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Formal title:: Rollo G. Silver papers
Extent:: 12.0 Linear feet
Date range:: 1815-1986 (bulk 1923-1986)
Abstract:: Rollo G. Silver (1909–1989) was an American book collector and historian of American printing, typography, and publishing as created by white people in the European printing tradition. Rollo and Alice (Gindin) Silver also created a major collection of books and manuscripts relating to Walt Whitman. This collection contains correspondence, research on publishers and typographers, specimens of type and a miniature toy printing press.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: MS.2013.001

Formal title:: Herbert Eugene Walter papers
Extent:: 12.5 Linear feet
Date range:: 1844-1948 (bulk 1885-1945)
Abstract:: The Herbert E. Walter papers span from 1844-1948 and consist primarily of correspondence, and teaching materials by and relating to Herbert Eugene Walter (1867-1945), Professor of biology at Brown University. The collection includes extensive material on the study of eugenics, then a branch of biology, including correspondence, teaching materials, notes, pamphlets, published materials, and ephemera from eugenics-related professional organizations. Other significant materials include family papers from Walter’s parents, grandparents and extended family who lived primarily in Vermont. There are penmanship instruction books from the 1840s-1850s created by Walter’s father, Augustus Porter Walter (d.1872), who was a penmanship instructor in Vermont. Betsie Ann Brockway Walter described in detail her experience working in a textile mill in Lowell, Massachusetts during 1860-1861 in letters she wrote to her future husband Augustus P. Walter.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: MS.1UF.W1

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