MC 41 Mary S. Irick Drexel scrapbook, 1917-1956, 1 volume

This scrapbook contains news clippings describing Mary S. Irick Drexel’s work as the Chairman of the Bureau of Canteen Service of the Pennsylvania-Delaware Division of the American Red Cross during World War I. read more >>>

UR 7.16 Men’s Lacrosse records, 1948-1988, 1 cubic foot

The collection consists of newspaper clippings, press releases, programs, statistics, and photographs.  Materials are all interfiled chronologically; for some years, they have been compiled into scrapbooks.

This collection is partially processed.  A preliminary inventory is available; for more information, contact the archivist at archives@drexel.edu.

UR 3.16 Day College advertising scrapbook, 1923-1926, 1 volume

This scrapbook contains advertisements for the Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry ranging from the spring of 1923 to December 1925. It has copies of gender-specific letters sent to high schools and colleges from across the region and country advertising the library science and home economics programs as well as the cooperative program for engineering and business. This scrapbook also contains newspaper clippings pertaining to commencement ceremonies and Drexel Institute’s endowment drive, alumni bulletins and bound department bulletins during this time-span. The scrapbook is annotated with detailed notes of schools and colleges that received letters from Drexel Institute.

MC 34 Eleanor Reeves scrapbook, 1931-1934, 0.17 cubic feet

The collection consists of Eleanor Edmunds Reeves’s scrapbook, which dates approximately from 1930-1934.   Ms. Reeves attended the Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry during those years.

The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings, which document various Drexel sporting and social events, and ephemera such as train tickets, advertisements, and registration cards.  The scrapbook also includes correspondence from several “Little Sisters” (incoming freshmen) who were assigned by the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) to Ms. Reeves for an introduction to the campus, and a few Institute records, such as her registration cards and an infirmary bill.

Original order has been maintained where apparent. The pages of scrapbooks have been removed from binding and individual pages placed in folders.

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MC 38 George W. Childs Scrapbooks, 1836-1874, 5 volumes

Volume 1 (1813-1867) begins with newspaper clippings about the 1836 “Philadelphia Public Ledger” and its owners Swain, Abell, and Simmons. There are also clippings from this time period regarding Childs’ own businesses, Childs and Peterson Publishers (announcements and reviews of books published and letters from authors and readers) and Childs Booksellers (advertisements). Volume 2 (1851-1866) contains additional information on the Philadelphia Public Ledger’s original owners, as well as a photograph of its original location on Chestnut Street. Also included are excerpts from Casper Sauder Jr.’s series on the history of Chestnut Street and its proprietors. Volume 3 (1867-1874) begins with announcements and advertisements for books published by Childs and Peterson, including “Bouvier’s Law Dictionary” and the “Dictionary of English Literature”. Volume 4 (1871-1874), the last scrapbook in the collection, contains newspaper clippings focused primarily on Childs’ social and philanthropic activities. This volume includes letters from Mayor Daniel Fox, George S. Phillips and David Stewart as well as letters from many prominent Philadelphians on such topics as gifts to the poor and to local hospitals, assistance for Horticultural Hall, the Edgar Allen Poe gravesite, and for the zoological society which Childs supported with A.J. Drexel.

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MC 39 George W. Childs obituary notices scrapbooks, 1894-1895, 4 volumes

This collection is made up of 4 volumes of scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings surrounding the death, funeral, and will of George W. Childs, as well as many commemorative biographical articles that ran in the weeks following his death. There are two sets of two volumes each. The sets are nearly identical, containing essentially the same articles, but arranged differently. “Volume I of the Obituary Notices of Geo W. Childs” contains clippings primarily from New York newspapers, including the New York Times, Press, Daily News, Evening Telegram, Recorder and Herald. This volume also features clippings from newspapers in Philadelphia, including the Inquirer, Bulletin, and Telegraph. Volume II features similar clippings from more distant cities, including Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Chicago, Richmond, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Boston, San Francisco, London, Berlin, and Paris. The scrapbooks were donated to the library of the Drexel Institute by James Paul, Jr., the husband of A.J. Drexel’s daughter, Frances Katherine. Paul was a close friend of the Childs family and was one of the executors of Childs’ will, and may be responsible for the assembly of the scrapbooks.

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MC 1 Drexel family collection, 1826-1991, 9.3 cubic feet

The collection contains correspondence, memoirs, genealogical charts, newsletters, pamphlets, family reunion material, scrapbooks, legal documents, publications, and newspaper clippings related to the descendants of Francis Martin Drexel. Includes a diary written by Francis Martin Drexel in 1826-1830 and three letters authored by Anthony J. Drexel, the founder of Drexel University. The bulk of material dates from the twentieth century and is contained in eleven volumes of scrapbooks that begin with the death of Anthony J. Drexel in 1893.

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