Dodd, Mead & Company archive 1896–1974

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Dodd, Mead & Company archive 1896–1974

http://library.udel.edu/static/purl.php?mss0250

The Dodd, Mead & Company archive contains a limited number of materials from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries relating to American publishing company Dodd, Mead & Company. The bulk of the material concerns the business arrangements between the publisher and various Black American authors.

2.6 linearfeet; (8 boxes)

eng,

University of Delaware Library - Special Collections

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SNAC Resource ID: 6363484

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Dodd, Mead & Company

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In 1839 Moses W. Dodd purchased an interest in a New York publishing firm established by John S. Taylor. The following year he severed his connection with Taylor and continued alone until his retirement in 1870. He was succeeded by his son, Frank H. Dodd, who, with his cousin Edward S. Mead, formed the firm Dodd & Mead. A retail department was added to the firm and in 1876 Bleecker Van Wagnen was taken as a partner. The firm was then renamed Dodd, Mead & Company. From the guide to t...