Arlie R. Slabaugh collection of direct mail literature, 1914-1955 and undated

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Summary

Creator:
Slabaugh, Arlie R.
Abstract:
Arlie R. Slabaugh was a publisher, hobby shop dealer and mail order promoter, and collector of periodicals related to the mail order business. The collection offers an overview of the mail order industry during pre-war and World War II-era in the United States. It is believed to have been created by Arlie R. Slabaugh, who was primarily a collector of coins and paper money, as well as a mail order promoter. The collection contains periodicals, amateur newspapers, hobby catalogs and printed ephemera, primarily from the 1930s-1940s, but also including examples from the 1920s and 1950s. Most are monthly periodicals, published as staple-bound or self-folding newsprint or glossy pamphlets, with some illustrations. Many of the items are regional in scope, possibly originating from major printing centers and distributed to local markets, particularly in the U.S. South, the Midwest and California.
Extent:
3 Linear Feet (464 items)
Language:
Material in English
Collection ID:
RL.01201

Background

Scope and content:

The collection offers an overview of the mail order industry during pre-war and World War II-era in the United States. It is believed to have been created by Arlie R. Slabaugh, who was primarily a collector of coins and paper money, as well as a mail order promoter. The collection contains periodicals, amateur newspapers, hobby catalogs and printed ephemera, primarily from the 1930s-1940s, but also including examples from the 1920s and 1950s. Most are monthly periodicals, published as staple-bound or self-folding newsprint or glossy pamphlets, with some illustrations. Many of the items are regional in scope, possibly originating from major printing centers and distributed to local markets, particularly in the U.S. South, the Midwest and California.

Restrictions on Access: Original newsprint items in oversize box are closed to researchers. Use copies are available in the collection.

Biographical / historical:

Arlie R. Slabaugh of Oakland, Maryland, and Virginia, was born in 1925. He worked as a publisher, hobby shop dealer and mail order promoter. He was also a numismatic historian, an expert on Confederate States paper money, monies and medals from prisoners of war, and Japanese invasion money and wrote a book entitled Confederate States Paper Money, first published in 1961 by Whitman Publishing Company. During the 1930s and 1940s, he also published his own collector magazine, Hobby Spotlite.

Chronology
Date Event
1925
Born
1941
Joined the American Numismatic Association (ANA)
1954
Appointed the Associate Editor of Numismatic Scrapbook Magazine
1967
Began work for Franklin Mint
1981
Won the Numismatic Literary Guild Clemy Award
1989
Won the Krause Publications Ambassador Award
1991
Won the ANA's Medal of Merit
1997
Won the ANA's President's Award
2004
Won the ANA's Lifetime Achievement Award
2007
Died in Springfield, Pa.
Acquisition information:
The Arlie R. Slabaugh Collection of Direct Mail Literature were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a purchase in 2007 and 2014.
Processing information:

Processed by Jessica Wood, December 2008

Encoded by Jessica Wood, December 2008

Accession 2007-0098 was processed and described in this finding aid.

Updated to include Accession 2014-0172 by Alice Poffinberger, October 2014.

Arrangement:

Items are arranged alphabetically by title into two series. The Pamphlets and Catalogs series contains printed materials and preservation use copies of original newsprint items, arranged alphabetically by title. The Oversize Originals series includes items in newspaper format that were separated into a restricted access oversize box for protection; copies of these items were filed among the open-use portion of the collection.

Physical location:
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Collection is open for research.

However, access to some materials is limited to preservation use copies available in the collection.

Researchers must register and agree to copyright and privacy laws before using this collection.

All or portions of this collection may be housed off-site in Duke University's Library Service Center. The library may require up to 48 hours to retrieve these materials for research use.

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The copyright interests in this collection have not been transferred to Duke University. For more information, consult the copyright section of the Regulations and Procedures of the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

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[Identification of item], Arlie R. Slabaugh Collection of Direct Mail Literature, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.