A Guide to the Scrapbook, c.1870-1916
A Collection in
Special Collections
Collection Number
Ms1993-019
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Scope and Content
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings from unidentified newspapers, collected between 1870 and 1916 (concentrating mostly in the 1870s and 1880s). Topics include the Confederacy, Southern culture, the Confederate view of the Civil War, Confederate soldiers and officers (particularly Robert E. Lee), the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Civil War battles fought in Virginia, and the 1916 silent film The Birth of a Nation.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Civil War
- Confederate States of America
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865