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Scrapbook 2.6
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Scrapbook 2.8
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This scrapbook consists mainly of clippings and photocopies of articles dating from the late 1910s to the 1950s, with articles about Lawrence, his writing, and some reviews of books about Lawrence. There are also a few publisher prospectuses for works by Lawrence. Album has reddish-brown covers; without bookplate, but presumably compiled by Duncan.
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Scrapbook 2.7
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This scrapbook contains an assortment of photographs, postcards, clippings, and cards, dating from 1911 to 1960. The materials include copy prints of British Museum and Ashmolean Museum photographs documenting Lawrence's archaeological work, including digs at Carchemish, in Syria, in the early 1910s; as well as photographs related to his time as an aircraftman in Bridlington, England, in the mid 1930s, Lawrence's Brough motorcycle, Eric Kennington's effigy of Lawrence, and a few images of Evelyn Ives Sewell (whose life was saved by Lawrence in Karachi, India, in 1929); and some Christmas cards sent to Duncan from Lawrence's friends in the 1960s. Album has brown covers; with Theodora Duncan bookplate containing handwritten note, "Carchemish-Bridlington."
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Scrapbook 2.9
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This scrapbook contains periodical and newspaper clippings from the 1950s and 1960s chiefly concerning Lawrence and published works about him, as well as some that only mention Lawrence briefly. Album has reddish-brown covers; without bookplate, but presumably compiled by Duncan.
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Scrapbook 2.10
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This album primarily contains newspaper and periodical clippings related to the 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia and its lead actor, Peter O'Toole, as well as a set of 10 theater lobby placards for the film and a few clippings about the 1960 play Ross about T.E. Lawrence by Terence Rattigan. Album has reddish-brown covers; without bookplate, but presumably compiled by Duncan.
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Scrapbook 2.14
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This album contains images, clippings, and ephemera chiefly documenting Lawrence's early life in Oxford, England, from his birth in 1889 to about 1910. Items primarily consist of 1960s postcards and photographs depicting the local Oxford landscape and individuals and buildings related to Lawrence, as well photographs (primarily reproductions) of Lawrence as a boy and his family. The earliest photographs are a few copy prints reproduced by Duncan from the collection of Lawrence's nanny Margo Jones. There are also some postcards of London, England, and locales in Turkey and the Middle East and correspondence to Duncan about her research. Album has black covers; with Theodora Duncan bookplate containing handwritten note, "Pre-War Years."
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Scrapbook 2.12
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This album contains images, clippings, and ephemera chiefly documenting Lawrence's post-war years in Dorset, England, from the early 1920s to his death in 1935. Items primarily consist of 1960s postcards and photographs depicting the local Dorset landscape and individuals and buildings related to Lawrence, though there are some photographs (primarily reproductions) of Lawrence and friends. There are also photographs, ephemera, and correspondence, including some received and collected by Thomas Beaumont, chronicling Lawrence's funeral and subsequent memorials. Notably the album includes a 1923 snapshot of Lawrence as a private in the Royal Tank Corps, given by Eric Kennington to Wing/Commander Sims; a brief May 1935 telegram from Lawrence to Beaumont; a printed thank you note from Lawrence's mother, Sarah Lawrence, to Beaumont, dated July 1935; and a brief letter from Sarah Lawrence to Beaumont, dated July 13, 1935. Album has greenish-blue covers; with Theodora Duncan bookplate containing handwritten note, "Post-War Years."
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