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Box 8

 Container

Contains 14 Results:

Scrapbook [made by William Rheem Lighton as a child], including a clipping of an 1881 letter to the editors of the [Ottumwa, IA] Courier signed by "Will Lighton, Louis Lighton, Robert E. Lynch, and others."

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 1
Identifier: MC 779 2 1
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Included here also are items pertaining to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and book contracts.

Dates: 1828-1987

Items and clippings pertaining to William Rheem Lighton in general, 1899-1923. Includes piece of sheet music composed by Lighton's father

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 2
Identifier: MC 779 2 1
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Included here also are items pertaining to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and book contracts.

Dates: 1828-1987

Clippings and typescripts pertaining to John Whitcomb Riley and other friends of the Lightons, 1915, n.d

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 3
Identifier: MC 779 2 1
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Included here also are items pertaining to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and book contracts.

Dates: 1828-1987

List of William Lighton's writings [by Laura Lighton] and information about his writings (by Suzanne Lighton), correspondence with William Lighton's literary agent, contracts, 1904-1921, 1968, n.d

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 4
Identifier: MC 779 2 1
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Included here also are items pertaining to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and book contracts.

Dates: 1828-1987

Items pertaining to Lighton's reporting of the San Francisco earthquake, 1906 (see also Series 8, Photographs)

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 5
Identifier: MC 779 2 1
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Included here also are items pertaining to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and book contracts.

Dates: 1828-1987

Clippings of the San Francisco earthquake, 1906. See also oversize box 31

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 6
Identifier: MC 779 2 1
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Included here also are items pertaining to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and book contracts.

Dates: 1828-1987

Legal papers pertaining to Happy Hollow Farm, 1908-1910

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 7
Identifier: MC 779 2 1
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Included here also are items pertaining to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and book contracts.

Dates: 1828-1987

Ledger containing financial records of Happy Hollow Farm, Aug 1908 - Oct 1910, including some notes on building

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 8
Identifier: MC 779 2 1
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Included here also are items pertaining to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and book contracts.

Dates: 1828-1987

Notes by Laura Lighton on Happy Hollow Farm; manuscript, "The Making of an Arkansas Farm."

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 9
Identifier: MC 779 2 1
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Included here also are items pertaining to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and book contracts.

Dates: 1828-1987

Clippings and reprints of Happy Hollow Farm article, 1910, 1914, n.d., including booklets by three railroads

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 10
Identifier: MC 779 2 1
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Included here also are items pertaining to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and book contracts.

Dates: 1828-1987

Items pertaining to response to Happy Hollow Farm article and life at Happy Hollow; contract for book about Happy Hollow Farm, 1910-1919

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 11
Identifier: MC 779 2 1
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Included here also are items pertaining to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and book contracts.

Dates: 1828-1987

Clippings about Happy Hollow Farm (1950-1986); program for dedication of Happy Hollow School (1972)

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 12
Identifier: MC 779 2 1
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Included here also are items pertaining to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and book contracts.

Dates: 1828-1987

Items pertaining to movie, Water, Water Everywhere, starring Will Rogers. (See photographs in Series 8, Photographs.)

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 13
Identifier: MC 779 2 1
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Included here also are items pertaining to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and book contracts.

Dates: 1828-1987

Items pertaining to William Lighton's other efforts in the movie business. See also photographs in oversize box 31

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 14
Identifier: MC 779 2 1
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Included here also are items pertaining to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and book contracts.

Dates: 1828-1987