Alvin F. Harlow manuscripts, 1930-1940

Collection

Identifier: 1500-001-18

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Tomahawk Trails. Typescript and carbon copy typescript drafts of stories for a proposed collection of Indian fighting stories of American pioneer days.

Dates

Creation: 1930 - 1940

Creator

Harlow, Alvin F. (Alvin Fay), 1875-1963 (Author, Person)

Language

These materials are in English.

Access

This material is open for research use by any registered reader.

Use and Copyright

This material is owned by the University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections. Unpublished manuscripts are under copyright. Therefore, permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from both the repository and the copyright holder.

Biographical / Historical

Alvin F. Harlow was born in Sedalia, Missouri. He started working as a youth of eighteen in an express office, eventually went to Franklin College in Indiana, graduated, and entered business, becoming an officer in a large Tennessee corporation. During this period of his life, he studied and wrote about the Southern Appalachian people and produced many "educational" motion pictures illustrating their folk life.

As a writer Mr. Harlow is widely known as the author of "Old Towpaths: The Story of the American Canal Era," "Old Postbags: The Story of the Mail Service," "Old Waybills: The Romance of the Express Companies," and "Old Bowery Days," the chronicle of New York's most famous street. For this historical work, he has been awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by Franklin College.