2.8 linear feet
The Correspondence series (1895-1925; 2.8 linear feet) is significant for those exchanges with individuals (American and Filipino) important to Philippine history in the period after the 1898 war. This correspondence came to the library in two accessions. There is a selective index to the significant correspondents in each accession Additional Descriptive Data section of this finding aid.
12 microfilms — 1 map — 2 oversize folders — 10 folders
The Bandholtz collection, covering the period of ca. 1890 to 1925 (with some later papers of his wife Inez Bandholtz), consists mainly of materials accumulated while Bandholtz was stationed in the Philippines, 1900-1913. Except for this time in the Far East, Bandholtz was always on the move with ever changing assignments, and consequently his files covering his work on the Mexican border, for example, or the 1921 West Virginia coal miners strike (also known as the Battle of Blair Mountain) are substantially thinner. But in the Philippines, because he was a provincial governor and head of the indigenous military force, Bandholtz was at the center of affairs in this period of Philippine history. And beyond that, he made an effort to maintain and preserve as much documentation from his service here as he could.
The Bandholtz papers came to the library in three separate accessions in 1965, 1994 and 2005. The first accession includes the following series: Correspondence (1899-1913), Invitations, Miscellaneous, Published Materials, and Philippine Constabulary Reports (1906-1913). The second accession includes the following series: Biographical-Personal, Correspondence (1895-1925), Diaries (1900-1923), Topical Files, Visual Materials, Scrapbooks, and Inez Bandholtz papers. Although there is some overlap (especially in the two Correspondence series), the two accessions have been kept separate, and not interfiled, so that researchers who examined the first accession might read from the new material without having to go through the entire collection. This encoded finding aid treats the correspondence as a single series although it has not been interfiled. the third accession consists of correspondence (1903-1912), chiefly confidential letters between Bandholtz and Luke Wright and Leonard Wood, concerning major military an political issues in the Philippines.
23 volumes
Diaries (1900-1923; 23 volumes) contains Bandholtz' often detailed comments on his life as a career officer. The diaries are small and usually written in pencil.
0.5 linear feet
Topical Files (1890-1925; 0.5 linear feet) consists of subject-related material on such topics as Bandholtz' investment in the Polillo Land Company, the 1921 coal miners strike in West Virginia knowns as the Battle of Blair Mountain, and his interest in the Hungary Society of America. This series also contains income tax returns and his service orders. The earliest item is a course notebook, ca. 1890, when Bandholtz attended West Point Military Academy.
0.5 linear feet
Scrapbooks (1890s-1925; .5 linear feet) contain newspaper coverage of HHB's career.