Randolph Greenfield Adams Papers, undated.

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Randolph Greenfield Adams Papers, undated.

Collection includes photostats of essays written by Adams. The essays are about collecting books for the Trinity College Library along with Professor William K. Boyd and Allan Gilbert.

4 items (1 folder)

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Trinity College (Durham, N.C.). Library.

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In 1887 the Trinity College Library was created when two rival literary societies combined their book collections and added them to the few books already owned by the school. The Columbian Society, founded in 1846, and the Hesperian Society, founded in 1851, maintained libraries for their members and competed in acquiring books. According to the Trinity College Catalogue, by 1860 each society held 2,200 volumes, while the school itself held only 650. In 1887, new president John Fran...

Gilbert, Allan H., 1888-1987

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Cornell University Class of 1909, Ph.D. 1912. From the description of Allan H. Gilbert reminiscence, 1979. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 77010758 Professor of English at Duke University, specialist in Renaissance Italy. From the description of Gilbert H. Allan Papers, 1927-1976. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 47942686 From the description of Papers, 1926-1976. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 82026560 ...

Adams, Randolph Greenfield, 1892-1951

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Randolph Greenfield Adams was an Assistant Professor in History at Duke University from 1921-1923. From the description of Randolph Greenfield Adams Papers, undated. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 227206656 Director of William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan. From the description of Randolph G. Adams papers, 1923-1950. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 80292571 From the description of Randolph G. Adams papers...

Boyd, William Kenneth, 1879-1938

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William Kenneth Boyd (1879-1938) was a historian, professor, and director of the library at Duke University. During his career at Duke and Trinity College, he published widely and helped to collect and preserve personal papers and books about Southern and North Carolina history. From the description of William Kenneth Boyd papers, 1851-1956. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 60654579 William Kenneth Boyd was born on January 10, 1879, in Curryville, ...