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Guide to the Frances Beard Collection, ca. 1930-1949

Wyoming State Archives

Email: wyarchive@wyo.gov



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Collection Summary

Title Frances Beard Collection
Dates (Inclusive) ca. 1930-1949
Dates (Bulk)
Collector Beard, Frances Birkhead
Abstract This collection contains notes on Wyoming and draft of Frances Beard's history of Wyoming (Wyoming, From Territorial Days to the Present) and scrapbooks, notebooks and memorabilia from her travels around the world, Europe and Alaska.
Collection Number H57-81
Size 1.5 cubic feet
Repository Wyoming State Archives
Languages English

Biographical Note

Frances Beard was state historian of Wyoming from 1923 to 1933.


Arrangement

Alphabetical


Scope and Content

This collection contains notes on Wyoming and draft of Frances Beard's history of Wyoming (Wyoming, From Territorial Days to the Present) and scrapbooks, notebooks and memorabilia from her travels around the world, Europe and Alaska.


Restrictions

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Copy Restrictions

Limited duplication of print materials allowed for research purposes. User is responsible for all copyright compliance.


Preferred Citation

Item description, H57-81, Frances Beard Collection, Wyoming State Archives.


Processing Information

Finding aid prepared in 1998 by Carl Hallberg


Acquisition Information

Donated in 1957 by Frances Beard.


Separated Material


Related Material

There are no other known collections by Frances Beard known at the writing of this finding aid.


Access Terms

Auditors--Wyoming

Maps

Ross, Nellie Tayloe, 1876-1977

Scrapbooks

Travel


Container List

Description Container

Alaska Trip 

 

A Lady in the Wilderness by Frederick Niven  

Notes  

Steamship Company Map  

Tourist Photographs  

Maps [mainly National Geographic] 

 

Asia, 1933  

Classical Islands of the Mediterranean, 1949  

Europe and the Mediterranean, 1938  

Europe and the Near East, 1949  

Indian Ocean, 1941  

Mexico  

Pacific Ocean, 1936  

South America, 1937  

Theater of War in Europe, Africa and Western Asia, 1942  

United States, 1933  

World, 1932  

Photographs and Sketches 

 

Jones, Jessie, a silhouette  

The Reader by Messonier [sketch on greeting card]  

Ross, Nellie Tayloe [transferred to historical photographs]  

Schriver, Mrs. F.E. [a Burmese friend]  

“The Vanishing Race: A Picture” by Edward Curtis  

World Trip 

 

Europe Scrapbook, 3 vols., 1933 [contains general and personal notes and photographs]  

Map showing route taken  

Travel Scrapbook, Vol II  

World Trip 

 

Wyoming Notes (2 vols.)  

History of Wyoming draft (.5 cubic feet)  


 
 
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