- Table of Contents
- Biographical Note
- Scope and Content Note
- Administrative Information
- Index Terms
- Container List
Ray Bearse Papers
Collection Summary
- Repository
- University of Vermont Libraries. Special Collections Burlington, Vermont 05405-3596
- Creator
- Bearse, Ray
- Title:
- Ray Bearse Papers
- Dates:
- circa 1950s-1980s
- Abstract:
- The collection contains research materials, photographs, and drafts of work by Ray Bearse. The bulk of the collection is photographs and chapter drafts for an unpublished book on Vermont covered bridges.
- Quantity:
- 1.0 Linear feet2 boxes
- Collection Number:
- mss.003
- Location:
- Special Collections, Bailey/Howe Library.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item] Ray Bearse Papers, Special Collections, University of Vermont Library.
Biographical Note
Ray Bearse was born in Brandon, Vermont, and worked as a newsman and foreign correspondent for the Associated Press, the London Daily Mail, the Stockholm Tidnengen, Time-Life, and the Paris Edition of the New York Herald Tribune. He is the co-author of Conspirator: the Untold Story of Tyler Kent, and Centerfire Pistol and Revolver Cartridges, the author of Sporting Arms of the World, Centerfire American Rifle Cartridges, 1892-1963, and the editor of guides to Vermont, Maine, and Massachusetts.
Scope and Content Note
The collection contains research materials, photographs, and drafts of work by Ray Bearse. The bulk of the collection is photographs and chapter drafts for an unpublished book on Vermont covered bridges. There are 132 photographic prints documenting bridges around the sate. Also in the collection are other Vermont photographs; correspondence with Irene Allen about Westford Soldiers’ Monument; materials related to gold mining in Nova Scotia; a draft article about sculptor Larkin Goldsmith Mead; and a transcript of an interview conducted by Bearse with John Coolidge, son of Calvin and Grace Coolidge.
Restrictions
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Curator of Manuscripts.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the University of Vermont Libraries. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
- Coolidge, John, 1906-
- Covered Bridges -- Vermont
- Mead, Larkin G., (Larkin Goldsmith), 1835-1910
- Photographs