Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Benjamin M. Roe papers (1905-1974) consist of the personal and professional papers of Roe, an immigrant from Russia and Salt Lake City businessman and philanthropist. A limited amount of personal material is in the Benjamin M. Roe collection. Included in this portion are travel itineraries and a brief travel diary from a European trip. Travel memorabilia, including post cards and travel guides, have been filed with the travel diary. Other personal materials such as certificates and gift...

Scope and Contents Itinerary for visit to Mediterranean countries and Israel. Gives flight and hotel information as well as tour. Diary of European trip. Gives brief impressions of daily happenings--includes England, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, and France.

Scope and Contents Guide to the Museum of Ancient Corinth, Athens, Greece. Guide and information on the Jewish Synagogue of Florence, Italy.

Scope and Contents Toledo, Spain, synagogues and churches (set). Old Acre, Israel (set). Ayelet Hashahar, a kibutz in Israel (set). Single card of picture by L. Schwerin called "In the Mountains of Galilee."

Scope and Contents Pin "Remember" in a folder. Written in Hebrew the explanation states the pin is for mourning those Jews who died in the holocaust in Nazi Germany. Booklet of poetry in German, Gedanken, by Nella Bohar Juda. Commemorates the deaths of Jews in World War II. Given to the Roes by a refugee from Nazi Germany in an old people's home in Venice, Italy.

Scope and Contents Two handpaintings of rugs made at St. Christopher's Mission to the Navajo, 1964, 1965. B'nai B'rith Twenty-five Year Silver Honor Certificate from B. F. Peixotto Lodge number 421, Salt Lake City, Utah. Copy of a certificate entering Roe's godson, Joshua Louis Stillman into the covenant of Abraham. Honorary Fishing Degree given to Roe by the Bassetts of Granite Ranch.

Scope and Contents Gift given by "Gail, Michael, David and Julie" in honor of the Roes' anniversaries and Benjamin M. Roe's seventieth birthday.

Scope and Contents Newspaper clippings. Notes from Bancroft Library about people with the family name of Watters. Funeral service program for Henry Yoshihiko Kasai.

Scope and Contents Bank book with note explaining how Benjamin M. Roe went broke. He paid all his creditors but had to borrow $50.00 from his son to pay the rent. WMAL Radio-New York. News release about hiring Michael Roe as an account executive in 1967. Father's Day Telegram. Anniversary notes written to mother and father as a child. Essay on combatting communism. Essay on Israel and its development. Michael Roe's speech given at his Bar Mitsvah.

Scope and Contents Newspaper clippings.