Jacob Blanck correspondence, 1923-1935.

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Jacob Blanck correspondence, 1923-1935.

Consists of letters to Blanck from various correspondents, mostly friends from Boston, but also from a few writers about whom he was doing bibliographical work. Includes 9 letters from Joseph Presser, 34 letters from Harold Koplow Zimmerman, and 9 drawings in pencil and crayon by Hyman Bloom.

1 box (.5 linear ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7795267

Houghton Library

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Bloom, Hyman, 1913-2009

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Painter; Cambridge, Mass. Born near Riga, Latvia in April 1913. Immigrated to Boston in 1920 and began painting and drawing classes, taught by Harold Zimmerman at a settlement house. Worked for the WPA in the early 1930s. From the description of Hyman Bloom drawings, 1927-1931. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84557404 Painter; Cambridge, Mass. Born near Riga, Latvia in April 1913. Immigrated to Boston in 1920 and began paintin...

Presser, Joseph,

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Blanck, Jacob, 1906-1974

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American bibliographer. From the description of Letter : to William Targ, 1957 Apr. 17. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122617123 Jacob Blanck's career as a bibliographer and editor included positions as rare book editor of Publishers Weekly and Antiquarian Bookman, 1936-1952; bibliographer in Americana at the Library of Congress, 1939-1941; and editor of Bibliography of American Literature, 1943-1974. He al...

Zimmerman, Harold Koplow

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