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    George Herbert Putnam (September 20, 1861 – August 14, 1955) was an American librarian. He was the eighth (and also the longest-serving) Librarian of Congress...
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  • Putnam's Sons George Haven Putnam (1844–1930), American soldier, publisher, author, son of George Palmer Putnam George Herbert Putnam (1861–1955), lawyer, publisher...
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    their sons, Herbert Putnam (1861–1955), became a noted librarian who served as the Librarian of Congress. Their youngest daughter Ruth Putnam (1856–1931)...
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    Harriet Putnam Fowler (1842–1901), author & poet Herbert Putnam (1861–1955), American library administrator & publishing-family member Israel Putnam (1718–1790)...
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    Jefferson's organization scheme until the late 19th century, when librarian Herbert Putnam began work on a more flexible Library of Congress Classification structure...
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  • Copyright Commission under the direction of the Librarian of Congress, Herbert Putnam, contained a provision that a special copyright symbol, the letter C...
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  • The Putnam Classification System is a library classification system developed by George Herbert Putnam. Putnam was the librarian at the Minneapolis Athenaeum...
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  • The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, often abbreviated to Putnam Competition, is an annual mathematics competition for undergraduate college...
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  • Herbert Putnam (1861–1955), American library administrator and publishing-family member Hilary Putnam (1926–2016), American philosopher Howard Putnam...
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  • tenure as Librarian ended with his death in 1899, and his successor, Herbert Putnam, continued to implement the updates to the catalog through his long...
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    Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi (née Putnam; August 31, 1842 – June 10, 1906) was an English-American physician, teacher, scientist, writer, and suffragist...
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    rules and appointing the library's staff. Up until the nomination of Herbert Putnam in 1899 under President McKinley, all previous librarians lacked any...
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    Haven Putnam A.M., Litt.D. (April 2, 1844 – February 27, 1930) was an American publisher, soldier, and writer. He was the president of G. P. Putnam's Sons...
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    October 1897 – January 1898 Preceded by Justin Winsor Succeeded by Herbert Putnam Personal details Born Rutherford Platt Hayes (1858-06-24)June 24, 1858...
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    originally serialized in Galaxy magazine in 1969, and then published by Putnam the same year. Dune Messiah and its own sequel Children of Dune (1976) were...
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    Penguin Group. The company began as Wiley & Putnam with the 1838 partnership between George Palmer Putnam and John Wiley, whose father had founded his...
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    joined the retiring Librarian of Congress Herbert Putnam for a luncheon in New York. At the meeting, Putnam relayed his intention to continue working...
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    books and pamphlets authored by African Americans at the request of Herbert Putnam, the successor to Spofford. The collection of work by "Negro Authors"...
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    Washington's First Inaugural Address (1789). Librarian of Congress Herbert Putnam collected the Declaration and Constitution from the State Department...
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    Putnam (June 3, 1890 – October 18, 1975) was an American sculptor, teacher and author. She was the daughter of Librarian of Congress Herbert Putnam and...
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  • 1863) 1954 – Hugo Eckener, German pilot and designer (b. 1868) 1955 – Herbert Putnam, American lawyer and publisher, Librarian of Congress (b. 1861) 1956...
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    short-lived Putnam Classification System, developed by Minneapolis librarian Herbert Putnam. He later became Librarian of Congress, and revised his Putnam system...
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  • Mircea Demetriade, Romanian poet and actor (died 1914) September 20 – Herbert Putnam, American Librarian of Congress (died 1955) October 16 – J. B. Bury...
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  • Herbert Putnam Wilkins (born January 10, 1930) is an American jurist who served as chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court from 1996...
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  • Library, Indiana University Mary Wright Plummer Effie Louise Power Herbert Putnam – 8th Librarian of Congress S.R. Ranganathan – librarian and mathematician...
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  • California in the early 1900s. Working with Librarian of Congress Herbert Putnam, Engel raised private funds to support the first post of Chair of American...
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  • The White Plague, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1982. Man of Two Worlds (with Brian Herbert), New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1986. High-Opp: WordFire Press...
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    by William McKinley Preceded by Ainsworth Rand Spofford Succeeded by Herbert Putnam United States Minister to the Qing Empire In office August 17, 1882 –...
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  • W. Wilson Rosenberg, Jane Aiken.(1993) The Nation's Great Library: Herbert Putnam and the Library of Congress, 1899–1939. (University of Illinois Press...
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    information. The legislation authorized the Librarian of Congress, Herbert Putnam, to "employ competent persons to prepare such indexes, digests, and...
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