Record Group # RG 1330
Subgroup # 008
Series # 015
Name of Department: Temporary Commemorative Commissions
Agency Name/Division/Office: Delaware Swedish Tercentenary Commission
Earliest Date of Material:
1935
Latest Date of Material:
1937
1936
Quantity of Materials:
0.23 cubic feet
Genealogical and historical description:
Files produced by Christopher Ward, chairman of the Coin Committee of the Commission.
Scope and Contents:
Files document the evolution of the Commission in general and the Coin Committee in particular from 1935 - 1937. Ward's role in the developmental stages of the Commission and the activities of the Commission in its primary function of obtaining a commemorative coin to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the Swede's landing in Delaware. Files contain correspondence of the Swedish Tercentenary Commission, general correspondence relating to coin design competition, operations of the coin committee, and Ward's role on the U. S. Delaware Valley Tercentenary Commission. Refer also to Delaware Tercentenary Commission collection. See 1330-009-000 Subject files: "Coin."
Carbon copies of letters.
Arrangement of Material:
Arranged alphabetically by subject and thereunder chronologically.
No index.
