Manuscripts
Frank J. Cotter scrapbook
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Carl E. McStay scrapbooks
Manuscripts
HM 81598 (1-3): Scrapbook related to Carl E. McStay and the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce good will tour to the "Orient." The tour included: Hawaii, Japan, and China. Laid in the scrapbook are photographs, clippings, and postcards with captions. There appears to be a smaller scrapbook that is no longer bound. These pages are now contained in two folders.
mssHM 81598-81599
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Frank Holme scrapbook
Manuscripts
Scrapbook containing letters, drawings, photographs, and clippings belonging to Frank Holme. Although housed in a hardbound "scrapbook," all of the materials are loose. There are several items related to Holme's Bandar Log Press and the School of Illustration as well as several letters by designer and illustrator John Frew.
mssHM 84030
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J. Morris Slemons scrapbooks
Manuscripts
These scrapbooks, kept by J. Morris Slemon's contains various material related to his career, especially his publications regarding the field of obstetrics and its history. The first scrapbook contains materials related to J. Morris Slemons's biography of John Whitridge Williams, early 20th century authority on maternity, chief obstetrician of Johns Hopkins Hospital and a former dean of the Johns Hopkins Medical School. The scrapbook contains letters from famous physicians around the United States congratulating the author on his success and commenting on the subject. There are also a few materials related to Slemons's career and other publications. The volume includes eight loose items: one review of the book; one photo; two letters of congratulations; one library card from Los Angeles County Medical Association Library; and three fliers for ordering the book. The second scrapbook contains material related to J. Morris Slemons's interest in maternity and obstetrics and his book The prospective mother. There are newspaper and journal clippings regarding medical anecdotes, mostly regarding maternity and the practice of obstetrics. The scrapbook also contains book reviews of medical works on obstetrics and maternity, including those for his book. A few clippings are in German. He also collected letters written to him regarding his book as well as obituaries of local doctors. The volume includes sixteen loose items including: an airplane ticket to Mexico City; two sets of notes, one of which may be by John Whitridge Williams on obstetrics in the Bible; three clippings; eight letters, one regarding his resignation from a Red Cross Committee, six pertaining to his book, and another pertaining to his essay on book collecting; and two essays, one on book collecting and one on Williams' work.
mssHM 74865-74866
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Antebellum movable scrapbook
Manuscripts
An assemblage of approximately 130 clippings of articles, poems, and other printed matter related to nativist and racist social and political issues in the Antebellum South. The scrapbook, which was made by an unknown person in Mississippi, is made from an old diary. Clippings include the American Party of Mississippi's platform statement, pieces on the "Bloody Monday" riots in Louisville, the American Party State ticket, and with articles entitled "Americanism Nothing New," "Immigration & Americanism," and "Union of Disunion-What Shall it Be?" In the middle of the volume is a woodblock print used by the Port Gibson newspaper, The Herald and Correspondent, of an American eagle with a banner proclaiming, "Americans Must Rule America. Our Whole Country." The scrapbook contains a few racist depictions of Afrrican Americans. The cover features components of the Saturday Evening Post masthead laid down, and a large engraving of a reception by Queen Victoria is on the rear board. The scrapbook features homemade flaps and foldout tabs, often with colored tabs and the terms "up" or "down" to indicate which direction will reveal more text.
mssHM 84096
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Mabel Clarke's cookbook scrapbook and school lesson book : manuscript
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Manuscript cookbook/scrapbook containing mounted newspaper clippings with culinary recipes and an index. Notebook appears to have been re-purposed twice. The front endpapers and pages [1]-[4] are an index. On pages [5]-[27] is a handwritten Gospel according to St. Matthew with marginal notes. Pages [28]-[46] are filled with newspaper clippings with culinary recipes mounted over what appears to be handwritten school lessons in grammar, math and geography. Pages [47]-[158] contain the remainder of the handwritten lessons. Additional newspaper clippings, printed ephemera, and culinary recipes on scraps of paper laid in. Also included is a reprint of an albumen photograph with a date on the verso of 1892 (removed to PF).
642095
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Frank Henry hunting diaries
Manuscripts
This collection contains 18 Seasonal Diaries, bound into two volumes: 1877, October-1887, April (HM 82610(1)), and 1887, November-1898, October (HM 82610(2)). The diaries are made up of Spiers and Son's printed Hunting Registers and record Hunt meets with the Beaufort Hunt and others; dated manuscript entries in ink include: date, pack, fixture, hack ridden to meet, hunter ridden, coverts drawn, foxes found, weather and usually a few lines of narrative summary of the day's events. HM 82610(1) also has one page of autograph notes laid in and various newspaper clippings pasted onto pages; HM 82610(2) contains an autograph letter by the 9th Duke of Beaufort (Mar. 31, 1890) pasted in, as well as various newspaper clippings.
mssHM 82610 (1-3)