TRAVEL FILES, 1935-1984

Documentation of Frances Grant's trips, primarily to Latin America, but also to New Mexico, Europe, and India. Document types include correspondence, reports, manuscript articles, press releases, programs, exhibition catalogs, invitations, receipts, menus, tickets, business cards, identification and police documents, and notes.

During her 1941, 1951, and 1957 trips to Latin America, Grant kept copies of letters sent back to her family which serve as diaries. During her 1941 trip, Grant met with artist, educators, and women's groups, and established branches of the PAWA. She also sent back articles to the United States, some of which were published through the North American Newspaper Alliance. These articles document the tension and shifting alliances in Latin America during the World War II period.

Of interest in the files on Grant's 1951 trip is her meeting with Bolivian President Hugo Ballivián about political exiles, her meeting with Ecuadoran President Galo Plaza Lasso, and her reports on Lima, where APRA leader Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre had taken refuge in the Colombian embassy. In her 1957 trip, Grant describes the situation in Colombia directly after the overthrow of the dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. On this trip, she met with a number of leaders including Eduardo Santos, former president of Colombia and publisher of El Tiempo, Colombian President Alberto Lleras Camargo, Chilean presidents Eduardo Frei and Gabriel González Videla, Bolivian president Hernán Siles Zuazo, former Venezuelan president Rómulo Gallegos, and former Cuban minister of education Aureliano Sánchez Arango, as well as labor leaders and Dominican exiles.

The files on Grant's later trips contain mostly letters that were sent to her from the United States, although the 1966 file does contain a description of the Dominican Republic six years after the fall of Trujillo.

The second part of the series includes correspondence from miscellaneous trips, and newspapers clippings, identification cards, police documents and notes.