Part 1 (Wis Mss AL): Original Collection, 1863-1986
Physical Description: 11.4 c.f. (4 archives boxes, 10 record center cartons, and 1 oversize folder) and 3 reels of microfilm (35 mm) 
Scope and Content Note

The family papers document Andrew Jackson Turner and his son Frederick Jackson Turner's professional and personal activities only incidentally. The bulk of the collection is published materials, mostly in the form of books, from the Turner family's libraries and the library of Frederick Jackson Turner's son-in-law, John S. Main.

The Andrew J. Turner papers include memoranda, correspondence, and notes used in connection with his articles on Fort Winnebago, the organization of Portage and Columbia counties, and the origins of the Republican Party. In his general correspondence there are letters from Matthew H. Carpenter and Horace Rublee about the 1869 senatorial campaign, letters explaining the use of the word “Shanghai” in reference to the Republican Party; and letters about local history. There is also a volume of letters on the Wisconsin gerrymander case, 1891-1892, written by Charles E. Estabrook, John C. Spooner, and others. Turner's published history of Columbia County is also included.

Among the Frederick Jackson Turner papers are reports and correspondence exchanged with J. Franklin Jameson and other historians as a member of the Committee on Documentary Historical Publications, 1908-1910; clippings and correspondence concerning the University of Wisconsin football team, 1906-1907; letters to Charles H. Haskins, 1909-1926, including one in which Turner informed Haskins of his intent to leave the University of Wisconsin; and scattered original letters from Turner to various historians. Teaching materials include Harvard lecture notes, 1911-1912 and 1922-1923 (only on microfilm) and a syllabus for the “History of the West,” a University of Wisconsin class. The latter course is also documented by a transcription from a student's shorthand notes, 1903-1904. From Turner's years as a student at the University of Wisconsin there is information from Andrew J. Vieau and John T. de la Ronde used for his early thesis on the fur trade; notes, 1882-1883, some pertaining to classes taken with William Francis Allen; and his University of Wisconsin graduation diploma.

Additions from the Main Family include published works by and about Turner as well as some volumes from the family's general library. Many of the books contain marginal notes, inscriptions, and correspondence; loose items in the books have been removed to the manuscript papers. The Frontier in American History is represented by four foreign-language translations. Of special interest among the library titles belonging to John S. Main, Turner's son-in-law, are several presented by Aldo Leopold including a detailed, unpublished 1929 report on Wisconsin game by Leopold for the Game Restoration Committee of the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturer's Institute.

Andrew Jackson Turner Papers

Correspondence

General, 1863-1904

Carpenter and Rublee Senate election, 1868

Gerrymander case, 1891-1892

Shanghai name usage, 1880

Fort Winnebago and Portage history research

Republican Party origins

Family Tree of Columbia County, Wisconsin, 1904

Frederick Jackson Turner Papers

Biographical clippings

Biographical writings about F.J. Turner

Curti, Merle. Historiadores de America: Frederick Jackson Turner

Farrand, Max. “Frederick Jackson Turner at the Huntington Library.” Huntington Library Bulletin, no. 3, 1933 February

Howe, M.A. De Wolfe. “Memoir of Frederick Jackson Turner.” Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, volume 28, 1935

Jacobs, Wilbur R.

Frederick Jackson Turner's Legacy, 1965

“Frederick Jackson Turner's Notes on the Westward Movement, California, and the Far West.” Southern California Quarterly, 1964

The Historical World of Frederick Jackson Turner, 1968

“The Many-Sided Frederick Jackson Turner.” Western Historical Quarterly, volume I, no. 4, 1970

“Turner's Methodology: Multiple Working Hypotheses or Ruling Theory.” Journal of American History, volume 14, no. 4, 1968

Skinner, Constance L. “Turner's Autobiographical Letter.” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 1935

Correspondence

General, 1889-1929

Selections from F.J. Turner Papers
Note: Originals at Huntington Library.

Athletics at University of Wisconsin, 1906-1907

Becker, Carl L., selected papers, 1896-1932
Note: Originals at Cornell University.

Committee on Documentary Historical Publications, 1908-1910

Family Library

F.J. Turner's own library inventories

Inventory of books donated by Main Family

Loose papers from the Main Family library

Books donated by Main Family

A-Channing

Collections-Dale

Donaldson-Hart, volume 3

Hart, volume 4-26

Hart, volume 27-Leopold

Leopold (continued)-Milton

Nevins-Prescott

Prescott (continued)-Webb

White-Winsor, volume VI

Winsor, volume VII-Wisconsin

Notes, miscellaneous

Research notes

Early Wisconsin, A.J. Vieau, circa 1888

Fort Loudon, Tennessee

Student notebooks, 1882-1883

Teaching materials

“History of the West”

Syllabus, undated

Transcribed shorthand notes, 1903-1904
Note: Formerly SC 354.

Lecture notes (Harvard), 1922-1923

Lecture notes (Harvard) / by George P. Ettenheim, 1911-1912
Note: Originals at Washington State College at Pullman.

University of Wisconsin diploma

Writings

Short works by F.J. Turner, transcriptions, 1887-1938

Published works by F.J. Turner

The Early Writings of Frederick Jackson Turner, 1938
Physical Description: Inscribed: To our Grandson JTM CMST 

The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin: A Study of the Trading Post as an Institution, 1977, 1938

The Frontier in American History

Holt, 1921

German translation, 1947

Spanish translation, 1960?

Indian edition, undated

Paperback edition, introduction by Ray Allen Billington, 1962

Russian translation, 1978

Paperback edition, introduction by Wilbur R. Jacobs, 1986

Limited edition, Franklin Library, 1977

“New England, 1830-1850,” Huntington Library Bulletin, number 1, 1931

The Significance of Sections in American History, 1933

“The Significance of the Mississippi Valley in American History.” Proceedings of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, 1909-1910

The United States, 1830-1850: The Nation and Its Sections, 1935

Reuben Gold Thwaites: A Memorial Address, 1914

Rise of the New West, 1906
Scope and Content Note: Volume 14 of Hart's The American Nation series.

“Sections and Nation.” Yale Review, 1922

“The West and American Ideals.” Washington Historical Quarterly, volume V, number 4, 1914