League of Nations: Intellectual Cooperation

The League of Nations Archives hold a variety of rich sources on intellectual cooperation in the inter-war period:

• League of Nations Council and Assembly documents
• Publications of the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (1922-1946) {UNOG Library Collection}
• Documents of the Intellectual Cooperation and International Bureaux Section (1919-1946) (sub-fonds), Registry files 1919-1927, 1928-1932 and 1933-1946 (series) and Section files 1919-1946 (series) 
• Various correspondence (samples):  
  • International Bureaux and Intellectual Cooperation (1933-1946) 
  • Correspondence with the International Alliance of hotels (1933-1946) 
  • Correspondence with the International Cycling Union  (1933-1935) 
  • Correspondence with the League of Propaganda for the peace of Europe and the world (1933)
  • Correspondence with the Association of International Studies (1933-1937) 
  • Creation of an International Committee of Architects under the Auspices of the League of Nations (1935-1938) 
  • Correspondence with the International Technical Committee for the Prevention and Extinction of Fire (1933)  
  • Correspondence with the Bureau of the International Union for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (1933-1942) 
  •  Correspondence with the International Office of Epizooties(1933-1935)
  • Correspondence with the European Federation of Engineering (1933-1934)
  • Correspondence with the International Council of Women Jacket 1, Jacket 2 (1934-1936), Jacket 3 (1939-1939) , Jacket 4 (1938-1941)
  • Correspondence with the Federation of International Institutions  (1945)
  • Correspondence with the International Association of Rescue and First Aid in Case of Accidents (1939)
  • Correspondence with the International Boxing Union (1933)
  • Correspondence Concerning the Preparation of the Handbook of International Organisations (1933-1947)
  • [...]
• Brochure and Pamphlet Collection (sub-fonds) with the series Education (1919-1953), Cinema (1909-1947), Cooperation Intellectuelle / Paix et Languages, and Museums (1920-1940)
• Visual Material Collection (finding aids are available in the Reading Room), in particular 
• Posters and caricatures in "Museum Collection" (index is available in the Reading Room),  

Please note that some of the sub-fonds and series do not yet have a detailed description in the Archives Catalogue. Printed finding aids can be consulted in the Archives' Reading Room.  

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