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Title
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Finding Aid for the Martha Jacobson Scrapbooks
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Type
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Collection
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Date
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1940s-1950s
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Description
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This collection contains scrapbooks and photos found in a 1920s house in Kansas City, Missouri. The scrapbooks were created by Martha S. Jacobson. One scrapbook contained newspaper clippings, letters, dance cards, post cards and other personal memorabilia. Photos signed by Martha’s classmates were mounted on the pages of another album. A scrapbook was full of vacation photos from Sarasota, Florida. Because the albums pages are acid and had become brittle, the items were removed from the pages and placed in sheet protectors as well as acid free folders. Newspaper clippings that were glued to the pages were photocopied and the originals discarded. In addition to the scrapbooks, Martha kept many cards and photographs.
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Format
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Scrapbooks
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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Midwest Genealogy Center, Mid-Continent Public Library, Independence, Missouri
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Extent
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1 box
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Identifier
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MGC 1214
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Collection Summary
Title
Martha Jacobson Scrapbooks
Date
1940s to 1950s
Extent
1 archival box
Name and Location of Repository
Midwest Genealogy Center, Independence (Mo.)
Reference code: MGC 1214-MJS
Processed by: Jolene Clark, 2020; finding aid created by Jolene Clark, 2020
Name of Creator
Martha S. (Jacobson) Klepinger
Biographical History
Martha S. Jacobson was born in 1929 to H. William and Hilja Jacobson in Waterford, Maine. In 1950, she
graduated from Central Maine General Hospital School of Nursing. She married John Klepinger of Kansas
City, Missouri on July 18, 1954 in Maine. She died on August 10, 1975 and is buried in Lutheran
Cemetery in Harrison, Maine.
Scope and Content
This collection contains scrapbooks and photos found in a 1920s house in Kansas City, Missouri. The
scrapbooks were created by Martha S. Jacobson. One scrapbook contained newspaper clippings, letters,
dance cards, post cards and other personal memorabilia. Photos signed by Martha’s classmates were
mounted on the pages of another album. A scrapbook was full of vacation photos from Sarasota,
Florida. Because the albums pages are acid and had become brittle, the items were removed from the
pages and placed in sheet protectors as well as acid free folders. Newspaper clippings that were glued to
the pages were photocopied and the originals discarded. In addition to the scrapbooks, Martha kept
many cards and photographs.
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Collection Inventory
System of Arrangement
These records are arranged in 1 series.
Series 1, Scrapbook items
Folder 1, Photographs
Folder 2, Photographs from album “Snapshots, Sarasota, Florida”
Folder 3, Postcards
Folder 4, Cards
Folder 5, Cards, birth of new baby
Folder 6, Announcements, graduation, baby, and wedding
Folder 7, Newspaper clippings
Folder 8, Guest book
Folder 9, miscellaneous scrapbook items
Rights and Access
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research use by appointment.
Physical Access
Most records within this collection are housed within file folders.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the Midwest Genealogy Center.
Languages and Scripts of the Material
Materials in the collection are entirely in English.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was donated by Andrea Duloc.
Accruals
No further accruals are expected for this collection.
Existence and Location of Originals
Originals owned by the Midwest Genealogy Center.
Notes
The following sources were consulted during the preparation of the biographical history:
Ancestry.com. Maine, Death Index, 1960-1997 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com
Operations Inc, 2002.
Ancestry.com. Maine, Faylene Hutton Cemetery Collection, 1780-1990 [database on-line]. Lehi,
UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2019.
Ancestry.com. Maine, Marriage Index, 1892-1996 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2003.
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