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Francis John Baptiste Romer Civil War Scrapbook and Newspaper Clippings Collection
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Title: Francis John Baptiste Romer Civil War Scrapbook and Newspaper Clippings Collection
Dates: 1853-1881
Collection number: MS122
Collector:
Romer, Francis John Baptiste
Collection Size:
1 flat oversize box (2 linear feet); 1 map case drawer
Repository:
Loyola Marymount University. Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90045-2659
Abstract: This collection chiefly contains newspaper clippings from Mobile, Alabama newspapers that Francis John Baptiste Romer, M.D.,
collected to document the Civil War.
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
Collection is open to research under the terms of use of the Department of Archives and Special Collections, Loyola Marymount
University.
Materials in the Department of Archives and Special Collections may be subject to copyright. Unless explicitly stated otherwise,
Loyola Marymount University does not claim ownership of the copyright of any materials in its collections. The user or publisher
must secure permission to publish from the copyright owner. Loyola Marymount University does not assume any responsibility
for infringement of copyright or of publication rights held by the original author or artists or his/her heirs, assigns, or
executors.
[Identification of item], Box and Folder number, Francis John Baptiste Romer Civil War Scrapbook and Newspaper Clippings
Collection, MS122, Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University.
Perhaps came with accession number 1997.25.1, for clippings were found in the
General Atlas of John Senex in this accession.
Francis John Baptiste Romer, M.D., was born in the French province of Alsace in 1812 and died in 1904, perhaps in Mobile,
Alabama.
He emigrated to New Orleans in 1832 and took a medical degree there. He became the physician to Spring Hill College in Mobile,
Alabama, circa 1860 and also served as the Surgeon and Botanist to the Confederate States. More details on his life can be
found
here .
Francis John Baptiste Romer, M.D., collected these materials to document the American Civil War, as he notes on a beginning
leaf of the scrapbook. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings from the
Mobile Daily Mercury. One copy of Romer's "Loose Thoughts on the Philosophy of Matter and Motion" and one copy of his article in the
New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal are also found in the collection (see Box 1ov).
The loose newspaper clippings come from the
Mobile Evening News,
Mobile Daily Register, and the
Mobile Daily Tribune. There are also newspaper fragments from the
Times of London and other newspapers.
Box 1ov: Scrapbook with newspaper clippings from the Mobile Daily Mercury and two copies of "Loose Thoughts on the philosophy
of Matter and Motion."
Map Case 4, Drawer 11: Newspaper clippings of the
Mobile Daily Mercury,
Mobile Evening News,
Mobile Daily Register, and the
Mobile Daily Tribune.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Romer, Francis John Baptiste, M.D.
Mobile (Ala.) -- Newspapers
Civil War 1861-1865
American newspapers -- History -- 19th century