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Show e 5 45 § DARD HUNTER PAPER MUSEU 12 books, paper moulds, watermarks, collectfons of al descrfptfons of rar and valuable manuscripts, documents, wood blocks for Orfental printing,a largeassortmento ancient tapaand related artfcles,an evena rar Dhacantaffne example o the world st pinting.Allthiswias but ery small percentage of the vast amou aterfal that was sent, I additfon, there were two large Hrrp(onf e i i frreplaceabl grea St s the workroomofthe Mountat Hlouse brecs tn Chllcot Asrivin in Cambridge Mass, early f Decmbr 1938, Father and !hegzrgan(uanla\knfaxxemblmg(hecollecl(onlnmw teventually wastobe knownasthe Dard Hunte ,the onlyon ofitskindat thattime thevworld. Finally, the long aovatied dayof €h offfefal openfng arrived, June 5,1939 Althou alhermc(w(hg at success and was commende and extenstvely admired for hisachfevement fn establ{sh{ng amuseum of thi histrtcamagnitud heconstantly rematnedllateasewithhis postio urtoundingsforthe length o the contractwhichnow had be increased bystxyear In 1954, the Institute of Paper Chemfstry, Appleton, Wisconstn, requEStE and was ualtHed €5 Seauises Ehe palfeups satle collection any more fntere who were actually connecte aper fndustr ‘because this {nstitution was consfdered to b the center of all industria papermaking throughout the country and perhaps the world. In thf meowfaclity,he belevedthat hislfework wouldnow beofmore valu = mspcctedf itsgenune meanf hemuxeummpmemx lmcx(anemlrel({eof:olleulngwmlc rav elingthe world over for handmade papermaking materia. Facher ha procured some of this fn a visited, including the outermostareas of the cacth where this ancien craftstillremafned fn operatfon At this timme, s objct namasitngal e et them fn hs many books and articlesto fllustrate what was not only hi chosen subject, but also oneabout which the world knew so ttle. Thi demanding effort eventually elevated him to the position with all {t Digital mage © 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah, All rights reserved |