FINDING AID AVAILABLE
George Haven Putnam papers
- Title
- George Haven Putnam papers, 1887-1930, bulk (1914-1930)
- Author
Collection information
Finding aid
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Details
- Additional authors
- Description
- 6 linear feet (18 boxes and 5 v.)
- Summary
- Collection consists of correspondence, minutes and printed matter relating to Putnam's efforts to establish and improve copyright legislation in the U.S.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Scrapbooks.
- Call number
- MssCol 2507
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Source (note)
- Putnam, Emily (Mrs. George Haven Putnam)
- Biography (note)
- George Haven Putnam (1844-1930) was a publisher and author best known for his commitment to the establishment of national copyright legislation in the U.S. and to American adherence to the international copyright Convention of Berne.
- Processing action (note)
- Cataloged
- Author
- Putnam, George Haven, 1844-1930.
- Title
- George Haven Putnam papers, 1887-1930, bulk (1914-1930)
- Restricted access
- Restricted access; Manuscripts and Archives Division; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Biography
- George Haven Putnam (1844-1930) was a publisher and author best known for his commitment to the establishment of national copyright legislation in the U.S. and to American adherence to the international copyright Convention of Berne. After serving in the U.S. Civil War, he entered his father's publishing house, G.P. Putnam's Sons. He assumed the presidency of the firm in 1872 and became an authority on the legal implications of copyright. In 1886 he formed the American Publishers' Copyright League and the English Speaking Union in the U.S.
- Finding aids
- Collection guide available in repository and on internet.
- Connect to:
- Added author
- Bowker, R. R. (Richard Rogers), 1848-1933.
- Harper, J. Henry (Joseph Henry), 1850-1938.
- Holt, Henry, 1840-1926.
- Morrow, William.
- Scribner, Charles, 1854-1930.
- Solberg, Thorvald, 1852-1949.
- Stokes, Frederick.
- Allies Bazaar.
- National Association of Book Publishers.
- LCCN
- ms 70001698
- Research call number
- MssCol 2507
- MssCol 6410