Finding Aid for the Llewellyn Morgan Buell Postcard Collection LSC.1202
Finding aid prepared by Chris Marino with assistance from Megan Hahn Fraser in the Center for Primary Research and Training
(CFPRT), July 2011; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé.
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Online finding aid last updated 2011.
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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.
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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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.
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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.
box 1
box 2
United States, Mexico, Europe, and North Africa ca. 1900-1955.
First half of box contains postcards from the United States, primarily the East coast. The second half of the box contains
postcards from Europe, the majority of which are from Italy. There are a few of postcards from Egypt and around 15 from Mexico.
The last thirty postcards within this box are from Llewellyn Buell's friends to him; see blue handwritten note which denotes
beginning of this section.
box 3
United States and Europe ca 1900-1955.
The majority of the postcards in this box depict European art. Handwritten notes within the box denote different themes such
as: secular painting, mosaics, and the female form within painting and sculpture. There are some postcards of United States
national parks and monuments.