| Description | The scrapbook was part of the material recently transferred from Crompton Library. It contains pasted-in cuttings of Sam Fitton's cartoons and verse from The Cotton Factory Times. It is the only significant representation of such work within this accumulation. The subjects cover both working life and wider social concerns, dealt with in a generally humorous way. There are photographic copies of three of the cartoons at FIT/1/5/7, FIT/1/5/8, FIT/1/5/9. The verse accompanying another is contained within FIT/3/1. Within the scrapbook is one loose cartoon, of later date. There is also an advertising leaflet for a Shaw knife-sharpener, Billy Cockayne. The surname is that of Sam Fitton's first wife, Jane. |