Collection Summary

Lists of published and unpublished manuscripts written by Stowell, with some miscellaneous correspondence. 

Manuscript, "About Lapping" (lapping is the process of producing smooth accurate surfaces by rubbing with an abrasive). Includes rejection letter.  

12 pages, 3 pages of illustrations

Nine short articles for "Among Ourselves" column feature written for Santa Fe Magazine. 

Arizona and New Mexico manuscripts. 

--Letter to ManPower asking that Stowell's manuscript, "Arizona Beckoned Me," be typed and corrected.  

First 5 pages of manuscript (incomplete)

--Second copy of "Arizona Beckoned Me."  

10 pages

--"Curious Squeeze Ups in Arizona Lava Bed."  

1 page

--"Desert Fossil Tells Story of Pineal Gland."  

2 pages, 1 illustration

--"Going Native." 

5 pages

--"Hunting Indian Pictograp[hs]" (rest of title missing).  

6 pages

--"Interesting Petroglyphs on Albuquerque's Volcano Cliffs"  

2 pages

--"Luminarias Older than we Think."  

2 pages

--"Luminarias are Older than we Think." 

2 pages

--New Mexico (poem).  

1 page

--"New Mexico Legend of a Corpse that Will Not Stay in the Grave."  

3 pages

--"Peyote, an Aboriginal Dope Cult of the Southwest."  

4 pages

--"Weird Valley of the Rio Puerco."  

first manuscript 4 pages, second manuscript (incomplete) 3 pages

--"Weird Valley of the Rio Puerco."  

7 pages

Canyon de Chelly. Two manuscripts. 

--"To Canyon de Chelly and the Hopi Snake Dance." Includes rejection letter.  

9 pages

-- "Mysterious Canyon de Chelly."  

8 pages

"Last Days of Steam." Four manuscripts, all with the same title, "The Last Days of Steam: The mysteries of the steam locomotive nearly went unsolved into oblivion." 

--First copy; includes rejection letter.  

22 pages

--Second copy; includes rejection letter.  

16 pages

--Third copy.  

14 pages

--Fourth copy of above, but with different corrections and emendations. 

Magazines and tear sheets with Stowell's articles, 1933-1983.

Handwritten table of contents for folder.  

1 page

--"How Inventors Get the Brush Off (sic)."  

5 pages

--"Clickety Clack of Track is Spedometer (sic)."  

3 pages

--"Gyroscopic forces in Locomotive Driving Wheels."  

4 pages

--"Oil Cooler Lifting Device."  

4 pages, includes illustration

--"Testing Piston Rod Packing Springs."  

2 pages

--"Simple Gadget Helps Cripples."  

3 versions each 2 pages, rejection letter, 2 illustrations

--"Spring Boring Bar."  

1 page

--"The Story of Chili," rejection notice.  

7 pages

--"Dividing the Circle."  

4 pages

Motorcycle manuscripts 

--"Explorers for a Week."  

7 pages

--"Exploring Cliffs and Canyons of the Ancients."  

4 pages

--"Motorcycles and Science," includes 2 first pages, each different.  

5 pages

--"Our Motorcycle Hunt for Indian Rock Drawings."  

5 pages

--"Remodeling Motorcycle Gear Shift Quadrent (sic) to Prevent Slipping out of Gear."  

2 pages

--"Through New Mexico with a Motorcycle and Camera."  

6 pages

--"We Saw Tent Rock Canyon."  

4 pages

Phoenician Inscription Still a Mystery, Mystery Mountain manuscripts.  

--"Phoenician Inscription Needs Explaining," includes submission letter.  

8 pages

--"The Mystery on the Mountain."  

7 pages

--"Phoenician Inscription Still a Mystery."  

6 pages

--"Phoenician...Mystery," second version.  

5 pages

--"The Mystery on the Mountain," second version.  

6 pages

--"Phoenician Inscription Needs Explaining," second version.  

6 pages

--"Phoenician Inscription Needs Explaining," second version.  

6 pages

--"The Mystery on the Mountain."  

7 pages

--"Phoenician Inscription Still a Mystery."  

6 pages

--"Phoenician...Mystery," second version.  

5 pages

--"The Mystery on the Mountain," second version.  

6 pages

--"Phoenician Inscription Needs Explaining," second version. 

6 pages

--"Phoenician Inscription a Mystery."  

6 pages

Manuscripts regarding Photography, Camera Inventions, with handwritten table of contents. 

--To the Commissioner of Patents, includes four illustrations, rejection letter.  

9 pages

--Polaroid Corporation letter of rejection, attachments.  

9 pages, 4 illustrations

--The Commissioner of Patents, letter, with 10 illustrations.  

11 pages

--"The Great Photographic Mystery."  

5 pages

--"The Great Photographic Mystery," second version. 

5 pages

--"Photographic Mysteries."  

5 pages

--"Queen of Science Helps Photographer."  

3 pages

--Letter to Janet M. Victor, Cracking Down on a Photographic Mystery.  

4 pages

--To Rangefinder.  

2 pages

--"Easy Way to Work Temperature Conversion."  

2 pages

--"The Temperature Conversion Problem."  

3 pages

-- "Was my Face Red."  

2 pages

--"What I Learned About Copying."  

6 pages

"Zebulon Pike and the Path to Empire" manuscript. Two copies of the same manuscript, name as above, in slightly different versions, and a picture of Pike.  

--First version includes rejection letter from American Historical Review.  

10 pages

--Second version.  

10 pages

--Extra copy of first page, slightly different from other versions. 

Non Destructive Testing manuscripts. 

--"Improving Non Destructive Testing."  

13 pages

--"Forty Years of Non Destructive Testing."  

13 pages, plus 8 illustrations

Vibration Dampers manuscripts and inventions. 

--First page of proposed untitled article, patent application, begins, "The hocus pocus..." 

--Abandoned patent application, Cushioned Inertia Flywheel, 7 pages, 3 Illustrations, 5 additional typeset pages of patent 1,874,515 held by W. W. Harris, 2 additional hand drawn illustrations of a Lanchester damper. 

--Photographic pages of a proposed invention to prevent kinking of rails by steam locomotives.  

pages 1 and 3 (rest of 15 pages missing); 4 additional illustrations

--"Vibration Dampers have Big Problems, letter of rejection.  

9 pages including two copies of page 7

--2 miscellaneous pages of patent application for reducing flare light in cameras. 

--6 miscellaneous pages and illustrations of a patent application for counter balancing flywheels.