Scope and Contents
The papers consist of correspondence, background files, notebooks, photographs, and audio tapes, which document Albert William Sherer's career in the Foreign Service. The papers include the notebooks Sherer kept as ambassador to the Republic of Guinea and numerous files concerning the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe and the Helsinki Accords.
Dates
- 1947-1988
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright for unpublished materials authored or otherwise produced by Albert William Sherer, Jr. has been transferred to Yale University. These materials may be used for non-commercial purposes without seeking permission from Yale University as the copyright holder. For other uses of these materials, please contact beinecke.library@yale.edu.
Copyright status for other collection materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Carroll R. Sherer, 1988.
Arrangement
Materials are arranged chronologically according to Sherer's appointments or positions.
Extent
7 Linear Feet (7 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Abstract
The papers consist of correspondence, background files, notebooks, photographs, and audio tapes, which document Albert William Sherer's career in the Foreign Service. The papers include the notebooks Sherer kept as ambassador to the Republic of Guinea and numerous files concerning the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe and the Helsinki Accords.
Biographical / Historical
Albert William Sherer was born on January 16, 1916, in Wheaton, Illinois. He graduated from Yale University in 1938 and from Harvard Law School in 1941. Sherer joined the Foreign Service in 1946 and served in various assignments in Morocco, Hungary, Poland, Togo, Guinea, and Czechoslovakia. In 1974 Sherer headed the United States delegation to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe and drafted the human rights provisions which were ratified as part of the Helsinki Accords in 1975. Sherer died in Chicago, Illinois, on December 27, 1986.
- Ambassadors
- Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
- Czechoslovakia
- Diplomacy
- Guinea
- Human rights
- Hungary
- Poland
- Sherer, Albert William, 1916-1986
- Togo
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Czechoslovakia
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Guinea
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Hungary
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Poland
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Togo
- United States. Foreign Service
- Title
- Guide to the Albert William Sherer, Jr. papers
- Status
- Under Revision
- Author
- compiled by Diane E. Kaplan
- Date
- November 1988
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Manuscripts and Archives Repository
Yale University Library
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Location
Sterling Memorial Library
Room 147
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New Haven, CT 06511