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Josiah W. Leeds scrapbooks, 1903

 File — Volume: 18

Scope and Contents

105 p., 3 photographs on p. 80 taken at Geneva, Switzerland. Correspondence, clippings of newspaper and journal articles written by Leeds as well as articles on topics of interest to him such as: Sunday newspapers, theater, University of Pennsylvania, war, peace, gambling "investments," "indecent" posters, capital punishment, secret societies, the Masons, George Washington [his views on war, etc.], volumeing, Indigenous people of Alaska, gambling, "wild west shows," "The confessors of peace from the second century to the era of Mahomet" [series by Leeds in The Friend], various lynchings around the country, travel letters of Deborah Leeds, Welsh Mountain Industrial Mission, "indecent" medical advertisements, temperance, "blue" laws, contests. Also tract by Leeds ("The element of sacrifice in the Christian's daily paper"). List of names, addresses in back with tracts sent

Dates

  • Creation: 1903

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research use.

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