Inventory of the Reed Family Papers 1899-1946
A Collection in the
Special Collections Research Center
Accession Number Mss. Acc. 2010.055
Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary
Special CollectionsEarl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
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Administrative Information
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open to all researchers.
Conditions Governing Use
Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.
Preferred Citation
Reed Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Acquisition Information
The materials were acquired by Special Collections Research Center on 01/29/2010.
Processing Information
Accessioned and minimally processed in January 2010 by Ute Schechter, Warren E. Burger Archivist. Further arranged and described by Peter Klicker, SCRC staff, in February-March 2010.
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the papers and biographic material, 1899-1946, of the Reed family of Floyd County, Virgina and Warren, Ohio. Included are personal letters and photographs, as well as records relating to service of family members in WWI and WWII. The correspondence series consists largely of personal letters written by Asa Daniel Reed to his future wife, Clarence Elizabeth Mangus (later Clarence Elizabeth Reed), during Reed's service in the U.S. Army. Reed's assignments included posts in the Philippines during the U.S. occupation thereof, in Texas along the border with Mexico, and in Germany and France during World War I. Interwar correspondences focus more on Clarence Reed's domestic life in Warren, Ohio. During the World War II period, Asa and Clarence Reed received correspondences from their son, Eugene Mangus Reed, serving in the U.S. Army. The biographic material series includes publications from the late nineteenth century on health remedies, as well as brief histories of the Ohio and Erie Railroads. The series also contains Asa D. Reed's discharge papers from the U.S. Army, the baby book of Eugene Mangus Reed, and a photograph of Clarence Mangus.
Arrangement of Materials
Organized into two series: Series 1: Correspondence, Series 2: Biographic Material. Each series is arranged chronologically.
Index Terms
- Correspondence
- Photographs
- Philippines--Description and travel.
- Postcards.
- World War, 1914-1918--France
- World War, 1914-1918--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945.
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Significant Persons Associated With the Collection
- Reed, Asa Daniel, Ca. 1888-unknown
- Reed, Clarence Elizabeth, Unkown
- Reed, Eugene Mangus, November 28, 1923-unknown
Detailed Description of the Collection
- box: 1
- box: 1 Folder: 1
Correspondence1910-1912
- box: 1 Folder: 2
Correspondence1913-1914
- box: 1 Folder: 3
Correspondence1915
- box: 1 Folder: 4
CorrespondenceJanuary-July 1916
- box: 1 Folder: 5
CorrespondenceAugust-December 1916
- box: 1 Folder: 6
CorrespondenceJanuary-April 1917
- box: 1 Folder: 7
CorrespondenceMay-July 1917
- box: 1 Folder: 8
CorrespondenceAugust-December 1917
- box: 1 Folder: 9
Correspondence1918
- box: 1 Folder: 10
CorrespondenceJanuary-June 1919
- box: 1 Folder: 11
CorrespondenceJuly-December 1919
- box: 1 Folder: 12
Correspondence1920-1925
- box: 1 Folder: 1
- box: 2
- box: 2 Folder: 1
Correspondence1933-1938
- box: 2 Folder: 2
Correspondence1940-1942
- box: 2 Folder: 3
Correspondence1944
- box: 2 Folder: 4
Correspondenceundated
- box: 2 Folder: 5
Correspondenceundated
- box: 2 Folder: 6
Correspondenceundated
- box: 2 Folder: 7
Correspondenceundated
- box: 2 Folder: 8
Correspondenceundated
- box: 2 Folder: 9
Telegrams1911, 1925, 1928
- box: 2 Folder: 10
Postcards1914, 1921, 1941-1944
- box: 2 Folder: 11
Invitations1917-1946
- box: 2 Folder: 12
Greeting Cards1925-1940
- box: 2 Folder: 1