Alvin Mansfield Owsley Collection, 1904-1972 | Manuscripts
By Bridgett Tanner and Laura Treat; Perri Hamilton; Rachel Motes
Collection Overview
Title: | Alvin Mansfield Owsley Collection, 1904-1972![]() |
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Predominant Dates: | 1922-1965 |
ID: | 01/HM.15 |
Extent: | 3010.0 Boxes |
Arrangement: | Series 1-3 are arranged according to topic and described at folder level. Series 4-9 are arranged according to material type and topic and are described at folder or item level. |
Date Acquired: | 00/00/1976. More info below under Accruals. |
Languages: | English |
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Abstract
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Collection Historical Note
Administrative Information
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Series:
- [Series 1: Alvin M. Owsley, 1919-1972, undated],
- [Series 2: Owsley Family Collection, 1883-1973, undated],
- [Series 3: Owsley Family Collection (2), 1917-1989, undated],
- [Series 4: Scrapbooks, 1905-1966, undated],
- [Series 5: Oversize Materials, 1903-1972, undated],
- [Series 6: Photographic Materials, 1909-1972, undated],
- [Series 7: Artifacts],
- [Series 8: Artifacts (2)],
- [Series 9: Media, 1927-1947, undated],
- [Series 10: Publications],
- [Series 11: Owsley Letter Transcripts],
- [Series 12: Exhibit Photographs]
- [All]
- Series 4: Scrapbooks, 1905-1966, undated
- Box 1: Oversize Box-Scrapbook 1, 1918-1923
- Barcode: 100361
- Item 1: Scrapbook 1, 1918-1923
- Scrapbook contains correspondence; telegrams; hotel reciepts; invitations; menus; clippings; vaccination records p. 7; officers berthing card p.7; flyer in German dropped over German lines p. 12; passport with photo p. 55; French and German banknotes p. 58; club membership cards p. 75; and Official Program of the Fifth National Convention of the American Legion, October 15-19, 1923 p. 76. Materials document Owsley's activities as Lt. Colonel in Europe during World War I and as Assistant Director of Americanism and Commander of the American Legion.
- Folder 2: Clippings, 1923
- Folder contains newspaper clippings in English and French.
- Item 1: Scrapbook 1, 1918-1923
- Box 2: Oversize Box-Scrapbook 2, 1922-1923
- Barcode: 100362
- Box 3: Oversize Box-Scrapbook 3, 1923
- Barcode: 100363
- Box 4: Oversize Box-Scrapbooks 4 & 5, 1922-1925
- Barcode: 100364
- Item 1: Scrapbook 4, 1923
- Scrapbook was compiled by Martin F. Biersmith, Post Commander of Hugh A. Carlisle Post, Albuquerque, New Mexico and contains clippings from Albuquerque newspapers of Owsley's activities and visit to the city as Commander of the American Legion.
- Item 2: Scrapbook 5, 1922-1925
- Scrapbook contains correspondence; telegrams; correspondence from Calvin Coolidge p. 20; and dinner and event programs.
- Item 1: Scrapbook 4, 1923
- Box 5: Oversize Box-Scrapbook 6, 1921-1923
- Barcode: 100365
- Box 6: Oversize Box-Scrapbooks 7 & 8, 1932-1939
- Barcode: 100366
- Item 1: Scrapbook 7, 1933-1939
- Scrapbook contains clippings in English and Danish; correspondence; and Christmas cards p. 42 documenting Owsley's activities mainly as Minister to Denmark. Some clippings documenting activities as Minister to Irish Free State and one clipping pertaining to appointment as Minister to Romania also included.
- Item 2: Scrapbook 8, 1932
- Scrapbook contains clippings concerning American politics and Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidential campaign.
- Item 1: Scrapbook 7, 1933-1939
- Box 7: Oversize Box-Scrapbooks 9 & 10, 1922-1966
- Barcode: 100367
- Item 1: Scrapbook 9, 1944
- Scrapbook contains notes and clippings concerning Roosevelt and Dewey presidential campaigns.
- Item 2: Scrapbook 10, 1922-1966
- Scrapbook contains clippings; correspondence; flyers; photographs p.95-103; The American Legion Weekly (November 1922); and personal and family correspondence. Topics include communism; social, political, and economic issues; speaking engagements; death announcements for George Ball; United Nations; disarmament; American Legion; and family and social matters.
- Item 1: Scrapbook 9, 1944
- Box 8: Oversize Box-Scrapbook 11, 1963
- Barcode: 100368
- Box 9: Oversize Box-Scrapbook 12, 1923-1965
- Barcode: 100369
- Box 10: Oversize Box-Scrapbook 13, 1922-1923
- Barcode: 100370
- Box 11: Oversize Box-Scrapbook 14, 1922
- Barcode: 100371
- Box 12: Oversize Box-Scrapbook 15, 1934-1936
- Barcode: 100372
- Box 13: Oversize Box-Scrapbook 16, 1917-1929
- Barcode: 100373
- Box 14: Oversize Box-Scrapbook 17, 1936-1937
- Barcode: 100374
- Box 15: Oversize Box-Scrapbook 18, 1922-1923
- Barcode: 100375
- Box 16: Oversize Box-Scrapbook 19, 1957
- Barcode: 100376
- Box 17: Oversize Box-Scrapbook 20, 1927-1946
- Barcode: 100377
- Box 18: Oversize Box-Scrapbook 21, 1933-1942
- Barcode: 100378
- Box 19: Oversize Box-Scrapbook 22, 1939-1941
- Barcode: 100379
- Box 20: Oversize Box-Scrapbook 23, 1922-1948
- NOTE: This box is stored off-site and must be requested 24 hours in advance.
- Barcode: 100380
- Box 21: Oversize Box-Scrapbook 24, 1936-1939
- Barcode: 100381
- Item 1: Scrapbook 24, 1936-1939
- Scrapbook contains photographs p.1, 20, 55, 59, 81-104; clippings in English and Danish; correspondence; and correspondence from Franklin D. Roosevelt p. 70, 77. Materials document Owsley's activities as Minister to Denmark, Minister to Irish Free State, and Minister to Romania.
- Item 1: Scrapbook 24, 1936-1939
- Box 22: Oversize Box-Scrapbook 25, 1933
- Barcode: 100382
- Item 1: Scrapbook 25, 1933
- Scrapbook is dedicated Presented to the Hon. Alvin M. Owsley upon the Occasion of his Departure to Accept the Post of Minister to Roumania by his Friends. Scrapbook contains signatures of friends and supporters; photograph p.17; and congratulatory telegrams and letters concerning appointment to Minister to Rumania.
- Item 1: Scrapbook 25, 1933
- Box 23: Oversize Box-Scrapbook 26 & 27, 1918-1923, undated
- NOTE: This box is stored off-site and must be requested 24 hours in advance.
- Barcode: 100383
- Box 24: Oversize Box-Scrapbook 28, undated
- NOTE: This box is stored off-site and must be requested 24 hours in advance.
- Barcode: 100384
- Box 25: Oversize Box-Scrapbook 29, 1921-1923
- NOTE: This box is stored off-site and must be requested 24 hours in advance.
- Barcode: 100385
- Box 26: Oversize Box-Scrapbooks 30 & 31, 1933-1936, undated
- NOTE: This box is stored off-site and must be requested 24 hours in advance.
- Barcode: 100386
- Box 27: Oversize Box-Scrapbooks 32-34, 1927-1955
- NOTE: This box is stored off-site and must be requested 24 hours in advance.
- Barcode: 100387
- Box 28: Oversize Box-Scrapbooks 35 & 36, 1926-1927; 1946
- NOTE: This box is stored off-site and must be requested 24 hours in advance.
- Barcode: 100388
- Item 1: Scrapbook 35, circa 1926-1927
- Scrapbook contains clippings covering Dan Moody's campaign for Texas governor.
- Item 2: Scrapbook 36, 1946
- Scrapbook contains maps; letters; reports; instructions; flyers; pamphlets; and clippings concerning the National Americanism Endowment Fund of the American Legion.
- Item 1: Scrapbook 35, circa 1926-1927
- Box 29: Oversize Box-Scrapbook 37, 1922
- NOTE: This box is stored off-site and must be requested 24 hours in advance.
- Barcode: 100389
- Box 30: Oversize Box-Scrapbooks 38 & 39, 1930-1964
- NOTE: This box is stored off-site and must be requested 24 hours in advance.
- Barcode: 100390
- Item 1: Scrapbook 38, 1930-1964
- Scrapbook contains various certificates; clippings; correspondence; letter from Lyndon B. Johnson p.22; invitation to Inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson p. 28; and invitation to Innaugural Ball for Dwight Eisenhower p. 29.
- Item 2: Scrapbook 39, 1962
- Scrapbook contains clippings covering the 44th National Convention of the American Legion in Las Vegas.
- Item 1: Scrapbook 38, 1930-1964
- Box 31: Oversize Box-Scrapbooks 40 & 41, 1943-1951
- NOTE: This box is stored off-site and must be requested 24 hours in advance.
- Barcode: 100391
- Box 32: Oversize Box-Scrapbooks 42 & 43, 1954-1954, undated
- NOTE: This box is stored off-site and must be requested 24 hours in advance.
- Barcode: 100392
- Box 33: Oversize Box-Scrapbooks 44 & 45, 1927, undated
- NOTE: This box is stored off-site and must be requested 24 hours in advance.
- Barcode: 100393
- Box 34: Oversize Box-Scrapbook 46, undated
- NOTE: This box is stored off-site and must be requested 24 hours in advance.
- Barcode: 100394
- Box 35: Oversize Box- Scrapbook 47, 1911, undated
- NOTE: This box is stored off-site and must be requested 24 hours in advance.
- Barcode: 100395
- Box 36: Oversize Box-Scrapbook 48, 1914-1916
- NOTE: This box is stored off-site and must be requested 24 hours in advance.
- Barcode: 100396
- Box 37: Oversize Box-Scrapbook 49, undated
- NOTE: This box is stored off-site and must be requested 24 hours in advance.
- Barcode: 100397
- Item 1: Scrapbook 49, undated
- Scrapbook is stamped with Mount Vernon Seminary Seal and entitled Notes on the Great War. Scrapbook includes clippings of images and captions pertaining to leaders, soldiers, places, and battles of World War I. Also includes War Map of the French Front Northern Section; War Map of the French Front Southern Section; War Map of the Entire Western Battle Front in Europe; and War Map of the British Front; War Map of the Italian Front; and War Map of All Europe and Asia fold-out Rand McNally pocket maps p.96-101; and Continental Daily Mail Map of the Battlefields of France fold-out map p.121.
- Item 1: Scrapbook 49, undated
- Box 38: Oversize Box-Scrapbooks 50 & 51, 1935-1937
NOTE: This box is stored off-site and must be requested 24 hours in advance.
100398
- Barcode: 100398
- Item 1: Scrapbook 50, 1935-1937
- Scrapbook contains postcards from Lucy to her mother p. 1, 23, 25; Irish stamps; clippings; correspondence; and photographs p.62 documenting the Owsley family's activities in the Irish Free State.
- Item 2: Scrapbook 51, 1933-1936
- Scrapbook contains clippings; photographs p.3, 5, 38, 55 ; correspondence; calling cards p.37; and postcards from Owsley children p. 42-43 documenting Owsley family's activities in Romania.
- Item 1: Scrapbook 50, 1935-1937
- Box 39: Oversize Box-Scrapbooks 52 & 53, 1940-1943, undated
- NOTE: This box is stored off-site and must be requested 24 hours in advance.
- Barcode: 100399
- Box 40: Oversize Box-Scrapbooks 54-57, 1936-1971, undated
- NOTE: This box is stored off-site and must be requested 24 hours in advance.
- Barcode: 100400
- Item 1: Scrapbook 54, undated
- Scrapbook contains one clipping concerning Lucy Owsley.
- Item 2: Scrapbook 55, undated
- Scrapbook contains miscellaneous clippings.
- Item 3: Scrapbook 56, 1936-1938
- Scrapbook contains clippings documenting the Ball family's activities.
- Item 4: Scrapbook 57, 1971
- Scrapbook contains clippings concerning the publication of Alvin M. Owsley of Texas: Apostle of Americanism by Marion S. Adams.
- Item 1: Scrapbook 54, undated
- Box 41: Oversize Box-Scrapbooks 58 & 59, 1905-1925, undated
- NOTE: This box is stored off-site and must be requested 24 hours in advance.
- Barcode: 100401
- Item 1: Scrapbook 58, 1905-1909, undated
- Scrapbook contains photographs of Lucy Ball as child; Alvin Owsley at Virginia Military Institute; other family photographs; a program featuring Ball family members; and clipping concerning recital of Lucy and Helen Ball.
- Item 2: Scrapbook 59, 1925, undated
- Scrapbook contains large photographs of Lucy Ball, inlcuding bridal portraits.
- Item 1: Scrapbook 58, 1905-1909, undated
- Box 1: Oversize Box-Scrapbook 1, 1918-1923