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Robert Vosper, with Chancellor Frank Murphy and John Nugent, examine rare books and lithograph stones from the Ralph Ellis collection on mammals and birds. Dr. E. Raymond Hall, director of the Museum of Natural History, was instrumental in bringing…

Robert Vosper is browsing through the stacks of Watson Library, one of the libraries which grew tremendously under his nine years of stewardship. Perhaps he is viewing a book from the Ralph Ellis Collection?

Robert Vosper at the 1982 re-dedication of the University of Kansas Watson Library

Robert Vosper (left) with Romo Lanna (KU 1957/58), USIS library staff in Turin (center), and Dr. Silvano Gevevini (right), Director of the University of Pavia Library, touring the library during the Milan Conference on University Libraries, May 7/8,…

Robert Gordon Vosper at UCLA before coming to KU. He was called the "grand acquisitor" by Chancellor Frank Murphy.

The Preparations Department readied books for circulation.

Thomas Jefferson Fitzpatrick, professor of botany at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, left his wife a thirteen-room house and small bungalow filled to the rafters with books upon his death. When Robert Vosper heard of the sale, he and several…