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A Guide to the Hannah Easley Faw Scrapbooks, [ca. 1890s-1920s]
BiographicalHannah Mary (Easley) Faw (1844-1942) lived in Grimes County, Texas with her husband Lemuel G. Faw. The couple had four children including Hannah Marjorie Faw (1875-1959), who later lived in Navasota and collected books and ephemera. Source: Stevenson, Dan. "Lemuel (Lem) G. Faw (1830-after 1880)." Ancestry.co.uk. Accessed May 31, 2011. Return to the Table of Contents Scope and ContentsEight volumes of clippings compose the Hannah Easley Faw Scrapbooks, [ca. 1890s-1920s], documenting the interests of Faw and her daughter Hannah Marjorie Faw at the turn of the 20th century. Comprising newspaper clippings of poems, short stories, essays, and news stories, the volumes relate to topics including entertainment, religion, education, prohibition, and Texas history. One scrapbook primarily concerns the Spanish-American War, while another chiefly contains humorous anecdotes from the Galveston Daily News. Return to the Table of Contents RestrictionsAccess RestrictionsThis collection is open for research use. Return to the Table of Contents
Return to the Table of Contents Administrative InformationPreferred CitationHannah Easley Faw Scrapbooks, [ca. 1890s-1920s], Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin. Processing InformationBasic processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with funds from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) for the Briscoe Center’s “History Revealed: Bringing Collections to Light project,” 2009-2011. Return to the Table of Contents Detailed Description of the Papers
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