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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAC260_DENNIS_MCCARTHY_SCRAPBOOKTHE TYRRELL HISTORICAL LIBRARY AC -260 Dennis McCarthy Scrapbook, 1933-1934 DESCRIPTION Dennis McCarthy was an artist, cartoonist, andjou realist who worked for a time with the Beaumont Enterprise newpaper. He was born in the 1890s in San Francisco, California, was educated in Denver, Colorado, and Chicago, Illinois, and worked for fifteen years with the Hearst enterprises in San Francisco and New York City. He also worked for a time for Walt Disney Studios. In the 1930s and 1940s McCarthy worked in Beaumont for the Beaumont Enterprise and Beaumont Journal. One of his features profiled prominent Beaumont businessmen and included cartoons and biographical information. While in Beaumont, he also taught classes at the Beaumont An Museum and was known for his watercolor paintings of the area. Dennis McCarthy died in May of 1973 in Prescott, Arizona. This collection consists of a scrapbook of approximately 135 of Dennis McCarthy's articles for the Beaumont Enterprise profiling prominent Beaumont businessmen.