Papers, 1873-1981.

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Papers, 1873-1981.

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Consists of the correspondence, family papers, and items collected by George Alexander Ball, 1862-1955, his wife, Frances Emily (Woodworth) Ball, 1872-1958, and their daughter, Elisabeth Woodworth Ball, 1897-1982, of the Ball glass manufacturing family of Muncie, Indiana. Additional materials include a journal of a trip to Panama in 1913, a child's school slate, glass lantern and rotary slides, Chinese cut-outs, and a photograph album documenting a turn-of-the-century railroad journey entitled "All Aboard for Colorado." There are notebooks containing catalogs of the Ball book collection and writings by Miss Ball including "The Child Discovers Its World Through Books of Travel," delivered at the University of Texas at Austin and printed in LIBRARY OCCURRENT in 1944.

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Stone, Wilbur Macey

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Born Winona, Minnesota Nov. 30, 1862; collector of children's books; studied at Stevens Institute; est. office in New York as patent attorney and mechanical engineer; designer of bookplates. From the description of Letter : New York, to Frank Chouteau Brown, Boston, 1901 Nov. 22. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 58534356 American collector of children's books. From the description of Autograph letter signed with initials : East Orange, N.J., to Mrs. Amos L...

Owen, Charles Todd.

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Stonehill, Charles Archibald, 1900-....

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Ball, George A.

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Ball, Elisabeth, 1897-1982

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Kimbrough, Emily, 1899-1989

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Writer. From the description of Signature, dated : [[n.p., n.d.], [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270918426 ...

McKell, David McCandless, 1881-

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Walker, Dugald Stewart, 1883-1937

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From the guide to the Dugald Stewart Walker Papers, undated, (University of Minnesota Libraries Children's Literature Research Collections [clrc]) ...

Ball, Frances Emily, 1872-1958.

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Welch, d'Alté A. (d'Alté Aldridge), 1907-1970.

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Opie, Peter.

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Epithet: folklorist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001569.0x000245 ...

McKearin, George S. (George Skinner), 1874-

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Ball family.

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Parma, V. Valta, 1878-1941.

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Brigham, Clarence S. (Clarence Saunders), 1877-1963

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Clarence Saunders Brigham (1877-1963) began his distinguished library career while a student at Brown University. After graduation in 1899 he was appointed librarian of the Rhode Island Historical Society and in 1908 he left that position to accept the offer of the librarian's post at the American Antiquarian Society. He was named director of the Society in 1930 and was made its president in 1955. He resigned fifty-one years after he began working in Worcester. Brigham was a dedicated librarian ...

Montgomery, Lall G., 1902-

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Indiana Boys' School

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