010. Edward B. Hanes Checkers Collection
Collecting Area
Identifier: 010
The Hanes Checkers Collection came to the Library by bequest in 1923. Mr. Edward B. Hanes of Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, formed one of the largest collections of books on checkers ever assembled. There are some 560 volumes in the collection, the earliest of which is dated 1572. The collection contains books on checkers in many languages, a number of scarce periodicals and several scrapbooks of newspaper clippings of checkers games.
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Edward B. Hanes Checker Collection
Collection — SpecColH: Series SpecColH
Identifier: 010-01-01
Dates:
1572-1923