![]() ![]() Much of the correspondence is with the Iowa State Free Trade League, the Missouri Free Trade League, the Michigan Free Trade League, and with Mortis Worthington C. There is also correspondence 1889-1927 with Thomas Alva Edison and with Miller Reese Hutchison, chief engineer to Edison correspondence 1898-1903 with the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies, an with Edison Pioneers, The papers relating to free trade and tariff reform include correspondence 1880-1929 of Bowker as secretary of the American Free Trade League and as a member of the York Free Trade Club, relating especially to the organization of the Free Trade Conference held at Detroit 1883. of New York, with other electric companies, union officials and with George Foster Peabody and Spencer Trask. The Edison papers include correspondence of Bowker as first vice-president of the Edison Electric Illuminating Co. Correspondents include American Copyright League Robert Underwood Johnson, American Publishers' Copyright League George Haven Putnam, Library of Congress Herbert Putnam, National Association of Book Publishers, Print Publishers Association of America 1890-91, and Thorwald Solberg. The copyright papers include correspondence relative to the promotion and revision of domestic and international copyright law. The subject papers consist of papers relating to copyright, the Edison papers, papers relating to free trade and tariff reform, and to Bowker's biography. The Richard Rogers Bowker papers are arranged in sixteen series: Collection contains personal and political scrapbooks, 1868-1958 photographs printed matter with issues of various newspapers, political material, pamphlets, and clippings and memorabilia. Financial records include accounts for personal and some business expenses, bank books, cancelled checks, and personal ledgers, 1893-1910.|||Papers of Daniel Rogers Bowker consist of correspondence concerning business and family matters and patent papers, 1893-1895, for improvements to grain storage warehouses. Also, letterbooks for the period from 1875 to 1913 Bowker's writings and speeches diaries, 1859-1932 and travel journals from the 1860s to 1926 for trips in the United States, the West Indies, Europe, the Near East, and around the world in 1898. Other materials include family correspondence, 1857-1932 personal papers containing items such as childhood letters, school reports, family records, and letters of condolence and subject papers relating to copyright, the Edison Electric Illuminating Co., free trade and tariff reform, and his biography. Bowker's business affairs as well as his interest in tariff reform, free trade, copyright law, library science, civil service, and political reform. Records consist of general and family correspondence, personal papers, subject papers, writings and speeches, diaries and travel journals, financial records, papers of Bowker's father, Daniel Rogers Bowker, scrapbooks, photographs, printed matter, and memorabilia. Financial records include accounts for personal and some business expenses, bank books, cancelled checks, and personal ledgers, 1893-1910. ![]() ![]() Portions of this collection have been digitized and are available online. ![]() (Richard Rogers), 1848-1933 Call number MssCol 355 Physical description 61 linear feet (126 boxes) Preferred Citation Richard Rogers Bowker papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library Repository Manuscripts and Archives Division Access to materials Request an in-person research appointment. ![]()
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