Papers, 1964-1976.

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Papers, 1964-1976.

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Incoming correspondence, ca. 1964-1976, regarding collecting and social activities. Includes typescript and autograph letters from: Joseph Blumenthal, Donald F. Hyde, David Jackson McWilliams, Bruce Rogers, Charles Ryskamp, Norman H. Strouse, and Schuyler Watts. Bookplate and other designs by Bruce Rogers executed for Crawford. Also, biographical information about British bookbinder Katherine T. Adams and eight photographs.

1 box (.5 linear ft.)photographs 8.

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Grolier Club

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Blumenthal, Joseph, 1897-1990

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American printer. From the description of Typographic years, [ca. 1980]-1982. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63936707 Joseph Blumenthal, American printer, printing historian, and type designer. From the description of Joseph Blumenthal papers, 1922-1991. (RIT Library). WorldCat record id: 745451641 Joseph Blumenthal, American printer, printing historian, and type designer. Blumenthal designed Spiral type in 1931 in Germany so that it c...

Grolier Club

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The Grolier Club was founded in Jan. 23, 1884 by a group of seven New York City book collectors with the object, as stated in its constitution, "of literary study and promotion of the arts pertaining to the production of books." From its early days the Club has maintained a library related to collecting, bibliography and books about books. A library endowment fund (sometimes referred to as the "Library Fund) for the Grolier Club was first proposed in 1921, and the first fund-raising campaign amo...

Ryskamp, Charles.

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Librarian. From the description of Reminiscences of Charles A. Ryskamp : oral history, 1974. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122569526 ...

Watts, Schuyler

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Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957

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Indiana-born American book designer for the Riverside Press. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Danbury, Conn., to Mary Herrick f the Boston University Library, 1950 Oct. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270865113 Bruce Rogers (1870-1957), American typographer and book designer. From the description of Photoengravings used in The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri, 1955. (RIT Library). WorldCat record id: 435687901 From the description of ...

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 ...

Adams, Katherine T., 1862-1952.

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McWilliams, David Jackson

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Crawford,John, 1913-

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Book collector, born Parkersburg, West Viginia. Crawford's father was a partner in a Tulsa, Oklahoma company which manufactured equipment used in the oil industry. He was educated privately and at the Ashville School in North Carolina. Following his graduation from Brown University in 1937, Crawford traveled around the world for one year. Settling on the East Side of Manhattan, he devoted himself to collecting and bibliophilic activities. He became a member of the Grolier Club in 1947, and club ...

Hyde, Donald Frizell, 1909-1966

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Epithet: first husband of Mary Viscountess Eccles British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001124.0x000188 ...