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Henry Clay Folger

Henry Clay Folger
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Henry Clay Folger Jr. (June 18, 1857 – June 11, 1930) was an American businessman who was president and later chairman of Standard Oil of New York, a collector of Shakespeareana, and co-founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library alongside his wife Emily Jordan Folger.

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People Who Turned a Personal Collection into a Public Resource
People Who Turned a Personal Collection into a Public Resource
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Many of the world's great museums and libraries began as one person's obsession: shelves of books, cabinets of curiosities, crates of paintings or boxes of old records. This list follows...
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Wealthy Donors Who Created Public Libraries
Wealthy Donors Who Created Public Libraries
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From Boston's first big-city free library to the computers in thousands of American branch libraries, private fortunes paid for a lot of public reading. This list picks donors whose gifts created...
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