TY  - GEN
AU  - Putnam,Herbert
AU  - Jacobi,Mary Putnam
AU  - O'Hara,Eliot
AU  - O'Hara,Shirley Putnam
AU  - Pinhey,Amy Putnam
AU  - Putnam,Brenda
AU  - Putnam,Charlotte Elizabeth Munroe
AU  - Putnam,C.H.
AU  - Putnam,George Palmer
AU  - Putnam,Israel
AU  - Putnam,Ruth
TI  - Herbert Putnam papers,
KW  - Adams, James Truslow,
KW  - Eliot, Charles William,
KW  - Evans, Luther Harris,
KW  - Ford, Worthington Chauncey,
KW  - Leland, Waldo Gifford,
KW  - MacLeish, Archibald,
KW  - Meyer, Agnes Elizabeth Ernst,
KW  - Moore, Charles,
KW  - Olmsted, Frederick Law,
KW  - Roosevelt, Theodore,
KW  - Spofford, Ainsworth Rand,
KW  - Swartwout, Egerton,
KW  - Vollbehr, Otto H. F.
KW  - Mason family.
KW  - O'Hara family.
KW  - Pinhey family.
KW  - Putnam family.
KW  - Boston Public Library
KW  - Library of Congress
KW  - Officials and employees
KW  - Trust Fund Board
KW  - Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress)
KW  - Autographs
KW  - Collections
KW  - Incunabula
KW  - Libraries
KW  - Massachusetts
KW  - Boston
KW  - Washington (D.C.)
KW  - Library science
KW  - Librarians of Congress
KW  - itoamc
N1  - Open to research; Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material
N2  - 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
ER  -