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Descriptive Summary of the Collection
Biography of Richard Scott Mowrer
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Inventory of the Richard S. Mowrer Papers, 1942-2004, bulk 1951-1975
Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Alison Hinderliter, 2006. ©2006. |
Descriptive Summary of the Collection |
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| Creator | Mowrer, Richard Scott |
| Title | Richard S. Mowrer Papers |
| Dates | 1942-2004 |
| Dates | bulk 1951-1975 |
| Extent | 3 cubic ft. (7 boxes) |
| Abstract | Articles, essays, and field notebooks, mostly about the Franco era in Spain, by freelance journalist Richard S. Mowrer. |
| Language | Materials are in English, with some articles translated into Dutch, German, French, and Italian. |
| Repository | Newberry Library, Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections |
| Collection Call Number | Midwest MS MowrerR |
| Collection Stack Location | 3a 41 4 |
Administrative Information
Cite As
Richard S. Mowrer Papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection, The Newberry Library, Chicago.
Provenance
Gift, Richard S. Mowrer, 1993, with subsequent donations.
Processed by
Alison Hinderliter, 2006.
Acknowledgements
This inventory was created with the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this inventory do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Access
The Richard S. Mowrer Papers are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).
Ownership and Literary Rights
The Richard S. Mowrer Papers are the physical property of the Newberry Library. Copyright may belong to the authors or their legal heirs or assigns. For permission to publish or reproduce any materials from this collection, contact the Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections.
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Biography of Richard Scott Mowrer
Freelance journalist and foreign correspondent for several newspapers, including the Chicago Daily News, New York Post, and Christian Science Monitor.
Richard Scott Mowrer was born in 1911, the son of Chicago Daily News foreign correspondent Paul Scott Mowrer. Situated in Europe and the Middle East from the late 1930’s to the 1970s, Mowrer covered many major events, including the Spanish Civil War, the start of World War II in Poland, Middle East campaigns, the Death of Mussolini, the Franco rule in Spain, and the birth of the state of Israel.
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Scope and Content of the Collection
Primarily writings by Mowrer covering the era of Generalissimo Francisco Franco as Regent of Spain, from the 1950's through the mid-1970's. There is also coverage of issues in Gibraltar, Portugal, The Basque region and separatists, and a small amount about Israel. All of Mowrer’s field notebooks are carefully indexed on the front cover with main topics of writing (summarized in the folder titles given here; since almost all notebooks are about the Franco regime, that topic is not specified in this list). Also includes names and addresses of contacts, appointments, quotations, and personal reminders and remarks. Typescript articles are fully indexed by subject of article, and arranged by news organization that published the article. “Syndicate” refers to articles that were written for various newspapers. Articles and Scrapbooks also include correspondence and telegrams (very occasionally). The essay about Mowrer’s escape from Poland in 1939 is part of a larger memoir that remains to be completed. There are three photographs of groups of unidentified men at an unidentified meeting; none of the men appear to be Richard Mowrer. Some reference books are annotated by Mowrer.
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Arrangement
Organized by type of material, with Field Notebooks first, followed by typescript articles, printed articles, miscellaneous items, and reference books.
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Selected Search Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Newberry Library's public catalog. Researchers desiring additional materials on a particular topic should search the catalog using these headings.
Names
- Chicago daily news
- Christian science monitor
- Franco, Francisco, 1892-1975
- Mowrer, Richard Scott
Subjects
- Basques -- Spain -- History
- Fascism -- Spain -- History -- 20th century
- Fascism and culture -- Spain
- Foreign correspondents -- Illinois -- Chicago
- Foreign news
- Gibraltar -- History -- 20th century
- Manuscripts, American
- Portugal -- History -- 20th century
- Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939
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| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Field Notebooks - Spain, Morocco, Cuba, Jun. 1962-Jul. 1963 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Field Notebooks - Spain, Nov. 1963-Jun. 1964 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Field Notebooks - Spain, Cuba, Peron, U.S. Relations, Sept.-Dec. 1964 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Field Notebooks - Spain, Gibraltar, Africa, 1965 | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Field Notebooks - Barcelona, Gibraltar, ca. Mar-Jul. 1966 | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Field Notebooks - Spain, Gibraltar, Oct. 1966-Apr. 1967 | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | Field Notebooks - Spain, Middle East, Apr.-Oct. 1967 | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | Field Notebooks - Spain, Gibraltar, Portugal, Nov. 1967-Mar. 1968 | |||||||||
| 1 | 9 | Field Notebooks - Spain, Basques, Apr.-Oct. 1968 | |||||||||
| 1 | 10 | Field Notebooks - Spain, U.S.S.R., Portugal, Nov. 1968-Apr. 1969 | |||||||||
| 1 | 11 | Field Notebooks - Spain, Vatican, Morocco, Portugal, Aug. 1969-Feb. 1970 | |||||||||
| 2 | 12 | Field Notebooks - Spain, Israel, Portugal, U.S.S.R., Basques, Jul.-Dec. 1970 | |||||||||
| 2 | 13 | Field Notebooks - Spain, Argentina, Gibraltar, Libya, 1971 | |||||||||
| 2 | 14 | Field Notebooks - Spain, Libya, Gibraltar, 1972 | |||||||||
| 2 | 15 | Field Notebooks - Spain, Morocco, Gibraltar, Chile, 1973 | |||||||||
| 2 | 16 | Field Notebooks - Spain, Morocco, Sahara, Portugal, 1974-Aug. 1975 | |||||||||
| 2 | 17 | Articles, Typescript - Chicago Daily News, Jan. 1960-Jun. 1961 | |||||||||
| 2 | 18 | Articles, Typescript - Chicago Daily News, Jul. 1961-Dec. 1962 | |||||||||
| 2 | 19 | Articles, Typescript - Chicago Daily News, 1963 | |||||||||
| 2 | 20 | Articles, Typescript - Chicago Daily News, 1964 | |||||||||
| 2 | 21 | Articles, Typescript - Chicago Daily News, 1965 | |||||||||
| 3 | 22 | Articles, Typescript - Christian Science Monitor, Jan. 1953-Dec. 1955 | |||||||||
| 3 | 23 | Articles, Typescript - Christian Science Monitor, Jan. 1957-Dec. 1958 | |||||||||
| 3 | 24 | Articles, Typescript - Christian Science Monitor, Jan. 1959-Dec. 1961 | |||||||||
| 3 | 25 | Articles, Typescript - Christian Science Monitor, Jan. 1962-Dec. 1963 | |||||||||
| 3 | 26 | Articles, Typescript - Christian Science Monitor, Jan. 1964-Jan. 1965 | |||||||||
| 3 | 27 | Articles, Typescript - Christian Science Monitor, Jan. 1965-Dec. 1966 | |||||||||
| 3 | 28 | Articles, Typescript - Christian Science Monitor, 1967 | |||||||||
| 3 | 29 | Articles, Typescript - Christian Science Monitor, 1968-1969 | |||||||||
| 3 | 30 | Articles, Typescript - Christian Science Monitor, 1970 | |||||||||
| 3 | 31 | Articles, Typescript - Christian Science Monitor, 1971 | |||||||||
| 3 | 32 | Articles, Typescript - Christian Science Monitor, 1972 | |||||||||
| 3 | 33 | Articles, Typescript - Christian Science Monitor, 1973 | |||||||||
| 4 | 34 | Articles, Typescript - Christian Science Monitor, 1974 | |||||||||
| 4 | 35 | Articles, Typescript - Christian Science Monitor, Jan. 1975-Jan. 1976 | |||||||||
| 4 | 35a | Articles, Typescript - New York Post and unidentified (photocopies), 1946-[1947?] | |||||||||
| 4 | 36 | Articles, Typescript - Syndicate, 1966 | |||||||||
| 4 | 37 | Articles, Typescript - Syndicate, 1967 | |||||||||
| 4 | 38 | Articles, Typescript - Syndicate, 1968-1969 | |||||||||
| 4 | 39 | Articles, Typescript - Syndicate, 1970 | |||||||||
| 4 | 40 | Articles, Typescript - Syndicate, 1971-1972 | |||||||||
| 4 | 41 | Articles, Typescript - Syndicate, 1973-1975 | |||||||||
| 4 | 42 | Clippings, Loose (photocopy), 1942 | |||||||||
| 4 | 43 | Clippings, Loose, 1955 | |||||||||
| 4 | 44 | Clippings, Loose, 1957 | |||||||||
| 4 | 45 | Clippings, Loose, 1958 | |||||||||
| 4 | 46-47 | Clippings, Loose, 1959 | |||||||||
| 4 | 48 | Clippings, Loose, Feb-Mar. 1960 | |||||||||
| 4 | 49 | Clippings, Loose, 1966, 1977, 1989 | |||||||||
| 4 | 50 | Clippings, Loose, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4 | 51 | Clippings about Mowrer, 1949-1971 | |||||||||
| 5 | 52 | Clippings Scrapbook - Christian Science Monitor, 1951-1953 | |||||||||
| 5 | 53 | Clippings Scrapbook - Christian Science Monitor, 1954-1958 | |||||||||
| 5 | 54 | Clippings Scrapbook - Various Newspapers, 1951-1955 | |||||||||
| 6 | 55 | Clippings Scrapbook - Various Newspapers, 1956-1957 | |||||||||
| 6 | 56 | Clippings Scrapbook - Various Newspapers, 1957-1958 | |||||||||
| 6 | 57 | Miscellaneous - Memoir, "Poland, The Fourth Partition, 1939", 2004 | |||||||||
| 6 | 58 | Miscellaneous - Photographs - unidentified men at meeting, n.d. | |||||||||
| 6 | 59 | Reference Books - Clark, Clyde L., comp. Significant Legislation in the Evolution of the Franco Regime. Vols. 1-3. [n.p.], [n.d.] | |||||||||
| 7 | 60 | Reference Books - Commission Internationale Contre le Régime Concentrationnaire. Livre Blanc sur le Système Pénitentiaire Espagnole. Paris: le Pavois, 1953. | |||||||||
| 7 | 61 | Reference Books - Commission Internationale des Juristes. L'Espagne et al Primauté du Droit. Geneve: Commission Internationale des Juristes, 1962. | |||||||||
| 7 | 62 | Reference Books - Franco, Francisco. Fundamental Laws of the State: The Spanish Constitution. Political Documents 8. Madrid: Servicio Informativo Español, 1967. | |||||||||
| 7 | 63 | Reference Books - Iribarne, Manuel Fraga. How Spain is Governed. Madrid: Diplomatic Information Office, 1952. | |||||||||
| 7 | 64 | Reference Books - Ley Organica del Estado, [n.p.], [n.d.] | |||||||||
| 7 | 65 | Reference Books - Nueva Constitucion. Referendum Servicio Informativo Español, 1966. Documentos politicos 7. Madrid, 1966. | |||||||||
| 7 | 66 | Reference Books - Organic Law of the Spanish State - I. For Spanish Newsletter Subscribers, from Embassy of Spain - Information Department (photostatic copy), Dec. 30, 1966 | |||||||||
| 7 | 67 | Reference Books - Serer, Ravael Calvo. La Aproximacion de los Neoliberales a la Actitud Tradicional. Madrid: Ateneo, 1956. | |||||||||
| 7 | 68 | Reference Books - Spaniards Have Decided: notes for an evaluation of the Spanish referendum. Washington, D.C. : Spanish Embassy, 1947. | |||||||||
| 7 | 69 | Reference Books - Vasallo, Jesus. Participacion de los Españoles en la Politica. Documentos politicos. Madrid: Servicio Informativo Español, 1970. | |||||||||
| 7 | 69 | Reference Books - Vasallo, Jesus. Participacion de los Españoles en la Politica. Documentos politicos. Madrid: Servicio Informativo Español, 1970. | |||||||||