Meriden Gravure Company Collection, ca. 1964-1971.

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Meriden Gravure Company Collection, ca. 1964-1971.

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The collection contains printed examples from the Meriden Gravure Company of Meriden, Connecticut, ca. 1964-1971. Included are booklets, calendars, exhibition catalogs, guides, journals, and pamphlets commissioned by a number of galleries, museums, organizations, and universities and colleges. Meriden Gravure Company, led by E. Harold Hugo, was internationally renowned for its illustrated volumes. In 1977 it merged with Stinehour Press. For further information about Meriden and other American presses, see works such as: Joseph Blumenthal, "The Printed Book in America" (1977). UCSB Special Collections has a number of additional works printed by Meriden that have been cataloged separately. These can be searched on Pegasus, the UCSB Libraries online catalog.

.8 linear feet (2 document boxes)

University of California, Santa Barbara, UCSB Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6919876

University of California, Santa Barbara, UCSB Library

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Meriden Gravure Company

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The Meriden Gravure Company was founded in Meriden, Connecticut, in 1888. Driven by the needs of the local silver industry, the company early developed expertise in high quality image reproduction. It perfected the use of the full-tone collotype printing method, and soon attracted business from other clients who required detailed image reproduction, including scientific journals, museums, libraries, and publishers of illustrated books. By the mid-twentieth century, the company was also using off...