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Justice Barry Anderson resizedJustice Barry Anderson of the Minnesota Supreme Court generously donated his collection of Tom Swift Jr. books to the Children’s Literature Research Collections. A University of Minnesota Law School Alum, Justice Anderson stated that he couldn’t think of a better place to care for his childhood passion. His collection will join the original Tom Swifts from the early 1900s in the Hess Collection.

Lisa Von Drasek, Children’s Literature Research Collection

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