Papers, 1895-1949.

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Papers, 1895-1949.

Collection consists of correspondence, articles, photographs, clippings, notes, memorabilia, and printed material related to Goodwin's career as a librarian. Includes material concerning his activities as a student at the Univ. of Wisconsin and at the New York State Library School, Albany. Contains material related to his professional career, as head of stacks and loans at Stanford Univ. Library, Librarian of the Univ. of Texas and as Librarian of UCLA. Also contains research materials about Goodwin assembled by Linda L. West.

10 boxes (5 linear ft.)1 oversize folder.

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Goodwin, John Edward, 1876-1948.

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Goodwin was born in 1876; attended Univ. of Wisconsin and New York State Library School, Albany; became head of stacks and loans at Stanford Univ. Library; Librarian, Univ. of Texas; became Librarian, Univ. of California Southern Branch (later UCLA) in 1923; in 1923, the UCLA library had a staff of twelve and a collection of 42,000 volumes; by his retirement in 1944, UCLA's collection had increased to 52 staff members and 462,000 volumes; died in 1948. From the description of Papers,...

University of California, Los Angeles. Library

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Powell was a librarian, Strashun the curator at the music library, and Whiting the curator of rare books at the UCLA library (at the respective times of correspondence). Sproul was president of UCLA from 1930 to 1958. From the description of Correspondence with Alma Mahler and Isolde Klarmann, 1946-1947, 1978. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155864679 ...