Manuscripts

Clippings: Scrapbook, 1 bound volume, (1941)

Description: Some loose items.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1878-1959.
Call number: mssZA
Creator: Akins, Zoë (1886-1958)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Zoë Akins, March 1952.; Gift of Zoë Akins, July 1952.; Acquired from Estate of Zoë Akins, May 1961.; Gift of Henry O'Neil. January 1978.; Purchased from Walter R. Benjamin, January 1982.; Gift of Occidental College Library, December 1986.; Gift of R.E. Evans,

Clippings: Scrapbook, 1 bound volume, (1916)

Manuscripts

Some loose items.

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Clippings: Scrapbook, 1 bound volume, (1919-[1940?])

Manuscripts

Very Fragile -- loose spine. Handle carefully.

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Clippings: Scrapbook, 1 bound volume, (1912-1933)

Manuscripts

The collection consists of the personal and business papers of Zoë Akins (1886-1958). It includes correspondence with various literary, theatrical and motion picture figures of the first half of the twentieth century. There are also manuscripts of novels, plays, poems, short stories, outlines for plays, and articles. There is also correspondence related to her husband, Hugo Rumbold (d. 1932), and the Rumbold family. The collection also contains various photographs, manuscripts by others, and various business papers (including agreements, accounts, contracts, copyrights, and receipts). Correspondents represented in the collection include: Aline Barnsdall, Ethel Barrymore, Carlo Beuf, Billie Burke, Willa Cather, George Cukor, Patterson Greene, Sir Gerald Grove, William Harris, Carl Hovey, Jobyna Howland, Orrick Johns, George S. Kaufman, Alice Kauser, Sonya Levien, Anita Loos, Amy Lowell, W. Somerset Maugham, H.L. Mencken, Harry Moses, Kay Nielsen, George O'Neil, Max Pfeffer, Rosamond Pinchot, Una Pope-Hennessey, William Marion Reedy, Lady Etheldred Rumbold, Sir Horace Rumbold, Hugo Rumbold, David Selznick, Edward Sheldon, Sara Teasdale, Harriet Ware, Edith Wharton, John Hall Wheelock.

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Scrapbook, brown leather, bound volume

Manuscripts

Inscribed: To Mother, with dearest love Averill, Sept. 1911. Photographs of bindings, autograph notes, clippings, and printed proofs; some items loose and laid into scrapbook.

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Ephemera -- Clippings - Scrapbooks

Manuscripts

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Clippings: Zoë Akins, 1886-1958, Forever Young, 109 pieces, (1941)

Manuscripts

Includes printed publicity material.

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Clippings: Scrapbook, 1 bound volume, (1941)

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Clippings: Zoë Akins, 1886-1958, Forever Young, 109 pieces, (1941)