Given to the Library in l937, the Peter Chapin Collection, combined with the Horowitz Collection on the same subject of the canine, results in Swem Library's holdings being second in size only to those of the Library of the American Kennel Club. The bookplate honors Peter Chapin, beloved cocker spaniel of Howard Chapin of Providence, Rhode Island.

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