SECRC Records Division Photographs, General [2]

75023

1946, 1969, 1984

sub-series

photographic records

300 photographs: 161 b&w negatives; 35mm, 120 film, 4x5 inches, 139 b&w and col. prints; contact sheets and 8x10 inches or smaller

English

Subseries consists of photographs documenting the Inaugural Meeting of the Boards of Governors of the IMF and World Bank (formerly the IBRD) held in Savannah, Georgia and anniversary events related to the Bretton Woods Conference, from 1946, 1969, and 1984. In recent years, this subseries of photographs was separated from its original order in the Secretary's Department Records Division photograph series, entitled "General," and organized as part of the IMF Archives Bretton Woods Conference Collection, which included copies of commercial photographs of the Bretton Woods Conference (July 1944), the March 1946 Inaugural Meeting of the Board of Governors (held in Savannah, Georgia), John Maynard Keynes addressing the Savannah Meeting, John Maynard Keynes and Harry Dexter White at the Savannah Meeting, the 25th and 40th Anniversary Reunion and Celebration of the Bretton Woods Conference, and photos of a bronze bust of John Maynard Keynes (all of which were digitized and available with item-level descriptions). While the photographs of the Bretton Woods Conference have been retained as part of the IMF Archives Bretton Woods Conference Collection, the other photographs have been returned to their original order within SECRC Records Division Photographs Series, only now represented as SECRC Records Division Photographs, General [2]., Photographs (prints and negatives) have been kept in the order established by predecessors in the IMF Archives and are arranged in two archival boxes as follows: Box 14 (4x5 inch negatives); and Box 20 (prints, 120 film and 35mm negatives). Since the photographs were originally processed as part of the Bretton Woods Collection, they were arranged in eight archival files and described at the item level and were digitized accordingly.