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Abram Keller Shaifer antebellum movable scrapbook
Manuscripts
This scrapbook was assembled by Abram Keller Shaifer and features clippings of articles, poems, and other printed matter that were published in various newspapers and magazines. Shaifer created flaps and little doors out of colored paper to expand the scrapbook pages in order to hold additional text. Included in the scrapbook are all 19 installments of Alexander Walker's "Jackson and New Orleans" which were published in the New Orleans Weekly Delta. Other topics featured in the scrapbook include steamboat accidents, Kansas and enslavement, the telegraph system, plantation operation, the Know-Nothing Party, and world events.
mssHM 84539
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Frank J. Cotter scrapbook
Manuscripts
A scrapbook created by Frank K. Cotter in the early part of the 20th century. The leather-bound scrapbook has a printed photo of Cotter pasted down on the title page; there is a modern autograph note, in an unknown hand, laid inside the front cover, with a few other printed items laid into the volume. The poems and short stories in the scrapbook are either printed clippings or typewritten copies, some of which were written by Cotter under his pseudonym Pat O'Cotter. The clippings and copies only fill twenty-five pages with the majority of the scrapbook containing blank and empty pages. The subjects covered are mainly World War I, Alaska, and the Klondike.
mssHM 83799
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Leo Newmark scrapbook
Manuscripts
One scrapbook believed to be kept by Leo Newmark between 1912 and 1942. It includes newspaper clippings (and a few other printed items) from various newspapers (both American and Foreign) and dealing with multiple subjects including: the Newmark family, "Emperor Norton" of San Francisco, obituaries of notable individuals, and local San Francisco and Los Angeles news and history. There are a few items in German and some of the clippings deal with the Jews, World War II, Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei propaganda, Adolf Hitler, and Joseph Goebbels. On page 14 is an item from a German newspaper urging the German people to not frequent stores owned by Jews. The scrapbook contains an index at the end.
mssHM 83179
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Scrapbook: San Marino Ward scrapbook history
Manuscripts
This scrapbook was begun in 1972 and continued until early 1978. The beginning covers the formation of the Ward in 1963. This scrapbook documents the history of a Latter-day Saints ward in San Marino, California. The people documented include all of the ward leaders of this era, including short biographical sketches with head shots. The events covered include craft bazaars, socials, Christmas, birthday parties, fashion shows, home tours, the American Bicentennial, luncheons, special speakers, musical recitals, and costume parties. Also included, a lot of ephemera related to these events and people.
mssHM 80485
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Abram Pease Williams letter to Lawrence F. Bower
Manuscripts
Williams responds to Bower's request that he was born in Maine in 1832, moved to California in 1858, and was elected to the Senate in 1886 as a Republican. Signed "A. P. Williams."
mssHM 21337
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Edward Anthony Spitzka medical school scrapbook
Manuscripts
This volume contains approximately 50 assorted documents, both pasted down and laid-in, plus an additional 12 pages or so of manuscript text in Spitzka's hand (including a few pieces of correspondence). The majority of the items relate to Spitzka's medical school course work at Columbia University including class descriptions and exam questions.
mssHM 83828