03861cpcaa2200589 a 4500 mm 84061695 DLC 20260227111721.0 cr ||||||||||| 840713|||||||||||| eng mm 84061695 DLC DLC DLC dacs R lcmd Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund records, 1965-1994 (bulk 1978-1985). 43,700 items. 132 containers plus 1 oversize. 53 linear feet. Open to research. Administrative files consisting of correspondence, memoranda, telephone reports, minutes of meetings, speeches, writings, reports, notes, card files, legal and financial papers, blueprints and construction plans, illustrations, photographs, and other records documenting the administrative operations and technical resources required for the erection of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial as well as the surrounding political controversy. Includes material concerning the memorial designed by Maya Ying Lin, the sculpture by Frederick Hart, and the work of project director Robert Doubek, fund president Jan Scruggs, and individuals and companies involved in the design and building of the memorial including Binswanger Glasscraft Products, Larry Century, Cooper-Lecky Partnership, and Gilbane Building Company. Comments concerning the memorial include those of Tom Carhart, Milton R. Copulos, H. Ross Perot, Carlton Sherwood, and James H. Webb, Jr. Also includes transcripts from seminars held for the tenth anniversary commemoration which analyzed the effects of the Vietnamese conflict on the U.S. and correspondence and miscellaneous items relating to President Bill Clinton's participation in the 1993 Memorial Day ceremony. Audiotapes, phonograph records, and videotapes transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division. Photographs, photographic slides, posters, blueprints, and drawings transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Scale model of the memorial, poster, and banner transferred to U.S. National Park Service. Organization founded for the purpose of erecting a national memorial honoring American veterans of the Vietnam conflict. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003035 Carhart, Tom. Century, Larry. Clinton, Bill, 1946- Copulos, Milton R. Doubek, Robert W. Hart, Frederick, 1943- Lin, Maya Ying. Perot, H. Ross, 1930- Scruggs, Jan C. Sherwood, Carlton. Webb, James H. Binswanger Glasscraft Products. Cooper-Lecky Partnership. Gilbane Building Company. Memorial Day. Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Washington, D.C.) Vietnam War, 1961-1975. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Monuments. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Psychological aspects. War memorials Washington (D.C.) Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003035 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003035.3 Archived Web site : Official Web site of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/lcwa/mrva0012.0030/ 44101 44101