Collection of sketches from pages of the guestbook of Campbell's Book Store, Los Angeles, 1962-1973.

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Collection of sketches from pages of the guestbook of Campbell's Book Store, Los Angeles, 1962-1973.

Sketches Freeman drew on visits to Campbell's Book Store, all signed and in color, most notes addressed to Bob and/or Blanche Campbell.

10 leaves

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SNAC Resource ID: 8197716

University of Michigan

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Campbell, Blanche, d. 1989,

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Campbell's Book Store (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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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...

Campbell, Robert, 1898-1985,

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Robert B. Campbell was born on Feb. 5, 1898 in Osceola, NE; attended Univ. of Nebraska; worked at Long's College Book Store in Lincoln; married Blanche Gramlich on June 20, 1923; they moved to Los Angeles in 1924 and opened a bookstore on Vermont Ave., across the street from the Southern Branch of the University of California; when UCLA moved to Westwood, the Campbells moved their store to Le Conte Ave. and built up the trade book section; Blanche Campbell began and built up the children's book ...