Preliminary Guide to the Abraham Lincoln Scrapbooks
Processed by D. Tambo
Department of Special Collections
Davidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Phone: (805) 893-3062
Fax: (805) 893-5749
Email: special@library.ucsb.edu
URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/speccoll.html
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Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Preliminary Guide to the Abraham Lincoln Scrapbooks, ca. 1862-1963
Collection number: Wyles Mss 93
Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara
Contact Information:
- Department of Special Collections
- Davidson Library
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Santa Barbara, CA 93106
- Phone: (805) 893-3062
- Fax: (805) 893-5749
- Email: special@library.ucsb.edu
- URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/speccoll.html
- Processed by:
- D. Tambo
- Date Completed:
-
20 November 2002
- Encoded by:
- David C. Gartrell
© 2002 Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Abraham Lincoln Scrapbooks,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1862-1963
Date (bulk): (bulk 1860s-1930s)
Collection Number: Wyles Mss 93
Extent:
.6 linear feet
(2 oversize boxes)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical Location: Del Sur Oversize
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
None.
Publication Rights
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.
Preferred Citation
Abraham Lincoln Scrapbooks. Wyles Mss 93. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa
Barbara.
Acquisition Information
Undetermined.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains five scrapbooks, mainly clippings ca. 1860s-1930s, pertaining to Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War.
These volumes were part of the early Lincoln Library established by William Wyles. The volumes are different sizes and formats,
and probably were compiled by different individuals.
Newspapers represented include the
Christian Science Monitor,
Examiner (New York),
Harper's Weekly,
Los Angeles Times,
New York Herald Tribune,
New York Reformer,
Northern N.Y. Journal,
Sacramento
Daily Union,
Santa Barbara Daily News,
Santa Barbara New- Press, and the
Standard (Chicago)
Box 1: 1
Volume 1 (mainly Civil War clippings, but also including items such as party tickets for the 1864 election, with lists of
California electors), 1862-1865
Box 1: 2
Volume 2 (Lincoln and politics; includes a number of political cartoons), ca. 1862-1870
Box 1: 3
Volume 3 (Lincoln and Civil War), 1867, 1895, 1930-1949
Box 2: 1
Volume 4 (includes articles on Lincoln books and manuscripts, portraits of Lincoln at various stages of his life, and clippings
on other topics such as slavery and Ulysses S. Grant), ca. 1902-1942
Box 2: 2
Volume 5 (portfolio, with clippings inserted in pockets, mainly about Lincoln, but some about John Brown), 1907-1963
