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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Llewellyn Morgan Buell Postcard collection
Creator:
Buell, Llewellyn M. (Llewellyn Morgan)
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1202
Physical Description:
0.6 Linear Feet
(3 shoe boxes)
Date (inclusive): circa 1900-1955
Abstract: Llewellyn Morgan Buell was a founding faculty member at UCLA in the English department. His collection consists of approximately
2,300 postcards of landmarks and art in the United States (especially New Hampshire), Europe, Mexico, and North Africa.
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located
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Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
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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.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Mrs. L.M. Buell, 1977.
[Identification of item], Llewellyn Morgan Buell Postcard collection (Collection 1202). UCLA Library Special Collections,
Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Processed by Chris Marino with assistance from Megan Hahn Fraser in the Center for Primary Research and Training (CFPRT),
July 2011.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9942304273606533
Llewellyn Morgan Buell was born in Jamesville, New York in 1888. In 1910, he received his bachelor's degree from Cornell.
He earned a master's degree at Harvard in 1911 and a PhD in 1917. During World War I he served as a lieutenant in the U.S.
Army Air Service. Buell taught at Yale, University of Missouri, and was a founding faculty member of the English department
at UCLA. Aside from a year long leave of absence from 1925-1926, Professor Buell taught at UCLA from 1922 until his retirement
in 1955. Llewellyn Morgan Buell died in 1975, at the age of 86.
The collection consists of approximately 2,300 black and white and color postcards of landmarks and art in the United States
(primarily the east coast, including numerous views of New Hampshire), Mexico, Europe (primarily Italy) and North Africa.
The majority of the postcards have not been used; some have messages written on the back. This collection dates from 1900
to 1955.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Postcards.
Picture postcards.