Correspondence, diaries, memoranda, speeches and writings, academic, travel, and subject files, awards, patents, theater programs, printed material, and photographs chiefly relating to Brode's tenure as director (1951-1960) and foreign secretary (1965-1967) of the American Chemical Society, associate director (1947-1958) of the National Bureau of Standards, and science advisor (1958-1960) to U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Includes material on the dismissal of Allen V. Astin, director of the Bureau of Standards, by Sinclair Weeks, U.S. Secretary of Commerce during the Eisenhower administration. Also documented are Brode's World War II positions with the Office of Scientific Research and Development and the Alsos mission to collect information on enemy scientific research (particularly on atomic energy) and on his postwar advisory positions with rocket research laboratories at the Naval Ordnance Test Station, Inyokern, Calif. Other papers document his work as a chemist regarding internal reflection spectroscopy and applied optics, particularly relating to colors and dyes. Also includes material on handcrafted rugs and Indian culture of the American Southwest, an interest Brode shared with his wife, Ione Sundstrom Brode. Correspondents include John Brademas, Robert B, Brode, Detlev W. Bronk, Vannevar Bush, William O. Douglas, Ora S. Duffendack, Novice G. Fawcett, Angel Hernaiz, Christian Archibald Herter, Hubert H. Humphrey, Foy D. Kohler, Douglas MacArthur, George S. McGovern, W. P. Mitchell, G. Francis Nauheimer, Edgar L. Piret, Herman W. Pollack, Walter L. Reynolds, B. R. Stanerson, and Dael Lee Wolfle.