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Wyles Mss 2
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Title: Charles Thomas Baker Papers,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1920s-1940s
Collection Number: Wyles Mss 2
Creator:
Baker, Charles T.
Extent:
.8 linear feet
(2 document boxes)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical Location: Del Sur
Abstract: Ca. 1920s-1940s. Correspondence, photographs, postcards, clippings and other ephemera regarding Abraham Lincoln and Indiana.
Language:
English.
None.
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.
Charles Thomas Baker Papers. Wyles Mss 2. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa
Barbara.
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Kridler, 1983.
Scope and Content of Collection
The personal papers of a newspaper owner and editor (Grandview, Indiana
Monitor), and a Lincoln enthusiast. The collection includes correspondence, photographs, daybook, postcards, and other ephemera regarding
Lincoln and Indiana, ca. 1920s-1940s. The focus of Baker's research was in establishing Lincoln's connection to Indiana and
his residency there. Other scholars have maintained that Lincoln left Kentucky directly for Illinois. This collection was
donated by Anne Baker Kridler, the daughter of Charles T. Baker. Anne Baker Kridler was distantly related to Abraham Lincoln
via her mother's family whose surname was Grigsby.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.