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Chester Fritz Papers, 1899-1985

Collection Overview

Title: Chester Fritz Papers, 1899-1985

ID: OGLMC/410

Extent: 20.0 Linear Feet

Arrangement:

Series 1: Correspondence of Chester Fritz, 1899-1977 and Kathrine B. Tiffany, 1923-1977

Series 2: Personal material of Chester Fritz and Kathrine B. Tiffany

Series 3: Newspaper clippings and miscellaneous materials

Series 4: Scrapbooks and Photograph Albums

Series 5: Photographs

Series 6: Clothing

Series 7: Oversize Materials

Series 8: Biography

Series 9: Oral History Interviews

Series 10: Memorabilia and Artifacts

Series 11: Separated Materials

Date Acquired: 05/25/1977

Languages: English [eng], Chinese [chi]

Abstract

Contains correspondence, photographs, artifacts, scrapbooks, video tapes, audio tapes, and manuscripts related to the life and times of Chester Fritz, including his business dealings and travels in China and other parts of Asia.

Scope and Contents of the Materials

The main topics covered in the Chester Fritz Papers are the travels of Chester Fritz, the Chester Fritz Library and Chester Fritz Auditorium, the Chester Fritz Scholarship Funds, President George Starcher and the University of North Dakota, and personal and business materials relating to the career and life of Chester Fritz.

Administrative Information

Accruals: Additional and subsequent materials were donated by Chester Frit and by Leonard Beal, Hillsboro, North Dakota, on May 26, 1990 (79-612).

Access Restrictions: Available for inspection under the rules and regulations of the Department of Special Collections.

Acquisition Source: Kathrine B. Tiffany

Acquisition Method: Donation; 77-420

Related Materials: Kathrine Tiffany Papers: OGLMC 266

Related Publications:

China Journey: A Diary of Six Months in Western Inland China, 1917. University of Washington, 1981. Call number: DS 710.F758 1981

Fritz, Chester and Dan Rylance. Ever Westward to the Far East: The Story of Chester Fritz. Grand Forks: University of North Dakota, 1982. Call number: HG1552.F74 A34 1982

The Journal of Chester Fritz: Travels Through Western China in 1917. Edited by James Vivian. Grand Forks: University of North Dakota, 1981. Call number: DS 710.F76 1981

Preferred Citation: (Description of Item). Chester Fritz Papers. OGLMC 410, Box #, Folder #. Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections, Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks.

Processing Information: Finding aid added to Archon by Daniel Sauerwein, Special Collections student worker, in November 2015.


Box and Folder Listing

Series 1: Correspondence of Chester Fritz and Kathrine B. TiffanyAdd to your cart.
Box 1Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Correspondence - Chester Fritz, 1977Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Correspondence - Chester Fritz, 1976Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Correspondence - Chester Fritz, 1975Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Correspondence - Chester Fritz, 1974Add to your cart.
Folder 5: Correspondence - Chester Fritz, 1973Add to your cart.
Folder 6: Correspondence - Chester Fritz, 1972Add to your cart.
Folder 7: Correspondence - Chester Fritz, 1971Add to your cart.
Folder 8: Correspondence - Chester Fritz, 1970Add to your cart.
Folder 9: Correspondence - Chester Fritz, 1969Add to your cart.
Folder 10: Correspondence - Chester Fritz, 1968Add to your cart.
Folder 11: Correspondence - Chester Fritz, 1967Add to your cart.
Folder 12: Correspondence - Chester Fritz, 1966Add to your cart.
Folder 13: Correspondence - Chester Fritz, 1965Add to your cart.
Folder 14: Correspondence - Chester Fritz, 1964Add to your cart.
Folder 15: Correspondence - Chester Fritz, 1963Add to your cart.
Folder 16: Correspondence - Chester Fritz, 1962Add to your cart.
Folder 17: Correspondence - Chester Fritz, 1961Add to your cart.
Folder 18: Correspondence - Chester Fritz, 1960Add to your cart.
Folder 19: Correspondence - Chester Fritz, 1959Add to your cart.
Folder 20: Correspondence - Chester Fritz, 1958Add to your cart.
Folder 21: Correspondence - Chester Fritz, 1957Add to your cart.
Folder 22: Correspondence - Chester Fritz, 1950-1956Add to your cart.
Folder 23: Correspondence - Chester Fritz, 1899-1950Add to your cart.
Folder 24: Correspondence - Chester Fritz, Fragments and undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 25: Correspondence - Chester Fritz, Cards and postcardsAdd to your cart.
Folder 26: Correspondence - Chester Fritz, Chester Fritz Auditorium, 1965Add to your cart.
Folder 27: Correspondence - Chester Fritz, Oriental room, 1958-1963Add to your cart.
Folder 28: Correspondence - Chester Fritz, Letters of appreciationAdd to your cart.
Folder 29: Correspondence - Chester Fritz, Letters of appreciationAdd to your cart.
Folder 30: Correspondence - Chester Fritz, Letters of appreciationAdd to your cart.
Folder 31: Correspondence - Kathrine B. Tiffany, 1977Add to your cart.
Folder 32: Correspondence - Kathrine B. Tiffany, 1976Add to your cart.
Folder 33: Correspondence - Kathrine B. Tiffany, 1975Add to your cart.
Folder 34: Correspondence - Kathrine B. Tiffany, 1974Add to your cart.
Folder 35: Correspondence - Kathrine B. Tiffany, 1973Add to your cart.
Folder 36: Correspondence - Kathrine B. Tiffany, 1972Add to your cart.
Folder 37: Correspondence - Kathrine B. Tiffany, 1971Add to your cart.
Folder 38: Correspondence - Kathrine B. Tiffany, 1970Add to your cart.
Folder 39: Correspondence - Kathrine B. Tiffany, 1969Add to your cart.
Folder 40: Correspondence - Kathrine B. Tiffany, 1968Add to your cart.
Folder 41: Correspondence - Kathrine B. Tiffany, 1967Add to your cart.
Folder 42: Correspondence - Kathrine B. Tiffany, 1966Add to your cart.
Box 2Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Correspondence - Kathrine B. Tiffany, 1965Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Correspondence - Kathrine B. Tiffany, 1964Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Correspondence - Kathrine B. Tiffany, 1963Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Correspondence - Kathrine B. Tiffany, 1962Add to your cart.
Folder 5: Correspondence - Kathrine B. Tiffany, 1961Add to your cart.
Folder 6: Correspondence - Kathrine B. Tiffany, 1960Add to your cart.
Folder 7: Correspondence - Kathrine B. Tiffany, 1950-1959Add to your cart.
Folder 8: Correspondence - Kathrine B. Tiffany, 1923-1948Add to your cart.
Folder 9: Correspondence - Kathrine B. Tiffany, Cards and postcardsAdd to your cart.
Folder 10: Correspondence - Kathrine B. Tiffany, fragmentsAdd to your cart.
Folder 11: Kathrine B. Tiffany - Notes, 1960-1975Add to your cart.
Folder 12: Kathrine B. Tiffany - Telephone conversation transcriptions, 1962-1967Add to your cart.
Folder 13: Correspondence - MiscellaneousAdd to your cart.
Folder 14: Correspondence - Tibet (author unknown), 1923-1925Add to your cart.
Box 13Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Correspondence to and from Chester Fritz, 1977-1979Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Collection of letters between Leonard Beal and Kathrine B. Tiffany, 1977Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Christmas Cards and Postcards to Leonard Beal from Chester Fritz, 1977-1981Add to your cart.
Box 20Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Correspondence from Fritz to Mrs. Keith Berg, Grand Forks, North Dakota, October 1978Add to your cart.
Includes a photograph of Chester and Vera Fritz, taken in March 1975
Series 2: Personal material of Chester Fritz and Kathrine B. TiffanyAdd to your cart.
Box 2Add to your cart.
Folder 15: Chester Fritz - Biographical and personalAdd to your cart.
Folder 16: Chester Fritz - Biographical and personalAdd to your cart.
Folder 17: Chester Fritz - Business related materialAdd to your cart.
Folder 18: Chester Fritz - Diaries, 1934, 1947, 1951Add to your cart.
Folder 19: Chester Fritz - Diaries, 1917Add to your cart.
Folder 20: Chester Fritz - Materials relating to transcription of 1917 diariesAdd to your cart.
Folder 21: Chester Fritz - Miscellaneous materialAdd to your cart.
Folder 22: Chester Fritz - Oriental Room materialAdd to your cart.
Folder 23: Chester Fritz - Resolutions and commendationsAdd to your cart.
Folder 24: Chester Fritz - Scholarships materialAdd to your cart.
Folder 25: Chester Fritz - University of North Dakota related materialAdd to your cart.
Folder 26: Kathrine B. Tiffany - Personal materialAdd to your cart.
Folder 27: Kathrine B. Tiffany - Edna TwamleyAdd to your cart.
Folder 28: Neil C. Macdonald - Correspondence and related material, 1909-1920Add to your cart.
Folder 29: Neil C. Macdonald - Biographical and related materialsAdd to your cart.
Folder 30: University of North Dakota - Brochures, pamphlets and related materialsAdd to your cart.
Folder 31: University of North Dakota - Correspondence (George Starcher), 1957-1973Add to your cart.
Folder 32: University of North Dakota - Speeches, remarks and miscellaneousAdd to your cart.
Box 3Add to your cart.
Folder 1: University of North Dakota - George Starcher, speeches and memorabiliaAdd to your cart.
Folder 2: University of North Dakota - Fellows of the University of North Dakota, Inc. - Articles of Incorporation and minutes, 1970-1977Add to your cart.
Series 3: Newspaper clippings and miscellaneous materialsAdd to your cart.
Box 3Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Miscellaneous materialAdd to your cart.
Folder 4: Maps - Chester Fritz's eight world toursAdd to your cart.
Folder 5: Newspaper Clippings - Chester Fritz - Chester Fritz AuditoriumAdd to your cart.
Folder 6: Newspaper Clippings - Chester Fritz - BiographicalAdd to your cart.
Folder 7: Newspaper Clippings - Chester Fritz - Chester Fritz LibraryAdd to your cart.
Folder 8: Newspaper Clippings - Chester Fritz - Chester Fritz ScholarshipsAdd to your cart.
Folder 9: Newspaper Clippings - Lidgerwood, North DakotaAdd to your cart.
Folder 10: Newspaper Clippings - Dr. Elwyn B. RobinsonAdd to your cart.
Folder 11: Newspaper Clippings - Kathrine B. TiffanyAdd to your cart.
Folder 12: Newspaper Clippings - University of North DakotaAdd to your cart.
Box 10Add to your cart.
Folder 1: News clippings and press releases; 1949, 1956, 1958Add to your cart.
Folder 2: News clippings and press releases; 1961 - 1969Add to your cart.
Folder 3: News clippings and press releases; 1970 - 1979Add to your cart.
Folder 4: News clippings and press releases; 1980 - 1993Add to your cart.
Folder 5: News release relating to Chester Fritz's donation to UNDAdd to your cart.
Folder 6: Obituaries for Chester Fritz, July 28, 1983Add to your cart.
Box 14Add to your cart.
Folder 6: Documents: U.S. Passport, 1920Add to your cart.
Folder 7: Documents: U.S. Passport, 1921Add to your cart.
Folder 8: Documents: U.S. Passport, 1945Add to your cart.
Folder 9: Documents: U.S. Passport, 1949Add to your cart.
Folder 10: Documents: U.S. Passport, 1953Add to your cart.
Folder 11: Documents: U.S. Passport, 1957Add to your cart.
Folder 12: Documents: U.S. Passport, 1966Add to your cart.
Folder 13: Documents: Alien Registration card, Hong Kong, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 14: Documents: U.S. Passport, Driver's License, Shanghai, 1959-1964Add to your cart.
Folder 15: Documents: U.S. Passport, Driver's License, Barbados, 1953Add to your cart.
Folder 16: Program: Coronation Year Derby Day, Epsom, 1953Add to your cart.
Folder 17: Program: Rome Polo Club, 1958Add to your cart.
Folder 18: Program: Passes, Rome Racecourse, 1958Add to your cart.
Folder 19: Publication: "A History of the Shanghai Paper Hunt Club," A Supplement, 1931-1935Add to your cart.
Folder 20: Publication: Shanghai Paper Hunt Club, 1929/1930Add to your cart.
Folder 21: Publication: Shanghai Paper Hunter's Hymn BookAdd to your cart.
Folder 22: Publication: Shanghai Sporting Annuals, vol. II, 1936/1937Add to your cart.
Folder 23: Publication: Shanghai Sporting Annuals, vol. III, 1937/1938Add to your cart.
Folder 24: Publication: The Chronicle, May 23, 1958Add to your cart.
Folder 25: Publication: American Automobile Association, Foreign Route Charts, 1957Add to your cart.
Folder 26: Publication: Hotel Hassler, RomeAdd to your cart.
Folder 27: Publication: "Eating the Italian Way"Add to your cart.
Folder 28: Publication: travel brochure, Avila, SpainAdd to your cart.
Folder 29: Publication: travel brochure, Carcassone, SpainAdd to your cart.
Folder 30: Publication: travel brochure, PortugalAdd to your cart.
Folder 31: Publication: Annual Report, Hang Seng Bank, Hong Kong, 1961Add to your cart.
Folder 32: Publication: 30th Anniversary Bulletin, Hang Seng Bank, Hong Kong, 1962Add to your cart.
Folder 33: Article on the building of the Chester Fritz Library, Dakota Student, June 1960Add to your cart.
Folder 34: Caricature of Chester Fritz by Miguel CovarrubiasAdd to your cart.
Folder 35: Drawing of the "Tokaido," the Great East Road from Tokyo to KyotoAdd to your cart.
Folder 36: Oriental-style holiday cardsAdd to your cart.
Folder 37: Color slides (71), Guatemala and Bryce CanyonAdd to your cart.
Folder 38: Transcription of remarks made by Chester Fritz on October 31, 1961 in the Oriental Room, Chester Fritz Library, University of North DakotaAdd to your cart.
Series 4: Scrapbooks and Photograph AlbumsAdd to your cart.
Box 4Add to your cart.
Folder 1: "Chester Fritz's Six Month Diary: Through Inland China to Tibet" (Album 4)Add to your cart.
Folder 2: "Chester Fritz's Six Month Diary: Through Inland China to Tibet" (Album 4)Add to your cart.
Folder 3: The Chester Fritz Scholarships, 1956-1959 (Album 23)Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Letters of Appreciation for the Chester Fritz Library (Album 24)Add to your cart.
Folder 5: Chester Fritz Scholarships (Continued), 1961-1964 (Album 31)Add to your cart.
Box 5Add to your cart.
Folder 1: "Emergence of Chester Fritz Library at University of North Dakota, 1958-1962"Add to your cart.
Folder 2: "The Auditorium Story Assembled by the Chester Fritz Scholars"Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Chester Fritz Biographical album #1Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Chester Fritz Biographical album #2Add to your cart.
Folder 5: Chester Fritz Biographical album #3Add to your cart.
Folder 6: Chester Fritz Biographical album #4Add to your cart.
Box 12Add to your cart.
Item 1: Scrapbook of travels in the Orient and South AmericaAdd to your cart.
Item 2: Private Code of Swan, Culbertson, and Fritz, Shanghai, 1938Add to your cart.
Box 18Add to your cart.
Scrapbook 1: Southeast Asia (Mainly), 1915-1916Add to your cart.
Scrapbook 2: Southeast Asia, 1915-1916Add to your cart.
Scrapbook 3: "Six Month Journey into Far-Inland China in 1917 and a Later Caravan Journey through Kwangtung and Kawnsi"Add to your cart.
Scrapbook 5: Burma, Tibet, Bhutan, India, and EgyptAdd to your cart.
Scrapbook 6: South and East China, Manchuria, and Korea, 1915-1927Add to your cart.
Box 19Add to your cart.
Scrapbook 7: Palestine, Syria, Turkey and GreeceAdd to your cart.
Scrapbook 8: Southeast Asia: Singapore, Malaya, Burma, Siam, Mekong River, Kokos Island, and Battleships in World War I periodAdd to your cart.
Scrapbook 10: North Central Eurasia, 1928Add to your cart.
Scrapbook 11: Shanghai (mainly), Manchuria, and Hong KongAdd to your cart.
Scrapbook 13: Japanese People: Mainly Activities of the common people, 1930Add to your cart.
Scrapbook 16: Riding Contests: Paper HuntsAdd to your cart.
Scrapbook 17: Riding Contests: Red CoatsAdd to your cart.
Scrapbook 18: Riding Contests: Paper Hunts; Polo GamesAdd to your cart.
Box 20Add to your cart.
Scrapbook 1: Mainly Philippines Islands and South China and PekingAdd to your cart.
Scrapbook 2: Chester Fritz Library, 1964Add to your cart.
Scrapbook 3: Mainly India but some miscellaneous including Korea, Turkey, Sikkim, and England and a few scraps of Chester FritzAdd to your cart.
Scrapbook 4: Stamps for East Asia Room (Starting with Singapore in the year 1915, continued in 1969)Add to your cart.
Scrapbook 20: "Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji"Add to your cart.
Scrapbook 21: "Fifty-Three Stations Along the Tokaido"Add to your cart.
Series 5: PhotographsAdd to your cart.

This series contains almost two thousand photographs separated and placed in the Orin G. Libby Photographic Collection.

Subjects include: artifacts, Asia, Chester Fritz, Kathrine B. Tiffany, Macdonald family, residences, The Chester Fritz Library, Tibet (1920s), University of North Dakota

Eight hundred eighty-eight of these photographs, featuring travel or recreation taken by, or of, Chester Fritz, have been divided by country of origin or subject:

OGL# 410-1076 to 1246 Cambodia, 1930s

OGL# 410-1247 to 1349 Siam (Thailand), 1930s

OGL# 410-1350 to 1384 Hue, Annam (Vietnam), 1930s

OGL# 410-1385 to 1398 Tonkin (Vietnam), 1930s

OGL# 410-1399 to 1429 Hanoi, Tonkin (Vietnam), 1930s

OGL# 410-1430 to 1637 Japan, 1930s

OGL# 410-1638 to 1652 Malaya, 1930s

OGL# 410-1653 to 1858 China, 1916-1948

OGL# 410-1859 to 1870 Italy, undated

OGL# 410-1871 to 1876 Chester and Vera Fritz, Italy, 1950s

OGL# 410-1877 to 1890 Oriental Room, 1958-1963

OGL# 410-1891 to 1943 Miscellaneous photos

OGL# 410-1944 to 1950 Chester Fritz, Chester Fritz Library, Chester Fritz Scholars

OGL# 410-1952 to 1964 Polo and Paper Hunts

Two folders containing negatives have been placed at the end of these folders.

One folder of miscellaneous photographs and documents was placed in the Oversize Photograph File Cabinet. Six of the twelve photographs are portraits of Fritz. Also included is the original drawing of a Stuart McDonald editorial cartoon from the Grand Forks Herald regarding the announcement of the donation to build the Chester Fritz Auditorium.

Series 6: ClothingAdd to your cart.
Item 1: Red Riding CoatAdd to your cart.
On display in the East Asian Room of the Chester Fritz Library.
Item 2: Off-white linen suit (Lacey and Sons, Argentina)Add to your cart.
Item 3: Brown Herring-bone suit (3-piece, West-End Tailors, Switzerland)Add to your cart.
Item 4: Gray pin-stripe suit (Circo Giuliana, Italy)Add to your cart.
Item 5: Brown tweed suit (West-End Tailors, Switzerland)Add to your cart.
Item 6: Brown hound's tooth sports jacket (West-End Tailors, Switzerland)Add to your cart.
Item 7: Brown silk suit (West-End Tailors, Switzerland)Add to your cart.
Item 8: Yellow Vest (Worn with Red Riding Coat)Add to your cart.
Series 7: Oversize MaterialsAdd to your cart.
The following items are placed together in an oversize folder.
Item 1: South China Morning Post, January 22, 1978Add to your cart.
Located in Oversize File Cabinet Drawer 6.
Item 2: International Herald Tribune, March 27, 1978Add to your cart.
Located in Oversize File Cabinet Drawer 6.
Item 3: Times Union, June 11, 1978Add to your cart.
Located in Oversize File Cabinet Drawer 6.
Item 4: The Alumnus, Winter 1978Add to your cart.
Located in Oversize File Cabinet Drawer 6.
Item 5: A "Paper Chase" route illustrated map.Add to your cart.
Located in Oversize File Cabinet Drawer 6.
Series 8: BiographyAdd to your cart.
Sub-Series 1: Biography CorrespondenceAdd to your cart.
This sub-series consists of correspondence between Dan Rylance, Chester Fritz, and many of Fritz's associates relating to the initial book proposal, set up of interviews, questions and answers, and the follow-up work on the biography. The correspondence is listed in chronological order and by incoming and outgoing. Fritz's family history is also included in this series.
Box 6Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Correspondence, Chester Fritz, 1899 - 1975Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Correspondence, incoming, Chester Fritz, 1899 - 1972Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Correspondence, from Chester Fritz to Dan Rylance, 1978 - 1979Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Correspondence, from Chester Fritz to Dan Rylance, 1980Add to your cart.
Folder 5: Correspondence, from Chester Fritz to Dan Rylance, 1981 - 1983Add to your cart.
Folder 6: Correspondence, from Dan Rylance to Chester Fritz, 1978-1980Add to your cart.
Folder 7: Correspondence, from Dan Rylance to Chester Fritz, 1991-1983Add to your cart.
Folder 8: Correspondence, outgoing, Dan Rylance, 1978-1982Add to your cart.
Folder 9: Correspondence, incoming, Dan Rylance, 1979-1982Add to your cart.
Folder 10: Correspondence, incoming, Chester Fritz, 1977-1979Add to your cart.
Folder 11: Correspondence, incoming, Chester Fritz, 1980-1981Add to your cart.
Folder 12: Correspondence, incoming, Chester Fritz, 1982-1983Add to your cart.
Folder 13: Correspondence, outgoing, Chester Fritz, 1977-1993Add to your cart.
Folder 14: Correspondence on the Chester Fritz Library, 1959-1961Add to your cart.
Folder 15: Correspondence, outgoing, Kathrine B. Tiffany, 1965-1977Add to your cart.
Folder 16: Correspondence, incoming, Kathrine B. Tiffany, 1957-1976Add to your cart.
Folder 17: Chester Fritz family history, census, birth, death, and marriage documentsAdd to your cart.
Sub-Series 2: Biography Production Material Add to your cart.
Box 7Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Manuscript of Ever Westward to the Far East: The Story of Chester Fritz by Dan Rylance and Chester FritzAdd to your cart.
Folder 2: Manuscript copy of chapter IAdd to your cart.
Folder 3: Manuscript copy of chapter IIAdd to your cart.
Folder 4: Manuscript copy of chapter IIIAdd to your cart.
Folder 5: Manuscript copy of chapter IVAdd to your cart.
Folder 6: Manuscript copy of chapter VIAdd to your cart.
Folder 7: Production notes on Chester Fritz's early years in North DakotaAdd to your cart.
Folder 8: Production notes on Chester Fritz's years at the University of Washington and his early years in ChinaAdd to your cart.
Folder 9: Production notes from Chester Fritz's Six Month Journey Through Inland ChinaAdd to your cart.
Folder 10: Production notes on interviews with Chester Fritz about metals trading in ChinaAdd to your cart.
Folder 11: Production notes: Biographical essay, Acknowledgments, Preface, and Chapter VAdd to your cart.
Folder 12: Production notes: Preliminaries, IntroductionAdd to your cart.
Folder 13: Production notes for chapter VIIAdd to your cart.
Folder 14: Production notes for chapter IXAdd to your cart.
Folder 15: Production notes for chapter XIAdd to your cart.
Folder 16: Production notes on Chester Fritz's life in ChinaAdd to your cart.
Folder 17: Production notes on Swan, Culbertson and Fritz employees prior to World War IIAdd to your cart.
Folder 18: Production material for "Sale of Chalet Vera" and "Library Dedication" in AppendixAdd to your cart.
Folder 19: Publicity and publication materials for Ever Westward to the Far EastAdd to your cart.
Folder 20: Publicity and publication materials for Ever Westward to the Far EastAdd to your cart.
Folder 21: Production notes: Bernadine, social life in China, and concluding section of bookAdd to your cart.
Folder 22: Rough draft of "The Journal of Chester Fritz", North Dakota Quarterly, Spring 1981Add to your cart.
Folder 23: Background information on China in the first two decades of the 20th centuryAdd to your cart.
Folder 24: Background material on China for chapter IVAdd to your cart.
Folder 25: Background material on Mysberg Case, chapter VIIIAdd to your cart.
Folder 26: Background material on chapter XIAdd to your cart.
Folder 27: Background material on Polo and "Paper Hunts" in Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930sAdd to your cart.
Folder 28: Background information on Chester Fritz's school years in North Dakota and WashingtonAdd to your cart.
Folder 29: Background information on Joseph SwanAdd to your cart.
Series 9: Oral History InterviewsAdd to your cart.
Sub-Series 1: Interview TranscriptsAdd to your cart.
Box 8Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Oral interview transcripts, Dan Rylance and Chester Fritz, November 30 - December 11, 1979, Monte CarloAdd to your cart.
Folder 2: Oral interview between Chester Fritz and Dan Rylance, 1991Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Oral interview between Charles Culbertson and Dan Rylance, June 12, 1990Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Transcript of interview with Chester Fritz, October 25, 1980, Lausanne, SwitzerlandAdd to your cart.
Folder 5: Transcript of audio tapes sent to Dan Rylance by Chester Fritz, 1990Add to your cart.
Folder 6: Transcript of interview of Charles Culbertson by Dan Rylance, June 12, 1980Add to your cart.
Folder 7: Transcript of interview with Harold Hochschild, April 16, 1990Add to your cart.
Folder 8: Oral interview sheets with personal notes by Dan RylanceAdd to your cart.
Folder 9: Interview with Anker Henningson about Chester FritzAdd to your cart.
Folder 10: Interview with Harold Hochschild, including information about American MetalsAdd to your cart.
Folder 11: Interview with Helen Swart regarding her association with Swan, Culbertson and Fritz, March 12, 1990Add to your cart.
Folder 12: Interview with Kent Lutey about Chester Fritz and their years in ChinaAdd to your cart.
Folder 13: Interview with Bernadine Szold Fritz, Chester Fritz's first wifeAdd to your cart.
Folder 14: Telephone interview with Chester Fritz, April 29 and May 6, 1980Add to your cart.
Folder 15: Journal notes for bookAdd to your cart.
Folder 16: Draft article on Chester Fritz, March 13, 1979Add to your cart.
Sub-Series 2: Audio TapesAdd to your cart.
Box 9Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Dan Rylance interviews Harold Hochschild, 4/19/80Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Dan Rylance interviews Harold Hochschild, 4/19/80Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Harold K. Hochschild's "History of AMCO, Climax, and AMAX, 1887-1962"Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Dan Rylance interviews Ralph Stillman, 2/24/81Add to your cart.
Folder 5: Dan Rylance interviews Ralph Stillman, 2/24/81Add to your cart.
Folder 6: Dan Rylance interviews Charles Culbertson, 6/12/80Add to your cart.
Folder 7: Dan Rylance interviews Charles Culbertson, 6/13/80Add to your cart.
Folder 8: Dan Rylance interviews Charles Culbertson, 6/13/80Add to your cart.
Folder 9: Dan Rylance interviews Dr. George Starcher, 6/19/80Add to your cart.
Folder 10: Dan Rylance interviews Dr. George Starcher, 5/20/80Add to your cart.
Folder 11: Dan Rylance interviews Dr. George Starcher, 5/20/80Add to your cart.
Folder 12: Dan Rylance interviews Chester Fritz, 1979Add to your cart.
Folder 13: Dan Rylance interviews Chester Fritz, 1979Add to your cart.
Folder 14: Dan Rylance interviews Chester Fritz, 1979Add to your cart.
Folder 15: Dan Rylance interviews Chester Fritz, 1979Add to your cart.
Folder 16: Dan Rylance interviews Chester Fritz, 1979Add to your cart.
Folder 17: Dan Rylance interviews Chester Fritz, 1979Add to your cart.
Folder 18: Dan Rylance interviews Chester Fritz, 1979Add to your cart.
Folder 19: Dan Rylance interviews Chester Fritz, 1979Add to your cart.
Folder 20: Dan Rylance interviews Chester Fritz, 1979Add to your cart.
Folder 21: Dan Rylance interviews Chester Fritz, 1979Add to your cart.
Folder 22: Dan Rylance interviews Chester Fritz, 1979Add to your cart.
Folder 23: Chester Fritz, 1/13/80Add to your cart.
Folder 24: Chester Fritz, 1/19/80Add to your cart.
Folder 25: Chester Fritz, 1/19/80Add to your cart.
Folder 26: Chester Fritz, 1/21/80Add to your cart.
Folder 27: Chester Fritz, 1/22/80Add to your cart.
Folder 28: Chester Fritz, 1/31/80Add to your cart.
Folder 29: Chester Fritz, 2/19/80Add to your cart.
Folder 30: Chester Fritz, 2/22/80Add to your cart.
Folder 31: Chester Fritz, 2/25/80Add to your cart.
Folder 32: Chester Fritz, 3/12/80Add to your cart.
Folder 33: Chester Fritz, 4/6/80Add to your cart.
Folder 34: Chester Fritz, 4/9/80Add to your cart.
Folder 35: Chester Fritz, 4/11/80Add to your cart.
Folder 36: Chester Fritz, 4/23/80Add to your cart.
Folder 37: Chester Fritz, 5/7/80Add to your cart.
Folder 38: Chester Fritz, 5/13/80Add to your cart.
Folder 39: Chester Fritz, 5/24/80Add to your cart.
Folder 40: Chester Fritz, 5/25/80Add to your cart.
Folder 41: Chester Fritz, 6/5/80Add to your cart.
Folder 42: Chester Fritz, 6/14/80Add to your cart.
Folder 43: Chester Fritz, 6/21/80Add to your cart.
Folder 44: Chester Fritz, 10/25/80Add to your cart.
Folder 45: Chester Fritz, 10/28/80Add to your cart.
Folder 46: Chester Fritz, 10/29/80Add to your cart.
Folder 47: Chester Fritz, 12/10/80Add to your cart.
Folder 48: Chester Fritz, 12/13/80Add to your cart.
Folder 49: Chester Fritz, 12/14/80Add to your cart.
Folder 50: Chester Fritz, 1/30/81Add to your cart.
Folder 51: Chester Fritz, 1/31/81Add to your cart.
Folder 52: Chester Fritz, 9/10/81Add to your cart.
Folder 53: Chester Fritz, 12/81Add to your cart.
Folder 54: Chester Fritz, 2/11/82Add to your cart.
Folder 55: Dan Rylance interviews Chester Fritz, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 56: Dan Rylance interviews Chester Fritz, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 57: Dan Rylance interviews Chester Fritz, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 58: Dan Rylance interviews Chester Fritz, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 59: Dan Rylance interviews Chester Fritz, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 60: Dan Rylance interviews Chester Fritz, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 61: Dan Rylance interviews Chester Fritz, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 62: Dan Rylance interviews Chester Fritz, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 63: Chester Fritz, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 64: Chester Fritz, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 65: Description of Chester Fritz's China Scrapbook, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 66: Dedication of Chester Fritz Library, 1961Add to your cart.
Series 10: Memorabilia and ArtifactsAdd to your cart.
Box 10Add to your cart.
Folder 7: Chester Fritz Library dedication, October 13, 1961Add to your cart.
Folder 8: Chester Fritz Auditorium dedication, October 12, 1972Add to your cart.
Folder 9: Funeral Memorial Book, Chester William Fritz, July 29, 1983Add to your cart.
Folder 10: Memorabilia: Kathrine B. Tiffany Memorial, August 8, 1978Add to your cart.
Folder 11: Memorabilia: Kathrine B. Tiffany Graduate Study Center dedication, April 22, 1971Add to your cart.
Folder 12: Memorabilia: Lidgerwood, North DakotaAdd to your cart.
Folder 13: Memorabilia: Traill County Historical Society and MuseumAdd to your cart.
Folder 14: Memorabilia: Christmas and Thank You cards to Chester FritzAdd to your cart.
Folder 15: Memorabilia: news letters, alumni reviews from the University of WashingtonAdd to your cart.
Folder 16: Excerpts from Across China on Foot; Life in the Interior and the Reform Movement, Edwin J. DingleAdd to your cart.
Folder 17: Bibliography of Horatio Alger books, Fritz's favorite books in his youthAdd to your cart.
Folder 18: The O. W. Fisher Heritage, Herman Steen, 1961Add to your cart.
Folder 19: Sotheby's Belgravia catalog, October 19, 1977Add to your cart.
Folder 20: Pamphlet: A Symposium on Chinese Culture, China Institute in America, 1964Add to your cart.
Folder 21: Pamphlet: Stock Market Analysis, Facts and Principle, 1968Add to your cart.
Folder 22: Memorabilia: Investment information and brochuresAdd to your cart.
Folder 23: Memorabilia: Restaurant menus, hotel bills, hotel brochures; France, Austria, Switzerland, and JapanAdd to your cart.
Folder 24: Memorabilia: Travel brochures; Europe, North Africa, South America, AsiaAdd to your cart.
Folder 25: The Vision on the Knoll, 1961 - 1961, The First Hundred Years of the University of Washington, UW Press, 1961Add to your cart.
Folder 26: Memorabilia: PostcardsAdd to your cart.
Box 11Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Memorabilia: The 1926 United States Polo Association Year BookAdd to your cart.
Folder 2: Book on Shanghai, 1940Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Mei Lan-Fang: Foremost Actor in China, 1929Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Memorabilia: A History of the Shanghai Paper Hunt Club, 1863 - 1930, C. Noel Davis, copy 1Add to your cart.
Folder 5: Memorabilia: A History of the Shanghai Paper Hunt Club, 1863 - 1930, C. Noel Davis, copy 2Add to your cart.
Folder 6: The First Century at the University of Washington, Charles M. Gates, UW Press, 1961, copies of pages 116 - 146 (ca. 1902 - 1914)Add to your cart.
Folder 7: The First Century at the University of Washington, Charles M. Gates, UW Press, 1961, autographed copy presented to Chester FritzAdd to your cart.
Box 15Add to your cart.
Item 1: Postcards, Foreign, Africa - IsraelAdd to your cart.
Box 16Add to your cart.
Item 1: Postcards, Foreign, Italy - West IndiesAdd to your cart.
Box 17Add to your cart.
Item 1: Postcards, United States, Alaska - Virgin IslandsAdd to your cart.
Series 11: Separated MaterialsAdd to your cart.
Film 1: Separated Film HoldingsAdd to your cart.

FILM INVENTORY

Film Number      Description        Minutes

1              Chester Fritz      30-45

2              China Scenes, ca. 1935. Many architectural views, horse show, theater group, zoo scenes, puppet show              30

114        Hawaii Surfing  7-10

115        Siam      7-10

116        Vienna  7-10

138        Bali, ca.1930s. Tug of war, Kriss dance    7-10

139        Bali, ca.1930s. Cremation              7-10

140        Bali, ca.1930s. Cockfights, dances              7-10

141        Bali, ca.1930s. Street procession, Sir Victor Sassoon          7-10

142        Ceylon and Cairo, ca. 1930s. Scenes on highways and in bars        7-10

143        China, ca. 1930s. People, river scenes    7-10

144        Shanghai, ca. 1930s. Polo game, garden party    7-10

145        Java, Medan, Sumatra, ca. 1930s              7-10

146        Guatemala, ca. 1940 (color)        7-10

147        China, ca. 1930s. Scenes of people, boats, threshing, Taoist Temple        7-10

148        Bagnits in Orient, ca. 1930s          7-10

149        China, ca. 1930s. River scenes, people, religion, architecture        7-10

150        Japan, ca. 1930s. Sacred deer, climbing Mt. Fuji, oyster & pearl sea farms, islands at Matsushima (badly warped)                7-10

151        Japan, ca. 1930s                7-10

152        Bull fight (Madrid, Spain), ca. 1930s          7-10

153        Mexico, ca. 1940. Deep sea fishing off Acapulco 7-10

154        Mexico, ca. 1940.            7-10

155        Mexico and Guatemala, ca. 1940              7-10

156        Paper hunt near Shanghai, 1936-1937    7-10

157        The Rising Sun Sets in China, ca. 1930s. Shanghai bombing and destruction by Japanese                7-10

158        Shanghai, ca. 1930s. River scenes, houseboat trip            15

159        Shanghai. Countryside mountain scenes, river, temple, Taoist priests    7-10

160        Shanghai, ca. 1930s. Farmers making rope along canals near Shanghai    7-10

161        Fiesta Charra (Mexico), ca. 1940                7-10

169        "Chester Fritz Historical Film" (marked "Do Not Play")    7-10

Videotape 1: Separated Videotape HoldingsAdd to your cart.

VIDEOTAPE INVENTORY

Videotape Number        Description

7              Dedication of the Addition to the Chester Fritz Library, October 9, 1982

10          Announcement of the Death of Chester Fritz, WDAZ, July 28, 1983

275        China scenes, circa 1935. Many architectural views, a horse show, a theater group, zoo scenes, and a puppet show. Approximately 30 minutes

310        Chester Fritz Biographical Film, Part One. October 24, 1985. 30 minutes

311        Chester Fritz Biographical Film, Part Two. October 24, 1985. 30 minutes