[Interior of archive]
Correspondance
McAleenan…
letter
Harlow Brooks on his experience in WWI…
“I have been very lucky because as soon as I landed in France I was sent on a good job immediately at the front and I have seen the real thing and was to have been right in it until the end, we had no idea here that it would finish so quick and there was just a little sense of disapointment for we felt that we had him in a sure round up and had he not caved in so yellow, I dont see how we could have failed to cut off his entire army in France…How your tales of that big ram make my mouth water, I would like best to soak it into one of those lads, but between you and me, I would not object either to a “little Sliver” of good clean, decently cooked meat. Willy beef and French slush is not up to my highly educated palate. That sure was a wonderful head, and Knauser and I shall have to talk it all over with Joe.McA and see if it is not necessary for us to come up and get the other bigger one. How I would like to be my own boss for a few days and get out in a real Gods Country for a hunt” – Brooks, December 2, 1918 (IMG_2698)
Robert Frothingham on Joe McAleenan’s Death
“It’s the first real grief that ever entered my life. I have been singularly free from such afflictions and I feel a resentment that is more personal to myself than the removal of the dearest and best-beloved friend I have ever had. I resent the fact that I shall never see him again nor hear his voice. I have no prayers to offer nor any howling to high heaven. It’s a bloody gamble, the best one can make of it- and I’m thankful for ten years of the richest and most fruitful and beloved friendship I have ever known. I am infinitely more impressed with the fact that what I have had cannot be taken from me, than I am of the possibility of ever seeing him again. The memories are very wonderful- they are indissolubly connected with the wilderness and all that it stands for. He was a child of Nature and played his part like a real man. Never a whine, nor an excuse. He always faced front and his loyalty was one of the most god-like things I have known in a lifetime of over 61 years.” Frothingham, June 8th 1926 (IMG_2915)
Hunting Guide Business
[Guide agreement contract] [provisions invoice]
Dr. Frank Canfield Hollister, a prominent New York physician, writes to Jimmy about a hunting trip he will be taking to Banff, accompanied by his sixteen-year-old daughter. His daughter, Gloria Hollister [link], would go on to become a renowned explorer, scientist, and conservationist, known for her expeditions with the New York Zoological Society. On a [year] expedition to British Guiana, among her team was field artist Ruth Brooks, Harlow Brooks’ daughter.
Letters from Henry Auchincloss Colgate, of the Colgate toothpaste company, a Coca-Cola executive, likely the company president, Samuel Candler Dobbs, and a Johnson & Johnson executive, likely the company president, James Wood Johnson.
Invoices…
Photography
Photography quotes…
[Quote from McAleenan letter]
Glass slides that have now been digitized
