Scrapbooks -- United States -- 20th century
Subject
Subject Source: Genre Terms: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloguing
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Mary L. Bennett Collection on John Clifford Cowles
Collection
Identifier: MS.1956.004
Abstract
Photographs and textual materials generated by artist and writer John Clifford Cowles, documenting his time in Montana and his career in southern California.
Dates:
1861-1951
Found in:
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Robert D. Farquhar Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS.1968.017
Abstract
Scrapbooks, ephemera, photographs, and correspondence related to architect Robert D. Farquhar and his work, particularly buildings commissioned by William Andrews Clark, Jr.
Dates:
1900-1967
Found in:
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Textual materials
Sub-Series
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection consists mainly of a scrapbook and loose photographs from the estate of John Clifford Cowles. The scrapbook was not compiled by Cowles himself, but by a woman named Mary L. Bennett, who purchased some of his papers and photographs after his death in 1951. In a note at the end of the volume, Bennett recounts that after purchasing some photographs from the Cowles estate at a local store, she went to his former house and rescued more documents and photographs from destruction,...
Dates:
1861-1951