Arthur J. Altmeyer Papers, 1904-1973

Contents List

Container Title
Wis Mss WP
Series: Part 1: Original Collection, 1914-1964
Box   1
Wisconsin material: Thesis and seminar papers, 1914-1933
Box   1
National Recovery Administration (NRA): Correspondence, memoranda, releases, 1933-1934
Box   1
Committee on Economic Security: Correspondence and reports, 1934-1935
Box   1
Social Security Act of 1935: Correspondence, vote, endorsements, 1935-1936
Box   2
Health Insurance Report of 1935: Correspondence, memoranda, reports, 1935-1938
Box   2
Clark Amendment of Social Security Act: Correspondence, memoranda, reports, 1935-1936
Box   2
Social Security in general: Correspondence, memoranda, and articles by others, 1935-1939
President Roosevelt
Correspondence, memoranda, studies
Box   2
1935-1940
Box   3
1941-1945
Speeches and messages
Box   3
Excerpts from , 1928-1945
Box   3
Message on health, 1939; Wagner Bill S.1620; memos on bill, , 1940
Box   3
Social security expansion, messages, 1943, 1945
President Truman
Box   3
Correspondence, 1945-1951
Speeches and messages
Box   3
Excerpts, statements, plans, 1945-1953
Box   3
A national health program, message, 1945
Box   3
Special report on proposed expanded social security system for America, 1946, February
Box   3
Social security expansion, message, 1946, March
Box   3
President Eisenhower: Speeches and messages: excerpts and statements, 1953-1954
Box   3
National Health Conference, July, 1938, sponsored by the Interdepartmental Committee to Coordinate Health and Welfare, 1935, 1938
Box   4
Election platforms and related data re social security, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960
Box   4
Election platforms and related data: 1936 payroll inserts re social security, 1936
Box   4
Administrator Paul V. McNutt (FSA): Correspondence and related papers, 1939-1943
Box   4
Administrator Oscar Ewing (FSA): Correspondence and related papers, 1947-1953
Administrator Oveta Culp Hobby (FSA)
Box   4
Correspondence and related papers, 1952-1953
Box   5
Advisory Committee on Social Security Material for meetings, 1953, March 5, 17; April 1, 15, 23; May 1, 22; June 5
U.S. Employment Service, 1939-1949
Box   5
Transfer from Labor to Social Security Bd. Reorganization Plan No. 1
Box   5
Transfer to federal control, December 19, 1941
Box   5
“And Elsewhere” Proviso Language in 1942 Appropriations Bill (H.R. 5417)
Box   5
Transfer from Social Security Board to War Manpower Commission (E.O. 9247)
Box   5
Transfer from War Manpower Commission to Labor Dept. (Truman's E.O. 9617)
Box   5
Return to states from federal control, by Appropriations Act of 1947
Box   5
Transfer to Social Security Administration by Appropriations Act of 1949
Box   5
Transfer, with Unemployment Compensation, to Department of Labor Reorganization Plan No. 2, 1949
Unemployment Compensation, 1940-1949
Box   6
Dismissal wages, 1944
Box   6
Displaced workers, payment of transportation costs to, 1945
Box   6
Disqualifications, 1944
Box   6
Grant-in-aid, 1945
Box   6
Liberalization of unemployment compensation, 1940
Box   6
Supplemental unemployment compensation in post-war period, 1944
Box   6
Servicemen's readjustment benefits, 1949
Box   6
Statements to Ways and Means Committee re unemployment insurance, 1946
Box   6
Temporary benefits, 1945
Box   6
“Possible uses of excess federal unemployment tax over expenditures for administration of unemployment insurance program,” prepared for Congressman Keefe, 1944
Box   6
Vinson, material for quarterly report, 1945
Public Assistance, 1938-1953
Box   6
Bane: letter to Frank Bane re PA expenditures and recipients, 1951
Box   6
Children's Bureau, reorganization plan, 1946
Box   6
Confidentiality of records, 1951-1953
Box   6
Governors' conference, 1951
Box   6
Medical care committee, 1951
Box   6
Medical care statement, 1950-1951
Box   6
Ohio public assistance: Material on withholding of October 1938 grant
Box   6
Personnel proviso language material, 1943-1953
Box   6
Public assistance and maladministration, 1939
Old Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI), 1937-1953
Box   7
Amendments to OASI, 1949-1950
Box   7
Civil Service and OASI coordination, 1940, 1951-1953
Box   7
Combined withholding of social security and income taxes, 1950
Box   7
Confidentiality of records, 1937-1953
Box   7
Disability, permanent and total, 1949-1953
Box   7
Disability, temporary, 1949
Box   7
Effect of OASI limitations on public assistance programs, 1951
Box   7
Extension of coverage, 1948-1949
Box   7
Financing, 1949
Box   7
Flexible retirement under OASI, 1953
Box   7
Hospitalization benefits, 1951
Box   8
OASI and unemployment compensation for armed services, merchant marines, and civilian employees, 1940 and 1944 material
Box   8
Stamp book samples, 1937, 1944
Box   8
Trust fund, 1950-1954
Box   8
Work clause, 1952-1953
Box   8
Flat pension plans, 1939-1940
Box   8
Flat pension plans and double decker plans, 1949--1957
Box   8
Curtis Committee hearings, 1953
Box   8
U.S. Chamber of Commerce proposal, 1952-1953
Miscellaneous
Box   9
Appropriations acts re social security, 1947-1949
Box   9
Emergency maternity and infant care (IMIC), 1951
Box   9
Health, Education, and Welfare, Department of: Reorganization Plan No. 1, 1953
Box   9
International Labor Conference (ILO), 1951-1954
Box   9
International Refugee Organization: Preparatory Commission of 1947, 1947-1949
Box   9
Medical care, 1944 Bureau memo No. 57, 1944
Box   9
Miscellaneous opinion polls, 1936-1949
Box   9
Overall costs of social security, 1949-1950
Box   9
Private pension plans, tax status, 1948-1949
Box   9
Regional office and field relations, 1948
Box   10
Social Security Board, personnel, 1937, 1941
Box   10
Social Security Board, reports to Congress, 1935-1937, 1939
Box   10
Social Security Board, Reorganization Plan No. 2, 1945-1946
Box   10
United Mine Workers retirement fund, 1945-1954
Box   10
Winant's resignation, 1936-1937
Box   10
Speeches, 1952-1964
Box   10
Articles, 1952-1963
Box   12-13
Volume   1-5
Speeches, 1932-1951
Box   14
Volume   6-7
Radio speeches, 1935-1951
Box   15-16
Volume   8-11
Articles, 1919-1951
Box   17
Volume   12-13
Statements and press releases, 1934-1952
Box   11
Volume   14
Manuscript: The Formative Years of Social Security, now [l964] being published by University of Wisconsin Press, Madison
Box   11
Volume   15
Book: Estudio Economico de la Legislacion Social Peruana y Sugerencias para su Mejoramiento, Lima, 1957, co-authored with Romulo A. Ferrero
Mss 400
Series: Part 2: Additions, 1904-1973
Subseries: Correspondence
Box   1
Folder   1-9
General Correspondence, 1904-1972
Specific Correspondence
Box   2
Folder   1
1934-1939, Letters of congratulations received
Box   2
Folder   2
1953-1954, Letters to the International Organizations Employee Loyalty Board
Box   2
Folder   3-4
1953-1954, Letters Altmeyer received upon his retirement
Box   2
Folder   5
1964-1965, Correspondence with the State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Box   2
Folder   6
1972, Letters of sympathy received following Altmeyer's death
Subseries: Subject File
Democratic Party
Box   2
Folder   7
Altmeyer's campaign for the United States Senate, 1956
Box   2
Folder   8
Clippings, 1942-1955
Box   2
Folder   9
Correspondence, 1954-1972
Box   2
Folder   10
Democratic Advisory Council, 1960-1961
Box   2
Folder   11
Invitations, 1936-1965
Box   20
Folder   1
Invitations, oversized, 1937-1941
The Formative Years of Social Security, University of Wisconsin Press, 1966
Box   3
Folder   1
Correspondence with the University of Wisconsin Press, 1962-1970
Box   3
Folder   2
Notes used in preparation of the book
Box   3
Folder   3
Reviews
National Health Insurance
Committee for National Health Insurance
Box   3
Folder   4
Correspondence, 1968-1972
Box   3
Folder   5-6
Minutes, 1969-1972
Box   3
Folder   7
Publications, 1970-1972
General Reference Files
Box   4
Folder   1
American Medical Association opposition to national health insurance, 1932-1965
Box   4
Folder   2
Cost and financing of national health insurance, 1969-1970
Box   4
Folder   3
Foreign national health insurance, 1950-1965
Box   4
Folder   4-6
General materials, 1941-1972
National health insurance proposals
Box   4
Folder   7-8
1939-1961
Box   5
Folder   1-2
1962-1972
Box   5
Folder   3
Clippings, 1939-1972
Box   5
Folder   4
Woodcock, Leonard: speeches, 1971-1972
Research papers on national health insurance
Corning, Peter A.
Box   5
Folder   5
Correspondence with Altmeyer, 1966-1968
Box   5
Folder   6
Medicare: Government Health Insurance--A Case Study, 1968
Box   5
Folder   7
Falk, Isidore S., The Costs of a National Health Security Program and Their Financing, 1971
Poen, Monte
Box   5
Folder   8
Correspondence with Altmeyer, 1967
Box   5
Folder   9
The Truman Administration and National Health Insurance, 1967
Nonprofit Organizations
Box   6
Folder   1
Citizens' Crusade Against Poverty, Commission on National Programs and Policy, 1965
Box   6
Folder   2
First Unitarian Society of Madison, Wisconsin, 1970
Box   6
Folder   3
Michael M. Davis Lectureship Fund, 1960-1964.
Box   6
Folder   4
National Consumers Committee for Research and Education Inc., 1962-1969
Box   6
Folder   5
National Consumers' League, 1965-1968
Box   6
Folder   6-7
National Policy Committee on Pockets of Poverty, 1961-1964
Box   6
Folder   8
Scholarship funds, 1953-1973
Box   6
Folder   9
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, 1957-1971
Pension Plans-Foreign
Colombia
Box   7
Folder   1
Actuarial reports, 1964
Box   7
Folder   2-4
Correspondence, 1958-1960, 1964
Box   7
Folder   5-6
Data, 1957-1960
Box   7
Folder   7
Reports, 1964
Peru
Correspondence
Box   8
Folder   1-3
1955-1961
Box   8
Folder   4-6
1964-1969
Box   8
Folder   7
Memoranda, 1957-1960
Box   8
Folder   8
Notes, undated
Box   8
Folder   9
Reports, 1955-1960
Pension Plans-United States
Box   9
Folder   1
Coat and Suit Industry in the New York Metropolitan Area, 1953-1963
International Ladies Garment Workers Union
Box   9
Folder   2
Changes in regulations, 1967-1969
Box   9
Folder   3-4
Meeting records, 1964-1969
Box   9
Folder   5
Merged pension fund, 1963-1964
Box   9
Folder   6-7
Reference files, 1964-1972
Box   10
Folder   1
National Association of Labor, 1964
Box   10
Folder   2-6
National Industrial Group, 1966-1972
Box   10
Folder   7
Public policy and private pension plans, 1962-1968
Box   10
Folder   8
United Mine Workers, 1952-1969
Social Security-Foreign
Agency for International Development, 1961-1962
Box   11
Folder   1
Background information
Box   11
Folder   2
Iran--trip and report
Box   11
Folder   3
Pakistan--trip and report
Box   11
Folder   4
Iran, 1955-1960
Reference files
Box   11
Folder   5-7
General, 1945-1972
Box   11
Folder   8
International reports, 1959-1972
Box   11
Folder   9
Turkey, 1953-1961
Social Security-United States
Old Age, Survivors' and Disability Insurance
Box   12
Folder   1
Claims, procedures, 1942-1968
Box   12
Folder   2
Criticism of, 1950-1972
Box   12
Folder   3
Criticism of, clippings, 1955-1962
Box   12
Folder   4
Equity considerations, 1949-1950
Box   12
Folder   5-7
Reference file, 1945-1972
Box   12
Folder   8
Social services, 1955-1957
Box   12
Folder   9
Statistics, 1953-1971
Reference files
Box   13
Folder   1
Administration, Altmeyer's views on, 1938-1966
Box   13
Folder   2-3
Clippings, 1942-1968
Box   13
Folder   4
Federal grants, 1940-1968
Box   13
Folder   5-6
General Materials, 1936-1969
Box   13
Folder   7
Opposition to Social Security, 1936-1965
Box   13
Folder   8-9
Reform proposals, 1970-1972
Box   13
Folder   10
Writings by Altmeyer, 1942-1963
Seminars
Box   14
Folder   1
Salzburg (Austria) Seminar in American Studies, 1962
Box   14
Folder   2
Seminars at United States universities, 1957-1961
Speeches
Box   14
Folder   3
Materials
Box   14
Folder   4
Outlines
Box   14
Folder   5-7
Speeches, 1904-1968
Washington Years, 1933-1940
Box   15
Folder   1
Clippings
Box   15
Folder   2
Correspondence
Box   15
Folder   3
Miscellaneous scrapbook items
Welfare
Problems
Box   15
Folder   4
“Democracy and the Welfare State,” 1943-1965
Box   15
Folder   5
Old Age, 1950-1972
Box   15
Folder   6-8
Poverty, 1949-1972
Box   16
Folder   1-2
Unemployment, 1935-1970
Proposed solutions
Box   16
Folder   3
Food stamps, 1955-1972
Box   16
Folder   4
Guaranteed income, 1966-1967
Box   16
Folder   5-6
Public assistance, 1935-1968
Box   16
Folder   7
Unemployment Insurance, 1932-1972
Box   16
Folder   8
Workmen's Compensation, 1949-1972
Reference file
Box   17
Folder   1
Addresses, 1954-1964
Box   17
Folder   2
Miscellany, 1943-1971
Box   17
Folder   3
Publications, 1953-1969
Box   17
Folder   4
Reports, 1954-1968
Social Work
Box   17
Folder   5
National Association of Social Workers, 1954-1967
Box   17
Folder   6-7
Social workers, 1948-1970
Subseries: Personal Papers
Biographical Material
Box   18
Folder   1
Appointments and resignations, 1927-1953
Box   20
Folder   2
Appointments and resignations, oversized, 1913-1944
Box   18
Folder   2
Awards, 1952-1968
Box   20
Folder   3
Awards, oversized, 1952-1968
Box   18
Folder   3
Biographical sketches, 1939-1971
Educational materials
Box   18
Folder   4
Arthur J. Altmeyer, 1910-1964
Box   20
Folder   4
Arthur J. Altmeyer, oversized, 1906-1931
Box   18
Folder   5
Ethel May (Thomas) Altmeyer, 1905-1941
Box   20
Folder   5
Ethel May (Thomas) Altmeyer, oversized, 1908
Box   18
Folder   6-8
Oral history transcript, 1967
Box   19
Folder   1
Retirement articles, 1953
Box   19
Folder   2
Tributes to Altmeyer following his death, 1972
Miscellany
Box   19
Folder   3
Cards, 1913-1971
Box   19
Folder   4
Invitations-social, 1913-1952
Box   19
Folder   5
Non-specific materials, 1934-1961
Box   19
Folder   6-7
“Personal File,” 1937-1954
Box   19
Folder   8
Social Security data and payments, 1946-1964