Lois Stone Allen papers, 1912-1914.

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Lois Stone Allen papers, 1912-1914.

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This collection contains the drafts and published copy of the work "Ismailia or a Young Girl's Trip to California with Ismailia" by Lois Stone Allen. One draft is written in a younger hand than the second and the final bound and printed copy contains illustrations. These illustrations also appear in a scrapbook.

10 linear in.

New Mexico State University

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New Mexico State University

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Rio Grande Historical Collections

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The Faithist movement was founded by a New York dentist and doctor named John B. Newbrough, who claimed to have written a new Bible, called Oahspe, while under spirit control. Contained in this Bible was "The Book of Shalam," which set forth a plan for gathering the outcast and orphaned children of the world and raising them, according to strict religious principles, to be the spiritual leaders of a new age. Newbrough and some twenty Faithists, as his followers were called, decided to create suc...

Allen, Lois Stone.

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Given the opportunity to travel the United States of America in 1912, twelve-year-old Lois Stone Allen took it and produced a work of her experiences and memories. Allen lived with her grandparents, Helen A. Stone and Truman L. Stone in Boston. Truman Stone was a member of the Ismailia Temple of Buffalo, the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and in their company Lois and her grandfather were able to travel to California. From the description of Lois Stone Allen papers...