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Eugene Ferrin Clark fonds
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1.5 cm of textual records.
6 photographs : b&w
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Eugene Ferrin Clark was born March 16, 1899 in New London, Connecticut to parents Daniel Edgar (1868-1942) and Grace "Gracie" Emilie (nee Crocker) (1872-1938). Clark worked at Mason Labs at Yale University from 1917 to 1919. He married Luella Chace Mosher, sometime after 1930, and died August 24, 1973 in Tranverse City, Michigan.
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Fonds contains autographs collected by Eugene Ferrin Clark from various British and American actors. Correspondence from Clark to various people soliciting autographs and autographed photographs are included.
Correspondence:
1. Granville Barker also G. Barker’s autograph
2. John Randolph Bolling; November 23, 1921
3. Witter Bynner, New York; December 12, 1921/December 21, 1921
4. W. L. George, New York; October 22, 1920
5. B. Roland Lewis, University of Utah; December 14, 1919/December 19, 1919
6. Joseph Pennell, London/Philadelphia; June 8, 1913/November 16, 1919
7. G. Rollin, Chicago; May 10, 1919
Autographs collected by Clark:
8. George Arlis, Walter Hampden, Victor Herbert, William Hodge, James Hunellar, Oliver Lodge, Nance O’Neil, Eugene O’Neill, A.C. Read, Chauncey Brewster Tinker
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9. Floral Tributes on Grave of Actor James O’Neill, 1920 and photographs with autograph signatures of:
- Nazimova, n.d.;
- Henry Irving dated 1894;
- Anton Lang as Jesus dated 1922;
- Anton Lang dated 1922;
- Guido Moyr dated 1922.
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Received as part of the Verbeke collection which was purchased in 1969.
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- English
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Revised by PH in September 2018.
Reviewed by DR November 2018.