Collection, 1943-1955.

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...

Swarthmore College. Peace Collection.

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Everson, William, 1912-1994

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American poet, printer, and activist. Everson was a conscientious objector during the later years of World War II, and was associated with Kenneth Rexroth and his circle in San Francisco in the late 1940s. He converted to Roman Catholicism in 1949, joined the Catholic Workers Movement, and eventually entered the Dominican Religious Order in 1950, taking the name Brother Antoninus. Everson was associated with the San Francisco Renaissance of the late 1950s. He left the Dominican order in 1971. ...

Civilian Public Service

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Untide Press

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Began in 1943 at the Civilian Public Service camp for conscientious objectors in Waldport, Oregon; William Everson was a founder and director of the camp's Fine Arts Group, from which many contributors were drawn. Ten monographs were published by the press: the first, Ten War Elegies by Everson was published in April 1943; moved to Pasadena, California in 1946 or 1947, after the camp was demobilized. From the description of Collection, 1943-1955. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection...