George Parker Winship, A. M. (1871-1952) was an American librarian and author, born at Bridgewater, Mass. He was educated at Harvard where he graduated in 1893.

He was librarian of the John Carter Brown Library at Providence, R.I. from 1895 to 1915 when he took charge of the collection of rare books made by Harry Elkins Widener and housed in the new Widener Memorial Library at Harvard.

Mr. Winship edited a number of historical works and published: The Coronado Expedition (1896); John Cabot (1898); Geoffrey Chaucer, (1900); Cabot Bibliography (1900); William Caxton (1909); Printing in South America (1912); and The John Carter Brown Library (1914).

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• Read The journey of Coronado, 1540-1542, from the city of Mexico to the Grand Canon of the Colorado and the buffalo plains of Texas, Kansas and Nebraska, as told by himself and his followers, written by Pedro de Castañeda and translated by George Parker Winship, 1922 publication, hosted by the Portal to Texas History.

American librarians | Harvard University alumni | People from Massachusetts | American historians | 1871 births | 1952 deaths