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The Bowen family Web:
Index of Historical Photos & Documents
Category : Various Images : Photographs or Documents :
Item 1 :
Photograph:
Note : Unsure of which subject is Bowen.
Nicolas Bowen, George Armstrong Custer, A.Jones.Peninsular Campaign, 1862.
Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign,
May-August 1862
United States--Virginia--Yorktown. From the library of Congress collection
: Selected Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 Civil War photographs, 1861-1865
/ compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C.
: Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0029 :Wet plate negatives.
Item 2
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Scanned Image :by
Ben Bowen Oct. 1999
Front page of trifold wallet sized"booklet".Boy Scouts
of America membership for troop (243 ?) (2&3?)The membership certification
is issued to Wayne Bowen of Cuero,Texas 11-6-1940 at the age of 12. Booklet
fits inside brown paper sleeve sized 4 inches x 2.75 inches.
Item 3
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Scanned Image: by
Ben Bowen Oct. 1999
Same as above except image is of the back page.Has scout motto "Be
Prepared" and "The Scouting Trail"
item shows copyright date of 1939.Painting for this image was done by Norman
Rockwell.
Item 4
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Scanned Image : by Ben
Bowen Oct. 1999
Same as above except inside back flap. Shows membership number A 2023220
.
Item5
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Scanned Image: By
Ben Bowen Oct. 1999
Same as Above, except full "flattened" view.side1
Item 6
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6a
Scanned Image : by Ben Bowen
Oct. 1999
Same as above except image is of the opposite side full "flattened"
view.
Item7
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7a
Scanned Image : by Ben Bowen
Oct 1999
Same subject as above , except image is of outside paper pocket
or jacket.Advertising Boys' Life magazine for the rate of $1.00 per year.
Item8
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Scanned Image : by Ben Bowen
Oct 1999
Same subject as above , except opposite side image of outside paper
pocket or jacket.
Item 9
Digital Image : from the Library
of Congress:
Cover page of sheet music "Fairy Footfalls" by E.A. Bowen.
Item 10
Photograph:
Brown Bowen pictured with "Black" Tom
Caffell : source info unknown
Brown Bowen was hung for killing a man and was a known associate of John
Wesley Hardin.
Item11
Scanned image:by Ben Bowen Oct.
1999
Ruth Agnes Chapa Bowen's Graduation diploma from High School Raymond
& Tirza Martin High School Laredo Texas, 1950
Item 12
Scanned Image:by Ben Bowen Oct.
1999
Wayne Bowen's baby book cover from his date of birth. inside front
cover says "Compliments of W.C.Munn Company Houston : Birth record
info is recorded as Place of Birth : Houston, Texas, Date Oct 4 (no date
was recorded ,but the year was 1928) Day: Thursday at Four A.M. Born unto
Mr.& Mrs. S.C. Bowen,A Boy. Physician: Dr . adayum? a dayum? baby's
weight 91/2 lbs. Among those present Mrs. Elkins, Mrs Becker,Husband, Dr.
Other info in book listed the parents as Bessie Myrtle Bowen & Seymour
Courtney Bowen and Clarence as Brother, first clothes as trousers, eyes
at birth "blue" hair "brown"
The Book was copywritten by the Osoborne Co. of Newark New
Jersey 1925
Item13:
Photograph :scanned by Ben Bowen
10-99
Marine Corps Photograph : Platoon 53 Marine Corps Recruit Dept San
Diego, California Sept.4, 1948
S.Sgt C.L.Waugh. Wayne Bowen is third from the left on upper row.Wayne
would have been 20 years old in 1948.
Item14
Photograph:scanned
by Ben Bowen 10-99
Same as above except cropped closeup of section showing Wayne Bowen.
Item15
Photograph:scanned
by Ben Bowen 10-99
Wayne Bowen in Vietnam approx. June 1965 sitting at his desk.
