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HIA 34.33
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Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library
Title: Roland Baughman papers
Identifier/Call Number: HIA 34.33
Physical Description:
1.65 Linear Feet
(2 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1924-1967
Date (bulk): 1933-1959
Abstract: Roland Baughman was an assistant curator at the Huntington Library's Department of Rare Books and later Head of the Department
of Special Collections at Columbia University. The collection includes his professional and personal papers from his time
at both insitutions.
Language of Material: The records are in English.
Collection is open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information,
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[Identification of item], Roland Baughman Papers, Huntington Insitutitonal Archives, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Roland Baughman, also called Roly, was born in 1902 and died in 1967. In 1924, Roland Baughman applied for a position at the
Huntington Library. Although possessing satisfactory recommendations, the position was given to another man who was older
and possessed prior experience with the Library. Baughman joined the Library later and remained for nearly twenty-two years,
beginning as a general assistant and finishing as an assistant curator in the Department of Rare Books. In 1938, he was appointed
a member of the Publications Committee alongside Godfrey Davies, the chair, and Edward Howland Tatum, Jr., Assistant to the
Director in the Research Staff. Baughman was a noted expert on Wise-Foreman forgeries and in the history of printing. In 1946,
he resigned from the Library to become the head of the Department of Special Collections at Columbia University, where he
remained until his death.
The bulk of the papers of Roland Baughman span his career at the Huntington Library and Columbia University. The collection
is divided into two boxes. Box 1 is Baughman's personal papers and publications. These include a report on a book worm infection
in the incunabula and a biography of Henry E. Huntington. Baughman's publications include poetry and three editions of Great
Books in Great Editions. The 1967 volume of the Columbia Library Column includes an In Memoriam to Roland Baughman. Box 2
contains Baughman's family photograph scrapbook, dated between 1942 and 1954. The scrapbook includes undated photographs from
Baughman's childhood.
The papers are arranged by form.
Former call number: HIA 34.33.1-2.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
The Work of the Grabhorn Press. June – September 1945.
Rare books.
Articles
Diaries
Journals (accounts)
Lecture notes
Letters (correspondence)
Professional papers
Scrapbooks
Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.