Papers, 1888-1959 (bulk 1888-1918)

American Library Association

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The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally. Founded in 1876, it is the oldest and largest library association in the world....

Newberry Library

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

Newberry Library. Technical Services Dept.

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Following a two-year experiment (1931-1933) with a Technical Department head, a single technical services administrator, responsible for cataloguing, classification, and ordering, was not reappointed until 1959 when Mabel Erler served for three years as head of the Technical Processes Department. In 1965, a unified department was formed again under Bernard Wilson (1965-1967), and continued under Technical Services librarians David Stam (1967-1971), Richard Seidel (1971-1989), and Margaret Brenne...

Newberry Library. Reader Services Dept.

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In 1916 the Public Services (Reference) Division was created consisting of the Main Reading Room, Department of History and Genealogy, Edward E. Ayer Collection, and Exhibition Room. Between 1916 and 1961 five librarians administered the Division: Gerald M. W. Teyen (1916-1919), William S. Merrill (1919-1928), Edwin E. Willoughby (1929-1930), John T. Windle (1931-1948), and Ben C. Bowman (1949-1962). In 1962 the Division of Public Services was disbanded and the head of e...

Bibliographical Society of Chicago

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The Bibliographical Society of Chicago (BSC) was formed in 1899 at a meeting convened by Aksel Gustav Salomon Josephson to organize a "society with the object to further bibliographical research." Early concerns of the society included bibliographical scholarship related to English works and the accessibility of rare books held in private collections. The BSC elected to produce a publication that contained scholarly work related to bibliography and also relayed the actions of the society and its...

Cheney, John Vance, 1848-1922

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Author and librarian. From the description of Papers of John Vance Cheney, 1862-1927. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80582296 American author and librarian. From the description of Papers of John Vance Cheney, 1848-1922. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 31685645 John Vance Cheney, author and librarian, grew up at Dorset, Vermont, studied law, and was admitted to the bar. He found legal work irksome, however and moved to California. From 1873...

Wire, George E., 1859-1936.

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Cole, George Watson, 1850-1939

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Epithet: Librarian Henry E Huntington Library British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000498.0x0000ab George Watson Cole: school teacher, 1872-1876; admitted to Massachusetts Bar, 1876, and practiced law until 1885; from 1885-1886 compiled the Classified Catalogue of the Fitchburg Public Library; in 1886 became Librarian of the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn; from 1888-1891 worked for Newberry Library in Chicago; from 189...

Chicago Library Club

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Merrill, William Stetson, 1866-

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William Stetson Merrill graduated from Harvard in 1888. From the description of Student theses, forensics, and themes, 1886-1888. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77073129 Librarian at the Newberry Library and author of Code for Classifiers, 1914. Born Jan. 16, 1866, and educated at Harvard (1888), William Stetson Merrill worked briefly in banking before coming to the Newberry June 1, 1889. Responsible for the accession book, Merrill was soo...

Martel, Charles, 1860-1945

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Starr, Ellen Gates 1859-1940

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Ellen Gates Starr (1859-1940) was an educator, social activist, and co-founder of Hull-House. Friends since their student days at Rockford Female Seminary, Ellen Gates Starr and Jane Addams founded Hull-House in 1889. There, Starr taught art appreciation classes and was active in the labor movement. Inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement, Starr studied with the English bookbinder T.J. Cobden Sanderson and opened a hand bookbinding shop at Hull-House in 1898. After converting to Catholicism and...

Roden, Carl B. (Carl Bismarck), 1871-1956

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Fourth chief librarian of the Chicago Public Library, who conducted research for a biography of William Frederick Poole, the first librarian of both the Chicago Public Library and the Newberry Library. From the description of Carl B. Roden - William F. Poole research papers, 1852-1956. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 52908239 ...

Cutter, Charles A. (Charles Ammi), 1837-1903

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Boston Athenaeum librarian and library systematizer. From the description of Letters received, 1880-1883. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 166325294 Athenaeum librarian, 1869-1892. From the description of Letters : from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 1878. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 41479582 ...

Newberry Library Centre for University Extension.

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Poole, William Frederick, 1821-1894

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Librarian of the Newberry Library. From the description of Letter : Chicago, to Sarah K. Bolton, Cleveland, 1890 Oct. 24. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 550365576 American librarian and bibliographer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Chicago, to Mr. Ford, 1887 Jan. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270617952 Historian, librarian, and first Librarian of the Newberry Library. Born in Massachusetts in 1821...