Fonds SCA50-GA27 - Eugene Ferrin Clark fonds.

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Eugene Ferrin Clark fonds.

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    SCA50-GA27

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    1.5 cm of textual records.
    6 photographs : b&w

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    (1899-1973)

    Biographical history

    Eugene Ferrin Clark was born March 16, 1899 in New London, Connecticut to parents Daniel Edgar (1868-1942) and Grace "Gracie" Emilie (nee Crocker) (1872-1938). Clark worked at Mason Labs at Yale University from 1917 to 1919. He married Luella Chace Mosher, sometime after 1930, and died August 24, 1973 in Tranverse City, Michigan.

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    Fonds contains autographs collected by Eugene Ferrin Clark from various British and American actors. Correspondence from Clark to various people soliciting autographs and autographed photographs are included.

    Correspondence:
    1. Granville Barker also G. Barker’s autograph
    2. John Randolph Bolling; November 23, 1921
    3. Witter Bynner, New York; December 12, 1921/December 21, 1921
    4. W. L. George, New York; October 22, 1920
    5. B. Roland Lewis, University of Utah; December 14, 1919/December 19, 1919
    6. Joseph Pennell, London/Philadelphia; June 8, 1913/November 16, 1919
    7. G. Rollin, Chicago; May 10, 1919

    Autographs collected by Clark:
    8. George Arlis, Walter Hampden, Victor Herbert, William Hodge, James Hunellar, Oliver Lodge, Nance O’Neil, Eugene O’Neill, A.C. Read, Chauncey Brewster Tinker

    Photographs:
    9. Floral Tributes on Grave of Actor James O’Neill, 1920 and photographs with autograph signatures of:

    • Nazimova, n.d.;
    • Henry Irving dated 1894;
    • Anton Lang as Jesus dated 1922;
    • Anton Lang dated 1922;
    • Guido Moyr dated 1922.

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    Received as part of the Verbeke collection which was purchased in 1969.

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    • English

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      Revised by PH in September 2018.
      Reviewed by DR November 2018.

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