Eyre Damer papers
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Scope and Contents
A scrapbook and accompanying materials relating to the book “With C.H. Ellis Through Central America and Panama: Quarantine Tour of Central America and Panama by Health Authorities as Guests of the United Fruit Company,” compiled and distributed by that firm. It documents a trip by public health officials from Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, in which Mobile journalist Eyre Damer participated, following the American yellow fever epidemic of 1905 which was blamed on fruit companies operating between Central America and various Southern ports. Damer's scrapbook includes unpublished photographs of participants as well as the printed text and photographs, plus materials by Damer including his accounts of the voyage which appeared in the Mobile Register, a subsequent speech about the trip to the Mobile Commercial Club, correspondence about the trip, souvenirs, business cards collected during the trip and at a reunion of the participants, and a biographical sketch of Damer from the Register.
Dates
- Creation: after 1900
Creator
- Damer, Eyre (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
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Biographical / Historical
Mobile, Alabama, journalist and author.
Extent
1.03 Linear Feet (1 folder, scrapbook)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
A scrapbook and accompanying materials relating to the book “With C.H. Ellis Through Central America and Panama: Quarantine Tour of Central America and Panama by Health Authorities as Guests of the United Fruit Company,” compiled and distributed by that firm.
Provenance
unknown
General
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Processed by
C. Doughty, 2009; updated by Martha Bace, 2013
Subject
- United Fruit Company (Organization)
- Damer, Eyre (Person)
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Guide to the Eyre Damer Scrapbook
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- January 2009
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections Repository