I See Dead Peoples Books
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I See Dead People's Books is a group on LibraryThing that works to enter the libraries of famous dead people as LibraryThing catalogs.
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[edit] Cataloging Guide
[edit] Libraries in progress
- Benjamin Franklin
- James Joyce
- Carl Sandburg. See this thread.
- Sir Walter Scott.
- User:WalterScottLibrary wiki page
- See this thread.
- Gerald Gardner
- Daniel Garrison Brinton
- Eeva-Liisa Manner
- e.e. cummings
- Karen Blixen
- Rose Wilder Lane
- Charles Lamb
- John Dee
- Joseph Priestley
- John F. Kennedy. See this thread.
- Willa Cather. See this group.
- Franz Kafka. See this thread.
- William Butler Yeats. See this thread.
- Basil Henry Liddell-Hart
- T.E. Lawrence. See this thread.
[edit] Completed libraries
- Thomas Jefferson
- Danilo Kis
- Tupac Shakur
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Isabella Stewart Gardner.
- Sylvia Plath
- Marie Antoinette
- Susan B. Anthony
- Alfred Deakin
- Walker Percy
- John Adams
- Ezra Pound
- W.H. Auden
- Ernest Hemingway
- Contributors:
- Leader, 100 books: nperrin
- 2450 books: spookykitten
- 2350 books: christiguc
- 1350 books: Rullakartiina
- 1200 books: jjlong
- Contributors:
- James Smithson
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- John Muir
- Samuel Johnson
- Mather Family (Increase, Cotton, &c.)
- Samuel Roth
[edit] (Currently) Moribund Projects
- William Faulkner
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Robert E. Howard
- William Congreve
- Adam Smith
- Charles Darwin
- Theodore Dreiser
- Rembrandt
[edit] Proposed libraries
Links to the Wikipedia pages for each proposed subject have been added where available just to give people some idea of who they are.
- Douglas Adams
- John Quincy Adams - printed catalog
- Sibilla Aleramo - online catalog (pdf)
- James Aswell - printed catalog
- Jane Austen - various sources, contact jbd1 for info
- Joseph Banks - printed catalog scanned at Google: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4 - Volume 5 not scanned?
- Louis-Lucien Bonaparte - printed catalog scanned at IA
- George Brinley - printed catalog scanned at Internet Archive: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, Volume 5
- Sir Thomas Browne - printed catalog
- Anthony Burgess - description and photos of collection at UVa; online catalog
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Joseph Campbell
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge - printed catalog
- Edward Coke - printed catalog
- Elizabeth Craigie - printed catalog scanned at Google
- Frances Currer - printed catalog scanned at Google
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- William Faulkner - printed catalog
- Gustave Flaubert - printed catalog
- King George III
- Edward Gibbon - printed catalog
- Marija Gimbutas
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Edmund Gosse - printed catalog
- Thomas Grenville - printed catalog (may be only partial)
- Sir Benjamin Hall, Baron Llanover - printed catalog
- John Harvard - various sources, contact jbd1 for info
- Robert Hoe III - printed catalog
- Jacob Hollander - printed catalog (another edition)
- Ben Jonson - printed catalog
- Jerome Kern - printed catalog
- Martin Luther King, Jr. - currently being cataloged at Morehouse College
- C.S. Lewis
- Adolph Lewisohn - printed catalog
- Abraham Lincoln - most complete list located so far
- John Locke - printed catalog
- H.P. Lovecraft
- Mary Queen of Scots - printed catalog scanned at Google
- John Ramsey McCulloch - catalogue on Google Books
- Catherine de Medici - printed catalog scanned at Google Books
- Herman Melville - printed catalog
- Gaston Miron - not very practical online catalog
- John Milton - printed catalog
- Lewis Henry Morgan - printed catalog scanned at Google
- Lewis Mumford - description ; online catalog
- Sir Isaac Newton - printed catalog
- Friedrich Nietzsche - printed catalog
- Flannery O'Connor - printed catalog
- Linus and Ava Pauling - home page ; online catalog
- Samuel Pepys - printed catalog
- Madame de Pompadour - printed catalog scanned at Google
- Beatrix Potter
- John Quinn - printed catalog
- Emory B. Remington - printed catalog
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Victor Rothschild - printed catalog
- Pieter Paul Rubens
- Lord Rutherford - printed catalog
- Friedrich von Schiller
- E.F. Schumacher - description ; online catalog
- Joseph Smith
- John Steinbeck - printed catalog
- Louis Sterling - printed catalog
- Laurence Sterne - printed catalog
- Jonathan Swift - printed catalog (another edition)
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy - online catalog (often down)
- U.S.S. California Officers and Crew - printed catalog scanned at IA
- Horace Walpole - printed catalog
- Edith Wharton - printed catalog
- Daniel Webster - online catalog
- William Whiting - printed catalog
- Oscar Wilde - printed catalog
- Thomas Wolfe
- Robert J. Wood
- Carter G. Woodson - printed catalog
- Leonard and Virginia Woolf - printed catalog (another edition); collection description at WSU