Archives, 1950-1988.

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Archives, 1950-1988.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39529817

Collection consists of proofs, working materials, manuscripts, and ephemera related to the activities of Henry H. Evans and his Peregrine Press of San Francisco, CA. Includes 155 letters from Mel Fowler to Henry Evans (1959-74) as well as some prints, proofs, and sketches by Fowler.

21 boxes (10.5 linear ft.)

University of California, Los Angeles

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SNAC Resource ID: 7415098

University of California, Los Angeles

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Evans, Henry Herman, 1918-1990

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Henry Evans was born in Superior, Wisconsin in 1918. He came to San Francisco and opened the Porpoise Bookshop in 1944. Evans subsequently acquired an 1852 Washington hand press on which he printed books and pamphlets. In 1958 he began printing linoleum block botanical prints on the same press, for which he gained worldwide renown. Evans passed away in 1990. From the description of Henry Evans memorabilia, 1962-1971. (California State Library). WorldCat record id: 224492374 ...

Peregrine Press

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Evans was born in Superior, WI, in 1918; alumnus of the Univ. of California, City College of San Francisco, San Francisco State College, and the Univ. of Arizona; opened the Porpoise Book Shop in 1942 in Tucson, AZ, and relocated it to San Francisco, CA, in 1944; in 1949 he bought a hand press and began printing books of poetry and later began producing block prints of his own; many of his linocuts were botanical prints and still lifes, and he produced prints of over 600 subjects. Fr...

Fowler, Mel

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