Papers, 1933-1968.

Ward, Lynd, 1905-1985

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Printmaker, illustrator, writer. Died 1985. From the description of Lynd Ward bookplates, [undated]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122515240 American artist and author/illustrator of children's books; Caldecott Award winner, 1953 and Caldecott Honor, 1950. From the description of Papers, 1930-1976. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 62424387 American artist and author/illustrator of children's book. From the descript...

Noheimer, Mathias John, 1909-

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Gipson, James H.

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Printer and publisher, Caxton Printers, Caldwell, Idaho. From the description of Papers, 1945-1959. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 29852772 ...

Wilson, Lawrence M. (Lawrence Maurice), 1896-1963

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Hunter, Dard, 1883-1966

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Hunter was part of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, and a member of Elbert Hubbard's Roycrofters in East Aurora, NY, in 1904. He devoted his life to research, collecting, writing, and publishing the history of hand papermaking and printing. He published books at his Mountain House Press and established Lime Rock Mill, a paper mill in Connecticut. In 1939 he established the Dard Hunter Paper Museum at MIT, which later moved to the American Museum of Papermaking in Atlanta, Ga. F...

Burkhart, Emerson, 1905-1969

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For this painting titled "Mrs. Coleman" or "Matriarch," Emerson Burkhart used a style he referred to as"tactile realism." He wanted to make the viewer tactilely feel the object in the painting. To achieve this effect, he used paint liberally to create excruciating detail. This style of painting took a great deal of time. This portrait took sixteen day-long sittings to complete. Burkhart met Mrs. Coleman while painting a portrait of her son, Oscar. He spent a month getting to know th...

Ransom, Will, 1878-1955

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Printer, designer, and typographer. As a writer, Will Ransom (1878-1955) was also the first historian/bibliographer of the fine press movement. Born in St. Louis, Michigan and raised in Snohomish, Washington, he early developed enthusiasm for the Arts and Crafts movement, which led him to found his own private press and publish a small number of gift books in limited editions. In 1903 he enrolled in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago but left shortly afterwards t...

Wilstach, John.

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Thompson, Lawrence S. (Lawrence Sidney), 1916-1986

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Librarian and scholar. From the description of Lawrence Sidney Thompson correspondence, 1965-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82604751 Epithet: of the Bibliographical Society of America British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000298.0x0002bc ...

Reed, John, 1909-1999

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Siberell, Lloyd Emerson, 1905-

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Epithet: bibliographer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000429.0x000344 Railroad executive, book collector, author, editor, literary agent. Principal collecting interest in the Powys brothers. Founder of the Society of Bibliosphers and the Anglo-American Powyseana Society. Member of the Rowfant Club, Rounce and Coffin Club, Fortean Society and others. Editor of the Book Collector's Packet. Editor and publisher o...

Gregory, Alyse.

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Lovelace, Leland

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Bessie Barkley (1893-1980) grew up in New York (State?) and attended Albany College. She became a reporter for the Washington Herald and was eventually appointed editor of Unity Magazine . Barkley married John Lee Loveless (1886-1974) in 1928 and the couple settled in Chandler, Arizona. Writing under the pen name of Leland Lovelace, Bessie Loveless published Lost Mines and Hidden Treasures in 1956. From the guide to the Leland Lovelace Papers, 1936-1966, (Arizona State University Lib...

Ficke, Arthur Davison, 1883-1945

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Arthur Davison Ficke (1883-1945), American poet and collector of Japanese prints. His works include Sonnets of a Portrait Painter(1914), Chats on Japanese Prints (1915), Out of Silence and Other Poems (1924), and Mrs. Morton of Mexico, (1939), a novel. From the description of Arthur Davison Ficke Papers 1865-1971. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702134010 Ficke (Harvard, A.B., 1904) served as Curator of Japanese Prints at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard. From the d...

Gleason, Elmer F.

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Finger, Charles Joseph, 1869-1941

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Finger was born in Sussex, England and attended Kings College, London. He became an authority on Wagner, Chopin and Greig. He wrote children's books as well as short stories for H.L. Mencken's, Smart Set and The Century. From the description of Conrad and his style: typescript, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155181120 U.S. editor (Reedy's Mirror and All's Well), writer, music school director, and railroad employee; best known for two collections of folk tales. ...

Smart, Charles Allen, 1904-1967

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Charles Allen Smart (CAS) was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1904. He received an A.B. degree from Harvard University in 1926. After working as an editorial assistant, CAS began his career as a writer. CAS first book was published in 1938 entitled RFD. After serving in World War II, CAS became a writer-in-residence at Ohio University. He subsequently wrote ten additional monographs and many magazines articles. From the guide to the Charles Allen Smart papers, 1920-1970, (Ohio University...

Forgue, Norman W.

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Society of Bibliosophers

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Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990

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Author b. 1899, John Wesley, in coal mining camp near Moberly, Mo.; proletarian writer of the 30's, activist involved in labor unions and worker's rights. Published in Northern Lights and New Masses; gained recognition with Disinherited. From the description of Papers, 1947-1981. (Southern Illinois University). WorldCat record id: 13347087 Poet, editor of The Spider. From the description of Letters, to Joseph A. Labadie, 1924-1928. (University of Michigan). World...

Webb, David K. (David Knowlton), 1904-1963

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Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950

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Edgar Lee Masters was an American poet, novelist, biographer, and essayist. From the description of Edgar Lee Masters collection of papers, 1919-1949. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 86164224 From the guide to the Edgar Lee Masters collection of papers, 1919-1949, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.) Masters was an Illinois poet best known for the Spoon River Anthology. F...

Schott, Walter.

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Chamberlain, Norwood, 1905-1984.

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Ailanthus Press.

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Trovillion, Hal W., 1879-1967

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Hal W. Trovillion was a publisher who operated local newspapers and a private press known as Trovillion Private Press in Herrin, Illinois. In 1904, after Hal left Indiana University, he moved to Herrin and took over two local newspapers, The Herrin Daily Journal and the Egyptian Republican. In 1908 he started a private press publication. Works were typically published in editions of a few hundred copies, on fine hand made European papers, with titles printed in gilt or on paper title cards. Usua...

Hunter, Reginald, 1889-

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Lewis, N. Lawson

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Secretary of the Rowfant Club, Cleveland, Ohio. From the description of Letter, 1945 Jan. 31, to [E. A. Thompson?]. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122648342 ...

Powys family.

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