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Title: Milton Hammer Collection
Dates: ca. 1880-1964
Collection number: Mss 161
Creator:
Hammer, Milton
Collection Size:
0.6 linear feet
(1 document box and 1 oversize box).
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library.
Dept. of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Abstract: Correspondence, photographs, and other material collected by Hammer, much of it during his career as a rare book and manuscripts
dealer in Santa Barbara. Includes material re Heinrich Boll, Ralph Waldo Emerson, James A. Garfield, Oliver Wendell Holmes,
J. Edgar Hoover, Hubert H. Humphrey, Henry James, John F. Kennedy, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lewis Mumford, Napoleon (Bonaparte),
Harold Pinter, and Harry S. Truman.
Physical location: Del Sur.
Languages:
English
None.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Milton Hammer Collection. Mss 161. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Multiple gifts from Milton Hammer, 1997-2002.
The collection contains correspondence, photographs, and other material collected by Milton Hammer, much of it during his
career as a rare book and manuscripts dealer. Prominent individuals represented in the collection include Heinrich Boll, Ralph
Waldo Emerson, James A. Garfield, Oliver Wendell Holmes, J. Edgar Hoover, Hubert H. Humphrey, Henry James, John F. Kennedy,
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lewis Mumford, Napoleon (Bonaparte), Harold Pinter, and Harry S. Truman.
The manuscript materials are part of a larger collection that includes printed materials (mainly modern first editions and
fine presses) which have been cataloged separately and which can be searched on Pegasus, the UCSB Libraries online catalog.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Hammer, Milton
Antiquarian booksellers.