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Coleman, Satis N. (Satis Narrona), 1878-1961

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Satis Narona Coleman (1878-1961) was a music educator who specialized in the teaching of music to children. In 1895, she graduated from Sam Houston Normal Institute and went on to earn her B.S. (1927), M.A. (1928) and Ph.D. in educational psychology (1937) from Columbia University. Coleman also taught widely as a private music instructor before and after completing her studies. It was Colemans belief that children should be introduced to and engaged in music at a very yo...

Zigrosser, Carl, 1891-1975

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Curator of prints at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from 1941 to 1963; noted expert on print-making; founded in 1919 and directed the Weyhe Gallery in New York; contributed to and edited the Modern School Magazine in the second half of the 1910s. First wife: Florence King; child: Carola (born 1917). Second wife: Laura Canadè (married in 1946). Zigrosser died in 1975. From the description of Carl Zigrosser papers, circa 1891-1971. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record...

Landon, Alfred M. (Alfred Mossman), 1887-1987

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Alfred "Alf" Mossman Landon (September 9, 1887 – October 12, 1987) was an American politician from the Republican Party. He served as the twenty-sixth Governor of Kansas from 1933 to 1937. He was the Republican Party's nominee in the 1936 presidential election, but was defeated in a landslide by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt who won the electoral college vote 523 to 8. Born in West Middlesex, Pennsylvania, Landon spent most of his childhood in Marietta, Ohio before moving to Kansa...

Rosenthal, Erwin

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Jaggard, William, 1868-1947

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William Jaggard was associated with the Shakespeare Press in Stratford-on-Avon. From the description of Letters to Horace Howard Furness and Horace Howard Furness, Jr., 1911-1926. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155883742 ...

Mott, Howard S.

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Jervoise, Edwyn

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Jackson, Stuart Wells

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Member of the Executive Council of the American Friends of Lafayette. From the description of Correspondence to Maxwell Struthers Burt, 1947, [n.d.]. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122636593 ...

Swann, Arthur

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Opie, Peter Mason

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Krull, Theresa Vinton (Pierce)

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Morris, Ernest

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Naesmyth of Posso

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Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936

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George A. Plimpton (1855-1936) was a member of the first Board of Trustees of Barnard College. He served as Treasurer from 1893 until his death. Plimpton was the primary fundraiser for Barnard. He was born at Walpole, Mass. After graduating Amherst College, he moved to New York where he worked as a salesman for Ginn and Heath, textbook publishers. In 1914 he became head of the firm. His interest in education and textbooks led him to establish a collection of textbooks dating from the middle ages...

Stevens, Lydia (Hathaway)

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Moss, Frances Dallam

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Scott, Carrie Emma

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Preminger, Alexander Salo

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Wise, Murray Monroe

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Riley, Elizabeth Mildred

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Hyde, Donald Frizell, 1909-1966

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Epithet: first husband of Mary Viscountess Eccles British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001124.0x000188 ...

Fortune, William

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Harper, Henry Howard, 1871-1953

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Henry Howard Harper (1871-1953), American writer and editor. He served for years as an officer for The Bibliophile Society of Boston, and produced several works privately printed by that group, including The Letters of Charles Lamb (1905); Byron's Malach Hamoves (1918); and Letters of Mary W. Shelley (1918). From the description of Henry Howard manuscript material : 2 items, 1910 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 309913751 Treasurer of the Bibliophile Society an...

Woodworth, Marion (Towne)

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Ball, Elisabeth W. (American collector, active 20th century)

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Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-1996

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American ballet director, writer, and dance historian, 1907-1995. Lincoln Kirstein was born in Rochester, NY, educated at Harvard (B.A. 1929, M.A. 1930). He married Fidelma Cadmus, sister of artist, Paul Cadmus, in 1941 and served in the U.S. Army 1943-45. He co-founded School of American Ballet with George Balanchine and Edward M.M. Warburg in 1934. Participated in the founding and/or direction of American Ballet in 1935, Ballet Caravan 1936-41, Ballet Society in 1946, and became general direct...

Hunt, Mabel Leigh

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Cahoon, Herbert Fuller

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Hunter, Dard, 1883-1966

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Hunter was part of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, and a member of Elbert Hubbard's Roycrofters in East Aurora, NY, in 1904. He devoted his life to research, collecting, writing, and publishing the history of hand papermaking and printing. He published books at his Mountain House Press and established Lime Rock Mill, a paper mill in Connecticut. In 1939 he established the Dard Hunter Paper Museum at MIT, which later moved to the American Museum of Papermaking in Atlanta, Ga. F...

Boocook, William Henry

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Halliday, Bernard

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Morley, Christopher, 1890-1957

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American author and journalist. From the description of Letter to unidentified recipient [manuscript], 1940 October 25. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647810653 Christopher Morley was an American editor, an author, and a Rhodes scholar. Morley was one of the founders of the "Saturday Review of Literature," of which he was an editor from 1924 to 1940. A prolific author, he wrote more than 50 books. His novels include PANASSUS ON WHEELS (1917), THE HAUNTED BOOKS...

Sauvage, Elsie (Peddie)

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Norris, Lester J.

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Quarles, Diana (Pittman)

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Chaundy, Leslie

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Epithet: Managing Director, Dulau and Co British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001303.0x00020a ...

Reichner, Hugo

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Sutherland, Robert Lee

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Miller, Bertha Everett (Mahony)

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Le Mair, Henriette W.

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Meeks, Bernard M.

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Bernard M. Meeks was a collector of children's books and original artwork. From the description of Bernard Meeks papers, 1945-1952 [manuscript]. (University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus). WorldCat record id: 729369780 ...

Embury, Lucy

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Smith, C. Alphonso (Charles Alphonso), 1864-1924

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Charles Alphonso Smith (1864-1924) was a native of North Carolina and professor of literature at several southern universities. From the guide to the C. Alphonso Smith Papers, ., 1869-1923, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) Native of North Carolina and professor of literature at several southern universities. From the description of C. Alphonso Smith papers, 1869-1923 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 23438261...

Chandler, John E

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Robinson, Lionel Keir

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Robinson, Wilbur J.

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Heiman, Samuel

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Cohen, Morton Norton, 1921-....

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Lewis Carroll scholar. From the description of Lewis Carroll and snark hunting, 1974. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 86168053 ...

Heaney, Howell J.

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Howell, John Gilson

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Barrett, Clifton Waller, 1901-1991

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Bibliophile. From the description of Photoprints of Barrett's personal library in New York City [manuscript], ca. 1955. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647805897 Rare book collector. From the description of Letter: 1981 June 1, [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647826922 From the description of Notebook [manuscript], 1940. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647810688 From the description of Addr...

Lawler, Percy E.

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Dickerson, Luther L.

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Shaffer, Ellen Kate

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Bertke, Wilson A.

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Opie, Iona Margaret Balfour (Archibald)

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Washburn, William Lewis, 1862-

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Welch, James d'Alté Aldrige

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Sickels, Evelyn Ray.

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Stark, Sheldon H.

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Brooks, Alfred Mansfield, 1870-1963

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Everett, Louella D.

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Epithet: writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000209.0x000114 ...

Tully, Alice, 1902-1993

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Cunningham, Jesse

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Dunthorne, Robert Gordon

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Duschnes, Philip C.

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Harzof, Max

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Frost, E. H.

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King, Marian.

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Marian King, author, studied abroad and began writing children's books in 1928. From 1940-1945, she served with the British Supply Missions in Washington, D.C. From the guide to the Marian King papers, 1935-1973, (Manuscripts and Archives) ...

Cary, Melbert B. (Melbert Brinckerhoff), 1852-

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Hostick, King V. (King Victor), -1993

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Suter, Thomas Lyttleton

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Wells, Herman B.

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Before becoming president of Indiana University, Herman B Wells served as an assistant cashier at the National Bank of Lebanon before going on to work for the Indiana Bankers Association, the Indiana Commission for Financial Institutions, and the Indiana Department of Financial Institutions. He was named dean of the Indiana University School of Business administration in 1935 by IU President William Lowe Bryan. In 1937 he was named acting president of the university and president the following y...

Ripley, Robert LeRoy

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Ball, Sarah (Rogers)

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Borden, Fanny

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St. John, Judith

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Brewer, Frances J. (Frances Joan), 1913-1965

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Grimes, James Walter

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Muir, Percy H. (Percy Horace), 1894-1979

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Born in London on December 17, 1894, Percy Muir began his career as a bookseller in 1920. He joined the London antiquarian booksellers Elkin Mathews in 1930, and would remain with that firm until his death in Norfolk on November 24, 1979. Muir was an influential figure among booksellers and book collectors around the world. As president of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association in Britain from 1945-1947, Muir chaired the first conference of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (I...

Ball, William Hudson

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Starr, Allen E.

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Palfrey, Thomas Rossman

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Henne, Frances, 1906-1985

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Ball, Edward Osborn

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Ball, Edmund Arthur

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Grady, Marian Behethlan

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Conklin, J. Howell

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Delafield, Edward Coleman

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Walker, Dugald Stewart, 1883-1937

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From the guide to the Dugald Stewart Walker Papers, undated, (University of Minnesota Libraries Children's Literature Research Collections [clrc]) ...

Shaw, Margaret M.

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Adomeit, Ruth E.

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Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Adomeit attended Wellesley College in Massachusetts and worked as an elementary school teacher. She collected miniature books throughout her life and from 1960 to 1962 wrote Miniature Book Collector, a quarterly publication. Later, Adomeit co-founded the Miniature Book Society and in 1980 published Three Centuries of Thumb Bibles, the standard reference work for these books. James DeLancey was a colleague in the miniature book trade and co-author of My Favorite Miniature...

Weber, Carl Jefferson, 1894-1966

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Dobell, Percy John

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Robb, Wallace Havelock, 1888-1976

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Yelton, Donald Charles

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McCreary, Samuel L.

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Kerlan, Irwin

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Lambert, Edward

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Epithet: game-keeper at Kiveton British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001191.0x0002e0 ...

Plum, Dorothy A. (Dorothy Alice), 1900-1994

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Mackall, Leonard L. (Leonard Leopold), 1879-1937

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Epithet: of Add MS 38912 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000798.0x00033f Leonard Leopold Mackall was born on January 29, 1879, in Baltimore, Maryland. He received his bachelor's degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1900 where he took an interest in German literature. In 1902, he graduated from Harvard Law School. Within the next few years, he would attend Johns Hopkins University and the Universities of Berl...

Stewart, Donald S.

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Shipton, Clifford Kenyon

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McFadden, Marian

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Greenaway, Emerson, 1906-

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Ryskamp, Charles Andrew

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Ball, George H. (George Harvey), 1819-1907

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Born in Sherbrook, Quebec in 1819. Served as a Baptist minister in Buffalo from 1850 to 1890, when he moved to Keuka Lake, N.Y. to establish Keuka College. From the description of History of the Freewill Baptist churches composing the Erie Quarterly Meeting, [ca. July 1867]. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 56628440 ...

Greenberg, May

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Boyce, Sherman A.

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McKell, David McCandless, 1881-1962

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Stone, Wilbur Macey

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Born Winona, Minnesota Nov. 30, 1862; collector of children's books; studied at Stevens Institute; est. office in New York as patent attorney and mechanical engineer; designer of bookplates. From the description of Letter : New York, to Frank Chouteau Brown, Boston, 1901 Nov. 22. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 58534356 American collector of children's books. From the description of Autograph letter signed with initials : East Orange, N.J., to Mrs. Amos L...

Ball, George Alexander

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Turnbull, Leonard Young

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Roberts, Edith Adelaide

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O'Melia, Pauline Agnes

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Griffith, Reginald Harvey, 1873-1957

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Epithet: of the University of Texas British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000815.0x00007e ...

Swift, Mary Ella (Lyon)

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Greene, Marian H.

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Adams, Frederick Baldwin

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Epithet: Librarian Pierpont Morgan Library British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000410.0x000309 ...

Kneeland, Thomas E.

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Ellis, Richard W. (Richard Williamson), 1895-1982

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Richard W. Ellis was born in Washington, D.C. in 1894 and he pursued an education in metallurgy before going to work as a printer. In 1924 Ellis started the Georgian Press, the beginning of an illustrious career in book designing and printing. From his shop in Westport, Conn. Ellis printed over 50 books. After 1935, Ellis worked for Haddon Craftsmen in Camden, for Curtis Publishing in Philadelphia, as well as Golden Hind Press, Kingsport Press, and the Limited Editions Club during the latter yea...

Scott, Lorene Laura

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Hook, James Lewis, Mrs.

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Stark, Lewis M. (Lewis Morgrage), 1908-

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Cross, Emily Richmond

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Salminen, Carl H.

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Smith, Alice (Gullen)

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Harkins, Lee F.

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Roscoe, Sydney

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Stone, Malcolm Newton

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Rogers, Arthur

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Bennet, Gertrude (Witschief)

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Owen, Elsie H.

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Scholle, Hardinge

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Ney, Lew

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Goodspeed, George T.

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George Aaron Goodspeed was a pharmacist who operated a drug store in Granville, New York. From the description of Goodspeed collection, 1881-1932 (bulk 1990-1932). (New York State Historical Documents). WorldCat record id: 155409026 Proprietor of Boston bookshop. From the description of Letters, 1936. (Temple University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 122618488 George Goodspeed, b. 1903, Book dealer of Boston, Mass. From the description of Or...

Hull, Maude Pollard

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Papantonio, Michael

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Wright, Philip A. (Philip Arthur), 1908-

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Nichols, John Robert

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McKearin, George S. (George Skinner), 1874-

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Randall, David Anton

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Johnson, Edna Kimery

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Beall, Karen (Freidmann)

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McNitt, Esther Uhl

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Parma, V. Valta

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Wetzel, Julian S.

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Opie, James, 1944-

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Paine, Alfred White

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Finch, Edward J.

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Ratchford, Fannie Elizabeth, 1888-

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American librarian and author. From the description of Typewritten letter signed : Austin, Texas, to Mrs. H.H. Bonnell, 1955 July 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270616322 Fanny Ratchford was associated with the rare book libraries of the University of Texas from 1919 until her retirement in 1957, and especially with the John Henry Wrenn Library. The Wrenn collection includes nearly 100 examples of Thomas J. Wise's spurious 19th century pamphlets. John Carter exposed thes...

Ball, Bertha (Crosley)

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Sanford, William Wells

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Acheson, Barclay

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Gooch, Robert Charles

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Clifford, Henry

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Epithet: of London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000174.0x0001f7 Title: 5th Earl of Cumberland British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000352.0x0001c1 Title: 1st Earl of Cumberland British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000352.0x0001ae Epithe...

Wells, Edgar Huldekoper

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Retz, Charles

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Aley, Maxwell.

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Cleverdon, Douglas, 1903-1987

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Douglas James Cleverdon, bookseller and radio producer, was born on Jan. 17, 1903 in Bristol, England, the elder son of Thomas Silcox Cleverdon, master wheelwright, and his wife, Jane Louisa James. He was educated at Bristol grammar school and Jesus College, Oxford, where as an undergraduate he published his first catalogue of books, thus establishing his reputation as a lover of fine printing and illustrated books. In 1926 Cleverdon opened a bookshop in Charlotte Street, Bristol, ...

Tribolet, Harold W

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Shaw, John Mackay

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John M. Shaw served as the personal secretary and biographer of Thomas Eugene Mitten, president of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company. From the description of Papers, 1919-1929. (Temple University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 122635490 ...

Adler, Elmer, 1884-1962

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Elmer Adler worked in his family's clothing firm in Rochester, N.Y. while developing an avocation as a book and print collector. In 1922 he came to New York City and established the Pynson Printers; he began to makea reputation as a book designer. Adler served as a typographic consultant to several magazines and to The New York Times. From 1930 to 1940 he published The colophon : a book collector's quarterly. In 1940 he was invited to establish a Department of Graphic Arts at Princeton Universit...

Ball family

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Targ, William, 1907-

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Couse, E. Irving (Eanger Irving), 1866-1936

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Funk, Clotilde Embree

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Not available. From the guide to the Clotilde Embree Funk Papers, 1952, (University of Minnesota Libraries Children's Literature Research Collections [clrc]) ...

Owsley, Alvin Mansfield

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Siegel, Max

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Wiggins, James Russell, 1903-2000

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James Russell Wiggins was born in 1903 in Luverne, Minnesota. He became a reporter for the Rock County, Minnesota Star in 1922, later becoming its editor and publisher. In 1930, he began work at the St. Paul Dispatch-Pioneer Press, becoming managing editor before moving briefly to a position at the New York Times. In 1947 he began his career at the Washington Post, rising to editor and executive vice-president before his retirement in 1968. He served as ambassador to the United Nations from Nove...

Kimbrough, Emily, 1899-1989

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Writer. From the description of Signature, dated : [[n.p., n.d.], [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270918426 ...

Hughes, A. A.

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Mauck, Joseph William

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Leigh, William Colston

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Hamille, Frances

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Montgomery, Lall G.

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Howe, Randall Lionel Bentham

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Blanck, Jacob Nathaniel

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For further information please see: Gale Database: Contemporary Authors . Jacob Nathaniel Blanck was born 10 November 1906, in Boston, MA, the son of Selig and Mildred Rosenberg (Friedman) Blanck . He attended Boston public schools and received his L.H.D. from Brown University [1969] and P.B.K. from Harvard University in 1970. He was a Rare book editor of Publishers Weekly and Antiquarian Bookman [1936-52], a bibliographer of Americana at the Library of Congress, Washing...

Walters, Thomas.

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Epithet: of Egerton MS 2646 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001188.0x0003d3 Epithet: of Andover, county Hampshire British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000751.0x0003ac ...

Beals, Ralph A. (Ralph Albert)

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The period when Ernest D. Burton and J.C.M. Hanson each served as Director of the Library brought the construction of Harper Library, and a formal review and planning process for the library system. Despite these efforts, the University of Chicago Library remained decentralized and administratively unstable for much of the first half of the twentieth century. The long and often conflicted process of evaluation and planning continued under M. Llewellyn Raney, who assumed ...

Masten, Helen Adams

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Helen Adams Masten served as the Librarian in Charge of the Central Children's Room of the New York Public Library, retiring in November 1961 after 33 years of service. She was also a book critic and contributor to the Horn Book, and a judge for awards such as The New York Herald Tribune Spring Book Festival and the American Institute of Graphic Arts Children's Book Show. From the description of Helen Adams Masten papers, 1930-1977 [manuscript]. (University of Southern Mississippi, R...

Haviland, Virginia, 1911-

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McCorison, Marcus A. (Marcus Allen)

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President Emeritus of the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA From the description of Marcus McCorison collection, 1930-1999. (Clark University). WorldCat record id: 54477067 ...

Melcher, Fredric Gershom

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Ball, Lucina Amelia

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Dubester, Henry Joachim

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Spiller, Ethel M.

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Naesmyth, George Cresswell

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Howland, Virginia C. (Lazarus)

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Beard, Frances Birkhead

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Rosen, Katherine N.

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Hodges, Fletcher, 1906-2006

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Lenard, Alexander

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Alexander Lenard was born in Budapest. His father, a brilliant linguist, spoke a dozen languages. His mother was a painter. He was educated in Austria, studied medicine, and was awarded his doctor's degree at the University of Vienna. Between 1928 and 1938 he traveled widely across Europe, studying French, English and the Scandinavian languages. After the Nazi occupation of Austria he left Vienna for Rome, where he was active in the Italian resistance. From 1938 forward he supported himself by a...

Stonehill, Charles Archibald

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Epithet: junior; bookseller British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000444.0x0002c2 ...

Brigham, Clarence S. (Clarence Saunders), 1877-1963

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Clarence Saunders Brigham (1877-1963) began his distinguished library career while a student at Brown University. After graduation in 1899 he was appointed librarian of the Rhode Island Historical Society and in 1908 he left that position to accept the offer of the librarian's post at the American Antiquarian Society. He was named director of the Society in 1930 and was made its president in 1955. He resigned fifty-one years after he began working in Worcester. Brigham was a dedicated librarian ...

Pettit, Henry Jewett

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Peckham, Howard Henry

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Schatzki, Walter

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Dutton, Leland S. (Leland Summers)

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Baisnée, Jules Albert 1879-

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Student at Catholic University of America. From the description of The early years of Gabriel Richard, ca. 1951. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34422266 ...

Rogers, James H.

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Foster, Thomas Henry, 1875-

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Pearson, James Larkin, 1879-1981

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