This collection consists of the writings and personal papers of Lowry Nelson. Writings include articles, study reprints, seminar materials, notes for his class on Latin America, and books, including Rural sociology (1955) and American farm life (1954), and a draft carbon copy of his book, the Birth and growth of a science. Personal papers consist mostly of correspondence.
Repository:
Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives Manuscript Collection
Merrill-Cazier Library Utah State University 3000 Old Main Hill Logan, UT 84322-3000 Phone: 435 797-1663 Fax: 435 797-2880 Email: scweb@usu.edu
Languages:
Collection materials are in English.
Sponsor:
Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant, 2007-2008
Biographical Note
Lowry Nelson was born in Ferron, Utah in April of 1893. He attended college in Utah and later earned a Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin. During his lifetime he became a world known sociologist.
Nelson earned a B.S. degree at Utah State University in 1916. He spent the next two decades working mainly in Utah. He served as the County Agricultural agent in Sanpete County, Utah in 1919, he became the field agriculturist for the People's Sugar Company in 1920 and edited the Utah Farmer from 1920-1922. He was associated with Brigham Young University from 1921-1935. During the Depression he worked for the Utah Relief Administration in 1934, he was regional advisor to the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, and in 1935 became director of the Resettlement Administration. He was then director of the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station at Logan. In 1937 he received a position at the University of Minnesota in the Sociology Department.
During his tenure at the University of Minnesota, Nelson began to develop an international reputation as a rural sociologist. In 1944 he did a study for the State Department on rural life in the Caribbean. In 1945 he received a Fullbright to study rural life in Italy. Dr. Nelson continued his international work taking an interest in different aspects of Canadian rural life.
Dr. Nelson's works include several monographs and a multitude of articles and papers ranging from rural life in Latin America, the United States and Canada as well as studies on various Mormon Villages in Utah. Dr. Nelson died in Provo, Utah in 1986.
Content Description
This collection consists of the writings and correspondence of Lowry Nelson. The first box contains various articles by Nelson. The second box holds the carbon copy of his book, The Birth and Growth of a Science, and some smaller studies. box three consists of reprints and seminar materials, and also contains notes for his class on Latin America. The fourth box holds Nelson's personal papers consisting mostly of correspondence. There are also some reprinted articles and two books in this box as well. This last box contains materials added to the collection after the first three boxes were already processed.
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Access : Restrictions
Open to public research.
Restrictions on Use : Copyright
It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Utah State University Libraries, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright.
Permission to publish material from the Lowry Nelson writings and papers must
be obtained from the Special Collections Manuscript Curator and/or the Special Collections
Department Head.
Preferred Citation :
Lowry Nelson writings and papers, 1948-1974 (COLL MSS 17). Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives Department.
Administrative Information
Arrangement :
Arranged by type of material.
Acquisition Information :
Gift of Lowry Nelson, 1974.
Detailed Description of the Collection
Book 1: Rural Sociology, copyright 1955, second edition
Course on Latin America, Notes - (Part 1) Lowry Nelson notes and bibliography for course on land, people, and institutions of Latin America including maps and reprints on the subject
Articles and books that include references to Lowry Nelson - located in box IV after folders:
Container(s)
Description
Dates
box
4
Shapes for the Deep Unrest
Three Essays: The Radiant Apex, Wright and his Helix, Mold of Fire by Carlton Culmsee
November 1970
Culture Change in Brazil: An Analytical Model by H. W. Hutchinson Reprint from Journal of Inter-American Studies Vol. VI, No. 3
July 1964
Value Orientations and Northeast Brazilian Agro-Industrial Modernization by H. W. Hutchinson -Reprint from Inter-American Economic Affairs Vol. 21, No. 4
Federal Government Efforts to "Americanize" Utah Before Admission to Statehood By Gustive O. Larson -Reprint from BYU Studies
Winter 1970
Integrity in Politics - Common Cause Report From Washington, Extra Edition: December 1973 - January 1974 Vol. 4, Number 2
Cuban Studies Newsletter Vol. 4, December 1973, Center for Latin American Studies University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh
The Poets of the Future: A College Anthology for 1915-16, Edited by Henry T. Schnittkind, Ph.D., The Stratford Co., Publishers: Boston
1916
The Poets of the Future: A College Anthology for 1916-17, Edited by Henry T. Schnittkind, Ph.D., The Stratford Co., Publishers: Boston
