Clare Victor Dwiggins papers, 1891-1958

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Clare Victor Dwiggins papers, 1891-1958

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Clare Victor Dwiggins (1874-1958) was a cartoonist and illustrator for newspapers, journals, news syndication services, and books. He also composed a number of nationally syndicated comic strips including “Ophelia,” “Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer,” “Peter Tumbledown,” “School Days,” “Footprints on the sands of time,” and “Zeke Carsie says.” The collection consists of original cartoons, scrapbooks, newsclippings and ephemera by and about Clare Dwiggins.

3 boxes (1.5 linear ft.); 2 oversize boxes

eng,

University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.

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Dwiggins, Clare Victor, 1874-1958

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Dwiggins was born in 1874 in Wilmington, OH; in 1890, began work as a cartoonist, drawing for the St. Louis post dispatch, New York journal, Philadelphia inquirer, North American and telegraph, and international syndicate; became art editor for publisher M. Walter Dunne; illustrator for Crankisms (1901), Brevities (1903), and Completed proverbs (1904), all by Lisle De Vaux Matthewman, and for Whimlets (1903) by Samuel I. Stinson; author of Rubáiyát of an egg (1905) and The skull toast book (19...