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Silent Screen collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1272
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Scope and Contents

The collection contains scrapbook pages, mostly loose, with photograph and newspaper clippings, and magazine articles of silent film actors. Most are labeled with the actors name and the movie that the image is from. The aArticles pertain to movies or actors.

Dates

  • Creation: circa 1920s

Extent

0.4 Linear Feet (Primarily loose scrapbook pages)

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

Scrapbook pages, mostly loose, containing photo clippings, and newspaper and magazine articles of silent film actors.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Sara Collins, 1990

General

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Processing Information

Jennifer Culley, September 2008

Title
Guide to the Silent Screen collection
Status
Completed
Date
2015
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
English

Repository Details

Part of the The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections Repository

Contact:
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa AL 35487-0266
205.348.0513