Ishill, Joseph

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Dates:
Active 1930
Active 1937

Biographical notes:

Joseph Ishill (1888-1966) was a printer, publisher, typographer, and a collector of radical, anarchist, and libertarian literature. He conducted the Oriole Press in Berkeley Heights, N.J.

From the description of Papers, 1888-1966. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122656044

From the description of Additional papers, 1875-1960. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 80225665

From the description of Correspondence, 1942-1966. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 80709978

From the guide to the Joseph Ishill correspondence, 1942-1966., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University)

From the guide to the Joseph Ishill papers, 1888-1966., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University)

Typographer.

From the description of Letter : to Herman Cohen, 1957 Jan. 6. (Ohio State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 23262998

Joseph Ishill was an anarchist, a printer and founder of the Oriole Press. Born in Rumania in 1888, he emigrated to the United States as a teenager and settled in New York City. As an anarchist, he joined the Ferrer Colony in Stelton, New Jersey in 1915. He began publishing in 1916. He married the poet, Rose Florence Freeman, in 1917. He founded the Oriole Press, for which he served as publisher, editor, printer, typographer, pressman, proofreader, and in some cases bookbinder. Throughout his career he published a wide variety of materials, including works by anarchists and radicals such as Emma Goldman, Peter Kropotkin, and Havelock Ellis. Ishill died in 1966.

From the guide to the Joseph Ishill Collection, 1890-1971, (Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida)

Epithet: American anarchist printer

British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000208.0x0001d9

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Subjects:

  • Printing
  • Publishers and publishing
  • Publishers and publishing
  • Anarchism
  • Book collecting
  • Engraving
  • Libertarianism
  • Printers
  • Private presses
  • Small presses
  • Wood-engraving

Occupations:

  • Anarchists
  • Publisher
  • Radicals

Places:

  • United States (as recorded)
  • New Jersey (as recorded)
  • New Jersey (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)

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