Dyer Papers, 1910-1944
9 archive boxes (4.5 linear ft.)
Terms of Access and Use:
There are no restrictions on access to the Walter Alden Dyer Papers for research use.
Requests for permission to publish material from the Walter Alden Dyer Papers should be directed to the Archivist of the College. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights.
Walter Dyer, a prolific author, was a member of the Amherst College Class of 1900. From 1900 to 1901 he was on the staff of The Springfield Union and The Criterion (New York), and from 1901 to 1905, he was on the editorial staff of Clifford and Lawton, publishers of trade journals in New York. From 1905 to 1914 he worked on the staff of the magazine Country Life in America, serving as editor from 1907 to 1914. From 1914 until his death in 1943, he was an independent author, publishing many books and magazine articles on antiques, animals (particularly dogs), country life, and short fiction. He was editor of The Amherst Graduates' Quarterly for more than ten years (from 1932 to 1943) and became the director of Amherst College Press in 1933. In 1903 Dyer married Ethelind Thorp Childs, who died in 1904. In 1907 he married her sister Muriel Worthington Childs. Dyer died in Pelham, Mass. on June 20, 1943.
Dyer was the author of the following books:
| 1910 | The Lure of the Antique |
| 1911 | The River Life |
| 1915 | Pierrot, Dog of Belgium |
| 1915 | Early American Craftsmen |
| 1916 | Gulliver the Great and Other Dog Stories |
| 1916 | The Humble Annals of a Back Yard |
| 1917 | Creators of Decorative Styles |
| 1917 | The Five Babbits of Bonny-Acres |
| 1918 | The Dogs of Boytown |
| 1918 | Handbook of Furniture Styles |
| 1919 | Ben, the Battle Horse |
| 1919 | With the Help of God and a Few Marines (co-author) |
| 1920 | Sons of Liberty |
| 1924 | Many Dogs There Be |
| 1926 | All Around Robin Hood's Barn |
| 1927 | The Breakwater |
| 1927 | Country Cousins |
| 1928 | Chronicles of a Country Man |
| 1928 | The Rocking Chair (co-author) |
| 1931 | Sprigs of Hemlock |
| 1910 | The Lure of the Antique |
| 1911 | The River Life |
| 1915 | Early American Craftsmen |
| 1916 | The Humble Annals of a Back Yard |
| 1917 | The Five Babbits of Bonny-Acres |
| 1918 | Handbook of Furniture Styles |
| 1919 | With the Help of God and a Few Marines (co-author) |
| 1920 | Sons of Liberty |
| 1924 | Many Dogs There Be |
| 1926 | All Around Robin Hood's Barn |
| 1927 | Country Cousins |
| 1928 | The Rocking Chair (co-author) |
| 1931 | Sprigs of Hemlock |
The bulk of the papers consist of Dyer's many articles and stories. These published works are from the following magazines: Household, The Art World, Country Life in America, the Country Gentleman, The Antiquarian, The Fine Arts, Yankee, Antiques, Our Dumb Animals, Colliers, Holland's Magazine, Top Notch, The Woman's Magazine, The American Magazine, Own Your Own Home, The Bookman, The Adult Bible Class Magazine, Home Magazine, House Beautiful. The papers also include many book reviews of Dyer's works.
This collection is organized into ten series:
There are no restrictions on access to the Walter Alden Dyer Papers for research use.
Requests for permission to publish material from the Walter Alden Dyer Papers should be directed to the Archivist of the College. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights.
Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:
[Identification of item], in Walter Alden Dyer (AC 1900) Papers [Box #, folder #], Amherst College Archives and Special Collections, Amherst College Library
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Series 1: MAGAZINE ARTICLES ON ANTIQUES
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Household Magazine,
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Box 1: folder 1
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"Old Chairs"
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n.d.
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Box 1: folder 1
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"Styles in Old-Time Bedrooms"
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1931 Apr
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Box 1: folder 1
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"Old Chinaware"
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1934 Mar
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Box 1: folder 1
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The Art World,
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1917-1918
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Box 1: folder 2
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Articles about antique furniture
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Box 1: folder 2
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Country Life,
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1919-1923
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Box 1: folder 3
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"Answers to Queries about Antiques" series
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Box 1: folder 3
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The Country Gentleman,
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1925-1929
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Box 1: folder 4
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Articles about antiques
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Box 1: folder 4
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Articles about antique chairs
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1915-1936
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Box 1: folder 5
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Country Life,
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1917
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Box 1: folder 6
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Article about Hitchcock chairs; correspondence about Hitchcock chairs
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Box 1: folder 6
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Country Life,
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1915-1924
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Box 1: folder 7
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Articles about antiques
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Box 1: folder 7
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Country Life,
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1917-1919
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Box 1: folder 8
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Articles about antiques
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Box 1: folder 8
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The Antiquarian, "An Outline of American Furniture"
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1931
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Box 1: folder 9
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The Fine Arts, Yankee, The Antiquarian, Antiques,Articles
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1928-1937
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Box 1: folder 10
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Articles about antique mirrors
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1917-1926
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Box 1: folder 11
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Articles about gate-leg tables
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1916
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Box 1: folder 12
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Article about Duncan Phyfe furniture
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1921-1933
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Box 1: folder 13
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Newspaper article on American iron, brass, and copper
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1930 Mar 29
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Box 1: folder 14
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Articles about historic styles in furniture
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1929-1931
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Box 1: folder 15
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"Speaking of Antiques," manuscript
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[1933]
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Box 1: folder 16
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Miscellaneous articles about furniture
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1919-1924
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Box 2: folder 1
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Newspaper articles about antiques
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1910-1933
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Box 2: folder 2
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Articles about antiques
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1916-1917
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Box 2: folder 3
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Articles about antiques
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1916-1932
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Box 2: folder 4
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Photographs of American antique furniture
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n.d.
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Box 2: folder 5
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Series 2: STORIES AND ARTICLES ABOUT DOGS AND OTHER ANIMALS
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Country Life, Articles about dogs
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1915-1922
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Box 2: folder 6
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Top Notch Magazine, Two dog stories
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n.d.
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Box 2: folder 7
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Dog stories
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1917-1923
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Box 2: folder 8
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Dog stories
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1916-1928
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Box 2: folder 9
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"Prayer for Pup" and related correspondence
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1911
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Box 2: folder 10
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Our Dumb Animals, stories
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1929-1936
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Box 3: folder 1
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"Country Cousins", series printed in Country Life
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1926
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Box 3: folder 2
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Country Life, Two animal stories
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1915, 1917
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Box 3: folder 3
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Series 3: STORIES - GENERAL SUBJECTS
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"Annabel's Goose"
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1917
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Box 3: folder 4
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"Annabel's Baby"
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1920
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Box 3: folder 4
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Stories from various publications
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1920-1929
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Box 3: folder 5
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Stories from various publications
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1917-1929
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Box 3: folder 6
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"A narrative of the capitalization and restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson"
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[1931]
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Box 3: folder 7
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Series 4: MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES
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"Their Adventures in Homemaking" - series of articles from OwnYour Own Home
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 8
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"From a Country Window" - series of short articles by Dyer and Alfred F. Loomis
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 9
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Editorials from American Home
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n.d.
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Box 4: folder 1
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Miscellaneous articles from The Bookman
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n.d.
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Box 4: folder 2
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Articles from The Adult Bible Class, and Home
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n.d.
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Box 4: folder 3
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"Chronicles of a Countryman" - articles from Country Life
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n.d.
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Box 4: folder 4
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Essays on country life - illustrated by W. K. Stone
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n.d.
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Box 4: folder 5
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Articles from Collier's
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n.d.
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Box 4: folder 6
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Articles from Christian Science Monitor
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n.d.
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Box 4: folder 7
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Newspaper pieces on miscellaneous subjects
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n.d.
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Box 4: folder 8
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"Millenium Seekers" - typed article on Communism
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n.d.
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Box 4: folder 9
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Articles on mountains
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n.d.
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Box 4: folder 10
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Essays
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n.d.
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Box 4: folder 11
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Miscellaneous short articles
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n.d.
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Box 4: folder 12
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Miscellaneous articles
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 1
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Miscellaneous articles
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 2
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Series 5: BOOK REVIEWS BY DYER
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Reviews from House Beautiful
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 3
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Series 6: CLIPPINGS AND REVIEWS OF DYER'S BOOKS
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Early American Craftsmen
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 4
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The Rocking Chair
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 5
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Chronicles of a Countryman
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 6
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The Richer Life
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 7
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Pierrot, Dog of Belgium
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 8
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Sons of Liberty
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n.d.
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Box 6: folder 1
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The Lure of the Antique
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n.d.
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Box 6: folder 2
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Handbook of Furniture Styles
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n.d.
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Box 6: folder 3
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Sprigs of Hemlock
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n.d.
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Box 6: folder 4
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Many Dogs There Be
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n.d.
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Box 6: folder 5
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The Breakwater: A Story of Cape Cod
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n.d.
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Box 6: folder 6
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Country Cousins
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n.d.
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Box 6: folder 7
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All Around Robin Hood's Barn
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n.d.
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Box 6: folder 8
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The Humble Annals of a Backyard
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n.d.
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Box 6: folder 9
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Dogs of Boytown
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n.d.
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Box 6: folder 10
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Creators of Decorative Styles
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n.d.
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Box 7: folder 1
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The Five Babbitts at Bonnyacres
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n.d.
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Box 7: folder 2
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With the Help of God and a Few Marines by Brig. Gen. A.W. Catlin in collaboration with Dyer
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n.d.
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Box 7: folder 3
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Ben, the Battle Horse
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n.d.
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Box 7: folder 4
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Gulliver the Great
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n.d.
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Box 7: folder 5
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Miscellaneous reviews
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n.d.
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Box 7: folder 6
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Reviews of articles in World Book magazine
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n.d.
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Box 7: folder 7
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Clippings from Hempstead Sentinel about Dyer
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n.d.
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Box 7: folder 8
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Series 7: CORRESPONDENCE - GENERAL
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Correspondence on Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
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Box 7: folder 9
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Series 9: PHOTOGRAPHS
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Civil War photographs in connection with the work of E. Porter Dyer Jr. (Dyer's father) at Beaufort. Scenes of South Carolina and Georgia, some photographed by H.P. Moore, Concord, NH. Also two poems by E. P. Dyer written for his children
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ca. 1861-1865
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Box 7: folder 10
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Series 9: PAMPHLETS AND ARTICLES BY DYER
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Material on the Shakers and an article on Shaker furniture
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n.d.
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Box 7: folder 11
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"Ten Years of Chapter History" (Phi Kappa Psi)
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Box 8: folder 1
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Chapel talks at Amherst College (typescripts)
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n.d.
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Box 8: folder 2
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"Garman of Amherst" - pamphlet and typescript; reprint from Sewanee Review, April 1935
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1935
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Box 8: folder 3
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Material on Prof. Genung and typescripts of "Literary and Miscellaneous Essays" by John Franklin Genung, edited and compiled by Dyer
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n.d.
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Box 8: folder 4
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"A Humanized Public Library" - article about the Jones Library, Amherst, Mass., from House Beautiful
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n.d.
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Box 8: folder 5
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"Embattled Farmers" - pamphlet and background material on Shay's Rebellion
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n.d.
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Box 8: folder 6
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"The Escape of Jonathan Wells": [a true story] about King Philips War, Deerfield and Hadley
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n.d.
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Box 8: folder 7
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"Wilkins of Oberlin" - article in Delta Kappa Epsilon Quarterly
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1938 Dec
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Box 8: folder 8
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"Ode to Virgil" - for Bimillenium of Virgil at Massachusetts Agricultural College
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1930 Dec
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Box 8: folder 9
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"The Vision of Anton" - Chicago, Brothers of the Book
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1914
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Box 8: folder 10
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"Enjoy Your Museum - Via: American Furniture of the 18th Century" - Esto Publishing Co., Pasadena, Calif.
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1934
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Box 8: folder 11
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"David Grayson: Adventurer" - reprint from The Mentor
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1925 Oct
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Box 8: folder 12
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Series 10: CORRESPONDENCE - PERSONAL
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Letter from Princess of Belgium concerning Pierrot, Dog of Belgium, and medal given to Dyer from Belgium
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1916
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Box 9: folder 1
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Correspondence
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n.d.
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Box 9: folder 2
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Christmas cards sent by Dyer
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1923-1944
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Box 9: folder 3
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Letters of condolence to Mrs. Dyer on Dyer's death
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1943
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Box 9: folder 4
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