Marcus Ward & Co. Newsclipping Scrapbooks
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Marcus Ward & Company
label: Compiler
content: Mauran Family
label: Collector
content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Domestic Life
place: label: Place
content: Rhode Island -- Mauran Family
topic: label: Topic
content: Anthropology
label: Topic
content: Archaeology
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection donated by Anonymous, 1961, September 18.
creator: label: Manufacturer
content: Marcus Ward & Company
label: Compiler
content: Mauran Family
setName: label: See more items in
content: Marcus Ward & Co. Newsclipping Scrapbooks
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.66 Cubic feet (2 boxes 
)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1800s.
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Collection transferred from the Division of Domestic Life (now Division of Cultural and Community Life) on, 4/13/83.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0037
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Scrapbooks
label: Type
content: Clippings
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by David Haberstich, undated
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks -- 19th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Clippings -- 19th century
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids
content: Inventory available; contact the Archives Center for more information.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Seven scrapbooks with decorated hard covers, either red or green, filled with newspaper clippings of the 1880s, a few earlier and a few 18th-century items, as well as marginal notes and quotations and index.  Imprint in one volume: "Newspaper Cuttings. / Ready Reference Receptacle for Scraps of Print, from our chief sources of knowledge, the Newspapers; with Patent Alphabetical Index, and spaces for Marginal Notes, London: Marcus Ward & Co., and Royal Ulster Works, Belfast.  Titles vary between "News Cuttings" and "Newspaper Cuttings."  The subject matter of the clippings includes anthropology, archaeology, and general science.

The scrapbooks, 9-1/2 x 6 in. in size, supposedly were compiled by a Harvard University professor in the 1880s.  The volumes bear the bookplates of the Mauran family of Rhode Island, subsequent owners of the books.

They have indexes at the front, compiled by the user.  Some volumes do not have publication dates, others do, but usually the dates of the clippings are annotated in the margins.  Dated volumes are: 1883, 1885, and 1888.

The original catalog card claims that some clippings are earlier than 1880s, includes 18th century.  The books were used by a Harvard professor in the 1880s.