Papers concerning The first writing book, 1953-1955.

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...

Mr. Benson

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Benson, John Howard, 1901-1956

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Benson was an American artist, calligrapher, sculptor, and designer of incised letters. From the description of Papers for Flags of the Old state house, ca.1942. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612205894 Artist, calligrapher, and sculptor. From the description of John Howard Benson items, 1953-1956. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64054605 Benson was an American artist, calligrapher, sculptor, and designer of incised letters. ...

Garvey, Eleanor M.

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E. Harold Hugo

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Mr. Benson's

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Ms. Garvey

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Philip Hofer.

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Yale University press

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See "A Brief History of Yale University Press" by Robert Pranzatelli, adapted from A World of Letters by Nicholas A. Basbanes, available at <http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/about.asp>. From the guide to the Yale University Press records, 1919-1964, (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library) I. THE FIRST HALF-CENTURY From its founding in 1908 by George Parmly Day, Yale University Press sought to acquire and publish important works of scholarship, issuin...

Garvey, Eleanor M.

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Nancy

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Mr. Hofer

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Mr. Stanley

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William Jackson

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Mr. Arnold Banks

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Mr. Hofer's

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Ellie (Eleanor M. Garvey, Mr. Hofer's assistant)

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Mr. E. Harold Hugo

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