| LC control no. | n 88192045 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Clegg, Charles, 1916-1979 |
| Birth date | 19160629 |
| Death date | 19790825 |
| Place of birth | Ohio |
| Place of death | San Mateo County (Calif.) |
| Profession or occupation | Authors Photographers Railroad historian |
| Found in | Beebe, L.M. The American West, 1989, c1955: CIP t.p. (Charles Clegg) LC data base, 2/22/89 (hdg.: Clegg, Charles M., 1916- ; usage: Charles Clegg) Railroad history, fall-winter 2005: p. 36 (Charles Myron Clegg; d. 1979; railroad historian and photographer) Wikipedia, Jan. 29, 2008 (Charles M. Clegg, Jr. (1916-1979)) Wikipedia, August 12, 2014 (Charles Clegg; Charles Myron Clegg, Jr. (June 29, 1916 - August 25, 1979) was an American author, photographer, and railroad historian; Clegg is primarily remembered as the lifelong companion of famed railroad author Lucius Beebe, and was a co-author of many of Beebe's best-known books; Clegg grew up in Rhode Island and met Beebe in 1940; the pair initially lived in New York City, where Beebe was a columnist for the New York Herald Tribune and both men were prominent in cafe society circles; they moved in 1950 to Virginia City, Nevada where they reactivated and began publishing the Territorial Enterprise, a fabled 19th century newspaper that had once been the employer of Mark Twain; Clegg and Beebe sold the Territorial Enterprise in 1961, and purchased a home in suburban San Francisco; Beebe authored over thirty-five books during his lifetime, approximately half of which were in collaboration with Clegg; it is likely that Clegg's contributions were primarily photographic in nature; the library of photographs produced by Clegg and Beebe are now in the collections of the California State Railroad Museum) Find A Grave, via WWW, August 12, 2014 (Charles M. Clegg; born June 29, 1916 in Ohio; died August 25, 1979 in San Mateo County, California; he had a personal and professional relationship with the the famous photographer and railroad historian Lucius M. Beebe) |
| Associated language | eng |
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