Word: hermannsson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That Harvard's new Icelandic collection is "The second largest in the country, and the best in respect to its controversial political pamphlets and ephemeral material such as news broadsides," was the opinion expressed during a recent visit by Halldor Hermannsson, curator of the Cornell Icelandic collection and recognized as the greatest authority in America on the subject...
...Hermannsson, Cornell curator for over 25 years, inspected the recently received gift at Widener Library following a lunch which was given for him at the Faculty Club by Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Barnason, native Icelanders. Mr. Barnason is an instructor in German at Harvard, while his wife is at present a member of the staff which is working on the collection...