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1) Chess games arranged to illustrate the openings, and a collection of chess problems, arranged by the square on which the king to be mated stands: also chess miscellanies

Author

White, John G

Pub. Date

1896

Language

English

2) John G. White Archive: 1839-19661897-1928

Author

White, John G

Pub. Date

1897

Language

English

Formats

Kit, Online Content

Description

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The John G. White Archive contains biographical information, personal correspondence and photographs of Cleveland attorney, President of the Cleveland Public Library's Board of Trustees and internationally known chess collector John Griswold White (1845-1928). The correspondences include communication with librarians William Howard Brett, Linda Eastman and Gordon Thayer, fellow chess enthusiasts and researchers, and friends, including Major Harry...

3) An attempt at a list of books, manuscripts, periodicals, engravings, pictures and photographs relating in whole or in part to the game of checkers or draughts and its authors,...: being also a catalogue of a draught collection

Author

White, John G

Pub. Date

1910

Language

English

Formats

Book, Online Content

4) [Letters to W.H. Thompson on chess bibliography]

Author

White, John G

Pub. Date

1908

Language

English

5) Names of chess columns from lists of John G. White, Harold J. Murray

Author

White, John G

Pub. Date

1940

Language

English

6) Greco and his manuscripts, Gioachimo Greco, 1600-1634: 300th anniversary of the writing of the first manuscript, 1619-1919

Author

White, John G

Publisher

Good companion chess problem club, international

Pub. Date

1919

Language

English

7) Mr. John G. White's criticisms on form of ordinance prepared by N.D. Baker, city solicitor: embodying Judge Tayler's plan of settlement of street railway question

Author

White, John G

Pub. Date

[1909]

Language

English

8) The Drummond mss

Author

Drummond, John

Pub. Date

[1844-63]

Language

English

Formats

Manuscript, Online Content

9) [Letters to Eugene B. Cook, 1872-1913]

Author

White, John G

Pub. Date

1872-1913

Language

English

10) [Diary and views of fishing trips taken in Wyoming, Yellowstone National park, and Newfoundland]

Pub. Date

1900

Language

English

Formats

Manuscript, Online Content

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Typescript. - Some vols have distinct titles. Photographs mounted in albums, some mounted with text.

11) [Scrapbook of ms. chess problems]

Author

White, John G

Pub. Date

[19--?]

Language

English

Formats

Kit, Online Content

12) Correspondences relating to the games of chess and draughts between Harold J.R. Murry and John G. White in the years 1900-1918

Author

Murray, H. J. R

Pub. Date

1900-1918

Language

English

Formats

Manuscript, Online Content

13) Chess, autographs, end games, games and problems

Language

English

Formats

Book, Manuscript, Online Content

14) A manuscript giving a detailed description of chess passages in manuscripts found in 145 European and Indian libraries, with the names of persons underlined in red ink: prefaced with an index of names

Author

White, John G

Pub. Date

1928

Language

English

15) The chess and draughts columns of The New York clipper: chess edited by Miron J. Hazeltine ; draughts edited by J.D.J. Sweet

Pub. Date

19uu

Language

English

Formats

Manuscript, Online Content

16) JGW chess manuscripts

Author

White, John G

Pub. Date

uuuu

Language

English

17) John G. White Arabic and Persian Manuscript Collection: 1330-1862

Author

White, John G

Pub. Date

1330

Language

English

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This collection contains various materials in the Arabic and Persian languages. As part of the orientalia collection, these manuscripts build on John G. White's interest in the origins of chess to an interest of the greater civilization. Much of the collection was once John G. White's and contains his notations and other marks. This collection includes original pieces belonging to White and subsequent materials purchased for the collection. Those...