George Hopkins Johnson Papers, 1860s-1972

Contents List

Container Title
Mss 308
Series: Johnson's Personal Files
Box   1
Folder   1
George Hopkins Johnson, personal, 1943-1970
Box   1
Folder   2
Personal file, 1942-1944
Arrangement of the Materials: Alphabetical by sender's name
Personal Correspondence
Arrangement of the Materials: In reverse chronological order.
Box   1
Folder   3
1950-1967
Box   1
Folder   4
1968-1970
AB 861-AB 876
Home movies, 1928-1941
Physical Description: 16 film reels (circa 6,400 feet); color and b&w; 16 mm archival positive 
Mss 308
Box   1
Folder   5
Speeches, 1942-1946; undated
Box   1
Folder   6
Draft of memorandum to Mr. Cordiner of War Production Board
Scope and Content Note: Regarding: Machine Tool Situation in Detroit Region, June 26, 1943.
Note: For material about Johnson's appointment to the WPB, see under “J,” Personal File, 1942-1944.
Box   1
Folder   7
Allied Commission on Reparations and Johnson's trip to Germany and Russia in 1945 as a member of the Commission
Box   1
Folder   8
Diary covering Johnson's , 1945 and , 1947 trips to Germany
Audio 564A
Recorded interview on 1945 and 1947 trips, 1973 October 15
Scope and Content Note: Interview with George Johnson by John A. DeNovo, University of Wisconsin history professor, James Morton Smith, Director of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, and William F. Thompson, Director of Research of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. The interview mainly concerns Mr. Johnson's work on the American Delegation of the Allied Commission on Reparations which visited Germany and Moscow in 1945. It runs approximately 90 minutes.
Mss 308
Box   1
Folder   9
Transcript
Post-war production situation
Box   2
Folder   1
Eastern Europe and the Orient, 1946
Eastern Europe
Box   2
Folder   2
1947 January 1-April 15
Box   2
Folder   3
1947 April 16-April 30
Note: Including Johnson's second trip to Germany.
Box   2
Folder   4
1947 May 1-December 31
Note: Including Johnson's second trip to Germany.
Box   2
Folder   5
1948-1949
Box   2
Folder   6
Reunion dinner of members of 1945 Allied Commission on Reparations, 1956
Correspondence from immediate family
Box   2
Folder   7
Undated and 1941-1945
Note: Including letters written by George Hopkins Johnson to his wife Sally while he was in Germany.
Box   2
Folder   8
1946
Box   3
Folder   1
1947-1948
Box   3
Folder   2
1949-1956
PH Mss 308
Photographs related to the activities of Johnson
Note: Included are images of the Gisholt Machine Company, photographs relating to his tenure as director of and consultant to the Tool Division of the War Production Board, and images of trips to Europe to reassess the heavy industry of Germany.
Mss 308
Series: Johnson Family Papers
Box   3
Folder   3
Johnson Family--miscellaneous letters and wills, 1875-1932
Box   3
Folder   4
Ole C. Johnson Skipness--Civil War letters, and miscellaneous correspondence about them
Box   3
Folder   5
Hobart Stanley Johnson--letters, audit report, clipping, 1884-1960
Box   3
Folder   6
Independence Fund, 1922-1938
PH 6927
Visual materials made by George Hopkins Johnson and his family
Color transparencies
Johnson family vacations and trips
Box   1
Folder   1
Hawaii, circa 1940-1941
Box   1
Folder   2
Mexico, 1940s
Box   1
Folder   3
Tucson, Arizona, 1942
Box   1
Folder   4
Unidentified, Dufaycolor transparencies, 1940s
Box   2
Folder   1-25
Hawaii vacation, color lantern slides, 1941
Negatives
35 mm
Box   3
Folder   1
Germany trip, 1947
Box   3
Folder   2
Germany trip contact sheets
8x10-inch glass negatives
Box   3
Folder   3
Residence interior, circa 1890s
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Series: Gisholt Machine Company Records
Box   3
Folder   7
Histories, floor plans, pictures, undated, 1892-1962
Correspondence and miscellaneous
Box   3
Folder   8
1897-1963
Box   3
Folder   9
1966-1971
Box   4
Folder   1
Product line, 1908-1924
Box   4
Folder   2
Russian balancing machines, contracts, and correspondence, 1946-1949
Box   4
Folder   3
1947 Machine Tool Show, estimated expenses and report of impressions
Box   4
Folder   4
CARE Packages sent to Germany by Gisholt employees, 1947-1948
Box   4
Folder   5
Lang Gisholt Machine Company Ltd., Johnstone, Scotland, 1960-1962
Box   4
Folder   6
Registration statement to SEC and reports, 1940
Annual reports
Box   4
Folder   7
1941-1961
Box   4
Folder   8
1965-1972