Director [01], 1930-1938

Correspondence with Director's office regarding purchases; collecting trips; loans; expense accounts; salaries and budgets; purchase of Paracas textile; Nakahama Manjiro diary; Ernesto Franco collection of Ecuadorean antiquities; G.R. Schmidt Collection of Pre-Inca textiles; field trip to Nicaragua. Includes modernization work schedule for 1936; Spinden's proposal for Washington Monument exhibit for school children; letter from Spinden to Edward C. Blum regarding Spinden's title and duties.