Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Sutro Library collection of Stanley S. Slotkin book leaves 1582-1860 A.D.
- Extent:
- 34.00
- Language:
- English Hebrew German Latin Spanish;Castilian French Arabic Italian
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Sutro Library collection of Stanley S. Slotkin book leaves, 1582-1860, M000089, Sutro Library, California State Library, San Francisco, Calif.
Background
- Scope and content:
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This collection includes book leaves and facsimiles of title pages from rare books collected by Stanley S. Slotkin. Most of the leaves are from religious texts and are written in a variety of languages including Old English, Hebrew, German, Latin, Greek, Spanish, French, Arabic, and Italian.
- Biographical / historical:
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Stanley Slotkin, founder of the national chain Abbey Rents, Inc., which offers items for rent, was an amateur archeologist, book collector, and philanthropist. Born in New York City to Russian immigrants, he was raised in Kansas City, Missouri and moved to Los Angeles in the 1930s. He donated a large collection related to Charles Darwin to the University of Southern California. He and his wife founded Abbey Rents in 1931 in St. Louis, Missouri.
He died in Beverly Hills in 1997.
Slotkin traveled around the world to collect facsimiles of title pages of rare books to which he attached pages from the actual work. He also annotated the specimens in English in order to explain their contents and significance.
- Custodial history:
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Each item was encapsulated in mylar and matted in acidic housing. Sutro Library staff disposed of the matting and housed the encapsulated items in archival folders and housed the collection in an archival flat box.
- Processing information:
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Each item was encapsulated in mylar and matted in acidic housing. Sutro Library staff disposed of the matting and housed the encapsulated items in archival folders and housed the collection in an archival flat box.
Index created by student assistant Thai-Van Stanoff in Winter 2024.
- Arrangement:
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This collection is arranged into one series with two sub-series. Each series is arranged chronologically:
Series 1: Slotkin book leaves, 1582-1860
Sub-series 1: Unframed Slotkin book leaves, 1582-1860 [32 items]
Sub-series 2: Framed Slotkin book leaves, 1609-1705 [2 items]
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- 2024-03-11
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was encoding in EAD by Archon 3.21 from an SQL database source on March 11th, 2024 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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This collection is open for research. Please page materials three business days in advance of your visit by email: sutro@library.ca.gov .
- Terms of access:
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Property rights reside with the repository. Any applicable literary rights would reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please email: sutro@library.ca.gov .
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Sutro Library collection of Stanley S. Slotkin book leaves, 1582-1860, M000089, Sutro Library, California State Library, San Francisco, Calif.
- Location of this collection:
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SFSU - J. Paul Leonard Library1630 Holloway Ave, Room 610San Francisco, CA 94132-4030, US
- Contact:
- (415) 469-6100