Includes correspondence, reports, manuscripts,
diaries, photographs, poetry, souvenir ephemera, and newspapers of the Bradley
and Blachly families.
Collection Number:
MS 083
Repository:
University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections
University of Arizona
PO Box 210055
Tucson, AZ 85721-0055
Phone: 520-621-6423
Fax: 520-621-9733
URL: http://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/
Biographical Note
Louis Bradley Blachly (1890-1965) was an employee of the U.S. War Dept.
and Foreign Economic Administration, 1941- 1949, working in Columbia, S.C.,
Washington, D.C., North Africa, Europe, and the Middle East; later author of
natural history books and articles, and local historian with the Pioneers
Foundation, New Mexico. His maternal grandfather, Dan Beach Bradley, was a
medical missionary to Bangkok, Siam, from 1835 to 1846
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence, reports, manuscripts, diaries, photographs,
poetry, souvenir ephemera, and newspapers. General family history includes
typescripts of biographical notes, correspondence, and remembrances by various
members of both the Bradley and Blachly families. Photocopied materials of Dan
Beach Bradley's mission work in Siam include a typescript of his journal
describing medical practices. Correspondence is both between missions and with
the King of Siam. Photographs depict the family, their house, village scenes,
temples, and the royalty.
Lou Blachly's government service files relate to provisioning of food,
farm machinery, and other supplies to North Africa; and economic issues of
German reconstruction, including brief descriptions and photographs of
conditions. Ephemera encompasses various foreign currencies, U.S. War Dept.
pamphlets, and Nazi materials. Typescripts of Blachly's published and
unpublished writings include his diaries from 1920 to 1965; poems; musical
compositions; the story about his mother, Mary Adelle Blachly, and her pioneer
life in Colorado; versions of his book
Naming Birds at a Glance, and articles on
bird and wild flower identification. His work with the Pioneers Foundation
resulted in records, correspondence, transcripts and 15 ft. of unprocessed oral
history tapes relating to New Mexico settlers and pioneers, including Montague
Stevens.
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University of Arizona, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all
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Access Terms
Personal Name(s)
Blachly, Mary Adelle -- 1854-1926
Bradley, Dan Beach -- 1804-1873
Blachly, Lou -- Archives
Stevens, Montague -- 1859-1953 --
Interviews
Family Name(s)
Blachly family -- Genealogy
Bradley family -- Genealogy
Corporate Name(s)
Pioneers Foundation (New Mexico)
United States -- Foreign Economic
Administration
Geographic Name(s)
Germany -- Economic conditions--1945-1990
Germany -- History -- 1945-1955
Thailand
Subject(s)
Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Africa, North
Wild flowers -- Arizona
Bird watching -- United States -- Guidebooks
Birds -- United States
Frontier and pioneer life -- Colorado
Frontier and pioneer life -- New Mexico
Missions, Medical -- Thailand -- History -- 19th century
Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Germany
Women pioneers -- Colorado
World War, 1939-1945 -- Destruction and pillage -- Germany
World War, 1939-1945 -- Economic aspects -- Africa, North
World War, 1939-1945 -- Economic aspects -- Germany
War Department (Quartermaster Market Center, Columbia,
SC): L. Blachly Personal Papers.
, April 1941-June
1942
11
2
War Department (Quartermaster Market Center, Columbia,
SC): Instructions and Procedures.
, 1941
11
3
War Department (Quartermaster Market Center, Columbia,
SC): Miscellaneous Papers.
, No
Date
11
4
Office of Price Administration (Washington, DC).
, September 1942-March
1943
11
5
Foreign Economic Administration (North Africa): L. Blachly
Personal Papers.
, March 1943-March
1945
11
6
Foreign Economic Administration (North Africa): L. Blachly
Notebooks.
, No
Date
box
folder
12
1
Foreign Economic Administration (North Africa): General
Administrative Papers.
, 1943-1945
12
2
Foreign Economic Administration (North Africa): Meetings
and Reports.
, 1943-1945
12
3
Foreign Economic Administration (North Africa): Food
Production.
, 1943-1945
12
4
Foreign Economic Administration (North Africa): Food
Rations and Requirements.
, 1943-1945
12
5
Foreign Economic Administration (North Africa): Farm
Machinery.
, 1943-1945
12
6
Foreign Economic Administration (North Africa): Fats and
Oils.
, 1943-1945
12
7
Foreign Economic Administration (North Africa):
Fertilizers.
, 1943-1945
12
8
Foreign Economic Administration (North Africa): Fruits and
Vegetables.
, 1943-1945
12
9
Foreign Economic Administration (North Africa): Grain.
, 1943-1945
12
10
Foreign Economic Administration (North Africa): Locusts.
, 1943-1945
box
folder
13
1-2
Foreign Economic Administration (North Africa): Diary.
, 1943-1945
13
3
Foreign Economic Administration (North Africa):
Miscellaneous Notes.
, 1943-1945
13
4
Foreign Economic Administration (North Africa): Music.
, 1943-1945
13
5
Foreign Economic Administration (North Africa): Poetry.
, 1943-1945
13
6
Foreign Economic Administration (North Africa): Sketches
and Paintings.
, 1943-1945
13
7
Foreign Economic Administration (North Africa):
Photographs I - Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria.
, 1943-1945
13
8
Foreign Economic Administration (North Africa):
Photographs II - Lou Blachly and Staff of North African Economic Mission; Arab
Groups and Stree Scenes; Potato Aid; Water and Irrigation; Agricultural
Photographs; Unidentified.
, 1943-1945
box
folder
14
1
Foreign Economic Administration (North Africa): General
Background Material.
, 1943-1945
14
2
Foreign Economic Administration (North Africa):
Agriculture Background Material.
, 1943-1945
14
3
Foreign Economic Administration (North Africa): Background
Material on Algeria.
, 1943-1945
14
4
Foreign Economic Administration: Palestine and Iran.
, 1943-1945
Foreign Economic Administration: Washington, DC - Food
Relief for Canada and United Kingdom.
, 1943-1945
Includes:
Final Report on Foreign Aid of the House Select
Committee on Foreign Aid, pursuant to H.Res. 296, 1948.
box
folder
15
1
War Department: Military Government, Germany - L. Blachly
Personal Papers.
, 1946-1948
15
2
War Department: Military Government, Germany -
Miscellaneous Notes, Worksheets.
, 1946-1948
15
3
War Department: Military Government, Germany- Notebooks.
, 1946-1948
15
4
War Department: Military Government, Germany - Personal
Mementos and Souvenirs; Bills.
, 1946-1948
15
5
War Department: Military Government, Germany -
Autobiography (Made Up of Diary, Letters, Poems).
, 1945-1946
box
folder
16
1
War Department: Military Government, Germany -
Agriculture, Food, Forestry.
, 1945-1946
16
2
War Department: Military Government, Germany - Fuel.
, 1945-1947
16
3
War Department: Military Government, Germany - Production
and Export/Import Plan.
, 1947-1948
16
4-5
War Department: Military Government, Germany -
Dismantling.
, January 1947-July
1948
16
6
War Department: Military Government, Germany - General
Transport.
, 1946-1947
16
7
War Department: Military Government, Germany - Auto
Transport.
, 1946-1947
16
8-9
War Department: Military Government, Germany - Rail
Transport.
, 1946-1947
16
10
War Department: Military Government, Germany - Supplies
for Reichsbahn.
, 1947
16
11
War Department: Military Government, Germany - Water.
, 1945-1947
box
folder
17
1-3
War Department: Military Government, Germany - Diary.
, 1945-1948
17
4-6
War Department: Military Government, Germany - Poetry, p.
1-81. Also Some German Translations of L.B.'s Poems.
, 1945-1947
17
7
War Department: Military Government, Germany - Poetry.
, 1945-1948
box
folder
18
1
War Department: Military Government, Germany -
Photographs. Personal, Various Subjects. Lou Blachly & Family, Refugees
(Berlin),Bridge Destruction & Rebuilding, Factories & Factory Workers,
Friends of L.B., Returning of S.S. Prisoners, Bomb Destruction (unidentified
cities), Wood Gathering (Berlin and Grunewald).
, 1946-1948
18
2
War Department: Military Government, Germany -
Photographs. Berlin.
, 1946-1948
18
3
War Department: Military Government, Germany - Photographs
Frankfurt and Munich.
, 1946-1948
18
4
War Department: Military Government, Germany -
Photographs. Bavaria, Miscellaneous, Berchtesgaden.
, 1946-1948
18
5
War Department: Military Government, Germany -
Photographs. Various Towns. Herford & Surrounding Countryside, Nuremberg,
Kassel, Stuttgart, Heidelberg.
, 1946-1948
18
6
War Department: Military Government, France - Photographs.
Paris, Vitrolles, Marseilles, Southern France.
, 1946-1948
18
7
War Department: Military Government, Germany -
Photographs. Switzerland, Spain.
, 1946-1948
18
8
War Department: Military Government, Germany - Lou
Blachly's Drawings and Sketches.
, 1946-1948
box
folder
19
1
War Department: Military Government, Germany - Background
Material and Publications on Berlin Airlift; Strategic Bombing.
, 1946-1948
19
2
War Department: Military Government, Germany - Background
Material and Publications on Control Commission for Germany (British Element,
Berlin.
, 1946-1948
19
3
War Department: Military Government, Germany - Background
Material and Publications on Economic Coperation Administration.
, 1946-1948
19
4
War Department: Military Government, Germany - Background
Material and Publications on Food and Agriculture, U.S. and U.K. Zones.
, 1946-1948
19
5
War Department: Military Government, Germany - Background
Material and Publications on Office of Military Government for Germany (U.S.).
, 1946-1948
19
6
War Department: Military Government, Germany - Background
Material and Publications on Reconstruction, Relief, Rehabilitation.
, 1946-1948
19
7
War Department: Military Government, Germany - Background
Material and Publications on Reconstruction Plan.
, 1948-1949
box
folder
20
1
Article by L.B.: "American Free Enterprise in Germany."
, 1946-1948
20
2
Article by L.B.: "Creating an Independent Commission on
Peace."
, 1946-1948
20
3
Article by L.B.: Draft of a Proposed Telegram to the
President of the U.S.
, 1946-1948
20
4
Article by L.B.: "Keep the Hate Fires Burning."
, 1946-1948
20
5
Article by L.B.: "Not Enough Wheels."
, 1946-1948
20
6-8
Article by L.B.: "Cold War to Blood War" Originally
"Called Two Professors in Germany."
, 1946-1948
20
9
Miscellaneous Articles and Notes.: "A Memo on Peace,"
"When Do We Eat?," " Overgrazing in North Africa and Iran," " Food Situation in
the Mediterranean Area," " Battleground of the War Against Hunger," " Let's Get
Out,"
"An Open Letter to the People of the United States"
(courtesy of the
Reader's Digest), "You Asked for It," and "World
Peace."
, 1944-1948
Correspondence (Angus Cameron of A.A. Knopf).
, 1960-1964
25
4
Correspondence (Alan Collins of Curtis Brown).
, 1961-1965
25
5
Correspondence (Sheridan Oman).
, 1959-1964
25
6
Correspondence (Randolph Jenks).
, 1958-1965
25
7
Correspondence (Tree Guide).
, 1959-1965
25
8
Financial Records of Nature Publications.
, No
Date
box
folder
26
1
Shore and Water Birds (Notes).
, No
Date
26
2
Southwestern Birds (Notes, Articles, Projected Guide).
, No
Date
26
3
Western Flowers (Notes, Observations).
, No
Date
26
4
"Land Birds of the Northeast."
, 1959
26
5
"West Kill."
, May 9,
1948
26
6
Tree Guide (Including Leaf Prints).
, No
Date
26
7
Miscellaneous: Notes, Pictures, Reading Lists, Memos,
Correspondence. Includes a copy of Roger T. Peterson's
Field Guide to the Birds, 2nd ed., Houghton Mifflin
Co., 1947.
, 1960-1963
box
folder
27
1
Naming the Birds at a Glance: Birds in Your
Binoculars.
, No
Date
27
2
Naming the Birds at a Glance: Instant Identification
of Birds.
, No
Date
27
3
Naming the Birds at a Glance: Various Versions of
Introduction.
, No
Date
27
4
Naming the Birds at a Glance: Galley.
, No
Date
27
5
Naming the Birds at a Glance: Reviews and Fan Mail.
, No
Date
27
6
Naming the Birds at a Glance: Miscellaneous Notes,
Versions of Parts. Includes Copy of Published Work
Naming the Birds at a Glance by Lou Blachly and
Randolph Jenks, Alfred A. Knopf, NY, 1963. Guide Drawings by Sheridan Oman.
Also Copy of
A Guide to Bird Songs by Areta A. Saunders,
Doubleday & Co., NY, 1951.
, No
Date
box
folder
28
1
Tucson Daily Citizen: Wildflower Series. (Notes,
Dummy, Copies as Printed in Booklet Form:
Picture Guide to Southern Arizona Wildflowers .
, No
Date
28
2
Tucson Daily Citizen: Wildflower Series
(Correspondence).
, No
Date
28
3
Tucson Daily Citizen: Wildflower Series (Newspaper
Clippings).
, No
Date
28
4
Tucson Daily Citizen: Wildflower Series (Copyright
Papers).
, No
Date
28
5
Tucson Daily Citizen: Wildflower Series (Drawings by
Sheridan Oman).
, No
Date
28
6
Tucson Daily Citizen: Wildflower Series (Tucson
Public School Tests).
, 1962
28
7
Tucson Daily Citizen: Mammals, Snakes and Lizards
Series.
, No
Date
German Subway Sign Used Near Gruenewald Instructing
Post-war Berliners to Remove Wood From Their Shoulders Before Boarding Cars.
Broadside: Livery Law. Chapter 62. An Act to Prevent
Defrauding of Livery Stable Keepers and Providing Penalty Thereof. H.S.H.B. No.
18, Approved March 14, 1905.
Newspapers:
Siam Free Press (Bangkok - Contains Obituary
Notice of Sarah B. Bradley), August 8, 1893
Lordsburg Liberal (60th Anniversay Edition),
November 14, 1947.
Iranian Newspaper in Arabic (Unidentified).
Alger Republicain (Algiers), November 4, 1944.
Le Courrier du Maroc (Casablanca), November 4,
1943.
La Dépêche Algérienne (Algiers), August 16,
1944.
La Dépêche Marocaine, June 16, 1943.
Dernière Heure (Constantine) September 16,
1944.
Les Dernières Nouvelles (Algiers), July 15,
1943; July 30, 1943, September 18, 1943.
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (Berlin), November
5, 1939.
L'Echo D'Alger (Algiers), July 10, 1943;
September 18, 1943; August 16, 1944.
France-Soir (Paris), June 22, 1946.
Gibralter Chronicle (Gibralter), June 19, 1943.
Italia Nuova (Rome), February 3, 1945.
Libé-Soir (Paris), September 1, 1945.
Le Maroc Primeuriste: bulletin d'information
maraichere (Casablanca), September 9, 1943.
Oran Républicain, September 29, 1943.
Palestine News (Jerusalem), 1944?
Palestine Post (Jerusalem), January 16, 1944.
Paris-Presse (Paris), August 29, 1945.
Le Petit Marocain (Casablanca), November 12,
1943.
Stars and Stripes (Africa), September 4, 1943.
Stars and Stripes (Algiers Daily), July 11,
1943.
Stars and Stripes (Algiers Daily), September 9,
1943.
Stars and Stripes (Algiers Daily), September 17,
1943.
Stars and Stripes (Algiers Daily), December 7,
1943.
Stars and Stripes (Casablanca Daily), November
12, 1943.
Stars and Stripes (Germany Edition), March 17,
1946.
Stars and Stripes (Mediterranean), November 25,
1944.
Stars and Stripes (Mediterranean), February 13,
1945.
Stars and Stripes (Mediterranean), March 9,
1945.
Stars and Stripes (Mediterranean), March 10,
1945.
Stars and Stripes (North Africa), July 31, 1944.
Stars and Stripes, (Oran Daily), August 9, 1943.
Stars and Stripes, (Oran Daily), September
29-30, 1943.
Stars and Stripes, (Paris Edition), September 3,
1943.
Der Tagesspiegel (Berlin), January 20, 1946.
Tunis Telegraph (Union Jack Evening Paper),
August 25, 1943.
Tunis Telegraph (Union Jack Evening Paper),
August 27, 1943.
Tunis Telegraph (Union Jack Evening Paper),
August 30, 1943.
La Tunisie Française, August 30, 1943.
Union Jack (First African Edition), August 16,
1944.
La Vigie Marocaine (Casablanca), November, 4
& 6, 1943.
Maps: Three Unidentified Maps of German Railway Systems.