A Guide to the Papers of Kenneth Brown, ca. 1880-1954 Brown, Kenneth, Papers
9732
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Accession Number 9732
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Accession number
9732
Title
Papers of Kenneth Brown
ca. 1880-1954
Physical Characteristics
Ca. 3000 items (9 boxes).
Language
English
Access Restrictions
There are no restrictions.
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Preferred Citation
Papers of Kenneth Brown, Accession #9732, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
Acquisition Information
The collection is from the estate of Francesca Boone, and was purchased from the H. & W. Auction Company, of Troy, Virginia,
in July of 1971.
The son of Franklin B. and Caroline Morrill Brown, Kenneth Brown (1868- ) was born in Chicago and lived in Europe as a youth.
A University of Virginia alumnus and Harvard graduate, he worked on several
newspapers including the Boston Journal and the New York Commercial Advertiser. In 1904 he married Demetra Vaka (1877-1946), a Byzantine Greek who had
come to the United States at the age of 17. Together they went to Greece during World War I, interviewed King Constantine,
Eleutherios Venizelos, and other leaders, and wrote about their observations. In 1921 the
couple did a series of articles on Turkey. Mrs. Brown is known also for several novels and works of non-fiction, including
Haremlik (1909), In the Shadow of
Islam (1911), and In the Grasp of the Sultan (1916).
The Papers of Kenneth Brown contain ca. 3,000 items, ca. 1880-1954, chiefly photographs of the Brown family, of Turkey, Greece,
and various western European countries, and of Greek and Turkish leaders of the
World War I era. There is some correspondence of the Browns (1876-1954), some bills to Francesca Boone, Kenneth Brown's sister,
three photograph albums, and seven scrapbooks, chiefly filled with clippings,
belonging to Kenneth Brown, Caroline Brown, and Francesca Boone. There are also a number of handwritten newspapers that the
young Kenneth Brown wrote in Europe.
Box 1
Letters and postcards to and from Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Brown
1900-1919
Box 1
Woodrow Wilson to Mrs. Kenneth Brown
1918 February 7
TLS w/envelope
Box 1
Secretary to Woodrow Wilson to Mrs. Kenneth Brown
1918 March 11
TLS
Box 1
Letters and postcards to Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Brown
1920-1929
Box 1
Letters and postcards, chiefly from Kenneth Brown
1930-1939
Box 1
Letters and postcards, chiefly from Kenneth Brown
1940-1954
Box 1
Letters and postcards to and from Kenneth Brown
n.d.
Box 1
Carbons of publicity for Demetra Vaka (Mrs. Kenneth Brown)
n.d.
Box 1
Clippings, re: Demetra Vaka (Mrs. Kenneth Brown)
1918-1932
Box 2
Bills of Francesca Boone, A-B
1914-1928
Box 2
Bills of Francesca Boone, C
1916-1926
Box 2
Bills of Francesca Boone, D
1914-1926
Box 2
Bills of Francesca Boone, E
1914-1921
Box 2
Bills of Francesca Boone, F
1915-1926
Box 2
Bills of Francesca Boone, G
1914-1926
Box 2
Bills of Francesca Boone, H
1914-1929
Box 2
Bills of Francesca Boone, I
1916-1921
Box 2
Bills of Francesca Boone, J-K
1915-1927
Box 2
Bills of Francesca Boone, L-M
1914-1925
Box 2
Bills of Francesca Boone, N-O
1915-1923
Box 2
Bills of Francesca Boone, P-R
1914-1929
Box 2
Bills of Francesca Boone, S
1915-1925
Box 2
Bills of Francesca Boone, T
1915-1927
Box 2
Bills of Francesca Boone, U-V
1916-1924
Box 2
Bills of Francesca Boone, W-Z
1915-1929
Box 2
Photographs of Demetra Vaka (Mrs. Kenneth Brown) at various ages
n.d.
Box 3
Photographs and negatives of Demetra Vaka (Mrs. Kenneth Brown) at various ages
n.d.
Box 3
Photographs of Demetra Vaka
ca. 1920
Box 3
Photographs of Kenneth Brown at various ages
n.d.
Box 3
Photographs of Kenneth Brown as a child
ca. 1880
Box 3
Photographs of Edmund Clarence Stedman, signed by Laura Stedman
ca. 1908
Box 3
Photographs of a group of Harvard athletes
ca. 1890
Box 3
Photographs of Greek Royal family
ca. 1920
Box 3
Photographs of Eleutherios Venizelos, his family, and his houses
ca. 1920
Box 3
Negatives of photographs of the Venizelos family
ca. 1920
Box 3
Photographs and negatives of Greek leaders
ca. 1920
Box 3
Photographs and negatives of Turkish leaders
ca. 1920
Box 4
Photographs and negatives of various identified people
ca. 1920
Box 4
Photographs of unidentified people
n.d.
Box 4
Photographs of Brown-Boone house
ca. 1901
Box 4
Photographs of Kenneth Brown house [in New Hampshire]
n.d.
Box 4
Photographs and negatives of Virginia scenes
ca. 1920
Box 4
Photographs and negatives of Greece
1917-ca. 1930
Box 4
Photographs of Greece
1917-ca. 1930
Box 5
Photographs of Turkey
ca. 1920
Box 5
Photographs of Turkey
ca. 1920
Box 5
Negatives of Turkey
ca. 1920
Box 5
Lists of kinds of photographs
n.d.
Box 5
Photographs of Italy
n.d.
Box 6
Photographs of Germany
n.d.
Box 6
Photographs of Switzerland
n.d.
Box 6
Photographs of France
n.d.
Box 6
Photographs of European countries
ca. 1920
Box 6
Negatives of photographs of European countries
1910-ca. 1920
Box 6
Photographs of unidentified places
n.d.
Box 6
"A Little Bit of Love"
n.d.
TMs
Box 6
"The Gray Forsythia Twig"
n.d.
AMs
Box 6
Visas of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Brown
1917
Box 6
Printed and typewritten material, re: Demetra Vaka, Greece
1936-?
Box 6
Religious pamphlets
1930-1939
Box 7
Pamphlets about Greece
1913-1926
Box 7
Miscellaneous pamphlets
1910-1936
Box Box 7
Miscellaneous printed material
1911-1949
Box 7
Miscellaneous articles
n.d.
Box 8
Photograph album, with photographs of Kenneth Brown's [New Hampshire] home
n.d.
Box 8
Photograph album with pictures, chiefly of Paris
n.d.
Box 9
Scrapbook of clippings of articles of Kenneth Brown, in the
Harvard Advocate,
the Boston
Journal,
and the
Magpie
1889-1896
Box 9
Photograph album of Kenneth Brown's house and family
1891-?
Box 9
Photograph of Harvard Class of 1891
1916
Box 9
Photograph of Harvard Class of 1891 with families
1916 June 20