Name/Title
Scrapbook of poems written by Martha MacDonald, c. 1940sEntry/Object ID
1997.412.1Description
ACC. NO. 97.412.1
SUBJECT CATEGORY: POETS
DATE OR PERIOD: CIRCA 1940's
OBJECT: SCRAPBOOK
DESCRIPTION:
LOOSE-LEAF HARD-BOUND SCRAPBOOK, WITH A COVER OF BLACK-COLORED IMITATION LEATHER. COVER HAS INCISED GOLD LETTERING, "SCRAP BOOK."
SIZE: L 11-1/2" X W. 8-1/2"
HISTORY OF OBJECT:
ALBUM OF CLIPPINGS, CONTAINING POEMS WRITTEN BY MARTHA MacDONALD, RESIDENT WHO CAME TO ALAMEDA WITH HER HUSBAND, DR RUFUS C MacDONALD, FOLLOWING THE 1906 EARTHQUAKE. SOME OF MRS MacDONALD'S POETRY APPEARED IN THE OAKLAND TRIBUNE. SHE SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN QUITE PROLIFIC. ORIGINALLY NUMBERED "S-17" AND GIVEN TO THE ALAMEDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, WHICH DID NOT CATALOG THE BOOK.
ACQUIRED FROM:
UNKNOWN
CATALOGED: AUGUST 16, 1997
