Archives, 1910-

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Archives, 1910-

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40296785

Collection includes correspondence, business records, clippings, photographs, and ephemeral printing related to the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.

440 boxes.12 map drawers.1482 bound v.

University of California, Los Angeles

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SNAC Resource ID: 7424937

University of California, Los Angeles

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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...