Harrison Elliott collection, ca.1930-1980.

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Harrison Elliott collection, ca.1930-1980.

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A collection of materials gathered by John Krill relating to Harrison Elliott, the paper maker. Included are sample papers from and information about the Japan Paper Company (later Stevens-Nelson Paper Corporation); copies of letters to and from Harrison Elliott; articles by and correspondence of Dard Hunter, a close friend and associate of Elliott; and articles by and about Elliott. Also included are some copies of items from Elliott's paper collection at the Library of Congress, correspondence of John Krill seeking information about Elliott, and a copy of Krill's article about Elliott. Among the items in the collection are a self-promotional ad extolling Elliott's abilities to "give voice to paper on paper" and a photograph of Elliott showing the Duke and Duchess of Windsor how he made paper. Of especial note is a small sample of paper made by Elliott from an old shirt that had belonged to Dard Hunter. The articles by and correspondence of Elliott and Hunter are copies, not originals.

1 box : ill.

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Elliott, Harrison, 1879-1954

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Japan Paper Company

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Krill, John

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John Krill is a paper conservator at Winterthur Museum. He wrote a paper on Harrison Elliott, who was a noted 20th century maker of handmade paper. Elliott was born in New York City in 1879. He went to work for the International Paper Company in 1903, and in 1925 joined the Japan Paper Company. He became interested in the history of paper making, began to make his own paper, and wrote a number of articles on the subject. Elliott amassed a collection about making paper, which he donated to the Li...

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...