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Ted Freedman Papers, 1926-1974

Title: Ted Freedman Papers, 1926-1974

Correspondence with private and small press owners; records of his press, The Platen Press, in Orinda; clippings, including some on labor unions. Contains material on the Rounce and Coffin Club and the William Morris Society.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes, 1 oversize folder

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt2q2n9907 View

Bennett, Paul A., 1897-1966. Paul A. Bennett collection, 1914-1973 (bulk 1930-1960).

Title: Paul A. Bennett collection, 1914-1973 (bulk 1930-1960).

The Paul A. Bennett Collection consists of 3.3 linear feet of correspondence, printed material, and memorabilia from the library of type designer Paul A. Bennett. Spanning the dates 1914-1971 (bulking 1930-1960), the collection demonstrates some of the typographic projects on which Bennett worked. It also conveys some of the friendships and working relationships that he established with experts in the fields of typography, graphic arts, and printing.

ArchivalResource: 3.3 linear feet and 1 oversize folder and 1 oversize galley (786 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/666380935 View

T. M. Cleland Papers, 1880-1964, (bulk 1920-1963)

Title: T. M. Cleland Papers 1880-1964 (bulk 1920-1963)

Book designer and illustrator. Correspondence, drawings, and title pages and designs for books and advertisements.

ArchivalResource: 6,750 items; 27 containers; 11 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011089 View

Paul A. Bennett collection, 1914–1973, 1930–1960

Title: Paul A. Bennett collection 1914–1973 1930–1960

This collection contains materials relating to Paul A. Bennett, director of typography for the Mergenthaler Linotype Company during the middle of the twentieth century.

ArchivalResource: 3.3 linearfeet and 1 oversize folder and 1 oversize galley; (786 items)

http://library.udel.edu/static/purl.php?mss0210 View

Bennett, Paul A., 1897-1966. Letter [manuscript] : New York (N.Y.) to Charles M. Adams, 1958 December 31.

Title: Letter [manuscript] : New York (N.Y.) to Charles M. Adams, 1958 December 31.

Bennett's retained copy of his letter to Adams thanks him for his bibliography of Randall Jarrell and comments on the typeface. With the letter is the address portion of the wrapping paper in which the book was sent.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647844449 View

Ampersand Club (Minneapolis, Minn.). Club records, 1931-1998 (bulk 1931-1950).

Title: Club records, 1931-1998 (bulk 1931-1950).

Correspondence, membership lists, publications, and printed material collected by a Twin Cities bibliophile group, organized in 1930 for the purpose of bringing together people interested in all phases of the book and the book arts.

ArchivalResource: 0.6 cu. ft. (1 box).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313863303 View

Goudy, Frederic W. (Frederic William), 1865-1947. Frederic Goudy collection, 1933-1978.

Title: Frederic Goudy collection, 1933-1978.

Contains photocopies of "Goudy's type designs: his story and specimens" (1978); "Behind the type: the life story of Frederic W. Goudy" by Bernard Lewis (1941); photocopies of pictures of Goudy and his family; photocopies of news articles (1937-1948); photocopies of magazine articles, including the New Yorker article, "Profiles: glorifier of the alphabet (1933); The Advertiser's sketchbook, "Styles stimulating typography for advertisers ..." by Goudy as told to L.M. MacMillan (1937); Publisher's Weekly, "Frederic W. Goudy: man of letters, 1865-1947" by Paul A. Bennett (1947); Newberry Library Bulletin, vol. 6, no. 9 by John Dreyfus (1978); The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, vol. 34, no. 2 (1977), "Craftsman in a machine age" by Kurt Beske; "Frederic W. Goudy, typographer," by Mary F. Corbitt, University of Illinois Library School (1951); copy of "Leaders in the fine arts: McLean County"; Goudy tributes, including "Goudy the type master," printed by Elliott Fisher Company (1947); "Frederic William Goudy: art director to the Lanston Monotype Machine Company, 1920-1939, typographic counsel, 1939-1947" (1947); "A Keepsake tribute to Frederic W. Goudy to commemorate the Goudy Centennial dinner" (1966); "FWG," in Typographer's Digest, no. 27 (1969); photocopy of "The types of Frederic W. Goudy and the Village Letter Foundery"; type display sheets; an invitation to American Type Designers and their work (1948); typographic calendar for 1954; and "The story of Frederic W. Goudy" by Peter Beilenson, printed for the Goudy centennial (1965) at the Peter Pauper Press, Mt. Vernon, NY, c1969.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.25 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/276876248 View

Chappell, Warren, 1904-1991. Papers of Warren Chappell, 1974-1989.

Title: Papers of Warren Chappell, 1974-1989.

The papers contain correspondence, notes, sketches, color separations, book jackets, lecture, keepsake, photograph, layouts and paste-ups for his work on University Press of Virginia publications. Of interest is a letter from Harry Ford re the merger of Atheneum Publishers with Scribner's and subsequent purchase by Macmillan.

ArchivalResource: 50 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32136057 View

Paul A. Bennett papers, 1925-1966

Title: Paul A. Bennett papers 1925-1966

Paul Arthur Bennett (1897-1966) was a manager and executive in the advertising industry, specializing in typography. He was the secretary and a leading figure in the Typophiles Society in New York City. He worked for Fuller-Smith, Dunlop-Ward, and the Chandler Motor Company, all of Cleveland, and the Mergenthaler Linotype Company of New York City. Collection consists of personal and professional correspondence, research materials, typescripts of writings, and other papers relating to Bennett's career in advertising and his work with the Typophiles. Includes material relating to the Chap Book series, published by the Typophiles.

ArchivalResource: 33 linear feet (33 boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/262 View

Typophiles, Inc. (New York, N.Y.). Typophiles, Inc. records, 1908-2004.

Title: Typophiles, Inc. records, 1908-2004.

The Typophiles is a not-for-profit educational association that encourages the appreciation and production of fine typography and bookmaking through lectures, meetings, and the production of fine examples of the printing arts. The collection consists of the papers of Dr. Robert L. Leslie and the records he generated as a member and officer of the Typophiles. Included are Dr. Leslie's personal and professional papers, as well as records from his businesses, The Composing Room, the Gallery 303, and the Heritage of the Graphic Arts lecture series. The records reflect the book arts during what may be considered the golden age of fine printing. Significant individuals represented in the collection include Frederick W. Goudy, Warren Chappell, Bruce Rogers, Paul A. Bennett, Beatrice Warde, David Godine, Raymond Gid, Fernand Baudin, Roderick Stinehour, W.A. Dwiggins, Giovanni Mardersteig, and Hermann Zapf.

ArchivalResource: 62.31 linear feet (143 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/720047182 View

Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957. Autograph letter signed : Danbury, to Henry Watson Kent, 1945 Mar. 19.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Danbury, to Henry Watson Kent, 1945 Mar. 19.

Returning his typescript (sent by Paul Bennett), briefly explaining his edits, and mentioning illustrations Bennett wishes to use.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 20.3 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/706833772 View

Autograph File, B, ca.1500-1982

Title: Autograph File, B, ca.1500-1982

The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 18.5 linear feet (37 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01425/catalog View

Harry Miller Lydenberg papers, 1923-1958

Title: Harry Miller Lydenberg papers 1923-1958

Harry Miller Lydenberg (1874-1960) was the third director of the New York Public Library, from 1934 to 1941. Prior to becoming director, he worked at the Library for nearly forty years including serving as the administrative assistant to John Shaw Billings, the first director, in 1899, Chief Reference Librarian from 1908 to 1927, and assistant director from 1928 to 1934. He was active in various professional organizations and continued to work with international library groups after his retirement from the Library. He was director of the Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin in Mexico City from 1941 to 1943, director of the American Library Association's Board on International Relations from 1943 to 1946 and was a member of the Library of Congress Purchasing Mission to Germany after World War II. His other professional activities included serving as president of the American Library Association, the Bibliographical Society of America and the New York Library Club. He also published numerous books and articles. Collection consists of Lydenberg's correspondence, writings, speeches, personal assorted papers, and printed matter. General correspondence is mainly incoming letters and concerns the Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin in Mexico City, conservation of library materials and business and personal matters. Subject correspondence also relates to these issues and to the effect of World War II on libraries. Prominent correspondents include authors, librarians and publishers. Organizational correspondence contains materials concerning professional organizations, publishing companies and libraries (the New York Public Library correspondence dates from the period after Lydenberg's retirement.) Writings and speeches series consists of typescripts, correspondence, notes, and printed matter relating to his writings. Personal assorted papers include genealogical information, personal correspondence, family papers, photographs of family, friends and libraries, and correspondence from Lydenberg's trip to Europe in 1923-1924 to establish contacts for the acquisition of library materials.

ArchivalResource: 25 linear feet (50 boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/1821 View

Dwiggins, W. A. (William Addison), 1880-1956. Püterschein-Dwiggins collection, 1872-1990.

Title: Püterschein-Dwiggins collection, 1872-1990.

Correspondence with Paul Bennett, Alfred Knopf, Philip Hofer, Ray Nash, Rudolph Ruzicka, Daniel Berkeley Updike and others; family correspondence; correspondence concerning the Püterschein-Hingham Press; correspondence about Postscripts; printed articles about Dwiggins; samples of type, book and graphic design work; published and unpublished works by WAD; stencils, pen and ink drawings, water colors, woodcuts, material relating to marrionettes, photographs, awards, exhibitions and miscellaneous material.

ArchivalResource: 17 linear ft. (42 archival boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47639477 View

Lydenberg, Harry Miller, 1874-1960. Harry Miller Lydenberg papers, 1923-1958.

Title: Harry Miller Lydenberg papers, 1923-1958.

Collection consists of Lydenberg's correspondence, writings, speeches, personal assorted papers, and printed matter.

ArchivalResource: 25 linear feet (50 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122466279 View

Howells family papers, 1850-1954 (inclusive).

Title: Howells family papers, 1850-1954 (inclusive).

Correspondence, compositions, and diaries of American novelist William Dean Howells as well as papers of his wife and children.

ArchivalResource: 52 boxes, 2 volumes, 2 portfolio boxes (26 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01480/catalog View

Typophiles, Inc. records, 1908-2004

Title: Typophiles, Inc. records 1908-2004

The Typophiles is a not-for-profit educational association that encourages the appreciation and production of fine typography and bookmaking through lectures, meetings, and the production of fine examples of the printing arts. The collection consists of the papers of Dr. Robert L. Leslie and the records he generated as a member and officer of the Typophiles. Included are Dr. Leslie's personal and professional papers, as well as records from his businesses, The Composing Room, the Gallery 303, and the Heritage of the Graphic Arts lecture series. The records reflect the book arts during what may be considered the golden age of fine printing. Significant individuals represented in the collection include Frederick W. Goudy, Warren Chappell, Bruce Rogers, Paul A. Bennett, Beatrice Warde, David Godine, Raymond Gid, Fernand Baudin, Roderick Stinehour, W.A. Dwiggins, Giovanni Mardersteig, and Hermann Zapf.

ArchivalResource: 62.31 linear feet; 143 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/3628 View

Edward A. Wilson Papers, 1915-1963

Title: Edward A. Wilson Papers 1915-1963

Spanning 1915 to 1963, the comprises biographical material, correspondence, artwork, writings, and memorabilia of the Scottish-born illustrator, lithographer, and painter (1886-1970). The collection illuminates Wilson's artistic career, which ranged from book and magazine illustration to the design of advertisements, bookplates, magazine covers, postage stamps, and war posters. Edward A. Wilson Papers

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear ft.

http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/w/wilson_ea.htm View

David Thomas Pottinger papers, 1922-1952.

Title: David Thomas Pottinger papers, 1922-1952.

Papers of Pottinger from his work at the Harvard University Press that pertainchiefly to the work of Bruce Rogers as printing adviser to the Press from 1920-1935.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes (2.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00039/catalog View

Grolier Club. Library. Records of the curator, 1910-1944.

Title: Records of the curator, 1910-1944.

Correspondence, invoices, receipts and miscellaneous papers documenting the activities of the curator. The curators' files provide an overview of the Club's activities and its methods of operation. The files of curator Joseph Morton include his record book of the food and drink (with costs) served at all Grolier Club functions between 1901 and 1911. The William Billings material includes a file of autograph letters signed from artist and Club member Joseph Pennell. Among George McKay's correspondents were: Frederick B. Adams, Edwin Bechtel, Douglas McMurtrie Frederick Pottle, and Spencer Van B. Nichols, as well as such organizations as the American Institute of Graphic Arts and the Bibliographical Society of America. Among the files relating to dinners given at the Club is material documenting those for Howard Mansfield (1928) and Paul A. Bennett (1953). Also: a small amount of material relating to the Hroswitha Club.

ArchivalResource: 10 boxes (3.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79458521 View

Autograph File, B, ca.1500-1982

Title: Autograph File, B, ca.1500-1982

The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 18.5 linear feet (37 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01425/catalog View

Warde, Beatrice, 1900-1969. Dear Paul Bennett : [yours, Paul Beaujon].

Title: Dear Paul Bennett : [yours, Paul Beaujon]. [195-?]

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (unpaged), bound : photos ; 19 x 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/406353272 View

McKay, George L. (George Leslie), 1895-1976. Papers relating to the Typophiles, 1945-1975.

Title: Papers relating to the Typophiles, 1945-1975.

Correspondence relating to Typophile matters, including carbon's of McKay's letters as well as announcements and other printed ephemera. Includes the typescript of a work by him entitled "The Typophiles and their publications with some notes on Paul Bennett" (1972) written for the Typophiles. It does not appear to have been published.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)typescript 1 ; [ca. 155] leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122516163 View

Bennett, Paul A., 1897-1966. Letter : New York (N.Y.) to Charles M. Adams, 1958 December 31.

Title: Letter : New York (N.Y.) to Charles M. Adams, 1958 December 31.

Bennett's retained copy of his letter to Adams thanks him for his bibliography of Randall Jarrell and comments on the typeface. With the letter is the address portion of the wrapping paper in which the book was sent.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32136314 View

Club records., 1931-1998 (bulk 1931-1950).

Title: Club records. 1931-1998 (bulk 1931-1950).

Correspondence, membership lists, publications, and printed material collected by a Twin Cities bibliophile group, organized in 1930 for the purpose of bringing together people interested in all phases of the book and the book arts.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00526.xml View

Limited Editions Club. Limited Editions Club papers, 1929-1992.

Title: Limited Editions Club papers, 1929-1992.

Correspondence between George Macy and book designers, illustrators, printers, editors and authors. Also includes sketches by illustrators. Correspondence from T.M. Cleland to Philip Duschnes. Correspondence from Sidney Shiff to Harvey Lemmen. Club announcements and emphemera.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 ft. (2 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50757857 View

Mendle, Isidore. Isidore Mendle Collection on the History of Printing, 1911-1973.

Title: Isidore Mendle Collection on the History of Printing, 1911-1973.

Collection related to technologies of printing. Consists of seven distinct groupings including the James Moran papers, the Ellic Howe papers, John G. Wilson materials, Alcuin press, Gogmagog press, Leon Gruel album, and extensive correspondence to and from people in the book or printing trades.

ArchivalResource: 10 boxes (6 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47954705 View

Lisl Steiner photographic negatives of Typophiles lectures, 1965-1968

Title: Lisl Steiner photographic negatives of Typophiles lectures 1965-1968

Lisl Steiner is an Austrian photojournalist. The Typophiles is a not-for-profit educational association that encourages the appreciation and production of fine typography and bookmaking through lectures, meetings, and other endeavors. The collection consists of negatives of photographs taken by Lisl Steiner at meetings of the Typophiles between 1965 and 1968

ArchivalResource: .25 linear foot (1 box)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/6205 View

Typophiles, Inc. (New York, N.Y.). Typophiles, Inc. records, 1914-1996.

Title: Typophiles, Inc. records, 1914-1996.

The Typophiles, Inc. records (1940s-1996) document the various functions of the organization including luncheons, membership, publications and travels of the Junketeers.$bThe collection also documents the life of long-time president, Robert L. Leslie (1914 - 1986) including his personal papers, correspondence and other materials of his wife, Dr. Sarah K. Greenberg, Leslie's typographic business, The Composing Room, Inc., the exhibits of Gallery 303 and the Heritage of the Graphic Arts lecture series. The collection includes art work, awards, bills, blueprints, book orders, books, brochures, calligraphy examples, cards, catalogs, certificates (framed and unframed), chap books, check ledgers, correspondence, event schedules, expenses, flyers, galley proofs, hand-printed items, invitations and response cards, keepsakes, manuscripts, meeting minutes, memorabilia, monographs, photographs, slides and negative film, plaques, posters, printed matter, receipts, resumes, roosters, scrapbooks, travel materials, and typographic reference materials. Of particular note is a folder of correspondence to Sarah Greenberg from Catherine Deaver Lealtad, a U.N. worker who describes her experiences visiting areas in France and Germany at the close of WWII, and later in China during the Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 65.25 linear feet (134 containers)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122465586 View

Bennett, Paul A., 1897-1966. Letters and notes, 1917-1966.

Title: Letters and notes, 1917-1966.

ALS Dorothy [Wilson?] to Madge [Bennett?], Aug. 4, 1958; 4 TLsS E.A.W. [Edward A. Wilson] to Paul Bennett, May 27, 1946, Dec. 16, 1947, Nov. 6 1958, March 11, 1961; TL Paul Bennett to Edward A. Wilson, March 14, 1961; TLS Van Courtright Walton to Paul Bennett; TL P.B. to Van Courtright Walton, March 23, 1954; TLS Prentiss Smith to P.B., March 11, 1958; TL P.B. to Prentiss Smith, March 17, 1958; TL P.B. to J. Ben Lieberman, March 18, 1958; TL P.B. to Max Caflish, Feb. 2, 1961; TLS P.B. to Alfred Muellerleile, Jan. 18, 1962; 2ALsS Alvin Badenhop to P.B., Feb. 11, 1960, March 15, 1960; 2 TLs P.B. to Badenhop, Feb. 19, 1960, March 21, 1960; TL P.B. to Ernest, June 30 1960; TL [P.B.?] to Lawrence Thompson, Sept. 12, 1964; TLS P.B. to Secretary, Library of Congress, Nov. 15, 1966; ALS J.C. Boucher to P.B.; TLS P.B. to J.C. Boucher, July 21, 1966; TL William A. Kittredge to Tom Parkhurst, Dec. 1917; other miscellaneous letters and notes.

ArchivalResource: 31 items (in folder) ; 26 x 38 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37766607 View

Paul A. Bennett papers, 1925-1966.

Title: Paul A. Bennett papers, 1925-1966.

Collection consists of personal and professional correspondence, research materials, typescripts of writings, and other papers relating to Bennett's career in advertising and his work with the Typophiles.

ArchivalResource: 33 linear feet (33 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/144652188 View

Ellis, Richard Williamson, 1894-1982. ALS [microform] : to Paul [Bennett?], [1936 Dec. 28].

Title: ALS [microform] : to Paul [Bennett?], [1936 Dec. 28].

Ms. found in Thoreau's "Housewarming and Winter Visitors" printed by the Haddon Craftsmen in 1936 (Acc. 68-1036). The book Ellis refers to in his postscript might be Thomas Dreier's "The Power of Print", New York: Mergenthaler Linotype Co., 1936.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf) ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41397925 View

Růžička, Rudolf. [A collection of 15 wood-engravings : including several presented to Paul Bennett / R. Ruzicka.].

Title: [A collection of 15 wood-engravings : including several presented to Paul Bennett / R. Ruzicka.]. 1910-[193-]

ArchivalResource: [15] ill. (some col.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/225495711 View