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Additional authors

1. Avery, Samuel Putnam, 1822-1904.
2. Bowker, R. R. (Richard Rogers), 1848-1933.
3. Dewey, Melvil, 1851-1931.
4. Goudy, Frederic W. (Frederic William), 1865-1947.
5. Koopman, Harry Lyman, 1860-1937.
6. Rudge, William Edwin, 1876-1931.
7. Saunders, Frederick, 1807-1902.
8. Stokes, I. N. Phelps (Isaac Newton Phelps), 1867-1944.
9. American Library Association.
10. Astor Library.
11. Bibliographical Society of America.
12. Columbia University. Library.
13. Howard Memorial Library.
14. New York Library Club.
15. Newberry Library.
16. Twilight Club (New York, N.Y.)
17. United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.

Description

1. 5 linear feet (12 boxes).

Summary

1. Collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, legal and financial documents, reports, organizational records, scrapbooks, photographs, and printed matter that document Nelson's career.

Subject

1. Librarians
2. Indexers
3. Bibliographers
4. Scrapbooks
5. Photographs
6. Waltham (Mass.) > History
7. United States > History > 1865-1898
8. Southern States > History > 1865-1951
9. New Bern (N.C.) > History
10. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > North Carolina
11. Library administration > United States
12. Bibliography > Societies, etc
13. Harvard University Alumni and alumnae
14. Nelson family
15. Nelson, Charles Alexander, 1839-1933

Genre/Form

1. Photographs.
2. Scrapbooks.

Call number

1. MssCol 2114

Access (note)

1. Restricted access;

Source (note)

1. Wetzel, Reinhard A., Mrs.

Biography (note)

1. Charles Alexander Nelson (1839-1933), librarian and bibliographer, was a Reconstruction administrator in New Bern, North Carolina, for a decade following the U.S. Civil War. He returned to the North in 1875 and worked until 1909 in various libraries. He published bibliographies, indexed books and organizational records, wrote articles, and was a founding member in 1876 of the American Library Association.

Processing action (note)

1. Cataloged

Author

1. Nelson, Charles Alexander, 1839-1933.

Title

1. Charles Alexander Nelson papers, 1850s-1930s.

Restricted access

1. Restricted access; Manuscripts and Archives Division; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Biography

1. Charles Alexander Nelson (1839-1933), librarian and bibliographer, was a Reconstruction administrator in New Bern, North Carolina, for a decade following the U.S. Civil War. He returned to the North in 1875 and worked until 1909 in various libraries. He published bibliographies, indexed books and organizational records, wrote articles, and was a founding member in 1876 of the American Library Association.

Finding aids

1. Collection guide available in repository and on internet.

Connect to:

1. Finding Aid

Occupation

1. Bibliographers.
2. Indexers.
3. Librarians.

Added author

1. Avery, Samuel Putnam, 1822-1904.
2. Bowker, R. R. (Richard Rogers), 1848-1933.
3. Dewey, Melvil, 1851-1931.
4. Goudy, Frederic W. (Frederic William), 1865-1947.
5. Koopman, Harry Lyman, 1860-1937.
6. Rudge, William Edwin, 1876-1931.
7. Saunders, Frederick, 1807-1902.
8. Stokes, I. N. Phelps (Isaac Newton Phelps), 1867-1944.
9. American Library Association.
10. Astor Library.
11. Bibliographical Society of America.
12. Columbia University. Library.
13. Howard Memorial Library.
14. New York Library Club.
15. Newberry Library.
16. Twilight Club (New York, N.Y.)
17. United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.

LCCN

1. ms 73000681

Research call number

1. MssCol 2114