Claude Thomas Woodrow Papers Finding Aid

Title

Claude Thomas Woodrow Papers Finding Aid

Creator

Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library staff

Identifier

FA000292

Date

1911-1920

Description

Collection of newspaper clippings assembled by Woodrow Wilson's cousin, Claude Thomas Woodrow, in Columbus, Ohio.

Source

Sandra Lantz

Publisher

Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library

Subject

Cataloging of archival materials

Contributor

Mark Edwin Peterson

Language

English

Descriptive Identification : Note

Scrapbook pages have previously been used for financial records in pencil.

Arrangement

Items are collected in seven folders organized by media type in one Hollinger box.

Folder 1: Program and other miscellaneous Woodrow Wilson memorabilia.
Folder 2: Two Confederate flag images painted on cardboard.
Folder 3: Two nineteenth-century cartes de visite with portraits.
Folder 4: Newspaper clippings.
Folder 5: Newspapers.
Folder 6: Scrapbook containing newspaper clippings pasted into a leather-bound account book.
Folder 7: Handwritten genealogy notes.

Biography or History

Claude Thomas Woodrow was the grandson of Charles Scott Woodrow, the half-brother of Janet Woodrow, President Wilson's mother.
Perhaps because of this connection, he kept a collection of newspaper articles during World War I.

Scope and Content

Newspaper clippings having to do with local individuals or Woodrow Wilson, especially his activities connected to World War I.

Files

Claude Thomas Woodrow.pdf

Citation

Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library staff, “Claude Thomas Woodrow Papers Finding Aid,” 1911-1920, FA000292, Claude Thomas Woodrow Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.

Archival Finding Aid