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**Margery Barker** (8 January 1901 - 6 May 1980). With partner [[hamill_frances|Frances Hamill]], [[Hamill & Barker, Inc.]] was a leading antiquarian book firm in Chicago from 1928. The firm was taken over by shop employee [[Terence Tanner]] after Hamill's death in 1987. Tanner moved Hamill & Baker to Evanston, Illinois in 1988, and continued the business until his death in 2003.

The [[https://www.library.northwestern.edu/documents/libraries-collections/special-collections/Hamill-and-Barker.pdf|archives]] of Hamill & Barker, Inc. are held at Northwestern University. 

Per Dickinson, //Dictionary of American Antiquarian Bookdealers// (Greenwood Press, 1998), [[https://books.google.com/books?id=x-6PBX7crnQC&pg=PA6&lpg=PA6&dq=margery+barker+dickinson+dictionary+bookseller&source=bl&ots=yioOadH33h&sig=ACfU3U0eLDU0W9RJnyWh9oNi9Jssbq5NaA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi6g9qO7bbrAhV9B50JHWX_DKwQ6AEwAnoECAEQAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false|Barker]] got her start in the trade in 1922 working in the Chicago book shop of [[Fanny Butcher]]. 

Among major collections to pass through the shop, Hamill & Barker handled the George Poole collection of manuscripts and incunabula. Per Dickinson, this collection was subsequently purchased by David Randall for the [[Lilly Library]] at Indiana University. Hamill & Barker also secured the purchase of the Virginia Woolf diaries in 1960 for the [[Berg Collection]] at the New York Public Library.

Barker had attended Bryn Mawr but was expelled in 1921. Her case for reinstatement became subject of a lawsuit. An account [[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuo.ark:/13960/t1fj3p28s|sympathetic to Barker's case]] was published in 1921. The case was [[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1922/04/02/102993930.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0|covered]] in the New York //Times// in 1922.

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