Winston L. Prouty Papers

Collection includes correspondence, reports, and other papers relating to Prouty's service on House Committees on Foreign Affairs and Veterans Affairs, and Senate Committees on Labor and Public Welfare, Commerce, and Special Committee on Aging. Topics include Lake Champlain Waterway, flood control, Suez Canal, Fair Labor Standards Act, Northeast Water Compact, Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act, civil rights, Youth Conservation Corps, War on Poverty, Taft-Hartley Law, right to work law, Cuba, Poverty Survey (Washington, D. C., 1968), antiballistic missle, Harold Carswell's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, Cmabodia, Tennessee Valley Authority, and Vermont Republican Party. Persons represented include George D. Aiken, Frederick J. Fayette, Thomas L. Hayes, Philip H. Hoff John F. Kennedy, William H. Meyer, Robert T. Safford, and Elmer Towne.

Series A and C are mainly organized chronologically by the session of Congress and then in a rough alphabetical order. Series A contains a mixture of constituent correspondence and written legislation at various phases. Series B, General File, contains material on common topics or subjects and is organized alphabetically within date ranges. Desk calendars are commonly present at the end of the alphabet, but can also be found in Series D.

Series D contains research, campaign material, newspaper clippings, speeches (also present in Series A), and photographs. Scrapbooks are also present and contain either newspaper clippings or speeches.

Series E contains copies of correspondence sent by Prouty or on his behalf, organized chronologically by the recipient's last name or the topic of the letter.

Note that not all cartons are numbered sequentially. Some cartons do not exist as the contents have been consolidated or redistributed into adjacent containers. The following cartons no longer exist: A35, A39, A41, A45, A77, A83, A88, A102, A106, A117, B1, B20A, B23A, B31, C5, D21-D26, D34, D36, and D38. Some contents of containers A59, A66, A92, A114, C38, D15, and E19 have been moved to boxes, which affected the contents of adjacent containers.