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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Charles Carpenter, Collector, Papers, A&M 1773, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

Scrapbooks maintained by Charles Carpenter, Grafton, between 1939-1963. Subjects include descriptions of libraries, book and manuscript collections, museums, rare and unusual books, magazines, book reviews, newspapers, and advertisements for books. There are items as early as 1838, 1875, 1898, 1905, 1917, but the mass of the collection is in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Recurrent topics include book auctions, book burnings, the dime novel, the Freedom Train, the Gutenberg Bible, Hyde Park Library, Incunabula, the Library of Congress, "London Times Notes on Sales," The Morgan Library, New York Times magazine and book review, New York Times columnists (Philip Brooks, Edward Larocque Tinker, and Herbert W. Horwill), and stamps. There are also letters concerning books from Charles Carpenter's son. For more detailed description, see inventory sheet.

Related Material

57, 1773, 2106, 2119

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Authors -- Letters and papers
• Bible records
• Brooks, Philip
• Carpenter, Charles, 1889-1975
• Coal mining - Strip mining.
• Freedom Train
• Genealogy
• Gutenberg Bible
• Horwill, Herbert H.
• Hyde Park Library
• Library of Congress
• New York Times
• Schools -- Books
• Stamp Collecting and Stamps.
• Taylor County (W. Va.)
• The Morgan Library
• Tinker, Edward Larocque, 1881-1968