Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Biography
Scope and Content
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: Clare Victor Dwiggins papers,
Date (inclusive): 1891-1958
Collection number: 783
Creator:
Dwiggins, Clare Victor, 1874-1958
Extent: 3 boxes (1.5 linear ft.)
2 oversize boxes
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Dept. of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Abstract: Clare Victor Dwiggins (1874-1958) was a cartoonist and illustrator for newspapers, journals, news syndication services, and
books. He also composed a number of nationally syndicated comic strips including “Ophelia,” “Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer,”
“Peter Tumbledown,” “School Days,” “Footprints on the sands of time,” and “Zeke Carsie says.” The collection consists of original
cartoons, scrapbooks, newsclippings and ephemera by and about Clare Dwiggins.
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections. Literary 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.
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Mrs. Todhunter Ballard.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Clare Victor Dwiggins papers (Collection 783). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young
Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Biography
Dwiggins was born in 1874 in Wilmington, Ohio; in 1890, began work as a cartoonist, drawing for the
St. Louis post dispatch,
New York journal,
Philadelphia inquirer, North American and telegraph, and international syndicate; became art editor for publisher M. Walter Dunne; illustrator
for Lisle De Vaux Matthewman's
Crankisms (1901),
Brevities (1903), and
Completed proverbs (1904), also for Samuel I. Stinson's
Whimlets (1903); author of
Rubáiyát of an egg (1905) and
The skull toast book (1904); He composed a number of nationally syndicated comic strips including, “Ophelia,” “Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer,”
“Peter Tumbledown,” “School Days,” “Footprints on the sands of time,” and “Zeke Carsie says”; he died in October 1958.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of original cartoons, scrapbooks, newsclippings and ephemera by and about Clare Dwiggins.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Dwiggins, Clare Victor, 1874-1958--Archives.
Cartoonists--United States--Archival resources.
Illustrators--United States--Archival resources.