The Ward Ritchie Collection, 1922-1996.

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The Ward Ritchie Collection, 1922-1996.

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The Ward Ritchie Collection is primarily composed of printed work by Ward Ritchie as well as biographical information about Ward Ritchie and his presses. The collection contains over 800 cataloged monographs; 7 shelves of uncatalogued or duplicate monographs, pamphlets, technical manuals, bulletins and other unbound printed matter; and 4 boxes of printed cards, notes announcements, and other ephemera. It also includes 2 boxes of Ward Ritchie Press catalogs from 1932 to 1974. The Ward Ritchie Collection complements that of the William Andrews Clark Library, where the bulk of the personal papers of Ward Ritchie and an extensive collection of his printed work are deposited. The Ward Ritchie Collection collection contains several notable and unique items, including copies of The Tiger, his high school newspaper, which he worked on, from 1922 to 1924, and his senior year high school yearbook, Copa de Oro, 1924 which he also worked on.

800-900 monographs.

Occidental College Library, Mary Norton Clapp Library

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Occidental College Library, Mary Norton Clapp Library

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Mary Norton Clapp Library

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In August 1942, Occidental College President Remsen Bird wrote to College Librarian Elizabeth McCloy, requesting that the Library gather and collect materials related to the Japanese American internment. For the next few years McCloy and her staff honored this request, forming the Japanese Ameridcan Relocation Collection. The collection was held in closed stacks in the Special Collections department and remained largely untouched until 2004, when Occidental College recei...

Ritchie, Ward, 1905-1996

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Biography Ward Ritchie was born in 1905 in Los Angeles, and grew up in a series of residences in the Los Angeles and Pasadena areas. His father was in the pharmaceutical trade. He attended Marengo Avenue School and Occidental College, transferring to Stanford, University of the South, and back to Occidental again. After a brief try at law school at USC he decided to make a career the book arts, influenced by a reading of T.J. Cobden-Sanderson...