Stanbrook Abbey Press Collection

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Stanbrook Abbey Press Collection

1950-1989

http://hdl.handle.net/2345/2868

The Stanbrook Abbey Press collection contains materials created by the Press and its head printer, Sister Hildelith Cumming. Press materials make up the bulk of the collection and include bookplates, broadsides, greeting and prayer cards, exhibition programs, invitations, pamphlets, poems, prayers, prospectuses, and specimen pages. A small number of these have been hand-illustrated and illuminated. Correspondence is made up of letters from Sister Hildelith to collectors Philip and Mary McNiff and Thomas F. O'Connell as well as other parties. Materials date from the 1950s through the 1980s.

1.5 Linear Feet, 4 containers

eng, Latn

Boston College. John J. Burns Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 11677143

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McNiff, Philip J., 1912-1994

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Philip J. McNiff was born on February 10, 1912 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He attended Brookline High School and graduated from Boston College in 1933. After graduating from Columbia University Graduate School of Library Science in 1940, McNiff began his library career in the Brookline and Newton public libraries. McNiff later moved to Harvard University Libraries before becoming director and librarian of the Boston Public Library in 1965. Under his eighteen-year leadership at the Boston Pub...