Philip Hofer collection of samples and other material related to papermaking

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Philip Hofer collection of samples and other material related to papermaking

1948-1959

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou03126/catalog

Collection includes paper samples and sample books of decorative, marbled, and paste papers received from paper companies, chief among them Stevens-Nelson Paper Corporation and Nelson-Whitehead Paper Co. Also with publications concerning papermaking.

1.3 linear feet

eng, Latn

Houghton Library

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Hofer, Philip, 1898-1984

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Philip Hofer (1898-1984) was a librarian, book collector, and founder and first curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts at Houghton Library at Harvard University. Hofer graduated from Harvard College and spent a few years in business. He began collecting a wide variety of printed books in 1917. By 1933 he focused on illustrated and decorated books, thus entering into a serious study of book arts. He served as curator of the Spencer Collection of the New York Public Library, and in...