Summary Information

Title: Flora E. Lowry Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1920-1933

Creator:

• Lowry, Flora E.

Call Number: Wis Mss ID; PH 6537

Quantity: 1.4 c.f. (4 archives boxes and 1 card box) and 21 photographs

Repository:

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

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

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

Abstract:

Papers of Flora E. Lowry (Mrs. Robert Lowry), a La Crosse, Wisconsin resident and clubwoman, concerning her avocational interest in Wisconsin writers. The collection includes research correspondence, biographical note cards, clippings, photographs, and printed writings by many Wisconsin writers, poets, and musicians. Among the larger files are those concerning Rasmus B. Anderson, George Collie, and Hamlin Garland. The photographs include Hamlin Garland (probably at West Salem, Wisconsin) and pictures of Lincoln scholar George Hambrecht visiting Old Salem, Illinois in 1922. Original sheet music in the collection has been transferred to the University of Wisconsin Music Library.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-wis000id

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