Request for Question Clarification by
tutuzdad-ga
on
30 Jan 2003 18:57 PST
Dear submariner-ga;
The War Trade Board wasn't officially established as an independent
agency by until October 12, 1917, under authority of the Trading with
the Enemy Act (40 Stat. 411, October 6, 1917) but there are a few
records of pre-agency activity dating back as far as 1910. The Board
was abolished on June 30, 1919 and was swallowed up my subsequent
agencies until it eventually ended up as part of the Department of
State.
The totality of records dates from 1910-1942 and is so large that each
section is literally measured in linear feet. I know where these
records are, but I do not have access to them in order to glean the
information you are requesting. I can, however, tell you how to do it
yourself, if that will suffice as an answer.
I can tell you that the entire archived collection of records appears
to exist at this single source:
GENERAL RECORDS OF THE WAR TRADE BOARD 1917-21 (160 lin. ft.)
* among many other this, this record contains trade negotiations,
correspondence and interallied trade committees.
RECORDS OF THE BUREAU OF EXPORTS, WTB 1917-19 (117 lin. ft.)
* among other things, this contains records of the Trade Advisers
Division, consisting of trade advisers file, commodity file, and
export conservation lists.
RECORDS OF THE BUREAU OF IMPORTS, WTB 1917-20 (22 lin. ft.)
* among other things, this record relates to records of the Trade
Advisers Division, consisting of card index to commodities
correspondence, 1917-19; allocation accounts for crude rubber, cocoa
beans, and Japanese foodstuffs, 1917-19; and crude rubber and leather
import records, 1917-18.
RECORDS OF THE BUREAU OF ENEMY TRADE, WTB 1917-21 (35 lin. ft.)
* contains issuances, 1917-19, and regulations of the Office of the
Director, 1917-21. Card indexes and record cards of the Exports and
Imports Division relating to applications for enemy trade licenses,
1917-19.
RECORDS OF THE BUREAU OF WAR TRADE INTELLIGENCE (WTI), WTB 1913-20
(533 lin. ft.)
* contains records relating to confiscation and sale of properties,
1917-19. British government publications, Who's Who in Relation to War
Trade and Cable Censor's Handbook, 1917-19, munitions exports
1918-1919.
...and these are only a very few examples.
I cannot guarantee that the statistics you are looking for are in this
archive but it does appear to be the complete archive of War Trade
Board data. If you are interested in this source as an answer I will
gladly post if for you.
Awaiting your response.
Regards;
tutuzdad-ga
