Word: scrapbooking
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Dates: during 1915-1915
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...University Library has recently received from D. B. Fearing '82 a large collection of books on angling and fishing. Starting with only a scrapbook on trout and trout and trout-fishing, the collection grew to some 12,000 volumes, including treatise on all sorts of fishing, and even whaling. The most valuable single volume is a first edition of Izaak Walton's "The Compleat Angle," copies of which have sold for more than $6,000. The library is also the most complete in the world in official documents of all countries on fishing. Mr. Fearing himself describes this collection...
...library books on angling, fishing, fisheries, and fish-culture, now numbering 12,000 volumes and pamphlets in 20 different languages, has its start in 1890 in the form of a scrapbook on trout and trout-fishing. From that scrapbook began the collection of books entirely on trout and trout-fishing; then there were added books with chapters on those subjects and so no until the four heads mentioned above were gradually drawn in and the library began to grow...