Box 1
Container
Contains 35 Collections and/or Records:
Composite of information on stolen plates
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents note
Two page sheet detailing the bibliographic description of the journal Ibis and police reports detailing contents of plastic bags containing stolen plates.
Dates:
1859-2004
Hartfield catalogue of rare books
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents note
Catalogue from Hartfield’s Fine and Rare Books store dated February 11, 1985. Contains information of the value of some of the stolen plates (listing # L-74).
Dates:
1859-2004
Printouts of Fondren Library’s journal holdings
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents note
Printout details the location and volumes of journals held by Fondren from which plates were stolen.
Dates:
1859-2004
Bibliographic listings and police report
File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents note
Photocopies of illustration listings contained in Alfred Guernsey’s book “Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War” dated 1868.
Dates:
1859-2004
Listings of illustrations in volumes
File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents note
Bibliographic listings of Fondren’s holdings that are missing (with sample plates), dated May 12, 1981.
Dates:
1859-2004
Collection of catalog listings
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents note
A collection of handwritten and typed notes containing bibliographic listings of journals and books originally thought to hold the stolen plates. Annotations by librarians concerning the status of the plates are also present.
Dates:
1859-2004
Photocopies of Ibis plate listings
File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents note
A collection photocopies from Ibis’s plate listings in the order in which they appear in their original publications.
Dates:
1859-2004
The Shinn Lists (1982)
File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents note
One hundred forty-four page booklet edited by William Moffett of Oberlin College listing the books stolen by another book thief, James Shinn. This booklet was created to facilitate communication between universities that had been victims of Shinn when the recovered books ended up at the wrong libraries.
Dates:
1859-2004
"Stephen Blumberg and His Stolen Books"
File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents note
Printout from the Web of the November 1991 edition of the Abbey Newsletter detailing Stephen Blumberg’s life and history of his thefts.
Dates:
1859-2004
Titles not reviewed or reported to F.B.I.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection consists of circa 700 color prints stolen from the journals Ibis (the journal of the British Ornithologists’ Union) and Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, owned by the Fondren Library. The prints date from 1859-1915 and feature birds, bird eggs, bird nests and other animals. The prints were recovered after Blumberg’s 1991 arrest and returned to Fondren Library. The bags in which they are stored are the bags which Blumberg used for them. The folder names for the...
Dates:
1859-2004