Frans August Larson family papers, 1864-2021

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Container	Contents

BOX 1	Across the Desert of Gobi: A Narrative of an Escape During the Boxer Uprising, June to September 1900, by Mark Williams, 1901
BOX 1	Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1925-1931, 2005, undated
BOX 1	Barnes, Katherine (Anna) Larson, 1941-1983
BOX 1	Campbell, C. W., expedition in Mongolia with F. A. Larson, 1903
BOX 1	Clarke, Eric, and Ruth Clarke, 1926, 1947-1955, undated
BOX 1	Colgate, Beatrice, and S. Bayard Colgate, 1953-1963
BOX 1	Family research file, 1912, 1927-1975, 1999-2007
BOX 1	Hedin, Sven Anders, 1926-1932, 1969, undated
BOX 1	Ingram, Ruth, medical work in China, 1934-1959
BOX 1	Kalgan Mission Station, Kalgan (Zhangjiakou), China
BOX 1		Background material, 2000
BOX 1		Reports, 1896-1900
			(5 folders)
BOX 1	Larson, Albert, and Helen Larson, 1941-1970, undated
BOX 1	Larson, Frans August
BOX 1		Art collecting in Mongolia
BOX 1			Anderson, J. G., Hunting Magic in the Animal Style and Selected Ordos Bronzes, 1932-1933
BOX 1			Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, Ordos bronzes
BOX 1				1930-1933, 1992
BOX 2				1993-1997
BOX 2			Borovka, Gregory, Scythian Art, 1928
BOX 2			Miscellany, 1930-1933, 1957, undated
BOX 2		Letters received, 1923-1934, 1954-1957
BOX 2		Letters to Mary Larson Walker (daughter)
BOX 2			1918-1952
				(9 folders)
BOX 3			1953-1957, undated
				(6 folders)
BOX 3		Letters to Mary Rodgers Larson (wife) and children, 1927, undated
BOX 3		Letters to Swahn family, 1952-1955
BOX 3		Letters to Virginia Walker Hart (granddaughter), 1947-1956
BOX 3		Medals, photographs of, 1952
BOX 3		Mongolian Ministry of Foreign Affairs document allowing Larson to reside and do private business in Khuree (modern Ulaanbaatar), 1925
BOX 3		News clippings, 1909-1939, 1949-1952, 2001
			(2 folders)
BOX 3		Writings
BOX 3			Correspondence with publishers, 1952-1954
BOX 3			Memoir draft, 1949
				(2 folders)
BOX 3			Memoir of Frans August Larson, transcribed by James Larson, Mongolia Society special papers, 2007
BOX 3			Untitled book manuscript about Mongolia, 1947
BOX 3	Larson, Frans August, Jr., 1928-1953, undated
BOX 4	Larson, James Rodgers, and Ruth Larson, circa 1930-circa 1952
BOX 4	Larson, Mary Rodgers
BOX 4		Letters to James Rodgers and Anna Rodgers (brother and sister-in-law), 1890-1892, undated
BOX 4		Letters to Mary Larson Walker (daughter), 1925-1947
			(7 folders)
BOX 4		Letters to Mary Rodgers (mother), 1891-circa 1910
BOX 4		Miscellany, 1947, undated
BOX 4		Obituary, 1947
BOX 4		Union Medical College, Beijing, China, report, 1942
BOX 4		Writings, "Escape from the Boxers across the Desert of Mongolia" (article), 1901
BOX 4	Lattimore, Eleanor, and Owen Lattimore, 1928-1933
BOX 4	Loucks, Harold, and Mary Swisher, 1928-1953, undated
BOX 4	Mayer, Isabel Ingram, and William Mayer
BOX 4		Correspondence, circa 1933-1951, undated
BOX 4		Photographs and news clippings, circa 1930-1934, 1964, 1992
BOX 4	Miscellany, 1925, undated
BOX 4	Odelberg, Axel (biographer), 2001-2004, undated
BOX 5	Photograph albums
BOX 5		1915, undated, "Views," family and friends of Mary L. Larson, Chefoo School, Chefoo (Yantai), China, and other China photographs, with captions
BOX 5		Circa 1915-circa 1920, "Mary Louise Larson," photographs with captions, Mongolia, China, United States, and Sweden
BOX 5		1919-1923, "Mary L. Larson," photographs from the United States
BOX OV 1		1923-1927, Mongolian expeditions of Frans August Larson and other photographs of Mongolia and China
BOX OV 2		Circa 1924, Mongolia, panoramic photographs with captions
BOX OV 2		1925-1927, China and Mongolia photographs, C. Lester Walker and Mary Larson Walker
BOX 6		Circa 1925, "Mary L. Larson from 'The Rover Boys'"
BOX 6	Photographs
BOX 6		Delwa Gegen/Diluwa Khutugtu Jamsrangjab, undated
BOX 6		"Dinner in Peking for the Prince of Sweden," circa 1925
BOX 6		Expedition of Sven Hedin and other Mongolian photographs
BOX 6			Binder 1, circa 1925-circa 1938
				(4 folders)
BOX 7			Binder 1, circa 1925-circa 1938
				(2 folders)
BOX 7			Binder 2, circa 1925-circa 1938
				(5 folders)
BOX 7		Kalgan (Zhangjiakou), China, 1919, 1932
BOX 7		Larson, Frans August, and Mary Rodgers Larson, circa 1897, circa 1945
BOX 7		Larson, Frans August, and Mary Rodgers Larson with children, 1899-circa 1909
BOX 7		Larson, Frans August, portraits, circa 1890-circa 1955
BOX 7		Mongolia, circa 1900-circa 1930
BOX 7		Rodgers family, 1864-1940, 1966
			(2 folders)
BOX OV 2		Rodgers, James, and Anna Van Vecton Bigelow Rodgers, portrait, undated
BOX 7		Tumen Borjer, 1935
BOX 8	Pressey, Margaret Larson, and Edwin Pressey, 1931-1978, undated
BOX 8	Rodgers family
BOX 8		Correspondence, 1941-1953, undated
BOX 8		Miscellany, 1914, 1944-1981, undated
BOX 8	Söderbon, George, and Joe Söderbon, 1918, 1955
BOX 8	Ungern-Sternberg, Reinhold von, and Alix Ungern, 1941-1951, 1971, undated
BOX 8	Walker, C. Lester
BOX 8		Alicia Patterson Foundation, 1976-1981
BOX 8		China research, notes, and drafts, 1924-1987
			(4 folders)
BOX 8		The Commentator (magazine), 1939-1940
			(2 folders)
BOX 9		Correspondence
BOX 9			Laschever, Barnett D., Fodor's Modern Guides, 1966
BOX 9			Reader's Digest (magazine), 1978-1983
BOX 9			Street, Wolcott D., 1971-1987
BOX 9		Helicopters, 1952-1956
			(2 folders)
BOX 9		Hurley, Patrick J., ambassador to China, research material, 1945
BOX 9		Japan, organization of schools postwar, 1945, undated
BOX 9		Miscellany, undated
BOX 9		Notebooks
BOX 9			Berdan, John Milton, literature class, undated
BOX 9			"China theatre notes, May-Oct.," 1945
BOX 9			Notes and ideas for a book about China I, 1945
BOX 10			Notes and ideas for a book about China II, 1976, undated
BOX 10			Thurber index, 1944-1945
				(2 folders)
BOX 10		Population of China, 1973-1981
			(2 folders)
BOX 10		Writings
BOX 10			"Beware the Mail Car Roof," undated
BOX 10			Book proposals about China, 1970, 1983-1985
				(2 folders)
BOX 11			"Eurasian"
BOX 11				Book drafts, circa 1979
					(3 folders)
BOX 11				Miscellany, 1976-1979
BOX 11			"Four Piecie Person Dinner Party," 1979-1983
BOX 11			Helicopters in China, 1945, 1980-1987, undated
BOX 11			"Home by Sampan," undated
BOX 11			"How to Write a Book on China," undated
BOX 12			"Longsday," 1976-1979, undated
BOX 12			"Manchurian Odyssey," undated
BOX 12			"Mingshan Days," book drafts, circa 1988
				(5 folders)
BOX 12			"Old Scholar," 1974-1988
				(2 folders)
BOX 13			"Tai Li: Most Super Spymaster of Them All," 1945-1946
BOX 13			"That Dragon Cloud was No Miao," 1945, 1954, 1984
BOX 13			"That Summer in Chungking," 1945, undated
BOX 13			World population
BOX 13				Correspondence, 1947-1949
BOX 13				Drafts, 1947-1949
					(2 folders)
BOX 13				Research file, 1939-1949
					(2 folders)
BOX 14	Walker, Mary Larson
BOX 14		Address books, undated
			(2 folders)
BOX 14		Letters received
BOX 14			Explorers, 1925-1932, undated
BOX 14			Miscellaneous, 1925-1952, 1962, undated
BOX 14		Nursing career and biographical note, 1924-1926, 1945, 2021
BOX 14	Waln, Nora, 1927-1929, 1951
BOX 14	Wedding invitation of Frans August Larson and Mary Rodgers, 1897
BOX 14	Writings about Christian missionaries in Mongolia with reference to Larson, 1911, 2006, 2014