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Clement (Edgar) scrapbook of advertising trade cards, calling cards, and greeting cards
Biomed.0520  
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  • Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections
    Title: Edgar Clement scrapbook of advertising trade cards, calling cards, and greeting cards
    Source: Clement, Edgar
    Source: Marconi, Mary
    Identifier/Call Number: Biomed.0520
    Physical Description: 1 unknown (1 scrapbook)
    Date (inclusive): 1866-1928
    Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
    Language of Material: Materials are in English.

    Conditions Governing Access

    Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.

    Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use

    Property rights to the physical objects belong to the UCLA Library Special Collections. All other 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.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Purchased from Mary Marconi from the Franklin E. Murphy, M.D. Fund, 2012.

    Processing Information

    Collections are processed to a variety of levels depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived user interest and research value, availability of staff and resources, and competing priorities. Library Special Collections provides a standard level of preservation and access for all collections and, when time and resources permit, conducts more intensive processing. These materials have been arranged and described according to national and local standards and best practices.

    UCLA Catalog Record ID

    UCLA Catalog Record ID: 6902854 

    Administrative/Biographical History

    Edgar Clement (1866-1928) trained in homeopathy at Hahnemann Medical College of Pennsylvania and held licenses to practice in Ohio (1898), New Jersey (1899) and Pennsylvania (1899). He apparently had business interests first in job printing and clothing sales, then in medicine, according to business and trade cards in his scrapbook, all of which pre-date his medical licenses.

    Scope and Contents

    This collection consists of a late nineteenth-century scrapbook compiled by printer and homeopathic physician Edgar Clement of Camden, New Jersey, featuring Victorian-era advertising trade cards, calling cards, greeting cards, and newspaper clippings. Advertising trade cards include American Sewing Machine Co., Weikel & Smith Spice Co., Halley's Medical Pain Extractor, Hire's Improved Root Beer, and miscellaneous hotel trade cards. Individual or series of trade cards are personalized for businesses in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, apparently demonstrating Clement's services as a printer in the various states in which he resided; two cards identify Clement as a printer. Additional cards represent the businesses of several relatives in Philadelphia. Newspaper clippings include poems, wedding announcements, and obituaries (including Walt Whitman, President Hayes, John Whittier, and more) as well as articles on eminent homeopaths, hypnotism, the clinical use of x-rays, and other developments in the fields of psychology and medicine. Additional newspaper articles include the 1891 graduating exercises at Haverford College, the Golden Jubilee of Hahnemann in 1898, and the debut of the Chicago Masonic Temple.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Clement, Edgar
    Marconi, Mary