Paul Bunyan Collection
Scope and Contents
The Paul Bunyan Collection is divided into eleven series. The collection contains approximately 200 books, 20 boxes of manuscript material, and 10 boxes of art and realia.
Dates
- Creation: undated
Creator
- Charters, W.W. (Werrett Wallace), 1921- (Person)
- Stanford, E.B. (Person)
Language of Materials
English
Access and Use:
Collection is open for researchers with no restrictions. Registration with the collection is required.
Copyright:
This collection is protected by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S. Code). It is the user's responsibility to verify copyright ownership and to obtain all necessary permissions prior to the reproduction, publication, or other use of any portion of these materials.
Biographical / Historical
The Paul Bunyan Collection of the Children's Literature Research Collections, at the University of Minnesota, was established in 1960 with the gift of an extensive group of books, pamphlets, photographs, etc., the result of many years' active collecting by the late Professor W. W. Charters of Ohio State University. Since then gifts from a variety of friends and purchases by the library have produced a sizeable assemblage of books, manuscripts, pamphlets, reprints, newspaper clippings, drawings, photographs, phonograph records and other memorabilia.
Among much noteworthy material are the W. B. Laughead papers, secured through the good offices of Elwood Maunder, Executive Director, Forest History Foundation, and which include inter alia original cartoons, extensive correspondence - mainly with Max Gartenberg, Louis A. Maier, Franklin J. Meine and Archie Walker, sketches and finished drawings, a file of Red River Lumber Company ads from the American Lumberman and Mississippi Valley Lumberman from 1915 to 1949, and stories both in pamphlet and manuscript form. From James Stevens of Seattle we have received an extensive collection of his manuscripts (again thanks to Mauder), correspondence - mainly with Alfred Knopf and H. L. Mencken, but including letters from Stuart Chase, Louis Adamic and William Green of the AFL, clippings, photographs, and so on. Dorothy Moulding Brown of Madison, Wisconsin, another notable collector of Paul Bunyan lore, donated a variety of material, which is now a part of the collection.
Extent
000 Linear Feet
Arrangement
The records are organized into eleven series:
- Series 1a: Books - Paul Bunyan Collection (listed in tray order)
- Series 1b: Books - Archival Collection
- Series 2: Periodicals
- Series 3: W.W. Charters Papers
- Series 4: James Stevens Papers
- Series 5: Red River Lumber Company Papers (W.B. Laughead)
- Series 6: Paul Bunyan Story Manuscripts, Poetry, Plays, and Recordings
- Series 7: Paul Bunyan Art
- Series 8: Paul Bunyan Collection Miscellaneous Holdings
- Series 9: Paul Bunyan Ephemera
- Series 10: Paul Bunyan Collection Correspondence
Physical Location
See Detailed Descriptions for Each Title Item for Box Locations
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The Paul Bunyan Collection of the Children's Literature Research Collections, at the University of Minnesota, was established in 1960 with the gift of an extensive group of books, pamphlets, photographs, etc., the result of many years' active collecting by the late Professor W. W. Charters of Ohio State University. Since then gifts from a variety of friends and purchases by the library have produced a sizeable assemblage of books, manuscripts, pamphlets, reprints, newspaper clippings, drawings, photographs, phonograph records and other memorabilia.
Gift of: Charters, W.W.
Subject
- Bunyan, Paul (Legendary character) (Person)
- Title
- Paul Bunyan Collection
- Author
- John Barneson, Jim Eyer, and E.B. Stanford
- Date
- 7/07/2005
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Description is in English
Collecting Area Details
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