The Hand Bookbinding Tradition in the San Francisco Bay Area : oral history transcript / tape recorded interview conducted 1980-1981 by Ruth Teiser and Catherine Harroun for the Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, Calif., 1982 : and related materia

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The Hand Bookbinding Tradition in the San Francisco Bay Area : oral history transcript / tape recorded interview conducted 1980-1981 by Ruth Teiser and Catherine Harroun for the Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, Calif., 1982 : and related material, 1980-1982.

Interviews with Leah Wollenberg, Stella Patri, Duncan Olmsted, Stephen G. Herrick and Barbara F. Hiller. Information about their careers as bookbinders and book restorers and about their teachers, particularly Belle McMurtry Young and Edna Peter Fahey; opinions about bookbinding and other bookbinders. Copies of photographs inserted. Appended: photocopies of Octavia Holden correspondence, 1929, re teaching bookbinding at California School of Fine Arts; copy of memo from Maggie Harrison re Hazel Dreis.

Transcript : [19], 194 p. ; 28 cm. + related material.

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Fahey, Peter, d. 1974.

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Hiller, Barbara Fallon, 1927-

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Young, Belle McMurtry

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Herrick, Stephen Gale, 1909-2001

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Fine bookbinder and book collector in San Francisco, California. From the description of Materials for fine hand bookbinding, ca. 1950-1991. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122398288 ...

Evetts, Deborah

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The Hroswitha Club of women book collectors was founded in New York City in 1944 to bring together women devoted to the arts of the book and active as collectors. The 200th meeting was held in 1994. Meetings have been held at homes of members as well as at major libraries and collections, primarily in the Northeast. In 1965 the Club issued its major publication, Hroswitha of Gandersheim: her life, times and works, by Anne Lyon Haight, to honor the 10th century German abbess, playwright, poet and...

Dreis, Hazel.

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Olmsted, Duncan H.

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Wollenberg, Leah Levy, 1906-

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Patri, Stella Nicole, 1896-

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Stella Nicole Patri, bookbinder and conservator, b. 1896; known especially for work at the National Library, Florence, Italy, following the 1966 flood of the Arno River. From the description of Stella Patri collection, 1970-[ongoing]. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 122550803 ...

Holden, Octavia.

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Harroun, Catherine

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Teiser, Ruth

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Teiser is a free-lance writer who has written extensively on the California wine industry. From the description of Papers, 1960-1990. (University of California, Davis). WorldCat record id: 43596964 ...

Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office

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According to the University of California, Berkeley Bancroft Library website: "The Regional Oral History Office (ROHO) is a research program of the University of California, Berkeley, working within The Bancroft Library. ROHO conducts, teaches, analyzes, and archives oral and video history documents in a broad variety of subject areas critical to the history of California and the United States." For more information regarding the ROHO and their work please consult their website: http://bancroft....