Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-07
Unique Library
Assembled by
WOmen'S Clubs

washington, Jan. 5-(AP)-One
Of the most unique libraries in the
country, a collection of books by and
, about native Americans, is being as.
sembled at headquarters here of the
General Federation of Women's
Clubs.
Sought primarily as an information
source for club women, the completed
collection will represent cross sec
ton of American Literature in the
non fiction field. Each state fedora
ton has been asked to supply at
least IL books by and about persons
of its own state and to date the
I library numbers more than 400
volumes.
1t is the purpose of the Federation
to make the library available to indi-
vidual clubs and members either
through mailing of requested volumes
or copied extracts. or by advising
where specified books may be found.
Virtually all of the noted Ameri-
can authors are represented in the
collection, along with many whose
works have received statewide recos.
milton. A number of the volumes
We're the gifts of the authors, bear
ing autographs. Several are by
members and officers of the Fedora
ton.
A complete picture Of the growth
OF the states and the nation, with
biographies of their builders, is pre-
scented in the collection, along with
folk tales, poems, works on art,
travel, nature and kindred subjects.
The Alabama federation included
in its first contribution to the library
a History of Alabama" by Albert
James Pickett, Helen Keller's
STORY of My Life" up from
Slavery by Booker T. Washington.
and other volumes dealing with the
state and the Confederacy.
Among the books representing
connecticut are Mark Twain's "Con-
neetieut Yankee in King Arthur's
Court" and Harriet Beecher Stoves;
Uncle Toms Cabin"
The poems of Sidney Lanier. Geor-
gia poet, were sent from that state
while Tennessee gave a volume on
his life. Two works on Woodrow
Wilson have been received thus far.
one by Josephus Daniels from North
Carolina and the other by Henry
Allen White, from Kansas.
From Massachusetts came the
complete works of Ralph Waldo
Emerson and the complete poems of
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The
same state sent Benjamin Franklin's
autobiography, and 1.-THE American
Revolution" by John Fiske.
"The American Language" by "A.
L. Mencken and "Old Mandfs In the
Colony of Maryland" along with
many works by Poe were received
from Maryland. North Cardinals
contribution included ''I,yrics frny,,
Cotton Lands by John Charles Me-
Neil and NEGRO Folk Lore Stories"
by Sallie Southall Cotton.
The poetical works Of JOAQUIN Mil
Ter. 1.-THE Man with the Hoe" by
Markham. and volumes by Bret
Harte were sent from California
Indiana sent Beyeridge's Life of
John Marshall"
At least one present cabinet mem
Der will be represented in the COL
lection. 1t includes Secretary Mel
Ions Taxation: The Peoples Bust
ness" sent by Pennsylvania.
Miss Josephine Junkin. secretary
of the headquarters research de-.
partment and in charge of the
library, feels that particular care
should be taken of one of the books
from West Virginia. It is "Settle-
ment and Indian Wars of West
Virginia and Pennsylvania" by Dod-
bridge. The West Virginia Fed
Grafton had great difficulty in OBJ
timing copy of the book. which
first was printed in 1924. Only
few copies still remain in the state.
one of them being treasured in a
safe at the state library.