Roy Vernon Sowers Papers, 1920-1984

Bender, Albert

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Sarton, George, 1884-1956

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Historian of science, George Alfred Leon Sarton was born on August 31, 1884, in Ghent, Belgium. He studied the natural sciences at the University of Ghent, and received his D.Sc. in 1911. Escaping to England before World War I, Sarton then came to the United States in 1915. After spending some time in lecturing positions, Sarton came to Harvard University in 1920, was made a full professor there in 1940 and retired in 1951 when he was made professor emeritus. He was founder of th...

Gentry, Helen, 1897-

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Helen "Billy" Gentry (1897-1988) was a printer, book designer, and typographer. Trained in fine bookmaking and printing at the Grabhorn Press in San Francisco, she started the Helen Gentry Press in 1930. In 1934, she moved with her husband David Greenhood to New York, where she did design work for Simon and Schuster and other publishing houses, including designing the classic 1953 Harper & Brothers edition of the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. In 1935, she co-founde...

Grabhorn Press

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Fine printing firm established in San Francisco, California, by Edwin Grabhorn and his brother, Robert. From the description of Grabhorn Press records, 1917-1973. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 82842847 Robert (1900-1973) and Edwin (1889-1968) Grabhorn, from Indiana, began printing in 1911 in Seattle, later moved to Indianapolis, and established the Grabhorn Press in San Francisco in 1920. It soon became internationally known for fine craftsmanship...

Evans, Herbert.

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John Howell Books.

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Sowers, Margaret Cosgrave.

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Nash, John Henry, 1871-1947

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Printer and lecturer. From the description of Letter of John Henry Nash, 1932. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454686 Biography John Henry Nash was born in Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada on March 12, 1871. He left high school at the age of sixteen and became an apprentice in the shop of James Murray, one of the leading printers in Toronto. He worked as a compositor for several years in Toronto and for a few months in Denver...

Singer, Charles, 1876-1960

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Epithet: historian of science British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001130.0x0000bd Historian of science and medicine. From the description of Letter, 1921, Oct. 25 : Highgate Village [England] to Sir D'Arcy. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 31821800 George Washington Corner worked as an anatomist, endocrinologist, and medical historian. From the guide to the George Washington C...

Gunst, Morgan A.

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Edmunds, Will H.

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Ritchie, Ward

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Zeitlin, Jake, 1902-1987

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Zeitlin was a Los Angeles bookdealer. From the description of Letter : Los Angeles (Calif.), to Don Hill, Los Angeles, 1936 April 21. (Natural History Museum Foundation, Los Angeles County). WorldCat record id: 24038112 Jacob Israel Zeitlin was born on Nov. 4, 1902, in Racine, WI; worked as a bookseller, poet and book reviewer in Ft. Worth, TX; moved to Los Angeles in 1925; began career in bookselling when employed by Holmes Book Company and the book departments of the May C...

Cosgrave, George, 1870-1945

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Sowers, Roy Vernon, 1897-

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American book dealer. From the description of Correspondence, 1952-1957. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122540896 ...

Wilson, Adrian

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Biographical Information Adrian Wilson was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan on July 1, 1923 to Dutch immigrants, Adrian P., a horticulturist at the University, and Christine Wilson. When Adrian was seven years old, Adrian P. Wilson moved the family to Amherst, Massachusetts, where he worked at Smith College. Adrian graduated high school in 1941 and went onto study at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. However, his studies were cut sho...

Antin, Charles.

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Wood, Casey A. (Casey Albert), 1856-1942

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Casey Albert Wood, Canadian physician, was born in Wellington, Ontario, November 21, 1856. He was educated at Ottawa College Institute, Lennoxvllle University, and McGill University. He was a member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Ontario. He practiced medicine in Montreal for some years . He was professor of chemistry and pathology at Lennoxville University, 1878-85 and was consulting ophthalmic surgeon to Cook Co. and St. Anthony Hospitals. In 1890 he was appointed professor of opht...

Taylor & Taylor.

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Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973

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Pearl S. Buck was the daughter of American missionary parents, and spent the first seventeen years of her life in China. Her third novel, The Good Earth, won the Pulitzer Prize, and a Nobel Prize for literature followed, citing The Good Earth as well as her biographies of her parents. Critical reception for her works has been mixed since these early successes. A prolific and optimistic author, most of her fiction is set in China, and she displays great affection for the place and her characters....

Mason, Roger Burford

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Brasch, Frederick E. (Frederick Edward), 1875-1967

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Frederick E. Brasch was educated at Stanford University (1899), the University of California (1901), and Harvard (1916). He worked as a librarian at Stanford, in Chicago, St. Paul, MN, and in Washington, D.C. before becoming chief of the Library of Congress scientific collection in 1925. He served as corresponding secretary of the history of science section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science from 1920 through 1928. Brasch died in 1967. From the description of ...

Schad, Jasper G., 1932-

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Powell, Lawrence Clark

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Biography Brian Laird is an author, attorney, and law professor who produced books on tape and videotaped recordings of readings by Lawrence Clark Powell (1906-2001), a prominent author and university librarian at UCLA. In the late 1990s, Laird produced audio collections of Glowing Heart of the World and Lawrence Clark Powell's Southwest which were published by Singing Wind Audio. Laird also recorded Powell reading his novel, The Blue Train, ...