U. S. National Recovery Administration. Graphic Arts Regional Code Authority, Oregon records
Scope and Contents
The collection contains the records from Arne Rae's office included minutes, expense accounts, correspondence, copies of the code, schedules, and forms, and bulletins of the Joint National Code Authority.
Oregon Regional Code Authority material includes minutes, expense accounts, and correspondence with Oregon newspaper publishers, Oregon printers, and with N.R.A administrators.
Also available are copies of the code and price schedules, and forms.
There are copies of the "Bulletin of the Joint National Code Authority (Industry, A-2 and A-5), numbers 1-250.
Dates
- 1930s
Creator
- United States. National Recovery Administration (Organization)
- Graphic Arts Regional Code Authority (Or.) (Organization)
- National Graphic Arts Coordinating Committee of the Graphic Arts Code (U.S.) (Organization)
- Rae, Arne (Person)
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.
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
On February 17, 1934, President Roosevelt established a code of fair competition for the graphic arts industries by executive order. A Graphic Arts Industries Coordinating Committee then produced a Price Determination Schedule, approved April 27, 1934 by Hugh S, Johnson, administrator of the National Recovery Administration. Observance by newspaper publishers and job printers of the code and the price schedule was encouraged and policed by regional code authorities through administration managers.
In Oregon, the administration managers were Arne Rae, who was succeeded in January 1935 by Steen M. Johnson. Arne Rae was also a professor of Journalism at the University of Oregon, and secretary of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association.
Extent
1.5 linear feet (1 container) : 1 record storage box
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
On February 17, 1934, President Roosevelt established a code of fair competition for the graphic arts industries by executive order; the regional administers in Oregon was Arne Rae, who was succeeded in January 1935 by Steen M. Johnson. The collection (1930s) contains the records from Arne Rae's office included minutes, expense accounts, correspondence, copies of the code, schedules, and forms, and bulletins of the Joint National Code Authority.
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.
- Bulletins Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Correspondence Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Executive orders Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Financial records Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Graphic arts -- Law and legislation -- Oregon Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Graphic arts -- Law and legislation -- United States Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- National Graphic Arts Coordinating Committee of the Graphic Arts Code (U.S.)
- New Deal, 1933-1939 Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Newspaper publishing -- Oregon Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Oregon Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Oregon -- Politics and government -- 1859-1950 Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Publishers and publishing -- Oregon Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Rae, Arne
- United States -- Economic policy -- 1933-1945 Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945 Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- United States. National Recovery Administration
- Title
- Guide to the U. S. National Recovery Administration. Graphic Arts Regional Code Authority, Oregon Records
- Status
- Complete Description
- Author
- Tanya Parlet and Kira B. Homo.
- Date
- 2013
- 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
