Theodore Wesley Koch papers, 1894-1941.

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Theodore Wesley Koch papers, 1894-1941.

Correspondence, articles and pamphlets, papers relating to his books and articles, and topical files relating to his interest in Carnegie Libraries, literary forgeries, the work of the American Library Association's Library War Service during World War I, library Americanization programs, 1919-1921, and the library building of University of Michigan; also photographs. Correspondents include: Randolph G. Adams, Levi L. Barbour, Albert N. Barrett, Charles F.D. Belden, Ewald A. Boucke, Richard R. Bowker. Edouard Champion, Arthur L. Cross, Isaac N. Demmon, Lloyd C. Douglas, Charles Evans, Robert H. Fife, Byron A. Finney, Henry W. Foote, Hamlin Garland, Fredericka Gillette, Francis L.D. Goodrich, Edward E. Hale, Benjamin W. Huebsch, Harry B. Hutchins, Myra B. Jordan, Alfred A. Knopf, Emil Lorch, Nathan W. MacChesney, Douglas C. McMurtrie, William S. Mason, Carl H. Milan, the National Committee of the United States for the Restoration of the University of Louvain, Charles E. Norton, William A. Otis. Herbert Putnam, E.C. Richardson, Walter H. Sawyer, Walter D. Scott, Franklin B. Snyder, Burton E. Stevenson, Albert M. Todd, Andrew D. White, Halsey W. Wilson, and Stefan Zweig.

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