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BOX 3 Speaking Tours, 1917-1935
The Speaking Tours series, dated from 1917 to 1935, contains materials related to MacDonald’s association with evangelical preacher Billy Sunday and his participation in the Chautauqua lecture circuit.
Material types include scrapbooks containing writings, clippings, correspondence, photographs, advertisements, and ephemera.
Series is arranged in two sections: Billy Sunday and Chautauqua. Sections are arranged chronologically.
BOX 3 Billy Sunday
BOX OV 11 Scrapbook: Billy Sunday, 1917 See Container OV 11, same heading
BOX 3 Awakening Songs, given to MacDonald by Homer Rodeheaver, 1918
BOX OV 12 Scrapbook on A. B. MacDonald's association with Billy Sunday, including Chicago Campaigns, 1918-1935 See Container OV 12, same heading
BOX 3 Sunday, Billy, letter, 1926
BOX 3 Rodeheaver, Homer, letter, 1934
BOX 3 Truett, George, Christmas card, 1934-1935
BOX 3 Chautauqua
BOX 3 Vawter, Keith, Chautauqua correspondence, 1924-1926
BOX OV 13 Chautauqua scrapbook, Redpath-Vawter Chautauqua, 1926-1928 See Container OV 13, same heading
BOX OV 14 Chautauqua scrapbook, Redpath-Horner Chautauqua, 1927 See Container OV 14, same heading
BOX 3-7 Personal and Family Papers, 1878-1976
The Personal and Family Paper series dates from 1878 to 1976, with the bulk of the material dating from 1893 to 1942, and documents A. B. MacDonald’s family life and history. Material in this series was most likely compiled and preserved by MacDonald’s son, Malcolm MacDonald, and includes material created by him before and after A. B. MacDonald’s death.
Material types include correspondence, scrapbooks, diaries, photographs, and ephemera.
Series is arranged in five sections: Correspondence, Diaries and scrapbooks, Photographs, Family history and genealogy, and Miscellany. Sections are arranged chronologically.
BOX 3-4 Correspondence
BOX 3 MacDonald, A. B., to his parents, 1908
BOX 3 Shannon, Annabel to Malcolm MacDonald, 1930, 1936-1937
(3 folders)
BOX 3 MacDonald, A. B. to Malcolm MacDonald, 1936
(3 folders)
BOX 4 MacDonald, A. B. to Malcolm MacDonald, 1937-1941, undated
(7 folders)
BOX 4 MacDonald, Mary J. to Malcolm MacDonald, 1936
BOX 4 MacDonald, Malcolm to family, 1936
BOX 4 MacDonald, Malcolm, Standard Roofing Company, 1936
BOX 4 "Notes from Mom and Pop," 1936, 1976
BOX 4 Miscellaneous ephemera, circa 1936-circa 1941
BOX 4 Various correspondents to Malcolm MacDonald, 1937-1938
BOX 4 MacDonald, Mary J. [?] to family, 1938 July
BOX 4 Various correspondents to Malcolm MacDonald, 1938-1941
BOX 4 MacDonald, Donald to Malcolm MacDonald, 1940
BOX 4 Spraker, Florence "Babe," 1940
BOX 4 Matheson, Malcolm A. to Malcolm MacDonald, 1942
BOX 4 To Malcolm MacDonald from his niece, 1967
BOX 4 Shippey, Lee letter to Florence MacDonald, undated
BOX 5-6 Diaries and scrapbooks
BOX 5 MacDonald, A. B. diary, 1940
BOX 5 MacDonald, A. B. diary, 1941
(2 folders)
BOX 5 MacDonald, A. B. diary, 1942
BOX 5 MacDonald, Malcolm diary, 1941
(2 folders)
BOX 5 MacDonald, Malcolm miscellaneous diary pages, 1941-1943
BOX 5 MacDonald, Malcolm diary, 1942
BOX 6 MacDonald, Malcolm diary: Pages and correspondence regarding A. B. MacDonald's death, 1942 Apr.
BOX 6 MacDonald, Mary J. funeral, guest book and scrapbook, 1939
(2 folders)
BOX 6 MacDonald, A. B. funeral, guest book, 1942
BOX 6 Photographs
BOX OV 27 Photographs of A. B. MacDonald and Daniel Wilson in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, when they were about 17 years old, circa 1878 See Container OV 27, same heading
BOX 6 Portraits of A. B. MacDonald (32 years old) and Mary "Mamie" MacDonald (22 years old), 1893
BOX 6 Miscellaneous family photographs, 1895, undated
BOX OV 28 Family photo album, 1895-1915, undated See Container OV 28, same heading
BOX OV 29 "A Sunday at home, May 30, 1897," photo of MacDonald with Jesse James' family, and other family photos, 1897-1908 See Container OV 29, same heading
BOX OV 18 Photo album with picture of train wreck with William Jennings Bryan, various autographed photos, and family photographs, 1903-1923 See Container OV 18, same heading
BOX OV 19 Views along the St. John River, New Brunswick, Canada (photos taken by Henry Emerson MacDonald) and miscellaneous family, circa 1907, 1934 See Container OV 19, same heading
BOX 6 Photograph of A. B. MacDonald "At a Picnic on a Battlefield, Lone Jack, Mo." with Judge Ralph Latshaw, 1910
BOX 6 Miscellaneous landscape photographs, 1912, undated
BOX 6 MacDonald, Malcolm, photographs and ephemera, circa 1913-1944
BOX OV 20 Family photo album, 1924-1936 See Container OV 20, same heading
BOX 6 Portraits of A. B. MacDonald, 1930-1931
BOX 6 Miscellaneous photographs of A. B. MacDonald, 1930, undated
BOX 6 Miscellaneous family photographs, 1930-1972
BOX 6 Photographs of A. B. MacDonald at Park College, Parkville, Mo., receiving honorary degree, 1931
BOX OV 31 Portrait of A. B. MacDonald reading a newspaper, circa 1931 See Container OV 31, same heading
BOX OV 21 Family photo album, primarily MacDonald's Corner in New Brunswick, Canada, 1931-1934, undated See Container OV 21, same heading
BOX 6 Miscellaneous family photographs, 1931-1939
BOX 6 MacDonald, Mary, photographs, 1934-1936, undated
BOX OV 15 MacDonald, Malcolm, photo album, family road trip to Canada and other travels, 1934-1938 See Container OV 15, same heading
BOX OV 16 Vacation of 1938, A. B. MacDonald and Mary MacDonald, 1938 See Container OV 16, same heading
BOX OV 22 MacDonald, Malcolm, photo album, 1938-1939 See Container OV 22, same heading
BOX 6 Photographs, Western road trip, Pike's Peak [Malcolm MacDonald?], 1942
BOX OV 23 Pike's Peak album [Malcolm MacDonald?], circa 1942 See Container OV 23, same heading
BOX OV 30 MacDonald family portraits, undated See Container OV 30, same heading
BOX 6 Photograph of A. B. MacDonald and unidentified man, undated
BOX 6 MacDonald, Malcolm, photographs and ephemera, undated
BOX 6 Photographs of Mary J. MacDonald, undated
BOX 6-7 Family history and genealogy
BOX OV 17 Scrapbook by Henry Emerson MacDonald written for A. B. MacDonald, 1893-1908 See Container OV 17, same heading
BOX 6 MacDonald, A. B., United States naturalization papers, 1896, 1928
BOX 7 MacDonald genealogy, 1907-circa 1972
(5 folders)
BOX 7 Family tree and obituaries, circa 1935-1970
BOX 7 MacDonald, A. B., obituaries, 1942
BOX 7 Miscellany
BOX 7 Twain, Mark, ephemera and note from Malcolm MacDonald, 1926, 1976
BOX 7 MacDonald, Malcolm, book plate, 1928
BOX 7 Deed to cemetery lot, 1937-1938
BOX OV 31 Honorary doctorate, Park College, Parkville, Mo., 1931 See Container OV 31, same heading
BOX 7 Park College correspondence, 1931
BOX 7-8 Other Interests, 1909-1942
The Other Interests series dates from 1909 to 1942 and includes materials MacDonald collected relating to the Old West and Abraham Lincoln, both topics he had a special interest in. Also includes documents related to MacDonald’s book (co-written with Fred Ellsworth Sutton), Hands Up! Stories of the Six-Gun Fighters of the Old West.
Material types include correspondence, photographs, clippings, and scrapbooks.
Series is arranged in two sections: Old West material and Abraham Lincoln material. Sections are arranged chronologically.
BOX 7-8 Old West
BOX 7 "Life of Henry Starr Outlaw," correspondence and photograph of Starr just after he was shot, 1915
BOX 7 Ozark photographs, 1927
BOX 7 Photograph of Bill Tilghman and Archie Kreech, 1928
BOX 7 Dalton, Emmett, article: Reader correspondence, 1931
BOX 7 Dalton, Emmett, letter, 1931
BOX 7 Beeson, Merritt L., letter, 1939
BOX 7 Cave at Cinnamon Spring photograph, undated
BOX 7 Gillett, James "Jim," clipping, undated
BOX 7 Jennings, Al, autographed photograph, undated
BOX 7 Kennedy, Jack, clipping, undated
BOX 7 Masterson, Bat, clipping, undated
BOX 7 Morrison, Charles, "conductor on the leaky-roof line" photograph, undated
BOX 7 "Trails to take in the Texas Panhandle" brochure, map, undated
BOX 7 Unidentified group, photographs, undated
BOX 7 Unidentified man, photographs, undated
BOX 7 The Wild Bunch copy of photograph and caption, undated
BOX 8 Postcard with photograph of Soapy Williams, undated
BOX 8 Postcard with photograph of Cole Younger, undated
BOX 8 Hands Up!
BOX 8 Saturday Evening Post clippings, 1926
BOX 8 Saturday Evening Post correspondence, 1926
BOX 8 D. L. Chambers correspondence, 1926-1927
BOX 8 Bobbs-Merrill Company correspondence, 1926-1927
BOX 8 Bobbs-Merrill Company contract, 1927
BOX 8 Sutton, Fred Ellsworth, correspondence, 1927-1937
BOX 8 Royalty statements, 1928, 1936-1939
BOX 8 Keith, Harold, correspondence, 1936-1937
BOX 8 Sutton, Lily B., correspondence, 1939-1942
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