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Booksellers and bookselling.

 Subject
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Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Booksellers' catalogs

 Collection — Manuscript box 87 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924070748755]
Identifier: 8049m
Scope and content

"Houghton, Mifflin and Company's Out-Door Books for Summer Reading," ca. 1885; F. E. Grant, Bookseller, "The Most Beautiful Books of the Season," ca. 1895 and "Special Holiday List... selected from the Catalogue of Houghton, Miffliln & Co.; "General Catalogue of Maps, Atlases, Map Routing Systems, etc.," by C. S. Hammond & Co.; four New York State Education Department, Division of Educational Extension "Traveling Library" booklets;

Dates: [ca. 1885-1921]
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Booksellers' catalogs

Carl A. Kroch papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 13-1-2790
Abstract

Carl A. Kroch (1915-1999) owned and operated the Chicago-area bookstore chain Kroch’s and Brentano’s from 1947-1986. This collection includes diaries, a typescript memoir, photographs, and other personal items, as well as business records from Kroch’s and Brentano’s and records pertaining to Kroch’s gifts to Cornell University in the 1980s and 1990s.

Dates: 1958-1998.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Carl A. Kroch papers

T. Stafford Dronne letter

 Collection — Manuscript box 24 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065244646]
Identifier: 445m
Scope and content Letter to Dronne's cousin, written from Brooklyn, New York, mostly about the book trade. Dronne describes the passion for "club" publications, paid for by many eager subscribers, in the 1860s, and gives a detailed description of the Bladensburg Series, issued in 1865. The series consists of a reprint of the Bladensburg Races, a satirical poem on President Madison and his administration originally published in 1816, and A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madison, by Paul Jennings. Dronne...
Dates: 1901 December 2.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / T. Stafford Dronne letter

Templeton family letters

 Collection — Manuscript box 3 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065239927]
Identifier: 473
Scope and content Letters (1832-1842) from James Templeton of Hennepin, Illinois to his brother Samuel Templeton of New Berlin, Union County, Pennsylvania, on bookselling, land settlement, the costs of land, animals, building, weather conditions, crops, and the need of money. Letters (1849-1856) from Sam Templeton of Freeport, Illinois, to Philip Grass of New Berlin on labor, land, produce, interest costs, the need of a post office and craftsmen, a description of a prairie fire, and on the raising of wheat...
Dates: 1832-1856.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Templeton family letters

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