Dodd, Mead & Company

The Dodd, Mead & Company archive contains a limited number of materials from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries relating to American publishing company Dodd, Mead & Company. The bulk of the material concerns the business arrangements between the publisher and various Black American authors.

Dodd Mead & Company ephemera consists of samples of bookplates, bookmarks, a postcard, an autograph note, and brochures created to advertise books published by Dodd Mead, F. A. Stokes Co., and the Globe-Wernicke Co. (bookcases). The nine items range in dates from 1912-1942.

Dodd, Mead & Company telegrams regarding the Vestal copyright bill consists of two original telegrams exchanged by Dodd Mead and Senator Charles W. Waterman, Chairman of the Senate Patents Committee in January 1931, regarding the Vestal copyright bill.

Pauline A. Young was an educator, librarian, and activist primarily based in Wilmington, Delaware. The collection contains correspondence, clippings, photographs, and ephemera. The majority of the material relates to Young’s efforts to bring attention to and preserve information about the life and works of her aunt, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, as well as her aunt's first husband, Paul Laurence Dunbar.