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Rare books as historical objects: A case study of the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library rare books collection.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Rare books as historical objects: A case study of the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library rare books collection./
Author:	Korotkova, Ulyana.
Description:	195 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 55-04.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International55-04(E).
Subject:	History. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10104531
ISBN:	9781339680514

Rare books as historical objects: A case study of the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library rare books collection.
Korotkova, Ulyana.

Rare books as historical objects: A case study of the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library rare books collection. - 195 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 55-04.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2016.

Once upon a time all the books in the Arctic were rare books, incomparable treasures to the men and women who carried them around the world. Few of these tangible remnants of the past have managed to survive the ravages of time, preserved in libraries and special collections. This thesis analyzes the over 22,000-item rare book collection of the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, the largest collection of rare books in the State of Alaska and one of the largest polar regions collections in the world. Content, chronology, authorship, design, and relevance to northern and polar history were a few of the criteria used to evaluate the collection. Twenty items of particular value to the study of Alaskan history were selected and studied in depth. The collection not only reflects the social, political and economic development of Alaska, but also the interests, personalities and expertise of collectors and authors, including works owned or written by key individuals in Alaska history, such as Hieromonk Gideon, Ivan Veniaminov, Ivan Pan'kov, Iakov Netsvietov, Kiril Khlebnikov, Hubert Howe Bancroft, George Davidson, Hudson Stuck, Sheldon Jackson, James Wickersham, Charles Bunnell, Alfred H. Brooks and others. Accident and happenstance also played a role in filling the shelves. There are more mysteries than answers---why some of these particular works resisted hundreds of years of neglect, cold, flood, and fire can never be known. While some books have no marks, no identifiable owners or traceable past, the provenance of others makes them unique. Sometimes the story behind the story is the story.

ISBN: 9781339680514Subjects--Topical Terms:

516518
History.

Rare books as historical objects: A case study of the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library rare books collection.
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