William Kimberley Palmer scrapbook

Description:	The scrapbook contains items with autographs from many notable people from the late 19th and early 20th century, collected by writer and editor William Kimberly Palmer. Items in the volume include a handwritten letter from Nikola Tesla; a caricature by Thomas Nast; a small sketch by J. Wells Champney; notes for a sermon written by Henry Ward Beecher; a sketch of Palmer by artist Francis Lathrop; a letter from Henry Morton Stanley (the explorer who found David Livingstone); letters from Booker T. Washington, Mary Murray Washington and Robert R. Moton on Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute letterheads; John Philip Sousa’s signature with musical notes for “The Stars and Stripes Forever”; and Samuel Francis Smiths signature and handwritten copy of the first stanza of “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee”, the song he wrote and originally titled “America” in 1832, that he sent to Palmer in 1895.Other signatures include those of Katherine Lee Bates, George Washington Cable, Joseph Chamberlain, George M. Cohan, Calvin Coolidge, Frank Damrosch, Mary Mapes Dodge, Edward E. Hale, Benjamin Harrison, John M. Hay, Julia Ward Howe, John J. Ingalls, Tudor Jenks, Robert Underwood Johnson, Douglas MacArthur, William McKinley, Nelson A. Miles, D.L. Moody, J.P. Morgan, John Pershing, William C. Redfield, Whitelaw Reid, Jacob Riis, Theodore Roosevelt, Charles M. Schwab, John Sherman, Charles Dwight Sigsbee, Joshua Slocum, William H. Taft, James Tissot, Lew Wallace, Lilian Whiting, Kate Douglas Wiggin, and many others.
Origin:	1879-1920; 1936-1938
Created By:	Palmer, William Kimberly, 1856-1938
Source:	http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16066coll38/id/982
Collection:	Highlights of the ISL Manuscripts Collection
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/
Copyright:	Copyright Undetermined
Geography:	United States
Subjects:	Scrapbooks Palmer, William Kimberly, 1856-1938 Autographs Autograph albums Correspondence Drawings Poetry Authors Artists Politicians Clergy Businesspeople Educators Explorers Scientists Inventors Poets Composers

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