Collection context
Summary
Background
- Scope and content:
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Diary (Omaha, 1914), account book (1905-07), calling cards, photographs, military records, and WWI maps. Diary records weather and daily activities, including trips to Sioux City and Des Moines, times when Buell woke in the morning, went to work, returned home, and went to sleep. Also refers to his physical ailments as well of those of his wife, Elmira, who, he reports, gave birth to a son in March, 1914.
- Biographical / historical:
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Major Frank A. Buell, Coast Artillery Corps., U.S. Army, was a graduate of the Fort Sill School of Fire for Field Artillery and the General Staff College in France. He died in France from bronchial pneumonia on February 4, 1919.
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- World War, 1914-1918.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Research is by appointment only
- Terms of access:
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Permission to publish, quote or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder
- Preferred citation:
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Frank A. Buell (1886-1919) Collection, 1905-1919. Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
- Location of this collection:
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900 Exposition BoulevardLos Angeles, CA 90007-4057, US
- Contact:
- (213) 763-3359