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Lowry Nelson writings and papers, 1948-19747
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Nelson, Lowry, 1893-
- Title
- Lowry Nelson writings and papers
- Dates
- 1948-19747 (inclusive)19481974
- Quantity
- 4 boxes, (1.75 linear ft.)
- Collection Number
- UUS_COLL MSS 17
- Summary
- This collection consists of the writings and personal papers of Lowry Nelson. Writings include articles, study reprints, seminar materials, notes for his class on Latin America, and books, including Rural sociology (1955) and American farm life (1954), and a draft carbon copy of his book, the Birth and growth of a science. Personal papers consist mostly of correspondence.
- Repository
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Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives Division
Special Collections & Archives
Merrill-Cazier Library
Utah State University
Logan, UT
84322-3000
Telephone: 4357978248
Fax: 4357972880
scweb@usu.edu - Access Restrictions
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Restrictions
Open to public research.
- Languages
- English.
- Sponsor
- Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant, 2007-2008
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Lowry Nelson was born in Ferron, Utah in April of 1893. He attended college in Utah and later earned a Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin. During his lifetime he became a world known sociologist.
Nelson earned a B.S. degree at Utah State University in 1916. He spent the next two decades working mainly in Utah. He served as the County Agricultural agent in Sanpete County, Utah in 1919, he became the field agriculturist for the People's Sugar Company in 1920 and edited the Utah Farmer from 1920-1922. He was associated with Brigham Young University from 1921-1935. During the Depression he worked for the Utah Relief Administration in 1934, he was regional advisor to the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, and in 1935 became director of the Resettlement Administration. He was then director of the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station at Logan. In 1937 he received a position at the University of Minnesota in the Sociology Department.
During his tenure at the University of Minnesota, Nelson began to develop an international reputation as a rural sociologist. In 1944 he did a study for the State Department on rural life in the Caribbean. In 1945 he received a Fullbright to study rural life in Italy. Dr. Nelson continued his international work taking an interest in different aspects of Canadian rural life.
Dr. Nelson's works include several monographs and a multitude of articles and papers ranging from rural life in Latin America, the United States and Canada as well as studies on various Mormon Villages in Utah. Dr. Nelson died in Provo, Utah in 1986.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
This collection consists of the writings and correspondence of Lowry Nelson. The first box contains various articles by Nelson. The second box holds the carbon copy of his book, The Birth and Growth of a Science, and some smaller studies. box three consists of reprints and seminar materials, and also contains notes for his class on Latin America. The fourth box holds Nelson's personal papers consisting mostly of correspondence. There are also some reprinted articles and two books in this box as well. This last box contains materials added to the collection after the first three boxes were already processed.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
CopyrightIt is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Utah State University Libraries, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright.
Permission to publish material from the Lowry Nelson writings and papers must be obtained from the Special Collections Manuscript Curator and/or the Special Collections Department Head.
Preferred Citation
Lowry Nelson writings and papers, 1948-1974 (COLL MSS 17). Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives Department.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Book 1: Rural Sociology, copyright 1955, second edition, undatedReturn to Top
Container(s): Box 1
Book 2: American Farm Life, copyright , 1954Return to Top
Container(s): Box 1
1: Collected Papers (bound) , 1948-1957Return to Top
Container(s): Box 1
2: "The Education of Commercial Fishermen in Manitoba", by Lowry Nelson and S. E. Sigurdson, undatedReturn to Top
Container(s): Box 1
3: "Some Social Aspects of Agrarian Reform in Mexico, Bolivia, and Venezuela", by Lowry Nelson. , 1964Return to Top
Container(s): Box 1
4: "Area Development in the Interlake, Problems and Proposals", by Lowry Nelson, undatedReturn to Top
Container(s): Box 1
5: "Rural Sociology: Some Inter-American Aspects", by Lowry Nelson, 1967 JulyReturn to Top
Container(s): Box 1
6: "The Rise of Rural Sociology: The Pre-Purnell Period", by Lowry Nelson, 1965 DecemberReturn to Top
Container(s): Box 1
7: "On George Edgar Vincent: Rural Social Scientist", by Lowry Nelson, 1966 DecemberReturn to Top
Container(s): Box 1
8: "Social Change in Goodhue County, 1940 - 1965", by Lowry Nelson and George Donohue, 1966Return to Top
Container(s): Box 1
The Birth and Growth of a Science (Chapter 1) - The Social Climate in America, 1870 - 1908. , undatedReturn to Top
Container(s): Box 2, Folder 1
The Birth and Growth of a Science (Chapter 2) - The Country Life Association. , undatedReturn to Top
Container(s): Box 2, Folder 2
The Birth and Growth of a Science (Chapter 3) - The Herald-Evangelists of Rural Life. , undatedReturn to Top
Container(s): Box 2, Folder 3
The Birth and Growth of a Science (Chapter 4) - Early Development of the Social Sciences. , undatedReturn to Top
Container(s): Box 2, Folder 4
The Birth and Growth of a Science (Chapter 5) - Influence of Agricultural Economics and General Sociology. , undatedReturn to Top
Container(s): Box 2, Folder 5
The Birth and Growth of a Science (Chapter 6) - Charles Josiah Galpin (1864-1947). , undatedReturn to Top
Container(s): Box 2, Folder 6
The Birth and Growth of a Science (Chapter 7) - Sending Down the Roots. , undatedReturn to Top
Container(s): Box 2, Folder 7
The Birth and Growth of a Science (Chapter 8) - The Growth and the Spread. , undatedReturn to Top
Container(s): Box 2, Folder 8
The Birth and Growth of a Science (Chapter 9) - Church-Sponsored Rural Studies. , undatedReturn to Top
Container(s): Box 2, Folder 9
The Birth and Growth of a Science (Chapter 10) - How They Became Rural Sociologists: Some Memoirs. , undatedReturn to Top
Container(s): Box 2, Folder 10
The Birth and Growth of a Science (Chapter 11) - Post-Galpin Federal Support for Sociology. , undatedReturn to Top
Container(s): Box 2, Folder 11
The Birth and Growth of a Science (Chapter 12) - Scope and Content of Rural Sociology. , undatedReturn to Top
Container(s): Box 2, Folder 12
The Birth and Growth of a Science (Chapter 13) - The Profession. , undatedReturn to Top
Container(s): Box 2, Folder 13
The Birth and Growth of a Science (Chapter 14) - Rural Sociologists Abroad. , undatedReturn to Top
Container(s): Box 2, Folder 14
The Birth and Growth of a Science (Chapter 15) - Progress - Problems - Perspectives. , undatedReturn to Top
Container(s): Box 2, Folder 15
Envelope #1: Printer's proof - Cuba: The Means of a Revolution, p(1 page)-206. , undatedReturn to Top
Container(s): Box 2
Envelope #2: Brigham Young University Studies and Some Other Rural Studies, undatedReturn to Top
Container(s): Box 2
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
BYU Studies |
undated | |
1) : Some Social and Economic Features of American Fork, Utah |
undated | |
2) : The Mormon Village: A Study in Social Origins |
undated | |
3) : The Utah Farm Village of Ephraim |
undated | |
4) : A Social Survey of Escalante, Utah |
undated | |
Other Studies |
undated | |
1) : The Mormon Settlements in Alberta |
undated | |
2) : The Green River Drought Relief Project of 1939 |
undated | |
3) : Intermarriage Among Nationality Groups in a Rural Area of Minnesota |
undated | |
4) : How Satisfying is Rural Life? |
undated | |
5) : Distribution Age and Mobility of Minnesota Physicians, 1912 - 1936 |
undated |
Reprints - Lowry Nelson publication reprints, mostly from Rural Sociology, undatedReturn to Top
Container(s): Box 3, Folder 1
Community Theory and Development Seminars - Seminar Outlines, Reports, and Notes, undatedReturn to Top
Container(s): Box 3, Folder 2
Seminar Material: Comparative Rural Societies in Europe - (Part 1) Outline and reports of Seminar given by Lowry Nelson at the University of Minnesota, undatedReturn to Top
Container(s): Box 3, Folder 3
Seminar Material: Comparative Rural Societies of Europe (part 2), undatedReturn to Top
Container(s): Box 3, Folder 4
Chile Notes: Notes are miscellaneous material or collected by Lowry Nelson when he was Consultant to Aid, 1960 April-JuneReturn to Top
Container(s): Box 3, Folder 5
Course on Latin America, Notes - (Part 1) Lowry Nelson notes and bibliography for course on land, people, and institutions of Latin America including maps and reprints on the subject, undatedReturn to Top
Container(s): Box 3, Folder 6
Course on Latin America, Notes (Part 2), undatedReturn to Top
Container(s): Box 3, Folder 7
Incoming Correspondence from Delta Nu Fraternity brothers, undatedReturn to Top
Container(s): Box 4, Folder 1
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
1 : Note by Lowry Nelson giving background of correspondents |
1974 | ||
2 : Letter from Langton Barber (Bud) (1 page) |
1918 September 18 | ||
3 : Letter (consisting of three postal cards mailed in one envelope) from Verne Oberhansley |
1918 October 5 | ||
4 : Letter from Clyde Stratford (1 page) |
1918 October 5 | ||
5 : Post card from Langton Barber |
1918 December 23 | ||
6 : Letter from Bernard (Trolley) Nichols (2 page) |
February 11, 1919 | ||
7 : Letter from Bernard (Trolley) Nichols (2 page) |
1919 June 4 | ||
Incoming and Outgoing Correspondence with officials of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints on the Negro Issue, undatedReturn to Top
Container(s): Box 4, Folder 2
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 June 20 | |||
9 : Outgoing letter to Heber Meeks (1 page) |
1947 June 26 | ||
10 : Outgoing letter to Pres. George Albert Smith (1 page) |
1947 June 26 | ||
11 : Copies of four letters on one page |
undated | ||
a.) : Incoming letter form Joseph Anderson |
1947 July 1 | ||
b.) : Incoming letter from Joseph Anderson |
1947 July 17 | ||
c.) : Incoming letter from George Albert Smith, J. Reuben Clark, Jr., and David O. McKay |
1947 July 17 | ||
d.) : Incoming letter from George Albert Smith |
1947 November 12 | ||
12 : Copy of Outgoing letter to the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (2 page) |
1947 October 8 | ||
13 : Incoming letter from Joseph Anderson |
1952 May 23 | ||
Incoming and Outgoing Correspondence with USU individuals - mostly in connection with L. Nelson Collection, undatedReturn to Top
Container(s): Box 4, Folder 3
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
14 : Outgoing letter to Pres. Dean Taggart (1 page) |
1968 September 24 | ||
15 : Outgoing letter to "the librarian. USU" (1 page) |
1969 November 7 | ||
16 : Incoming letter from Pres. Glen L. Taggart (1 page) |
1974 May 1 | ||
17 : Incoming letter from Pres. Glen L. Taggart (1 page) |
1974 May 3 | ||
18 : Outgoing letter to Sorenson (1 page) |
1974 May 13 | ||
19 : Outgoing letter to Pres. Glen L. Taggart (1 page) |
1974 May 13 | ||
20 : Outgoing letter to Jeff Simmonds (1 page) |
1974 May 20 | ||
Miscellaneous WritingsReturn to Top
Container(s): Box 4, Folder 4
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
1 : Explanatory Note - 1974, Report of the First Annual Encampment of Troop 6, Logan, Utah |
1917 August | ||
2 : Explanatory Note, talk for church meeting "If This Council" presented |
1917 November | ||
3 : Notes on parts of Utah during WWI |
July 15, 1918-June 20, [1919] | ||
4 : Poetry written by Lowry Nelson, included in Poems of the West published |
1925 | ||
5 : Copy of commencement address at the University of Utah, August 30, 1950, as printed in the Western Humanities Reviews |
undated | ||
6 : Explanatory Note - May 1974, copy of article "The Mormons and the Negro" as submitted to The Nation in which it was published |
1952 May 24 | ||
Miscellaneous, undatedReturn to Top
Container(s): Box 4, Folder 5
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
1: Note from Pres. Peterson |
undated | ||
2: Invitation to party given in honor of L. Nelson |
undated | ||
3: Article from "Utah Extension News " - March 1921 "New Grape Juice in an Old bottle" |
undated | ||
4: Notice of Appointment - |
1937 April 27 | ||
5: Notice of Termination - |
1920 March 8 | ||
6: Picture of USU Agronomy Field Day - |
1937 July 31 | ||
Articles and books that include references to Lowry Nelson - located in box IV after folders:Return to Top
Container(s): Box 4
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
Shapes for the Deep Unrest |
undated | |
Three Essays: The Radiant Apex, Wright and his Helix, Mold of Fire by Carlton Culmsee |
1970 November | |
Culture Change in Brazil: An Analytical Model by H. W. Hutchinson Reprint from Journal of Inter-American Studies Vol. VI, No. 3 |
1964 July | |
Value Orientations and Northeast Brazilian Agro-Industrial Modernization by H. W. Hutchinson -Reprint from Inter-American Economic Affairs Vol. 21, No. 4 |
undated | |
Federal Government Efforts to "Americanize" Utah Before Admission to Statehood By Gustive O. Larson -Reprint from BYU Studies |
Winter 1970 | |
Integrity in Politics - Common Cause Report From Washington, Extra Edition: December 1973 - January 1974 Vol. 4, Number 2 |
1973 December - 1974 January | |
Cuban Studies Newsletter Vol. 4, December 1973, Center for Latin American Studies University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh |
1973 December | |
The Poets of the Future: A College Anthology for 1915-16, Edited by Henry T. Schnittkind, Ph.D., The Stratford Co., Publishers: Boston |
1916 | |
The Poets of the Future: A College Anthology for 1916-17, Edited by Henry T. Schnittkind, Ph.D., The Stratford Co., Publishers: Boston |
1917 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Race relations--Religious aspects--Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
- Race relations--Religious aspects--Mormon Church.
- Sociologists--Correspondence.
- Sociology, Rural.
Personal Names
- Nelson, Lowry, 1893-
- Nelson, Lowry, 1893- Birth and growth of a science. (contributor)
Geographical Names
- Latin America--Social conditions.
Finding aid created by Special Collections and Archives.
2008
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