Collection of papers relating to the estate of Elmer Adler, 1934-1964 (bulk 1962-1964).

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Collection of papers relating to the estate of Elmer Adler, 1934-1964 (bulk 1962-1964).

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Correspondence of executors of the Adler Estate, Grolier Club members John M. Crawford and Edward Naumberg, with the law firm Strasser, Spiegelberg, Fried & Frank (1962-1964). Includes financial material. Also printed ephemera, including tributes and obituaries, photographs of Adler and of Casa del Libro in San Juan. The ephemera includes a small amount of material from Pynson Printers. Also letters of thanks from recipients of Norman H. Strouse's The lengthened shadow.

1 box (.25 linear ft.)4 photographs (20 cm. X 25 cm.)

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Adler, Elmer, 1884-1962

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Elmer Adler worked in his family's clothing firm in Rochester, N.Y. while developing an avocation as a book and print collector. In 1922 he came to New York City and established the Pynson Printers; he began to makea reputation as a book designer. Adler served as a typographic consultant to several magazines and to The New York Times. From 1930 to 1940 he published The colophon : a book collector's quarterly. In 1940 he was invited to establish a Department of Graphic Arts at Princeton Universit...

John M. Crawford, Jr.

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Donald Frizell Hyde, a celebrated collector of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, on 17 April 1909. He graduated from Ohio State University in 1929 and from Harvard Law School in 1932. In 1962 he received the honorary degree of LittD from Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, and was appointed an honorary Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. Hyde took a central part in publications and/or societies devoted to Shakespeare, Johnson, Boswell, Keats, and Shelley; in th...

Naumberg, Edward

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Strouse, Norman H.

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Regents' Professor, Librarianship 296A. From the description of Materials for seminar course, The Collecting of Books and Manuscripts : School of Librarianship, University of California, Berkeley, 1971 March - June. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122354916 Norman Strouse was born outside Olympia, Washington in 1906. A high school graduate, he went to work for the "Seattle Post Intelligencer," where he advanced to handling the paper's national advertising. In 1949 he began a ...