Dorchester, found, finally, on the abbreviations page, p. 161.
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Jim Carmin Multnomah County Library
John Wilson Room Librarian 801 SW Tenth Avenue
Central Library Portland, OR 97205-2597
jimc@multcolib.org 503-988-6287
http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/about/mcl-wilson.html
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, White, Eric wrote:
> Is that Dorchester/Dorset MA? Something else?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Carmin [mailto:jimc@multcolib.org]
> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 4:29 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: RE: Binder Sanford
>
>
> I'm in Portland, OR, not in Boston, but...
>
> There is an online database to which our library subscribes:
> "City Directories Online."
>
> Boston is included, but only up until 1917.
>
> He is, however, listed in the 1917 volume, on p. 1337, as two
> listings:
>
> "Sanford, Peleg B pres 78 Bedford h 54 Wheatland Av Dor"
>
> and
>
> "Sanford, P B Co bookbinders 78 Bedford"
>
> Hope this is helpful.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> For more info on this source, here's a description:
>
> City Directories of the United States
> http://www.citydirectories.psmedia.com
>
> A full text searchable archival collection of U.S. city directories from
> the 18th through the 20th centuries. Provides listings of names,
> occupations, street addresses, churches, schools, associations,
> businesses, and local government and community leaders.
>
>
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> Jim Carmin Multnomah County Library
> John Wilson Room Librarian 801 SW Tenth Avenue
> Central Library Portland, OR 97205-2597
> jimc@multcolib.org 503-988-6287
> http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/about/mcl-wilson.html
>
> On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Kaimowitz, Jeffrey wrote:
>
> > That is a great lead. Now if someone in Boston would check a city
> directory
> > for the P. B. Sanford in the 1920's, we might be able to pin this down.
> > Thanks very much.
> >
> > Dr. Jeffrey H. Kaimowitz
> > Head Librarian, The Watkinson Library
> > & Curator, The Enders Ornithology Collection
> > Trinity College
> > Hartford, CT 06106-3100
> > (860) 297-2266
> > FAX: (860) 297-2251
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: White, Eric [mailto:ewhite@post.cis.smu.edu]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 4:23 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list
> > Subject: RE: Binder Sanford
> >
> >
> > Bridwell LIbrary has a Matteo de Ferrara, Vita de sancto Hieronymo
> > (Cambridege MA: Cygnet Press [1928]), bound by "P.B. Sanford Co."
> >
> > Nice little 12mo, full pigskin, spine gilt. Our record has Black Sun
> > Books's 1988 remark that this copy is in "the rare deluxe binding." You
> > might check other copies. Sounds like Cambridge is a lead.
> >
> > Eric White
> > Bridwell Library
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: O'Keefe, Doris N. [mailto:DOKeefe@mwa.org]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 2:09 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list
> > Subject: RE: Binder Sanford
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kaimowitz, Jeffrey
> >
> > In our collection, we are cataloging a book from the later 19th or early
> > 20th century with the binder's stamp: P. (or F.) B. Sanford. Is anyone
> > familiar with this binder
> >
> >
> >
> > The American Antiquarian Society has about 15 bindings by P.B. Sanford --
> > most of which seem to have been commissioned by John W. Farwell
> (1843-1929).
> > But we never found out anything else in the course of our authority work,
> so
> > I too would be interested in learning more.
> >
> > Doris O'Keefe
> > Senior Cataloger
> > American Antiquarian Society
> > 185 Salisbury St.
> > Worcester, Mass. 01609
> > dokeefe@mwa.org
> >
>
>