Text, correspondence, and photographs produced and acquired by David Kuhner, Librarian at Norman F. Sprague Memorial Library, during the course of his research for an article published in The Branding Iron , No. 136 (September 1979), concerning a bookplate of cowboy and motion picture star Tom Mix that appears in a volume now in the James Carruthers Memorial Collection of the Institute of Aviation History, Special Collections Department, Honnold/Mudd Library.

David Kuhner received a BS from Ohio State University, an MEd from the University of Miami, and an MLS from the University of California at Berkeley. He was serving as Head of Readers' Services and Reference at the Jackson Library of Business, at Stanford University, when in 1967 he became Chief Science Librarian at the John Crear Library, in Chicago. In 1970, he was appointed Assistant Librarian for Science at Honnold Library, and in 1972 became first Librarian at the Norman F. Sprague Memorial Library. He retired in 1985.

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