Alfred Hampton papers, 1891-1964 (bulk, 1897-1943).

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Alfred Hampton papers, 1891-1964 (bulk, 1897-1943).

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Correspondence, newspaper articles, programs, invitations (51 items: 1897-1943, 1964, and undated), and photographs (14 images: 1891, 1898, and undated) re career of Alfred Hampton and information re inventions patented by his wife, Francis Hampton, consisting of tools and labor-saving devices. Invitation, 16 Sept. 1918, for Hampton, his wife, and daughter from Ignacio Bonillas, the Mexican ambassador to the U.S., to join in the festivities celebrating the 108th anniversary of Mexican independence. In one of several business related letters, the Secretary of Labor, W.B. Wilson, wrote 2 Mar 1921, "This administration is drawing to a close... I desire to express to you my highest appreciation of the splendid services you have rendered to our country and humanity everywhere during the greatest crisis that the world has ever known." Mrs. Francis Hermson Hampton obtained patents for an improvement on funnels and wood-chopping devices. Correspondence, descriptions and drawings pertaining to her inventions are among the papers. Photographs include an exterior image of men and women in the family posing with bicycles [undated]; an image of Francis and Alfred boarding a carriage while in Mexico [undated]; and images of Hampton in Havanna, Cuba, and with Matthew Calbraith Butler as a member of the "Joint American and Spanish Commission for the Evacuation of Cuba" [some of these images published in Harper's Pictorial History of the War with Spain, and available online from New York Public Library.] Oversize group portraits of Alfred Hampton and others dressed in uniform while in camp during Spanish American War, [1898], with exterior view of tents in background and dog in foreground (photographed by J.D. Givens); and interior view of a bar in Havana, Cuba, Sept. 1898, "Salon Trotehal (Vedado), Habana, Cuba" (photographed by J. Gomez de la Carrera)

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Bonillas, Ignacio, 1858-1944.

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Butler, M. C. (Matthew Calbraith), 1836-1909

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U.S. Senator from South Carolina. From the description of Signature to printed form : Washington, 1880 Dec. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270132690 From the description of Papers, 1851-1920. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36547519 Confederate solider and lawyer, of Edgefield, S.C.; member of S.C. House, 1860-1861 and 1866-1867; member of U.S. Congress, 1877-1895; son of William Butler (1790-1850). From the description of Matthew Calb...

Hampton family.

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Hampton, Francis Hermson.

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Hampton, Alfred, 1861-1942.

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Native of Columbia, S.C.; attended University of Virginia, 1879-1881; Hampton's career included work as deputy county surveyor of El Paso County, Texas, 1883-1884; civil engineer in Nogales, Arizona, 1897-1898; served in the Spanish-American War under command of M.C. Butler; worked for the U.S. Immigration Bureau, 1902-1928, stationed in Montana and Galveston, Texas; was director of prisoner of war camps for Woodrow Wilson administration during World War I; at the time of his death,...