Ward Ritchie collection 1922-1996 1932-1974

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Ward Ritchie collection 1922-1996 1932-1974

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The collection contains over 800 of Ritchie monographs and approximately 200 pamphlets, college catalogs, and other printed matter from Anderson, Ritchie & Simon, the Ward Ritchie Press, and the Laguna Verde Imprenta. It also contains biographical information about Ward Ritchie and his presses in the form of newspaper clippings, chapters from books, and essays written by friends. Additionally, the collection contains galley proofs, material from a course Ritchie taught at Occidental in the early 1930s, and ephemera.

10 linear ft. (2 manuscript boxes, 17 flat storage boxes).; 800 to 900 monographs

eng,

Mary Norton Clapp Library

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Mary Norton Clapp Library

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In August 1942, Occidental College President Remsen Bird wrote to College Librarian Elizabeth McCloy, requesting that the Library gather and collect materials related to the Japanese American internment. For the next few years McCloy and her staff honored this request, forming the Japanese Ameridcan Relocation Collection. The collection was held in closed stacks in the Special Collections department and remained largely untouched until 2004, when Occidental College recei...

Ritchie, Ward, 1905-1996

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Biography Ward Ritchie was born in 1905 in Los Angeles, and grew up in a series of residences in the Los Angeles and Pasadena areas. His father was in the pharmaceutical trade. He attended Marengo Avenue School and Occidental College, transferring to Stanford, University of the South, and back to Occidental again. After a brief try at law school at USC he decided to make a career the book arts, influenced by a reading of T.J. Cobden-Sanderson...