Grabhorn Press records 1917-1973
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Bancroft Library
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Douglas, Frederic H. (Frederic Huntington), 1897-1956
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Ellis, Arthur M. (Arthur McDonald), 1875-1932
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Arthur McDonald Ellis (1875-1932) was born in Missouri. When he was two years old, his parents moved the family to California, where his grandfather had settled in the early 1850s. Ellis was educated in Pomona and at the University of California, Berkeley. Upon graduation he began a teaching career but left the profession after a few years to study law. He established his practice in Los Angeles in 1903. Ellis studied history while at Berkeley, and his interest in the subject was life-long. He s...
Farquhar, Francis Peloubet, 1887-1974
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Farquhar was born on Dec. 31, 1887 in Newton, MA; AB, Harvard Univ., 1909; became public accountant in Boston and San Francisco, 1909-59; also served as an accountant with the US National Park Service, 1922-25; president of the California Academy of Sciences, and California Historical Society; president of the Sierra Club, and editor of the Bulletin, 1926-46; president, California State Board of Accountancy, 1953-54; recipient of the John Muir award for conservation, 1965; made expeditions to Mt...
Greenhood, David, correspondent
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American Institute of Graphic Arts, correspondent
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Merrymount Press, correspondent
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Fawcus, Arnold D., correspondent
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Empáran, Madie Brown
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Republican presidential campaign worker in 1928. From the description of Madie Brown Emparan papers, 1928-1965. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754869746 Historian, conservationist. Author of "The Vallejos of California" (1968) and wife of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo's youngest grandson. She planned a work on John McLaren, Scottish botanist who designed Golden Gate Park and her notes for project are in this collection. She was also active in John Muir Association's efforts to h...
Book Club of California, correspondent
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Bechtel, Kenneth K. (Kenneth Karl), 1904-1978
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Archetype Press, correspondent
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Library of Congress, correspondent
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Grabhorn, Edwin E.
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Of the Grabhorn Press. From the description of Letter "to whom it may concern, " 1942 Apr. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122384592 ...
Cerf, Bennett, 1898-1971
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BIOGHIST REQUIRED Author & publisher. Columbia A.B. 1919; Litt.B. 1920. From the guide to the Bennett Cerf Papers, ca. 1898-1977., (Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) Publisher and editor. Founder of Random House, New York, with Donald S. Klopfer; president, 1927-1966; and chairman of the board, 1966- Other publishing affiliations include Bantam Books (New York) and Modern Library, Inc. (New York). From the description of Calling card : N...
Altschul, Frank, 1887-1981
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Frank Altschul was born in San Francisco on April 21, 1887. He graduated from Yale in 1908 and served as chairman of the General American Investors Co. Inc. Altschul died on May 29, 1981. From the guide to the Frank Altschul papers, 1924-1941, (Manuscripts and Archives) Investment banker, philanthropist, bibliophile, authority on international affairs. From the description of Frank Altschul papers, 1900-1981. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCa...
Bentley, Wilder, 1900-1989
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Bentley was born in San Francisco, CA, in 1900; attended Yale and the Univ. of Michigan; spent several years in Europe, providing relief work with French war orphans and later travelling; lab asst., Laboratory Press, Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1931-33; honorary assoc. member, American Institute of Graphic Arts, 1932; printed books for the Archetype Press and the Greenwood Press; taught in School of Humanities, San Francisco State College. From the description of Papers, ca. 19...
Duschnes, Philip C.
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Allen, Lewis M., correspondent
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Amerine, Maynard A. (Maynard Andrew), 1911-1998
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Professor Emeritus, Department of Viticulture and Enology, University of California, Davis; author, lecturer, bibliographer, and consultant on wine matters. From the description of Papers 1959-1975. (University of California, Davis). WorldCat record id: 32172847 ...
Bohemian Club (San Francisco, Calif.), correspondent
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Bynner, Witter, 1881-1968
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American poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Berkeley, California, to Frank Deering, 1919 June 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270131470 Poet. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., 1881; graduated from Harvard University. Began writing poetry full-time in 1908. Moved to Santa Fe where he died in 1968. From the description of Witter Bynner papers, 1917-1943. (University of New Mexico-Main Campus). WorldCat record id: 35920677 American poet and sc...
Evans, Henry Herman, 1918-1990
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Henry Evans was born in Superior, Wisconsin in 1918. He came to San Francisco and opened the Porpoise Bookshop in 1944. Evans subsequently acquired an 1852 Washington hand press on which he printed books and pamphlets. In 1958 he began printing linoleum block botanical prints on the same press, for which he gained worldwide renown. Evans passed away in 1990. From the description of Henry Evans memorabilia, 1962-1971. (California State Library). WorldCat record id: 224492374 ...
Bennett, Melba, d. 1968,
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American Type Founders Company. Typographic Library and Museum, correspondent
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Chappell, Warren, 1904-1991
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American illustrator, type founder. From the description of Watercolor by Warren Chappell "Longnose the Dwarf" [manuscript], n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647870994 From the description of Manuscript books illustrated by Chappell [manuscript], 1940. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647870967 From the description of Illustrated letters [manuscript], 1975-1983. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647846181 Type desi...
Goll, Yvan, 1891-1950
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Peregrine Press, correspondent
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Allen Press, correspondent
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Grabhorn Press
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Fine printing firm established in San Francisco, California, by Edwin Grabhorn and his brother, Robert. From the description of Grabhorn Press records, 1917-1973. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 82842847 Robert (1900-1973) and Edwin (1889-1968) Grabhorn, from Indiana, began printing in 1911 in Seattle, later moved to Indianapolis, and established the Grabhorn Press in San Francisco in 1920. It soon became internationally known for fine craftsmanship...
Francis, R. W., correspondent
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California Historical Society, correspondent
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Cary, Melbert Brinckerhoff, 1892-1941
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Melbert Brinkerhoff Cary Jr. (1892-1941) was born in New York, educated at Groton School and Yale University (Class of 1916), and died in New York. He was director of Continental Type Founders Association, president of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, and proprietor of the private Press of the Woolly Whale. From the description of Melbert B. Cary Jr. collection, 1895-1986. (RIT Library). WorldCat record id: 746849993 Frederic W. Goudy founded the Village ...
Dane, G. Ezra (George Ezra), 1904-1941
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Dawson, Glen, 1912-
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Fuller, William Parmer, 1888-
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Bryant, Douglas W. (Douglas Wallace), 1913-
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Bryant served as librarian and director of the Harvard Library. From the description of Papers of Douglas Wallace Bryant, 1935-1979 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973321 ...
Grabhorn, Robert
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Employee of the Grabhorn Press in San Francisco, California. From the guide to the Robert Grabhorn letter, 1953, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...
Berman, Eugene, 1899-
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Berman was a Russian painter and designer. From the guide to the Eugene Berman drawings for the ballet, Giselle, 1946 and undated., (Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Eugene Berman (1899-1972) was a Russian-born American artist, theatre and opera designer, and collector. Between 1922 and 1957 he lived and worked in the United States. In 1957 he moved to Rome where he resided until his death in...
Zamorano Club, correspondent
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Angelo, Valenti, 1897-1982
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Italian-born, American illustrator and author of children's books. From the description of The long Christmas : production material, [1941?]. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 62680448 From the description of Look out yonder ; production material, [1943?]. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 62405863 From the description of The bells of Bleecker Street : production material, [1949?]. (University of Minnesota, Minneap...
Almadén Vineyards, correspondent
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Bianchi, John, 1874-
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Allen, Dorothy, 1908-
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Flammer, Charles, 1881-
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Benoist, Louis Auguste, 1899-
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American Type Founders Sales Corporation, correspondent
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Bullen, Henry Lewis, 1857-1938
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Librarian of the American Type Founders Company, Jersey City, New Jersey. From the description of Henry Lewis Bullen papers, 1908-1912. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 32903024 From the description of Henry Lewis Bullen printing history collection, 1933-1936. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 32882611 ...
Goudy, Frederic W. (Frederic William), 1865-1947
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Frederic William Goudy was an American type designer. After a career in real estate, he began his career as a type designer at 40 and created over 120 type styles including University of California Oldstyle, exclusively for the University of California Press, and Goudy Old Style. Goudy founded the Village Press with Will H. Ransom and was the Art Director for the Lanston Monotype Machine Company from 1920 until his death in 1947. From the description of Frederic W. Goudy collection, ...
Bufano, Beniamino, 1898-1970
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Beniamino Bufano, a sculptor, was born in San Fele, Italy in 1886, and the fourteenth of fifteen children. He immigrated to New York with his family when he was a boy. As an adult he lived all over the world, but mostly in San Francisco. He married in 1925 to Virginia Bufano Lewin. They had one son Erskine. Virginia and Bufano divorced in 1932. Sponsors included Albert Bender and Trader Vic Bergeron. Bufano died in 1970 in San Francisco. From the description of Beniamino Bufano autob...
Eckman, James Russell, 1908-1987
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University of California, Berkeley. Library, correspondent
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Graff, Everett D. (Everett Dwight), 1885-1964
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Chicago steel company executive, philanthropist, Western Americana book collector and Newberry Library President of the Board of Trustees, 1953-1964. Under Graff's leadership, the Newberry Library modernized its facilities and refined its collecting policies. In 1960, Graff bequeathed his Western Americana books, pamphlets, manuscripts and maps, which he had acquired over a fifty year period, to the Newberry Library. Graff was also active in numerous library associations...
Random House (Firm), correspondent
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Bragin, Charles, correspondent
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Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984
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Ansel Adams, American photographer, was born February 20, 1902 in San Francisco, California. He was tutored privately at home where he studied piano, San Francisco, from 1914 to 1927, then studied photography with the photofinisher Frank Dittman, in San Francisco, in 1916 and 1917. He married Virginia Best in 1928, and had two children, Michael and Anne. Adams began his career as a photographer, 1927, and worked as a commercial photographer, from 1930 to 1960. He was a photography correspond...
Everson, William, 1912-1994
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American poet, printer, and activist. Everson was a conscientious objector during the later years of World War II, and was associated with Kenneth Rexroth and his circle in San Francisco in the late 1940s. He converted to Roman Catholicism in 1949, joined the Catholic Workers Movement, and eventually entered the Dominican Religious Order in 1950, taking the name Brother Antoninus. Everson was associated with the San Francisco Renaissance of the late 1950s. He left the Dominican order in 1971. ...
Anderson, Gregg, 1908-1944
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Granniss, Ruth S. (Ruth Shepard), 1872-1954
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Librarian of the Grolier Club. From the description of Ruth S. Granniss correspondence, 1911-1914. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 470399492 ...
Grolier Club, correspondent
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Gannon, John Ira, correspondent
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Committee for the Establishment of Carl Purington Rollins Printing Office, correspondent
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Garnett, Porter, 1871-1951
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Porter Garnett, a native of San Francisco, was prominent in West Coast literary activities and in fine printing. He co-founded "The Lark" with Gelett Burgess, was a dramatic and literary critic, an assistant curator at The Bancroft Library (1907-12), and founder of the Laboratory Press while professor of graphic arts at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (1922-35). Garnett was also an active member of the Bohemian Club. From the description of Two minor miracles, or, So help(ed) me...
Cosgrave, George, 1870-1945
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Brautigan, Richard, correspondent
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Burke, Jackson, 1908-1975
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E Clampus Vitus (Fraternal order), correspondent
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Börjeson, Ingeborg, correspondent
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Dillon, Richard H.
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Richard Hugh Dillon was born Jan. 16, 1924 in Sausalito, CA; AB (1948), AM (1949), and BLS (1950), UC Berkeley; asst. librarian (1950-53) and librarian (1953-79), Sutro Library, San Francisco; author of many articles and books on California, including: California trail herd (1961), The legend of Grizzly Adams (1966), Fool's gold : the biography of John Sutter (1967), Humbugs and heroes : a gallery of California pioneers (1970), and Delta country (1982). From the description of Papers...
Clapp, Verner W. (Verner Warren), 1901-1972
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Librarian. From the description of Papers of Verner W. Clapp, 1901-1973 (bulk 1945-1972). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71066612 ...