Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Scope and Content of Collection
Related Material
Descriptive Summary
Title: Civil War Period Scrapbooks,
Date (inclusive): 1861-1917
Collection Number: Wyles Mss 90
Extent:
.6 linear feet
(2 oversize boxes)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical Location: Del Sur Oversize
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
None.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Preferred Citation
Civil War Period Scrapbooks. Wyles Mss 90. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains three scrapbooks of clippings about the Civil War era and its participants. Newspapers represented
include the
New York Daily Tribune,
New York Evening Post,
New York Herald, and
New York Times. Many of the clippings are about Civil War memorials, Abraham Lincoln's death, eulogies for Civil War veterans, activities
of groups such as the Union League, historical sketches of military units, and stories about Civil War generals and battles.
Related Material
UCSB Special Collections also has a number of Civil War era newspapers, many on microfilm. These can be searched on Pegasus,
the UCSB Libraries online catalog.