
MARJORIE VANDERVELDE (1908- )
PAPERS, 1837-2008
7 linear feet
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ACQUISITION: |
The papers (donor no. 534) were
donated by Marjorie Vandervelde
in 1999, and subsequent years. |
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ACCESS: |
The papers are open for research. |
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COPYRIGHT: |
Copyright has been retained by the donor. |
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AUDIOCASSETTES: |
AC 505; AC548; AC 553 to AC620 in Audiocassette Collection. |
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PHOTOGRAPHS: |
Boxes 12, 13 and 19. |
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PROCESSED BY: ADDITIONS: |
Doris Malkmus, 2001 Janet Weaver, 2003; Shawn
Averkamp, 2009. [VanderveldeM.doc] |
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Biography
Marjorie Mills Vandervelde,
writer, traveller, and photojournalist, was born
Marjorie Mills’ sister
Ursula provided most of the care for her younger sister during her childhood,
but her mother’s encouragement kindled a spirit of adventure in the
children. Anna Burgess Mills may have
inherited her spirit from her father Joe Burgess, who joined the California
Gold Rush in 1849. Marjorie Mills
Vandervelde was also influenced by her mother’s sister, Nellie Burgess, a
reporter for the
Andrew and Marjorie Mills Vandervelde raised three
sons,
Vandervelde became particularly interested in and
returned many times to live among the Kuna Indians of the San Blas Archipelago
off the Atlantic coast of
Vandervelde wrote extensively for the juvenile press feeling a strong desire “to help children of different cultures and religions understand each other.” In her writings for adults she has attempted to convey her respect for the dignity of primitive peoples.
Vandervelde published seven
books: Keep Out of
See the autobiographical sketch by Marjorie Vandervelde in the first folder of the Family series.
Scope and
Content Note
The
Marjorie Vandervelde collection dates from 1855 to 2008 and measures 7 linear
feet. The majority of the collection
consists of published writings and original photographs from newspapers,
magazines, and juvenile magazines from the late 1950s to 2001. The collection
consists of five series: Family,
Correspondence, Writings,
Presentations, Awards, and Photographs.
Marjorie Vandervelde organized much of the material according to subject before
donation. Her explanatory and
identifying notes are included with the materials or in the first folder of
sub-series. The series order reflects
the organization of Vandervelde wherever possible. This collection is extraordinary for its
writing and photography about primitive peoples and isolated cultures around
the world, but also includes personal papers and records from the Mills family
and extensive correspondence from Kent Vandervelde while he served in the
military from the late 1950s until the 1980s.
The
Family series consists of items from
and about the Burgess, Mills, and Vandervelde families. A medical account book of Ernest Mills from
his practice in
The Correspondence series includes letters between Marjorie and her
brothers Ernest and Glenn and her son Kent. Letters by her son
The Writings series forms the bulk of the collection. Vandervelde combined a love of travel and
adventure and a commitment to help children understand people of diverse cultures
to devote much of her writing career to juvenile magazine articles. These, along with news and magazine features
about travel and characters comprise the majority of the series. Three scrapbooks of her writings are included
in this series. Her books are available
in the Iowa Authors section of the University of Iowa Libraries Special
Collections Department.
The Presentations and Awards series includes the scripts of various
talks she gave around the state about her experience travelling and writing. It also includes various writing awards
Vandervelde and other family members received.
The Photographs series consists of many photographs that Vandervelde
took to illustrate her stories and articles.
These are almost exclusively of diverse peoples and cultures, with
additional photographs of family members and family activities.
Carribean, 1952
San Blas Islands, 1963 and
every three years through 1993
Box no. Description
Family
Burgess
1837-1899 and undated
Chapbook, 1855
1887, 1996, and undated
Dr. E. M. Mills’ accounts receivable
book, 1896-1900
“The Country Doctor,” undated
Ernest, 1944-1978
Glenn
1908-1917, 1989
1917-1991 and undated
cartooned life of Glenn Mills
[shelved in map case]
World War I photo album
[oversize:
Le
LeGrand
Road Race photograph, 1908 [shelved in map case]
1914-1995 and undated
Farm, 1920-1987
Travel documents, 1954-1983
Reminiscence on audiocassette of
Navy experiences, undated, AC505
Correspondence
Family
1918-1991
1992-2001
Mills, Glenn, 1918-1987
Mills, Harlow, 1962-1963
1957
1958
1959
1962-1964
1965
1966-1975
1976-1982
1982-1984
Notables, 1941-1984
Editors
1957-1969
1970-1989
1990-2000
Readers
1960-1969
1970-1989
1990-2000
From “The Upper Room,” 1973-1995
and undated
Undated
Smith, H. Morgan, 1965-1983 and undated
Tonga schoolchildren letters, 1969
Niuafoo Islander correspondents,
1969-1971
Kuna correspondents
1978-2000
The Two Worlds of Marvel Iglesias, excerpts from the 1980s (AC576)
San Blas Letters from Iglesias to Vandervelde, 1982 (Crazy Medicines) (AC577)
Marvel Iglesias on
her Life among the Kunas, Jan. 1974 (AC 578)
Letter,
Vandervelde to Iglesias, My car accident/Kuna trouble for Gruvers/E'burg man
wants me to write book/Crooked corn rows/music/traditional Kuna ways, 1 of 3,
1981 (AC579)
Letter,
Vandervelde to Iglesias: Days of my life/paternal roots and their helping
runaway slaves,
Letter,
Vandervelde to Iglesias: Carlitos, Mack, Gerry and I locked in at Ailigandi,
Aunt Nellie,
Letter,
Vandervelde to Iglesias, Cockroaches are nervous, Gruvers to CA. Rosa Tasom,
Letter,
Vandervelde to Iglesias, Jane's cancer, Jud/Oran/Xmas bits/How I created book
characters, Dec. 1982 (AC583)
Letter,
Vandervelde to Iglesias, Kuna chief's tomb is empty?, book business, Jane has
cancer, Dec. 1982-Jan. 1983 (AC584)
Letter,
Vandervelde to Iglesias, Book publishing business/blizzard/medical,
Letter,
Vandervelde to Iglesias, Kathy to visit, co-authored book details, ice, farm
markets,
Letter,
Vandervelde to
Letter,
Vandervelde to Iglesias, Eye surgery, Oct. 1983(AC588)
Letter,
Vandervelde to Iglesias, Stick bridge, surgery joke, old piano, book unveiling,
Xmas box to
Letter,
Vandervelde to Iglesias, First farm, eyes, wedding, retirement homes, mola
quilt, Nov. 1983 (AC590)
Letter,
Vandervelde to Iglesias, Eye, yard, birds, Rookettes, no rocking chair
missionary, our book, Nov. 1983. (AC591)
Letter,
Vandervelde to Iglesias, Voices, cockroach mola, Xmas, freighter food, new stove
for
Letter,
Vandervelde to Iglesias, Rooks, Alicia, Lost corpse,
Letter,
Vandervelde to Iglesias, Rookettes, Alicio, funeral,
Letter,
Vandervelde to Iglesias, GV's room like my father's 1890 doctor office, Quaker
thoughts, Jesse Jackson, Jan. 1984 (AC595)
Letter,
Vandervelde to Iglesias, Atilio's kiss, Greg's problem, Galvas (albino), Jan.
1984 (AC596)
Letter, Vandervelde
to Iglesias, Jungle farm, blizzard, the bomb, NY journalists visit
Letter,
Vandervelde to Iglesias, Alicio, Atilio, Loco Kuna, Sula,
Letter,
Vandervelde to Iglesias, Travel plans, drugs, Puerto Rico trip, mola quilt,
Chief Ceferino, Guaymi Indian with a chauffeur, Mar. 1984 (AC599)
Letter,
Vandervelde to Iglesias, Glenn, Reba Pierce, Circle program, Ulbaldino,
Letter,
Vandervelde to Iglesias, Rhubarb, canoe in cornfield, KV Air Boss on carrier
Ranger vs Russians, July 1, 1984 (AC601)
Letter,
Vandervelde to Iglesias, Cabin in forest, my sons, trivia,
Letter,
Vandervelde to Iglesias, Maria and
Letter,
Vandervelde to Iglesias, I bought Marvel a kitchen stove, a sewing
machine. She bought a coffin. All came by boat. Pigs killed as evil spirits, 1984 (AC604)
Letter, Iglesias to Vandervelde, Nov. 1983 (AC606)
Letter,
Iglesias to Vandervelde, Feb. 1980 (AC607)
Letter,
Iglesias to Vandervelde, Dec, 1982 (AC608)
Letter,
Iglesias to Vandervelde, (Best, most complete) letter, jungle cures, no date
(AC609)
Letter,
Iglesias to Vandervelde, Chants, sermon, Christmas, 1983 (AC610)
Letter,
Iglesias to Vandervelde, Nov. 1983 (AC611)
Letter,
Iglesias to Vandervelde, Peter Miller sings, Dec. 1983 (AC612)
Letter,
Iglesias to Vandervelde, Dec. 1983 to Jan. 1984 (AC613)
Letter,
Iglesias to Vandervelde, 1984 (AC614)
Letter,
Iglesias to Vandervelde, Kills pigs, Jan. 1984 (AC615)
Letter,
Iglesias to Vandervelde, Mack Preston's Xmas message, Kuna father and his
children, 50th year since Marvel started mission schools, no date (AC616)
Letter,
Iglesias to Vandervelde, Feb. 1984 (AC617)
Letter,
Iglesias to Vandervelde, March, 1984 (AC618)
Marvel
Iglesias,
Marvel
Iglesias, I married a San Blas Indian, no date [Sound quality poor.] (AC620)
"Honor Program for M. Vandervelde,
Kuna
Medicine Man Chant, Aligandi, 1973 (AC 554)
Atilio
Rivera's sermon,
Atilio
Rivera's sermon, October, 1986 (AC 556)
Kuna Milton Morris re: San Blas Medical Mission-Tape 2 (AC558)
Kuna Milton Morris re: San Blas
Medical Mission-recalls Lonnie incident (AC559)
Kuna
Milton Morris and M. Vandervelde re: San Blas Medical
Kuna
Peter Miller, Aligandi, Jan. 1976 (AC561)
Kuna
music from A to Z plus a snake bite chant, plus kids sing "old Chon
Brown." (AC562)
Kuna
Les Chambers, Feb.24, 1982 (AC563)
Kuna
Peter Miller, Aligandi, 1982 (AC564)
Kuna
Peter Miller, "Fishy conversation," on the road to
Kuna
Pablo,
Kuna
Atilio Rivera,
Kuna
Rhoda Gaskim and Jud Iglesias,
Kuna
Alicia
San
Blas Church Music, no date (1982) (AC570)
Kuna
Fish Stories and Jungle Life (AC571)
Within
the culture, Kuna Chants and Music (AC572)
Kuna
Fish Stories and Jungle Stories, 1991 (AC573)
Kuna
Fish Stories and Jungle Stories, 1991--copy 2 (AC574)
Kuna
Fish Stories and Jungle Stories, 1991--copy 3 (AC575)
Stevens, Elmer and Vera, 1984-1986
Boersma, Ann, 1999-2000
Autobiographical, undated
Travel accounts
1950s-1960s
1963-1981
1983-1990
San Blas
1985-1986
1992
1993
Travel accounts by Ursula Johnson [see
Violet Hensley story file, 1974-1977
Story typescripts, Undated
Poetry, undated
Books
[other books by Marjorie Vandervelde are located in Iowa Authors Collections,
Special Collections Department, University of Iowa Libraries]
Across
the Tundra, 1972
Christmas:
The Annual of Christmas Literature and Art, 1989
Magazine stories, 1986
Writings, 1959-1962 [oversize:
Family, 1960s-1990s [oversize:
Juvenile magazine
1958-1972
Middle and South America, 1963-1993
South Pacific, 1967-1976
United States, 1964-1980
Native Americans, 1964-1970
Religious topics, 1965-1981
Science topics, 1965-1967
Braille format, Undated
American life, 1964-1993
American West, 1967-1977
Central and South America,
1966-1993
South Pacific, 1963-1975
American family topics, 1964-1992
Horses, 1964-1972
Religious topics, 1964-1994
Newspaper columns
“World At Our Feet”
1958
1959-1960
1961-1962
1964-1965
1967-1968
1969-1972
“Thru’ My Porthole”
1995-2003 (9 folders)
Newspaper
1959
1960-1964 (5 folders)
1965-1970 (6 folders)
1971-1980 (10 folders)
1981-1989 (9 folders)
1990-1992
Undated
Editorials, 1960-1995
Newsmagazine photo features, 1968-1997
About Marjorie Vandervelde, 1983, 2001,
and undated
Cartoon drawings, Undated
Presentations
and Awards
Talks
1922-1948
1992-1995
“The Art and Culture of the Kuna Indian,” 1989 [Traveling art exhibit]
Kuna Slide Show, Undated
Various awards and recognitions,
1963-1986
Box 11
Writings
(cont. from Box 4)
Travel accounts of Ursula Johnson
[see list in 1956 folder]
Southwestern United States,
1956
Florida, Appalachians, and
Texas, 1962
Southern United States, 1964
Mexico, 1967
Southern United States, 1968
Mexico, 1970
British Columbia, 1971
Wyoming, 1984
Index
to transcribed Ursula Johnson Journals, 1958-1974
“Eskimo
Escapades,” 1958 [3 folders]
Guatemala, 1967
Mexico, 1970
“Navajo Jaunt,” 1961
Sans Blas, 1963 [2 folders]
Sans Blas, 1965
Sans Blas, 1974
Mexico, 1974
Box 12
Photographs
Family
1855-1920
1921-1960
1961-1990
Burgess, Nellie, 1908-1968
From correspondence series
Vandervelde, Kent, 1959, 1960, 1965
Readers, 1960-1969
Stevens, Elmer and Vera, 1984-1986
Boersma, Ann, 1999-2000
Eskimo at Hudson Bay, 1958 and undated
[2 folders]
Chocos, 1963-1965
Chocos, 1965
Kuna Indians, 1963 and undated
Box 13
Kuna Indians, 1965, 1990-1993 and
undated
Fiji, 1969
Western Samoa, 1969
Tonga, 1969
Rhine, 1970
Holland, 1970
“Buckskin Bill,” 1971
Des Moines Bell-Ringers, 1972
Eskimos at Stebbins, Alaska (Bering
Sea), 1975
Alaska, 1977
Haiti, 1978
Middle East, 1978
Violet Hensley, Undated
8 x 10 copies, undated
Slides
Kuna Indian slide show, Undated
“Christopher and the Sunflowers,”
Undated
Box 14 Oversize:
Scrapbook
Published writings, 1959-1962
Box 15
Scrapbook
Published writings, Panama,
1960s-1990s
Kuna chant book
Published writings, Middle America
experiences, 1960s-1990s
Family, 1960-1990s
Box 16 Columns and other newspaper
articles, 1962-1964
Box 17 World War I photograph album of
Glenn Mills
2005 -
2008 ACCESSIONS
Box
18
Correspondence (cont.)
General, 1992-2006
Presentations and Awards (cont.)
General, 1998-2005
Writings (cont.)
Biographical and
Autobiographical, 1973-2008 and undated
Exploring Alaska with My Typewriter, 2003 and The Subtle Art of Wife Stealing, undated
Box
19
Mystery of the Grand Tetons manuscript, undated
Newspaper columns
“Thru’ My Porthole”
2003-2007 (6 folders)
Photographs
Travel, 1958-1988 and
undated