Herbert Putnam
George Herbert Putnam was an American librarian. He was the eighth Librarian of Congress from 1899 to 1939. He implemented his vision of a universal collection with strengths in every language, especially from Europe and Latin America.
George Herbert Putnam was born in New York City at 107 East Seventeenth Street, the sixth son and tenth child of Victorine and George Palmer Putnam. The father, onetime collector of internal revenue in New York by appointment of Abraham Lincoln, was the founder of a well known publishing house, known previously as the Putnam Publishing house, but now known as G. P. Putnams Sons.
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