$5,581
(Autograph/Scrapbook, early 20th Century), Extensive scrapbook compiled by Mrs. Flora Cummings Howe of Bennington, Vermont, wife of Mr. Frank Howe of the Bennington Evening Banner , including politicians, authors, performers, men of letters and a variety of others, some simply tipt in, others pasted in, including Owen Wister, Theodore Roosevelt, Benjamin Harrison, Kate Wiggins, Booker T. Washington, Samuel Clemens (as Mark Twain), William J. Bryan, Edward E. Hale, Helen Keller, Ida M. Tarbell, Booth Tarkington, J. Pierpont Morgan, Julia Ward Howe, Thomas Bailey Aldrich (with four line sentiment), Grover Cleveland, William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Charles Dana Gibson, James Montgomery Flagg (with caricature sketch), Palmer Cox (with sketch of Brownie), Thomas Edison, Howard Chandler Christy (with sketch), Hugh Walpole, Robert Frost, Calvin Coolidge, Rudyard Kipling, Herbert Hoover (two letters), Eleanor Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Norman Rockwell, and many stage performers, and with newspaper clippings, (most affixed).
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2003-11-02