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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

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

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