Conference presentation
Filling the Treasure Room: Professor Carl Milton Brewster and the Development of Rare Book Collections at Washington State University, 1938-1950
Washington State University
Pacific Northwest History Conference
04/17/2009
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000000013
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/1950
Abstract
With limited resources, but boundless enthusiasm, President Holland and a handful of faculty including Professor of Organic Chemistry, Carl Milton Brewster, set the foundation for Washington State University's Rare Book collections. Dr. Brewster is no longer well known on campus, but during his career at WSU he donated more than 5,000 books to the library. Professor Brewster collected a wide range of books, but he was especially interested in the history of science, Anti-Mormonism, and dictionaries. Among his gifts to the WSU Library, were a 1670 edition of Thomas Blount’s Glossographia or A Dictionary, Interpreting the Hard Words of Whatsoever Language and a first edition of the Book of Mormon.
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- Title
- Filling the Treasure Room: Professor Carl Milton Brewster and the Development of Rare Book Collections at Washington State University, 1938-1950
- Creators
- Trevor James Bond (Author)
- Conference
- Pacific Northwest History Conference
- Academic Unit
- Libraries
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Identifiers
- 99900502311701842
- Copyright
- openAccess ; http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/OpenAccess
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Conference presentation