Brief Description:

Papers of George W. Cole (1850-1939), treasurer of ALA (1893- 96), including correspondence about his beginnings in library work, his year at the Columbia School of Library Economy, the school after it moved to Albany, New York, his inquiries concerning payment of ALA dues (1893-1896) and articles to appear in Library Journal (1901-1906).

Correspondents include E.H. Anderson, Martha H.G. Banks, R.R. Bowker, William Brett, Arthur N. Brown, Henry J. Carr, Charles A. Cutter, William Cutter, H.E. Davidson, Melvil Dewey, Theresa West Elmendorf, R.P. Hayes, Helen E. Haines, Frank P. Hill, Annie B. Jackson, Ada A. Jones, Alice B. Kroeger, Josephus N. Larned, Mrs. E.S. Lewis, George T. Little, Margaret D. mcGuffey, Sarah H. Minor, W.E. Parker, Annie Parsons, Frank Patten, Mary W. Plummer, J. Herbert Senter, Thorvald Solberg, Lucy Stevens, Mabel Temple, A.W. Tyler, Henry M. Utley, Beatrice Winser, and Ernest D. Worth.

Record Series Number: 2/3/20

Created by: Cole, George W. (1850-1939)

Volume: 0.1 Cubic Feet

Acquired: 9/11/73

Arrangement: Chronological

Biographical Note for Cole, George W. (1850-1939) : George Watson Cole was a librarian and bibliographer born in 1850 in Warren Connecticut. He worked in libraries at Fitchburg, Massachusetts and the Pratt Institute before attending Melvil Dewey's library school at Columbia College in 1888. He later worked for the Newberry Library in Chicago and then the Free Public Library of Jersey City, New Jersey from 1891-1895. He then served as librarian of the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery from 1915-1924. He died on Octoboer 10, 1939.

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Related Materials: George Watson Cole Papers, Huntington Institutional Archives, HIA 30.1.1-2: https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8h41vmb/; George Watson Cole Papers, Yale University Archives, MS 143: https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/12/resources/3031