Scope and Content Note
The papers of Henry Tureman Allen (1859-1930) span the years 1806-1933, with the bulk of the material dating from 1883 to 1933. The collection relates mainly to Allen's military career as a member of an Alaskan exploring party, 1885-1886; as organizer and chief of the Philippine Constabulary, 1901-1907; as a member of the Mexican Punitive Expedition, 1916-1917; as commander of the Ninetieth Division during the First World War, and as commander of the American Occupation Forces on the Rhine, 1919-1923. Subsequent to his retirement from the army in 1923, he was active in organizing various veterans' groups for the 1928 Democratic presidential candidate, Alfred Emanuel Smith; material relating to this political activity is among the papers. A few Allen family papers are also in the collection. The papers are organized into the following series: Diaries, General Correspondence, Letterbooks, Military Matters, Speech, Article, and Book File, Miscellany, Photographs, Printed Matter, Clippings, Maps, Reports, Photograph Albums, Scrapbooks and Portfolio, and Oversize.
The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence, personal as well as professional. Included, too, are diaries, manuscripts of a book, My Rhineland Journal, and numerous speeches and articles, reports of Allen's military activities, photographs, and scrapbooks.