3.1 Scope and content   This fonds hold copies of records from other repositories that relate to the history of the World Bank.  One group of records copied from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library deals with the Bretton Woods conference.  A second group, copied from the Harry S Truman Presidential Library, consists of selected documents on the Bretton Woods conference and the early years of the Bank.  A third body is copies of records from the United States Government’s Office of Agriculture, Technical Advisory Bureau, Agency for International Development, dating from 1970-1976.  The records relate to agricultural research and to the founding of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).   The fourth body is a copy of the J. Burke Knapp papers at the Hoover Institution Archives, which were copied for a history of the Bank prepared by the Brookings Institution.  When the copies were not longer needed by the history project they were given to the Archives.  Finally, the Bank obtained copies of a few oral history interviews from the Truman Library and the Columbia University Oral History Research Office.

3.4 Arrangement           Arranged in six subfonds:
                                     Bretton Woods documents, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
                                     Bank history documents, Harry S Truman Presidential Library
                                     CGIAR founding documents, US National Archives
                                     J. Burke Knapp papers, Hoover Institution Archives
                                     Oral history interviews, Harry S Truman Presidential Library
                                             Collado, Emilio.  1971, 1974
                                             Ferrer, Jose.  1970
                                             Horne, Roman.  1972
                                             Knapp, J. Burke.  1975
                                             Maffry, August.  1973
                                             Wood, C.Tyler.  1971
                                     Oral history interviews, Columbia University
                                             Diamond, William.  1984
                                             Rosen, Martin.  1985
                                             Wishart, George.  1983                                     

4.1 Conditions of access  Open

4.2 Conditions of reproduction  Fair use reproduction permitted; for all other uses, contact the institution holding the original materials.

4.3 Language/scripts  English

5.1 Existence and location of originals  Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Harry S Truman Presidential Library, US National Archives, Hoover Institution Archives, Columbia University Oral History Research Office

5.3 Related units of description  Robert Oliver donated copies of papers of George Woods that are at Butler Library, Columbia University; see WB IBRD/IDA 55-03

7.2 Rules or conventions Internal World Bank Group Archives rules
7.3 Date(s) of descriptions  2003-07-31