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Title: |
William Ashbolt photography collection |
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Repository: |
Cleveland State University
Phone: 216-687-2449 http://library.csuohio.edu/speccoll |
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Creator: |
Ashbolt, William |
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Dates: |
1954-1965 |
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Quantity: |
5 linear feet |
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Abstract: |
This collection includes black-and-white photographs taken by William Ashbolt, a Plain Dealer photographer. Topics of the photographs include the investigation and trial of the Sam Sheppard for the murder of Marilyn Sheppard from July 1954 to December 1954. The collection also includes photographs of Robert Manry's Tinkerbelle sailboat voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in 1965 and the following celebration in England. Tinkerbelle was the smallest sailboat to cross the Atlantic Ocean. |
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Identification: |
PH2000.051ASH |
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Location: |
Collection is housed at Michael Schwartz Library Special Collections in Rhodes Tower 321 (Boxes ASH1-ASH3) |
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Language: |
The records are in English |
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Sample Image: |
Cleveland Memory Project |
William A. Ashbolt (1926-1999), originally from Lorain, Ohio, was an award-winning photojournalist who was a combat photographer for the Marines and was later a photographer at the Plain Dealer newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio until he retired in 1988.
This collection consists of three boxes containing black-and-white negatives and photographs taken by Plain Dealer photographer, William Ashbolt. Topics of the photographs include the Marilyn Sheppard murder and investigation and the trial of her husband, Sam Sheppard. There are two boxes of photographs that show Robert Manry's voyage on his boat Tinkerbelle, to Falmouth harbor in England. Some of these photographs were published in the Plain Dealer newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection.
[Description of item]. [Box Number]. William Ashbolt photograph collection. Cleveland State University.
Doreen Ashbolt donated the William Ashbolt photograph collection to Cleveland State University on June 6, 2000.
The Sam Sheppard part of the collection was partially processed by Carolyn Hersch.