| Collection Name: |
Charles Humberd Dime Novel Collection |
| Repository Name: |
University of Delaware. Library. Special Collections Department [Repository Details] |
| Repository Location: |
Newark, Delaware, United States |
| URL: |
http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/findaids/humberd.htm |
| Dates Spanned: |
1938-1946 |
| Description: |
Dr. Charles Humberd of Bernard, Missouri, was a collector of dime novels active in the 1930s and 1940s. He was a mail-order customer of dime novel dealers including Brooklyn-based Charles Bragin. Bragin wrote and published Dime Novels Bibliography, 1860-1928, and he also published facsimile reprints of Morrison's Sensational Series and Beadle Half-Dime Novels in the late 1940s. Throughout the 1940s, Bragin maintained a mailing list of current and potential customers, and he regularly sent out assorted promotional materials and direct mail advertisements. |
| Broad Subjects: |
Indigenous Peoples; Literature |
| ASP Subjects: |
Books; Letters; United States |
| Collection Code: |
OHC0004815 |
