MsC 357
Manuscript Register
PAPERS OF ARTHUR FRANCIS ALLEN
Collection dates: 1913 -- 1949
(Bulk
dates: 1919 -- 1930)
1 linear foot
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Posted to the Internet April 2002
Acquisition
Note: These papers
were donated to the University of Iowa Libraries by the School of Journalism
in 1977.
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and Restrictions: This collection is open
for research.
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Biographical Note
Arthur Francis Allen (1867 -- 1949)
was born in Warren, Illinois. The family moved to Nebraska when Allen was
fourteen years old. He attended the University of Nebraska for a year before
quitting to learn the printers trade. He apprenticed with the Daily Herald
in Fremont, Nebraska, and later with the Tribune. In 1885, Allen found
work with the Cedar Rapids Daily Gazette as a typesetter. He was admitted
to membership in the Typographical Union in Omaha at the age of nineteen,
and from 1887 to 1890 he worked as a journeyman printer in Omaha and the surrounding
area.
Allen first began
working for the Sioux City Journal in 1889. He moved up the ladder
through a number of positions including telegraph news editor, city editor,
and managing editor. In 1914, Frank Allen became the paper's editor-in-chief.
He remained in that position until his death at age eighty-one.
Although Allen's
principal interest was always the newspaper business, he did serve in the
army and was a member of the National Guard. Outside of his profession he
was involved in amateur photography, music, travel, the outdoors, and birds.
He studied and wrote about birds and was a member of the Sioux City Bird Club.
Scope and Contents
The papers of Arthur Francis Allen
date from 1913 to 1949 and measure one linear foot. Most of the collection
is made up of correspondence, including letters from John Carey, Cyrenus Cole,
Jay N. Darling, Ross Hammond, G.M Hitchcock, and R.B. Wylie. There are manuscripts
of his speeches, a travel diary, and an article by Allen titled, "Birds of
Sioux City and Vicinity." They are open for research.
Box
List:
Box 1
Folder title:
1-5) Correspondence with Grace and Walter Marvin, 1917 -- 1941
6) Correspondence
with Alex Smith, 1919 -- 1933
Box
2
Box
3
1) Speeches and
Manuscripts, 1915 -- 1939
2) "Birds of Sioux
City and Vicinity" by A.F. Allen, read before Academy of Science & Letters,
March 11, 1919
3) Scrapbook of
articles published by A. F. Allen, 1919 -- 1927, primarily editorials from
Sioux City Journal, includes index
4) Diary of
Summer Journey of A. F. Allen, 1928, a trip to Washington, D.C., Philadelphia,
and vicinities, entries from July 9 to July 26
Lincoln Scrapbook
Clippings about
Lincoln from newspapers and magazines, kept between 1898 and 1933, filed after
Box 3
Clippings Scrapbook
Clippings taken
from newspapers and magazines on various subjects.
