Edgar S. Oppenheimer papers, ca. 1945-1959.

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Edgar S. Oppenheimer papers, ca. 1945-1959.

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Records of one of the greatest private collections of children's books compiled in the twentieth century; contains correspondence and invoices from booksellers, notes on Oppenheimer's collection, and files about other collections of children's books.

5 cubic feet.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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BERES, PIERRE

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Oppenheimer, Edgar S., 1885-1959.

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German immigrant to the United States, resided at 880 Fifth Avenue, New York, and assembled one of the largest collections of children's books in the world, built entirely after World War II. One of the major collections he acquired was that of F.R. Bussell's English children's books from the seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. The Morgan Library borrowed some 100 books from Oppenheimer for its exhibition of early children's books in 1954. After Oppenheimer's death, portions of his coll...

Bussell, F. R.

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