‘An Idea Likely Too Big’: John B. Stetson University’s Pursuit of an Academic Carnegie Library in the Early Twentieth Century

Notes

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• Ibid.
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• SUL Archives, Nineteenth Catalogue of John B. Stetson University DeLand, Florida 1903–1904 (DeLand, FL: E. O. Painter & Company, Printers, 1904), p. 9.
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• SUL Archives, Fifth Annual Catalogue of the Officers and Students of John B. Stetson University 1889–1890 (DeLand, FL: The Florida Agriculturist, 1890), p. 26.
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• Ibid., pp. 4–6.
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• SUL Archives, Gordis, ‘John B. Stetson University’, ch. 3, p. 12.
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• SUL Archives, Twenty-First Annual Catalogue of John B. Stetson University, DeLand, Florida, 1905–1906 (DeLand, FL: E. O. Painter Printing Company, 1906), p. 18.
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• Cohen D.K., ‘Andrew Carnegie and Academic Library Philanthropy: The Case of Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida’, Libraries & Culture, 35·3 (Summer 2000), 395.
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• SUL Archives, James Bertram to Lincoln Hulley, 1 December 1905.
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• SUL Archives, Lincoln Hulley to Andrew Carnegie, 27 November 1905.
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• SUL Archives, Lincoln Hulley to Andrew Carnegie, 19 December 1905.
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• SUL Archives, James P. Bertram to Theodore Search, 6 December 1905.
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• SUL Archives, Lincoln Hulley to Theodore Search, 7 December 1905.
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• CCNY, microfilm reel 39, James Bertram to Lincoln Hulley, 15 March 1906.
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• SUL Archives, Lincoln Hulley to Andrew Carnegie, 24 January 1906.
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• As yet one more example of Hulley downplaying the Baptist connection, instead of ‘yes’ or ‘no’, he answered ‘as Yale or Princeton’ to the question ‘Denominational?’ in the General Education Board application for funding. Lycan, p. 128.
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• SUL Archives, Lincoln Hulley to Andrew Carnegie, 24 January 1906.
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• According to a New York Times article (‘Carnegie Aids Stetson University’, New York Times, 26 March 1906), John B. Stetson had promised $100,000 in matching funds before his death. It may be assumed that Hulley provided this information to the paper, but it is an indication that Hulley was probably fairly certain the new endowment would be provided by Stetson.
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• CCNY, microfilm reel 39, James Bertram to Lincoln Hulley, 30 January 1906.
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• Ibid., p. 399.
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• CCNY, microfilm reel 39, James Bertram to Lincoln Hulley, 6 February 1906.
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• CCNY, microfilm reel 39, Lincoln Hulley to James Bertram, 9 February 1906.
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• CCNY, microfilm reel 39, James Bertram to Lincoln Hulley, 13 February 1906.
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• CCNY, microfilm reel 39, Lincoln Hulley to James Bertram, 17 February 1906.
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• CCNY, microfilm reel 39, James Bertram to Whitfield & King, 9 March 1906.
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• CCNY, microfilm reel 39, Lincoln Hulley to James Bertram, 3 and 7 March 1906.
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• CCNY, microfilm reel 39, James Bertram to Lincoln Hulley, 12 March 1906.
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• SUL Archives, Director’s files, Stetson Endowment file, ‘Stetson Family Creates Library Fund to Honor the Memory of Elizabeth Shindler Stetson’, Stetson Gift Matter [2006?], p. 8.
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• CCNY, microfilm reel 39, Lincoln Hulley to James Bertram, 13 April 1906.
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• CCNY, microfilm reel 39, James Bertram to Lincoln Hulley, 16 April 1906.
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• CCNY, microfilm reel 39, James Bertram to William Blackburn, 8 January 1906.
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• SUL Archives, Twenty-Fourth Annual Catalogue of John B. Stetson University, DeLand, Florida, 1908–1909 (DeLand, FL: E. O. Painter Printing Company, 1909), p. 20.
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• SUL Archives, ‘O. Bowen, History of Stetson University’ (unpublished manuscript), 1967, p. 30.
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• The Library Address by President Lincoln Hulley on Presentation Day 21 February 1908 at Stetson University, The Gospel Herald (c. 1908), p. 9.
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• Ibid., p. 11.
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• Ibid., p. 12.
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• While only the Stetson University and Rollins College applications are directly referenced in this article, the author examined the applications and accompanying documentation from a number of Carnegie-funded academic libraries. The patterns of correspondence, application, and approval were remarkably similar. All of the applications and documentation are in CCNY, microfilm reels 37, 38, and 39. (Note: while the cataloguing records for the records indicate ‘microfilm’ and are therefore cited as such, the actual records are in microfiche.)
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• Ibid., p. 11.
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