Abbey, Edwin Austin, 1852-1911
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Austin Dobson collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0644
Abstract
The Austin Dobson collection comprises approximately six linear feet plus oversize material of correspondence, manuscripts, proofs, contracts, royalty statements, artwork, photographs, wills, genealogies, periodicals, clippings, scrapbooks, copper plates, and printed ephemera. The collection documents the work and life of English author and civil servant (Henry) Austin Dobson (1840-1921) and the management of Dobson's estate and literary legacy by his youngest son, Alban Dobson (1885-1962)...
Dates:
1762-1999; Majority of material found within 1861-1962
John W. Jordan, "Random Notes of a Week's Visit to England" scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0025
Abstract
John Woolf Jordan (1840-1921) was a Philadelphia historian specializing in genealogies and personal histories, especially those of Pennsylvania families. This scrapbook comprises a single volume containing clippings of John W. Jordan's travel narrative, "Random Notes of a Week's Visit to England" from an unknown publication; also included are picture postcards and photographic illustrations of the ships on which he traveled and locations he visited, several of which are accompanied by...
Dates:
1911
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- Address books 1
- Agents (commercial representatives) 1
- Atlantic Ocean--Description and travel 1
- Authors 1
- Authors, English--19th century 1
- Authors, English--20th century 1
- Bas-reliefs (sculpture) 1
- Bibliographers 1
- Biographers 1
- Bookplates 1
- Clippings (information artifacts) 1
- Commonplace books 1
- Contracts 1
- Correspondence 1
- Drawings (visual works) 1
- Editors (assembling, revising) 1
- England--Description and travel 1
- Essayists 1
- Estate inventories 1
- Gelatin dry plate negatives 1
- Genealogies (histories) 1
- Government employees 1
- Historians 1
- Intellectual property--England 1
- Librarians 1
- Literary agents 1
- London (England)--Description and travel 1
- Manuscripts (documents) 1
- Notes 1
- Ocean travel--History--20th century 1
- Page proofs 1
- Periodicals 1
- Photographs 1
- Picture postcards 1
- Poets 1
- Printing plates 1
- Royalty statements 1
- Rye (England)--Description and travel 1
- Ships' logs 1
- Silhouettes 1
- Studio portraits 1
- Sussex (England)--Description and travel 1
- Tear sheets 1
- Travel writing--History--20th century 1
- Travel--History--20th century 1
- Winchelsea (England)--Description and travel 1 + ∧ less
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