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- Title
PROFESSORS AND TYCOONS: THE CREATION OF GREAT RESEARCH LIBRARIES IN THE AMERICAN WEST.
- Authors
HURTADO, ALBERT L.
- Abstract
This essay explains why several western research libraries emerged and the relationship between wealthy benefactors and well-known historians. The story of these indispensable institutions and the people who created them is a significant chapter in the early twentieth-century intellectual history of the American West and the historical profession.
- Subjects
SAN Marino (Calif.); CALIFORNIA; RESEARCH libraries; BANCROFT Library; HUNTINGTON Botanical Gardens; LIBRARY benefactors; FARRAND, Max
- Publication
Western Historical Quarterly, 2010, Vol 41, Issue 2, p149
- ISSN
0043-3810
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/westhistquar.41.2.0149