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The E. L. Tobias automobile touring photograph album contains 25 photographs showing friends and relatives (often in the company of automobiles) of Huntington, Indiana-based professional photographer E. L. Tobias.

The E. L. Tobias automobile touring photograph album contains 25 photographs showing friends and relatives (often in the company of autombolies) of Huntington, Indiana-based professional photographer E. L. Tobias. The album (19 x 25 cm) is bound in black cloth, there is one loose photograph. Images include views of cars and occupants shown in various settings: beside an oil field, on a country road, in front of a barn, and on the street near the E. L. Tobias residence. One photograph shows a group pushing a car uphill, while a young boy steers the wheel; in another image, the passengers lean forward to urge the car uphill. One of the automobile models featured is likely the 1905 Michigan Tonneau, manufactured by the Michigan Automobile Co. in Kalamazoo, Michigan. In addition to the automobile-related photographs are outdoor group portraits showing people posing in a daisy field, a gliding swing, and gathered at a table for a picnic. One group portrait showing people beside a street car is captioned, "My special car working along Northern Indiana R.R., this in Fort Wayne, 1903." Other identified locations represented in this album include Huntington, Indiana; Auburn, Indiana; and Osceola County, Michigan.

Correspondent with the Detroit News, director of the Psychological Warfare Division, Supreme Headquarters, Allied Forces, during World War II. Scrapbooks with clippings of newspaper articles; copies of propaganda leaflets directed to German soldiers and civilians during the war; reports, correspondence with family, and printed matter relating to war-time service; and photographs.

The Russell Barnes papers span the years 1920-1978. The bulk of the material concerns the period 1941-1953, the years Barnes spent as foreign correspondent for the Detroit News and the three-year interval during which he served in the Office of War Information.

The collection consists primarily of scrapbooks of his news stories, OWT leaflets, collected propaganda, and letters which he sent to his wife Constance, and, less frequently, to his children, Jeannot (Lucie Jeanne) and Jamie (John James Ingalls) while overseas and in New York. The most detailed description of his professional activities can be found in the letters he wrote during the months at the OWI in New York. He discusses the OWI personnel, its reorganization and the conflict with the OSS. The letters from the OWI Cairo and Algiers contain lively discussions of local customs and the rigors of life there, but are constrained by war-time censorship and thus shed less light than might be expected on his role as PWB director. The letters written while he covered the U.N. sometimes reflect the tense atmosphere there and the pressure brought to bear upon newsmen to take a stand on the issues they report. Barnes also discusses the power struggle in the Detroit Foreign Policy Association.