Preliminary Guide to the Alice Norwood Collection

Preliminary arrangement and description by D. Tambo
Department of Special Collections
Davidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
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Preliminary Guide to the Alice Norwood Collection

Collection number: Mss 88

Department of Special Collections

Davidson Library

University of California, Santa Barbara
Processed by:
D. Tambo
Date Completed:
Feb. 1, 2010
Encoded by:
A. Demeter
© 2010 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

Descriptive Summary

Title: Alice Norwood Collection
Dates: ca. 1880s-1980s
Collection number: Mss 88
Creator: Norwood, Alice
Collection Size: 1.25 linear feet (1 records center carton)
Repository: University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Abstract: The collection primarily contains scrapbooks of greeting cards, holiday cards, photographs and travel souvenirs, postcards, trade cards, and other ephemera, as well as U.S. and world stamp albums and loose stamps, including blocks, commemorative stamps, first day covers, and sheets, all apparently assembled by Ventura, California resident Alice Norwood from her childhood on.
Physical location: Del Sur.
Languages: English

Access Restrictions

None.

Publication Rights

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Preferred Citation

Alice Norwood Collection. Mss 88. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Acquisition Information

Gift of Alice Norwood, 1989.

Scope and Content of Collection

The collection primarily contains scrapbooks of greeting cards, holiday cards, photographs and travel souvenirs, postcards, trade cards, and other ephemera, as well as U.S. and world stamp albums and loose stamps, including blocks, commemorative stamps, first day covers, and sheets, all apparently assembled by Ventura, California resident Alice Norwood from her childhood on.
A collection of books for the American Religions Collection also was donated by Alice Norwood.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Scrapbooks--California, Southern.
Stamp collecting--United States.


 

Scrapbooks

Box 1

Holiday Cards and Rewards of Merit, ca. early 1900s

Box 1

Blue (disbound) – mainly color and black/white photographs, many of trips, ca. 1930s-1970s

Box 1

Red (disbound) – many clippings, receipts, ephemera including WWII ration card, ca. 1910-1960s

Box 1

Trade Cards – 117 cards, ca. 1880s-early 1900s

Scope and Content Note

From a disbound scrapbook, apparently collected as a child, for products such as agricultural machinery, coffee, corn starch, dyes, home remedies, newspapers, pianos and organs, seeds, sewing machines, shoes, silks, soap, spices, stoves, thread, wagons; a few images of African Americans; many cards from Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio.
 

Stamp Albums

Box 1

Ambassador Album – Postage Stamps of the World, ca. 1910s-1960s

Box 1

Gray – mainly U.S. commemorative blocks, 1960s

Box 1

Signers of the Constitution – First Day Covers, 1987

Box 1

Wildlife of the 50 States – First Day Covers, 1987

 

Stamps – Loose

Box 1

Disbound Album – sheets, first day covers, commemoratives, U.S. and world, ca. 1950s-1960s

Box 1

USA and World, ca. 1930s-1960s