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Introduction

Dayton Collection, Manuscripts Section

Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library

Processed by Elli Bambakidis

Date completed: May 1992


The Paul Laurence Dunbar Collection, of local, national and international interest, covers the period 1890 to the present. The collection includes all of his publications (mostly first editions), music programs cartoon sketches by Ernest Blumenschein, correspondence, newspapers and newspaper clippings, pamphlets, photographs and miscellaneous material. The material was gathered over the years by librarians of the Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library

Linear feet of shelf occupied: 2.4
More than 30 rare books.
Approximate number of items: 1,400 (rare books not included)
Dayton Collection, Manuscripts Section
The Paul Laurence Dunbar Collection