James L. Felton Photographs

Collection

Identifier: CP SPC 5

Scope and Content Note

These photographs include snapshots of the Zetetic Club camping and swimming at Granite Reef Dam and in costume for a pageant on the Tempe Normal School campus. Also included is a snapshot portrait of A. J. Matthews.

Dates

Creation: circa 1921-1923

Creator

Felton, J. L. (James Lee), 1874-1932 (Person)

Language of Materials

Material in English

Access Restrictions

To view this collection, make an appointment at least five business days prior to your visit by contacting Ask an Archivist or calling (480) 965-4932. Appointments in the Wurzburger Reading Room at Hayden Library (rm. 138) on the Tempe campus are available Monday through Friday. Check the ASU Library Hours page for current availability.

Copyright

Arizona State University does not own copyright to this collection. Distinctive Collections recognizes that it is incumbent upon the researcher to procure permission to publish information from this collection from the owner of the copyright.

Biographical Note

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James Lee Felton was born to Sylvanus and Sophronia (Wright) Felton in Dorr, Michigan on November 10, 1874. He earned his A.B. (1904) from Olivet College and his A.M. from the University of Chicago in addition to completing graduate study at the University of California and the University of London. He began his career as a teacher in the Michigan public schools and went on to serve as a high school principal in Olivet, Michigan; to teach high school English in Burlington, Iowa and Butte, Montana; and to head the Ferris Institute's English department before coming to the Tempe Normal School as the Head of the English Department in 1910. Felton served as sponsor for the Normal's Zeitetic Club beginning in 1911. In addition to his work at the Normal, Felton served as Mayor of Tempe from 1926 to 1928. He died suddenly of heart disease at his home in Tempe on April 3, 1932 and is buried in Tempe's Double Butte Cemetery.

Felton married May Nellie Brown (1876-1955) in Moline, Michigan on August 30, 1904 and the couple had three children: James Brown (1906-2002), Cornelius Conway (1909-1991), and Helen Cordelia (Felton) Lackman (1910-1994).

Full extent

20 Photograph(s)

Full extent

0.1 Linear Feet

Additional description

Abstract

Arrangement

This collection consists of twenty silver gelatin photographs.

Other Finding Aids

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