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Joseph Halle Schaffner (1897-1972) spent most of his life in his native Chicago as director of the clothing manufacturing firm Hart, Schaffner, and Marx. He formed several collections reflecting both literary and historical interests. His greatest collecting passion was the history of science, and he bequeathed to the University of Chicago an extraordinary collection of several hundred scientific and medical rare books and manuscripts.

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