Simson and Kalmus autograph collection, 1910-1934.

A collection of autographs of notable musicians, writers, and political figures. Consisting of 1) an album compiled by Louise Simson of photographs, cards, and notes signed variously by Enrico Caruso, Ema Destinnová, Orville Harrold, Jack London, Giacomo Puccini, Maurice Renaud, Fred Terry, Luisa Tetrazzini, Mark Twain, Booker T. Washington, and others; and 2) a group of photographs, cards, and notes collected by Louise Simson, Nathaniel I. Kalmus, and Allan H. Kalmus, signed variously by William Jennings Bryan, Grover Cleveland, Victor Herbert, Rudyard Kipling, Julia Marlowe, Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Booth Tarkington, Sergeĭ Vitte, Woodrow Wilson, and others.