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Henry Clay Folger’s Deltiological Profile, Part II
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Henry Clay Folger’s Deltiological Profile, Part II

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Stephen H. Grant

A Guest Post by Stephen Grant Fig. 1 Picturesque Truckee River View on S.P.R.R. Collators, we pick up from the series of picture postcards Henry Folger sent to his wife Emily in Brooklyn during his Standard Oil Company business trips…

Emily Jordan Folger’s Deltiological Profile
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Emily Jordan Folger’s Deltiological Profile

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A guest post by Stephen Grant It would be more than a stretch to claim that Henry and Emily Folger were deltiologists, that is, as Collins Dictionary reminds us, persons who collect and study picture postcards. However, postcards played a…

An evolution of cataloging at the Folger, from 1932 to today
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An evolution of cataloging at the Folger, from 1932 to today

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Although the Folger Shakespeare Library officially opened on Shakespeare’s birthday in 1932 and readers began arriving at the Library in early 1933, it wasn’t until later that the idea of a proper card catalog for readers’ use was introduced. For…