Putnam, Herbert 1861-1955 creator mixed material monographic eng 8,000 35 1 14 Correspondence, diaries, journals, speeches, articles, legal records, genealogical material, autograph collection, printed matter, and scrapbooks relating chiefly to Putnam's family and personal life. Includes correspondence, diaries, and journals of members of the Putnam and allied Mason, O'Hara, and Pinhey families. Also includes papers pertaining to Putnam's interests and activities in the field of librarianship, especially as director of the Boston Public Library and Librarian of Congress. Subjects include the purchase by the Library of Congress of the Otto Vollbehr Collection of incunabula and the establishment of the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board. Family members represented include his grandmother, C.H. Putnam; father, George Palmer Putnam; sisters, Amy Putnam Pinhey, Mary Putnam Jacobi, and Ruth Putnam; wife, Charlotte Elizabeth Munroe Putnam; daughters, Brenda Putnam and Shirley Putnam O'Hara; son-in-law, Eliot O'Hara; and Israel Putnam, Revolutionary War general. Correspondents include James Truslow Adams, Charles William Eliot, Luther Harris Evans, Worthington Chauncey Ford, Waldo Gifford Leland, Archibald MacLeish, Agnes Elizabeth Ernst Meyer, Charles Moore, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., Theodore Roosevelt, Ainsworth Rand Spofford, and Egerton Swartwout. Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. Photographs and engravings transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Librarian of Congress, 1899-1939. Full name: George Herbert Putnam. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room. Collection related to the Library of Congress Archives. Adams, James Truslow 1878-1949 Correspondence Eliot, Charles William 1834-1926 Correspondence Evans, Luther Harris 1902-1981 Correspondence Ford, Worthington Chauncey 1858-1941 Correspondence Leland, Waldo Gifford 1879-1966 Correspondence MacLeish, Archibald 1892-1982 Correspondence Meyer, Agnes Elizabeth Ernst 1887-1970 Correspondence Moore, Charles 1855-1942 Correspondence Olmsted, Frederick Law 1870-1957 Correspondence Roosevelt, Theodore 1858-1919 Correspondence Spofford, Ainsworth Rand 1825-1908 Correspondence Swartwout, Egerton 1870-1943 Correspondence Vollbehr, Otto H. F. (Otto Heinrich Friederich) 1869- Mason family O'Hara family Pinhey family Putnam family Boston Public Library. Library of Congress. Library of Congress Officials and employees Library of Congress. Trust Fund Board. Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress) Autographs Collections Incunabula Libraries Massachusetts Boston Libraries Washington (D.C.) Library science Librarians of Congress Jacobi, Mary Putnam, 1842-1906 O'Hara, Eliot, 1890-1969 O'Hara, Shirley Putnam, 1886- Pinhey, Amy Putnam. Putnam, Brenda, 1890-1975 Putnam, Charlotte Elizabeth Munroe, -1928 Putnam, C. H. (Catherine Hunt), 1792- Putnam, George Palmer, 1814-1872 Putnam, Israel, 1718-1790 Putnam, Ruth, 1856-1931 mm 77037093 Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. DLC 770929 20260227111618.0 mm 77037093 eng