Cornelius Greenway, autograph collector: close-up portrait

Item Information

Title:
Cornelius Greenway, autograph collector: close-up portrait
Description:
From a series of images of famous autograph-collecting minister with a residence in Brooklyn, NY, whose collection grew to 42 volumes of 2,500 pictures and 3,000 manuscripts. He would persistently send his requests by 23-cent registered letters, though never to athletes or actors. Pictured with wife and child. According to a Milwaukee Journal story in 1948, the Reverend had by that point collected autographs from "the last three popes, the last five presidents, every dictator (except Stalin) since 1919, Chief Two Gun White Calf, whose face is on the buffalo nickel, and a wedding picture of the duke and duchess of Windsor signed by everybody present," as well as autographs from a multitude of famous individuals such as Henry Ford and Albert Einstein.
Photographer:
Blackington, Alton H.
Date:
[ca. August 13, 1937]
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Black-and-white negatives
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Collection (local):
Alton H. Blackington Collection
Subjects:
Autographs--Collectors and collecting--Photographs
Greenway, Cornelius
Extent:
1 photograph ; 10 x 12.5cm.
Link to Item:
https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/muph061-sl323-i002
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
Saco (Me.)
Language:
English
Identifier:
muph061-sl323-i002