Dodd, Mead & Company archive, 1896-1974.

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Dodd, Mead & Company archive, 1896-1974.

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The Dodd, Mead and Company Archive consists of two linear feet of material, spanning the dates 1896-1974. The archive is comprised of correspondence, contracts, photographs, wills, probate documents, biographies, drafts, notes, copyright documents, poems, printed programs, ephemera, and clippings. This selection of the company files details the business arrangements between the publisher and various Black American authors, including Arna Bontemps, Benjamin Brawley, Orde Coombs, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, and Alan Lomax (with Raoul Abdul).

2.6 linear feet (8 boxes)

University of Delaware Library, Hugh M Morris Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7949861

University of Delaware Library, Hugh M Morris Library

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Dodd, Mead & Company

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In 1839 Moses W. Dodd purchased an interest in a New York publishing firm established by John S. Taylor. The following year he severed his connection with Taylor and continued alone until his retirement in 1870. He was succeeded by his son, Frank H. Dodd, who, with his cousin Edward S. Mead, formed the firm Dodd & Mead. A retail department was added to the firm and in 1876 Bleecker Van Wagnen was taken as a partner. The firm was then renamed Dodd, Mead & Company. From the guide to t...