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Grolier Club. Library Committee. Records, 1893-- (bulk 1905-1936 ; 1940-1944 ; 1957- ).

Title: Records, 1893-- (bulk 1905-1936 ; 1940-1944 ; 1957- ).

Reports and other material created by Librarians Richard Hoe Lawrence (1892-1903); Ruth S. Granniss (1905-1944), George L. McKay (1944-1958), Alexander Davidson (1958-1960), J. Terry Bender (1961-1964), Gabriel Austin (1964-1969), and Robert Nikirk. Also: correspondence and other material created by Library Committee chairs Frederick B. Adams, Herbert Cahoon, Valerian Lada-Mocarski, William H. Scheide, and Lucius I. Wilmerding. A scrapbook prepared for years 1914-1917 includes material about move of Club library to new clubhouse in 1917 and correspondence regarding the Hinman Collator. Extensive reports and correspondence from bookbinder Carolyn Horton document her work on the repair and restoration of the Library collections between 1960 and 1962. Correspondence between P.W. Filby and various Committee chairs regarding work on the Archives of the Club covers the years ca. 1975-1982.

ArchivalResource: 9 boxes (4 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78682139 View

Grolier Club. Library. Records of the librarians, 1897-1970.

Title: Records of the librarians, 1897-1970.

Correspondence, notices, and some reports of librarians Richard Hoe Lawrence, Henry Watson Kent (1900-1905), Ruth Shepard Granniss (1905-1944), George Leslie McKay (1944-1958), Alexander Davidson (1958-1960), J. Terry Bender (1961-1964), Gabriel Austin (1964-1969), and Harvey Simmonds (1969-1970). In addition to correspondence, there are orders and invoices relating to books and bookbinding ordered for the Club for the period. Records for some groups of years appear incomplete. Between 1906 and 1916, Ruth Granniss sent out handwritten correspondence using a carbon-like paper to obtain copies; some of these are now difficult to read. The Granniss files of correspondents' letters include a few of her holograph originals. Individual correspondents include but are not limited to correspondence to and from: Elmer Adler, Frank Altschul, C.R. Ashbee, Samuel Putnam Avery, Henrietta Bartlett, Melbert B. Cary, George Watson Cole, Edith Diehl, Marian Dodd (Womens' University Club), Porter Garnett (Laboratory Press), Walter Gilliss, W.W. Greg, Louis Haber, Byrne Hackett, Sherman P. Haight, Lathrop Harper, Philip Hofer, Robert Jaffray, Geoffrey Keynes, Bella Landauer, Flora Livingston, Luther Livingston, Amy Lowell, Leonard L. Mackall, Ronald B. McKerrow, Howard Mansfield, Stanley Morison, Edward A. Parsons, Joseph Pennell, A.W. Pollard, Fanny Ratchford, Carl Purlington Rollins, Walter Kilburn Root, William Edwin Rudge, Margaret B. Stillwell, Edward L. Stone, Daniel Berkeley Updike, Beatrice Warde, Frederic Warde, and Lawrence C. Wroth. Book dealers and binders include but are not limited to: B.F. Stevens & Brown, G.E. Stechert & Co., Charles P. Lauriat, Atelier Bindery, French Binders (Doubleday & Co.), MacDonald James, MacDonald & Maier, and the Stikeman firm. The Alexander Davidson records contain material about the Morgan Gunst Fund for the Grolier Club and the Bender records include reports by Carolyn Horton on the physical rehabilitation of the Grolier Library during the years 1960-1962. Also: guestbooks for the period 1930-1955; entries often indicate purpose of users' research.

ArchivalResource: 34 boxes (14 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79458531 View

Grolier Club. Committee on Public Exhibitions. Records, 1885-

Title: Records, 1885-

The records of the Committee on Public Exhibitions include: agendas and minutes, correspondence, calendars of exhibitions, material concerning transport of collection, and drafts of exhibition texts. The minute album for 1894-1895 with a calligraphic title page, designed to mark the decennial of the club in 1894, was created for and by the Committee chair, Edwin B. Holden. The records of curator Ruth Fine for the exhibition "Printers' Choice" (1979) include substantial correspondence with a number of private press printers active in the 1970s while the records for the Sinclair Lewis centenary exhibition and symposium (1985) include the notes of the organizer, Club member Daniel D. Chabris. Substantial portions of the records for the 1990s come from the file of Martin Hutner, Committee chair. These records primarily concern exhibition proposals, funding, transport, and openings of the exhibitions. The material for the exhibition, "The Art of Publishers' Bindings" (2000) does contain drafts of exhibition copy and a computer disk created by collector and curator Ellen K. Morris.

ArchivalResource: 9 boxes (3.10 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145382425 View