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John Anderson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0312
Abstract

The John Anderson papers contains materials relating to twentieth century American book designer, typographer and printer John Anderson.

Dates: 1948-1994; Majority of material found within 1978-1994

Archive of the Angelica and Amity Presses

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0447
Abstract

The archive of the Angelica and Amity Presses documents the products, operations, and distribution projects of the presses, as well as aspects of the personal relationship between founders Dennis and Marilyn Grastorf.

Dates: 1967-1983; Majority of material found within 1974-1979

Black Stone Press records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0316
Abstract

The Black Stone Press records includes correspondence, galleys, negatives, broadsides, books, six issues of Montana Gothic (a literary journal), ephemera and job files, and business records from the letterpress operated by Peter Koch in Missoula, Montana, 1974-1984.

Dates: 1974-1984

C. B. Cottrell Sons Co. printing specimens and trade catalogs

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0014
Abstract

The C. B. Cottrell & Sons Co. printing specimens and trade catalogs includes approximately 133 items related to this printing press manufacturer spanning the period 1874 to 1910. Items found in the collection include trade catalogs, advertising cards, broadside and leaflet advertisements, blank stationery, memoranda, ledger sheets, invoices, receipts, and other printing specimens, and other materials related to the business.

Dates: 1874-1910

Wilmington, Delaware : silk screen map on linen handkerchief

 Collection
Identifier: GRA 0098-F0002
Abstract

American textile artist Tammis (Margaret Thomas) Keefe (1913-1960) designed this vintage fabric handkerchief depicting a map of Wilmington, Delaware, which was silk-screened by J. H. Kimball, Inc., New York.

Dates: circa 1944-1960

Winsor Bradford Leach scrapbook of Civilian Conservation Corps camp print shops

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0067
Abstract

This scrapbook was created by Winsor Bradford Leach, a printing instructor at two integrated Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camps in Plymouth and Holyoke, Massachusetts, between 1936 and 1938. The scrapbook contains photographs of life in the camps and print samples compiled by Leach.

Dates: 1936-1938

J. Ben Lieberman papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0516
Abstract

Educator, editor, author, amateur printer, and proponent of the private press, J. Ben Lieberman is widely regarded as the father of the twentieth-century chappel movement in the United States. The J. Ben Lieberman Papers reflect some of the accomplishments of J. Ben Lieberman and his wife Elizabeth Koller Lieberman.

Dates: 1902-1997; Majority of material found within 1945-1984

Newark Publishing Co. records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0879
Abstract Newark Publishing Co. was a Newark, Delaware, printing business established in the mid-20th century and was owned and operated by William H. Durham from circa 1967 to 1981. Newark Publishing Co. records comprises over 3000 job printing files created by the press for largely Newark, Delaware-based businesses between 1963 and 1981. The collection also includes administrative and financial records of the company and its precursor, the Newark Post weekly newspaper,...
Dates: 1936-1981; Majority of material found within 1971-1981

Pentagram Press archives

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0452
Abstract

The Pentagram Press was founded in 1974 by the Milwaukee-based poet Michael Tarachow as a publishing outlet for poetry and other new literature. The Pentagram Press archive, spanning the dates 1972-1999, documents the operations and output of the small fine press run by Michael Tarachow in Milwaukee and Markesan, in Wisconsin, and Minneapolis.

Dates: 1972-1999

The Press of A. Colish archives

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0358
Abstract

The Press of A. Colish archives contains materials relating to the printing career of American fine printer and publisher Abraham Colish (1882ā€“1963).

Dates: 1913ā€“1990; Majority of material found within 1930sā€“1950s

Zephyrus Image records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0880
Abstract Zephyrus Image, founded by Holbrook Teter and Michael Myers, was a small Northern California press operating from approximately 1969-1983, notable for its socially- and politically-subversive books and ephemera and its fine works on paper. The Zephyrus Image records document the activities of the California press and its proprietors and the planning and development of roughly 300 printed works of poetry and political and satirical books and ephemera. Zephyrus Image projects were created for...
Dates: 1960-2000; Majority of material found within circa 1969-1983

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Amity Press 1
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Berlin, Lucia 1
Black Stone Press 1
Bly, Robert 1
Brakhage, Stan 1
Burke, Clifford 1
Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997 1
C. B. Cottrell & Sons Company 1
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) 1
Colish, Abraham, 1882-1963 1
Cottrell & Babcock 1
Cottrell Company 1
Cottrell, Calvert Byron, 1821-1893 1
Cottrell, Calvert Byron, Jr. 1
Cottrell, Charles P. 1
Cottrell, Edgar H. 1
Cranium Press 1
Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005 1
Curtis Paper Company 1
Delaware. Division of State Police 1
Di Prima, Diane 1
Dorn, Edward 1
DuMar Printing Co. 1
Durham, William H., 1905-1981 1
General Foods Corporation 1
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997 1
Grastorf, Dennis J. 1
Grastorf, Marilyn 1
Grolier Club 1
Harlan C. Williams Co. 1
Hermes Free Press 1
J. H. Kimball, Inc. 1
Keefe, Tammis (Margaret Thomas), 1913-1960 1
Kyger, Joanne 1
Leach, Winsor Bradford 1
Lieberman, Elizabeth K. 1
Lieberman, J. Ben 1
London, Rick 1
McClure, Michael 1
Minuteman Press (Newark, Del.) 1
Myers, Michael, 1948-1982 1
NVF Company 1
Newark Country Club (Newark, Del.) 1
Newark Publishing Co. (Newark, Del.) 1
Newark United Methodist Church (Newark, Del.) 1
Oppenheimer, Joel, 1930-1988 1
Pentagram Press 1
Porter Motor Co. (Newark, Del.) 1
Raworth, Tom 1
Rusk, Robert 1
Shamrock Printing Co. 1
Sky, Gino 1
Snyder, Gary, 1930- 1
Spiral Press 1
Spring Creek Typesetting Service 1
Tarachow, Michael 1
Teter, Holbrook 1
Turtle Island Foundation 1
University of Delaware 1
W.L. Gore and Associates 1
WNRK radio (Newark, Del.) 1
Ware, Richard T. 1
Welch, Lew 1
Wiley, William T., 1937- 1
Zephyrus Image (Firm) 1
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