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What Was in Rufus King’s Library?
From Edward Hale Brush’s _Rufus King and His Times_ (1926). This might be from the 1860s when King’s son John Alsop King lived in the house with the books. It is unclear if this was really King’s...
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Personal Collection to Rare Book Room: The Travels of Rufus King’s Library
Rufus King, 1755-1827 I think it’s very important that we understand the provenance of the collections we use in libraries and archives. Robert Darnton has said that when we consider the difficulties...
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A Family Legacy: The King Library in Bensalem, Pennsylvania
King Library in Bensalem, PA – started 1882, completed 1888. This last installment in the King and book history series will examine the King Library in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, an institution founded by...
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The Dispersal of Libraries in Soviet Russia in the 1920s-1930s
Nicholas II bookplate On February 19, the Columbia Book History Colloquium hosted Harriman Institute scholar-librarian Edward Kasinec, whose talk “Book Treasures for Tractors: The Dispersal of...
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The Library of William H. Seward
Seward statue in Seward Park in Auburn, NY. The house museum is in the background. This past weekend I went to Auburn, New York to visit the historic house museum of William H. Seward. I had heard of...
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