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Collectors and collecting

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Ellis D. Robb scrapbooks

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS846
Scope and Content

This collection consists of 43 scrapbooks which contain newspaper clippings, photographs, magazine articles, letters, and notes written by Robb. Material covers banking and business; genealogy and the Robb family; movies, theatre, and the circus; politics; World War II, celebrities; Robb’s homes in Eldora and Atlanta; and autograph collecting. Robb collected material between 1920 and 1943, but items themselves date to as early as 1863.

Dates: 1920-1943, undated

James Larwood collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS84
Scope and Content

This collection contains the first twelve of a series of booklets published by the Atlanta Public Library for their exhibition of selections from Mr. Larwood’s library of Georgiana. Also included are two scrapbooks of newspaper clippings concerning the collection which is now housed at Oglethorpe University.

Dates: 1954-1957, undated

Sydney C. Kerksis papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS762
Scope and Content

This collection contains a number of Kersis' original manuscripts and the supporting research and correspondence as well as published copies of other articles.

Dates: 1946-1989