{"id":1367,"date":"2013-08-07T14:30:31","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T14:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/?p=1367"},"modified":"2013-08-08T19:44:57","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T19:44:57","slug":"the-traveling-bibliographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2013\/08\/07\/the-traveling-bibliographer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Traveling Bibliographer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/08\/cole-postcard-collection0001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1368\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/08\/cole-postcard-collection0001-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/08\/cole-postcard-collection0001-300x191.jpg 300w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/08\/cole-postcard-collection0001-1024x653.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/08\/cole-postcard-collection0001.jpg 1602w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>George Watson Cole (1850-1939), the first librarian of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huntington.org\/\">Huntington Library<\/a>, was a pioneer of modern bibliography who set a standard few have matched with the catalogs of the collections of <a href=\"http:\/\/ctwweb.wesleyan.edu:7002\/vwebv\/holdingsInfo?bibId=522795\">Americana<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/ctwweb.wesleyan.edu:7002\/vwebv\/holdingsInfo?bibId=522841\">English Literature<\/a> assembled by E. Dwight Church.<\/p>\n<p>Cole was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Trinity in 1920 \u201cin recognition of his work in the field of Bibliography.\u201d\u00a0 It is likely this honor which led him to give his collection of some 10,000 postcards and miscellaneous ephemera related to Europe, most of which dates prior to 1915.\u00a0 His Americana postcards (some 25,000) and his papers are at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanantiquarian.org\/\">American Antiquarian Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/08\/cole-postcard-collection0002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1369\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/08\/cole-postcard-collection0002-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/08\/cole-postcard-collection0002-300x231.jpg 300w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/08\/cole-postcard-collection0002-1024x790.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Volunteer Lisa Lew is creating an inventory of these postcards, which show the churches, monuments, city views, art galleries, market squares, harbors, theaters, cemeteries, municipal buildings and neighborhoods of Europe as they were before the ravages of both World Wars.\u00a0 There are also postcards of soldiers, portraits of ruling families, flags, coats-of-arms, coins, ships, bridges, beaches, vehicles (carriages, automobiles, planes, trains, fire engines, etc.), farms, parks, sports events, gardens, fountains, and costumes.\u00a0 It is an amazing collection, and we hope to have the inventory online soon, and at some point, we may digitize it all.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa&#8217;s job has been made much easier because Cole was a librarian, and ordered the collection upon strict and detailed guidelines.\u00a0 Indeed, he wrote a pamphlet on the subject in 1935, entitled <em>Postcards: The World in Miniature.\u00a0 A Plan for their Systematic Arrangement<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Watson Cole (1850-1939), the first librarian of the Huntington Library, was a pioneer of modern bibliography who set a standard few have matched with the catalogs of the collections of Americana and English Literature assembled by E. Dwight Church. 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