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"Authors' Book" scrapbook
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0892
Abstract
The scrapbook titled “Authors’ Book” is a cloth notebook containing 166 clippings of author portraits across eighty-three pages. Next to each portrait is a list of works, handwritten in pen or pencil. The creator of the scrapbook is unknown, but the contents suggest it was compiled primarily in the late nineteenth century and into the early twentieth century.
Dates:
late 1800s to early 1900s
Found in:
Special Collections
Richard Davis Harding collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0016
Abstract
Richard Harding Davis was an American journalist, war correspondent, and novelist. The collection consists of autograph letters and manuscript fragments of well-known literary figures of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Most of the items were exhibited at the World's Fair in 1893.
Dates:
1861-1958
Found in:
Special Collections