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Frederick W. Skiff Papers
Papers of an author and collector of Americana who grew up in Connecticut and lived most of his life in Portland, Oregon. The collection consists chiefly of documents, including deeds (1744-1858), notes, wills, and other legal records of the Skiff family, residents of Kent-Litchfield County, Connecticut. Also includes genealogical materials and correspondence on family history, 1937-1945; photographs of Skiff, his family, and ancestral homes and haunts in Massachusetts and Connecticut; a scrapbook documenting Skiff's trans-continental auto trip in 1936 (in box 2); and a certificate of Skiff's membership in the General Society of Colonial Wars, 1936 (oversize folder).
Edward Eberstadt & Sons
An unlikely bookseller in New York City became the leading dealer in rare Western Americana for most of the twentieth century. After working in western-U.S. and South American gold mines at the turn of the twentieth century, Edward Eberstadt (1883–1958) returned to his home in New York City in 1907. Through luck and happenstance, he purchased an old book for fifty cents that turned out to be a rare sixteenth-century Mexican imprint. From this bit of serendipity, Eberstadt quickly became one of the leading western Americana rare book dealers. In this book Michael Vinson tells the story of how Edward Eberstadt & Sons developed its legendary book collection, which formed the backbone of many ...
