Finding Aid for the A.Y. Owen's Lon Chaney Scrapbooks PASC.0246

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Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: A.Y. Owen's Lon Chaney scrapbooks
Creator: Owen, A.Y.
Identifier/Call Number: PASC.0246
Physical Description: 0.5 Linear Feet (1 box)
Date (inclusive): 1920-circa 1989
Abstract: Collection consists of two scrapbooks (one photocopied), stills, and ephemera related to the career of Lon Chaney and created by A.Y. Owen.
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], A.Y. Owen's Lon Chaney scrapbooks (Collection PASC 246). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Provenance/Source of Acquisition

Gift of D.Owen, 1991.

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UCLA Catalog Record ID

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 9946630823606533 

Biography

A.Y. Owen was a freelance photographer for Time Inc. Publications.He started his first Lon Chaney scrapbook at age nine.

Scope and Content

Collection consists of two scrapbooks (one photocopied), a small number of stills, and ephemera related to the career of Lon Chaney. Materials were researched, collected, and assembled by A.Y. Owen.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Scrapbooks.
Chaney, Lon
Owen, A.Y.

box 1, folder 2

Ephemera

General note

With copy of Chaney's marriage license to Cleva Creighton.
box 1, folder 1

Lon Chaney stills (10 items)

General note

Portraits shots of Chaney (3 items); Laugh Clown Laugh (1 item), He Who Gets Slapped (2 items), The Unholy Three (2 items), Phantom of the Opera (2 items).
box 1, folder 4

Loose clippings mostly about Lon Chaney

General note

Mostly photocopied, ca. 1907, 1930, 1982.
box 1, folder 5

Scrapbook of Lon Chaney clippings and photographs, completed ca. 1990

General note

Photocopy. With some information about Lon Chaney Jr.
box 1, folder 3

Scrapbook of Lon Chaney clippings, ca. 1920's-1930s.