Dr. J. Don and Dolores Vann, benefactors of the Vann Victorian Endowment

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Dr. J. Don and Dolores Vann in their home, 2014.

Don and Dolores Vann began collecting Victorian books during the summer of 1962, when they acquired a first edition of Dickens Bleak House. While working on his Ph.D. from Texas Tech, Vann spent summers working with his father as a steamfitter. He was working with his father’s crew in Dayton, Ohio in 1962 and was… Read more »