Special Collections and Archives Finding Aids

Description of Series

Personal Papers, 1878-1937.

Correspondence with friends and relatives, financial records, miscellaneous. Correspondence is arranged in sub-series INCOMING and OUTGOING, and thereunder, chronologically.

1-4

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L.M. Bowers — Personal Financial Enterprises, 1876-1928.

Sub-series consist of the many businesses Bowers started and managed, arranged chronologically. The correspondence dealing with each business is separated into INCOMING and OUTGOING, and thereunder, chronologically.

5-17

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L.M. Bowers — Rockefeller Enterprises, 1896-1933.

Sub-series consist of the many Rockefeller-owned enterprises that Bowers was associated with. The businesses are arranged chronologically and the correspondence dealing with them is separated into INCOMING and OUTGOING, and thereunder, chronologically.

18-28

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Miscellaneous.

Ephemeral material consisting of bills, invoices, notices of payment, etc., arranged loosely by type of material, and thereunder chronologically when the date could be ascertained.

29-32

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Manuscript

L.M. Bowers Memoirs — An unpublished “Memoir” written by Bowers, circa 1922-23, bound with an unpublished “Brief Biographical Sketch of Lamont M. Bowers, 1847-1941, ” written by his son, Clement Gray Bowers in 1942. Xerox copy of original draft.

Lamont Montgomery Bowers Collection