Scott Corbett papers Corbett (Scott) papers (bulk 1941-1971) 1884-1984

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Scott Corbett papers Corbett (Scott) papers (bulk 1941-1971) 1884-1984

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The Scott Corbett papers contain a variety of material related to his career as a writer as well as personal memorabilia from his childhood and service in the United States Army during World War II. These papers also include Elizabeth Corbett’s personal and business papers and artwork by the illustrator and author Don Freeman.

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John Hay Library, Special Collections

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Corbett, Elizabeth, 1911-1990.

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United States. Army Infantry Division, 42nd

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Corbett, Scott

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Winfield Scott Corbett was born on July 27, 1913 in Kansas City, Missouri. After graduation from high school in 1930 he attended Kansas City Junior College and the University of Missouri-Columbia. He graduated with a Bachelor's degree in journalism in 1934 and moved to New York City, where he worked as a freelance writer. Elizabeth Corbett was born in Dachau, Germany in 1911. Her parents, Justin and Susan Esberg, had moved from California to Germany so that her father co...

Freeman, Don, 1908-1978

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Don Freeman was born August 11, 1908, in San Diego, CA. He attended the Art Students League in New York City for two years. In 1931 he married Lydia Cooley, an art student, and the couple had one son. Don Freeman worked as a freelance artist and as a graphic artist for the New York Times and New York Herald Tribune before beginning to illustrate books in the 1940s. In 1940 he illustrated William Saroyan's My Name is Aram . During his career, Don Freeman illustrated children's books by other well...