Richard Rogers Bowker papers 1856-1958

American Library Association

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The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally. Founded in 1876, it is the oldest and largest library association in the world....

Spofford, Ainsworth Rand, 1825-1908

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Ainsworth Rand Spofford (September 12, 1825 – August 11, 1908) was an American journalist and the sixth Librarian of Congress. Spofford was born in Gilmanton, New Hampshire. Ill health prevented him from attending Amherst College. He instead, at age 19, moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he became a bookseller, publisher, and newspaper man. In 1849 Spofford founded the Literary Club of Cincinnati with John Celivergos Zachos, Stanley Matthews (judge) and 9 others founded. One year later Ruthe...

Hutchison, Miller Reese, 1876-1944

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Library of Congress

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The Library of Congress was established by an act of Congress in 1800 when President John Adams signed a bill providing for the transfer of the seat of government from Philadelphia to the new capital city of Washington. The legislation described a reference library for Congress only, containing "such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress - and for putting up a suitable apartment for containing them therein…" The original library was housed in the Washington, DC until August 1814, ...

Bowker, Caroline Theresa

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Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

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Founded 1843, the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences was the umbrella organization for four major Brooklyn institutions: Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn Children's Museum, and Brooklyn Academy of Music. Several smaller organizations were also under its jurisdiction. From the description of Records, 1843-1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122529756 The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences (BIAS) evolved from the Brooklyn Apprentices' Library Assoc...

Wells, David Ames, 1828-1898

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Economist, author, and public official. From the description of Papers of David Ames Wells, 1795-1898 (bulk 1860-1886) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71067851 American economist. From the description of Papers of David Ames Wells [manuscript], 1851-1887. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647812256 Biographical Note 1828, June 17 Born, Sp...

National Association of Book Publishers

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Earle, Abraham L

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Atkinson, Edward, 1827-1905

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Economist. From the description of Papers of Edward Atkinson, 1882-1887. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449908 Edward Atkinson was an American economist and underwriter. From the description of Edward Atkinson letters, 1868-1898. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122575952 From the guide to the Edward Atkinson letters, 1868-1898, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) American author, industrialist, and economist. ...

Print Publishers Association of America.

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Shepard, Edward Morse, 1850-1911

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Lawyer, political reformer, and author, born in New York, July 23, 1850; his father died when he was 6 and August Belmont became his legal guardian; A.B., College of the City of New York (LL. D. Tulane, 1903; Washington and Lee, 1904; Williams, 1907); he instigated principles of civil service reform in New York State; became a member of Brooklyn Civil Service Commission; admitted to the bar, 1871; successful corporate lawyer; wealth from railroads in Mexico and Southwest; unsuccessful Democratic...

Peabody, George Foster, 1852-1938

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George Foster Peabody, banker and philanthropist, was born in Columbus, Ga. in 1852 and died in Warm Springs, Ga. in 1938. He was the son of George Henry and Elvira Canfield Peabody and husband of Katrina N. Trask. From the description of Cherokee Indian language letters, 1907. (University of Georgia). WorldCat record id: 259719021 Banker and philanthropist. From the description of Papers of George Foster Peabody, 1894-1937. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 8410865...

Fletcher, William Isaac, 1844-1917

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Putnam, George Haven, 1844-1930

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George Haven Putnam (1844-1930) was a publisher and author best known for his commitment to the establishment of national copyright legislation in the U.S. and to American adherence to the international copyright Convention of Berne. After serving in the U.S. Civil War, he entered his father's publishing house, G.P. Putnam's Sons. He assumed the presidency of the firm in 1872 and became an authority on the legal implications of copyright. In 1886 he formed the American Publishers' Copyright Leag...

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

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Roosevelt, 26th U.S. president, served 1901-1909. From the description of DS, 1904 March 1. : Washington, D.C. Homestead Certificate. (Copley Press, J S Copley Library). WorldCat record id: 15210791 26th president of the United States, 1901-1909. From the description of Theodore Roosevelt letters, 1917, 1918. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 213408920 Roosevelt was then Governor of New York. Chapman was one of the founders of the New York St...

Houghton Mifflin Company.

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Houghton Mifflin Company, publishing house of Boston, Mass., From the description of Houghton Mifflin Company records, 1832-1944. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612205133 Houghton Mifflin Company, publishing house of Boston, Massachusetts, traces its roots back to the firm of Ticknor and Fields, the premier "literary" publishing house in the United States during the middle years of the nineteenth century; and to the Riverside Press, Henry Oscar Houghton's printi...

Isles, George

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Reform Club (New York, N.Y.)

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Richard Rogers Bowker (1848-1933) was editor of the New York Evening Mail newspaper, editor and publisher of Publishers Weekly and the Library Journal, and executive with several power companies, including the Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of New York. He was active in political reform and was a founder of the Independent Republican Mugwump movement. He also served as secretary of the American Free Trade League. From the guide to the Richard Rogers Bowker papers, 1856-1958, (The N...

Society for Political Education

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Association of Edison Illuminating Companies

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American Copyright League.

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Wheeler, Everett Pepperrell, 1840-1925

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Everett Pepperell Wheeler (1840-1925) was an American lawyer and civil service reformer. He was a founder of the New York Bar Association and served for seventeen years as chairman of the executive committee of the New York Civil Service Reform Association. Other organizations he supported were the Citizens Union, the Committee of Seventy, the Reform Club, and the Man Suffrage Association. From the guide to the Everett P. Wheeler papers, 1868-1925, (The New York Public Library. Manus...

De Laval Separator Company

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Karl Gustaf Patrik De Laval, founder of the De Laval Separator Company, was a Swedish inventor born in Dalarna, Sweden on May 9, 1845. De Laval patented the centrifugal dairy separator in 1878. In 1888, the AB Separator Company was founded, renamed to De Laval. De Laval died February 2, 1913. From the guide to the De Laval Separator Company Brochure, 1926, (Special Collections, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.) ...

Putnam, Herbert

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Herbert Putnam (b. Sept. 20, 1861, New York City–d. Aug. 14, 1955, Woods Hole, MA) was the eighth Librarian of Congress from 1899 to 1939. Putnam was born in New York City to parents Victorine and George Palmer Putnam; his father owned publishing house, G. P. Putnam's Sons. He married Charlotte Elizabeth Munroe and had two daughters, Shirley and Brenda Putnam. Putnam graduated from Harvard University in 1883. He served as librarian at Minneapolis Athenaeum, later Minneapolis Public Library, a...

Solberg, Thorvald, 1852-1949

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Register of copyrights (1897-1930). From the description of Papers of Thorvald Solberg, 1882-1949. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449810 Thorvald Solberg was associated with the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. From the description of Letters to Horace Howard Furness, 1884. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155884136 Biographical Note ...

Bowker, Alice G. Mitchell, 1865-1941.

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Leypoldt, Augusta H. (Augusta Harriet), 1849-1919

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Trask, Spencer, 1844-1909

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Spencer Trask was an American banker and financier and his wife Katrina Trask was an American author. Together they established what became the artist colony Yaddo at Saratoga, N.Y. Stedman was an American poet and critic and good friend of the Trasks. From the description of [Letter] 1906 Dec. 13, Yaddo, Saratoga, [N.Y., to] Edmund C. Stedman / Spencer Trask. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 669631520 ...

Dewey, Melvil, 1851-1931

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Director of the New York State Library. From the description of Employment card, 1888-1904. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122573790 ...

Edison, Thomas Alva, 1847-1931

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Thomas Alva Edison (born February 11, 1847, Milan, Ohio – died October 18, 1931, West Orange, New Jersey), American inventor and businessman who has been described as America's greatest inventor. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and early versions of the electric light bulb, have had a widespread impact on the modern industrial...

City Club of New York

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Albert S. Bard (1866-1963) was an attorney and civic activist in New York City. A graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School, Bard came to New York City in 1893, where he engaged in the practice of corporation and general law until a few years before his death. From 1901-1935 (or 1938) he practiced with his partner, Leighton Calkins (1868-1955), under the firm name of Bard & Calkins at 25 Broad Street. Bard continued to practice law until 1960. Bard was an energetic participant in ci...

Milbury, Arthur Wellesley

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Bowker, Daniel Rogers, 1820-

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Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, 1837-1919

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English novelist; daughter of W. M. Thackeray. From the description of Prayer : autograph manuscript : [n.p.], 1865 June 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270858284 Ann Isabella Ritchie was the elder daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1861), a well-known Victorian novelist. Anne was a prolific novelist, essayist and writer of memoirs. By 1875, The Works of Miss Thackeray had been published in eight volumes (Smith, Elder & Company), extended to 15 volumes by 18...

Bowker, R. R. (Richard Rogers), 1848-1933

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Editor, publisher, bibliographer, author, literary promoter, and industrial director. From the description of R.R. Bowker papers, 1831-1931. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71009857 Richard Rogers Bowker (1848-1933) was editor of the New York Evening Mail newspaper, editor and publisher of Publishers Weekly and the Library Journal, and executive with several power companies, including the Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of New York. He was active in political reform and was ...

Hiscox, Edwin T., 1847-1926.

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Ford, Worthington Chauncey, 1858-1941

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Librarian and historian. From the description of Papers of Worthington Chauncey Ford, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068790 American historical editor, bibliographer, and statistician. From the description of Letters of Worthington Chauncey Ford [manuscript], 1886-1900. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647806452 Worthington Chauncey Ford (1858-1941), the eldest son of Gordon Lester Ford and Emily Fowler Ford, first worked as a cas...

American Free Trade League

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Republican Party (N.Y.)

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The Republican Party in New York predates the national party, which was not officially formed until 1854. From the guide to the Republican Party Broadside, 1837, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) ...

Growoll, Adolph G., 1859-1909.

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Johnson, Robert Underwood, 1853-1937

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Author; United States ambassador to Italy. From the description of Autograph poem signed, entitled "Rheims", 1814 Sep. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270492661 From the description of Autograph poem "The Cost" signed, 1914 Aug. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270492676 Epithet: Editor 'The Century Magazine' New York British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001185.0x000372 Magazine ed...

Harper & Brothers.

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Correspondence (129 letters) and typescript (unsigned) revisions and notes, 1954, (23 p.) concerning the publication of The Scope of Total Architecture by Walter Gropius. Includes 22 letters from Gropius. From the description of Correspondence with Walter Gropius, 1952-1956. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612369957 Publishing firm in New York City. From the description of Harper & Brothers Records 1817-1929. (Columbia University In the City of New ...

Edison Pioneers

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Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of New York

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Bowker family

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