Finding Aid for the Clare Victor Dwiggins papers, 1891-1958
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Finding Aid for the Clare Victor Dwiggins papers, 1891-1958
Collection number: 783
UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
Manuscripts Division
Los Angeles, CA
- Processed by:
- Manuscripts Division staff
- Encoded by:
- Caroline Cubé
- Online finding aid edited by:
- Josh Fiala, November 2003
© 2003 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Clare Victor Dwiggins papers,
Date (inclusive): 1891-1958
Collection number: 783
Creator:
Dwiggins, Clare Victor, 1874-1958
Extent: 3 boxes (1.5 linear ft.)
2 oversize boxes
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Dept. of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Abstract: Clare Victor Dwiggins (1874-1958) was a cartoonist and illustrator for newspapers, journals, news syndication services, and
books. He also composed a number of nationally syndicated comic strips including “Ophelia,” “Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer,”
“Peter Tumbledown,” “School Days,” “Footprints on the sands of time,” and “Zeke Carsie says.” The collection consists of original
cartoons, scrapbooks, newsclippings and ephemera by and about Clare Dwiggins.
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including
copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds
the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold
the copyright.
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Mrs. Todhunter Ballard.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Clare Victor Dwiggins papers (Collection 783). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young
Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Biography
Dwiggins was born in 1874 in Wilmington, Ohio; in 1890, began work as a cartoonist, drawing for the
St. Louis post dispatch,
New York journal,
Philadelphia inquirer, North American and telegraph, and international syndicate; became art editor for publisher M. Walter Dunne; illustrator
for Lisle De Vaux Matthewman's
Crankisms (1901),
Brevities (1903), and
Completed proverbs (1904), also for Samuel I. Stinson's
Whimlets (1903); author of
Rubáiyát of an egg (1905) and
The skull toast book (1904); He composed a number of nationally syndicated comic strips including, “Ophelia,” “Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer,”
“Peter Tumbledown,” “School Days,” “Footprints on the sands of time,” and “Zeke Carsie says”; he died in October 1958.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of original cartoons, scrapbooks, newsclippings and ephemera by and about Clare Dwiggins.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Dwiggins, Clare Victor, 1874-1958--Archives.
Cartoonists--United States--Archival resources.
Illustrators--United States--Archival resources.
Box 1, Folder 1
Huckleberry Finn's "Romance in an iceberg".
n.d.
Physical Description: Series of newspaper clippings
Box 1, Folder 2
Music composition book - unidentified
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 3
Farm Journal - Western edition
1959 Feb & Mar
Box 1, Folder 4
Newspaper clippings of examples of Dwiggins' work and news of him
n.d. & 1906 - 1954
Box 1, Folder 6
5 letters from L. Fairbrother and 1 from Margaret Tinker Le Vee
1951 & 1952
Box 1, Folder 7
"Postcard Call".
n.d.
Physical Description: 2 issues
Box 1, Folder 8
"Huckleberry Finn in The mystery of the missing jewels".
n.d.
Physical Description: (Comic book)
Box 1, Folder 9
"Huck Finn & Tom Sawyer and their robot duck".
n.d.
Physical Description: (Comic book). 2 issues
Box 1, Folder 10
"Toast and Eggs" reviews.
1906
Physical Description: Newspaper clippings
Box 1, Folder 11
Peter Tumbledown cartoons from the Farm Journal
1958
Box 1, Folder 12
Account books
1926, 1929, 1931-33, 1938
Box 1, Folder 13
Bessie Lindsay correspondence
1893, 1898 & 1901
Box 1, Folder 14
Bessie Lindsay high school report cards
1891 - 1893
Box 1, Folder 15
"Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 16
Various drawings by Dwiggins
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 17
Ford Times.
1952 Dec
Physical Description: 2 copies
Box 1, Folder 18
2 photographs of works by Dwiggins
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 19
2 photographs showing Dwiggins
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 20
Peter Tumbledown full page comic strips
1936 - 1938
Box 1, Folder 21
School Days cartoons
n.d.
Physical Description: (newspaper clippings)
Box 1, Folder 22
Nipper full page comic strips
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 23
Peter Tumbledown cartoons
1955
Physical Description: (newspaper clippings)
Box 2, Folder 1
Ophelia cartoons
1910
Physical Description: (newspaper clippings)
Box 2, Folder 2
Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer in "The great shanty boat mystery" in Doc Savage
Comics book.
1943 Oct
Physical Description: (2 issues)
Box 2, Folder 3
Huckleberry Finn and his shanty boat in Doc Savage Comics book.
1943 Aug
Physical Description: 2 copies
Box 2, Folder 4
Huckleberry Finn meets a queen.
n.d.
Physical Description: (Comic book)
Box 2, Folder 5
Huckleberry Finn and his safety box. (Comic book)
n.d.
Box 2, Folder 6
Huckleberry Finn adventures back home.
n.d.
Physical Description: (Comic book)
Box 2, Folder 7
Huckleberry Finn sacred crocodiles.
n.d.
Physical Description: (Comic book)
Box 2, Folder 8
Bobby Crusoe. Published in installments in comic book form.
n.d.
Note
Chapters 7 & 9
missing
Box 2, Folder 9
Memory Lane drawings
n.d.
Box 2, Folder 10
Memory Lane drawings
n.d.
Box 2, Folder 11
Guardian Angel drawings
n.d.
Box 2, Folder 13
Main Street - original pencil sketches
n.d.
Box 2, Folder 14
Bill's Diary cartoons
1956
Physical Description: (newspaper clippings)
Box 2, Folder 15
Broadway Magazine - Cover by Dwiggins
1903 Aug
Box 2, Folder 16
Note paper set for days of the week
n.d.
Box 2, Folders 17-18
Postcards by Dwiggins - various
n.d.
Physical Description: [2 folders.]
Box 2, Folder 19
Bill's Diary by Dwig. Sauk City, Wis., Stanton & Lee
1945
Box 2, Folder 20
It's a boy's world by August Derleth. Pictures by Dwig. Sauk City, Wis., Stanton and
Lee
[1948]
Box 2, Folder 21
Wilbur, the trusting whippoorwill by August Derleth. Pictures by Dwig. Sauk City, Wis.,
Stanton & Lee
1959
Box 3, Folder 1
Magazine clippings about Dwiggins' work - various
1928, 1940, & n.d.
Box 3, Folder 2
Magazine clippings about Dwiggins
1925 - 1936
Box 3, Folder 3
Huckleberry Finn comic strip
n.d.
Physical Description: 30 newsprint proof sheets for "Trail of the
diplodocus"
Box 3, Folder 4
Huckleberry Finn comic strip
n.d.
Physical Description: 11 proof sheets for "The thieving crow"
Box 3, Folder 5
Huckleberry Finn comic strip
n.d.
Physical Description: 2 newsprint proof sheets for "Aunt Polly and the
turtle"
Box 3, Folder 6
Decorated autograph book with farewell messages to Bessie Lindsay
1894
Box 3, Folder 7
Set of 24 3 1/2" x 4 1/2" cards to Bessie Lindsay from friends in St. Louis
1892
Box 4, Folder 1
A Dog's Life comic strip
n.d.
Physical Description: 70 strips bound together
Box 4, Folder 2
Music
n.d.
Physical Description: printed and holograph
Box 4, Folder 3
Bill's Diary
n.d.
Physical Description: 16 pencil and ink drawings
Box 4, Folder 5
"Got an idea?" poster
n.d.
Box 4, Folder 6
Huck Finn and The Robot Duck
n.d.
Physical Description: bound comic strip
Box 4, Folder 7
Huck Finn and The Fetish of Neeketa
n.d.
Physical Description: bound comic strip
Box 4, Folder 8
Huck Finn and King Solomon's Daughter
n.d.
Physical Description: bound comic strip
Box 4, Folder 9
Huck Finn Strip
n.d.
Physical Description: bound comic strip
Box 4, Folder 10
Ophelia and her slate.
1910 & n.d.
Physical Description: 68 cartoons bound together.
Box 5
Huck Finn and Injun Joe
n.d.
Physical Description: 4 page advertisement for comic strip
Box 5
Newspaper and magazine clippings about Dwiggins
1926 - 1956
Physical Description: 4 sheets
Box 5
Some Ophelia philosophy for 1910 -
1910, Jan 2
Box 5
Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
n.d.
Physical Description: 1 full page comic strip
Box 5
Footprints on the Sands of Time
n.d.
Physical Description: 4 ink and color wash drawings
Box 5
Huckleberry Finn and his Robot Duck
n.d.
Physical Description: 2 sheets with 24 strips
Box 5
Huckleberry Finn
n.d.
Physical Description: 3 sheets each with 12 strips (2 sheets are copies)
Box 5
Willy the Witch
n.d.
Physical Description: 6 pencil and colored wash sheets
Box 5
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
n.d.
Physical Description: newspaper announcement of comic strip
Box 5
Home Wanted by a Baby
1915, Jun 20 & n.d.
Physical Description: 2 full page comic strips
Box 5
The School Days of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
n.d.
Physical Description: 1 full page comic strip
Box 5
School Days
n.d.
Physical Description: 8 full page comic strips
Box 5
Zeke Carsie Says
n.d.
Physical Description: 22 full page comic strips
Box 5
Ophelia cartoons - 15
n.d.
Box 5
School Days cartoon - 68
n.d.
Box 5
Apple Annie
n.d.
Physical Description: pencil drawn cartoon
