Pearlroth, who was fluent in 14 languages, spent upwards of seven days a week at the library…………..He was so relentless that library officials sometimes had to ask him to leave at closing time.
Believe it or not, Pearlroth worked as its sole researcher for an astounding 52 years before retiring in 1975. He died in 1983 at the age of 89.
”He would spend a great deal of time with the card catalogue and then sit in the reading room with these books for what seemed like days,” said Catherine Marquard, supervising librarian in the general research section at the Main Library.
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