Inventory of the Anna Schwartz Papers, 1929-2012

The Correspondence series consists of professional correspondence from throughout Schwartz's career. Materials include handwritten, typed, and email correspondence, with the bulk of the material dating from late in Schwartz's career. Email printouts of articles and other email forwards from Schwartz's contacts are also present in this series. Early correspondence includes courtship letters from Schwartz's husband, Isaac. Correspondence with or directly concerning Milton Friedman is filed in the "Correspondence" subseries within the "Milton Friedman" series.

The Personal Materials Series contains materials from Schwartz's college years at Barnard, decades of daybooks with calendars from her various meetings, Schwartz's handwritten phone logs from the early 1980s, resumes, honorary degree materials, and clippings about Schwartz from the 1960s through the 2000s.

The Conferences series contains materials from Schwartz's conference participation. Conferences are arranged alphabetically. The series includes programs, correspondence concerning specific events, and copies of speeches given by other participants.

This series contains Schwartz's research files on various subjects, comprised of notes, data and tables, and printed materials related to specific topics; some are related directly to specific publications. It is arranged alphabetically by subject. Topics that receive the most coverage include the 2008 financial crisis; banking; business cycles; currency boards; the FDIC, FOMC, and Federal Reserve; gold; the IMF; intervention; and UK economics. There are also a number of files containing worksheets and data from the NBER.

The Writings series is arranged chronologically and consists of Schwartz's lectures and publications (some of which are co-authored) as well as drafts of both published and unpublished pieces. Materials related to Schwartz's publications, such as book reviews and edits, are also included under the title of that publication. A significant part of the series consists of drafts of A History of Official Foreign Exchange Market Intervention, a manuscript on which Schwartz was collaborating with Michael Bordo and Owen Humpage. Small amounts of correspondence directly related to the publication of various works is filed with those works. Projects on which Schwartz collaborated with Milton Friedman are in the "Milton Friedman" series; research for various writing projects can be found in the "Subject Files and Research" series.

This series covers Schwartz's work with Gold Commission, which was appointed to consider the possibility of returning to the gold standard. Schwartz was the Staff Director from 1981-1982. The series includes transcripts and minutes; memos; statements and testimonials given before the commission; questionnaires filled out by members of the commission; correspondence sent to and within the commission; and research files (articles, reports, notes, and data tables).

This series documents Schwartz's participation in the Shadow Open Market Committee, which was founded in 1973 to independently evaluate and critique the actions of the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee. The series contains materials from the biannual meetings, including folders, programs, research, notes, and papers presented by Schwartz and other members, from 2000 to 2006, as well as a 2002 article about the SOMC.

This series covers Schwartz's longstanding collaboration with Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman of the University of Chicago. It is divided into three subseries: Writings, Writings About Milton Friedman, and Correspondence. The Writings subseries contains Friedman's columns for Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal along with other journalistic pieces; privately circulated memorandums; talks and articles from throughout his career, including drafts; and materials relating to four major projects: A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960, Monetary Trends in the United States and the United Kingdom, and "Monetary Statistics of the United States," all co-authored with Schwartz, and The Essence of Friedman, a collection of previously published essays. The Writings About Milton Friedman subseries includes both journalistic clippings and academic articles and is arranged chronologically, with separate folders devoted to interviews, the 1976 Nobel, and obituaries/memorials. The Correspondence subseries mostly contains Friedman's extensive correspondence with Schwartz concerning their collaborations in the 1960s and 1970s, although it also includes letters to and from other colleagues. It is arranged chronologically with the exception of a few subject-specific files. Correspondence not directly concerning Milton Friedman is filed in the general "Correspondence" series.

The Writings by Others series is arranged alphabetically by last name and contains both drafts and published pieces by Schwartz's colleagues and other notable figures. Several writers receive a significant amount of coverage: Michael Bordo, Charles Calomiris, Robert Hetzel, Edward Kane, Allan Meltzer, and Scott Sumner. The "Referee's Reports" subseries is devoted to Schwartz's editorial work providing reader's reports.

Single CD-R (created 3/27/2012) primarily containing PDF, Word, and Excel documents with a single folder containing 11 pictures.