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Collectors and Collecting

JOSEPH BISTAYI HUNGARIAN SOUND RECORDINGS COLLECTION, n.d.
Recordings collected by Joseph Bistayi, Hungarian-American resident of Birmingham neighborhood in East Toledo. Olive Colton Collection, 1867-1961
The collection consists of twenty-two (78 rpm) recordings of Hungarian dances and Gypsy melodies. MSS-086, .25 linear feet.

OLIVE A. COLTON COLLECTION, 1867-1961.
Suffragist, pamphleteer, philanthropist, and world traveler from Toledo, Ohio (1873-1972).
The bulk of the collection consists of postcards and scrapbooks. Colton traveled extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and the world collecting post cards from all of the places she visited. There is also considerable information on her activities as a woman suffragist. Colton was a founder of Toledo's League of Women Voters in 1921, a member of the National Woman's Party in the 1930s, and served as a delegate to Carrie Chapman Catt's Woman's Centennial Congress in 1940. Materials in the collection include pamphlets, correspondence (1909 -1961), clippings, and autographs. MSS-008, 4 linear feet.

DONALD D. DUHAIME COLLECTION, 1776-1977. [PDF version]
Collector of Civil War and nineteenth century materials.
This eclectic collection includes items that were acquired independently of one another. Types of materials include: subject files (1776-1975); minutes and reports (1868-1869, 1967); correspondence (1843-1945); speeches (1845-1946); almanacs (1829-1918); dime novels (1889-1909); newspapers; legal documents (1781-1962); financial documents (1850-1938); Civil War military documents (1861-1915); certificates (1855-1933); postcards, valentines and school keepsakes (1927-1930); sheet music (1849-1975); scrapbooks, advertisements and political memorabilia, photographic material, booklets, pamphlets, photo albums, philatelic materials, material culture, posters, broadsides, and prints. MSS-077a, 23 linear feet.

DONALD D. DUHAIME COLLECTION ALASKA PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION, 1943-1944. [PDF version]
An album containing personal photographs and professional postcards.  The images primarily document the time period Mr. Duhaime was in Alaska, between 1943 and 1944, although the dates on the postcards range from 1887 to 1919.  It is an eclectic collection of landscapes, wildlife, sled dogs, natives, soldiers, celebrities, architecture, and culture (religion, fishing, village life). MSS-019, 3 inches (396 items).
See also: entry under War, Soldiers, and Veterans.   

HARRY J. DURHOLT PAPERS, 1935-1978. [PDF version]
Vice president, Owens-Illinois (b.1894).
Papers document Durholt's career with the Libbey division of the Owens-Illinois Glass Company through correspondence; reports (1935-1958); scrapbook materials (1949-1971); maps, charts and graphs (1910-1959); printed material (including some glassware catalogs) (1933-1957) and photographs of the Libbey plant (1949-1951). The collection also documents Libbey plants in Europe. MSS-063, 1 linear foot.
See also: entry under Business and Commerce, Glass Industry.

CARL U. FAUSTER COLLECTION, 1893-1986. [PDF version]
Assistant Advertising Manager, Libbey Glass Company. Also an avid glass collector (d.1992).
Consists primarily of manuscripts of Fauster's book, Libbey Glass Since 1818: Pictorial History & Collector's Guide (1979), as well as papers, publications, and photographic material pertaining to the research and publication of that work. MSS-068, 1 linear foot.

WARREN D. HANSCOM CHAUTAUQUA COLLECTION, 1927-1984.
Actor, impersonator, director, and producer on the Chautauqua and Lyceum circuits in the U.S. and Canada. Chautauqua was the first form of adult education: traveling entertainment that included lectures, music, plays, and other performances.
Collection consists of materials collected during Hanscom's career including clippings, newsletters, programs, a typescript, photographs, and two books. MSS-104, .5 linear feet.

MAHER FAMILY COLLECTION, 1757-1938. [PDF/A version]
Prominent Toledo family.
Collection consists primarily of letters to William H. Maher (1846-1913), a businessman, writer, and political reformist, but also includes letters written to his wife Anne (Kelsey) Maher, as well as a few written to their daughter Amy Grace Maher, feminist and social activist. William also purchased a number of autograph letters and signatures from the Revolutionary, Early National, and Civil War eras. MSS-005, 6 inches.

JOHN POAG COLLECTION, 1867-1886 and 1890-1899. [PDF version]
Lawyer of Toledo, Ohio (ca. 1860-1899).
This collection contains personal, business, and political correspondence; legal and financial documents; and 5 albums of European photographs. MSS-020, 3 linear feet.
See also: entries under Business and Commerce and Travel.

RUBY T. SCOTT PAPERS, 1690-1966. [PDF/A version]
Professor of English, University of Toledo (1891 - 1966).
Primary focus of the collection is a group of autograph letters and other documents of British origin (1690-1905). Other materials include correspondence, genealogical material, poetry, photographs, and a scrapbook that document Scott's professional and personal life. MSS-006, 1.8 linear feet.

DENNIS SOLDNER COLLECTION, 1900.
Toledo resident, collector.
A collection of photographs taken by an unknown traveler on a trip around the eastern United States in 1900. Some of the areas represented are Toledo, Cleveland, Archbold, and Canton, Ohio; Brooklyn , New York; and Johnstown Pennsylvania. MSS-116, 3 linear inches.

NOEL STOCK PAPERS, 1886-1983.
Author and translator, professor of English, University of Toledo (b.1929).
Much of the collection relates to Stock's publications, A Call To Order, The Life of Ezra Pound, and Ezra Pound's Pennsylvania, and includes typescripts, publishers' galleys, page proofs, news clippings, and reviews. Stock also corresponded with Pound's wife Dorothy, daughter Mary de Rachewiltz, and mistress Olga Rudge. Materials associated directly with Pound include correspondence (including letters to Pound from Wyndham Lewis), reviews, news clippings, photographs, school and church memorabilia, and an FBI transcript of Pound's interrogation in Genoa. MSS-009, 2 linear feet. 

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