Albert B. Hale Papers, 1908, 1910, 1914-15, 1919-24, 1926-30 | University of Illinois Archives

Description: Papers of Albert B. Hale (1860-1929), instructor in ophthalmology (1898-1900), including diaries, correspondence, photographs and manuscripts relating to commercial affairs in Central and South America (1914-15, 1919-21) and teaching at the University of Puerto Rico (1926-29).  Dr. Hale served with the Pan-American Union as a compiler (1908-14), with the United States government as a commercial attache in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay (1914-16), with several engineering firms as a representative in Chile, Guatemala, El Salvador, Bolivia and Argentina (1919-21) and as a professor of social science in Puerto Rico.  This series includes records of interviews with public officials and representatives in Latin America, comments on economic conditions and Dr. Hale's manuscript translation of Don Quixote and La Epopeya de Artigas.