Scope and Contents
The collection includes Townsend newsletters and convention materials, Townsend Plan constitution and bylaws, dissolution information, and testimony to the Ways and Means committee, International Members Council interviews, correspondence, financial records, reel-to-reel audio, memorabilia, photographs, broadsides, and material from the Le Habre Townsend Club, the Pasedena Townsend Club, the Townsend Clubs of Southern California, and the Greater L.A. Advisory Council.
The collection includes correspondence with attorneys from the Secretary, Edna McFarland, the State Director (Tifft), 1957-1969, and by the National Headquarter's manager, John Doyle Elliot.
The Pasadena Townsend Club records include a minute record book, 1939-1942, and other materials.
The Le Habre Townsend Club records include correspondence and other materials.
The Greater L.A. Advisory Council material includes minutes.
Reel-to-reel audio includes interviews with Dr. Francis E. Townsend and the International Members Council.
Memorabilia includes badges, posters, pamphlets, guest book, news clippings, pins, and a commemorative saucer. Also included here are Townsend Plan constitution and bylaws, dissolution information, and testimony to the Ways and Means committee.
There is a photograph of the first Townsend National Convention and the collection includes other convention materials. Other photographs include prints of the Tifft family and Dr. Francis E. Townsend.
Dates
- 1939-1969
Creator
- Tifft, Earl R. (Person)
- California State Townsend Plan (Organization) (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open to the public. Collection must be used in Special Collections and University Archives Reading Room. Collection or parts of collection may be stored offsite. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives in advance of your visit to allow for transportation time. Collection includes sound recordings, moving images, and digital files to which access is restricted. Access to these materials is governed by repository policy and may require the production of listening or viewing copies. Researchers requiring access must notify Special Collections and University Archives in advance and pay fees for reproduction services as necessary.
Conditions Governing Use
Property rights reside with Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries. Copyright resides with the creators of the documents or their heirs. All requests for permission to publish collection materials must be submitted to Special Collections and University Archives. The reader must also obtain permission of the copyright holder.
Biographical / Historical
State chapters of the National Townsend plan were often referred to as clubs. Earl Tifft was the state director of the California chapter of the Townsend Plan.
Extent
2 linear feet (3 containers) : 1 record storage box, 2 manuscript boxes
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Earl Tifft was the state director of the California club (chapter) of the Townsend Plan. The collection includes Townsend newsletters and convention materials, Townsend Plan constitution and bylaws, dissolution information, and testimony to the Ways and Means committee, International Members Council interviews, minutes, correspondence, financial records, reel-to-reel audio, memorabilia, a photograph, broadsides, and material from the Le Habre Townsend Club, the Pasedena Townsend Club, the Townsend Clubs of Southern California, and the Greater L.A. Advisory Council.
Arrangement
Material within this collection may have little to no intellectual or physical arrangement. Any arrangement may have derived from the records' creators or custodians. It may be necessary to look in multiple places for the same types of materials.
Processing Information
Collection processed by staff.
This finding aid may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
This collection received a basic level of processing including minimal to no organization and rehousing.
Description information is drawn in part from information supplied with the collection and initial surveys of the contents.
- Audiotapes Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- California Subject Source: Archiveswest
- California State Townsend Plan (Organization)
- Constitutions Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Correspondence Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Elliott, John Doyle
- Greater Los Angeles Advisory Council of Townsend Clubs in Southern California
- Interviews Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- McFarland, Edna
- Old age pensions -- California Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Older people -- California -- Economic conditions Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Photographs Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Social security -- California Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Sound Recordings Subject Source: Archiveswest
- Tifft, Earl R.
- Townsend National Recovery Plan, Inc.
- Townsend Plan, Inc.
- Townsend, Francis E. (Francis Everett), 1867-1960
- Title
- Guide to the California Townsend Club Records
- Status
- Revise Description
- Author
- Tanya Parlet.
- Date
- 2012
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
- Sponsor
- Funding for production of this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).
Repository Details
Part of the University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives Repository
