Louis Ginsberg Collection of Jewish Bookplates 1895-1969

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Louis Ginsberg Collection of Jewish Bookplates 1895-1969

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/arts.bkp.0039

This collection was put together by Louis Ginsberg from the 1940s to 1983. The over 700 plates include examples of individual patrons as well as institutional and commercial patrons. There is also a section of bookplates by artist Leonard Baskin and Ismael Smith.

2.5 Linear feet (5 boxes)

eng,

Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library Special Collections

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SNAC Resource ID: 6348808

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Ginsberg, Louis

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xt86v6 (person)

Smith, Ismael, 1886-1972

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q8394r (person)

Baskin, Leonard, 1922-2000

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6668hqd (person)

Sculptor and graphic artist; Leeds, Mass. and Devon, England. b. 1922, in New Brunswick, N.J. d. Northampton, Mass., June 3, 2000, age 77. Worked on FDR memorial in Washington, DC. Studied at Yale Univ. Founded the Gehenna Press in 1942. Taught at Smith College, in Northampton, MA, 1953-1974, and Hampshire College, in Amherst, MA, 1984-1994. From the description of Oral history interview with Leonard Baskin, 1969 Apr. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220184...