Meriden Gravure Companyrecords 1895-1990 1900-1977

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Meriden Gravure Companyrecords 1895-1990 1900-1977

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The Records consist of correspondence, office files,estimates, orders, cost recapitulation forms, proofs, and other materialdocumenting the work of the Meriden Gravure Company, a printing company thatrose to prominence in the early twentieth century through specialization inhigh-fidelity image reproduction.

399.41 linearfeet (360 boxes, including 25 oversize boxes) + 1 broadside folder and 1 artobject.

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6349525

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Allen, James F.

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Hugo, Harold.

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The scholarly printer E. Harold Hugo was associated with the Meriden Stinehour Press in Meriden, Connecticut, for many years and was a member of the Grolier Club, a New York bibliophile society. He went on several trips organized by the club to visit major libraries and collections in England, Holland and Italy as well as on trips of a more general nature in Europe. He died in 1985. From the description of Manuscript travel diaries, 1959-1976. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122577057...

Allen, Parker B.

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Peckham, John Ford, 1918-

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HUGO, HAROLD

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Allen, James F.

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Meriden Gravure Company

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The Meriden Gravure Company was founded in Meriden, Connecticut, in 1888. Driven by the needs of the local silver industry, the company early developed expertise in high quality image reproduction. It perfected the use of the full-tone collotype printing method, and soon attracted business from other clients who required detailed image reproduction, including scientific journals, museums, libraries, and publishers of illustrated books. By the mid-twentieth century, the company was also using off...

Meriden-Stinehour Press

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Anderson, Gregg, 1908-1944

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