1942-1973, 2021
The William C. Burdett papers (1942-1973, 2021) consists of photographs, scrapbooks, documents, correspondence, and clippings belonging to Foreign Service officer William Burdett. The material relates to Burdett's foreign service in Ecuador, the Middle East and Israel, Africa, the Suez Canal Crisis, the Soviet Union, Turkey, and includes personal correspondence and photographs.
1922
Encloses a report, entitled A Report on the Banana Possibilities of Ecuador.
1919-1987
Memoirs, diaries, letters, reports, printed matter, and photographs, relating to engineering projects, especially highway projects, in various parts of the world, especially in the Philippines, 1919-1921; China, 1922-1924 and 1946; and Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and other parts of South America, 1939-1942; and to social conditions in those countries.
1921-2001
Reports, newsletters, bulletins, writings, notes, printed matter, and sound recordings, relating to evangelical Protestant missionary activities in Latin America, and to activities of the Wycliffe Bible Translators and the Summer Institute of Linguistics in translating the Bible into languages of indigenous peoples, especially in Latin America. Used as research material for the books by David Stoll, Fishers of Men or Founders of Empire? (London, 1982), and Is Latin America Turning Protestant? (Berkeley, 1990).
1926-1978
Speeches and writings, studies, reports, memoranda, correspondence, notes, and printed matter, relating to economic planning in the U.S., Mexico, Ecuador, Egypt, India, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan; and to Allied civil affairs administration in North Africa during World War II.
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