Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Scope and Content of Collection
Descriptive Summary
Title: Lincoln Centennial Celebration Scrapbooks,
Date (inclusive): 1908-1911
Collection Number: Wyles Mss 89
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
Lincoln Centennial Celebration Scrapbooks. Wyles Mss 89. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of
California, Santa Barbara.
Acquisition Information
Purchase, 1978.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains three scrapbooks, mainly newspaper and magazine clippings, with portraits and accounts of the life
and death of Abraham Lincoln, including tributes paid him on the one-hundredth anniversary of his birth in 1809. Newspapers
represented include the
Brooklyn Daily Eagle,
Globe and Commercial Advertiser (New York),
New York Daily Tribune,
New York Evening Post, and
New York Times. The scrapbooks were compiled by Benjamin DeForest Curtiss.