Summary Information

Title: F. Darius Benham Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1915-1960

Creator:

• Benham, F. Darius, 1896-1960

Call Number: U.S. Mss 38AF

Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

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Abstract:

Papers of a reporter and public-relations counselor. One folder of correspondence, 1915-1957, relates to the Circus Saints and Sinners, the Theodore Roosevelt family, and Benham's promotion of the Richard Byrd polar expedition, as well as to miscellaneous other subjects. Prominent correspondents include Alben W. Barkley, Elmer Davis, James H. Doolittle, Dwight D. Eisenhower, James A. Farley, Henry R. Luce, J. Pierpont Morgan, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., and Robert A. Taft. The remainder of the collection contains clippings and printed material about Benham's life and the organizations he founded.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-us0038af

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