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Scope and Contents The series documents the professional career of Charles Major and the personal life of Charles and Ann Shaw Major. Types of materials include: newspaper clippings, magazine clippings, and clipping scrapbooks compiled by the Majors. Topics include: Charles Major’s literary career, law career, tenure as a Indiana state representative, member of Purdue University’s Board of Trustees, theatrical and motion picture productions, Charles and Ann Major’s home, travels, Charles...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The series documents the professional career of Charles Major and the personal life of Charles and Ann Shaw Major. Types of materials include: newspaper clippings, magazine clippings, and clipping scrapbooks compiled by the Majors. Topics include: Charles Major’s literary career, law career, tenure as a Indiana state representative, member of Purdue University’s Board of Trustees, theatrical and motion picture productions, Charles and Ann Major’s home, travels, Charles...

Scope and Contents Includes clippings about:

Benjamin Harrison Memorial Fund (1902) - Indiana author reading by Charles Major, George Barr McCutcheon, Mrs. Catherwood, George Ade, Booth Tarkington, Meredith Nicholson, and James Whitcomb Riley

Memorials (circa 1914-1923) - newspaper memorials, Charles Major School in Shelbyville, and Charles major Memorial Tablet.

Obituaries (1913)

Scope and Contents Includes clippings of:

Motion Picture, Mary Pickford (1922-1924)

Theater Productions (circa 1903-1912) - fmainly regarding Bertha Galland

Scope and Contents Includes clippings about the Major and Shaw families.

Scope and Contents From the Series: The series documents the professional career of Charles Major and the personal life of Charles and Ann Shaw Major. Types of materials include: newspaper clippings, magazine clippings, and clipping scrapbooks compiled by the Majors. Topics include: Charles Major’s literary career, law career, tenure as a Indiana state representative, member of Purdue University’s Board of Trustees, theatrical and motion picture productions, Charles and Ann Major’s home, travels, Charles...

Scope and Contents Subjects include Indiana authors, Shelbyville, Morris Rose, and Mary Seller. Also includes clippings about "Memoirs of the Ex-Kaiser" (1922), a newspaper serial by William Hohenzollern.

Scope and Contents Includes clippings about:

Brann's Iconoclast (1900) Motion Picture, Marion Davies (1922) Newspaper Serialization (1902) Theater Productions (circa 1900-1917) Julia Marlowe (circa 1900-1924)