscellany from The Golden Bowl Be Broken (Box 12) includes notes from interviews with Robert S. McNamara, then of the World Bank, and the governor of Djakarta, Indonesia. And in the “Notes” series, the miscellaneous materials (Box 13) include interviews with U.S. Ambassadors to India John Kenneth Galbraith and Chester Bowles; Indira Gandhi, October 1962; South Vietnamese Brigadier General Nguyen-duc-Thang; and Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos, 1972. The Vietnam notebooks contain a wealth of similar information; though the notes were hurriedly handwritten and are often somewhat cryptic, Critchfield's list of the contents (Box 13) helps guide the researcher in their use. One other portion of the collection which merits comment is the resource material from The Long Charade. Filed by Critchfield under subject headings, this material now comprises mainly undated dispatches plus occasional other items. Dated dispatches and clipped articles by Critchfield originally found in these files were interfiled in the Articles series; clipped articles by other reporters were discarded with Critchfield's permission. The “Miscellaneous Resource Materials” include what Critchfield referred to as “100 major documents of the Vietnam War.” The pages from the Saigon Post, a Ky-controlled newspaper, were preserved by Critchfield as evidence of how the Dai Viets attempted to control and shape press coverage in South Vietnam. The major value to researchers of this part of the collection lies probably in two areas: in the information on Vietnam from a well-informed person on the scene who came to adopt opinions not widely held or publicized in the United States; and in the perspectives provided on various aspects of journalism, particularly its own politics.
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Subseries: Biographical Information
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Box
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Folder
1
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General Biographical Materials, 1953, 1962-1972
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Box
1
Folder
2
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References by Others to Critchfield's Reports, 1963-1969
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Subseries: General Correspondence
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Box
1
Folder
3
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1938-1944
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Box
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Folder
4
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1954-1957
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Box
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Folder
5
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1958-1959
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Box
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Folder
6
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1960-1962
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Box
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Folder
7
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1963-1964
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Box
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Folder
8
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1965-1966
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Box
2
Folder
1
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1967
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Box
2
Folder
2
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1968
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Box
2
Folder
3
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1969-1970 June
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Box
2
Folder
4
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1970 July-1971
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Box
2
Folder
5
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1972-1974
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Box
2
Folder
6
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undated
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Subseries: Nagpur and Nepal Materials
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Nagpur Materials, 1960-1962
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Box
2
Folder
7
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Unbound Clippings, Letters, and Student Work
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Box
23
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General Scrapbook
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Box
23
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Scrapbook regarding Cartoon Incident and Subsequent Events
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Box
3
Folder
1
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Diaries of Himalayan Expeditions, 1961-1962
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Subseries: Articles by Critchfield
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Micro 541
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Clipped Newspaper Articles
: Other articles with the Nagpur Materials above
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Reel
1
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Scrapbook #1, containing a few cartoons from the University of Washington, and writings for the Cedar Rapids Gazette and the Cedar Valley Daily Times, 1955-1956
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Reel
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Scrapbook #2, containing writings done for the Munroe News Bureau, Washington, D.C., and published in various newspapers, 1957-1958, plus a few items done while at Columbia University, , 1957
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Reel
1
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Unbound Clippings, 1951-1972
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U.S. Mss 117AF
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Newspaper Dispatches
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Box
3
Folder
2
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1950s-1962
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Box
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3
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1963 January-September
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Box
3
Folder
4
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1963 October-December
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Box
3
Folder
5
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1964 January-April
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Box
3
Folder
6
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1964 May-August
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Box
3
Folder
7
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1964 September-December
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Box
4
Folder
1
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1965 January-April
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Box
4
Folder
2
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1965 May-July
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Box
4
Folder
3
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1965 August-October
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Box
4
Folder
4
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1965 November-December
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Box
4
Folder
5
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1966 January-April
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Box
4
Folder
6
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1966 May-August
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Box
4
Folder
7
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1966 September-December
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Box
4
Folder
8
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1967 January-June
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Box
5
Folder
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1967 July-September
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Box
5
Folder
2
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1967 October-December
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Box
5
Folder
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1968-1971
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Box
5
Folder
4
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1972 January-February
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Box
5
Folder
5
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1972 March-December
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Box
5
Folder
6
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undated
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Book Reviews, Letters to the Editor, and Magazine Articles
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Box
5
Folder
7
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1957-1968
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Box
5
Folder
8
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1969-1972
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Box
6
Folder
1
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Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches, 1957-1959, 1965, 1968, 1971, undated
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Subseries: Published Books by Critchfield
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The Tyrolese Grinning Mask (Bannockburn Associates, Nagpur, 1961)
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Box
6
Folder
2
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Published book
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Lore and Legend of Nepal (Jagat Lall, Kathmandu, 1961) with Kesar Lall
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Box
6
Folder
3
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Book jacket
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The Indian Reporter's Guide (Allied Pacific Private, Ltd., Bombay, 1962)
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Box
6
Folder
4
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Book jacket, Introduction draft, and Reviews
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The Long Charade: Political Subversion in the Vietnam War (Harcourt, Brace & World, New York, 1968)
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Box
6
Folder
5
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Outlines
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Box
6
Folder
6-9
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Yellow Paper Draft
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Box
7
Folder
1-2
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“First Draft”
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Box
7
Folder
3
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Unidentified Draft
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Box
7
Folder
4
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Revised Ending, 15 September 1969
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Box
7
Folder
5
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Publisher's Questions and Miscellaneous Revisions
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Box
7
Folder
6
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Advance Proofs
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Box
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Folder
6
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Published Book
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Box
8
Folder
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Publicity Materials
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Box
8
Folder
2
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Reviews, 1968-1969
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Box
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Folder
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Miscellany
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Resource Materials
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Box
8
Folder
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“Pacification”
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Box
8
Folder
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“1965 Toward Defeat”
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Box
8
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“Lonely War, 1965”
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Box
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Folder
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“Annam Revolt”
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Box
8
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“Elections, 1966”
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Box
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9
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“Elections, 1966, to Manila”
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Box
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Folder
10
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“Early 1967”
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Box
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Folder
11
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“Election, 1967”
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Box
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Folder
12
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“Westmoreland & Military (Mostly 1966)”
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Box
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13
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“Koreans”
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Box
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Folder
14
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“Marines”
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Box
9
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“Blue Sheets - Vietnam”
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Box
9
Folder
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“Daily Data, 1963-68”
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Box
9
Folder
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“Biography”
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Box
9
Folder
5
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Miscellaneous
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Box
9a
Folder
1-5
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Miscellaneous
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Box
23
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Pages from The Saigon Post, 1967 September-October
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The Golden Bowl Be Broken: Peasant Life in Four Cultures (Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1973)
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Box
10
Folder
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Statement of Purpose and Outlines, 1969-1971
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Notes and Interview Transcripts
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Box
10
Folder
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from Mauritius, 1969
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Box
10
Folder
3-5
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from the Punjab, 1970
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Box
10
Folder
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from Java, 1970
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Alicia Patterson Fund Reports, 1970-1971
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Box
10
Folder
8
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#1-#4
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Box
10
Folder
9
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#5-#10
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Box
11
Folder
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#11-#12
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Box
11
Folder
2
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#13-#18
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Box
11
Folder
3-6
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Reading Copy
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Box
11
Folder
7
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Published Book
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Box
12
Folder
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Miscellany
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Box
12
Folder
2-4
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Resource Materials
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Subseries: Other Writings by Critchfield
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Box
12
Folder
5
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“Symbolic Personalities in Editorial Cartoons - A Changing Parade”
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Box
12
Folder
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Master's Thesis: “The Men Behind the Pictures”
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Box
12
Folder
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Miscellaneous School Writings, 1956-1957, 1960
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Box
13
Folder
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A Reporting Handbook - Printed Booklet, 1961
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Box
13
Folder
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Short Stories and Poetry, 1958-1959, 1972
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Box
13
Folder
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“Fiercely Naked” (a novel) - Notes and Drafts
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Box
13
Folder
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“Five (Twelve) to Bombay” (a novel) - Notes and Fragmentary Drafts
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Subseries: Notes
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Miscellaneous notes regarding:
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Box
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Folder
6
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Austria and Yugoslavia
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Box
13
Folder
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India, Nepal, and Sikkim
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Box
13
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Vietnam and Thailand
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Box
13
Folder
9
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General, 1968, 1972
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Box
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Folder
10
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Descriptive List of Notebooks
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Notebooks
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Box
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Folder
11
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#1-#5
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Box
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#6-#12
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Box
14
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#13-#18
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Box
14
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#19-#24
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Box
14
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#25-#31
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Box
14
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#32-#37
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Box
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#38-#45
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Box
15
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#46-#54
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Box
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#55-#62 (two labeled #55)
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Box
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#63-#69
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Box
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#70-#75
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Box
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#76-#82
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Box
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#83-#87
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Box
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#88-#93
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Box
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#94-#98
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Box
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#99-#106
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Box
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#107-#114
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Box
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#115-#118
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Box
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#119-#123
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Box
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#124-#130
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Box
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#131-#138 (#134 missing and two labelled #131 and two labeled #132)
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Box
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#139-#146
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Box
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#147-#154 (Missing #151)
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Box
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#155-#164
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Box
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#165-#173
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Box
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#174-#181
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Box
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#182-#191 (Missing #190)
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Box
19
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4
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#192-#199
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Box
19
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5
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#200-#207
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Box
20
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1
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#208-#215
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Box
20
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2
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#216-#223
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Box
20
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3
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#224-#230
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Box
20
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#231-#238
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Box
20
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5
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#239-#247
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Box
21
Folder
1
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#248-#257 (Missing one of the two labeled #257)
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Box
21
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2
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#258-#260
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Box
21
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3
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#261-#266
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Box
21
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4
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#267-#273
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Box
21
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5
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#274-#276
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Box
22
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1-2
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not numbered (5 notebooks) - includes one labeled “Dec. '66, Barry and Navy” and another labeled “Dec. 6, 1972, interview with Marcos.”
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U.S. Mss 117AF
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Series: Part 2: 1987 Additions, 1952-1987The additions to the Richard Critchfield Papers (1952-1987) consist of papers relating to Critchfield's work overseas, and to his work on Those Days. Grouped by document type is correspondence, newspaper and magazine clippings, drafts of his articles, miscellaneous project notes and reports, and notes, drafts and final copies of several of his published books. Filed in a separate section is material on the Critchfield family history manuscript “All The Days,” later to become published as Those Days: An American Album. The most informative section in these additions is the correspondence, including everything from business mail to intimately personal letters written to family and close friends. Among Critchfield's correspondents are Norman E. Borlaug, Peter Bird Martin, R. P. Bosshart, Lester M. Brown, Lisa Redfield Peatie and Daniel P. Moynihan. His correspondence with his family and close friends (located in Box 24, folders 1-4), consisting mostly of carbons of Critchfield's letters, goes into detail about his work, the projects he's involved with, the books he's writing, the people he meets, and also his personal and family situations. His correspondence with Brian Beedham of the Economist (located in Box 25, folder 5) covers Critchfield's views on the political, technological and agricultural issues in the various countries and villages he studied. These letters are quite lengthy and go into great detail about the different situations in these countries and villages at the times the letters were written. The major focus of Critchfield's writings is on the subject of the technological and agricultural advances being made in the Third World countries he studied. The article entitled, “Science and The Villager: The Last Sleeper Wakes” (located in Box 27, folder 1) is a complete summary of Critchfield's village work. Among the miscellaneous project notes and reports in Boxes 31 & 32, are interviews with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos (Critchfield was once said to have been one of the only American journalists to have taken an “objective view” of Marcos). In the folders labeled “Reports for the Alicia Patterson Fund” and “Fieldstaff Reports” are additional summaries of Critchfield's various studies in the Third World. Critchfield called his family history project a “Manuscript on Cultural and Agricultural, Rural-Urban Change in 1880 to 1940 as Seen in the Life of an American Family.” The focus of this manuscript is a direct continuation of his village work, except staged in America and based on the Williams and Critchfield families. The material in the family history project section includes: research notes, photocopied literature, notes from newspapers, chronologies and interviews, and progressive manuscript drafts. The book was later published as Those Days: An American Album.
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Subseries: Correspondence, 1952-1986
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Box
24
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1-2
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Family
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Box
24
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3-5
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Friends
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Box
24
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6
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Business Managers: Peggy Ann Trimble and Robert W. Alvord
: All financial papers included here.
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Box
24
Folder
7
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Agent: Pat Berens - The Sterling Lord Agency, Inc.
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Box
25
Folder
1-2
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Foundations: Ford; Rockefeller; Inter-American; Alicia Patterson Fund; John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
: Includes correspondence from Sam Bunker and Gerald Freund.
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Box
25
Folder
3-4
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Publishers: Doubleday; Indiana University Press; Syracuse University Press; American University in Cairo Press; Avon Books
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Box
25
Folder
5-6
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Newspapers: The Economist (Brian Beedham); Los Angeles Times;The Christian Science Monitor (David Anable); National Wildlife;American University Fieldstaff
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Box
26
Folder
1
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Newspapers and Magazines, 1968-1985 (including Bill Moyers)
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Box
26
Folder
2
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Organizations
: Including correspondence from: Norman E. Borlaug; Lisa Redfield Peatie; Lester M. Brown; Peter Bird Martin; Thomas Niblock; Daniel P. Moynihan; and R.P. Bosshart.
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Box
26
Folder
3
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Universities, 1976-1985
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Box
26
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4-6
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Miscellaneous
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Subseries: Newspaper and Magazine Clippings, 1961-1986
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Box
27
Folder
1
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General Third World Articles Written by Critchfield
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Box
27
Folder
2
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Articles written about Indonesia by Critchfield
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Box
27
Folder
3
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On Egypt by Critchfield
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Box
27
Folder
4
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On the Philippines by Critchfield
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Box
27
Folder
5
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Articles written by Critchfield re: Bangladesch; India; Thailand; China; Mexico; Nepal; Africa; etc.
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Box
27
Folder
6
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Articles written by Critchfield Not about the Third World
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Box
27
Folder
7
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Articles written About Critchfield
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Box
27
Folder
8
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Articles written by Others who mention Critchfield
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Box
27
Folder
9
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Miscellaneous Articles
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PH 3729
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Photographs of Critchfield's family, and of Critchfield at work overseas
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U.S. Mss 117AF
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Subseries: Drafts of Articles, 1965-1985
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General Third World
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Box
28
Folder
1
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1973-1976
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Box
28
Folder
2
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1977-1979
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Box
28
Folder
3
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1980-1981
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Box
28
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4
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1982-1985
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Box
29
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1-2
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Philippines
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Box
29
Folder
3
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Pakistan
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Box
29
Folder
4
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Indonesia
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Box
29
Folder
5
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India
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Box
29
Folder
6
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Egypt
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Box
30
Folder
1
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Thailand
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Box
30
Folder
2
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Sudan
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Box
30
Folder
3
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Bangladesh
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Box
30
Folder
4
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Nepal
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Box
30
Folder
5
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Brazil
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Box
30
Folder
6
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Iran
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Box
30
Folder
7
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Mexico
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Box
30
Folder
8
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China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam
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Box
30
Folder
9
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Miscellaneous countries
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Subseries: Miscellaneous Stories, Project Notes and Reports, 1969-1985
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Box
31
Folder
1-2
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Newspaper Dispatches - various dates
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Box
31
Folder
3
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Record of Village Project - , 1969-1981
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Box
31
Folder
4
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Project Notes regarding miscellaneous countries
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Box
31
Folder
5
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Philippine Notes
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Box
31
Folder
6
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Sudan Notes
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Box
32
Folder
1
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Notes regarding Guapira Village, Bahiya, Brazil
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Box
32
Folder
2
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Reports and Evaluations
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Box
32
Folder
3
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Talks, Seminars and Interviews
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Box
32
Folder
4
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Reports to the Alicia Patterson Fund
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Box
32
Folder
5
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Fieldstaff Reports
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Box
32
Folder
6
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Reports about Critchfield
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Box
32
Folder
7
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Miscellaneous regarding Villages
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Box
32
Folder
8
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Schedule Notes
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Box
32
Folder
9
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Miscellaneous
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Subseries: Manuscripts and Published Books by Critchfield
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Box
33
Folder
1
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Lore and Legend of Nepal - Jagat Lall, Kathmandu, 1961, with Kesar Lall
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Box
33
Folder
2
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The Indian Reporter's Guide - Allied Pacific Private, Ltd., Bombay, 1962
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Box
33
Folder
3
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Manuscript: The Four of Us (later to become Golden Bowl)
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Box
34
Folder
1
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Notes, Drafts and finished Copy of Shahhat - An Egyptian - Syracuse University Press - 1978
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Box
35
Folder
1
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Manuscript and finished Copy of Villages - Anchor Press/Doubleday , 1981
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1183A/1
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Interview of Critchfield by Dick Hinchliffe of WHA in 1982 regarding Villages
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U.S. Mss 117AF
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Subseries: Family History Project, 1982 September-1983 November
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Box
36
Folder
1
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1928-1931
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Box
36
Folder
2
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Hunter Sequence
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Box
36
Folder
3
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Fessenden
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Box
36
Folder
4
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Critchfields in Ohio
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Box
36
Folder
5
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Flu Epidemic, 1918-1919
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Box
36
Folder
6
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LeClaire, Iowa (The Hadwen Williams Family)
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Box
36
Folder
7
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D.L. Moody
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Box
36
Folder
8
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The Chautaugua
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Box
36
Folder
9
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Alcoholism
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Box
37
Folder
1
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Rural Life and Literature
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Box
37
Folder
2
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Miscellaneous
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Box
37
Folder
3
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Critchfield: Preliminary and Revised Chronology
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Box
37
Folder
4
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Maddock
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Box
37
Folder
5
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Three Stories comprised of: Interviews with Critchfield family and Jessie and Hadwen Williams
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Box
37
Folder
6
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Iowa Notes
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Box
37
Folder
7
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Harry Critchfield; Jim Critchfield; Nursing Home Scene with Mom, Bill, Peggy, and Pat
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Box
37
Folder
8
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Author's Notes; Fay Collins; Helen Collins; Irene Rock and Don Rock; Barbara Dunn; Mac Solberg; Helen Kotchian; Jim Parsons; Rees Price; Jess Oser; Elsie Engbrecht Kieper; Mary Olslager Carter
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Box
37
Folder
9
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Interviews with: Irving Clark; Helen Litke Mush; Fred Mietz; Chester Zumpf; Alvin Mohr; Mabel Swanson; Myrtle Legreid Olson; Edwin Anderson; Kay Critchfield Edwards; Harry Rasmussen and wife; Agneta Nielsen Bergsgardt; Emil Moen; Merland Carr; Rose Winistofer Rasmussen; Kathryn Garrett Hunter; Bill Battagler; Helen Hope
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Family History Manuscript:
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Box
38
Folder
1
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First Draft
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Second Draft
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Box
38
Folder
2
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Part One: A Mid-Western Family; , 1880-1940
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Box
38
Folder
3
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Part Two: North Dakota Boy (Hunter, Maddock)
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Box
38
Folder
4
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Part Two: North Dakota Boy (Fessenden) and Part Three: Five Little Peppers: How They Grew
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Box
38
Folder
5
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Photocopied Photo Samples
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Third Draft
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Box
39
Folder
1
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Part I: Preacher's Daughter
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Box
39
Folder
2-3
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Part II: North Dakota Boy
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Box
39
Folder
4
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Part III: Five Little Peppers; and Acknowledgements
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Box
39
Folder
5
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Finished Copy of Those Days - Anchor Press/Doubleday; Garden City, New York, 1986
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1183A/2
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Interview of Critchfield by Steve Paulson of WHA in April 1986 regarding Those Days
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