Librarian/Trustee Committee on Books correspondence, 1909-1949.

Newberry Library. Board of Trustees. Committee on Books.

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Established by the Board of Trustees on 16 June 1892, the Committee on Books was responsible for the selection and purchase of all library materials. Between 1887 and 1892 Trustees Eliphalet W. Blatchford and William H. Bradley met with Librarian William F. Poole for the purpose of discussing and selecting books to be purchased for the Library. Notes and book lists from these meetings are in the Minutes of the Board of Trustees (02/01/30). From the descriptio...

Newberry Library. Office of the President and Librarian.

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Director and Librarian (later President and Librarian) L. W. Towner initiated the preparation of organizational charts for insertion in the annual report. Charts were also issued irregularly to document major administrative and organizational changes. From the description of Organizational charts, 1964-[ongoing] (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 26521516 Reports in this format were begun by Lawrence W. Towner when he was appointed ...

Spoor, John A. (John Alden), 1851-1926

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Martin, Horace H., 1855-1925.

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Butler, Pierce, 1886-1953

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Carlton, W. N. C. (William Newnham Chattin), 1873-1943

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Librarian and author, third Librarian of the Newberry Library, 1909-1920. Born in England, Carlton moved in 1882 to the United States for his schooling. Prior to Carlton's tenure at the Newberry, he served as librarian at Trinity College, Conn. While at the Newberry, Carlton reorganized and systemized all library procedures; he abandoned the Rudolph Indexer catalogue, revived the card catalogue, and started using Library of Congress cataloguing for the collections. In 19...

McLaughlin, Andrew C. (Andrew Cunningham), 1861-1947

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Professor of history at the University of Michigan and the University of Chicago. From the description of Andrew C. McLaughlin papers, 1881-1947. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34422024 American constitutional historian. McLaughlin served as chairman of the Department of History at the University of Chicago from 1906 until 1927, as professor until 1929, and as emeritus from 1929 until 1936. From the description of Papers, 1881-1944 (inclusive). (Un...

Craigie, William A. (William Alexander), Sir, 1867-1957

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Detterer, Ernst Frederick, 1888-1947

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Forsythe, Robert S. (Robert Stanley), 1886-1941

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Robert Stanley Forsythe was a member of the Department of English at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, N.D. From the description of Letter to Horace Howard Furness, Jr., 1929. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155883252 ...

Hambleton, Chalkey Jay, 1881-1956.

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Carpenter, Frederic Ives, 1861-1925

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Epithet: Professor of English at Chicago British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000986.0x0001c9 Professor of English. A.B., Harvard University, 1885. Ph. D., University of Chicago, 1895. Docent, University of Chicago, 1895-1897; instructor, 1897-1902; assistant professor, 1902-1904; associate professor, 1904-1910; professor, 1911. From the description of Papers, 1885-1925 (inclusive). (University of Chicag...

Oakley, Horace Sweeney, 1861-1929.

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Chicago lawyer and civic leader. Horace Oakley was born in Prescott, Wisconsin on June 2, 1861. He received a law degree from National University in Washington, D.C. in 1881 and then studied literature at the University of Michigan. He then returned to Chicago to practice law and was admitted to the bar in 1883. Soon afterwards he became associated with the firm of Ball and Oakley which eventually became Wood and Oakley. The two partners, Mr. Charles B. Wood and Mr. Oakl...