Robert Ernest Cowan papers.

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Robert Ernest Cowan papers.

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Primarily materials relating to Cowan's Collection of rare Californiana, purchased for the University of California by Collis P. Huntigton in 1897. Includes correspondence; newspaper clippings; invitation for a reception for Phoebe A. Hearst's loan collection, 1916; and list of items in the Cowan Collection, 1897 (microfilm only) Includes letters from Lemuel Nichols Ide (1905), John L. Steiff (1894), George G. Spurr (1894), and Frank Koenig (1911)

1 portfolio and 6 card file boxes.1 microfilm reel : negative (Rich. 563:12) and positive.

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Ide, Samuel Nichols.

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Steiff, John L.

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Koenig, Frank 1960-

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Spurr, George G.

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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...