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Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Cinematic Arts Library
Title: Agnes B. Hardy scrapbook
Creator:
Hardy, Agnes Boss
Identifier/Call Number: 2538
Physical Description:
0.03 Linear Feet
1 folder
Date (inclusive): 1907-1948
Date: 1967
Abstract: This collection consists of a scrapbook of signatures and event ephemera from the estate of the president of the Cosmopolitan
Dinner Club, Agnes B. Hardy.
Language of Material:
English.
Container: 1
This collection consists of a scrapbook of signatures and event ephemera from the estate of the president of the Cosmopolitan
Dinner Club, Agnes B. Hardy. Notes, illustrations, and signatures are present in the scrapbook along with various dinner invitations
and place cards for events Hardy attended. Notable signatures include those of physicist Albert Einstein, author Blanche Upright,
actor Harry Lang, and political figures Herbert Hoover, Calvin Coolidge, Earl Warren, and James Rolph. Also represented are
various illustrations by artists Charles Schatzlein, Friedrich Feigl, and George McManus. Collection includes the 1967 legal
document from Hardy's estate noting the custody of the scrapbook being transferred to USC.
Originally part of the Ethel Barrymore Memorial Theatre Arts Collection at the University of Southern California Library
100 Series, and was labeled 100-23.
Agnes Boss Hardy (1884-1967) was an American socialite known for being the president of the Cosmopolitan Dinner Club in the
1920s and 1930s in Los Angeles and for being the wife of Superior Court Justice Carlos S. Hardy. She also was columnist for
the Evening Herald in the early 1920s and wrote several children's novels.
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Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Cinematic Arts Library
at ctlibarc@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Cinematic Arts Library as the owner of the physical
items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by the estate of Agnes B. Hardy in 1967.
[Box/folder no. or item name], Agnes B. Hardy scrapbook, Collection no. 2538, Cinematic Arts Library, USC Libraries, University
of Southern California.
Collection is unprocessed.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
California, Southern -- History -- Archival resources
Correspondence
Drawings
Ephemera
Scrapbooks
Hardy, Agnes Boss -- Archive