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  • Government Printing Office, edited by Arthur W. Hummel, Sr., then head of the Orientalia Division of the Library of Congress. Hummel's chief collaborators were...
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    instead served until his retirement in 1954. As the first Chief of the Orientalia Division. Hummel built the collection into one of the largest and best...
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    the South Sea Company, at whose sale in 1734 Richard bought many of the Orientalia. He was educated at St Paul's School, at Eton College, and at St John's...
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  • history, best known for being the head of the Southern Asia Section of the Orientalia (now Asian) Division of the Library of Congress. He was regarded as...
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    parents moved to Washington, D.C., where his father worked as Chief of the Orientalia Division at the Library of Congress. His parents sent him to Westtown...
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    United States and in 1924 or 1925 began giving talks on Buddhism at the Orientalia Bookstore on E. 58th Street in New York City, having received lay teaching...
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  • scholar of Southeast Asian history, head of the Southern Asia Section of the Orientalia (now Asian) Division of the Library of Congress, a major contributor...
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  • law. He had previously returned to the United States and worked in the Orientalia department of the Library of Congress under Arthur W. Hummel Sr., writing...
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    scholar of Southeast Asian history, head of the Southern Asia Section of the Orientalia (now Asian) Division of the Library of Congress, and a major contributor...
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  • Rauschenberg, Twombly, Kaprow and Ray Johnson". Johnson worked part-time at the Orientalia Bookstore in the Lower East Side as he began to deepen his understanding...
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  • Sing-wu Wang For public service to the National Library, particularly to the Orientalia collection Mary Alice Watt For service to the community Mearl Dew Waye...
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    Harvard-Yenching Library under Alfred Kai-ming Ch'iu. Arthur W. Hummel, Sr. at the Orientalia Division of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. then invited...
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  • staff of the Library of Congress in Washington as Assistant Compiler in the Orientalia Collection. At the invitation of his classmate, Fang Chao-ying, who...
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  • Literature), which was published in Rome the following year as volume 114 of the Orientalia Christiana Analecta series. In 1949 he defended his habilitated work...
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    Guide, and 3) Nuclear Science in Mainland China. In 1967, Wang moved to the Orientalia Division (later changed to the Asian Division) and served as Assistant...
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