Scope and Contents
The collection contains professional and personal correspondence, reports on commercial and political affairs, trip summaries and memoranda, manuscript material, biographical information, mementos and a scrapbook.
Personal and business correspondence (and reports) are mixed together and arranged chronologically, 1897-1941. There are about 528 letters.
Reports include information on commercial and political affairs. While an employee of Phelps, Dodge and Co., Dye continued to report on the Mexican border arms traffic to William Jennings Bryan.
One section of correspondence, 1929-1930, deals with the purchase of the American embassy building in Buenos Aires.
Major correspondents include his son, Russell Dye, Thomas D. Bowman, Fred M. Dearing, and James R. Sheffield.
There are also articles, mementos, a scrapbook, and an autobiography in manuscript form among the papers.
Dates
- 1897-1941
Creator
- Dearing, Fred Morris, 1879-1963 (Person)
- Sheffield, James R. (James Rockwell), 1864-1938 (Person)
- Dye, Alexander V. (Person)
- Dye, Russell, 1907-1979 (Person)
- Bowman, Thomas D., 1886- (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open to the public. Collection must be used in Special Collections and University Archives Reading Room. Collection or parts of collection may be stored offsite. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives in advance of your visit to allow for transportation time.
Conditions Governing Use
Property rights reside with Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries. Copyright resides with the creators of the documents or their heirs. All requests for permission to publish collection materials must be submitted to Special Collections and University Archives. The reader must also obtain permission of the copyright holder.
Biographical / Historical
Alexander Vincent Dye (1876-1956) was educated at William Jewell College, Liberty, Missouri, and the University of Leipzig.
He entered the U.S. foreign service in 1909, and served as consul in Nogales, Mexico, 1909-1913. From 1913 to 1916 he worked for Phelps, Dodge and Co. in New Mexico, and then rejoined the consular service.
He was representative of the War Trade Board in Norway, 1917-1919, commercial attache in Mexico City, 1923-1926, and in Buenos Aires, 1926-1936. From 1936 to 1939 he was director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, and in 1939-1940 commercial attache in London. Dye retired in 1940.
Extent
2 linear feet (3 boxes and 1 volume) : 3 clam shell boxes and 1 volume.
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Alexander Vincent Dye (1876-1956) served in the U.S. foreign service in Mexico, Buenos Aires, and London. The collection contains professional and personal correspondence, reports on commercial and political affairs, trip summaries and memoranda, manuscript material, biographical information, mementos, and a scrapbook, 1897-1941.
Arrangement
Material within this collection is minimally arranged. Any arrangement is either derived from the records' creators or custodians or from staff at the time of initial processing. It may be necessary to look in multiple places for the same types of materials.
Processing Information
Collection processed by staff, 1995.
This finding aid may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
This collection received a basic level of processing including minimal organization and rehousing.
Description information is drawn in part from information supplied with the collection and initial surveys of the contents.
- Bowman, Thomas D., 1886-
- Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925
- Correspondence Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Diplomatic and consular service, American -- History -- 20th century Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Diplomatic and consular service, American -- Mexico Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Diplomats -- United States Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Dye, Alexander V.
- Embassy buildings -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- International Relations Subject Source: Archiveswest
- Reports Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Sheffield, James R. (James Rockwell), 1864-1938
- United States -- Commerce -- History -- 20th century Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
- Title
- Guide to the Alexander Vincent Dye Papers
- Status
- Complete Description
- Author
- Tanya Parlet.
- Date
- 2013
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English
- Sponsor
- Funding for production of this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).
Repository Details
Part of the University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives Repository
