Historical News
THE INLAND RIVERS LIBRARY of the Public
Library of Cincinnati and
Hamilton County has acquired during the
past year two large collections
of photographs of boats and other river
subjects. One collection was the
gift of Captain Frederick Way, Jr., and
the other is composed of prints of
negatives in the Howard National
Steamboat Museum. The library ac-
quired also by gift a collection from
the Greene Line, which includes
photographs, log books, account books,
menus, and advertisements, and log
books of Captain Calvin L. Blazier.
The library of the Historical and
Philosophical Society of Ohio has been
made the depository for a collection of
original deed books of Hamilton
County, 1788-1800. There is a microfilm
index of the records.
Richard G. Arms, director of the
society, attended the Institute on His-
torical and Archival Management in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, last summer.
Alice P. Hook, the society's librarian,
is national chairman of the picture
division of the Special Libraries
Association for the 1958-60 term.
The Institute of Early American History
and Culture has announced that
its second annual Institute Manuscript
Award will be presented in May
1959. Five hundred dollars will be paid
to the author of the best unpub-
lished work in early American history,
and the winning entry will be pub-
lished by the institute. Manuscripts
should be addressed to James M. Smith,
Editor of Publications, Institute of
Early American History and Culture,
Box 1298, Williamsburg, Virginia.
The institute's 1958 manuscript award
was presented to Lawrence H.
Leder, assistant director of research
and publications at Sleepy Hollow Res-
torations, Tarrytown, New York, for his
biographical study of Robert Liv-
ingston.
Watt P. Marchman, director of the
Rutherford B. Hayes Library, was
elected a vice president of the
Manuscripts Society at its meeting in Los
Angeles on July 10-12.
As editor of the Rutherford B. Hayes
Papers, Mr. Marchman was a guest
of the National Historical Publications
Commission at a special luncheon at
the Capitol in Washington on June 17.
The luncheon was followed by a
conference of editors of the various
projects of the commission.