Cage 263 William D. Vincent Papers and Bookplate Collection 1863-1933 Vincent (William D) Papers and Bookplate Collection Finding aid prepared by Cheryl Gunselman Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Washington State University Libraries: Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC)
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Cage 263 Vincent, William D. William D. Vincent Papers and Bookplate Collection 1863-1933 (papers) Undated (bookplatess) 2 containers. 1.5 linear feet of shelf space. Letters, manuscripts, maps, photographs, clippings, pamphlets, and bookplates collected by Vincent, mostly about Pacific Northwest history and the fur trade. Collection materials are in English.

W.D. (William) Vincent (1866-1935) was a collector of books and bookplates, and also an amateur historian with a particular interest in Pacific Northwest history. Professionally, Vincent was a Spokane, Washington banker and a prominent member of the community. His long career with the Old National Bank of Spokane culminated in service as its president (1920-1933).

Enoch A. Bryan, faculty member and former president of Washington State University, wrote of Vincent:

"The successful business man who is endowed with historical sense and a passion for research has a unique opportunity, not possessed by the recluse, of contributing to regional history. The wide range of the business man's contacts, possessed as he is of the means for collecting and preserving rare books, manuscripts and illustrative material, and even of travel throughout the region for the verification and classification of historical data, enables him to give a broad, accurate, and common sense interpretation to the history of the men and things of an earlier day.

"Mr. Vincent has for many years been a student of Northwest history and an intelligent expositor of its earlier phases... "

From Bryan's "Prefatory Statement" in W.D. Vincent, The Northwest Company (Pullman: State College of Washington, 1927).

The papers of W.D. Vincent include correspondence, pamphlets, clippings, stories, articles, speeches, and photographs, primarily related to Pacific Northwest history and the fur trade. The original arrangement is unknown; the current arrangement is generally by document type. Some of the papers have been separated by correspondent name or subject. Several of Vincent's printed essays were removed from the collection for separate individual cataloging.

Vincent's bookplate and graphic art collection is contained in three scrapbook volumes. The bookplates appear in the order listed below; other graphic art items not listed are also contained in these volumes. In some cases, there are additional or variant bookplates for the names listed.

The collection is arranged in two series:

Series 1: Papers, 1863-1933. The original arrangement of W.D. Vincent's papers is unknown; the current arrangement is generally by document type. Some of the papers have been separated by correspondent name or subject.

Series 2: Bookplates, undated. The bookplates appear in the order listed below; other graphic art items not listed are also contained in these volumes. In some cases, there are additional or variant bookplates for the names listed.

This collection is open for research use.

[Item Description]. Cage 263, William D. Vincent Papers and Bookplate Collection . Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.

The papers and bookplate collection of William D. Vincent were acquired separately by the WSU Libraries at an unknown date.

The papers and bookplate collection were merged and reprocessed in 2005 by Cheryl Gunselman, Manuscripts Librarian.

Several of Vincent's printed essays were removed from the collection for separate individual cataloging.

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Vincent, W. D. (William D.)--Archives Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) Northwest, Pacific -- History Fur trade -- Northwest, Pacific -- History Bookplates Wahington (State) Pacific Northwest History

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

Series 1: Papers 1863-1933 Correspondence 1 1 Barry, J Neilson 1927-1933 1 2 Bretz, J Harlen 1919-1933 undated 1 3 Estes, George 1925 1 4 Ghent, W.J., and T.C. Elliott 1929 1 5 Hebard, Grace Raymond 1927-1930 1 6 Iowa Masonic Library 1925 1 7 McWhorter, Lucullus V. 1921-1934 1 8 Parker, Jeanette (Mrs.) 1929 1 9 Proctor, A. Phimister 1920 1923 undated 1 10 Redington, J.W. 1928-1930 undated 1 11 General 1895-1916 1 12 General 1921-1928 1 13 General 1929-1932 1 14 Pamphlets, clippings and stories 1923 undated 1 15-16 Articles and speeches by W. D. Vincent 1935 undated 1 17 Correspondence with Frederick V. Holman about his book Dr. John McLoughlin, Father of Oregon (insertions formerly included in Vincent's copy, now MASC copy 1) 1926 1 18 Camp Washington Monument; includes 1911 letter from Edwin Eells to Otto Wollweber, removed from Vincent's copy of Father Eells (now in MASC collection); 1911 1928 1 19 Spokane House 1924 undated 1 20 Loose bookplates, correspondence and clippings about bookplates undated 2 21 Ambrotype of "Uncle David Webster, Mama's brother," in case ca. 1863 2 22 Daguerrotypes of unidentified man and woman, in case undated Series 2: Bookplate collection, 3 volumes undated 2 23 Dr. Richard Abegg 2 23 Reis Library, Allegheny College 2 23 George Bancroft 2 23 Robert Barclay 2 23 J. Davis Barnett 2 23 Birmingham Public Library 2 23 Clark Prescott Bissett 2 23 Dr. and Mrs. F. J. Bowman 2 23 Harlow Brooks 2 23 Catherine T. Bryden 2 23 Decimus Burton 2 23 Gordon F. Cadisch 2 23 Calumet City Public Library 2 23 Dotation Carnegie 2 23 University of Cincinnati Library 2 23 Pal Clark 2 23 Clatworthy 2 23 Charles Coles 2 23 Columbia University Library 2 23 S. Adeline Cooke 2 23 Cox 2 23 Macknight Crawford of Cartsburn 2 23 Dartmouth College Library 2 23 D'Olier 2 23 Anna Palmer Draper Fund 2 23 George Duffield 2 23 R. T. Ely 2 23 Edward Everett 2 23 Penn College Library 2 23 William M. Foote 2 23 Library of Franklin and Marshall College 2 23 Edmund Geiger Gress 2 23 University of Georgia Library 2 23 Marie Geyer 2 23 Edward Graham, Jr. 2 23 Walter Greene 2 23 Alexander van C. Hamilton 2 23 Heraldic Bookplate Crafters 2 23 E. Hirose 2 23 Hoover War Library 2 23 Kazuyoshi Hotta 2 23 Paul Griswold Huston 2 23 Emil Hutter 2 23 Library of the University of Illinois 2 23 James Frederick Imray 2 23 Jeremiah W. Jeuks 2 23 Eliot Jones 2 23 Isabel Linton Jones 2 23 Frederic Keffer 2 23 Neal Klemgard 2 23 Knight 2 23 Mary Korellis 2 23 Lawrence 2 23 James Lenox 2 23 Lenox Library 2 23 Library of the Lincoln Memorial University 2 23 Library of McGill University 2 23 Library of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company 2 23 Library of the University of Michigan 2 23 Gozo Migita 2 23 Adele Morel 2 23 W. E. Morris 2 23 Alexander Murdoch 2 23 J. K. Nance 2 23 Library of the University of Nebraska 2 23 Elmer Wm. Neuscheler 2 23 New York Public Library 2 23 Guy Nichols 2 23 Northwestern University Dental School Library 2 23 Northwestern University Library 2 23 Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College Library 2 23 Sadie E. Onderdonk 2 23 University of Oregon Law School 2 23 Library of the University of Oregon 2 23 Clarence B. Bagley 2 23 Mary H. Pearcy 2 23 John Carroll and Edith Burnside Perkins 2 23 Library of the University of Pittsburgh 2 23 R. C. A. Prior 2 23 Library of Purdue University 2 23 Library of the Royal Societies Club 2 23 Y. Sato 2 23 William P. Shepard 2 23 Verna A. Sielaff 2 23 Stanford University Library 2 23 State College of Washington Library 2 23 Tappan Presbyterian Association 2 23 Dr. Gustav Schomig 2 23 Dr. Charles W. Stewart 2 23 Sullivan Memorial Library 2 23 Adele Swanson 2 23 Dick Swift 2 23 Elijah Leroy Shettles 2 23 Trinity College Library 2 23 Utley's Circulating Library 2 23 Library of the Vermont Historical Society 2 23 W. D. Vincent 2 23 Hans Volkert 2 23 Dr. Wm. Hugo von Bernstorff 2 23 University of Washington Library 2 23 Jerome Kear Wilcox 2 23 Utah State Agricultural College 2 23 Library of the University of Virginia 2 23 College of Wooster 2 24 Jacob Hugo Tatsch 2 24 Brothers of the Book 2 24 Lawrence Woodworth 2 24 W. C. Morris 2 24 Library of the Old National Bank of Spokane 2 24 Arthur Wellington Clark 2 24 Cora L. and Theodore Sternfeld 2 24 Mary Louisa Sutliff 2 24 H. J. Achard 2 24 Manson Franklin Backus 2 24 John Churchill Ainsworth 2 24 Mary Frances Isom 2 24 Alice Flint Brooks 2 24 Harriette M. Stevens 2 24 Dr. Joseph C. Egbert 2 24 Edw. L. Howe 2 24 James K. Moffitt 2 24 Florence A. Metcalf 2 24 F. M. Ellsworth 2 24 Yale University Library 2 24 Alexander Stuart Graham 2 24 Royce 2 24 William Bennett 2 24 Alexander Winthrop Pope 2 24 Alice Grover Whitbeck 2 24 Mary Anne Shiercliffe Cornelius 2 24 Warren Cheney 2 24 Marion Harold Brownell 2 24 Herman M. Schroeter 2 24 George B. Caldwell 2 24 Sheldon Cheney 2 24 Lois Kohn 2 24 George Woodruff 2 24 MacGillivray 2 24 Howard S. Ruddy 2 24 F. W. and Grace H. Blanchard 2 24 William Henry and Katharine French Burnham 2 24 Yale Club of New York City 2 24 Fred Brown 2 24 Wellington Reid Townley 2 24 Frances Woodworth 2 25 Henry A. Coit 2 25 Walter Lindley 2 25 Frederick Greenwood 2 25 Geo. Delavaud 2 25 Harvard Club of Boston 2 25 Clifford Cole Corbet 2 25 Gretta Gordon Brown Rowell 2 25 Jos. E. Morcombe 2 25 Arthur Irving Whitehouse 2 25 Edward A. Lindsley 2 25 Ora L. Maxwell 2 25 Spokane Public Library 2 25 Fabian McKeon Smith 2 25 George W. Fuller 2 25 Allentown Free Library 2 25 Dr. Geo. A. Downs 2 25 Dr. Clarence Archibald Veasey 2 25 Gladys Smith 2 25 Jellie Crum Phillips 2 25 Katharine Crickering 2 25 Dr. Frederick Epplen 2 25 Maria Dorothea Epplen