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Oversize sheet music and photograph,

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection: The collection includes letters, postcards, photographs, bookplates, ephemera, and scrapbooks received, collected, and compiled by Flora Gardiner Kling in Mount Vernon, Indiana and the United States, ranging from _ to _, regarding her hobby collecting bookplates, which included soliciting bookplates from various universities, libraries, authors, poets, illustrators, actors, inventors, scientists, politicans, musicians, performers, and private citizens, as well as corresponding with other bookplate collectors.

Prominent names include Louis Adamic, George Ade, Ambrose Bierce, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Richard Harding Davis, Theodore Dreiser, Thomas A. Edison, Max Ehrmann, Charles W. Fairbanks, Hamlin Garland, Rube Goldberg, Clara E. Laughlin, George Barr McCutcheon, John T. McCutcheon, Herbert Hoover, Jack London, Conde Nast, Meredith Nicholson, Eva Katharine Clapp (Gibson), Maud Allan, Joaquin Miller, Arthur Conan Doyle, Mark Twain, Timothy Cole, Captain Jack Crawford, Will Rogers, Douglas Fairbanks, and Mary Pickford.

Dates

  • 1886-1938

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 2 Cubic Feet (3 manuscript boxes, 3 oversize boxes)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

From the Collection: Japanese

Creator

Repository Details

Part of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Repository

Contact:
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