Committee on Cultural Relations with Latin America Collected Records
Scope and Contents
Primarily printed material including correspondence, reports, publicity materials, pamphlets, and one serial publication"Three Americas." Correspondents include Hubert Herring.
Dates
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1927-1940
Creator
- Committee on Cultural Relations with Latin America (Organization)
Language of Material
Materials are in English.
Restrictions on Access
Collection is open for research without restrictions.
Biographical / Historical
Committee on Cultural Relations with Latin America; headquartered in New York, New York; began in 1926 as an outgrowth of an informal experiment "The Seminar in Mexico" started by Hubert Herring, with the early and continued support of John Dewey, Henry Goddard Leach, Herbert Croly, Paul U. Kellogg, Stuart Chase, Florence E. Allen, and many others, who believed that a strong body of informed public opinion assured the only basis for equitable and peaceful inter-American relations; by means of annual Seminars, it provided cultural interchanges between Latin Americans and people of the United States.
Extent
0.21 linear ft. (2.5 linear in.)
Subject
- Herring, Hubert Clinton, 1889-1967 (Person)
- Committee on Cultural Relations with Latin America (Organization)
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
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