Subject Files
Scope and Contents
This is the largest series—equivalent to “central” files—and includes constituent correspondence, issue mail, grants and projects, briefings, Congressional colleague correspondence, legislation, legislative background material, newspaper clippings, and case files. The 60 subseries generally reflect the subject concerns of Congressional committees. The largest subseries are: Agriculture (including Hawaii sugar); Armed Services; Education; Labor; and Transportation.
Dates
- From the Sub-Group: Creation: 1963 - 1976
Conditions Governing Access
Material with personal information may be redacted by the Archives staff. Some fragile items may need to be handled by the staff only. Use of audiovisual material may require the production of listening or viewing copies.
The Hawaiʻi Congressional Papers Collection is accessible in the University Archives and Manuscripts Department's John Troup Moir, Jr., and Gertrude M.F. Moir Archives Reading Room. For more information, please contact the Congressional Papers Archivist by email: archives@hawaii.edu, or phone: 808-956-6047.
Arrangement
Subject Files – 445 document cases
1. Aging – 0.5 document case
2. Agriculture – 40 document cases
3. Appropriations – 4 document cases
4. Armed Forces – 1 document case
5. Armed Services – 23 document cases (see also Defense)
6. Banking and Currency – 7 document cases
7. Books and Publications – 1 document case
8. Budget – 4 document cases
9. Census – 1.5 document cases
10. City Government (mostly Hawaii) – 1 document case
11. Civil Defense – 0.5 document case
12. Civil Disorder – 0.5 document case
13. Civil Rights – 6 document cases
14. Civil Service – 9 document cases
15. Commerce – 15 document cases
16. Communications – 6 document cases
17. Communism – 1 document case
18. Congress – 10 document cases
19. Constitutional Amendments – 1 document case
20. Crackpots – 0.5 document case
21. Culture – 1.5 document cases
22. Defense – 1.5 document cases (see also Armed Services)
23. Democratic Party – 0.5 document case
24. District of Columbia – 1 document case
25. East-West Center – 2 document cases
26. Economy – 19 document cases
27. Education – 28 document cases
28. Elderly – 4 document cases
29. Election (local, national) – 20 document cases
30. Energy (includes Power) – 18 document cases
31. Environment – 12 document cases
32. Federal Government – 6 document cases
33. Foreign Aid – 1.5 document cases
34. Federal Trade Commission – 0.5 document case
35. Foreign Aid – 1 document case
36. Foreign Relations – 20 document cases
37. Hawaii – 3 document cases
38. Health – 15 document cases
39. Housing – 13 document cases
40. Immigration – 3 document cases
41. Internal Security – 1 document case
42. Justice – 5 document cases
43. Labor – 23 document cases
44. Land (includes land use) – 6.5 document cases
45. Miscellaneous – 3.5 document cases
46. Natural Resources – 11 document cases
47. Peace – 4 folders (see Subgroup Senate-Subject Series for majority of Peace files)
48. Post Office – 5 document cases
49. President – 5 document cases
50. Public Works – 7 document cases
51. Publications – 1 document case
52. Pug-Sch – 1 document case
53. Science – 5 document cases
54. Social Security-Spencecliff – 1 document case
55. Sports-State Department – 1 document case
56. State Government (mostly Hawaii) – 5 document cases
57. Statistics-Tariff – 1 document case
58. Taxation – 7 document cases
59. Tourism – 0.5 document case
60. Transportation – 32.5 document case
61. United Nations – 1 document case
62. Veterans – 3 document cases
63. Water Resources – 1 document case
64. Welfare – 15 document cases
65. Women – 0.5 document case
66. Youth – 0.5 document case
Repository Details
Part of the University of Hawaii at Manoa Libraries Repository