Item 86: Bookplate, Arthur Newton Pack, 1921
Item — Box: 20, Folder: 86
Dates
- Created: 1921
Creator
- Fisher, William Edgar, 1872-1956 (Person)
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Extent
1 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Type of Material:
Bookplate
Condition Note:
Good, no issues
Measurements:
3 13/16 in. x 2 11/16 in.
Title:
Arthur Newton Pack His Book
Description:
A bookplate depicting a nature scene. There are several trees, mountains and a lake. Arthur Newton Pack was born on February 20, 1893 in Cleveland, Ohio. His parents were Charles Lathrop Pack and Alice Gertude Hatch. Arthur was a rich “naturalist and writer” who started the American Nature Association with his dad, Charles and the Nature magazine with Percival Sheldon Risdale. He resided in Tucson, Arizona where he started the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum with William Carr and started a one-million dollar trust for St. Mary’s Hospital. In 1952, he was declared Man of the Year in Tucson. He went to school at the Florida-Adirondack School and Williams College in Massachusetts. In 1915, he graduated from Harvard Business School, he joined the United States Ordinance Department in Washington, DC and was posted in England during World War I. He purchased Ghost Ranch in New Mexico where he wrote several books including the autobiographical We Called it Ghost Ranch. In 1955, he gave it to the Board of Christian Education Presbyterian Church to use as a getaway. He released many books including Our Vanishing Forests in 1926, where he talks about the problems that forestry has. Ten years later, he released The Challenge of Leisure, where he said that people would only work two hours every day and they would need to prepare to use their leisure time for constructive activities. He released one more book about forestry in 1933 called Forestry: An Economic Challenge. He got married twice, first to Elanor “Brownie” Brown in 1919, and they had three kids. After they divorced, he got married to Phoebe Katherine Finley in 1936 and had two kids. Pack died on December 6, 1975. Bookplate creator William Edgar Fisher was born in Wellsville, N.Y. on October 24, 1872. He attended Phillips, Andover Academy, and Cornell University. He was a well known artist, advertiser, and bookplate designer and was a former president of the American Book Plate Society. He became an art editor of Judge magazine during the early 1920s. Additionally, Fisher was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution and the Society of Colonial Wars. He was also a member of the Players of New York City. He died at the age of 84 in 1956. To see other bookplates created by William Edgar Fisher, please visit Yale University’s archive and finding aids here.
Creator
- Fisher, William Edgar, 1872-1956 (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Wilkes University Archives Repository
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84 W South St.
Wilkes-Barre PA 18701 US
570-408-2000
570-408-7823 (Fax)
ask.archives@wilkes.edu