Papers of E. Millicent Sowerby [manuscript], 1967-1980.

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Papers of E. Millicent Sowerby [manuscript], 1967-1980.

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Include a copy of her memoirs "Rare people and rare books"; an interview, 1972, with Sowerby at Bridgewater State College about her career particularly at the Library of Congress working on the Jefferson catalogue, and with A.S.W. Rosenbach; letters to Nan Netherton from Sowerby regarding her career and from Virginia Warren and Dorothy M. Harms concerning Sowerby; a photograph; and some clippings including an obituary.

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Harms, Dorothy.

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Sowerby, E. Millicent (Emily Millicent)

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Bibliographer. The first woman to work in Sotheby's Rare Book Department, she later worked for many years at the Rosenbach Company and the Thomas Jefferson Collection of the Library of Congress. From the description of ALsS and photograph : to Frederick Richmond Goff, [ca. 1968]-1975. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122645480 ...

Netherton, Nan

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Nan Netherton was an author and historian who wrote books about the origins, growth and customs of communities in Northern Virginia. The books include pictorial and narrative histories of a dozen Virginia counties. Some of the books that she wrote are "Fairfax County Virginia: A History" (1978), "Clifton: Brigadoon in Virginia" (1980), and "Books and Beyond: Fairfax County Public Library's First Fifty Years" (1990). She died on June 9, 2003 in Arlington, Virginia. From the descriptio...

Rosenbach, A.S.W. (Abraham Simon Wolf), 1876-1952

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Warren, Virginia B. (Virginia Burgess)

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Virginia Warren lived in Illinois and conducted genealogical research. She was a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy through her grandfather, James Osgood Andrews (Co. F - later D - 54th Regiment Georgia Infantry, CSA). Addie Fulton Lynch lived in Georgia and was married to Arnum Lynch (d. 1884). She was the daughter of Dr. James and Margaret C. Williams (his second wife), and the granddaughter of Florence Barnard Fulton. From the description of Virginia Warren collecti...