| Foreword, by Dumas Malone |
vii |
| I. 1819–1826. THE FOUNDING OF THE LIBRARY |
1 |
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 |
