William Franklin Sands Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-20221007
This collection is currently unprocessed and access to it may therefore be limited. Researchers are advised to contact the Booth Family Center for Special Collections for more information on access to this collection.
The collection documents the career of William Franklin Sands, a U.S. diplomat best known for his work in Korea and Panama during the turn of the 20th century. It includes correspondence, diplomatic papers, journals, photographs, and typescripts. The materials document various aspects of his diplomatic career, especially in Korea and Panama. It aslso contains materials related to his family, including scrapbooks that document his father and grandfather's service in the U.S. Navy during the 19th century.
See the External Documents section below for inventories to portions of the collection.
This collection is currently unprocessed and access to it may therefore be limited. Researchers are advised to contact the Booth Family Center for Special Collections for more information on access to this collection.
William Franklin Sands (July 29, 1874 – June 17, 1946) was a United States diplomat most known for his service in Korea on the eve of Japan's colonization of that country.
30.6 Cubic Feet (45 boxes and 5 bound volumes)
English
Portions of the collection were previously held on deposit at the Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center.
Gift of the Sands family, 2022.
Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository