{"id":323,"date":"2012-03-12T12:04:25","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T12:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forms.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/heads\/a-pictorial-history-the-university-of-iowa-libraries-10\/"},"modified":"2021-03-31T20:17:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T01:17:53","slug":"humphrey","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/heads\/humphrey\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pictorial History: The University of Iowa Libraries &#8211; Frederick Humphrey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FREDERICK HUMPHREY<\/strong><br \/>\nLibrarian<\/p>\n<p class=\"style2\" style=\"margin-top: 0;\">September 1856 \u2013 1858<\/p>\n<p>Frederick Humphrey was a professor of mathematics when he was appointed librarian.\u00a0 He found \u201c145 volumes and nineteen lexicons, un-numbered and unlabeled, thickly covered with dust and lying upon the floor in one corner of a recitation room\u201d in the Mechanics&#8217; Academy.\u00a0 Humphrey arranged and classified these first volumes of the library, and went on to provide for the growth of the collection, such as getting Congressional approval for the university to receive all government documents published in Washington DC.\u00a0 In 1857 Humphrey made the first request for the appointment of a librarian and the establishment of general regulations for the library.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FREDERICK HUMPHREY Librarian September 1856 \u2013 1858 Frederick Humphrey was a professor of mathematics when he was appointed librarian.\u00a0 He found \u201c145 volumes and nineteen lexicons, un-numbered and unlabeled, thickly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":147,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"pagetpl-default.php","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1117,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/323\/revisions\/1117"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}