William Andrews Clark, Jr. and William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Records 1878-1983

William Andrews Clark memorial library

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The library and its collections were built by William Andrews Clark, Jr., and named after his father, who had built a mining fortune in MT. The son, a prominent Los Angeles book collector and philanthropist, had a house at the corner of Adams and Cimarron Streets, and from 1924 to 1926 he constructed the present library on the same lot. Shortly afterwards he announced his intent to donate the collection, the buildings, and the square-block property to UCLA. When he died in 1934 the deed passed t...

Clark, William Andrews, 1839-1925

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Crocker, Charles T. (Charles Templeton), 1884-1948

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A. S. W. Rosenbach

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Clark, William Andrews, Jr.

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Cowan, Robert Ernest, 1862-1942

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Robert Ernest Cowan was born in 1862 in Toronto, Canada; came to San Francisco in 1870; student at UC Berkeley 1882-84; San Francisco bookseller from 1895-1920 and author of bibliographies of history of California and the Pacific Coast; librarian for William Andrews Clark, Jr., 1919-33; moved to Los Angeles at Clark's request in 1926; Cowan's collection of books and manuscripts form the nucleus of the UCLA Dept. of Special Collections' holdings in Californiana; married Marie Margaret Fleissner i...

Chester Troan

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Nash, John Henry

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Sanders, Cora Edgerton

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Clark, C. W. (Charles W.), 1952-

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Butte Chamber of Commerce

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Leonard Whibley

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