Redding, John M. Papers

Dates: 1942-1964

Publicity Director, Democratic National Committee, 1947-1950; Assistant Postmaster General, 1950-1953

 

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Size: 12 linear feet, 8 linear inches.
Access: Open.
Copyright: The donor gave to the U.S. government the copyrights in this material and in any other material received by the U.S. government and maintained in a depository administered by the National Archives and Records Administration. Documents created by U.S. government officials in the course of their official duties are in the public domain. Copyright interest in other documents presumably belongs to the creators of those documents, or their heirs.
Processed by: Harry Clark (1961); Laura Heller (1969); Jan Davis and David Clark (2016).

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FOLDER TITLE LIST

MANUSCRIPTS FILE

Box 1

  • Abeah Man
  • At Deaths Door
  • All American News
  • Arsenal
  • Berlenbach, Paul (Professional Fighter)
  • Black Market
  • Bring Slug
  • Calkins, Dick (Originator of Buck Rogers Cartoon)
  • The City That Stood Still (Chicago, Illinois)
  • Congo Red
  • Court of Inquiry
  • Crime Detection Laboratory Material
  • Crowd Engineer
  • Daisy Pickers
  • Dentistry
  • The Desperate Platinum Blond

Box 2

  • Detective Stories
  • Dog Training Booklet
  • Dream Girl
  • Drinking - Misfortune or Misdeed
  • Gambling in Chicago
  • Ghost
  • The Gold Brick
  • Green, William (President, American Federation of Labor)
  • Heritage of the Hill
  • Hockey Wives
  • Inside the Democratic Party (folders 1-2)

Box 3

  • Inside the Democratic Party (3-5)
  • Jawbone of an Ass
  • Jones Dairy Farm, Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin
  • Lead Poisoning
  • The Little Man

Box 4

  • Long Ears of the Artillery
  • Man Overboard
  • Marriage Mill
  • Nurses
  • Pet Milk Company
  • Radio Scripts
  • Ross, Charles S.
  • Royal Canadian Air Force
  • Strike
  • Surgical Darning Egg
  • Swing
  • Taxi Dancers
  • Thank God for the Non Coms
  • Wake of Glory
  • Miscellaneous Material Re Manuscripts

MILITARY FILE, 1942 - 1946

Box 5

  • Eighth Air Force, press releases, July 4, 1942-February 17, 1943 (Major John M. Redding)
  • Eighth Air Force, press releases, July 4, 1942-March 19, 1943 (Captain Leyshon)
  • Eighth Air Force, Miscellaneous Press Releases, November 16, 1942-May 11, 1944
  • Twelfth Army Group, history of Public Relations Office
  • Twelfth Army Group, stories and press releases

Box 6

  • 201 File (2 folders)
  • Correspondence - Military
  • Miscellaneous Manuscripts

Box 7

  • Manuscript for Publicity Book (Pairs - Loire - Bulge)
  • Military, 1942-1944
  • Military, January-June 1945

Box 8

  • Military, July 1945-April 1946

SURPLUS PROPERTY ADMINISTRATION FILE

  • Surplus Property Administration

DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE FILE

  • John M. Redding - biography
  • Plan for 1944 Presidential campaign
  • Democratic leaders meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, December 10, 1947
  • Jefferson Jackson Day Dinner, February 19, 1948
  • Presidential campaign material, 1948 (folder 1) miscellaneous
  • Presidential campaign material, 1948 (folder 2) press releases

Box 9

  • Presidential campaign material, 1948 (folder 3) Sen. Joseph Ball
  • Presidential campaign material, 1948 (folder 4) Major James J. MacKin
  • Editorials and Columnists - statements regarding 1948 presidential campaign
  • Publicity Division Democratic National Committee press releases, October 31, 1947-February 1948
  • Publicity Division Democratic National Committee press releases, February 13-April 20, 1948

Box 10

  • Publicity Division Democratic National Committee press releases, April 20-July 1, 1948
  • Publicity Division Democratic National Committee press releases, July 2-September 8, 1948
  • Publicity Division Democratic National Committee press releases, September 9-October 7, 1948
  • Publicity Division Democratic National Committee press releases, October 8-November 1, 1948

Box 11

  • Publicity Division Democratic National Committee press releases, November 15, 1948-February 24, 1949
  • Publicity Division Democratic National Committee press releases, February 24-May 4, 1949
  • Publicity Division Democratic National Committee press releases, May 4-August 19, 1949
  • Publicity Division Democratic National Committee press releases, June 10-October 19, 1949

Box 12

  • Publicity Division Democratic National Committee press releases, October 20, 1949-February 27, 1950
  • Democratic National Committee, radio activities, 1949-1950
  • Proceedings of Democratic Midwest Conference, Des Moines, Iowa, June 12-13, 1949
  • Hal Leyshon and Associates, Inc., Public relations, January-June, 1950
  • Inter-office memorandums, February 1949-August 1950
  • Who's Who in the Democratic Party (Correspondence re publication)
  • Senatorial and Congressional campaign of 1950
  • Presidential campaign material, 1956 (Spot announcements)
  • Capital Comment
  • Miscellaneous material

ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL FILE

Box 13

  • Alphabetical File (A-F)

Box 14

  • Alphabetical File (H-O)

Box 15

  • Alphabetical File (P-Z)

Box 16

  • Aiken, Paul
  • Air Coordinating Committee
  • Air Mail matters
  • Air Mail rates
  • Air Mail subsidy
  • Air Parcel Post
  • Air Survey
  • Allan, Grever
  • Army Post Office Directory
  • Bomar, Thomas
  • Burke, Vincent
  • Cairo, Egypt
  • Calling cards
  • Chief Inspector
  • Christmas
  • Civil Aeronautics Board
  • Clip Sheets, Democratic

Box 17

  • Donaldson, Jesse M.
  • Dubuque, Jean
  • Embargo
  • Ernst, L.E.
  • Ethiopia, Cotton and Cattle
  • Ethiopia, Cotton and Cattle (Supplement 1)
  • Ethiopia, Cotton and Cattle (Supplement 2)
  • Ethiopia, Cotton and Cattle (Supplement 3)
  • Federal Program for Transportation
  • Frank, Solicitor Roy

Box 18

  • Garner, Chief Inspector Cliff C.
  • General Superintendents
  • Granik, Theodore
  • Hahn, Chris
  • Helicopter File
  • Henning, Arthur L.
  • Highway Post Offices
  • International postal conferences
  • International Road Federation
  • Invitations
  • Kenney, Inspector J. (See Newark File)
  • Lawler, Joseph J.
  • Legislation
  • Long Island Railroad

Box 19

  • Mackin, J.J.
  • McKinney, Frank
  • Memoranda: Ed Chaszar
  • Memoranda: Robert S. Burgess
  • Memoranda: George Miller
  • Memoranda: John J. Gillen
  • Memoranda: Denis O'Brien
  • Monthly Report, Bureau of Transportation
  • Myers, Walter
  • Newark Routes
  • Nyrop, Donald (Civil Aeronautics Board)
  • Passport
  • Pearson, Osborne
  • Personnel, Post Office and Personalities
  • Pictures
  • Polar flight, first passenger
  • Postmasters' convention

Box 20

  • Postmaster Letters (Congratulations on 25th Anniversary of the Establishment of Air Mail)
  • Post Office Department (Miscellaneous)
  • Post Office Department, Material furnished by (Air Mail Stickers, Posters, etc.)
  • Press releases

Box 21

  • Public Information Service
  • Publicity
  • Railway Mail pay case (2 folders)

Box 22

  • Railway Mail pay case (folder 3)
  • Redding, John M. - addresses
  • Redding, John M. - biography and other material
  • Redding, John M. - military
  • Redding, John M. - personal
  • Redding, John M. - resignation as Assistant Postmaster General

Box 23

  • Report of Directors
  • Roads
  • Stamp Books (Distribution of Vi Puas Congress Stamp Books)
  • Strom, A.
  • T-Route, photos
  • Taylor, Tom
  • Threadgill, Andrew
  • Trucking of short haul mail
  • Trucking the mail, miscellaneous material
  • Trucking the mail, a survey and plan
  • Universal Postal Union
  • Wiprud, Arne
  • Wyoming Mail (Motion Picture)

ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO THE TRUCKING INDUSTRY FILE

Box 24

  • A.C.T. Reports - Operating Committee, Board of Directors, General
  • Advisory Committee to the Trucking Industry
  • Air Force
  • Air Force, in Europe
  • Air Force Report

Box 25

  • Air Transport Association
  • American Trucking Association
  • Beck, Dave
  • Brochure
  • Brochure, estimates for
  • Charnay, Dave
  • Cheyfitz, Ed.
  • Civil Defense
  • Civil Defense - Annapolis

Box 26

  • Condon, Arthur D., report to
  • Congressional letters
  • Correspondence, A - M
  • Correspondence, N - Z
  • Democratic Campaign Committee
  • Federal Civil Defense Administration, correspondence on organization
  • Federal Civil Defense Administration, Fuels and Petroleum Committee
  • Federal Civil Defense Administration, minutes of meetings
  • Federal Civil Defense Administration, Operating committee
  • Federal Civil Defense Administration, Peterson, Val
  • Federal Civil Defense Administration, printed general data
  • Federal Civil Defense Administration, Research Committee
  • Federal Civil Defense Administration, San Francisco
  • Federal Civil Defense Administration, Security clearance
  • Federal Civil Defense Administration, War Risk Insurance

Box 27

  • Fire Power Demonstration
  • Governors' Conference
  • Harrisburg
  • International Brotherhood of Teamsters
  • Legislation
  • Leyshon, Hal
  • McConnon, Joe
  • Mail by truck
  • Mohn, Einar
  • Monthly reports
  • Parcel Post shipments (Traffic information)
  • Post Office Department
  • Postal trucking
  • Public Information Service

Box 28

  • Redding, John M. - expenses
  • Redding, John M. - miscellaneous
  • Redding, John M. - personal
  • Riley, J.O.
  • Short Haul Trucking Program
  • Short haul truck routes
  • Shulman, John
  • Sonnenberg, Benjamin
  • Star Route Association
  • Transportation, freight
  • Trucking survey
  • Democratic National Committee
  • Miscellaneous Correspondence
  • Democratic Congressional Dinner, 1960

Box 29

  • Democratic Congressional Dinner, 1964
  • Contract, August 14, 1962
  • Pamphlets
  • Certificates
  • Printed Materials
  • Scrapbook, 1949, April 4
  • Scrapbook, 1949, April 8
  • Scrapbook 1952
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