Black, Myron L. Papers

Dates: 1941-1958

Field Director, Foreign Services Division, War Shipping Administration, 1942-1944; Director, Field Operations Staff, Foreign Economic Administration, 1944-1945; Special Assistant to the American Minister to Denmark, 1945; Advisor on Shipping in the Mediterranean Area, American Embassy, Rome, Italy, 1945-1948

The papers of Myron L. Black consist of correspondence, reports, handwritten notes, certificates, printed materials, and other documents mostly relating to Black’s career with the U.S. government.

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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Size: 5 linear inches (about 700 pages).
Access: Open.
Copyright: The donor gave to the United States all copyrights which she had in unpublished writings in this or any other collection of papers at the Truman Library. Documents created by U.S. government officials in the course of their duties are also in the public domain. Copyright interest in other documents presumably belongs to the creators of those documents, or their heirs.
Processed by: Dennis E. Bilger (1979).
Updated by: Bailey L. Moffitt (2013) as part of the Truman Library Internship Program.
Supervising Archivists: Randy Sowell and David Clark.


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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

1906 (September 24)

 

Born, Rochester, New York

1927

 

A.B., Harvard University

1927-1928

 

Executive Secretary American Chamber of Commerce for the Levant, Istanbul, Turkey

1928-1937

 

Held various positions with U.S. Department of Commerce

1937-1944

 

Special Foreign Representative, Isbrandtsen Steamship Company, New York City

1942-1944

 

Field Director, Foreign Services Division, War Shipping Administration

1944-1945

 

Director, Field Operations Staff, Foreign Economic Administration

1945

 

Special Representative to Denmark and Special Assistant to the American Minister to Denmark

1945-1948

 

Advisor on Shipping in the Mediterranean Area, American Embassy, Rome, Italy

1948-1958

 

Official at American Embassies in Italy, Ceylon, and Canada

1958-1960

 

Official with the U.S. State Department, Washington, D.C.

1976 (August 26)

 

Died, Washington, D.C.

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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

The papers of Myron L. Black consist of correspondence, reports, handwritten notes, certificates, printed materials, and other documents mostly relating to Black’s work with the War Shipping Administration and the Foreign Economic Administration during World War II.

Most of the collection is made up of correspondence, reports, and travel documents concerning wartime shipping and the Greek shipping industry after the war.

Related collections at the Truman Library include the papers of Mark E. Andrews and the records of the President’s Advisory Committee on the Merchant Marine (Record Group 220).

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SERIES DESCRIPTIONS

Container Nos.

 

Series

1

  SUBJECT FILE, 1941-1958
Correspondence, reports, printed materials, and other documents mostly relating to the work of Myron L. Black in the War Shipping Administration and Foreign Economic Administration. Arranged alphabetically.
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FOLDER TITLE LIST

SUBJECT FILE, 1941-1958

Box 1

  • Anglo-American Shipping and Ports Mission Reports
  • Certificates
  • Correspondence
  • Greek Shipping
  • Organizational Charts and Directories
  • Printed Materials
  • Travel Orders and Vouchers
  • War Shipping Administration Report
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