Call Number:

Item 0003

Repository:

University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Extent:

9 volume (5 clamshell boxes)

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

MSS 0093, Item 0003, Anne Wheeler Young and William Young scrapbooks, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.

Date:

1934-1953 (inclusive)

Creator:

Young, Anne Wheeler

Form:

Scrapbooks, Magazines (periodicals), and Clippings (information artifacts)

Abstract:

This collection comprises eight scrapbooks and special periodical issues assembled and collected by Philadelphia resident Anne Wheeler Young, who was interested in sensational news such as the trial and execution of Bruno Hauptmann for the murder of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., and celebrity coverage of British royalty, particularly King George V, King Edward VII, and Queen Elizabeth II. The collection also includes a scrapbook complied by Mrs. Young’s son, William Young, for an eighth-grade American history assignment.

Anne Wheeler Young was a Philadelphia resident with an interest in the sensational news events of the first half of the 20th century.

Young was born on December 22, 1902, and raised in Massachusetts. During the 1930s and 1940s, she resided in the suburbs of Philadelphia and maintained an avid interest in current events. Anne Wheeler Young's son, William Young, was a graduate of Eddystone High School and attended the Philadelphia Conservancy to pursue a musical career. After obtaining his degree from the Conservancy, he served in the U.S. Navy and obtained a B.S. in Education from Temple University in 1958. Mr. Young taught vocal and instrumental music at several schools in Wilmington, Delaware: Howard High School, Wilmington High School, Delcastle Tech High School, The Tatnall School, and Tower Hill School. Mr. Young also obtained a MEd in music from West Chester University and was passionately active in the Wilmington music community.

William Wheeler Young obituary.News Journal, June 5, 2010.

This collection comprises eight scrapbooks and special periodical issues assembled and collected by Philadelphia resident Anne Wheeler Young, who was interested in sensational news such as the trial and execution of Bruno Hauptmann for the murder of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., and celebrity coverage of British royalty, particularly King George V, King Edward VII, and Queen Elizabeth II. The collection also includes a scrapbook complied by Mrs. Young’s son, William Young, for an eighth-grade American history assignment.

These nine 20th-century American scrapbooks, periodical issues, and loose clippings are organized into four series. The scrapbooks in Series I and II were assembled by Anne Wheeler Young. Series I consists of scrapbooks 1 through 5, which document the arrest of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, a German-born American carpenter, for the abduction and murder of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., in 1934. The scrapbooks contain news clippings from Philadelphia-area newspapers chronicling Hauptmann’s arrest, trial, and subsequent execution.

Series II documents British royalty, particularly King Edward VII. Scrapbooks 6 through 8 record Edward’s ascension to the throne following the death of his father, King George V, Edward’s abdication of the throne, and his marriage to Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson.

Series III consists of a scrapbook complied by Mrs. Young’s son, William Young, for an eighth-grade American history assignment in 1944. Finally, Series IV includes periodical issues collected by Anne Wheeler Young related to the ascension of Queen Elizabeth II to the throne in 1952.

1. I. Lindbergh Kidnaping, 1935-1937
2. II. British Royalty and King Edward VIII, 1936-1937
3. III. William Young scrapbook, 1944
4. IV. Periodicals related to Queen Elizabeth’s coronation, 1952-1953