Oversize sheet music and photograph, 1900-1904, undated
File — Folder: B009
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 1881 to 1938, undated, 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.
There are also two oversize items: an undated photograph titled "On the Maine Coast" from J. B. Carrington and 1900 "Romantic Lyrics for Piano" sheet music from Franklin Sonnakolb with a note from 1904 (B009).
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.
There are also two oversize items: an undated photograph titled "On the Maine Coast" from J. B. Carrington and 1900 "Romantic Lyrics for Piano" sheet music from Franklin Sonnakolb with a note from 1904 (B009).
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
- 1881-1938
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Collection: 1.83 Cubic Feet (2 manuscript boxes, 1 small manuscript box, 3 clamshell boxes, 1 small oversize folder)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
From the Collection: German
From the Collection: Japanese
From the Collection: Latin
From the Collection: Polish
From the Collection: Swedish
Creator
- From the Collection: Kling, Flora Gardiner, 1858-1940 (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Repository
Contact:
140 North Senate Avenue
Indianapolis, Indiana 46204 U.S.A.
317-232-3671
140 North Senate Avenue
Indianapolis, Indiana 46204 U.S.A.
317-232-3671
