Scope and Content The collection of photographs encompasses images of the Bowen family. The bulk of the photograph collection consists of images of studio poses and bust portraits of Reverend Bowen and his second wife, Irene Smallwood Bowen, and of John Wesley Edward Bowen, Jr., including Bowen, Jr. in a class photograph. Other images are unidentified studio poses and a postcard with an image of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., which shows King enjoying a joke by comedian Joey Adams at a benefit for the Southern...

Scope and Content

This collection contains a marriage license between Francis Edward Brownell and Florence Haile Bowen, a copy of a pension for Haile Bowen, an American soldier during the War of 1812, and an application for membership to the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.