Holt
Holt names 4 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Holt WINIFRED, an American sculptor
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WINIFRED, an American sculptor. She was born in New York and was educated at private schools and Brearley School, New York. She studied anatomy, drawing and sculpture at Florence, and elsewhere. She has exhibited at the National Sculpture Society, and Architectural League, New York, and at Berlin. Her chief commissions have been portraits, busts, and bas-reliefs. She founded the New York Association for the Blind, and through her efforts many branches of the Association have been opened. She organized, in 1915, the Phare de Bordeaux, Cordeaux, the first lighthouse for the blind on the continent, and also the Phare de France, opened by the French President in 1916. During the European war she was president of the Comité Franco-Americain pour les Aveugles de la Guerre. Her books include "Life of Henry Fawcett"; "Beacon for the Blind."
Holt HENRY, an American author and publisher
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HENRY, an American author and publisher; born in Baltimore in 1840. He graduated from Yale University in 1862 and afterward studied law at Columbia. He began the publishing business with G. P. Putnam in 1863, and ten years later founded the publishing company of Henry Holt & Co. He was a member of the first executive committee on Simplified Spelling. He wrote several novels, including "Calmire-Man He Sturmseet Man and Nature" (1892); and Man" (1905). He took great interest in psychic questions and published in 1914 "On the Cosmic Relations." In the same year he founded and became editor of the "Unpopular Review."
Holt HAMILTON, an American editor
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HAMILTON, an American editor; born in Brooklyn, in 1872. He graduated from Yale University in 1894. courses at Colum- He took post-graduate bia. From 1897 to 1913 he was managing editor of the "Independent" and was editor and owner of that publication after 1913. He lectured much on economic subjects in the United States and in foreign countries. He was special lecturer of the World Peace Foundation and was Bromley lecturer on journalism at Yale University in 1917. His published writings include "Undistin- (hol-op-tik'e-us), guished Americans" (1906); ; and "Commercialism and Journalism" (1909).
Holt LUTHER EMMETT, an American physician
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
LUTHER EMMETT, an American physician; born in Webster, N. Y., in 1855. He graduated from the University of Rochester in 1875 and from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, in 1880. He served as Professor of Diseases of Children in several New York hospitals. He became widely known as a writer of books on the care of diseases of children. These include "The Care and Feeding of Children" (1894); "Diseases of Infancy and Childhood" (1902).
What Has Changed in the Last Century
All four of the Holts Collier's described in 1921 were then in mid-career; all four are now long dead, and their afterlives diverged sharply. Winifred Holt's New York Association for the Blind is still going as the organization known for decades as The Lighthouse, and Hamilton Holt left the "Independent" to spend 1925-1949 as president of Rollins College in Florida, the role he is now chiefly remembered for. Henry Holt died in 1926, but Henry Holt & Company survives as a major New York imprint, today part of Macmillan. Luther Emmett Holt's "The Care and Feeding of Children" was the standard American parenting manual for half a century, and its regimen of rigid feeding schedules and minimal cuddling was swept aside after Benjamin Spock's "Baby and Child Care" appeared in 1946.
Written for this edition, 2026.