ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION    

Title
Scrapbook Collection

Collection Number
SC 102

Provenance 
Various

Extent, Scope, and Content Note
A collection of X scrapbooks acquired by Special Collections between the 1970s and 1980s.

Arrangement and Processing Note
Processed by Kristen J. Nyitray and Lynn Toscano, August 2011.
Finding aid updated by Kristen J. Nyitray in June 2025.

Language
English 

Restrictions on Access
The collection is open to researchers without restriction.

Rights and Permissions 
Stony Brook University Libraries' consent to access as the physical owner of the collection does not address copyright issues that may affect publication rights. It is the sole responsibility of the user of Special Collections and University Archives materials to investigate the copyright status of any given work and to seek and obtain permission where needed prior to publication.  

INVENTORY

Item 102/01: Scrapbook, 1891-1896.
OCLC Number: in-process
Item includes a few pasted in newspaper clippings about municipal bonds and finance, and articles on construction of skyscrapers and trolley lines. The scrapbook itself has the label, "Mark Twain's scrap book (a patented a self-pasting scrapbook ).
1 v.
Subjects: in-process

Item 102/03: Album, 1916-1949
OCLC Number: in-process
Assembled by Floyd Nelson House. The item includes pamplets, articles, and reprints on marriage and the family. 
1 v.
Subjects: in-process

Item 102/04: Scrapbook, 1930-1964
OCLC Number: X
Assembled by Floyd Nelson House. The items includes newspaper clippings and magazine articles from Great Britain and the United States on birth control, oral contraceptives, and sexual reform.
1 v.
Subjects:
Contraception -- United States.
Sex -- United States.
Contraception -- Great Britain.
Contraception.
Sex.
Great Britain.
United States.

Item 102/05: Scrapbook, 1830-1842
OCLC Number: 122346463
Scrapbook.
Articles and obituaries about George IV, King of Great Britain.
1 v.
Subjects:
George -- IV, -- King of Great Britain, -- 1762-1830.

Item 102/08: Scrapbook, 1893-1897
OCLC Number: 86164525
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings, 1893- 1897.
1 v.
Item includes newspaper clippings concerning the unratified Olney-Pauncefote treaty of arbitration between the United States and Great Britain. Signed at Washington, DC, January 11, 1897, but defeated by the U.S. Senate.
Subjects:
United States -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain.
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- United States.
Diplomatic relations.
Great Britain.
United States.