Papers of Herbert Putnam, 1783-1958 (bulk 1899-1939).

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Papers of Herbert Putnam, 1783-1958 (bulk 1899-1939).

Family and general correspondence, family diaries and journals, speeches, articles, scrapbooks, legal papers, genealogical material, autograph collection, and printed matter, chiefly 1899-1939. The papers relate largely to Putnam's family and personal life and include diaries and letters of many members of the Putnam and allied O'Hara, Pinkey, and Mason families. Also included are papers relating to Putnam's interests and activities in the field of librarianship, especially to his work as director of the Boston Public Library, and his position as Librarian of Congress (1899-1939), the latter including information on the Library's purchase of the Vollbehr Collection and the establishment of the Trust Fund Board. Family members represented prominently in the papers include his father, publisher George Palmer Putnam, his sister, historian Ruth Putnam, his daughter, sculptress Brenda Putnam, and his wife, Charlotte Elizabeth (Munroe) Putnam. Correspondents include James T. Adams, Charles W. Eliot, Luther Evans, Worthington C. Ford, Waldo G. Leland, Archibald MacLeish, Agnes Meyer, Charles Moore, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., Theodore Roosevelt, Ainsworth R. Spofford, and Egerton Swartwout.

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Meyer, Agnes Elizabeth Ernst, 1887-1970

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Agnes Elizabeth Ernst, journalist, author, and lecturer, was born in New York City. In 1910 she married Eugene Meyer, a financier who purchased The Washington Post in 1933. The Meyers lived in Mount Kisco, New York, and Washington, D.C., where Agnes Meyer was active in government service and social reform. ...

Spofford, Ainsworth Rand, 1825-1908

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Ainsworth Rand Spofford (September 12, 1825 – August 11, 1908) was an American journalist and the sixth Librarian of Congress. Spofford was born in Gilmanton, New Hampshire. Ill health prevented him from attending Amherst College. He instead, at age 19, moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he became a bookseller, publisher, and newspaper man. In 1849 Spofford founded the Literary Club of Cincinnati with John Celivergos Zachos, Stanley Matthews (judge) and 9 others founded. One year later Ruthe...

Boston Public Library

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Library of Congress

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O'Hara family.

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Leland, Waldo Gifford, 1879-1966

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Historian. From the description of Reminiscences of Waldo Gifford Leland : oral history, 1955. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309726749 Leland earned his Harvard AM in 1901. From the description of Notes in Government 4, lectures by E. H. Strobel, 1901-1902. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77074498 From the description of Notes in Economics 10, 1900-1901. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77074440 ...

Moore, Charles, 1855-1942

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Swartwout, Egerton, 1870-1943

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Macleish, Archibald

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Mason family.

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Vollbehr, Otto H. F. (Otto Heinrich Friederich), 1869-

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German book collector. From the description of Otto H. F. Vollbehr writings, 1931-1934. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754867931 Biographical/Historical Note German book collector. From the guide to the Otto H. F. Vollbehr writings, 1931-1934, (Hoover Institution Archives) ...

Putnam, Brenda, 1890-1975

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Putnam, Charlotte Elizabeth Munroe, d. 1928.

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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

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Adams, James Truslow, 1878-1949

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Putnam family.

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Pinkey family.

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Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1870-1957

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Putnam, Herbert

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Putnam, George Palmer, 1814-1872

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Evans, Luther Harris, 1902-1981

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED Educator & librarian. He was Director of the Historical Records Survey, Director of the Legislative Reference Service at the Library of Congress, Librarian of Congress from 1945 to 1953, Director General of UNESCO, and Director of the international and legal collections at the Columbia University Libraries, 1962-1971. From the guide to the Luther Evans Papers, 1952-1970, (Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) Librarian of Congress. ...

Putnam, Ruth, 1856-1931

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Library of Congress Trust Fund Board

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