Clyde W. Stauffer Family Photograph Album
name: label: Photographer
content: Stauffer, Clyde Weaver, 1899-1984 (policeman)
label: Photographer
content: Stauffer, Clyde Weaver, Mrs.
label: Names
content: New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.)
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content: Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States -- 1930-1940
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content: Anderson, Eddie "Rochester", 1905-1977
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content: Robinson, Bill, 1878-1949
place: label: Place
content: Bryce Canyon National Park -- photographs -- 1930-1940 -- Utah
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content: Wyoming -- photographs -- 1930-1940
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content: Colorado -- photographs -- 1930-1940
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content: Los Angeles (Calif.) -- photographs -- 1930-1940
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content: South Dakota -- photographs -- 1930-1940
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content: Florida -- photographs -- 1930-1940
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content: Georgia -- photographs -- 1930-1940
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content: Tennessee -- photographs -- 1930-1940
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content: Zion National Park (Utah) -- photographs -- 1930-1940
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content: Kentucky -- photographs -- 1930-1940
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content: Mt. Rushmore S.D. -- photographs -- 1930-1940
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content: Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.) -- photographs -- 1930-1940
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content: Badlands National Park (S.D.) -- 1930-1940 photographs
topic: label: Topic
content: Automobile travel -- Photographs -- 1930-1940 -- U.S.A.
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content: National parks and reserves
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content: Vacations -- Photographs -- 1930-1940
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content: Travel -- Photographs -- 1930-1940
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content: Parks -- Photographs -- 1930-1940 -- U.S.A.
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content: Recreation -- Photographs -- 1930-1940 -- U.S.A.
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content: Veterans -- societies, etc -- United States
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content: African American entertainers -- 20th century
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content: Veterans -- Photographs -- 1930-1940
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content: Exhibitions -- 1930-1940 -- New York
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content: Entertainers -- 1930-1940
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This collection was bequeathed by Clyde W. Stauffer in August 1984. Mr. Stern, as administrator of the estate, sent the album to the Museum.
creator: label: Photographer
content: Stauffer, Clyde Weaver, 1899-1984 (policeman)
label: Photographer
content: Stauffer, Clyde Weaver, Mrs.
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content: Clyde W. Stauffer Family Photograph Album
abstract: label: Summary
content: The collection consists of a disassembled photograph album, featuring images from the travels of Stauffer and his wife.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Born in Alliance, Ohio on November 28, 1899, Clyde Stauffer served in the U.S. Navy from November 8, 1917 to July 31, 1919.  He later worked as a police officer in Detroit, Michigan.  He and his wife were active in the Veterans of Foreign Wars police post in Detroit, serving terms as post commander and president of the Women's Auxiliary, respectively.  They traveled extensively throughout the United States to attend VFW meetings, and the album forms a record of their travels during the years 1935-1940.  After retirement from the Detroit police force, the Stauffers moved to Oscoda, Michigan, and he worked at Wurtsmith Air Force Base.  Later they lived in Tucson, Arizona.   Stauffer died in August, 1984.  


Album forms a record of vacation travel by Mr. and Mrs. Clyde W. Stauffer, 1935-1940. Their travels were occasioned by Mr. Stauffer's position as commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars police post of Detroit, Michigan, and the need to attend V.F.W. meetings around the country. Mrs. Stauffer was president of the V.F.W. auxiliary. Mr. and Mrs. James H. Stern met the Stauffers in Oscoda, Michigan, and both families eventually relocated in Tucson, Arizona.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.1 Cubic feet (1 box)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1935 - 1940
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0139
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Tickets
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content: Albums
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content: Photographs
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content: Postcards
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged into
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Processed by David Haberstich, July, 1986
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Tickets -- World's Fair, 1939 -- New York (N.Y.)
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content: Albums
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content: Photographs -- Black-and-white photoprints -- 1900-1950
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content: Postcards
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This album consists of 109 loose pages, bearing a total of 134 black and white silver gelatin photoprints, some postcards, and a photomechanical reproduction clipped from a publication, with a 1939 World's Fair ticket stub.  The subjects of the photographs include: Lincoln's birthplace and other sites in Kentucky; Tennessee; Georgia; Florida; Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts; the 1939 New York World's Fair, ships in Battery Park and Manhattan buildings; the ships The Normandie, The Queen Mary, and The U.S.S. Constitution and the Southern Clipper airplane; the Badlands and Black Hills of South Dakota, Cathedral Spires and Mount Rushmore portrait busts during construction; Yellowstone National Park and Wyoming; Rocky Mountain National Park, Pikes Peak and Denver, Colorado; Bryce Canyon, the Mormon Temple, Zion National Park, Salt Lake City and other areas of Utah; Boulder Dam; Santa Catalina Island; Carlsbad Caverns; and celebrities Bill Robinson and Eddie "Rochester" Anderson at a barbecue in Los Angeles.  There are also photographs of the Stauffers and of friends whom they visited during their travels.