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By Salvatore V. De Sando
Collection Overview
Title: Charles B. Norton and S. Hastings Grant Papers, 1850-1866, 1884, 1915
Predominant Dates:1853
ID: 97/1/21
Primary Creator: Norton, Charles B. (1825-1891)
Other Creators: Grant, S. Hastings (1828-1910)
Extent: 0.7 Cubic Feet
Arrangement: Arranged by media format and alphabetically by subject title and chronologically by date thereunder
Date Acquired: 09/11/1973
Subjects: Grant, S. Hastings, Librarians' Convention, 1853 (New York City), Literary Register, Mercantile Library Association (New York), Norton's Literary Gazette, Norton, Charles B., Publishers Circular
Languages: English
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Papers of Charles B. Norton (1825-91), editor of Norton's Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular, and S. Hastings Grant (1828- 1910), librarian of the Mercantile Library Association of New York, contains correspondence and statistical forms concerning periodical subscriptions, gifts of the Literary Register, library statistics and information, and arrangements for and proceedings of the Librarians' Convention of September 1853, includes correspondence with Charles C. Jewett (Smithsonian), Daniel C. Gilman (Yale), Reuben A. Guild (Brown), William S. Rhees (Smithsonian), James Green (Baltimore Mercantile Library Association), John W. Dean (Boston), Edward Capen (Boston Public Library ), Samuel Haven (American Antiquarian Association), John Tappan (University of Michigan Library), William P. Curtis (Mercantile Library Association, St. Louis), Philip Forbes and W.S. Butler (New York Society Library), R. H. Stephenson (Cincinnati Mercantile Library Association), Lloyd P. Smith (Library Company of Philadelphia), and E.C. Arnold (Young Men's Association, Milwaukee).
Biographical Note
Charles B. Norton (1825-1891) was born in Hartford, Connecticut on July 1, 1825. He was a publisher most known for his Literary Gazette, the country's first library periodical. In the Literary Gazette is where the first library convention of 1853 was proposed, the predecessor to the American Library Association. Norton also arranged the reunion of 1853 attendees that the 1887 ALA Conference at the Thousand Islands. He died in Chicago in 1891 while helping to plan the Columbian Exposition.
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Administrative Information
Repository:
The American Library Association Archives
Access Restrictions:
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Other Note:
33 Pages
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URL:
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Series 1: Correspondence and Statistical Forms Describing Individual Libraries],
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Series 2: Librarians Convention],
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- Series 1: Correspondence and Statistical Forms Describing Individual Libraries
- Box 1
- Folder 1: Alabama, 1853-1855
- Digitized
- Folder 2: California, 1854-1861
- Digitized
- Folder 3: Colorado, 1860
- Digitized
- Folder 4: Connecticut, 1853-1865
- Digitized
- Folder 5: Delaware, 1853-1854
- Digitized
- Folder 6: District of Columbia, 1853-1884
- Digitized
- Folder 7: Georgia
- Digitized
- Folder 8: Illinois, 1853-1864
- Digitized
- Folder 9: Indiana, 1853-1855
- Digitized
- Folder 10: Kentucky, 1853-1854
- Digitized
- Folder 11: Louisiana, 1852-1856
- Digitized
- Folder 12: Maine, 1852-1865
- Digitized
- Folder 13: Maryland, 1853-1865
- Digitized
- Folder 14: Massachusetts, 1853-1865
- Digitized
- Folder 15: Michigan, 1853-1860
- Digitized
- Folder 16: Minnesota, 1853
- Digitized
- Folder 17: Mississippi, 1853-1857
- Digitized
- Folder 18: Missouri, 1851-1864
- Digitized
- Folder 19: New Hampshire, 1853-1864
- Digitized
- Folder 20: New Jersey, 1852-1865
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- Folder 21: New York - S. H. Grant, 1853-1865
- Digitized
- Folder 22: New York - C. B. Norton, 1853-1858
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- Folder 23: North Carolina, 1853
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- Folder 24: Ohio, 1850-1864
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- Folder 25: Pennsylvania, 1853-1865
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- Folder 26: Rhode Island, 1853-1861
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- Folder 27: South Carolina, 1853
- Digitized
- Folder 28: Tennessee, 1853-1860
- Digitized
- Folder 29: Vermont, 1850-1853
- Digitized
- Folder 30: Virginia, 1853-1859
- Digitized
- Folder 31: Wisconsin, 1853-1859
- Digitized
- Folder 32: Other Materials
- Includes “A Librarian’s Job: A Los Angeles (California) Reporter’s Idea from the Los Angeles Times. Folder digitized.
- Series 2: Librarians Convention
- Box 2
- Folder 1: Microfilm of Scrapbook, 1853
- Folder 2: Photostats, 1853
- Includes a Call for Conference, Invititation for Reception, Press Account, and Reports in Norton's Literary Gazette, October 15, 1853. File is digitized.
- Folder 3: Photostats-Letters, 1853
- Includes letters from Charles C. Jewett to S. Hastings Grant. Letters from May 11, August 16, and November 14, 1853.
- Folder 4: Norton's Literary Register, 1854
- Digitized
- Folder 5: Proceedings of Librarians Convention
- Contains 1 bound hardcover (1853) and 1 paperback reprint, Torch Press (1915)
- Folder 6: Scrapbook, 1853
- Scrapbook contains Call for Conference, Correspondence, Invitation for Reception, Press Account, and reports in Norton's Literary Gazette, October 15, 1853.
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