| LC control no. | no 97018223 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | A.S. Barnes & Co. |
| Variant(s) | A.S. Barnes and Co. Barnes & Co. A.S. Barnes and Company Alfred Smith Barnes & Co. |
| See also | Barnes & Burr |
| Beginning date | 1865 |
| Ending date | 1982 |
| Field of activity | Publishers and publishing |
| Found in | Barnes national system of penmanship. Brief course, c1886: t.p. (A.S. Barnes & Co., New York & Chicago) Monteith, J. Easy lessons in popular science; and hand-book to pictorial chart, 1879: imprint on t.p. (A.S. Barnes and Company) Wikipedia, 10 Oct. 2012: Alfred Smith Barnes entry (A.S. Barnes & Co. was a family operation founded by Alfred Smith Barnes: eventually, his five sons, his brother and one nephew were connected to the firm, which became the leading publisher of textbooks in the United States, as well as issuing general interest books on a wide range of subjects. In the 1950s, A.S. Barnes & Company became the major publisher of sports reference books, with groundbreaking books such as The Baseball Encyclopedia by Hy Turkin and S.C. Thompson and Roger Treat's Football Encyclopedia. The company, which is not in any way connected to Barnes & Noble, continued to publish until 1982.) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Smith_Barnes> |
| Not found in | DLB, c1986: v. 49, pt. 1 (name changed to Barnes and Burr in 1859; resumed earlier name in 1865) |
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