Biographical Series
Articles, Papers and Essay Series
Book Review Series
Miscellaneous Book Plan Series
Those Days: A Family Album Series
Villagers Series
Trees, Why Do You Wait? Series
Publication Series

Box 1 

1    Finding aid

Biographical Series

2    Biographical information
3    University of Vienna documents and University of Innsbruck report of study
4    Passports and identification
5    List of Richard Critchfield's major writings up to 1980
6    "A Remembrance: Richard Patrick Critchfield"

Articles, Papers and Essay Series

7     Book reviews
8     Articles on Mexico
9     Articles on Bangladesh
10   Articles on Thailand
11   Articles on villages
12   Articles on Third World energy use
13   Articles on the Philippines
14   Articles on South Korea
15   Articles on Washington, D. C.
16   Articles on Taiwan
17   Articles on Mauritius
18   "How We Live," Series for the Washington Post
19   Articles on Africa
20   Articles on the Green Revolution in Africa
21   Articles on Indonesia

Box 2

1    "Washington Sketches"
2    "Mauritius: A Sense of Apocalypse," The Alicia Patterson Fund
3    "Riders Together," The Alicia Patterson Fund
4    "India Revisited," The Alicia Patterson Fund
5    "The Thorn," The Alicia Patterson Fund
6    "Sketches of the Green Revolution: Part One," The Alicia Patterson Fund
7    "Green Revolution, Part Two: The Seeds of Change," The Alicia Patterson Fund
8    "Sketches of the Green Revolution, Part Three: Jats and Harijans," The Alicia 
      Patterson Fund
9    "Sketches of the Green Revolution, Part Four: The Harvest," The Alicia 
      Patterson Fund
10   "A Doctrine for Revolution," The Alicia Patterson Fund
11   "A Few Reflections," The Alicia Patterson Fund
12   "Hello, Mister!  Where are you going?," The Alicia Patterson Fund
13   "Hello, Mister!  Where are you going?  Part Two," The Alicia Patterson Fund
14   "How Lonely Sits the City," The Alicia Patterson Fund
15   "How Lonely Sits the City, Part Two," The Alicia Patterson Fund
16   "It's a Revolution All Right," The Alicia Patterson Fund
17   "The Marginal Men," The Alicia Patterson Fund
18   "A New Country: Conclusion of a Two Year Study," The Alicia Patterson Fund
19   "The Best of Times, The Worst of Times," The Economist, 21-27 
       February   1992
20   "The Plight of the Cities: Djakarta-The First to Close," Journal of World
         Business, July-August 1971
21   "Thatcher's Battle of Britain," World Monitor, May 1990
22   "Grain Man," World Monitor, October 1990
23   "Sowing Success, Reaping Guns," World Monitor, July 1992
24   "Capitalism Down on the Farm," World Monitor, August 1992
25   "Is It Still Out There," World Monitor, January 1992
26   "Changing Rural Life," Cairo Today, October 1984
27   "Barek in Paris"
28   "Bringing the Third World Voice to the Fourth Estate," Washington Journalism 
       Review, October 1985
29   "The Greening of Ghugrali," Asia, May-June 1980
30   Various cartoons and articles in the Hislop Journalist, February 1961

Box 3

1    Various cartoons and articles in the Hislop Journalist, No. 2, 1962
2    "The Peasants and the West," American University Fieldstaff Reports 
       No. 13   and 14, 1979
3    "The Changing Peasant, Parts One and Two," American University Fieldstaff 
       Reports, 1979
4     "Science, Villagers and Us," USFI Reports, 1985
5     "Carnival and Guapira's Children: The Moral Challenge," American University
       Fieldstaff Reports
6     "Shahhat: An Egyptian," The Scribe, July 1, 1984
7     "Survivors at the Fringe," The Bridge, Fall 1976
8     Articles on Vietnam
9     Articles on Nepal
10   Articles on China
11   Articles on India
12   Articles on the Yeti
13   Articles on Britain
14   Articles on Poland
15   Articles on farming and land distribution
16   Speeches and papers

Book Review Series

17   Reviews of the Long Charade
18   Reviews and material on Villages

Box 4

1    Reviews of An American Looks at Britain
2    Reviews and material on Those Days
3    Letters from the readers of Those Days
4    Reviews of the Golden Bowl Be Broken
5    Reviews of Shahhat: An Egyptian
6    Reviews and material on Villagers
7    Miscellaneous letters about Villagers
8    Reviews of Trees, Why Do You Wait?
9    Invitations to various book parties

Miscellaneous Book Plan Series

10   Partial outline for The Long Charade
11   Outline and chapter notes for Murder in Saigon: A Novel

Those Days: A Family Album Series

12   Winter Days, Summer Nights-outline for Those Days
13   Point of view: Prairie (Those Days) and work outline
14   Work plans and outlines for Those Days
15   Those Days contents
16   Notes and outlines of work to be done in Iowa
17   Chronology for Anne's two Iowa narrations
18   Anne Williams
19   Notes on mother
20   Iowa notes, pages 114-22 and 31-33
21   Miscellaneous notes on Iowa
22   Notes on Le Claire, Iowa and the Williams

Box 5

1    Fessenden notes (original typescript), pages 1-62
2    Fessenden notes (original typescript), pages 63-143
3    Fessenden notes (original typescript), pages 144-91 and additional notes
4    Spokesfield's History of Wells County and inserts for Fessenden notes
5    Hunter notes (original typescript) pages 1-50
6    Notes not assimilated
7    Notes on the 1918-19 Flu Epidemic
8    Country doctor notes
9    County fair notes
10   Country life
11   Miscellaneous research notes
12   Letters of research material requests and volunteered information
13   Songs and biblical excerpts for Those Days
14   Handwritten notes on the Critchfield family
15   Family notes for Those Days
16   Minstrel show material

Box 6

1    Jim-country doctor's life and 1923 blizzard
2    Hadwen lines
3    Edith Nielson Bjelde interview transcript
4    Interview and note excerpts
5    Excerpt on General Joseph Reed
6    Excerpts from Those Days
7    Editorial notes for Those Days
8    Necessary corrections for Those Days

Villagers Series

9    "Science and the Villager: The Last Sleeper Wakes," Foreign Affairs, 
      Fall   1982.
10   Various grant proposals for The Sleeper Wakes (renamed Villagers)
11   Introduction and concluding essay for Villagers
12   Introductory essay, chapters 3-6, and preliminary draft of concluding essay
13   Partial draft and notes for Korea sequence

Box 7

1    Notes on Popowlany village in Poland
2    Second draft of Popowlany village and Tykorin, Poland
3    Preliminary draft of India sequence
4    Second draft of India sequence

Trees, Why Do You Wait? Series

5    Contents, chapters one and two
6    Chapters three and four
7    Chapter five

Box 8

1    Cedar Rapids overview
2    Brief history of Viola, Iowa
3    Stanley Goodwin-interview transcript
4    Don Hadwinger-interview transcript
5    Orville Bentley-interview transcript
6    Paul and Marguerite Pratt-interview transcript
7    John Morrin and Martin Maypenny-interview transcript
8    Emil Holzkam-interview transcript
9    Harold Rasmussen-interview transcript
10   Joe Peltier-interview transcript
11   Esperanza Tamayo-interview transcript
12   Robert Bell-interview transcript
13   Rev. Arlyn Anfinrud-interveiw transcript
14   Richard Maine-interview transcript
15   Norman Weekerly-interview transcript
16   Father John Herron- interview transcript
17   Lisa and Lanny Faleide-interview transcript
18   Norman Kessler-interview transcript
19   Charles Elderidge-interview transcript
20   Sheriff Curtis Pellet-interview transcript
21   Mr. and Mrs. Earl Zumpf-interview transcript
22   Emma and William Lorz-interview transcript
23   Gerald Hagemeister-interview transcript
24   John Bollingberg-interview transcript
25   Ray Klindworth-interview transcript
26   Levon Kirkeide-interview transcript
27   Albert Seibold-interview transcript
28   Mitch and Lloyd Clark-interview transcript
29   Willis Paul-interview transcript
30   Mary Eldredge-interview transcript
31   Chuck Eldredge-interview transcript
32   Bob Miller, John Peterson and Dan Miller interview transcript
33   Martha Nash, Ruth Anderson and Ada Tredwell-interview transcript
34   Rev. Michael Bahde-interview transcript
35   Craig and Michelle Loertscher-interview transcript
36   Joe Hayden-interview transcript
37   Helen Collins and Jim May-interview transcript
38   Robert and Maxine Williams-interview transcript
39   Jim and Lois Wild-interview transcript
40   Helen Bigger Carlson-interview transcript
41   Dorothy Miller-interview transcript
42   Beryl and Paul Secrist-interview transcript
43   Donald and Hilda Armstrong-interview transcript
44   Helen Collins-interview transcript
45   Steve Preuss-interview transcript
46   Ruth Collins-interview transcript
47   Hadwen Collins-interview transcript
48   "Slim"-interview transcript
49   Johnny Collins-interview transcript
50   Lowell Norland-interview transcript
51   Paul and Chris Perez-interview transcript
52   Don and Dixie Wolfe-interview transcript

Publication Series

1    A Commonplace Book: Readings from the Works of MacArthur Fellows
2    The Indian Reporter's Guide
3    A Reporting Handbook
4    Lore and Legend of Nepal
5    The Golden Bowl Be Broken (1st edition)
6    The Golden Bowl Be Broken (revised edition)
7    Shahhat: An Egyptian
 

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