Daniel Carter Beard papers, 1798-1941 (bulk 1931-1935)
Beard, Daniel Carter,
1850-1941
mixed material
monographic
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Arranged in 9 series. Series 1: Diaries, 1875-1900; Series 2: Family Correspondence, 1814-1938; Series 3: Family Papers, circa 1798-1933; Series 4: General Correspondence, circa 1865-1941; Series 5: Special Correspondence, 1915-1940; Series 6: Subject File; Series 7: Speech, Article, and Book File, 1890-1940; Series 8: Miscellany; and Series 9: Oversize.
Correspondence, diaries, speeches, articles, research material, family papers, printed matter, sketch books, illustrations, photographs, and other papers relating to Beard's career as an author and illustrator and to his leading role in the Boy Scouts of America. Documents his activities with the Culver Military Academy, Culver, Ind.; the Dan Beard Outdoor School, Pike County, Pa.; and the Sons of Daniel Boone. Includes a manuscript of Beard's autobiography, Hardly a Man Is Now Alive: the Autobiography of Dan Beard (1939), articles devoted to outdoor life, and other writings. Also includes correspondence with Samuel Langhorne Clemens pertaining to Beard's illustrations for the first illustrated editions of Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894). Family papers include correspondence, writings, and illustrations by members of the Beard family, in particular Beard's father, James Henry Beard, and his brother, Frank Beard.
Correspondents include Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Baron Baden-Powell of Gilwell; Gutzon Borglum; Belmore Browne; Howard Chandler Christy; Samuel Langhorne Clemens; George J. Fisher; Hamlin Garland; Charles Dana Gibson; Zane Grey; Walter W. Head; William Dean Howells; Edwin Markham; Edward Sandford Martin; H.L. Mencken; Albert Bigelow Paine; Maxwell E. Perkins; Gifford Pinchot; Henry C. Pitz; Augustus Post; George D. Pratt; Frank Presbrey; Frederic Remington; Norman Rockwell; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Ernest Thompson Seton; Upton Sinclair; Frederic Dorr Steele; A.J. Stone; Isaac Sutton; Lorado Taft; Hendrik Willem Van Loon; Frederick K. Vreeland; John Quincy Adams Ward; James E. West, Owen Wister; S.J. Woolf; N.C. Wyeth; Boy's Life magazine; and the publishing firms, Charles Scribner's Sons and J.B. Lippincott Company. Also includes correspondence with Theodore Roosevelt; his wife, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt; their son, Theodore Roosevelt (1887-1944); and other Roosevelt family members.
Open to research.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Daniel Carter Beard Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Gift, estate of Daniel Carter Beard, 1941.
Artist, author, editor, and cofounder of the Boy Scouts of America.
Collection material in English.
Pictorial items including paintings, watercolors, drawings, and photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013036
Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell,
Baron,
1857-1941
Correspondence
Borglum, Gutzon,
1867-1941
Correspondence
Browne, Belmore,
1880-1954
Correspondence
Christy, Howard Chandler,
1873-1952
Correspondence
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne,
1835-1910
Correspondence
Fisher, George J.,
-1960
Correspondence
Garland, Hamlin,
1860-1940
Correspondence
Gibson, Charles Dana,
1867-1944
Correspondence
Grey, Zane,
1872-1939
Correspondence
Head, Walter W.
Correspondence
Howells, William Dean,
1837-1920
Correspondence
Markham, Edwin,
1852-1940
Correspondence
Martin, Edward Sandford,
1856-1939
Correspondence
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis),
1880-1956
Correspondence
Paine, Albert Bigelow,
1861-1937
Correspondence
Perkins, Maxwell E. (Maxwell Evarts),
1884-1947
Correspondence
Pinchot, Gifford,
1865-1946
Correspondence
Pitz, Henry C. (Henry Clarence),
1895-1976
Correspondence
Post, Augustus,
1873-1952
Correspondence
Pratt, George D. (George Dupont),
1869-1935
Correspondence
Presbrey, Frank,
1855-1936
Correspondence
Remington, Frederic,
1861-1909
Correspondence
Rockwell, Norman,
1894-1978
Correspondence
Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Carow,
1861-1948
Correspondence
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano),
1882-1945
Correspondence
Roosevelt, Theodore,
1858-1919
Correspondence
Roosevelt, Theodore,
1887-1944
Correspondence
Seton, Ernest Thompson,
1860-1946
Correspondence
Sinclair, Upton,
1878-1968
Correspondence
Steele, Frederic Dorr,
1873-1944
Correspondence
Stone, A. J. (Andrew Jackson),
1859-1918
Correspondence
Taft, Lorado,
1860-1936
Correspondence
Van Loon, Hendrik Willem,
1882-1944
Correspondence
Vreeland, Frederick K. (Frederick King),
1874-
Correspondence
Ward, John Quincy Adams,
1830-1910
Correspondence
West, James E. (James Edward),
1876-1948
Correspondence
Wister, Owen,
1860-1938
Correspondence
Woolf, S. J. (Samuel Johnson),
1880-1948
Correspondence
Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers),
1882-1945
Correspondence
Beard family.
Beard family
Correspondence
Roosevelt family
Correspondence
Boy Scouts of America.
Charles Scribner's Sons
Correspondence
Culver Military Academy.
Dan Beard Outdoor School for Boys (Pike County, Pa.)
J.B. Lippincott Company
Correspondence
Sons of Daniel Boone.
Boys' life
Boys' life
Correspondence
Boy Scouts
Periodicals
Boy Scouts
United States
Boys
United States
Societies and clubs
Camps
Pennsylvania
Pike County
Military education
United States
Private schools
Indiana
Culver
Youth
United States
Societies, etc
Artists
Authors
Boy Scout leaders
Editors
Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home
Hardly a man Is now alive; the autobiography of Dan Beard. 1939
Beard, Daniel Carter,
1850-1941
Frank Beard papers
Beard, Frank,
1842-1905
James Henry Beard papers
Beard, James Henry,
1812-1893
Visual materials from the Daniel Carter Beard papers : unprocessed portion
(DLC)2010650966
Visual materials from the Daniel Carter Beard papers
(DLC)2021637012
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http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013036
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