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Collection Dates: 1863 -- 1985
11 linear ft.
This document describes a collection of materials held
by the
Special Collections Department
University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1420
Phone: 319-335-5921
Fax: 319-335-5900
e-mail: lib-spec@uiowa.edu
Posted to Internet: November 2000
Acquisition
Note:
Access
and Restrictions:
Ephemera: Newspaper tear sheets boxes in shrink-wrapped
oversized packets
Digital Surrogates: Except where indicated, this document describes but
does not reproduce the actual text, images and objects which make up this
collection. Materials are available only in the Special Collections
Department.
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The University of Iowa Libraries' statement on "Property Rights, Copyright Law, and Permissions to Use Unpublished
Materials"
Use of Collections: The University of Iowa Libraries supports access to the materials, published and unpublished, in its collections. Nonetheless, access to some items may be restricted by their fragile condition or by contractual agreement with donors, and it may not be possible at all times to provide appropriate machinery for reading, viewing or accessing non-paper-based materials. Please read our Use of Manuscripts Statement.
Weare Holbrook was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on April 15, 1896. He was a graduate of the University of Iowa and a veteran of World War I. Holbrook worked as a columnist, writer and cartoonist. He contributed articles and poetry to Atlantic, Cosmopolitan, Better Homes and Gardens, Stag, Snappy, College Humor, and others. For twenty-four years he wrote the column "Soundings" for the New York Hearld Tribune. In the 1920s he created "Clarence," a Sunday cartoon strip with Frank Fogarty, which appeared for twenty-one years in the Herald Tribune Syndicate. Weare Holbrook died on July 2, 1985.
The papers of Weare Holbrook document his career and his personal life. The collection spans more than one hundred years, from approximately 1863 to the 1980s. There are copies of his cartoon strip, "Clarence," as well as drafts and published copies of his many writings. Family letters, photographs, scrapbooks, and genealogies are also included in the papers.
Indexes of Holbrook's writings (articles, poems, etc.)
Photocopies of published articles, essays, etc.
Weare Holbrook's Aunt Ab's scrapbook
Family letters, photographs, editorial correspondence, all pre-1930.
Family genealogy, both sides of Weare Holbrook's family
Framed family photographs
Family scrapbooks
"Way Back When" -- clipped newspaper columns
Manuscript and typescript drafts of Holbrook's writings
Manuscript drafts of Holbrook's writings
Magazine issues with Holbrook's contributions: Atlantic, Cosmopolitan, and others
Magazines (continued): Better Homes and Gardens, Stag, Snappy, College Humor, and others
Books and anthologies (casual poetry, essays) with Holbrook's contributions
Oversize packets
Wrapped in paper
Weare Holbrook's great-grandfather's journal
Weare Holbrook's scrapbook
Weare Holbrook's scrapbook from Racine Military
Miscellaneous old newspapers and magazines
Tear sheets of Weare Holbrook's long-running (1930s) column "Soundings" for the New York Hearld Tribune
"Clarence", a Sunday cartoon strip by Weare Holbrook and Frank Fogarty. Full page color tear sheets from the Denver Post, circa 1929 -- 1941
"Clarence". Half sheet, full sheet, and full comic supplements, New York Hearld Tribune, 1930s -- 1940s
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