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The University of Virginia Library, 1825-1950 :

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Foreword, by Dumas Malone  vii 
I. 1819–1826. THE FOUNDING OF THE LIBRARY 
II. 1826–1861. FROM THE DEATH OF THOMAS JEFFERSON
TO THE WAR OF 1861–1865 
1. A Torpid Interval  12 
2. The Prosperous 1850's  25 
III. 1861–1895. FROM THE WAR OF 1861–1865 TO THE
BURNING OF THE ROTUNDA 
1. The War  33 
2. Reconstruction  40 
3. The Rotunda Fire  53 
IV. 1895–1925. FROM THE BURNING OF THE ROTUNDA
TO THE END OF THE LIBRARY'S
FIRST CENTURY 
1. Aftermath of the Fire  57 
2. President Alderman  70 
3. Gifts and the Status Quo  77 
V. THE LIBRARIANS OF THE FIRST HUNDRED
YEARS 
1. John Vaughan Kean, 1825  91 
2. William Wertenbaker, 1826–1831, 1835–1857, 1865–1881  93 
3. William Henry Brockenbrough, 1831–1835  101 
4. Thomas Beverley Holcombe, 1857–1861  105 
5. Robert Riddick Prentis, 1861–1865  108 
6. William Aylett Winston, 1882–1886  110 
7. James Biscoe Baker, 1886–1891  112 
8. Frederick Winslow Page, 1881–1882, 1891–1903  115 
9. John Shelton Patton, 1903–1927  118 
VI. 1925–1950. THE FIRST QUARTER OF THE SECOND
CENTURY 
1. Graphs of the University and of the Library  123 
2. Beginnings of Reorganization  125 
3. The Alderman Library Building  132 
4. The Catalogue  145 
5. The Collections  154 
6. The Staff  184 
7. Phases of the Library Service  202 
A Footnote  215 
Sundry Acknowledgments  216 
Index  217