A Sandburg Stumper

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(05-04-2019 07:55 PM)Rob Wick Wrote:  That is the second facility. It has 55. Compared to the University of Illinois, which only has 38 collections. Of course, those collections are generally ALL Sandburg (either from Carl or his daughters or others).

The top ten facilities with Sandburg material are:

1. The Library of Congress (111)
2. The New York Public Library (55)
3. The University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana (38)
4. University of Chicago (34)
5. Houghton Library, Harvard (32)
6. University of Virginia (31)
7. Michigan State University Libraries (30)
8. Yale University/Beinecke Library (28)
9. Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum (27)
10. Wisconsin Historical Society and Library (22)

Not all of the facilities would be worth the reseacher's time, given that there are 99 facilities with only one collection, many of which are simply a single letter written by or to Sandburg.

Good job Laurie.

Best
Rob

For those of you with suspicious minds, I will place my hand on the Bible and swear that I did not cheat. I know very little about Carl Sandburg, and after so many other logical guesses were dismissed, I just started thinking of the institutions with the greatest amount of any type of collection or materials. LOC and NYPL are just huge resources for many types of things.