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11-04-2013, 07:14 PM (This post was last modified: 11-04-2013 07:18 PM by Anita.)
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(11-04-2013 01:40 PM)Rob Wick Wrote:  Close enough, Anita. According to Randall's diary entry for September 22, 1942:

"A student at the Union asked for an autograph. Couldn’t do it he said. Friday was autograph day, not Tuesday."

Since I don't own an original Sandburg autograph, and it isn't Tuesday or Friday, you win the thanks of a grateful nation.

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Thanks Rob, That's a great prize! I was hoping for one of Mrs. Sandburg's goats.
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05-03-2019, 04:25 PM
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Try to answer this without looking it up. The University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana holds the largest collection of Sandburgiana in the world. However, it ranks third in the number of collections that has material related to Sandburg. In other words, while it has the largest collection of Sandburg material by volume in its collection, there are two other facilities that, while not having the total number of papers, has more collections that has material related to Sandburg. What are the first and second?

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05-03-2019, 05:25 PM
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I have no idea, Rob, but I'll stick with Illinois' locations. I'll guess Knox College and Northwestern University.
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05-03-2019, 06:31 PM
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Illinois would be the logical guess Roger, but neither are it.

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05-04-2019, 06:43 AM
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No idea either. Carl Sandburg College?

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05-04-2019, 07:54 AM (This post was last modified: 05-04-2019 12:19 PM by Gene C.)
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Do goats count as Sandburgiana?
(That would be a great name for a goat farm)

I'll guess the Carl Sandburg home in North Carolina.

So when is this "Old Enough To Know Better" supposed to kick in?
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05-04-2019, 10:01 AM
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Sorry guys, but neither answer is correct.

Clue: The top facility has 12,000 comic book titles.

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05-04-2019, 12:48 PM
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Is it the Newberry Library in Chicago?
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05-04-2019, 01:10 PM
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Logical guess Joe, but it isn't the Newberry.

Both libraries are not in Illinois, or the Midwest, for that matter.

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05-04-2019, 01:44 PM
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The University of North Carolina?
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05-04-2019, 02:00 PM (This post was last modified: 05-04-2019 02:01 PM by Rob Wick.)
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Sorry , but that's not it either, Roger.

The top facility has close ties to Thomas Jefferson.

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05-04-2019, 02:16 PM
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University of Virginia?
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05-04-2019, 03:12 PM
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Logical guess, Roger, but incorrect.

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05-04-2019, 03:46 PM
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This is probably very dumb, but I associate Jefferson with the original Library of Congress, so that is my wild stab in the dark.
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05-04-2019, 04:07 PM (This post was last modified: 05-04-2019 05:42 PM by Rob Wick.)
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Laurie is correct. The Library of Congress has the largest number of collections that have Sandburg material. I'm at work, so I don't have the exact number, but when I get home I can get it.

Edit: The LOC has 111 collections that has some sort of Sandburg material. Some of the more important would include the David C. Mearns Papers (Mearns was manuscript curator at the LOC and a very close friend of Sandburg. In fact, when Sandburg was in Washington he stayed with Mearns) as well as the James G. and Ruth Painter Randall Papers.

Now, what is the second one?

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