Subject Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: True, Allen Tupper, 1881-1955
setName: label: See more items in
content: Allen Tupper True and True family papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: (box 1, 23 folders)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1873-1955
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.truealle, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Subject files are on reel 4891.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series includes letters, journals and autobiographical accounts, notes, ephemera, printed material, and legal documents such as mining and stock certificates and wills, concerning members of the True family and organizations with which they were associated.

Files relating to Margaret Allen Tupper True contain: an undated journal written by Margaret Tupper True's mother, Ellen Smith Tupper (transcript precedes handwritten journal); receipts for purchase of land, 1879-1892; and a diary, 1881-1888, which contains entries primarily concerning Allen Tupper True as a baby, and includes 2 photographs of True, a lock of his hair, and a cyanotype of Franklin School, El Paso, Texas. The files also contain a diary from 1891-1926, that includes entries primarily concerning Katherine Goodrich True as a baby, and includes a family tree chart; notes about the family; 4 photographs of Katherine True, 1891-1905; 1 photograph of Allen Tupper True, 1905; a composition by Katherine True; a notebook on conditions in various schools, 1907-ca. 1911; 4 real estate deeds, 1908-1913; and inheritance tax documents, 1926. The Cactus Club file contains undated miscellaneous writings by True.

See also Series 9: Photographs, and Series 12: Artifacts.