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Papers of Carl H. Milam (1884-1963), Executive Secretary of the ALA (1920-48), including reports, programs, papers presented and notes concerning the Second International Congress of Libraries and Bibliography (Madrid, 1935) and the session on Popular Libraries, which Milam chaired; a scrapbook including news clippings, programs, reports, photographs, invitations and badges of the International Federation of Library Associations (Stockholm, 1930) attended by Sarah C.N. Bogle; and published transactions of the 14th and 15th International Federation for Documentation Conferences (Oxford-London, 1938; Zurich, 1939). The series includes chronological files of library correspondence (1907-09, 1922-25, 1933-63); biographical sketches (1915-64) and obituaries (1963); correspondence dealing with Milam's resignation from ALA (1948) and with the U.N. Library (1947-52, 1958-62); general correspondence (1910-48, 1950-62); publication reprints (1920-38, 1942-57); manuscripts and correspondence of Milam's planned book on library careers.
Manuscript authors include Sarah Dowlin Jones, Ray M. Fry, Emerson Greenaway, Beatrice Sawyer Rossell, Gretchen Knief Schenk, Lawrence Clark Powell, Fern Long, Charles H. Compton, Frances Clarke Sayers, Jerrold Orne, Dorothy M. Drake, Althea Warren, Jean Lowrie, Ruth M. Tews, and Virginia A. Staggers.
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