Scope and Contents
The collection is arranged into groups corresponding to segments of the Barron's career. Included is correspondence, newspaper clippings, reports, literary manuscripts, scrapbooks, and papers relating to the Barron family and genealogy.
Dates
- 1923-1967
Creator
- Barron, Bryton, 1898-1989 (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
Bryton Barron was born in Doon, Iowa 1898 and educated at Sioux falls College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and Oxford University. In 1923 he was editorial writer for the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader. From 1925 to 1928 he was a teacher in Abra High School, Bangued, Abra, Philippine Islands, and then editor for the Philippine Bureau of Education, Manila.
In 1929 he joined the State Department as assistant editor, became chief of the Treaty Section, and finally research historian. He left the State Department in 1956, and commenced lecturing and writing critically about the department and United States foreign policy generally.
Barron founded a publishing company, Crestwood Books, in 1962, as a publishing vehicle for his and similar books. In 1960-1961 he was coordinator in Virginia for the John Birch Society, and held various degrees of relationship with other conservative groups.
Extent
25.5 linear feet (17 containers)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Bryton Barron (1898- ) was a teacher, a writer, a civil servant, a publisher and, most notably, a political conservative who wrote critically of the U.S. State Department and U.S. Foreign policy. The collection includes correspondence, writings, reports and newspaper clippings.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Bryton Barron in 1968.
Processing Information
Collection processed by processing staff.
This finding aid may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
- Authors, American -- 20th century Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Barron, Bryton, 1898-1989
- Barron, Bryton, 1898-1989
- Barron, Ella
- Clippings Subject Source: TGM II, Genre and physical characteristic terms
- Conservatism -- United States Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Conservative literature -- United States Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Conservatives -- United States Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Correspondence Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Editors -- Philippines Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Editors -- United States Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Elementary and Secondary Education Subject Source: Archiveswest
- English language -- Study and teaching -- Philippines -- History -- 20th century Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Galley proofs Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Genealogies (histories) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- International Relations Subject Source: Archiveswest
- Journalism Subject Source: Archiveswest
- Letters Subject Source: Genre Terms: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloguing
- Literature Subject Source: Archiveswest
- Manuals (Handbooks) Subject Source: Genre Terms: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloguing
- Manuscripts for publication Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Philippines. Bureau of Education
- Publishers and Publishing Subject Source: Archiveswest
- Publishers and publishing -- United States -- History -- 20th century Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Scrapbooks Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Teachers -- Philippines Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Teachers -- United States Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989 Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- United States. Department of State
- United States. Department of State
- Title
- Guide to the Bryton Barron Papers
- Status
- Complete Description
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by processing staff
- Date
- 2009
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives Repository
