Our Growing Collections

KENNETH A. LOHF

Ballou gift. Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard Ballon have donated a copy of
the first edition of Robert Frost's In the Clearing, published in
 

Barnouiv gift. Professor Erik Barnouw, an authority in the fields
of radio and television history, has established a collection of his
papers with an initial gift of correspondence, theatre scripts and
manuscripts, documenting projects undertaken for tlie United
States government, the Indian film industry and various American
radio and television networks. Included are the manuscripts and
correspondence relating to his momumental three-volume History
of Broadcasting in the United States. Also present in the collection
is a file of material pertaining to the Center for Mass Communica¬
tions, in which Professor Barnouw figured prominently. In the
correspondence files are letters from numerous persons in the arts,
among them, W. H. Auden, Ingrid Bergman, Lynn Fontanne and
Ogden Nash. Professor Barnouw has also donated a collection of
theatrical cartoons by Alfred Frueh, a group of twenty-four
American jokebooks dating from the early decades of this century,
and more than seventy miscellaneous engravings, etchings, prints
and broadsides, mainly from The Netherlands. Nearly three hun¬
dred volumes from his library have also been received.

Bauke gift. Professor Joseph Bauke (Ph.D., 1963) has donated a
set of twelve tinted photographs of scenes relating to the life and
writings of the German dramatist Gerhart Hauptniann. The
boxed set of photographs, dating from ca. 1900, was produced by
Photochrom in Zurich and published by Max Leipel's Buch- &
Kunst-Verlag in Warmbrunn.

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