Walter Francis Willcox papers, 1851-1965 (bulk 1886-1940).
Material type:
Mixed materialsDescription: 12,000 items; 50 containers; 1 microfilm reel; 20 linear feetContained works: - Willcox, Walter Francis, 1861-1964. Studies in American Demography. 1940
- Becker, Carl L. (Carl Lotus), 1873-1945 -- Correspondence
- Hill, Joseph A. (Joseph Adna), 1860-1938 -- Correspondence
- Hollerith, Herman, 1860-1929 -- Correspondence
- Laski, Harold Joseph, 1893-1950 -- Correspondence
- North, S. N. D. (Simon Newton Dexter), 1849-1924 -- Correspondence
- Rice, Stuart A. (Stuart Arthur), 1889- -- Correspondence
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 -- Correspondence
- Schurman, Jacob Gould, 1854-1942 -- Correspondence
- Stimson, Henry L. (Henry Lewis), 1867-1950 -- Correspondence
- Stone, Alfred Holt, 1870-1955 -- Correspondence
- Taussig, F. W. (Frank William), 1859-1940 -- Correspondence
- Vandenberg, Arthur H. (Arthur Hendrick), 1884-1951 -- Correspondence
- Wilbur, Cressy L. (Cressy Livingston), 1865-1928 -- Correspondence
- Work, Alice Elaine -- Correspondence
- Wright, Carroll Davidson, 1840-1909 -- Correspondence
- Wilcox family
- United States. Bureau of the Census
- United States. Congress. House
- Cornell University -- Faculty
- African Americans -- Population
- Apportionment (Election law) -- United States
- Demography
- Divorce -- Statistics
- Hygiene -- Statistics
- Population -- Statistics
- Sociology
- Statistics
- United States -- Census, 1900
- United States -- Politics and government -- Statistics
- Educators
- Statisticians
- Microfilm edition only of Stuart A. Rice correspondence, 1938-1965, available, no. 13,770.
Open to research.
Correspondence, memoranda, notes, reports, books, articles, scrapbooks, and other materials relating primarily to Willcox's career as professor of economics and statistics at Cornell University and as chief statistician, U.S. Bureau of the Census, for the 12th U.S. census in 1900. Subjects include African American population studies, apportionment and reapportionment of seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, demography, divorce, hygiene, international cooperation in collecting statistics, and sociology. Includes drafts of Willcox's Studies in American Demography (1940) and an 1851 diary of J.C.G. Kennedy. Willcox (Wilcox) family papers include correspondence between Willcox and his wife, Alice Elaine Work. Correspondents include Carl L. Becker, Joseph A. Hill, Herman Hollerith, Harold Joseph Laski, S.N.D. North, Stuart A. Rice, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jacob Gould Schurman, Henry L. Stimson, Alfred Holt Stone, F.W. Taussig, Arthur H. Vandenberg, Cressy L. Wilbur, and Carroll Davidson Wright.
Microfilm edition only of Stuart A. Rice correspondence, 1938-1965, available, no. 13,770.
Microfilm of originals in private hands.
Private
Statistician and professor of economics.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at
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