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| Title: | Condit, Lester. Papers |
|---|---|
| Dates: | 1931-1945 |
| Accession Number: | 2022-014 |
| Size: | 4 linear feet (2 boxes) |
| Repository: |
Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center |
| Abstract: | Lester Condit was a librarian who received his PhD from the Graduate Library School at the University of Chicago. |
This collection is open for research.
When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Condit, Lester. Papers, Acc #, Box #, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library
This collection contains the papers of Lester Condit, born 1893 in King’s Creek, Ohio. Upon completing his undergraduate studies at Miami University in 1917, he went on to work at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington for eight years. During that time he received his master’s degree from Ohio State University in 1925 and went on to complete his PhD from the Graduate Library School at the University of Chicago with the thesis “Studies in Roman Printing Type of the 15th Century.” Along with the Library of Congress, he held numerous positions at The New York Public Library in 1926, the John Crerar Library from 1926-1927, Newberry Library from 1929-1931, and the Henry E. Huntington Library from 1931-1933. This collection contains his research and writings on incunabula and library management, as well as various correspondence related to World War II. This material would be of interest to any researchers in the field of library science and history, as well as those interested in the history of the University of Chicago’s Graduate Library School.
| Box 1 | Correspondence, 1936-1945 |
| Box 1 | Convocation Programs, 1931 |
| Box 1 | Selected Poems of Ruben Dario translated from Spanish, Folder 1, n.d. |
| Box 1 | Selected Poems of Ruben Dario translated from Spanish, Folder 2, n.d. |
| Box 1 | Personal documents and receipts, c. 1931-1938 |
| Box 1 | Essay, “Six Months in the White House”, n.d. |
| Box 1 | Correspondence on “Reprints, Counterfeits, and Reproductions.”, 1938 |
| Box 1 | Correspondence, Institutiones Quintiliana 1493, c. 1932 |
| Box 1 | Research, “A Provisional Index to Roman Printing Types in the 15th century”, n.d. |
| Box 1 | Application materials, Library of Congress, c. 1931 |
| Box 1 | Fraternity Exercises, Folder 1, 1938 |
| Box 1 | Fraternity Exercises, Folder 2, 1938 |
| Box 1 | Research, “A Pamphlet about Pamphlets”, n.d. |
| Box 1 | Bibliographies and Notes, “Clippings” and “A Pamphlet about Pamphlets”, n.d. |
| Box 1 | Correspondence and publications, Today (devotional publication), 1944 |
| Box 1 | Correspondence and manuscript, The Occult Digest, c. 1938-1939 |
| Box 1 | Research on incunabula, Folder 1, c. 1932 |
| Box 1 | Research on incunabula, Folder 2, c. 1932 |
| Box 1 | Research on incunabula, Folder 3, c. 1932 |
| Box 1 | Condit, Lester, “A Pamphlet about Pamphlets.” Copy 1, Folder 1, n.d. |
| Box 1 | Condit, Lester, “A Pamphlet about Pamphlets.” Copy 1, Folder 2, n.d. |
| Box 1 | Condit, Lester, “A Typographical Classification of Incunabula.”, Folder 1, n.d. |
| Box 1 | Condit, Lester, “A Typographical Classification of Incunabula.”, Folder 2, n.d. |
| Box 1 | Correspondence and writings, libraries in New Mexico and Nevada, c. 1939 |
| Box 1 | Condit, Lester, “An American Almanac for Vigilantes, Klansmen, and Other Patriots.”, Folder 1, 1939 |
| Box 1 | Condit, Lester, “An American Almanac for Vigilantes, Klansmen, and Other Patriots.”, Folder 2, 1939 |
| Box 1 | Notes, Sketches, and Outlines, n.d. |
| Box 1 | Sketches, “Bibliometer” and “Incunbulameter”, n.d. |
| Box 1 | Condit, Lester, “A Pamphlet about Pamphlets” Copy 2, Folder 1, n.d. |
| Box 1 | Condit, Lester, “A Pamphlet about Pamphlets” Copy 2, Folder 2, , n.d. |
| Box 1 | Research, “Lists on New Books”, 1944 |
| Box 1 | Research on Inter-legislative Conferences, n.d. |
| Box 1 | Correspondence, 1944-1945 |
| Box 1 | Research on alphabetized first names, n.d. |
| Box 1 | Correspondence on pamphlets, 1938 |
| Box 1 | Correspondence and research, War Department, 1944 |
| Box 1 | Research, Academia Garça Rio de Janeiro, n.d. |
| Box 1 | Correspondence, 1944 |
| Box 1 | Editor’s Preface, “American Imprints , no. 7”, n.d. |
| Box 1 | Writings, “Clipping”, n.d. |
| Box 1 | U.S. Army Signal Security Division Signal Intelligence Library, “The System of Classification in the Signal Intelligence Library, Arlington, 1942 |
| Box 1 | Annotations, “Directories, Guides, and Registers”, n.d. |
| Box 1 | Research on library equipment, c. 1937 |
| Box 1 | Condit, Lester. “Reprints, Counterfeits, and Reproductions.” The Library Quarterly, Vol. 8 No. 3, July 1938 |
| Box 1 | “The Birthday Almanac.”, 1940 |
| Box 1 | Condit, Lester. A Provisional Index of Roman Types of the Fifteenth Century. University of Chicago Press, Copy 1, 1935 |
| Box 1 | Condit, Lester. A Provisional Index of Roman Types of the Fifteenth Century. University of Chicago Press, Copy 2, 1935 |
| Box 1 | Condit, Lester. “Bibliography in its Prenatal Existence.” The Library Quarterly. Vol. 7 No. 4, October 1937, Copy 1, 1937 |
| Box 1 | Condit, Lester. “Bibliography in its Prenatal Existence.” The Library Quarterly. Vol. 7 No. 4, October 1937, Copy 2, 1937 |
| Box 1 | Condit, Lester. “Bibliography in its Prenatal Existence.” The Library Quarterly. Vol. 7 No. 4, October 1937, Copy 3, 1937 |
| Box 1 | Condit, Lester. A Pamphlet about Pamphlets. The University of Chicago Press, 1939 |
| Box 1 | Condit, Lester. “Studies in Roman Printing Types of the Fifteenth Century.” Dissertation, 1933 |
| Box 1 | McMurtrie, Douglas C. “A Bibliography of Books, Pamphlets and Broadsides Printed at Canandaigua, New York 1799-1850.” Grosvenor Library Bulletin. Vol. 21 No. 4, 1939. |
| Box 1 | Mead, Herman Ralph. Incunabula Medica in the Huntington Library. Harvard University Press, 1931 |
| Box 1 | Hurt, John B. Rationale of the Japanese Written Language, n.d. |
| Box 1 | Medical Examination Record and Correspondence, 1942 |
| Box 2 | Short Essays, labelled unpublished, n.d. |
| Box 2 | Research on library statistics, n.d. |
| Box 2 | Research and facsimiles on Roman type, c. 1936 |