Creator:
Kelly, Fred C. (Fred Charters), 1882-1959.
Inclusive Dates:
1867- 1966
Abstract:
Papers of the American humorist, journalist, author. Collections contains
correspondence, 1892-1959; typescript mss. of articles, books, poems,
speeches, and stories; notebooks; photographs; and memorabilia, including
clippings, drawings, genealogical material, reviews, a scrapbook, and a
subject file relating to Orville and Wilbur Wright, of whom Kelly wrote a
number of articles and books. Correspondents include, among others, George Ade, Sherwood
Anderson, Norman Angell, Newton D. Baker, Nicholas Biddle, Margaret Bourke-White,
Bruce Catton, Winston Churchill, Irvin S. Cobb, Homer Croy, Warren G. Harding, Arthur
Hosking, John T. McCutcheon, André Maurois, H.L. Mencken, William Sydney Porter (O. Henry), J. B. Priestley, Clarence Rook, Theodore Roosevelt,
Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Ida Tarbell, Booth
and Susanah Tarkington, Albert Payson Terhune, Harry S. Truman,
Wendell Willkie, P.G. Wodehouse, Orville
Wright, and Art Young.
Type of Material:
Articles.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Juvenilia.
Manuscripts for publication.
Notebooks.
Photographs.
Photoprints.
Reviews (documents)
Scrapbooks.
Subject:
Authors.
Humorists.
Journalists.
Biography
Journalism
Literature -- American Fiction
Authors, American -- 20th century.
Humorists, American.
Journalists -- United States.
Creator:
Ellis, Fred, 1885-1965
Inclusive Dates:
1923- 1955
Abstract:
Papers of the American editorial cartoonist. Includes correspondence, original artwork (cartoons, sketches), exhibit catalog, articles, clippings.
Type of Material:
Articles.
Cartoons (humorous images)
Correspondence.
Photographs.
Sketches.
Subject:
United States -- Economic policy -- 20th century -- Caricatures and cartoons.
United States -- History -- 20th century -- Caricatures and cartoons.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1901-1953 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
United States -- Race relations -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Editorial cartoonists.
Art -- Cartoonists
American wit and humor, pictorial.
Business and politics.
Capitalists and financiers -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Civil rights -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Editorial cartoons.
Labor laws and legislation -- United States -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Labor unions -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Pacifism -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Profiteering -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Radicalism in art.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Working class -- Caricatures and cartoons.