Bretton Woods Master Files, Reference Materials, and Publications

16513

1940-1977

series

E. M. Bernstein, Harry Dexter White, Bretton Woods Conference

This series is comprised of materials located in the Master Files section of the IMF Repository. The series contains a set of official documents from the Bretton Woods Conference, which is not complete. There is also a set of Bank and Fund Official documents which illustrate the evolution of the Bretton Woods Agreements. There are several sets of bound versions of the official documents of the Bretton Woods Conference. The volumes contain the names of both Harry Dexter White and Edward M. Bernstein. Other bound volumes found in the series are copies of the meeting minutes for the Bretton Woods Commissions, along with bound volumes of the informal meeting minutes, published by the IMF Executive Board in 1953. There are also copies of the bound volumes of the Official Documents issued for the Savannah Conference, held in March 1946. Also present in the "Master Files" set are the Offical Proceedings published by the United States Department of State., There are also a number of publications in the series, including background reports issued before the Conference and the Congressional Records of the debates in the United States Congress, which resulted in the passage of the Bretton Woods Agreements. The material has been described at the item level but there are mulitple copies of many of the items. The publications boxes are an alphabetically arranged set with individual articles on the Bretton Woods Proposals, Conference, and Agreements. Represented in the publications are articles and speeches by many of the delegates present at the Conference, including John Maynard Keynes, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Harry Dexter White, Edward Bernstein, and many others. In some cases, the articles were filed by country of origin, the name of the publication in which the article appeared, or by the organization that produced the literature.