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Foss, Sam Walter, (1858-1911); Johnson, Merle De Vore, (1874-1935) illustrator - The Song of the Library Staff: The Reference Librarian. The Cataloguer. Broadside

Title: The Song of the Library Staff: The Reference Librarian. The Cataloguer. Broadside
Description: Detroit: Gale Research Company, circa 1960s. Facsimile poster of the circa 1906 original. 22 x 17 inches. Printed on several different paper colors on thick stock... Sam Walter Foss (1858-1911), Librarian of the Somerville (Massachusetts) Public Library from 1898 to 1911, was also a popular poet. At the 1906 Annual Meeting of the American Library Association, he read his poem entitled "The Song of the Library Staff". The poem has five stanzas each devoted to a different staff position. Sam Walter Foss penned his first verses at Portsmouth High School here in N.H. .

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Price: US$ 100.00 Seller: Wittenborn Art Books
- Book number: 16-5863

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