Title:

Lewis Ransome Freeman collection, 1931-1955

Freeman, Lewis R. collection, 1931-1955

This collection consists of correspondence to and from Lewis Ransome Freeman, dated 1931-1955. 23 letters are incoming from various South American and North American locations; 7 letters are outgoing, written by Freeman to his brother Lynn and to his mother; 9 miscellaneous items include a passport photograph, a watercolor card, an invitation and 2 photographs.

Date:

1931 (issued)

Folder 1 of 3: Correspondence -- Incoming (chronological) : 23 letters (three include photographs) dating from 1931-1955. -- Folder 2 of 3: Correspondence -- Outgoing (alphabetical) : 7 letters. -- Folder 3 of 3: Miscellaneous : 9 items.

Subject:

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Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) -- b. 1878

Authors

Explorers

Photographers

Freeman, Lewis Ransome collection, 1931-1955.

Unrestricted. Please credit California State Library.

Lewis Ransome Freeman, author, explorer, photographer, lecturer and wild game hunter, is listed in Who's Who in California, 1942-1943. His biography includes receiving education at Stanford University during 1896-1898, engaging in professional travel and exploration in North and South America, Asia, Africa and the Islands of the Pacific during the years 1899-1912, serving as a war correspondent in 1905, 1910, 1915-17, 1918, 1925 and 1929 and serving as a boatman and photographer for the U. S. Geological Survey party, traversing the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, in 1923.

Freeman participated in an airplane and motorboat expedition to Central and South America in 1930-31, sailed as a Naval correspondent to Tierra del Fuego and to the headwaters of the Amazon in Ecquador in 1936, traversed into the highlands of southern Mexico and Guatemala in 1938, cruised to Galapagos and to the west coast of Columbia in 1939 and made further explorations into Bolivia, Peru, and Brazil in 1941. Born in Wisconsin, October 4, 1878, to the parents Maria (Clary) and Otto Freeman, he came to California as a boy, maintained addresses in Pasadena and New York, and returned to Pasadena five years before his death. He died November 6, 1960, age 82. Freeman is listed as having had memberships in Sigma Rho Eta at Stanford, the Explorers Club and the Ends of the Earth Club in New York.

Numerous publications were authored by Freeman, including: Many Fronts, 1918; Stories of the Ships, 1919; Sea Hounds, 1919; To Kiel in the Hercules, 1919; In the Tracks of the Trades, 1920; Hell's Hutches, 1921; Down the Columbia, 1921; Down the Yellowstone, 1922; The Colorado River-Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, 1923; Down the Grand Canyon, 1924; On the Roof of the Rockies, 1925; By Water Ways to Gotham, 1926; Waterways of Westward Wandering, 1927; The Nearing North, 1928; Afloat and Aflight in the Caribbean, 1932; South America-Airwise and Otherwise, 1933; Marquesan Nocturne, 1936; Discovering South America, 1937; Many Rivers, 1937 and Brazil, Land of Tomorrow, 1942. Also articles by Lewis R. Freeman were published in Overland Monthly, 1914-1915; The Saturday Evening Post, 1915, 1919 & 1920; Everybody's Magazine, 1920; The Atlantic Monthly, 1916; and The Magpie, 1924.

Type:

biography

print

39 items, (3 archival folders) ; 38 x 24 x 2 cm.

English

MANUSCRIPT SMC II : BOX 22 : FOLDERS 1-3

Origin:

California

Unrestricted. Please credit California State Library.