Robert M. Johnson Family Correspondence
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the correspondence between journalist Robert M. Johnson; his wife, Mary Urquhart Johnson; and their daughters Margaret and Esther. Also included are greeting cards, a broadside, telegrams, postcards, and clippings. Johnson wrote to his daughters about stories he was working on, including the 1910 street car strike in Philadelphia, and about his work as a political journalist in San Antonio, Texas. Materials include letters, cards, postcards, clippings, and a broadside.
Dates
- Creation: 1904 - 1959
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1910 - 1930
Creator
- Johnson, Robert McMillan, 1866-1929 (Person)
- Johnson, Mary Urquhart, 1865-? (Person)
- Johnson, Margaret M., 1892-? (Person)
- Johnson, Esther H., 1889-? (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
There are no access restrictions on this collection.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright status for collection materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Biographical / Historical
Robert M. Johnson was born in San Francisco, California to a Justice of the Peace. He attended the University of Vermont and graduated in 1889. Johnson was a journalist and travelled extensively for his work, including to Portland, Oregon; San Antonio, Texas; Atlantic City, new Jersey; New York City; Philadelphia; Miami, Florida; and Baltimore, Maryland. Johnson wrote for a San Antonio newspaper, The Light, for many years before relocating with his family to Washington, D.C., to work for the International Correspondence Schools.
Biographical / Historical
Mary Urquhart Johnson, born Mary Thomas Urquhart, married Robert M. Johnson in 1888 and raised their two daughters as a housewife.
Biographical / Historical
Margaret M. Johnson, daughter of Mary and Robert, worked at the War Department in the 1920s before marrying Byron H. Carpenter in 1928.
Biographical / Historical
Esther H. Johnson, daughter of Mary and Robert, worked at the War Department in the 1920s and continued working for the U.S. Government into the 1930s as a clerk.
Extent
.5 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
This collection is unarranged.
Genre / Form
- Broadsides (notices)
- Clippings (information artifacts)
- Correspondence
- Greeting cards
- Letters (correspondence)
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Robert M. Johnson Family Correspondence
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Hannah E. Sabal
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections Repository