Thomas Winthrop Streeter, Sr.

Thomas Winthrop Streeter, Sr. (July 20, 1883 – June 12, 1965) was a book collector whose collection of Americana was considered one of the most important of its kind.

He was the son of Frank Sherwin and Lilian Carpenter, and he was born on July 20, 1883, in Concord, New Hampshire. cite web |url=http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/SS/fst73.html |title=Thomas Winthrop Streeter, Sr. |accessdate=2007-02-14 |format= |work= ] He was married to Ruth Cheney and they had the following children: Frank S. Streeter (1918-2006), and Thomas W. Streeter, Jr. cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title= Frank S. Streeter, 88, Investor, Philanthropist and Collector |url= |quote=Frank S. Streeter, an investor, philanthropist and collector of rare books and records from sea voyages during the Age of Exploration, died on Monday in Manhattan. He was 88. He died after a short illness, his family said. ... Mr. Streeter's father, Thomas Winthrop Streeter, was also a book collector whose collection of Americana was considered one of the most important of its type. It was sold after his death and inspired Mr. Streeter's own interest in book collecting. |publisher=New York Times |date=June 17, 2006 |accessdate=2007-06-21 ] He died in Morristown, New Jersey, on June 12, 1965, and was buried in Peterborough, New Hampshire.

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* [http://webtext.library.yale.edu/xml2html/beinecke.streeter.nav.html Thomas W. Streeter papers at the Yale archive]

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